Please find the full programme in the ESIL201 brochure.
Please note: Sweden is in the Central European Time zone (CET). Daylight saving time (CEST) is observed, including at the time of the conference.
Wednesday 8 September 2021
10.00-18.00 Registration (Aula Magna, lobby)
11.00-18.00 Pre-conference workshops with Interest groups (South House)
Detailed programme for pre-conference workshops available here.
11.00 – 13.00: Interest Groups (lunch and coffee at convenience, possibly offered by organisers)
13.00 – 14.30: Interest Groups
14.30 – 15.00: Coffee break
15.00 – 18.00: Interest Groups
18.15 – 19.15 Meeting, IG convenors and ESIL Board (Aula Magna, Mezzaninen)
Thursday 9 September 2021
09.00-18.00 Registration (Aula Magna, lobby)
10.00-11.00 Welcome (Auditorium, left)
- HRH Crown Princess Victoria
- Astrid Söderbergh Widding, President, Stockholm University
- Jessika Van Der Sluijs, Dean, Faculty of Law, Stockholm University
- Photini Pazartzis, President, European Society of International Law
- Hans Corell, Chair of SCILJ, former Legal Counsel of the United Nations
- Pål Wrange, Director of SCILJ and convenor of the organising committee
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.30 Keynote conversation: The Politics of Global Lawmaking (Auditorium, left)
- Martti Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki)
- Sarah Nouwen (European University Institute)
12.30-13.45 Lunch sponsored by Gernandt & Danielsson and White & Case
12.45-13.40 A Stockholm side-event: The Future of Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) in the European Union (Auditorium, left)
- Moderator: Steffen Hindelang (Uppsala University)
- Crina Baltag (Stockholm University)
- Johan Sidklev (Roschier, Attorneys Ltd., Stockholm)
12.45-13.45 Mentoring event (Bergsmannen, upper level)
This meeting is open for conference participants who have registered for this event; please see here.
13.45-15.00 Fora 1-2
Forum 1: The Deformalisation of International Law (Auditorium, left)
- Moderator: Jean d’Aspremont (Sciences Po, University of Manchester)
- Enzo Cannizzaro (Università Sapienza di Roma)
- Conception Escobar Hernandez (member of the International Law Commission)
- Anna Leander (Graduate Institute, Geneva)
Forum 2: Lawmaking by Non-State Actors (Auditorium, right)
- Moderator: Jens Bartelson (Lund university)
- Annyssa Bellal (Geneva Academy)
- Nadia Bernaz (Wageningen University)
- René Provost (McGill University)
15.00-15.45 Coffee
15.00-15.40 Meeting with editors of international law journals (Auditorium, left)
The meeting is open for all conference participants. Further details TBA.
15.45-17.00 Agorae 1-3
Agora 1: The Order of the Oceans and Changes in Lawmaking (Auditorium, left)
- Moderator: Vasilka Sancin (University of Ljubljana)
- Gregor Novak (Yale Law School): Reading the Waves: Continuity and Change in Ocean Lawmaking
- Maria Esther Salamanca (University of Valladolid): Developments in the Deep Seabed Mining Regime by the International Seabed Authority
- Pierre Thévenin (University of Tartu): Back to the Future: Lessons from the Law of the Sea Negotiations (1967-1982), a Defense of Inefficiency and Complexity in International Lawmaking
Agora 2: Sustainable Development and Changes in Lawmaking (Auditorium, right)
- Moderator: Virginie Barral (Goldsmiths University of London)
- Jaye Ellis (McGill University): International law in the Era of Metrics: Injecting Normativity into the SDGs
- Jason Rudall (Leiden University): The SDGs and their Impact on International Law: a Systems Theory Perspective
- Eva van der Zee (Hamburg University): How to Achieve a Smart-Mix of Public and Private Due Diligence Requirements Under the SDGs? Insights from Motivational Crowding Theory’
Agora 3: International Security and Changes in Lawmaking (Auditorium 6, South House)
- Moderator: Gregor Noll (University of Gothenburg)
- Tsvetelina van Benthem (University of Oxford): Lawmaking at the Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems
- Johanna Friman (Åbo Akademi University): The Dark Lawmaking of Human Security
- Doreen Lustig (Tel Aviv University): Revisiting the Lawmaking of the Laws of War, 1856–1874
17.15-18.30 Fora 3-4
Forum 3: The Changing Local Implementation of International Law (Auditorium, left)
- Moderator: Basak Çali (Hertie School of Governance/Koc University)
- Ana Salinas (University of Malaga)
- Veronika Fikfak (University of Copenhagen)
- Shaheed Fatima Q.C. (Blackstone Chambers, London)
Forum 4: International Lawmaking from Below (Auditorium, right)
- Moderator: Andre Nollkaemper (University of Amsterdam)
- Balakrishnan Rajagopal (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Giedre Jokubauskaite (University of Glasgow)
- Raffaela Kunz (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and Public International Law)
18.30 Transport to reception (outside the lower entrance to the A building in the South House)
19.00 Reception at the Museum of Modern Art sponsored by Mannheimer Swartling
Friday 10 September 2021
08.00-09.00 Breakfast Meeting: ESIL Board with new members sponsored by Eleven International Publishing (Bergsmannen, only onsite)
09.00-18.00 Registration (Aula Magna, lobby)
09.00-10.15 Agorae 4-6
Agora 4: The Rights of Individuals and Changes in Lawmaking (Auditorium, left)
- Moderator: Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen (University of Copenhagen)
- Freya Baetens (Oslo University): Must the Age of the Individual End? The Push for Collective Rights in International Lawmaking
- Frederick Cowell (Birkbeck College, University of London): Universal Periodic Review as a Form of Lawmaking: Understanding Dialogic Processes and Human Rights Law
- Nina Reiners (University of Potsdam): Transnational Lawmaking Coalitions for Human Rights
Agora 5: The Global Economy and Changes in Lawmaking (Auditorium, right)
- Moderator: Lukasz Gruszczynski (Kozminski University)
- Holger Hestermeyer (King’s College London): Striving for Flexibility – MoUs and Informal Lawmaking in International Economic Law
- Stefanie Schacherer (National University of Singapore): Regulatory Integration Through Mega-regionals – New Challenges for Global Economic Governance
- Catharine Titi (University Paris II Panthéon-Assas): UNCITRAL Working Group III and the New Multilateralism: A View from the Negotiating FloorImpact on the State-Centered System of International Criminal Justice
Agora 6: Trans-/International Crimes and Changes in Lawmaking ( Auditorium 6, South House)
- Moderator: Gentian Zyberi (University of Oslo)
- Florian Jeßberger (Humboldt-University, Berlin) and Leonie Steinl (Humboldt-University, Berlin): New Kids on the Block: Strategic Litigation Networks and their Impact on the State-Centered System of International Criminal Justice
- Patryk Labuda (Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy): The Hybridization and Decentralization of (International) Criminal Justice in Africa
- Fulvia Staiano (Giustino Fortunato University and IRISS – CNR): The Exercise of Extraterritorial Jurisdiction over Transnational Crimes in the Light of General Principles of International Law
10.15-10.45 Coffee
10.45-12.00 Fora 5-6
Forum 5: Legitimacy and Rationality in International Lawmaking (Auditorium, left)
- Moderator: Marie Jacobsson (Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs)
- Eyal Benvenisti (University of Cambridge)
- Sergio Dellavalle (University of Turin)
- Isobel Roele (Queen Mary University)
Forum 6: How to Study how International Law Works? Telescope or Microscope, or Both? (Auditorium, right)
- Moderator: Nikolas Rajkovic (Tilburg University)
- Ian Hurd (Northwestern University)
- Elisa Morgera (University of Strathclyde)
- TBA
12.00-13.15 Lunch sponsored by The Swedish Institute of International Law in Uppsala
12.15-13.10 Meeting of editors and publishers (Auditorium, right)
This is a business meeting.
13.15-14.30 Agorae 7-9
Agora 7: Cyber Space and Changes in Lawmaking (Auditorium, left)
- Moderator: Vera Rusinova (HSE University)
- Gustavo Prieto (Ghent University): Blockchain Digital Infrastructures and Changes in the International Lawmaking: Finding Balance Between Control, Privacy and Innovation
- Gavin Sullivan (Edinburgh Law School): Infra-legalities: Global Security Infrastructures, Artificial Intelligence and International Law
- Anna Sophia Tiedeke (Leibniz-Institute for Media Research / Hans-Bredow-Institut): Self-statification of Private Actors – The Solution to the Legitimacy Vacuum in Cyberspace?
Agora 8: International Institutions and Changes in Lawmaking (Auditorium, right)
- Moderator: Niels Blokker (University of Leiden)
- Hannah Birkenkoetter (Humboldt University, Berlin): The United Nations at 75: Revisiting International Lawmaking Through the World Organization and the Importance of UN Civil Service
- Negar Mansouri (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva): Global Daedalus: International Bureaucracies, Supra-functional Authority and Worldmaking Practices
- Margherita Melillo (Georgetown University): The Shift Towards Soft ‘Technical’ Lawmaking and the Empowerment of ‘Expert’ Civil Society Organizations: the Case of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
Agora 9: National Parliaments and Changes in Lawmaking Domestic Implementation ( Auditorium 6, South House )
- Moderator: Giuseppe Nesi (University of Trento)
- Matthew Saul (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences): Shaping Legislative Processes from Strasbourg
- Lena Riemer (Freie Universität Berlin) and Sabrina Schäfer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): A Letter from the ’Bundestag’ – or how the Global Compact on Migration Shed New Light on Parliamentary Participation in Informal International Lawmaking
- Larissa Van den Herik (Leiden University): The Dutch Advisory Culture as a Model of Interaction Between Academia, National Parliaments and the Government
14.30-15.00 Coffee
15.00-16.15 James Crawford: the Lawyer and the Scholar we Remember (Auditorium, left)
- Photini Pazartzis (President of ESIL): Introductory remarks
- Laurence Boisson de Chazournes (Université de Genève)
- Alain Pellet (Université Paris Nanterre)
- Peter Tomka (International Court of Justice)
- Kaj Hobér (Uppsala University): Concluding reflections
16.15-17.15 ESIL General Assembly (only for ESIL members) (Auditorium, left)
17.15-18.30 Fora 7-8
Forum 7: Technology and Changes in Lawmaking (Auditorium, left)
- Moderator: Daria Boklan (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
- Nicholas Ashford (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Delphine Dogot (Université Catholique de Lille)
- Fleur Johns (University of South Wales)
Forum 8: Current Events: Lawmaking in a Post-pandemic world — is Covid a Gamechanger? (Auditorium, right)
- Moderator: Anne van Aaken (University of Hamburg)
- Gian Luca Burci (Graduate Institute, Geneva)
- Diane Desierto (Notre Dame)
- Bryan Mercurio (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
- Martin Scheinin (University of Oxford)
18.30 Transport to dinner
19.00 Dinner at the Vasa Museum sponsored by Vinge
Saturday 11 September 2021
09.00-13.00 Registration (Aula Magna, lobby)
09.00-10.15 Agorae 10-12
Agora 10: Subnational International Lawmaking (Auditorium, left)
- Moderator: Janne Nijman (Asser Institute)
- Maša Kovič Dine (University of Ljubljana): Can Cities Contribute to International Climate Change Lawmaking?
- Natalie Jones (University of Cambridge): The Participation of Indigenous Peoples in International Lawmaking
- Laura Prat (King’s College London): Local Referenda in Latin America: Transnational Direct Democracy as a Radical Counter Power against Increasing Inequalities
Agora 11: The Making of International Biomedical Law (Auditorium, right)
- Moderator: Carlos Esposito (University Autonoma of Madrid)
- Chamu Kuppuswamy (Hertfordshire Law School) and Jessica Almqvist (Lund University): International Organisations as ‘Makers or Breakers’ of Biomedical Law
- Ludovica Poli (University of Turin): Conflicting or Converging Role of Scientific Knowledge and Human Rights in the Development of International Biolaw
- Rumiana Yotova (University of Cambridge): Making International Biolaw in the Face of Scientific Uncertainty
Agora 12: Nature, Past, Present and Future of Law of the Sea Scholarship ( Auditorium 6, South House)
- Moderator: André Nollkaemper (University of Amsterdam)
- Richard Barnes (University of Lincoln): The Present (Nature) of Law of the Sea Scholarship
- Miguel García García-Revillo (University of Córdoba): The Future (Nature) of Law of the Sea Scholarship
- Irini Papanicolopulu (Università di Milano-Bicocca): The Past (Nature) of Law of the Sea Scholarship
10.15-10.45 Coffee
10.45-11.25 Conversation with the ESIL book prize winners 2020 and 2021 (Auditorium, left)
11.30-13.00 Concluding Panel: Global Law as the End of International Law? (Auditorium, left)
- Moderator: Jonas Ebbesson (Stockholm University)
- Andrea Leiter (University of Amsterdam)
- Makane Mbengue (University of Geneva)
- Anne Orford (University of Melbourne)
- Dire Tladi (University of Pretoria)
13.00-13.30 Conclusion (Auditorium, left)
- SCILJ (organizers)
- Photini Pazartzis, President, European Society of International Law
- Presentation of the 17th Annual Conference of ESIL in Utrecht