El próximo lunes 10 de junio de 2013, a partir de las 10:30 horas, tendrá lugar un seminario organizado en el contexto del proyecto de investigación sobre la protección de los bienes jurídicos globales, en el que el Profesor Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, Catedrático Emérito de Derecho Internacional y Europeo del Instituto Universitario de Florencia, Italia, presentará una ponencia sobre su trabajo “Constituting, Limiting, Regulating and Justifying Multilevel Governance of Interdependent Public Goods: From Constitutional Nationalism to Multilevel Constitutionalism and Cosmopolitan Constitutionalism?”
El profesor Markus Wagner, Universidad de Miami, abrirá la discusión con un comentario sobre la contribución del Profesor Petersmann.
El seminario será moderado por el Profesor Carlos Espósito, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
El programa empieza a las 10:30 horas y termina a las 13:00 horas, incluida una pausa café de 15 minutos. El lugar de celebración es el Seminario VIII de la cuarta planta del edificio de la Facultad de Derecho de la UAM y la lengua de trabajo será el inglés.
Rogamos confirmar la intención de asistir a nicolas.carrillo@uam.es antes del miércoles 5 de junio con el fin de prever la capacidad de la sala.
A continuación reproducimos el abstract del trabajo y aquí se puede descargar el texto completo del artículo y un resumen para el seminario.
Constituting, Limiting, Regulating and Justifying Multilevel Governance of Interdependent Public Goods: Methodological Problems of International Economic Law Research
by Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann
Abstract
This contribution discusses legal and methodological problems of multilevel governance of the international trading, development, environmental and legal systems from the perspective of “public goods theories” and related legal theories. The state-centred, power-oriented governance practices in worldwide organizations fail to protect effectively human rights, transnational rule of law and other international public goods for the benefit of citizens. Their criticism by civil society, democratic parliaments and courts of justice prompts increasing opposition to non-inclusive, intergovernmental rule-making, as in the case of the 2011 Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement rejected by the European Parliament. The “democracy deficits” and morally often unjustified power politics underlying “Westphalian intergovernmentalism” weaken the overall coherence of multilevel regulation of interdependent public goods that interact “horizontally” (e.g., the monetary, trading, development, environmental and related legal systems) as well as “vertically” (e.g., in case of “aggregate public goods” composed of local, national, regional and worldwide public goods). The “laboratory” of European multilevel governance offers lessons for reforming worldwide governance institutions dominated by executives. The integration of nation states into an interdependent, globalized world requires a multilevel integration law in order to protect transnational public goods more effectively. Legal and constitutional theories need to be integrated into public goods research and must promote stronger legal, judicial and democratic accountability of intergovernmental rule-making vis-à-vis citizens on the basis of “cosmopolitan constitutionalism” evaluating the legitimacy of national legal systems also in terms of their contribution to protecting cosmopolitan rights and transnational public goods.
Forthcoming Global Community Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence (GCYILJ) 2012 (2013).
The Ríos Montt Trial in Guatemala
mayo 14, 2013
Una sesión organizada por la American Society of Internacional Law y la Due Process of Law Foundation sobre la reciente sentencia de condena a Ríos Montt y la reparación, eminentemente simbólica, con la participación de académicas de prestigio, como Naomi Roht-Arriaza y Jo-Marie Burt, y la aparición especial de la Fiscal General de Guatemala Claudia Paz y Paz. La explicación de la profesora Roth-Arriaza es muy útil y clarificadora.
Consejo: pueden ahorrarse los primero 8 minutos y empezar en el minuto 8:40, cuando llega la Fiscal General.
Call for Papers: Política Exterior y Derechos Humanos
mayo 10, 2013
Es un anuncio de SUR – REVISTA INTERNACIONAL DE DERECHOS HUMANOS, que me parece una publicación excelente, que aparece simultáneamente en tres idiomas. Las propuestas se pueden presentar en español, inglés o portugués.
SUR – REVISTA INTERNACIONAL DE DERECHOS HUMANOS
¿De qué manera se incorporan los derechos humanos a la política exterior de las potencias emergentes?
¿Podría considerarse que la promoción y protección de los derechos humanos es un tema de interés nacional?
¿Qué impacto tiene la política exterior de los países del Sur Global sobre los derechos humanos a nivel mundial?
¡Es momento de debatir estas y otras cuestiones que versan sobre el tópico “Política Exterior y Derechos Humanos!
Solicitación de artículos
Conectas Derechos Humanos, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, CIVICUS: Worldwide Alliance for Citizen Participation y Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development invitan a académicos y profesionales a presentar artículos para la edición 19 de la Revista Sur, a ser publicada en diciembre de 2013, cuyo tema central será Política Exterior y Derechos Humanos. Más informaciones aquí.
Fecha límite: 15 de Junio de 2013
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SUR – INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON HUMAN RIGHTS
How are human rights incorporated into foreign policies of emerging and rising powers?
Could the promotion and protection of human rights abroad be considered an issue of national interest?
What is the impact of Global South countries’ foreign policy on human rights globally?
It’s time to debate these and other questions addressing the topic of ”Foreing Policy and Human Rights”!
Call for papers:
Conectas Human Rights, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, CIVICUS: Worldwide Alliance for Citizen Participation and Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development invite scholars and practitioners to submit articles for Sur Journal’s Issue No. 19, to be published in December 2013, with a focus on Foreign Policy and Human Rights. For more information, click here.
Deadline: June 15, 2013
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SUR - REVISTA INTERNACIONAL DE DIREITOS HUMANOS
Como os direitos humanos são incorporados à política externa das potências emergentes e ascendentes?
Será que a promoção e proteção dos direitos humanos no exterior pode ser considerado um tema de interesse nacional?
Qual é o impacto global da política externa dos países do Sul Global nos direitos humanos?
É tempo de debater estas e outras questões que versam sobre o tópico “Política externa e Direitos Humanos”!
Chamada de ArtigosConectas Direitos Humanos, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, CIVICUS: Worldwide Alliance for Citizen Participation e Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development convidam estudiosos e profissionais a enviar artigos para a 19ª edição da Revista Sur, a ser publicada em dezembro de 2013, cujo foco será a Política Externa e os Direitos Humanos. Mais informações aqui.
Data limite: 15 de junho de 2013
Principal Legal Officer (D1) in the Codification Division of the Office of Legal Affairs. Applications until 15 June 2013. Here is the information.
Blog de cine y derechos humanos
mayo 9, 2013
Human Rights Film Diary es un blog con comentarios de más de 70 películas y documentales. Me gusta. Lo escribe muy bien Keina Yoshida, que es una candidata a doctora del London School of Economics y hace su investigación sobre la interacción del derecho internacional penal y el cine. Ha elegido sabiamente su tema de investigación Keina Yoshida. Disfruten del blog, y las películas.
Tests de ADN y Derecho internacional
mayo 9, 2013
Buen programa ha montado el profesor Juan Manuel Faramiñán en el Observatorio de la Globalización de la Universidad de Jaén. Van a dedicar una sesión el próximo martes 14 de mayo a estudiar el ADN como instrumento contra el tráfico de menores y el papel de proyectos científicos como el programa DNA-PROKIDS del Laboratorio de Identificación Genética de la Universidad de Granada. La sesión se celebrará de 10.00 a 14.00 horas el martes 14 de mayo de 2013 en el Salón de Grados del Edificio Zabaleta de la Universidad de Jaén.
The 5th Conference of the Journal of Private International Law will take place in Madrid on 12-13 September 2013. The Law Faculties of Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Universidad Complutense share the organization.
Please note that registration is open until 28th July. The full programme (plenary sessions and panels) is available here. I will not be in Madrid on those days of September, but the plenary session on Global Litigation looks really interesting to us public international lawyers; it includes a paper on private international law in the International Court of Justice and, again, one on the tobacco plain packaging cases. Here is the complete list of papers for that session:
- ‘The benefits of regional and global litigation instruments for foreign trade and investment’ by M. Pertegás and L.E. Teitz.
- ‘Transnational litigation and PIL’ by D.E. Childress.
- ‘A conflict of laws approach to competing rationalities in international law. The Case of Plain Packaging between IP, Trade, Investment and Health’ by H. Grosse Ruse-Kahn.
- ‘Private International Law before the International Court of Justice’ by B. Ubertazzi.
- ‘Countries, States, and Legal Systems: An International Private Law Perspective’ by G. Maher and B. Rodger.
- ‘Corruption in International Commercial Arbitration—Special Conflict of Laws Challenges’ by Z.S. Tang.
It is a P2 level to cover general temporary assistance posts. Applications until 19 May 2013. The information is here.
The conference is organized by the UAM’s LL.M IP&IT and Queen Mary, University of London, on 7 June 2013 at the UAM Faculty of Law. The programme is here. I am particularly interested in the paper by Jonathan Griffiths (Senior Lecturer, QM, Solicitor) on “Trademarks, Tobacco advertising and the right to property”. There is no fee for students and faculty of Spanish public universities. Registration is required.
El viernes 10 de mayo a las 12:00 horas tendremos el gusto de recibir al profesor Nico Krisch en el seminario de profesores de la Facultad de Derecho de la UAM. El profesor Krisch va a presentar (en inglés) su paper “From Consent to Consultation: The Shifting Architecture of International Law”. Aquí pueden leer el paper y este es el abstract:
Because of its emphasis on state consent, classical international law is often seen as inadequate for solving problems of a global scale, especially when they involve global public goods. As these problems grow in importance, many commentators call for, and expect pressure towards, the inclusion of non-consensual elements in the international legal order. This article analyzes to what extent, and in what forms, we can empirically observe such a turn to non-consensualism. It develops expectations about the salience of different forms (collective, multilateral, unilateral; formal/informal; egalitarian/hierarchical) in responses to significant challenges of global public goods, and it uses three issue areas - antitrust, climate change regulation, and the control of terrorism financing - to investigate actual processes of change and their shape. It finds a certain, but limited, pressure on traditional international legal categories, such as multilateral treaty-making, the boundaries of institutional powers, and jurisdictional limits for unilateral action. More prominent is a turn to informal institutions and rules, often coupled with more exclusive, minilateral decision- making processes that allow for greater speed, flexibility and hierarchy in problem-solving. The limited role of consent in this order is compensated, in part, by the emergence of structures of representation and processes of consultation. In the resulting picture, international law retains much of its consensual character, but it is increasingly sidelined in favour of other sites of governance in which consent plays a much more limited role. These findings allow us to gain a better understanding of processes of change of international law and of its place in the broader normative order in global politics.
Si quieren mandar preguntas para el seminario, escríbanlas en los comentarios y, si cabe y nos da tiempo, las plantearemos en la discusión con el profesor Krisch.
El viernes, en realidad, la afición del derecho internacional tiene programa doble en la Faculta de Derecho de la UAM, porque a las 10:30 horas, en el marco de la Maestría en Gobernanza y Derechos Humanos, imparte una conferencia Luis López Guerra, magistrado del Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos, sobre “Derechos Humanos e identidad nacional en la jurisprudencia del TEDH”.
Foto: es una toma que hice de la famosa Plaza de España en Santo Domingo, con el Alcázar de Don Diego de Colón al fondo, el punto de partida de una de las principales arquitecturas del derecho internacional.
