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15 March 2012: Expert Meeting on Binding Corporate Rules - Implementing Legal Innovations

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:48:42 GMT

15 March 2012 | 09:30 - 16:30 hrs
De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, Amsterdam

By invitation only

On 15 March 2012, in cooperation with law firm De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, HiiL will organise a seminar on Binding Corporate Rules (BCR), a legal innovation that may facilitate global inter-company data transfers.

Particular attention will be paid to the proposed EU Draft Regulation on Data Protection which recognises the importance of BCR in authorising data transfers to group companies outside the European Economic Area. The envisaged Regulation raises a number of practical questions. These include:

What are key elements of the new rules for BCR?
How do they affect EU-headquartered multinationals already using the BCR framework? and
How well do the new rules respond to legitimacy demands?

The objective of the expert meeting will be to address these issues and to share the results of a HiiL case study into the effectiveness and legitimacy of Binding Corporate Rules (BCR) as an innovative form of transnational corporate self-regulation and as an alternative to public law.

Guest speakers include a a high level representative of the EU Commission, the European Data Protection Supervisor, the Chair of the Article 29 Working Party, as well as experts from civil society, academic experts on innovative regulation, and representatives from leading multinational companies which are already implementing BCR.

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For more information please contact: communications@hiil.org.

See also:

HiiL Research Project: Private Transnational Regulation: Constitutional Foundations and Governance Design
HiiL Research Theme: Private Actors

3 February 2012: Seminar 'Private law and nationalism'

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:30:54 GMT

Date: 3 February 2012
Location: University of Amsterdam, Room A009

The seminar is part of the research project 'National Resistance against the Europeanisation of Private Law' that is sponsored by HiiL.

Private law and nationalism
This seminar explores the relationship between private law and nationalism. At first sight, the days of private law nationalism may seem to be over in the light of Europeanization, globalisation and, more generally, our post-national condition. On the other hand, the Europeanization of private law has met with fierce resistance. And, if nationalism is the political principle according to which the political and the national unit should be congruent (Gellner) should then not the resistance against the Europeanization of private law, often in the guise of technical arguments, not regarded as a form of (crypto-)nationalism if such arguments consistently regard the nation state as the most natural locus for private law making? And, on the other hand, if nations are imagined communities (Anderson), construed by men and women over time, should not then the work on a Common European Sales Law and a European Law Institute count as important instances of European national building? Nationalism seems bad, indeed dangerous, in light of the catastrophic role it played in the 20th Century. However, more recently it has been argued that nationalism and liberalism are not irreconcilable (Tamir) and that the solidarity that is needed for a functioning welfare state requires a common sense of belonging that is found in the nation (Miller).

Can a similar normative argument be made in favour of liberal private law nationalism? These and similar questions will be at the heart of discussions in this international seminar organised by the Centre for the Study of European Contract Law in Amsterdam.

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Participation is free, but registration prior to the seminar is required. For registration, please, contact Yvonne ter Horst.

See also:

HiiL Research Project: National Resistance against the Europeanisation of Private Law
Centre for the Study of European Contract Law in Amsterdam

17-19 May 2012: Conference on Transnational Societal Constitutionalism

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:26:41 GMT

On 17 until 19 May 2012, Gunther Teubner and Anna Beckers will organise an international conference on Transnational Societal Constitutionalism. The conference will be hosted by HiiL and the International University College of Turin (IUC). It will take place at the Collegio Carlo Alberto, Torino.

The conference is open for the public and free of charge.

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List of speakers

Gavin Anderson, University of Glasgow
Larry Cata Backer, Pennsylvania State University
Anna Beckers, Maastricht University
Paul Schiff Berman, George Washington University, Washington D.C.
Emilios Christodoulidis, University of Glasgow
Jaye Ellis, McGill University, Montreal
Christian Joerges, University of Bremen:
Poul Kjaer, Cluster of Excellence “Normative Orders”, University of Frankfurt
Matthias Kumm, New York University
Hans Lindahl, Tilburg University
Ugo Mattei, International University College Torino
Riccardo Prandini, University of Bologna
Moritz Renner, Humboldt University Berlin
Florian Rödl, Cluster of Excellence “Normative Orders”, University of Frankfurt
Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, New York
Gunther Teubner, Cluster of Excellence “Normative Orders”, University of Frankfurt/ University College Torino
Christopher Thornhill, University of Glasgow
Dan Wielsch, University of Cologne

Gunther Teubner

Gunther Teubner is a professor of Private Law and Legal Sociology, Principal Investigator, Excellence Cluster "The Formation of Normative Orders", Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main. Professor, International University College, Torino. On the periode of 2009 - 2010, Gunther Teubner held position as UM - HiiL Visiting Chair on Internationalisation of Law.

For more information and registration, please contact:

Anna Beckers | PhD researcher
Appointed within the UM - HiiL Chair on the Internationalisation of Law
+31 43 388 3138 | anna.beckers@maastrichtuniversity.nl