Cosmopolitan Justice and its Discontents. Interdisciplinary Conference
This interdisciplinary conference will take place at Voksenåsen conference centre 15-16 October 2009. It is hosted by KULTRANS, area 5, Transnational Processes, Legitimacy and Values, in cooperation with the Faculty of Law.
Faculty of Law. Photo: Beate Trandem
Program
15th October
9:00 Welcome Cecilia Bailliet & Katja Franko Aas
9:10 Keynote: Costas Douzinas, Against Cosmopolitanism or for a Cosmopolitanism to Come
Cosmopolitan justice and sovereignty:
10:15 Sam Adelman, Cosmopolitanism and Sovereignty
10:45 Coffee Break
11:00 Ronald Tinnevelt, Cosmopolitanism in a World of Interconnected Threats and Challenges: From a World of States to a World State?
11:30 Q & A Chair Inger Johanne Sand
12:00 Lunch
Regional and Institutional Perspectives:
13:00 Ulrike M. Vieten, Seeking the Agent of Cosmopolitan Justice: Challenging the Bias of a Weltburger and the Cosmopolitan AntagonistRagnar Noreide, Assessing the Relevance of Cosmopolitanism in the Legal Reasoning of the European Court of Human Rights- Exploring the Legality and Legitimacy of the Court’s Methodological Approach
13:30 Kyriaki Topidi, Religion and Constitutional Reform in Turkey: From Islamic Governance to Good Governance?
14:00 Yong Zhou, Institutionalizing People’s Rights in the Nation-State Building Process: The Power of Human Rights and its Dilemma in China
14:30 Q & A Chair: Malcolm Langford
15:00 Coffee Break
Cosmopolitanism, difference and exclusion:
15:15 Barbara Hudson, All the People of All the World: a Cosmopolitan Perspective on Migration and Torture
15:45 Katja Franko Aas, A Borderless World? Cosmopolitanism, Boundaries and Frontiers
16:15 Cecilia Bailliet, Towards Holistic Transnational Protection and Sub-Altern Cosmopolitanism: The Emergence of Kidnapping as Grounds for Asylum
16:45 Q & A Chair Ole Kristian Fauchald
17:15 End of First Day
19:00 Conference Dinner (at Voksenåsen Hotel)
16th October
9:00 Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Everyday Cosmopolitanism and the Limits of Theory
Peace, International Criminal Law and Reconciliation:
9: 30 Keynote: R. Teitel, Humanity Law- A Cosmopolitanism of Peoples
10:15 C.H. Brants-Langeraar, Guilty Landscapes: Collective Guilt in International Criminal Law
10:45 Kristin B. Sandvik, The Politics and Possibilities of Victimhood, A Cosmopolitan Perspective
11:15 Q & A w/Coffee Break
Cosmopolitanism, global markets and fairness:
11:45 Keynote: Robert Wai, Cosmopolitanism in Transnational Contract Law
12:30 Claire Methven O’Brien, Does Global Market Integration Limit the Scope to Achieve Cosmopolitan Ideals? And if so, what are we to do about it?
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Thomas Christiano, Towards a Conception of Democratic Fairness in International Negotiation
14:30 Malcolm Langford & Khulekani Moyo, Speedhumps on the Road to the 'Cosmopolitanism to Come' Commercial Cosmpolitanism, Human Rights and the International Investment Regime
15:00 Coffee Break
15:15 Inger Johanne Sand, The regulation of biotechnology as a case for cosmopolitan law
15:45 Christina Voigt, State Obligations for Sale: The Global Common Market and State Sovereignty
16:15 Q & A
16:30 Panel: Cosmopolitanism in Practice
Andreas Føllesdal, Gro Nystuen, and Ola Mestad: The Council of Ethics
17:00 Conclusion and information about publication of the papers