NÄTVERKET FÖR EUROPARÄTTSFORSKNING

THE SWEDISH NETWORK FOR EUROPEAN LEGAL STUDIES
HAS THE GREAT PLEASURE
OF INVITING YOU TO AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON:
20 Years Swedish Legal Integration in the
EU: A Two-way Street
Conference Program
February 16-17, 2015
| Hilton Hotel, Guldgränd 8, Slussen i Stockholm |
Conference Program
Conference Day 1: Monday, 16 February 2015
Plenary sessions (all day)
08:30
Registration and coffee
09:00
Welcome address by the Swedish Network for
European Legal Studies
Professors Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt,
Chairman, and Ulf Bernitz, Stockholm University
09:10
Keynote address: Sweden’s accession to the EU:
looking back at the history of negotiations and the
accession agreement
Former Judge Pernilla Lindh, Court of Justice
The relationship between national law and EU law and the
changing role of courts
Chair: Professor Joakim Nergelius, Örebro University
09:30
The relationship between Swedish and EU law: 20
years after
Justice Mats Melin, President, Swedish Supreme
Administrative Court
09:50
Division of powers in an integrated European
legal order: a new role for national courts
Judge Christopher Vajda, Court of Justice
10:10
Panel debate and discussion
In the panel: Mats Melin and Christopher Vajda (as
above), Judge of Appeal and Associate Professor
Ola Zetterquist, Judge Ingeborg Simonsson,
Stockholm District Court; Associate Professor,
Stockholm University
10:40
Coffee
Swedish Courts in the European Judicial Dialogue
Chair: Professor Ulf Bernitz, Stockholm University
11:00
The changing role of national courts
Justice Marianne Lundius, President, Swedish
Supreme Court
11:20
Swedish courts as reluctant or willing
participants in the EU judicial dialogue?
Attorney-at-Law Ola Wiklund, Partner, Hansen Law
Firm, Associate Professor, Stockholm University
11:40
Explaining differences in preliminary references
between Member States
Professor Morten Broberg, University of
Copenhagen
12:00
Panel debate and discussion
In the panel: Marianne Lundius, Ola Wiklund,
Morten Broberg (as above) and Professor Carl
Fredrik Bergström, Uppsala University
12.30
Lunch
The Role of Fundamental Rights in the Swedish and the
European Legal Order
Chair: Professor Xavier Groussot, Lund University
13:30
The role of fundamental rights in the Swedish and
European legal order
Justice Thomas Bull, Swedish Supreme
Administrative Court
13.50
The Charter of Fundamental Rights: a new
dynamic in the protection of fundamental rights
in Europe
Dr Angela Ward, Legal Secretary, Court of Justice
14:10
The bumpy road to EU accession to the ECHR
Dr. Erik O. Wennerström, Director General, Swedish
National Council for Crime Prevention
14:30
Panel debate and discussion
In the panel: Thomas Bull, Angela Ward, Erik O.
Wennerström (as above), Professor Karin Åhman,
Uppsala University
15:00
Coffee
Rights and Remedies
Chair: Professor Jane Reichel, Uppsala University
15:30
EU law as a source of rights for individuals and
firms
Advocate General Nils Wahl, Court of Justice
15:50
The remedies case-law of the EU Court of Justice
and its impact on national law
Advocate General Eleanor Sharpston, Court of
Justice
16:10
Remedies for violation of EU law: state liability
and beyond
Professor Torbjörn Andersson, Uppsala University
16:30
Panel debate and discussion
In the panel: Eleanor Sharpston, Nils Wahl, Torbjörn
Andersson (as above), Professor Jan Darpö, Uppsala
University
17:00
Concluding discussion day 1
End of the day: Drinks and snacks
Conference Program
Conference Day 2: Tuesday, 17 February 2015
Plenary session (09:00-12:30)
09:00
Swedish judges at the Court of Justice of the EU
give their insider view of the Court
Present and former judges of the Court of Justice of
the European Union: Hans Ragnemalm, Pernilla
Lindh, Nils Wahl, Carl Gustav Fernlund, Carl Wetter
Moderator: Attorney-at-Law Ulf Öberg, Managing
Partner, Öberg & Associés
10:30
Coffee
Swedish EU Membership and International Law
Chair: Anna Falk, Director, Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
11:40
The evolving EU Foreign Relations Law: What
place for Sweden?
Professor Piet Eeckhout, University College London
11:00
The duty of loyal cooperation and Sweden’s
participation in international agreements
Professor Christophe Hillion, Leiden University
11:20
The principle of state sovereignty in the ”New
Legal Order of International Law”: assessing the
effect of Sweden's observations in preliminary
rulings.
Assistant Professor Andreas Moberg, Gothenburg
University
12:00
Panel debate and discussion
In the panel: Christophe Hillion, Piet Eeckhout (as
above), Assistant Professor Andreas Moberg,
Gothenburg University, Associate Professor Anna
Jonsson Cornell, Uppsala University, Dr Erik
Lagerlöf, visiting scholar Harvard Law School
12:30
Lunch
Parallel sessions (13:30-15:00)
Issue 1: A More Effective Swedish Competition Law and Policy?
Convenor: Senior lecturer Vladimir Bastidas, Uppsala University
Panelists:
Professor Lars Henriksson, Stockholm School of Economics
Judge Ingeborg Simonsson, Stockholm District Court; Associate
Professor, Stockholm University
Advocate General Nils Wahl, Court of Justice
Issue 2: Swedish Labour Law and Industrial Relations after Laval
Convenors: Jur. dr. Kerstin Ahlberg, Stockholm University and
Associate Professor Petra Herzfeld Olsson, Uppsala University
Panelists:
Chief negotiator Jonas Andé, Skanska Sverige AB
Claes-Mikael Jonsson, Legal expert, The Swedish Trade Union
Confederation (LO)
Professor Birgitta Nyström, Lund University
15:00
Coffee
Parallel sessions (15:30-17:00):
Issue 1: EU Copyright and Fundamental Rights
Convenors: PhD Candidates Johan Axhamn & Daniel Westman,
Stockholm University
Panelists:
Attorney-at-law Karin Cederlund, Partner at Sandart & Partners
Professor Jan Rosén, Stockholm University
Jur. Dr. Ulrika Wennersten, Lund University
PhD Candidate Daniel Westman, Stockholm University
Issue 2: Participation and Transparency in the European
Administrative Space
Convenors: Professor Jane Reichel, Uppsala University and
Associate Professor Sanja Bogojević, Lund University
Panelists:
Associate Professor Sanja Bogojević, Lund University
Professor Jonas Ebbesson, Stockholm University
Attorney-at-law Ulf Öberg, Managing partner, Öberg & Associés
Issue 3: Swedish Tax Law after Åkerberg Fransson
Convenor: Professor Eleonor Kristofferson, Örebro University
Panelists:
PhD Candidate Katarina Fast, Stockholm University
PhD Candidate Magnus Gulliksson, Uppsala University Attorney-atlaw and adjunct Professor Börje Leidhammar, Law firm Börje
Leidhammar and Gävle högskola
Concluding plenary session (17:00-17:30)
17:00
The interplay between Swedish and EU law: 20
years after
Professor Ulf Bernitz, Stockholm University
17:20
Concluding discussion day 2
End of conference
The conference is free of charge
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