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Programme 6th Annual Conference of the Netherlands Institute for Law and Governance (NILG)

 

Comparative Law and Governance

18-19 September 2014, Het Kasteel, Melkweg 1, Groningen

 

The conference dinner will take place on Thursday 18 September at 19.00
Location: Prinsenhof Groningen, Martinikerkhof 23 (map)

Please find the print version of the programme here.

Registration: closed

Thursday, 18 September 2014

10.30

Registration and coffee / tea

11.00

Welcome by Dean of Faculty of Law

Plenary session

 

11.05

Prof. Sjef van Erp and Prof. Aurelia Colombi Ciacchi:
Comparative Law in the Age of Governance

11.30

Prof. Katharina Boele-Woelki:
Combined Comparative Research

11.55

Prof. Michael Bohlander:
Sisters in Law: Islamic and Secular Legal Thinking

12.20

Mr. Hans van der Meij (Brill Publishing)
The European Journal of Comparative Law and Governance

12.30

Discussion

13.00

Lunch

Parallel sessions

 

14.00

Comparative Liability Law and Societal Governance (first part)
Chairs: Prof. Gert Brüggemeier and Dr. Patrick O’Callaghan

 

14.00

Prof. Harm Schepel:
Good Samaritans: Tort Liability in the Regulation of Private Governance

 

14.30

Prof. Gert Brüggemeier:
State Liability, Fundamental Rights and EU-Law

 

15.00

Discussion

14.00

Expropriation Law and Governance (first part)
Chair: Prof. Jacques Sluysmans

 

14.00

Prof. Leon Verstappen: Introduction

 

14.20

Prof. Gregory Alexander:
The Public Use Requirement and the Character of Consequentialist Reasoning

 

14.40

Prof. Hanri Mostert:
Natural Resources, National Assets and Pre-existing Proprietary Positions

 

15.00

Discussion

14.00

Comparative Criminal Law and Societal Governance (first part)
Chair: Prof. Michael Bohlander

 

14.00

Prof. Wolfgang Schomburg:
Legal Certainty, Legal Diversity in International and European Criminal Law

 

14.45

Discussion

15.30

Coffee / tea

Parallel sessions

 

16.00

Comparative Liability Law and Societal Governance (second part)
Chairs: Prof. Gert Brüggemeier and Dr. Patrick O’Callaghan

 

16.00

Dr. Dorota Leczykiewicz:
Comparative Judicial Governance and Contractual Liability in EU Law

 

16.30

Prof. Peter Rott:
Liability of Certification Agencies as Necessary Compensation for the Privatization of Product Safety Law – The PIP Case in French and German Courts

 

17.00

Discussion

16.00

Expropriation Law and Governance (second part)
Chair: Prof. Leon Verstappen

 

16.00

Björn Hoops, LL.M:
The Procedural Definition of the Public Good Requirement in Expropriation Law

 

16.20

Prof. Jacques Sluysmans:
Expropriation and Good Governance

 

16.40

Dr. Carola Glinski:
„Regulatory Expropriation“, International Investment Law and Democratic Governance

 

17.00

Discussion

16.00

Comparative Criminal Law and Societal Governance (second part)
Chair: Prof. Michael Bohlander

 

16.00

Prof. Liling Yue:
Sentencing Policy and Death Penalty in China

 

16.30

Dr. Nazand Begikhani:
Honour Crimes between National, Regional and Informal Laws: The Case of Iraqi Kurdistan

 

17.00

Discussion

17.30

Closing words

17.40

Drinks

19.00

Dinner Prinsenhof Groningen

Friday, 19 September 2014

09.00

Registration and coffee / tea

09.30

Welcome by Prof. Leon Verstappen

Parallel sessions

 

09.40

Comparative Liability Law and Societal Governance (third part)
Chairs: Prof. Gert Brüggemeier and Dr. Patrick O’Callaghan

 

09.40

Prof. Salvatore Patti:
Criminal and Civil Law against Intra-family Violence

 

10.10

Dr. Patrick O’Callaghan:
Privacy and Liability Law: The Right to Be Forgotten

 

10.40

Discussion

09.40

Comparative Criminal Law and Societal Governance (third part)
Chair: Prof. Michael Bohlander

 

09.40

Prof. Murat Önok:
The Effectiveness of Adopting Strict Rules on the Admissibility of Evidence at Criminal Trials – A Turkish Perspective

 

10.30

Discussion

11.00

Coffee / tea

Parallel sessions

 

11.30

Comparative Liability Law and Societal Governance (fourth part) Chairs: Prof. Gert Brüggemeier and Dr. Patrick O’Callaghan

 

11.30

Dr. Nuno Ferreira:
Fundamental Rights and the Liability of Children

 

12.00

Prof. Christine Godt:
Liability Rules in No-One’s’ Land

 

12.30

Discussion

11.30

Comparative Criminal Law and Societal Governance (fourth part)
Chair: Prof. Michael Bohlander

 

11.30

Prof. Richard Vogler:
Democracy and Criminal Process in Europe

 

12.00

Ms. Nicole Siller, JD:
The Prosecution of Human Traffickers: A Comparative Analysis Among International Courts and Tribunals

 

12.30

Discussion

13.00

Lunch

Plenary session

 

14.00

Reports and comments of representatives of the parallel sessions
General comments by Prof. Aurelia Colombi Ciacchi

Concluding discussion: New Perspectives for the NILG Research

15.50

Closing words

16.00

Drinks