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)
TENTATIVE PROGRAM
Sunday, May 7, 2017
9:00-09:30 – Get-together and Greetings
09:30-11:15 – Session 1: Law, Sovereignty, and Beyond
Chair: Sivan Shlomo Agon, Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Law
Tsili 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, Tel-Aviv University, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics
Title: "R2P & CSR – Different Forms of the Same New Dialect"
11:15-11:45 – Break
11:45-13:30 – Session 2: Generating Transnational Norms by Private Actors
Oren Perez, Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Law
Title: "Governance through Global Networks and Corporate Signaling"
Phillip Paiement, Tilburg University, Law School
Title: Transnational Audits: The New Compliance Technology for Local Land and
Labor Laws?
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"
13:30-14:30 – Lunch
14:30-15:30 – Session 3: 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"
Ely Aaronson, University of Haifa, Faculty of Law
Title: "Transnationalizing Criminalization Theory"
15:30-15:45 – Break
15:45 -17:15 – Session 4: The Environment in the Transnational Legal Domain
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"
Paolo Davide Farah, West Virginia University, John D. Rockefeller IV School of
Policy and Politics
Title: "Guaranteeing Food Security and Protecting the Environment at the National
Level while Embracing International Trade Regulations: The Case of China"
Orr Karassin, Open University, Public Law Program
Title: "Shifting Between Public and Private: The Reconfiguration of Global
Environmental Regulation"
19:00-21:00 – 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 & Tel-Aviv University,
Faculty of Social Science
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 & Tel-Aviv University, Faculty
of Social Science
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"
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"
11:15-11:45 – Break
11:45 -13:30 – Session 6: Theorizing Transnational Law
Chair: Richard Collins, University College Dublin
Michael Sevel, The University of Sydney, Sydney Law School
Title: "Perfectionist Liberalism and the Legitimacy of International Law"
Paul Burgess, University of Edinburgh.
Title: "Deriving the International Rule of Law: An Unnecessary, Impractical and
Unhelpful Exercise"
Kevin W. 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"
13:30-14:30 – Lunch
14:30-16:00 – 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"
Ziv Bohrer, Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Law
Title: "Divisions over Distinctions in Wartime International Law"
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"
16:00-16:30 – Conclusion
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