Testing the stress of the EU: EU law after the financial crisis (Escuela Diplomática, 8 May 2015)

Testing the stress of the EU: EU law after the financial crisis

Escuela Diplomática, Madrid, Friday, 8 May 2015

Universität Bayreuth - Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst (DAAD)

Asociación Español de Profesores de Derecho Internacional y Relaciones Internacionales (AEPDIRI)

9:30 a.m.–9:35 a.m.: Welcome address, Prof. Dr. Carlos Esplugues Mota, LL.M., M. Sc.

9:35 a.m.–11:30 a.m.: The current situation of the European Union (4 papers à 15 minutes; 55 minutes panel discussion)

Panel chair: Prof. Dr. Rupprecht Podszun (University of Bayreuth)

• Beyond the Euro: the four crisis of the European project, Prof. Dr. José Antonio Sanahuja (University Complutense of Madrid)
• Europe as consciousness, Europe as narrative: from an “implicated order” to an “explicated order”, Prof. Dr. Paloma García Picazo (University Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid)
• The EU in global governance: a decade dealing with the rising rest, Prof. Dr. Esther Barbé (University Autónoma of Barcelona)
• The interplay between EU Law and International Law to set up the Eurozone rescue mechanisms, Prof. Dr. Antonio Pastor Palomar (University Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid)

Panel discussion:

• Prof. Dr. Isabel Lirola Delgado (University of Santiago de Compostela);
• Prof. Dr. Phillip Hellwege, M. Jur. (University of Augsburg);
• Prof. Dr. Matthias Lehmann (University of Bonn); Prof. Dr. Markus Roth (Philipps-University Marburg);
• Prof. Dr. Volker Wiese (University of Bayreuth).

11:30 a.m.–11:45 a.m.: Coffee break

11:45 a.m. – 13:30 p.m. Law and the role of law in the EU (7 papers à 15 minutes)

Panel chair: Prof. Dr. Pedro de Miguel Asensio (University Complutense of Madrid)

• Legal certainty after the crisis: the limits of European legal imagination, Prof. Dr. Pablo Martín Rodríguez (University of Almería)
• European Law, national law and international law in the European Union: no more “one country, one law, one judge, one lex fori” − The new role of judges in the EU: going back to the Middle Age, Prof. Dr. Rafael Arenas García (University Autonóma of Barcelona)
• The multi-level private international law: the EU experience, Prof. Dr. Francisco Garcimartín Alférez (University Autónoma of Madrid)
• The European Patent with unitary effect – A peak in multilevel private law ordering?, Prof. Dr. Michael Grünberger, LL.M. (University of Bayreuth)
• Neumark’s Revenge. Beyond the rump Europeanisation of national tax systems, Prof. Dr. Agustín J. Menéndez (University of León)
• Influence of the jurisdiction over consumer contracts on the consumer protection level, Dr. Malte Kramme (University of Bayreuth)
• CoCo-bonds as a means of reducing systemic risk, Henrik Gildehaus (University of Hamburg)

13:30 p.m.-15:00 p.m.: Lunch

15:00 p.m.–16:30 p.m.: The implementation or absence of implementation of EU policies as an example of its crisis (6 papers à 15 minutes)

Panel chair: Prof. Dr. Francisco Fonseca Morillo (Head of the European Commission Representation in Spain)

• New developments on the free movement of persons on time of crisis: Encroaching the European citizenship?, Prof. Dr. Magdalena Martín Martínez (University of Málaga)
• Testing the stress of the EU in the field of cross-border consumer redress, Prof. Dr. Guillermo Palao Moreno (University of Valencia)
• Giving teeth to EU fiscal rules: How to prevent Eurozone Member States from excessive borrowing?, Hayk Kupelyants (University of Cambridge)
• A common tax policy for Europe, Prof. Dr. André Meyer (University of Bayreuth)
• Financial Crisis and General Contract Law, Ann-Chantal Gressler (University of Bayreuth)
• Impact of the Economic Crisis on German & Greek General Contract Law, Tina Kalouta (University of Osnabrück)

16:30 p.m.–17:00 p.m.: Coffee break

17:00 p.m.–19:00 p.m.: The financial crisis and its repercussions in selected areas of law (6 papers à 20 minutes)

Panel chair: Prof. Dr. Jessica Schmidt, LL.M. (University of Bayreuth)

• Financial crisis and change of circumstances, Prof. Dr. Martin Schmidt-Kessel (University of Bayreuth)
• Financial crisis and European company and capital markets law, Prof. Dr. Jessica Schmidt, LL.M. (University of Bayreuth)
• Financial crisis and competition law, Prof. Dr. Rupprecht Podszun (University of Bayreuth)
• Financial crisis and merger control law, Marius Leber (University of Bayreuth)
• Financial crisis and insolvency law, Dr. Michael Müller, LL.M. (University of Bayreuth)
• The Reform of the Insolvency Regulation and International Arbitration, Manuel Penadés Fons (University of Warwick)

19:00 p.m.–19:15 p.m.: Closing address, Prof. Dr. Jessica Schmidt, LL.M.

20:30 p.m.: Dinner

Conference venue: Escuela Diplomática, Paseo Juan XXIII, 5. 28040 Madrid, Spain

Registration:

Admission to the conference (including coffee breaks) is free of charge. But attendees wishing to have lunch and/or dinner will have to pay for it themselves at the venue.

In order to attend, please register by 15 April 2015, via e-mail to: Zivilrecht1[at]uni-bayreuth.de

Please provide your full name and the number of your ID card/passport (this is condition precedent for access to the conference venue).

Academic Management:

Prof. Dr. Jessica Schmidt, LL.M.

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Prof. Dr. Carlos Esplugues Mota, LL.M., M. Sc.

Presidente AEPDIRI, Catedrático de Derecho Internacional Privado

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