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CONFERENCE
DEBACLESIllusIons and FaIlures In the hIstory
oF InternatIonal adjudIcatIon
Luxembourg, 24 & 25 November 2016
P r o g r a m m e
Thursday, 24 November 2016
09:00 Registration
09:15 Introductory Remarks
09:30 I. Theory
11:00 Coffeebreak
11:30 II. History
13:00 Lunchbreak
14:30 III. Human Rights
16:45 Coffeebreak
17:15 IV. International Economic Law
19:00 Dinner Cocktail
Friday, 25 November 2016
09:00 V. Regional Integration Organisations
10:15 Coffeebreak
10:45 V. Regional Integration Organisations (2nd part)
12:15 Lunchbreak
13:30 VI. International Criminal Law
15:00 Coffeebreak
15:30 VI. International Criminal Law (2nd part)
17:00 Concluding Remarks
17:30 Closure
DEBACLES: ILLuSIonS AnD FAILurES In thE hIStory oF IntErnAtIonAL ADjuDICAtIon
Encouragedby thepost-ColdWar riseof international adjudication,mostinternational lawyers have focused their attention on judicial ‘successstories’. They have thereby revitalised a liberal-modernist narrative thatviewstheconstantexpansionandimprovementofinternationaladjudicationas historically ineluctable. Against this backdrop, the DEBACLES project,inauguratedat theMaxPlanck Institute forProcedural Law in2015,aimstocastanunconventionallightonthehistoryofinternationaladjudication,bringing to the foreground itsmany illusions and failures, the paths nottaken,and,moregenerally,thenonlinearityofitsdevelopments.
Thepresentconference,whichmarksanimportantmilestone,willengagewith specific failed attempts to create and operate international judicialforums,aswellaswithbroaderhistoricalandtheoreticalissuesrelatedtosuchfailures.Firstamongthese is theclarificationof theveryconceptof‘failure’ and the identification of its subjective and objective dimensions.The conferencewill offer a rich inventory of cases of failure arranged infour thematic sessions on— respectively— human rights, internationaleconomic law, regional international organisations, and internationalcriminallaw.Prominentandostensiblythrivinginstitutions—includingtheInternationalCourtof Justice, theCourtof Justiceof theEuropeanUnionandtheInternationalCentreforSettlementofInvestmentDisputes(ICSID)—areexaminedalongwithlesser-knownoralmostforgottenones,liketheInternationalLoansTribunalandotherdeadlettercourts.Onemaysee,inthechoicetotakeacloser lookatcasesof failure,anattemptatdrawinglessons from past setbacks with a view to the progressive advancementandfurtherexpansionofinternationaladjudication.Theanalysesweoffermay,ofcourse,beputtosuchuse,althoughtheproject’smainpurposeis,rather, todevelopadispassionatecritiqueof thepracticeof internationaladjudicationitself,itsideologicalunderpinnings,mostnotablyasreflectedinitshistoriography,anditsstructurallimits.
I. thEory
Chair: Prof. Moshe Hirsch
DrLucaPasquetFailureasDisappointment
Prof.PaulaWojcikiewiczAlmeidaandProf.SerenaForlatiIsNon-compliancewithJudgmentsaFailureofInternationalAdjudication?
DrWimMullerInternationalAdjudicationAgainstGreatPowers:DestinedforFailure?TheNicaragua, Arctic Sunrise, and South China SeaCasesfromthePointofViewofPowerAsymmetry
Q&A session
II. hIStory
Chair: Prof. Bardo Fassbender
DrIngoVenzkeAnExtendedCritiqueofInternationalAdjudication:TheIllusionofNecessityandtheFailureofImagination
Dr Ignacio De la Rasilla y del Moral WhyaStoryofDeadLetterInternationalCourtsandTribunalsToday?
Daniel LitwinHow the Story of International Adjudication Has Been Told: The LinearSensibilityofInternationalAdjudicationHistoriography
Q&A session
III. humAn rIghtS
Chair: Dr Jarna Petman
MichelErpeldingFailure by Oblivion: The Invisible Legacy of the Upper Silesian MixedCommission
DrNicolasKang-RiouTheEuropeanSocialCharterCollectiveComplaintMechanism:FromLimitedSuccesstoFailure
DrOlivierBarsalouTheInternationalCourtofJustice,ColdWarPolitics,andtheInterpretationofPeaceTreatieswithBulgaria, Hungary and RomaniaCase:AHumanRightsDebacle?
DrAthanasiosChouliarasTheDevelopmentofStateResponsibility forSeriousViolationsofHumanRightsandtheDubiousRoleoftheInternationalCourtofJustice
DaliaPalomboHumanRightsAdjudication:BetweenHopeandDebacle
Q&A session
IV. IntErnAtIonAL EConomIC LAw
Chair: Prof. Hélène Ruiz Fabri
Dr Emanuel CastellarinTheInternationalLoansTribunalThatNeverWas
Prof.NikitasHatzimihailOfDebaclesandCrises: ‘De-colonisation’Meets InvestmentArbitration intheColdWarMiddleEast
Ksenia PolonskayaDoestheICSIDSufferfromaGeneticDisease?
Yuliya ChernykhFoldDownUmbrellas!TheDebacleof theUmbrellaClause in InvestmentArbitration
Q&A session
V. rEgIonAL IntEgrAtIon orgAnISAtIonS
Chair: Prof. Antoine Vauchez
DrFreyaBaetensTheTriumphofHopeoverExperience?IllusionsandFailuresofSuccessiveCentralAmericanCourtsofJustice
Prof.HenrideWaeleNotAllThatGlitters isGold:CovertFailingsof theCourtof Justiceof theEuropeanUnion
AndréNunesChaibWhyCourtsFailinLatinAmerica?ConstitutionalistImaginaryattheHeartofLatinAmericanJurisdictionalProjects
MarianaPeña-PinonTheFiascooftheMercosur‘sAdvisoryOpinionMechanism
Prof.KonstantinosD.MagliverasWhenPoliticsPrevailover theRuleof Law:TheUnfortunateStoryof theSADCTribunal
Evelyn MogereTheJudicialInstitutionsoftheEastAfricanCommunity(1967-1977):ATaleofThreeFailures
Q&A session
VI. IntErnAtIonAL CrImInAL LAw
Chair: Prof. Ilias Bantekas
HeejinKimEndingaCultureofImpunity:AHistoryoftheUseofInternationalJudicialMeansforthePunishmentofAtrocityCrimesinAsia
DrPatrycjaGrzebykHiddenintheGlareoftheNurembergTrial:TheImpunityforthe‘ButcheryofWola’astheGreatestDebacleofPost-warProsecutionofInternationalCrimes
LuigiProsperiTheMissed Italian Nuremberg: The History of an Internationally-sponsoredAmnesty
SergeyVasilievDebacles of International Criminal Adjudication: Deliberation Practices andLessonsUnlearned
DrDiGoreSimmalaAfrican Challenges to the Legitimacy of the International Criminal Court: IsInternationalCriminalJusticeFacingBreakdown?
YaelVlasGvirsman WhatInternationalCriminalJusticeCannotDo:TheLimitedRolesofInternationalCriminalCourtsandTribunalsinConflictResolution
Prof.GabrieleDellaMorteTheFailureoftheDiscourseAbouttheFailureofInternationalCriminalLaw
Q&A session
mAx PLAnCk InStItutE LuxEmBourg For ProCEDurAL LAwProcedurallawmatters–thiscouldbetheleitmotifforthenewMaxPlanckInstituteLuxembourgforProceduralLaw.TheInstitutewasfoundedinthesummerof2012.Today,itsresearcherscomingfromallovertheworldinvestigatealltypesofdisputeresolutionandprocedurallaw.WithintheMaxPlanckSociety,itisthefifthMaxPlanckInstituteestablishedoutsideGermany,andthefirstofthesefocusingonlaw.
ThelocationinLuxembourgisidealforaMaxPlanckInstitutefocusingonprocedurallaw:LuxembourgisindeedthesynonymfortheconstantdevelopmentandexpansionofthelegalsystemsoftheEUMemberStatesbymeansofEuropeanlawandofthejurisprudenceoftheCourtofJusticeoftheEuropeanUnion.ThisgivestheresearchersandguestsoftheInstitutetheopportunitytomaintainacontinuousdialoguewiththemembersoftheCourtandtogainadirectinsightintotheworkingsoftheEuropeanjudiciary.ObservingthepracticeofcourtsindifferentcountriesandatdomesticandinternationallevelsisanimportantsuccessfactorforstudyingEuropean,comparativeandinternationalprocedurallaw.
DEPArtmEnt oF IntErnAtIonAL LAwAnD DISPutE rESoLutIonLed by Professor Hélène Ruiz Fabri, the Department of International Law andDisputeResolution examines and analyses variousmechanisms and techniques ofinternationaldisputesettlement–includingtraditionallitigationaswellasalternativemethodsofdisputeresolutionandadjudication–butalsoextendsitsresearchtoallkinds of decision-making processes. Its research agenda focuses on the principlesandprocessesunderlyingeachofthesemechanismsandexploresvarioustheoreticalandhistoricalschoolsofthoughtininternationallawinordertoassesstheiraccuracyregardingproceduralissues.
SinceherappointmentasDirector,ProfessorRuizFabrihasgatheredinherdepartmentpromising senior and junior research fellowswith various disciplinary and culturalbackgrounds.Currently,theresearchactivitiesofthisinternationally-mindedteamareinparticularfocusedontwoambitiouslong-termprojects:
• The Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law, which aims to bringinto focusessential topics in internationaldispute resolution, to cover the latestdevelopments in the field and to reflect international law from a proceduralperspective;
• The Making of International Judicial and Arbitral Decisions, which combines theperspectivesoflaw,politicalscience,sociology,psychologyandhistory,andaimsatopeninguptheblackboxwhichinmanyrespectsstillencryptsthedecision-makingprocessesofcourtsandtribunals.
Besidesthetwoaforementionedchallengingprojects,theDepartmentofInternationalLaw and Dispute Resolution is actively engaged in international research projects,scientificandprofessionalnetworks,internationalorganizationsandforums.Seminars,colloquia and in-house workshops that gather leading scholars and practitionersof international laware regularlyheld, aswell as Lecture Seriesorganized in closecollaborationwiththeDepartmentofEuropeanandComparativeProceduralLaw.
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30 November 2016 / 16:00MaxPlanckLectureSeriesonSovereignDebtProposals for the Reform of Sovereign Debt Restructuring - The Contractual ApproachLecturer:MrPhilipR.WoodCBE(Allen&Overy,London)Discussant:ProfessorChristophG.Paulus(HumboldtUniversityofBerlin)
14 December 2016 / 16:00MaxPlanckLectureSeriesonSovereignDebtProposals for the reform of Sovereign Debt Restructuring - The Statutory ApproachLecturer:MrLeeC.Buchheit(ClearyGottlieb,NewYork)Discussant:ProfessorLuisM.Hinojosa-Martínez(UniversityofGranada)
30 - 31 March 2017WorkshopThe Making of Decisions of the United Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies
27 - 28 April 2017ConferenceExperts in International AdjudicationincollaborationwiththeUniversityofGeneva
25 - 26 September 2017ConferenceA Bridge over Troubled Waters: Dispute Resolution in the Law of International Watercourses and the Law of the Sea
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Pictures:Frontcover:Piranesi-View of the Temple of Minerva Medica, 1748-1774I.Theory:Piranesi-Veduta del Sepolcro di Cajo Cestio, 1748-1774II.History:Piranesi-Appian Way, Piranesi's Frontispiece for La Antichità Romane, T. II, 1756III.HumanRights:Piranesi-Pronaos Façade Drawn and Described in Plate, V, 1778IV.InternationalEconomicLaw:Piranesi-Theater of Marcellus, 1756V.RegionalIntegrationOrganizations:Piranesi-Remnant of a Covered Porch, 1748-1774VI.InternationalCriminalLaw:Piranesi-The Tomb on the Via Appia, 1756Backcover:Piranesi-Fragments of the Marble Plan of Ancient Rome, 1756
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