The EU as a Global Actor

Interdisciplinary Inter-University Doctoral Symposium:
The European Union as a Global Actor
Leuven, 8 May 2015
On 8 May 2015 the Department of European and International Law of the Faculty of Law, the Leuven
Institute for European and International Studies (LINES) of the Faculty of Social Sciences and the
Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies of KU Leuven organize, in co-operation with the
Universities of Antwerp (Antwerp Centre for Institutions and Multi-Level Politics, ACIM) and Ghent
(Centre for EU Studies), an interdisciplinary Doctoral Colloquium on the topic of “The EU as a Global
Actor”. Establishing the EU as a more visible, more effective and strong global actor was one the key
objectives of the Treaty of Lisbon, which has now been into force for five years. This has led the EU to
take initiatives in many different areas of international law and relations. The area of EU external
relations has therefore increasingly been the subject of research in law and political science. This
colloquium aims to encompass different topics in this wide area of research. Doctoral researchers in
law and political science are invited to present their research in a conference style format. The event
is aimed to provide researchers with the opportunity to present their work among colleagues from
different departments who are working on issues related to the EU’s role as a global actor. Guests
from the European institutions and from academia will act as discussants on the panels.
Draft Programme
9.00-9.10: Welcome by Prof. Dr. Jan Wouters, Director of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance
Studies, KU Leuven
9.10-10.45: Panel 1: The EU’s security-development nexus
Chair: Prof. Dr. Piet Eeckhout (University College of London)
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Tina Van den Sanden (KU Leuven - Law) [email protected] – The odd one
out: the legal scope of EU development cooperation policy (Promotor Geert De Baere)
(doctoral seminar)
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Hans Merket, ‘The EU and the security-development nexus: Bridging the legal divide’ (Ghent
University) (prof. dr. Peter Van Elsuwege) [email protected]
Discussants: Prof. Dr. Bart Van Vooren (University of Copenhagen) and Prof. Dr. Cedric Ryngaert
(University of Utrecht)
10.45-11.00: coffee break
11.00-12.30: Panel 2: The EU and international investment
Chair: Prof. Dr. Dirk De Bièvre (University of Antwerp)
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Hannes Lenk (University of Gothenburg) ‘The EU as an Actor in Investor-State Dispute
Settlement’, [email protected]
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Govert Coppens (KU Leuven - Law) ‘The European Union as Negotiator of Global Investment
Agreements’ [email protected] (Promotor Hans van Houtte) (doctoral
seminar)
Discussants: Prof. Dr. Geert Van Calster and Jed Odermatt
12.30-13.30: Lunch
13.30-14.45: Panel 3: The EU and Sustainability
Chair: Prof. Dr. Jan Orbie, Ghent University
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Purdey Devisscher, (Ghent European Law Institute G.E.L.I.) - The relationship between the
Union and the ACP countries: the translation of a right to (sustainable) development? Are the
Economic Partnership Agreements a fulfilled promise of development friendly trade
agreements? A legal perspective (Promotors: Prof. dr. M. Maresceau and Prof. dr. I. Govaere)
[email protected]
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Pauline Pirlot (UC Louvain) - Working title: Sustainable Development – EU external forest
policies (Promotor Tom Delreux) [email protected]
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Natalie Dobson (Utrecht University) ‘The EU as a Global Environmental Actor:
Extraterritoriality and Climate Change’ [email protected]
Discussants: Prof. Dr. Geert Van Calster and Tina Van den Sanden
13.30-14.45: Panel 4: The EU as a social actor
Chair: Prof. Dr. Dirk De Bièvre
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Lore Van den Putte (Ghent University – Political Science) - The framing of ‘social trade’:
labour issues under the EU-Colombia/Peru Free Trade Agreement
[email protected]
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Hang Yuan (Ghent University) ‘The External Conditions of the EU as a Global Actor:
Interactions with China on Social Issues’ [email protected]
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Lies Steurs (Centre for EU Studies, Ghent University) The EU as a coordinator in global health:
towards convergence or complementarity? (Promoter: prof. Jan Orbie, Co-promoter: Dr.
Sarah Delputte) [email protected]
Discussants: Prof. Dr. Bart Kerremans and Prof. Dr. Jan Orbie
14.45-16.00: Panel 5: The EU as a human rights actor
Chair: Prof. Dr. Bart Van Vooren
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Anna-Luise Chané & Arjun Sharma (KU Leuven – Law) ‘Assessing the EU’s role at the Human
Rights Council’ [email protected]
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Isabella Querci (Università degli Studi di Genova) ‘Implementation of acts of international
organizations into EU law: The case of individual sanctions [email protected]
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Andreas Boogaerts (Leuven International and European Studies LINES) ‘Spring as a new
beginning? An investigation into the European Union's sanctions practice following the Arab
Spring’ Promotor: Prof. Dr. Edith Drieskens [email protected]
Discussants: Prof. Dr. Jan Wouters and Prof. Dr. Cedric Ryngaert
14.45-16.00: Panel 6: The scope of the EU’s trade competence
Chair: Prof. Dr. Geert De Baere
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Yole Tanghe (KU Leuven – Law) – ‘Constructing a dam to resist a river bursting its banks:
looking for the borders of the EU’s external competence in the field of IP’
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Dominik Moskvan, (University of Antwerp) ’European Union Competence on Foreign
Investment: Limitations of the Past and Future’ (Promotors: Alexia Herwig and Gert
Straetmans) [email protected]
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Christian Freudlsperger (Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies - BTS) ‘A
Comparison of Trade Policy-Making in Federations’ (Promotor: Markus Jachtenfuchs)
[email protected]
Discussants: Prof. Dr. Piet Eeckhout and Prof. Dr. Bart Kerremans
16.00-16.15: coffee break
16.15-17.30: Panel 7: The EU as a normative power
Chair: Prof. Dr. Cedric Ryngaert
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Daan Fonck (Leuven International and European Studies) ‘Beyond Parliamentarisation:
towards a Conceptual Framework for the Study of the European Parliament's Diplomacy’
[email protected] (doctoral seminar )
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Mistale Taylor (Utrecht University) ‘The Extraterritorial Effects of EU Data Protection Law in
the Data Protection Directive and the Proposed General Data Protection Regulation’ (Prof.
Cedric Ryngaert; co-supervisor – Prof. John Vervaele) [email protected]
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Stefano Saluzzo (University of Palermo) ‘The European Union and Member States
International Agreements’ [email protected]
Discussants: Prof. Dr. Stephan Keukeleire and Prof. Dr. Geert De Baere
17.30-17.45: Concluding remarks by Prof. Dr. Bart Kerremans, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences,
KU Leuven