Organised by the Jean Monnet Chair in Law & Transatlantic Relations & Institute for the Study of European Law, City Law School.
From international economic law, international investment law, international human rights law to sources of public international law, the framework of convergence is more readily deployed to depict evolutions the intersections of legal orders. The EU and US have been pivotal in many of these developments but not necessarily together or with the same approach or outcome.
The conference reflects upon convergence and divergences as to the EU and US with respect to leading international organisations as sites of convergence- from the WTO to the NATO, UN and the Council of Europe. These debates have resonance with how we understand the shifting transatlantic agenda in diverse areas from human rights, trade, security, and the capacity of the transatlantic relationship to set new international agendas, standards and rules.
The EU’s proposed EU-US Joint Agenda for Global Change includes a Transatlantic Trade and Technology Council, uniting subjects and fields in a loose institutionalisation of key global challenges currently not well covered or dealt with by, for example, the WTO.
Outside of practice, the theory of transatlantic relations is similarly fluid. Non-legal scholarship on transatlantic relations is generally unambiguous about the extent to which bilateral transatlantic relations are “institutionally-light”.
In the past, legal scholarship has depicted transatlantic relations to contain more conflict than law. Others suggested that there were various formal and informal institutional dimensions to transatlantic relations which suggest that they are at least quasi-institutional. For example, a Transatlantic Legislators Dialogue between the European Parliament and the US Congress is on-going since 1972.
Similarly, Transatlantic annual summits continue to be held since the 1990s. Both have a new dynamic since the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon enhancing the legal component of the EU’s external representation for a variety of institutions.
Moreover, there is direct contact between the US Supreme Court and Court of Justice of the European Union since 2000, in the form of periodic judicial visits and heightened mutual adjudication themes and tools. Where does the state of the art lie?
This event accordingly focuses upon the place of the EU and US in the world and the rising significance of global challenges in particular to the transatlantic alliance and salient legal instruments, practices and developments. It constitutes an effort to understand the transatlantic relationship and in particular how it reveals the EU as a global actor, charged with promoting good global governance in its treaties, engages with significant shifts in the relationship across administrations.
The event focuses upon three major themes:
- the place of international law and the transatlantic relations
- organisations and intra-organisational relations
- norm promotion practices of the EU and US.
It considers: what is the place of the EU and US in public international law going forwards? How do we understand intra-organisational relations? How does the esoteric nature of the EU as a global actor inhibit or assist the US going forward, inside and outside of international organisations?
Programme:
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Timings (BST) | Programme |
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1:00pm - 1:10pm | Introduction & welcome Elaine Fahey, Jean Monnet Chair in Law & Transatlantic Relations, City, University of London – Introduction & welcome |
1:10pm - 2:00pm | Session 1. Trade, Investment and Forms of cooperation in Transatlantic Relations Chair: David O'Sullivan, Senior Counsellor at Steptoe & Johnson LLP, Former EU Ambassador to the US Kai Purnhagen, Professor of Law, University of Bayreuth, EU-US regulatory cooperation standards: institutionalising global change and challenges Daniel Francis, Furman Fellow and Emile Noël Fellow, New York University, Former Deputy Director of the US Federal Trade Commission, The Present and Future of Digital Antitrust Jenya Grigorova, Dispute Settlement Lawyer at World Trade Organization, Reverberations of the CJEU Achmea B.V. Decision In The Transatlantic Space Eva van der Zee, Assistant Professor, University of Hamburg, Fighting climate change together? Opportunities and potential hurdles for an EU-US Transatlantic Trade Agenda Thomas Verellen, Assistant Professor in Law, Utrecht University; Visiting Scholar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Separation of Trade Powers: The Case of Unilateral Instruments |
2:00pm - 2:20pm | Q&A and Break |
2:20pm - 3:15pm | Session 2. EU and US Intra-organisations relations Chair: Elaine Fahey, Jean Monnet Chair in Law & Transatlantic Relations, City, University of London David O'Sullivan, Senior Counsellor at Steptoe & Johnson LLP, Former EU Ambassador to the US, EU-US Relations in a Changing World Garret Martin, Senior Professorial Lecturer & Co-Director of the Transatlantic Policy Center, American University, DC, NATO-EU Cooperation and the Future of the European Security Order Mike Smith, Honorary Professor in European Politics, University of Warwick, Interinstitutional cooperation & EU diplomacy in the transatlantic space Charles Roger, Assistant Professor and Beatriu de Pinós Research Fellow, Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacional, Making Transatlantic Governance Work Joseph Dunne, Director of the European Parliament Liaison Office in Washington DC, Connecting the US Congress and the European Parliament: The work and role of the EP Liaison Office in Washington DC and the Transatlantic Legislators' Dialogue Kenneth Propp, Georgetown University Law Center, Atlantic Council, Europe Center, A US Perspective on Negotiating with the European Union |
3:15pm - 3:35pm | Q&A and Break |
3:35pm - 4:45pm | Session 3. Norm promotion practices of the EU and US in the Digital Age Chair: Kenneth Propp, Georgetown University Law Center, Atlantic Council, Europe Center Fabien Terpan, Jean Monnet Chair in EU Law & Politics, Sciences Po Grenoble UGA & Elaine Fahey, Jean Monnet Chair in Law & Transatlantic Relations, City, University of London, The Future of the EU-US Privacy Shield Maria Kendrick, Lecturer in Law, City, University of London, The EU and US Transatlantic Agendas on Taxation: Is Digitalisation Accelerating a Global Battle Giulio Kowalski, Doctoral researcher, City, University of London, Transatlantic enforcement of digital markets and competition law post-Brexit Peter Van Elsuwege, Jean Monnet Chair in EU Law, Ghent University and Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Groningen Transatlantic cooperation in sanctions policy Sara Poli, Professor of Law, University of Pisa, Who is entitled to protect the energy security of the Union? The challenges posed the construction of North Stream II for the transatlantic cooperation and for the Union energy policy |
4:45pm - 5:15pm | Discussions and Wrap Up |
Speakers in alphabetical order:
- Joseph Dunne, Director of the European Parliament Liaison Office in Washington DC
- Peter Van Elsuwege, Jean Monnet Chair in EU Law, Ghent University
- Daniel Francis, Furman Fellow and Emile Noël Fellow, New York University, Former Deputy Director of the US Federal Trade Commission
- Jenya Grigorova , Dispute Settlement Lawyer at World Trade Organization
- Giulio Kowalski, Doctoral candidate, City Law School, City, University of London
- Maria Kendrick, Assistant Dean, Lecturer in Law, City Law School, City, University of London
- Garret Martin, Senior Professorial Lecturer & Co-Director of the Transatlantic Policy Center, School of International Service, American University, DC
- David O'Sullivan, Senior Counselor at Steptoe & Johnson LLP, Former EU Ambassador to the US
- Sara Poli, Professor of Law, University of Pisa
- Kenneth Propp, Georgetown University Law Center, European Union Law, Atlantic Council, Europe Center
- Kai Purnhagen, Professor of Law, University of Bayreuth
- Charles Roger, Assistant Professor and Beatriu de Pinós Research Fellow, Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals
- Mike Smith, Honorary Professor in European Politics, University of Warwick
- Viktor Szep, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Groningen
- Fabien Terpan, Jean Monnet Chair in EU Law & Politics, Sciences Po Grenoble UGA
- Thomas Verellen, Assistant Professor in Law, Utrecht University
- Eva van der Zee, Assistant Professor in International Law with a focus on Behavioral Law and Economics at the Institute of Law and Economics, Faculty of Law, Hamburg University.
Organiser: Elaine Fahey, Jean Monnet Chair of Law & Transatlantic Relations, City Law School, City, University of London
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