11, Myasnitskaya str., conference-hall 518, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
9.00 - 10.00
Registration
10.00 - 10.15
Welcoming Remarks
Vladislav Starzhenetskiy (National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
Paolo Davide Farah (West Virginia University, John D. Rockefeller IV School of Policy and Politics, USA and gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development,UK & ESIL Board Member and Convener of the ESIL IG on International Environmental Law)
Daria S. Boklan (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia & Convener of the ESIL IG on International Environmental Law)
10.15 – 11.00
KEYNOTE SPEECH Peter-Tobias Stoll (University of Gottingen, Germany)
11.00 – 13.00
Chair and Discussant:
Paolo D. Farah (West Virginia University, USA and gLAWcal – Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development, UK)
•Trash War, Trash Protectionism, Michael H. Picard (Harvard Law School, USA) and Olivier Barsalou (University of Montreal, Canada)
•Radioactive Materials, Food Safety and International Trade: From Chernobyl to Fukushima, Yoshimichi Ishikawa (University of Shizuoka, Japan)
• Tangled Relationship Between Protectionist Interests and Obligations to Limit Protectionism Under the Guise of Environmental Protection: the Rethinking of Interests in Art. XX GATT With a View of Imbalance of International Multilateral Commitments, Vladislav Mulyan (Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Russia)
•Ethics as a Backup for Food Sovereignty and Security in the Risky Times, Daria Kotova (Skolkovo Institute for Law and Development, Russia)
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch Break
14.00– 16.00
Chair and Discussant: Peter-Tobias Stoll (University of Gottingen, Germany)
•The Possibility of Using Network Effects to Prevent a Global Backslide into Protectionism and a Breakdown in Multilateral Environmental Governance, Bryan Druzin (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)
•Artificial Intelligence: Environmental Protection, Potentials and Limits to the Global Market, Maria Sole Continiello Neri (National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia)
•Trade Synergies and Competition of Green Technologies: Prospects and Challenges between China and Nordic Countries, Wen Xiang (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
•Mineral Rights and Hydraulic Fracturing in the United States, EU and China: A Comparative Perspective , Paolo D. Farah (West Virginia University, USA and gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development,UK)
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 18.30
Chair and Discussant: Daria Boklan (National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia)
•Environmental Regulatory Autonomy and Extraterritoriality in the WTO: Latest Developments, Ilaria Espa (World Trade Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland)
•GATS and Environmental Issues: Do We Need More Regulation? Marina Trunk-Fedorova (St. Petersburg State University, Russia)
•Restrictive Measures When Trading water: May the GATT Protect us all from Water Scarcity, Vicky Tzatzaki (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
•Food Labelling: Food Safety or Food Protectionism: WTO Law Perspective, Daria Boklan, Daria Zavershinskaya and Xenia Kuritsyna (National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia)
19.00 - 21.00
(Optional: External Dinner – Location to be announced)
10:00 – 12.00
Chair and Discussant: Alexander Solntsev (Peoples Friendship University, Moscow)
•Clean Energy Technologies Trade: Sliding from Protection to Protectionism Through Obligations for Technology Transfer in Climate Change Treaties, or Vice Versa? Anthi Koskina (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
•From Achmea to the Paris Agreement: Is There a Prospect of Arbitrating European “Climate Change” Disputes under the Investment Court? Anastasia Medvedskaya (Ernst & Young Paris, France)
•Legal framework for the interstate cooperation on development of natural resources of the Caspian Sea , Barbara Janusz-Pawletta (German- Kazakh University, Kazakhstan)
• Protection of the Environment Against Adverse Effect of Nanotechnology: Legal Aspect, Alena Kodolova (Saint Petersburg scientific research center for environmental safety Russian Academy of Science, Russia)
12.00 – 12.30 Coffee Break
12.00 – 14.15
Paolo D. Farah (West Virginia University, USA and gLAWcal – Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development, UK)
•Nuclear Power Plant: a Way to Sustainable Development, Alexander Solntsev (Peoples Friendship University, Moscow, Russia)
•The Incoming EU’s Security Screening Mechanism of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and its Implications on the Technology Transnational Transfer within the EU-China Investment Relations, Peiran Wang (Centre for Private and Economic Law, The Faculty of Law & Criminology, Vrije Universteit Brussel, Belgium)
•Instruments that Aim at Screening or Preventing Foreign Investments Into Energy Infrastructure Relevant for Security of Supply as a Component of the EU Energy Security Strategy: an International Economic Law Perspective, Martin Svec (Masaryk University Czech Republic and gLAWcal – Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development, UK)
•European Union’s Sustainable Development Chapters as the Means to Eliminating Protectionism in the Global Trade, Tamuna Beridze (University of Vienna, Austria)
14.15 – 14.30
Concluding Remarks
14.30 – 18.00
Boat trip (sightseeing)
Publication opportunities
The organizers have publication plans for the presented papers. The precise format of publication will be discussed during the conference. The Organizers envisage to publish a Book collection (Edited by Daria Boklan & Paolo D. Farah) in the Routledge Publishing (New-York/London) multidisciplinary gLAWcal book series on “Transnational Law and Governance” or in other equally relevant SSCI or US Law journals.
Organizing committee
Paolo Davide Farah (West Virginia University, John D. Rockefeller IV School of Policy and Politics, USA and gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development,UK & ESIL Board Member and Convener of the ESIL IG on International Environmental Law)
Daria S. Boklan (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia & Convener of the ESIL IG on International Environmental Law)
Co-organizers
The conference is jointly organized by National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), gLAWcal – Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development (United Kingdom), the ESIL Interest Group on International Environmental Law, and the ASIL Interest Group on Intellectual Property Law.
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