Below is the agenda from the Conference that took place at Columbia Law School, in April 2003. The papers presented at this Conference have being published in a volume edited by George A. Bermann and Katharina Pistor. For publishing details, please visit: Publisher's Page
The book’s principal aim is to critically address the institutional and substantive legal issues resulting from European enlargement, chiefly those relating to the legal foundations on which the enlarged Union is being built. This book, containing the work of leading scholars in law and social sciences, examines the current and future legal framework for EU governance, and the role that new members will – or will not – play in the creation of that framework, paying particular attention to the specific challenges membership in the EU poses to the acceding states of Central and Eastern Europe. It is a book which will contribute to and influence debates over constitutionalism and legal harmonization in the EU.
April 4-5, 2003 Columbia University, New York City
Co-sponsored by the European Legal Studies Center at Columbia Law School, the Institute for the Study of Europe and the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, in cooperation with the Walter Hallstein Institute of Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Program
Friday, April 4, 2003 Introductory Remarks 12:00pm David W. Leebron, Dean and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Session I: The Legal Foundations of the Enlarged European Union 12:30 - 3:00pm Chair: Jacqueline Dutheil de la Rochère, Université de Paris II
Presentations: Ingolf Pernice, University of Humboldt: "Enlargement and the Institutions" Joseph Weiler, New York University Law School, "A Constitution for Europe: Some Hard Choices" Wojciech Sadurski, European University Institute: "The Human Rights Charter in the Process of Enlargement"
Francesca Bignami, Duke University School of Law: "The Challenge of Cooperative Regulatory Relations after Enlargement"
Comments: Gráinne de Búrca, European University Institute and Columbia Law School George Bermann, Columbia Law School
Coffee break 3:00 - 4:00 pm
Session II: Regulating Labor Markets in an Enlarged Europe 4:00 - 6:30PM Chair: Mark Barenberg, Columbia Law School
Presentations: Csilla Kollonay Lehoczky, Central European University: "European and Hungarian Labor Law: A Comparative Assessment" Catherine Barnard, University of Cambridge: "The EU Agenda for Regulating Labor Markets: Working Time Revisited"
Comments: Antoine Lyon-Caen, University of Paris X Manfred Weiss, Frankfurt University
Dinner and Keynote Address 7:30-10:00PM Gerard Depayre, Deputy Head, Delegation of the European Commission to the United States "EU-US Relations in Light of Enlargement"
Saturday, April 5, 2003
Breakfast 8:30 - 9:30AM
Session III: Corporate Law Harmonization and Corporate Governance in the New Member States 9:30 - 12:00PM Chair: Roman Frydman, New York University
Presentations: Susanne Kalss, University of Klagenfurt and Peter Doralt, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, "The EU Model of Corporate Law and Financial Market Regulation" Katharina Pistor, Columbia Law School: "Enhancing Corporate Governance in the New Member States: Does EU Law Help?" Erik Berglof, SITE Program, Stockholm School of Economics : "Emerging Owners, Eclipsing Markets? Corporate Governance in Central and Eastern Europe " Stanislaw Soltysinski, University of Warsaw, "Complying with EU Corporate and Financial Market Law Standards: A Practitioner's Perspective"
Comments: Merritt Fox, University of Michigan Law School Richard Buxbaum, Berkeley, School of Law
Lunch 12:30- 2:30PM
Session IV: Implementing the Acquis Communautaire and Domestic Institution Building 3:00 - 5:30PM Chair: Andrzej Rapaczynski, Columbia Law School
Presentations: Inga Markovits, University of Texas: "Exporting Law Reform: When Will it Stick? Antje Wiener, IES, Queens University of Belfast: "Politics despite Right Process: Conflictive Compliance in the New European Order" The Honorable Miroslaw Wyrzykowski, Constitutional Tribunal in Poland: "EU Accession in Light of the Evolving Constitutionalism in Poland" Roland Bieber, University of Lausanne, Switzerland: "Implementation and Compliance as Stimulus for New Governance Structures in the Accession Countries" Andras Sajo, Central European University: "Accession's Impact on Constitutionalism in the New Member States"
Comments: Joanne Scott, Cambridge University and Columbia Law School Frank Emmert, Dean, Talinn Law School, Estonia
