We are pleased to announce the third instalment of the annual conference of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S). It is organized by Humboldt University and the Center for Global Constitutionalism at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, together with the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice at NYU School of Law. The program lists more than 120 individual panels interspersed with plenary sessions featuring renowned keynote speakers. In the final plenary, network members Gráinne de Búrca and Joseph H.H. Weiler will be interviewing the President of the Court of Justice of the European Union, Koen Lenaerts, and the President of the European Court of Human Rights, Guido Raimondi.
The full program is available here. Registration is still open. The organizers kindly ask attendees to confirm attendance by May 23.
Showing posts with label public law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label public law. Show all posts
January 19, 2016
Call for Panels and Papers: 2016 ICON-S Conference in Berlin (June 17-19, 2016)
Network member Gráinne de Búrca (NYU) has written to share with us a call for panels and papers for the 2016 ICON-S Annual Meeting and conference, to be held in Berlin at the Humboldt University on June 17-19, 2016. The theme for this year's conference will be "Borders, Otherness, and Public Law." An extract from the call for panels and papers is provided below; the full version can be found here. Note that proposals are due by February 15, 2016.
Call for Panels and Papers: "Borders, Otherness, and Public Law"
ICON-S, the International Society of Public Law, invites paper and panel submissions for its 2016 Annual Meeting to be held at the Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, on June 17-19, 2016.
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Call for Panels and Papers: "Borders, Otherness, and Public Law"
ICON-S, the International Society of Public Law, invites paper and panel submissions for its 2016 Annual Meeting to be held at the Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, on June 17-19, 2016.
February 16, 2013
The Network on SSRN: Rose-Ackerman and Perroud, "Policymaking and Public Law in France: Public Participation, Agency Independence, and Impact Assessment"
Network members Susan Rose-Ackerman (Yale) and Thomas Perroud (Paris-Est) have a new article posted on SSRN, entitled "Policymaking and Public Law in France: Public Participation, Agency Independence, and Impact Assessment." It is an extraordinarily comprehensive and incisive treatment of the topic, informed by history as well as current theoretical and policy-analytic debates. The abstract is below but we urge everyone interested to visit SSRN and download the full piece. The article is forthcoming in The Columbia Journal of European Law.
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Policymaking in government ministries and agencies is the
inevitable result of the complex and technical nature of modern policy issues.
This reality creates a puzzle: How can policymaking inside the executive remain
true to democratic values? We confront this question through an analysis of
modern pressures on French public law. We ask if the US approach, which we call
“rulemaking accountability,” has any lessons for French reformers. The primary
aim of this type of accountability is facilitating public input to assure that
democratic values extend into administrative policymaking.
In France, the public administration traditionally has been understood, not as a threat to democracy, but as an instrument for achieving republican ideals. Statutes set out broad frameworks, but their concrete implementation should be left to impartial, expert bureaucrats. A specialized judiciary, also composed of civil servants, oversees the administration. Three developments are now putting pressure on French public law, involving process, institutions, and substance. These call for enhanced public participation, the creation of independent agencies, and the use of new forms of technocratic policy analysis. Can these new trends produce a stronger, more democratically legitimate state, or are they in such deep tension that France will either return to old practices or experience a drastic realignment of public power and public law? The French system has begun to respond to these new pressures, but they are still frequently resisted, and reforms have not coalesced around a consensus view. However, recent decisions of the French high courts suggest a move toward more oversight of the democratic legitimacy of administrative processes. Furthermore, efforts occurring inside and outside the government are encouraging more open policymaking and the more systematic study of government programs. Future developments are by no means clear, but the elements are in place for reforms that enhance public accountability and support systematic analysis of policy impacts.
In France, the public administration traditionally has been understood, not as a threat to democracy, but as an instrument for achieving republican ideals. Statutes set out broad frameworks, but their concrete implementation should be left to impartial, expert bureaucrats. A specialized judiciary, also composed of civil servants, oversees the administration. Three developments are now putting pressure on French public law, involving process, institutions, and substance. These call for enhanced public participation, the creation of independent agencies, and the use of new forms of technocratic policy analysis. Can these new trends produce a stronger, more democratically legitimate state, or are they in such deep tension that France will either return to old practices or experience a drastic realignment of public power and public law? The French system has begun to respond to these new pressures, but they are still frequently resisted, and reforms have not coalesced around a consensus view. However, recent decisions of the French high courts suggest a move toward more oversight of the democratic legitimacy of administrative processes. Furthermore, efforts occurring inside and outside the government are encouraging more open policymaking and the more systematic study of government programs. Future developments are by no means clear, but the elements are in place for reforms that enhance public accountability and support systematic analysis of policy impacts.
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