Sponsored by the S&O Institute and organized by Armin Steinbach, HEC Professor of Law, this conference that will take place on campus on September 29 and 30, explore reforms in multilevel governance of public goods at worldwide, European and national levels so as to develop academically innovative research and concrete policy proposals. The commitment to sustainable development requires clarification of how Europe should respond to pressing societal challenges.

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Thursday, 29 September 2022

Part I: Leadership and transnational governance failures

 
9.30-9.45: Armin Steinbach (HEC Paris): Welcome address & Research Framework 
   
9.45-10.10: Peter Altmaier (former German Minister for the Economy and for the Environment):

EU leadership for multilevel governance of transnational public goods? Lessons from climate change mitigation, trade governance and the security crises
 
10.10-10.35: Merit E. Janow (Columbia University):

US leadership for multilevel governance of transnational public goods?
 
10.35-11.00: Pascal Lamy (Chair, Paris Peace Forum):

Multilateralism or polylateralism?
 
11.00-11.25: John W.H. Denton (Secretary General, International Chamber of Commerce):

Business perspective on transnational ‘governance failures’
 
11.25-11.45: Coffee Break
 
11.45-13.00: Discussion with panelists moderated by Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann (EUI Florence)   

 
 
Part II: Environmental constitutionalism for climate change mitigation?

 
14.00-14.20: Erin Daly (Delaware Law School):

Do ‘environmental constitutionalism’ and G20 leadership offer realistic policy options for improving UN environmental law and governance? A US perspective
 
14.20-14.40: Veerle Heyvaert (London School of Economics):  

Do the EU’s ‘environmental constitutionalism’ and G20 leadership offer policy options for improving UN environmental law & governance?
 
14.40-15.30: Discussion
 
15.30-16.00: Coffee Break
 
16.00-16.20: Jos Marie Delbeke (EUI Florence):

EU and US Leadership for UN climate change mitigation policies?
 
16.20-16.30: Jingxia Shi (Renmin University of China):

Chinese leadership for climate change mitigation?
 
16.30-16.50: Yukari Takamura (University of Tokyo):

Japanese and Asian Leadership for Climate Change Mitigation?
 
16.50-17.45: Discussion
 
Dinner - upon invitation: Le Château, HEC Paris, dinner speech by Martin Schäfer (ministre plénipotentiaire de l'ambassade d'Allemagne)
 
 

Friday, 30 September 2022

Part III: Multilevel governance of public goods and systemic rivalries

 
09.00-09.20: Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann (EUI Florence):

Multilevel Constitutionalism for Multilevel Governance of Public Goods? (Dis)Agreements on Transnational Governance 
 
09.20-09.40: Kalypso Nicolaïdis (Oxford University):

The Future of Trans-Atlantic Governance Cooperation
 
09.40-10.00: Henry Gao (Singapore University):

The Future of Regional Economic Cooperation in Asia
 
10.00-11.00: Discussion

 
Part IV: Rule of law in world trade and investments: precondition for sustainable development?

 
11.00-11.20: Pieter van den Bossche (University of Bern):

Proposals for overcoming the WTO Appellate Body Crisis
 
11.20-11.40: Maria Laura Marceddu (EUI Florence):

EU and UNCTAD Proposals for reforming investor-state arbitration
 
11.40-12.00: James Flett (European Commission):

EU Proposals for WTO-consistent Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms
 
12.00-13.00: Discussion
 
13.00: Lunch

 
End of conference