Programme

DAY 1: FRIDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2013
Venue: Auditoire Ivan Pictet

9.00 – 10.00: Arrival and Registration

10.00 –11.00: Welcome Addresses and Opening Keynote
– Welcome Address by Conference organisers
– Opening Keynote: Laurence Boisson de Chazournes, University of Geneva

11.00 – 12.30: Panel 1 – Changing Theories and Paradigms of International Environmental Law

Moderator: Jorge E. Viñuales, University of Cambridge
– Jaye Ellis, McGill University, From International to Transnational Environmental Law
– Dan Tarlock, Chicago-Kent College of Law, A ‘Precedential’ Approach to Understanding International Environmental Law
– Anastasia Telesetsky, University of Idaho, ‘Novel Ecosystems’: What is the Role for International Law as Nature Changes?

12.30 – 14.00: Lunch

14.00 – 15.30: Panel 2 – Regime Interaction in International Environmental Law: Theoretical and Practical Implications

Moderator: Peter Tobias Stoll, University of Göttingen
– Freya Baetens, Leiden University, Transparency vs. Trade Secrets: How to Balance the Right to Access to Environmental Information and the Legitimate Protection of Confidential Business Information?
– Christine Bakker, European University Institute, Interaction between Climate Change and Children’s Rights: Normative Perspectives from the EU and the US
– Kenneth Michaels, US Department of Energy, Fragmentation Within International Endangered Species Regulation: CITES and the Atlantic Bluefin Tuna
– André Ramos Tavares, Pontifical University of Sao Paolo and Mackenzie University, Environmental Change and Indigenous Communities: The Need for New Judicial Mechanisms

15.30 – 16.00: Coffee Break

16.00 – 17.30: Panel 3 – New Actors and New Mechanisms of Governance in International Environmental Law

Moderator: Geir Ulfstein, University of Oslo
– Birgit Lode, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (Potsdam), A Promising New Multi-Level Approach to Environmental Problem Solving: The Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short Lived Climate Pollutants (CCAC)
– Ernesto Roessing Neto, Vrije Universiteit Brussel/Amazonas State University, California, Acre and Chiapas: Repercussions of Direct Climate Change Policies Linkage between Subnational Jurisdictions on International Environmental Law
– Annalisa Savaresi, University of Edinburgh, The Role of EU and US Non-State Actors in the Global Environmental System: A Focus on Climate Change

17.30 – 19.00: Reception.

20.00 – 22.30: Conference Dinner (Chairs and Speakers) at Restaurant Vieux-Bois, 12 Avenue de la Paix, CH 1202 Geneva.

 

DAY 2: SATURDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2013
Venue: Auditoire Ivan Pictet

9.00 – 9.30: Arrival and Coffee

9.30 – 11.00: Panel 4 – Tides of Change: Evolving Issues in the Protection of the Marine Environment

Moderator: Don Anton, Australian National University
– Yoshinobu Takei, University of Kiel, Approaches of the European Union and the United States to Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing
– Alexandros Ntovas, University of Southampton, The Role of the EU and US in the Establishment of the Compatibility Principle for the Conservation and Management of Straddling Stocks
– Sophia Kopela, University of Lancaster, Common But Differentiated Responsibilities and Climate Change: The Experience of the International Maritime Organisation

11.00 – 12.30: Panel 5 – New Modes of Accountability in International Environmental Law

Moderator: Marcelo Kohen, Graduate Institute
– Carina Costa de Oliveira, University of Brasilia, The Debate over Companies’ Liability for international Environmental Damages: A Comparison Between the Jurisdictional Rules of the European Union and the United States
– Lee Paddock, The George Washington University, Private Environmental Law through Supply Chain Management: A Necessary Approach to Environmental Governance in a Globalized Economy?
– Marie Soveroski, Earth Rights International, Holding Corporations Accountable for International Environmental Abuses: The Quest for Environmental Justice

12.30 – 14.00: Lunch Break

14.00 – 15.30: Panel 6 – At Home and Abroad: Evolving Strategies of Implementation

Moderator: Makane Mbengue, University of Geneva
– Martina Kunz, The University of Cambridge, Evolving Approaches to the Assessment of National Implementation of Environmental Treaties
– Vassilis Tzevelekos, University of Hull, Due Dilligence and Concurrent Responsibility in Extraterritorial Environmental Protection
–  Thiago Matsushita, Pontifical University of Sao Paolo, The New Brazilian Environmental Code

15.30 – 16.45: Closing Keynote – Prof. Francesco Francioni, European University Institute