Subject Sessions<
Subject Sessions

We are pleased to announce that the following subject sessions will take place at the first International Graduate Legal Research Conference. Many submissions of an extremely high quality were received, and all reviewers remarked on the difficulty of their task.

Papers can be accessed by clicking on the titles below. A username and password will be made available to those who are attending the Conference.


A: Law, People and Migration
Chair: Liz Fekete (IRR)

The construction of a legal "Other" in European migration law
Diego Acosta (King’s College London)

Residence Rights of Third Country National Family Members. Recent Developments in the Jurisprudence of the CJEC
Stephen Coutts (Col. Eur, Bruges)

Social Human Rights and Third Country Nationals in the EU: The Case of Social Dumping?
Egle Dagilyte (King’s College London)

The protection of trafficking victims: does criminal law really require the sacrifice of human rights?
Rosa Rafaelli (Sant’Anna, Pisa)

B: Trade Law & the WTO
Chair: Prof. Piet Eeckhout

WTO Trading Rules in Textiles and Clothing
Michelle Q. Zang (Durham University)

The ECJ and WTO rules: time for a constitutional coming out
Nicholas Triart (Uni. Paul Cézanne)

Equity and equitable principles in the World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement Proceedings
Anastasios Gourgourinis (Uni. Col. London)

The Constrained Openness of WTO Law
Ronnie R. F. Yearwood (Newcastle Uni.)

C: Law & Conflict
Chair: Dr Penny Green

A Comparison of National Definitions of Terrorism – pragmatic steps towards an international definition
Myriam Alvarez-Pereyre (IALS, London)

The Use of Military Force as a Counter-terrorism Measure: Challenges to the Jus Ad Bellum
Dominika Svarc (Ljubljana)

The Value of International Economic Sanctions in the 21st Century
Rosemary Murphy (Nottingham University)

Asymmetrical Warfare: The Historical Grounds of International Humanitarian Law
Matthias Vanhullebusch (SOAS, London)

A: Government & Public Law
Chair: Prof. Robert Blackburn

Inquiries Act 2005: Well-intentioned but flawed? Overview and Wright Murder Inquiry Case Study
Eloise Ellis (King’s College London)

Constitutional Judicial Review: Is it a Legal Doctrine or a Political Power, or Both? The Eclectic Approach for Constitutional Interpretation
Nelson Dordelly-Rosales (Ottowa Uni.)

Blown out of all Proportion: the Case against Proportionality as an Independent Ground of Review
Paul Daly (Cambridge University)

The Principle of Proportionality in European Human Rights Law and Ethics
Martin Luteran (Oxford University)

B: Law & Foreign Investment
Chair: Dr Federico Ortino

Host State Defences in International Investment Arbitration
Freya Baetens (Cambridge University)

The Landscape of European Bilateral Investment Treaties
Lauge Skovgaard Poulsen (LSE)

The Regulatory Powers of States, The Rights of Foreign Investors and the Protection of the Public Interest
Alessandra Asteriti (Glasgow University)

Transparency and the State Responsibility in International Law of Foreign Investment
Mavluda Sattorova (Birmingham Uni.)

C: Rights, Structures & Processes
with Matrix Chambers
Chair: Prof. Aileen McColgan

Human rights protection in ECHR and EC law- a claim of (non-)divergence
Marton Varju (University of Hull)

Exploring the Current Impact of the Inter-American System of Human Rights: 
The Vantage Point of the Supreme Court of Argentina as a Case Study

Cecilia Naddeo (Stanford University, USA)

Child Protection and the Rights of Third Parties
Kieran Walsh (University College Cork)

A: EU Constitution after Lisbon
Chair: Dr Alexander T
ürk

The end of the pillars: A single EU legal order after Lisbon?
Eulalia Sanfrutos Cano (Col. Eur., Bruges)

Rule and Let Rule: Four Strategies to Overcome the ‘Democratic Deficit’ in the EU & Their Effects on the Treaty of Lisbon
Matthias C. Kettemann (Uni. Graz, Austria)

‘Costanzo-obligation’ of national administrative authorities in the national constitutional system of the Netherlands & Germany
Maartje Verhoeven (Utrect University)

Exploring the latest developments in the constitutional relationship between the ECJ and domestic courts
Ioana Raducu (Geneva)

B: Commercial Law
Chair: Prof. Eva Lomnicka

Immunity v. Liability of Intermediary Internet Service Providers? The U.S. Model v. The European model?
Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon (EUI, Florence)

You can be a brand! The commercial appropriation of a personality under Intellectual Property Rules.
Marinos Cleanthous (Leicester University)

The applicability of the Islamic mortgage contract in England
Nehad Khanfar (University of Abertay Dundee)

The Future of European Contract Law and the Draft Common Frame of Reference
Marija Bartl (EUI, Florence)

C: Human Rights: Case Studies
Chair: Prof. Eric Heinze

Using human rights law to resolve conflicts of interest over clinical trials registers
Gordon Bache (Sheffield University)

The Case for a Right to Advocacy in International Human Rights Law
Eilionoir Flynn (University College Cork)

What to Do with Individual Duties? Duty-based Approach towards the Effective Protection of Human Rights
Dora Hovarth (Universities of Pécs & Helsinki)

Europe's changing approach to blasphemy
Dorota A. Gozdecka (University of Helsinki)

A: Public International Law
Chair: Prof. Susan Marks

The Right to Self-determination in International Law: A Historical Critique
Mai Taha (American Uni. Cairo, Egypt)

The Democratic Principle in International Law and its Critics
Ignacio de la Rasilla del Moral (Geneva)

International activism of pro-women anti-abortion activists 
Wendy Guns (Leeds University)

What Have Women Got To Do With Peace? A Gender Analysis Of War and Peacemaking
Benedetta Faedi (Stanford Uni., U.S.A.)

B: Competition Law
Chair: Prof. Richard Whish

The Analysis of Market Dominance and of Recent Restrictive Practices under German Antitrust law
Anca Chirita (University of Saarland)

Development of the Korean Competition Law New Theory of the Korean Brand Vertical Regulation
Yo Sop Choi (Glasgow University)

Regulation 1/2003 and the Interplay between European and National Competition Law
Lúcio Tomé Féteira (EUI, Florence)

Appropriate (domestic) remedies within the private antitrust litigation
Alen Balde (Glasgow University)

C: Legal Theory
Chair: Prof. Alan Norrie

The Influence of the Social Aetiology Research on the Legal Regulation of Marital Violence
Aleksandra Jordanoska (Skopje, Macedonia)

A  critique  of  Robert  Nozick’s  critique  of  ‘patterned  principles’
Charalampos  Psarras (Edinburgh University)

Particular or universal?  Cultural identity and human rights: a legal approach
Vincent Depaigne (SOAS, London)

'Exploding the Limits of Law': Freedom and Judgment in Arendt and Adorno
Craig Reeves (King's College London)






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