Towards A Global Ecological-Economic Legal Framework

Programme

Vendredi 6 juin

8:45 – Welcoming Participants

9:00 – 9:05 Welcoming from Frédéric Worms, Director of Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France

9:05 – 9:10 – Introduction from the Chair of the Conference (Florian Couveinhes Matsumoto & Paolo Davide Farah)

9:10 – 9:15 Address from the ESIL Interest Group Chairs and Conveners

Paolo Davide Farah – Chair of the ESIL IG on EU and International Rule of Law Daria Boklan – Co-Convener of ESIL IG on International Environmental Law Elena Cima – Co-Convener of the ESIL IG on Energy and International Law

José Gustavo Prieto Muñoz – Co-Convener ESIL IG on International Economic Law

9:15 – 10:15

Keynote Speaker: Gregory Shaffer, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington DC, USA Addressing the Negative Externalities of Trade

10:00 – 10:15 – Discussants, Q&A and Debate – Florian Couveinhes Matsumoto & Paolo Davide Farah 

10:15 – 10:30 Break

10:30 – 12:15 – Inaugural Panel: The Relationship between International Environmental Law and International Economic Law

Chair: Gregory Shaffer, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington DC, USA

The Emperor’s Green Clothes: Exposing the Structural Pathologies of Environmental Exceptions in Trade and Investment Agreements

Caroline Henckels, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Promoting Corporate Environmental Standards Through Interlegality Jaye Ellis, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Balancing the Energy Trilema Through Dispute Resolution Reform Guillermo Garcia Sanchez, Texas A & M University

Business, Human Rights, and the Environment: Indigenous Perspectives and the 2024 WIPO Treaty, Paolo Davide Farah, West Virginia University (USA) and gLAWcal – Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development

12:00 – 12:15 – Q&A and Debate

12:15 – 13:30 Panel 1: Reframing International Rules on Subsidies and Industrial Policy for a Sustainable Future – ESIL Energy and International Law

Chair: Ilaria Espa, University of Lugano, Switzerland Green Subsidies and WTO Rules

Gabrielle Marceau, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Mapping Current Subsidy Practices and Their Effects Elettra Bargellini, Dublin City University, Ireland

Subsidies, Industrial Policies and Dispute Settlement

Tetyana Payosova, International Trade Law and Policy Expert

Subsidies and Renewable Energy

Elena Cima, University of Geneva, Switzerland 

13:15 – 13:30 – Q&A and Debate

13:30 – 15:00 – Lunch Break

15:00 – 16:00 – Panel 2 – Reframing International Trade Law – Principles and Exceptions

Panel Chair: Gabrielle Marceau, University of Geneva

Climate Change Interpretation of Trade Rules or Used as Guise for Protectionism? Daria Boklan, HSE

Can Climate Change Be Considered “Other Emergency In International Relations” Under Article XXI(B) of the GATT94? The Potential Strengthening Of Environmental Restrictions in a Context of Securitization of International Trade

Justo Corti-Varela, UNED, Spain

Navigating Through a Fragmented International Legal Order: Is There a Place For Sectoral Agreements on Trade and Environment Outside the WTO?

Antoine Comont, Universite de Bordeaux, France 

15:45 – 16:00 Q&A and Debate 

16:00 – 17:00 Break and Poster Presentations 

17:00 – 18:15 – Panel 3 – The Tools of Trade Agreements and Policies, and Their (In)Efficiency – Ecological-Economic Agreements

Panel Chair: Paolo Davide Farah, West Virginia University (USA) and gLAWcal – Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development

Towards a New Generation of Agreements for Sustainability Rhea Tamara Hoffmann, University of Siegen, Germany

Strengthening International Climate Change Mitigation Law through Regional Trade Agreements? Prospects and Obstacles for Concretization, Adjudication and Enforcement

Andreas Buser, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Sustainability Impact Assessments of Trade Agreements: Harm Prevention and Due Diligence Johanna Aleria Lorenzo, University of Amsterdam

The Agreement on Climate Change, Trade and Sustainability (ACCTS): Check and Balances Between the Institutional System and the Environmental Commitments

Esther López Barrero, Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Spain

Samedi 7 juin 

9:30– 10:15 – Panel 4 – The Tools of Trade Agreements and Policies, and Their (In)Efficiency – Ecological-Economic Agreements – Ecological-Economic Policies

Chair: Justo Corti-Varela, UNED, Spain

The Protection of Marine Ecosystems Through Trade: Assessing the European Union Toolbox

Justine Muller, National University of Singapore, Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL)

Biodiversity Protection in EU Policy: Balancing Disclosure Enforcement, and the Role of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive in The Omnibus Review

Marco Corradi, ESSEC Business School, Paris, France Silvia Grandi, University of Bologne, Italy

Marios Iacovides, Uppsala University, Sweden 

10:00 – 10:15 Q&A and Debate

10:15 – 11:15 – Panel 5 – Reframing International Investment Law

Panel Chair: Catharine Titi, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)–CERSA, University Paris-Panthéon-Assas, France

General Principles of International Law: Bridging Investment Arbitration and Environmental Protection Marina-Elissavet Konstantinidi, Independent Researcher, Brussels

Should I Stay or Should I Go? A Comparative Analysis of the Exclusion of Protection for Fossil Fuel Investments Under the Modernized ECT and in the Event of Withdrawal from the ECT

Johannes Tropper, University of Vienna, Austria

Between Sovereignty and Systemic change: MDBs and Paris Alignment in Development Policy Lending Katerina Akestoridi, Boston University, Global Development Policy Center, USA

11:00 – 11:15 Q&A and Debate

11:15 – 12:00 Break and Poster Presentations

12:00 – 13:15 – Panel 6 – Key “Hybrid” Institutions and Themes

Panel Chair: Jaye Ellis, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Revisiting and Comparing International Legal Arrangements Governing Transfer of Technology in International Economic Law For Sustainability

Felipe de Andrade, University of Antwerp and KU Leuven, Belgium

International Law and Circular Economy: The Case of Recycling Raw Materials Necessary for the Energy Transition

VictorGrandaubert, Université Paris Nanterre – Centre de droit international de Nanterre (CEDIN), France

The Challenges of Including The/A One Health Approach in a Legally Binding Instrument

María Juliana Tenorio Quintero, Permanent Mission of Colombia to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva, Switzerland

Managing Regime Conflicts in Climate Governance: Towards a More Structured Approach to Systemic Integration

Huiwen Yang, National University of Singapore, Asia Pacific Centre of Environmental Law, Singapore 

13:00 -13:15 Q&A and Debate

13:15 – 15:00 – Lunch Break and Poster Presentations

15:00 – 16:00 Panel 7 – Reconnecting the Global Ecological-Economic Legal Framework with General International Law and Theories of Justice

Panel Chair: Florian Couveinhes Matsumoto, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France

The Emergence of an Environmental Jus Cogens Norm: Rethinking General Obligations in International Economic and Environmental Law

Kasim Balarabe, O P Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana, India

Bringing Ecological and Socioeconomic Justice Together: A Law & Political Economy Approach to Planetary and Earth System Justice

Gauthier Martens, UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles, Belgium

Poster Presentations

• Benedicta Naa Sackiorkor Quarcoo, Luiss Guido Carli University Law School, Italy, The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms: Legal Implications for International Trade and Cooperation
• Mariela (Maidana-Eletti) de Amstalden, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, Engineering Biology, Planetary Health and New WTO Law: Examining the Role of International Standards in Operationalizing the Principle of (Rebuttable) Presumption of Compliance under WTO law
• Nehir ARSLAN, Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis, France, Cultural and Natural Heritage in Investment Arbitration: A Misalignment that Needs Alternative Paths
• Valerio Sinaj, IUSS Pavia & Universita di Roma Unitelma Sapienza, Italy, Who Pays for Environmental Harm? State and Corporate Responsibility in International Law
• Xiaofeng Li, Durham Law School, United Kingdom, China’s Industrial Policy and World Trade Law
• Farouk GHAZI Badji Mokhtar-Annaba University, Algeria, & Tareck ALSAMARA, Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia, The Environmental and Economic Dimensions of Litigation in National and International Courts: fossil fuels companies versus international climate change law
• Claudia Pharaon, Leiden Law School, The Netherlands, Rethinking the Settlement of International Investment Disputes to Address Ecological Challenges
• Preetkiran Kaur, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India, Centre for Trade and Investment Law, India, Assessing the “Sustainability” Aspect and
• Implications of the EU-Angola Sustainable Investment Facilitation Agreement vis-à-vis Critical Minerals Supply Chain
  Laura Létourneau Tremblay, University of Inland Norway, Norway, Interpretation of International Investment Law: Towards an Ecological Approach?
• Mohamed Abubakr Abdelmaqsoud, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, Causation in Climate Change Litigation: Legal Challenges and Alternative Approaches