Prior Events

2007-2008

March 19, 2008, 12.30 p.m., Hauser 103
Lunchtime Discussion with High Commissioner Paul Boateng, British High Commissioner to South Africa
co-sponsored with BLSA and HALA

March 14, 2008, 2-4 p.m, Cabot Room, Center for European Studies
"The Protection of Human Rights in Enlarged Europe: Integration, Minorities and Overlapping Jurisdictions"
Speakers:
Lech Garlicki, Judge, European Court of Human Rights
Marko Ilešic, Judge, European Court of Justice
Chair:
Laurence Helfer, Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University Law School; Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

March 10, 2008, 5.30-7.30 p.m.
"Perspectives on the Reform Treaty"
Speakers:
Michel Petite, Outgoing Director General, Legal Service, European Commission
Steve Peers, Professor of Law, University of Essex
Chair: Ermal Frasheri

February 13, 2008, 5-7 p.m., Pound 200
"Democracy and Supremacy: Central European Constitutional Courts vis-a-vis the Principle of Supremacy of EU Law":
Speaker: Professor Wojciech Sadurski, European University Institute/University of Sydney
Discussant: Professor Mark Tushnet, Harvard Law School

February 12, 8.30 pm
HELA Social, Porter Square Tavern

December 7, 2007, 8.30 a.m.
Breakfast with Andris Pielbalgs, Commissioner for Energy, Commission of the European Union, Ferran Tarradellas Espuny, Spokesman for Energy, Manuel Antonio Gomes de Almeida de Pinho, Minister of Economy and Innovation of Portugal and Joao Caetano Faria Conceicao, Minister Pinho's advisor for Energy Issues

November 16, 2007, 12.30 p.m., Hauser 103
First Working Papers Series Seminar
Presenters:
Vijayashri Sripati, "Faking or Crafting Genuine Constitutionalism? A Critical Look at the U.N. Constitutional Assistance in Afghanistan's Constitution-Making Process"
Julia Haas, "Control of Administrative Action by Ombudsman and Commissioner Institutions - A Comparative Study of German and European Administrative Law"
Discussant: Tommaso Leonardi, Visiting Researcher, Harvard Law School
Chair: Ermal Frasheri, SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School

November 8, 2007, 9.30 a.m., Lewis 202
"The European Central Bank and the Euro-system, Nature, Function and Role";
Speaker: Chiara Zilioli, Deputy General Counsel, European Central Bank

November 2, 2007, 2.30 p.m., Austin West
"European Integration After the Enlargement: A Crisis of Passion or of Reason";
Speaker: Miguel Poiares Pessoa Maduro , Advocate General, European Court of Justice;
Discussant: Professor Daniela Caruso, Boston University
Chair: Francesca Strumia

October 18, 2007, 8.30 a.m.
Breakfast with Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Chairman of Committee on Foreign Affairs, European Parliament

October 17, 2007, 3 p.m.
Roundtable on EU Law with Doctoral Students from the University of Stockholm

October 11, 2007, 9 p.m.
HELA Social, Grafton Street

2006-2007

April 25, 2007
The Trans-atlantic Relationship through the Czech Perspective, a talk by Mr. Petr Kolar, Czech Ambassador to the United States; co-sponsored with the Harvard International Law Journal

April 24th, 2007
“The Great Alliance, Part II: Rationalism, Historicism, and Positivism in the Formation of the Modern Legal Consciousness: Formulaic Formalism.” paper presented by Paulo Barrozo, S.J.D. candidate, Harvard Law School

April 20, 2007
“On the Coordination of the EU Member States in the United Nations.&rdquo, a talk by Mr. Esa Passarvita, legal advisor at the European Commission Delegation to the UN; co-sponsored with the Harvard International Law Journal

April 16, 2007
"The Functioning of the EU and Prospective Reforms of the European Commission", a talk by Carmen Marques, European Commission Officer and LLM '86; co-sponsored with the European Law Research Center

April 4, 2007
Second Working Papers Seminar
Presenters:
Avirup Bose, LL.M. ’07, presented a paper on “Revisiting Renaissance in Antitrust law: an attempt to re-examine the difference between US-EU Antitrust law, through the prism of Religion”
Yarik Kryvoi, LL.M. ’07, presented a paper on “The European Union Generalized System of Preference: Linking Trade and labor Standards”
Juan Jorge Piernas Lopez, LL.M. ’07 presented a paper on “Is It Worth It? Leniency Applications in Europe and U.S. Litigation Risks.”

March 21, 2007
"Law after the Welfare State or, The Ironic Turn of Reflexive Law" a lecture by professor Peer Zumbansen, Osgoode Hall Law School. Discussant: Professor Duncan Kennedy. Co-sponsored with the European Law Research Center

March 16, 2007
"Democratic Militancy and Democratic Rule: Party Ban in Western Europe" Speaker: Professor Giovanni Capoccia, Oxford University

March 5, 2007
"European Integration Through Legal Harmonization? A Case Study of the NEw EC Securities Regulation", workshop with Professors Jules Stuyck, University of Leuven; Michel Tison, University of Gent; Veerle Colaert, University of Leuven; Tom Van Dyck, Harvard Law School Visiting Researcher

December 5, 2006
Breakfast with Jamie Shea, Policy Planning Director at the Secretary General’s office, NATO, on the NATO Riga Summit.

December 1, 2006
First Working Papers Series Seminar
Presenters:
Dries Cools, LL.M. ‘07 presented a paper on “EU Institutions and EU Member States in WTO Negotiations,”
Tom Van Dyck, a Visiting Researcher, presented his paper on "Unraveling the Golden Share Case Law: In Search of a Keck Style Test to Distinguish “Good” from “Bad” Golden Shares."
Cora True-Frost, LL.M. ’06 and a Fellow at the KSG, presented a paper on "Security Council and Norm Adoption."
Discussants:
S.J.D. candidates Holger Spamann, Stavros Gkantinis, and Arnulf Becker.

November 2, 2006
Breakfast with Robert Cooper, Director General for External and Politico-Military Affairs at the Council of the European Union, on the EU Foreign Policy

October 27-28, 2006
"The European Conference at Harvard: An Assessment of Global Challenges through the Trans-Atlantic Relationship"
Participants included Joschka Fischer, former Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister of Germany; David Gergen, professor, KSG; Michael Rühle, from the office of NATO Secretary General; Jeffrey Lewis, professor, KSG; Richard Morningstar, former US Ambassador; Pierre Defraigne, Director, French Institute for International Relations; Robert Lawrence, professor, KSG; Angelos Pangratis, deputy head of the European Commission Delegation to the United States. Co-organized with the Kennedy School of Government Euroclub

2005-2006

April 27, 2006
A New War of Religions? Problems and Prospects of Religious Tolerance
Speaker: Professor Matthias Mahlmann (Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany)
Discussant: Professor Scott Brewer (Harvard Law School)

April 19, 2006
Second Working Papers Series Seminar
Presenters:
Jane Shvets (J.D. student, Harvard Law School), European Court of Human Rights finds Bulgaria liable for failure to investigate racially motivated killings
Chloe Cockburn (J.D. student, Harvard Law School), Minding the Gap: An Investigation of Discontinuities in the Irish Constitution
Ermal Frasheri (S.J.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School), Legal Reform: Facing Problems and Perspectives of the Legislative Process and the Adoption of International Standards
György Kovács (LL.M. Candidate, Boston University School of Law)
Impact of European Union Law on national constitutional laws
Discussant: Paulo Barrozo (SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School)

April 7, 2006
First Working Papers Series Seminar
Presenters:
Peter Thomas Orebech (Professor of Law, University of Tromso, Norway, Visiting Researcher, ELRC), The European Union: A statu nascendi state? Comparing the EU and the US constitutional competencies, in historic time and now
William Phelan (Department of Political Sciences, Middlebury College, Vermont, PhD Candidate Department of Government, Harvard University), What is sui generis in the European Union? Law and Compliance in federal states, international organisations and the European Union
Emi Velkova (Visiting Scholar, Boston University School of Law), Integration of South-East Europe in the EU, Corruption, Foreign Direct Investment and Development
Discussant: Ermal Frasheri (SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School)

March 17, 2006
European Citizenship and Democratic Life in the European Union, between Representative and Participatory Democracy
Speaker: Professor Enrico Grosso (University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy)
Discussant: Professor Francesca Bignami

March 10, 2006
How and Why Does Law Change? A comparative analysis of the abolishment of slavery in the Western and Islamic legal systems
Speakers: Justice John T. Noonan, Jr. (United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit) and Ismael Musah Montana (Ph.D Candidate, Department of History, York University)
Discussants: Professor Baber Johansen, (Professor of Islamic Religious Studies, Harvard Divinity School) and Professor Cemal Kafadar (Vehbi Koc Professor of Turkish Studies, History Department, Harvard University)

January 16, 2006
Towards a European Legal Method
Speaker: Professor Stefan Vogenauer (Oxford University)
Discussant: Paulo Barrozo (SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School)

November 9, 2005
Controlling National Courts under EU Law: The Duty to Refer Cases to the ECJ and the Köbler Doctrine on Member State Liability
Speaker: Professor Ulf Bernitz (Stockholm University and Oxford University)
Discussant: Professor Daniel Meltzer (Harvard Law School)

October 20, 2005
Articulating Intellectual History, Cultural History, and Critical Theory
Speaker: Professor Dominick LaCapra (Cornell University)

October 12, 2005
Comparative Law and the Study of Comparative Value Systems: The Case of Privacy
Speaker: Professor James Withman (Yale Law School)
Discussant: Professor Adriaan Lanni (Harvard Law School)

October 6, 2005
Comparative Law as a Moving Target
Speakers: Professor Mitchel Lasser (Cornell Law School)
Discussant: SJD Candidate Marietta Auer (Harvard Law School)

2004-2005

May 6, 2005
American and European Perspectives on the Disintegration of Property
Speakers: Professor Thomas Grey (Stanford University), Professor Michele Graziadei (Università del Piemonte Orientale) and Professor Mikhail Xifaras ( University of Orléans)
Discussants: Professor Duncan Kennedy (Harvard Law School), Professor Charles Donahue (Harvard Law School) and Raef Zreik (SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School)

March 7, 2005
Individual Rights and the Coherence of Trade Policy
Speakers: Professor Gregory Shaffer (University of Wisconsin Law School), Professor Joel Trachtman (Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy) and Professor Robert Wai (Osgoode Hall/EUI Florence)

February 22, 2005
The Maastricht Decision and the Schmittian Interpretation Reconsidered
Speaker: Professor Peter Lindseth (University of Connecticut School of Law)
Discussant: Professor Ernest Young (Harvard Law School)

February 11, 2005
Legal Rationalities in Antitrust Law
Speakers: Professor Eleanor Fox (NYU) and Professor Roberto Pardolesi (LUISS, Rome)

January 25, 2005
The Return to Contract in Labour Law
Speaker: Silvana Sciarra (University of Florence)
Discussant: Discussant Professor Duncan Kennedy (Harvard Law School)

December 3, 2004
Issues for the Contemporary Law of War in Modern Combat
Speakers: CDR Dale Stephens, R.A.N. (HLS LL.M. 2004) and LT Michael Lewis, USN (ret.) (HLS J.D. 1998)

November 30, 2004
Governance of the Workplace, Democracy & Distribution: Global Perspectives
Speakers: Professor Kerry Rittich (University of Toronto, Visiting HLS) and Professor Karl Klare (Northeastern University Law School)

November 12, 2004
Legal Evolution and European Harmonization of Company Law
Speakers: Dr. Thomas Bachner (Vienna University of Economics & Cambridge University) and Professor Peer Zumbansen (Osgoode Hall, Toronto)
Chair: Professor Mark Roe (Harvard Law School)

October 29, 2004
Comparative Legal Rationalities in European and United States Administrative Law
Speakers: Professor Francesca Bignami (Duke Law School) and Professor Damian Chalmers (London School of Economics)
Chair: Dean Elena Kagan
Discussants: Rosa Comella (S.J.D. 2004, Harvard Law School) and Vlad Perju (S.J.D. candidate, Harvard Law School)