BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF LAW
TRANSNATIONAL LEGAL AND POLITICAL THEORY
CONFERENCE
May 7-8, 2017
Bar-Ilan Law Faculty Building 306, Room 200 (2d floor)
Organizers: Ziv Bohrer, Oren Perez, Sivan Shlomo-Agon
PROGRAM
Sunday, May 7, 2017
9:00-9:15 – Get-together
9:15-9:30 – Greetings
Prof. Shahar Lifshitz, Dean, Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University
Prof. Oren Perez, Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University
09:30-11:15 – Session 1: Law, Sovereignty, and Beyond
Chair: Sivan Shlomo Agon, Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Law
Tsilly Dagan, Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Law
Title: The Global Market for Tax and Legal Rules
Natalie Davidson, Hebrew University, Minerva Center for Human Rights
Title: Rethinking Transnational Remedies for Human Rights Abuses: Lessons from the
Lost Battle for Universal Civil Jurisdiction
Tomer Shadmy, Bar Ilan University
Title: Beyond Rights and Duties: Responsibility as the Basic Unit of Transnational Law
11:15-11:30 – Break
11:30-12:30 – Session 2: Transnational Criminal Justice
Chair: Phillip Paiement, Tilburg University, Law School
Alon Harel, Hebrew University, Faculty of Law
Title: Taking Internationalism Seriously: Why International Criminal Law Matters
Ziv Bohrer, Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Law
Title: Nuremberg Was Not the First International Criminal Tribunal—By a Long Shot
12:30-13:30 – Lunch
13:30-15:15 – Session 3: Generating Transnational Norms by Private Actors
Chair: Tsilly Dagan, Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Law
Oren Perez, Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Law
Title: Governance through Global Networks and Corporate Signaling
Vanessa Mak, Tilburg University, Law School & Tilburg Institute for Private Law
Title: Fault Lines of Transnational Consumer Law
Antoine Duval, ASSER Institute for International and European Law
Title: Lex Sportiva and Lex Mercatoria: Apples and Oranges of Transnational Law
15:15-15:30 – Break
15:30-17:15 – Session 4: Transnational Environmental Governance
Chair: Oren Perez, Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Law
Natalie Oman, University of Ontario, Faculty of Social Science and Humanities
Title: Private Ordering and Transnational Social Justice: The Case of FPIC and the
Forest Stewardship Council
Phillip Paiement, Tilburg University, Law School
Title: Transnational Audits: The New Compliance Technology for Local Land and
Labor Laws?
Orr Karassin, Open University, Public Law Program
Title: Shifting Between Public and Private: The Reconfiguration of Global
Environmental Regulation
18:30 - Dinner
Monday, May 8, 2017
9:00-09:30 – Get-together & refreshments
09:30-11:15 – Session 5: Legal Reponses to Cross-Boundary Challenges
Chair: Tally Kritzman-Amir, College of Law and Business
Pau Luque, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Institute of Philosophical
Research
Title: Theories of Secession and the Boundary Problem
Tally Kritzman-Amir, College of Law and Business
Title: Transnational Mass Migration and International Refugee Law
Vassilis P. Tzevelekos, University of Liverpool School of Law and Social Justice
Title: Transnational Threats and Concurrent State Responsibility
11:15-11:30 – Break
11:30-13:15 – Session 6: Theorizing Transnational Law
Chair: Richard Collins, University College Dublin
Paul Burgess, University of Edinburgh.
Title: Deriving the International Rule of Law: An Unnecessary, Impractical and
Unhelpful Exercise
Kevin Gray, Boston College, Department of Philosophy.
Title: What Version of Constitutionalism for a Critical Theory of International Law?
Miodrag Jovanovic, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law
Title: Law as the Default Dectiptor? Rethinking Transnational/Global “Law” Discourse
13:15-14:00 – Lunch
14:00-15:45 – Session 7: (Re)shaping International Law by Non-State Actors
Chair: Ziv Bohrer, Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Law
Myriam Feinberg, University of Haifa, Minerva Center
Title: The Role of Non-State Actors in the Transnational Fight against Online
Incitement to Terrorism
Kristin Henrard, Erasmus University, School of Law
Title: Revisiting the Role of Non-State Actors and International Courts in the Making
of (Customary) International Law: General Considerations and the Case of Indigenous
Peoples
Rhona Schuz, Sha’arei Mishpat Law School, Center for the Rights of the Child and the
Family
Title: The Role of International Organizations in Ensuring Uniform and Effective
Implementation and Application of Harmonization Conventions: The 1980 Hague
Conference on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction as a Test Case
16:00 – Tour and dinner in old Jaffa
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