Programme

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Law of the Future FORUM

09:00 - 14:30 hrs

The Forum is a closed and exclusive part of the Conference. Participation is by personal invitation only. HiiL will bring together approximately 50 leading experts from government, business, civil society and academia to explore and exchange views on the challenges for legal systems. The Forum will be opened with a plenary debate, followed by discussions in small working groups and concluded with a plenary expert panel.

Confirmed keynote speakers, chairs and panel members:

Jozias J. van Aartsen, Hassane Cisse, Michel Rosenfeld, Herman Mulder, Faustina Pereira, Ernst Hirsch Ballin, Gabriela Knaul, Nicole Fritz, Ian McDougall, Rob Visser, Jan Eijsbouts, Ana Palacio

Law of the Future CONFERENCE DAY I

14:30 - 19:00 hrs

The Conference will include plenary sessions, parallel workshops and open discussions on the challenges ahead with senior decision-makers and the world’s best academics. Join us and get involved!

14:30 - 15:00	Arrival and registration of participants

15:00 - 15:15	Welcome words: Sam Muller - Director HiiL
15:15 - 15:35	Keynote speaker: Judge Christopher Weeramantry, Former Vice-President of the International Court of Justice Judge Weeramantry will speak about the common core of teachings of the great religions on the topic of interaction with the environment. And how it can make a significant impact on the way we address the problems that threaten the very existence of humanity
15:35 - 16:15	Keynote speakers: H. Patrick Glenn, Peter M. Laing Professor of Law at McGill University and the HiiL-NIAS 2010-11 Henry G. Schermers Fellow and Ewoud Hondius, Professor of Private Law and member of HiiL Programmatic Steering Board. A dialogue about globalisation and law, based on 10 theses by William Twinning
16:15 - 16:30	Presentation: Future thinking through the prism of international corruption, by Abiola Makinwa, Erasmus University, the Netherlands. Winner of the Law of the Future Young Talent Essay Competition
16:30 - 17:00	Presentation: Justice sector innovators: We better reward them!, by Maurits Barendrecht, Innovating Justice The Innovating Justice is a platform to improve the rule of law and access to justice. Its mission is to create a better, and more sustainable legal rules and procedures contribute to balanced relationships between people, their organisations and their leaders. read more
	Winner announcement: Innovating Justice Award 2011 The Innovating Justice Awards are designed to stimulate advancements in the justice sector. Through the awards programme Rule of Law professionals can stay abreast of the latest developments in the field. read more
17:00 - 19:00	Networking reception: Drinks & walking dinner Networking dinner sponsored by: the Ministry of Security and Justice

Law of the Future CONFERENCE DAY II

08:45 - 17:30 hrs

On the 2nd Conference day the discussion will be enriched with insights arising from HiiL’s research activities. Following the opening keynotes speeches in the plenary session, two rounds of parallel workshops are organised.
The conference workshops will serve two purposes:

Presenting the HiiL research projects and their (preliminary) findings;
Connecting these findings to the Law of the Future theme.

8:45 - 9:00	Arrival and registration of participants
9:00 - 9:30	Presentation: Law Scenarios to 2030 & Report on conclusions from the Law of the Future Forum, by conference chairs Sam Muller, Director HiiL and Stavros Zouridis, Professor of Public Administration at Tilburg University
9:30 - 10:00	Panel debate: What key challenges are out there for law/legal systems to be effective for government, business and civil society? Panel members: Herman Mulder - Worldconnector, Member of the Board of the Dutch National Contact Point (NCP), Sustainable finance expert, Initiator Equator Principles Faustina Pereira - Director Human Rights and Legal Aid Services, BRAC Centre; Member of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh Tom Ginsburg - Professor of Law at University of Chicago Law School
10:00 - 10:15	Keynote presentation: Beyond the State Monopoly: Making Law Work in Times of Globalisation by Jan M. Smits, UM-HiiL Chair on the Internationalisation of Law, Chair of European Private Law and Comparative Law at Maastricht University Jan M. Smits will speak about the research undertaken in HiiL’s project portfolio and the implications it has for the law of the future. His approach is one of identifying functions of law and assessing how these functions can be better met in a globalising world.
10:15 - 10:30	Coffee break
10:30 - 13:00	Parallel workshops: PRIVATE ACTORS AND THE LAW OF THE FUTURE Workshop leader: Fabrizio Cafaggi, European University Institute, Italy HIGHEST COURTS AND THE LAW OF THE FUTURE Workshop leader: Ton Hol, Utrecht University, The Netherlands INFORMAL INTERNATIONAL LAW MAKING AND THE LAW OF THE FUTURE Workshop leader: Joost Pauwelyn, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Switzerland
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 16:30	Parallel workshops: THE RULE OF LAW AND THE LAW OF THE FUTURE Workshop leader: Randall Peerenboom, La Trobe University, Australia ONLINE DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE Workshop leader: Avrom Sherr, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London THE YOUTH, THE LAW AND THE FUTURE Workshop leader: Jan M. Smits, Maastricht European Private Law Institute (M-EPLI), The Netherlands
16:30 - 16:45	Coffee break
16:45 - 17:30	Concluding panel debate: Exploring the law of the future: outcomes of the parallel workshops, consequences for 'Law Scenarios to 2030' and the way forward Moderator: Anne van Aaken, HiiL Programmatic Steering Board, University of St. Gallen Panel members: Fabrizio Cafaggi, Ton Hol, Joost Pauwelyn, Randall Peerenboom, Martin Gramatikov, Jan M. Smits
17:30	End conclusion by Michiel Scheltema - Chair of HiiL Programmatic Steering Board Closure Law of the Future Conference 2011

Overview speakers

	Anne van Aaken HiiL Programatic Steering Board, Professor of Law and Economics Public, International and European Law, University of St. Gallen
	Jozias J. van Aartsen Mayor of The Hague
	*Maurits Barendrecht* HiiL Hague Visiting Professor on the Rule of Law, Professor of Private Law at Tilburg University, Head of the Tilburg Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Civil Law and Conflict Resolution Systems (TISCO)
	*Ayelet Berman* Research Assistant on the project Informal International Law Making and PhD Candidate in International Law at The Graduate Institute Geneva
	*Fabrizio Cafaggi* Professor of Comparative Law at the European University Institute, Law Department
	*Hassane Cisse* Deputy General Counsel, Knowledge and Research of World Bank Group
	Joris Demmink Acting Chair of the HiiL Supervisory Board and Secretary-General Ministry of Justice, The Netherlands
	*Jan Eijsbouts* Extraordinary Professor Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Professorial Fellow of the Institute of Corporate Law, Governance and Innovation Policies at the Law Faculty of Maastricht University
	Nicole Fritz Executive Director Southern Africa Litigation Centre
	Tom Ginsburg Professor of Law at University of Chicago Law School
	H. Patrick Glenn Peter M. Laing Professor of Law at McGill University, member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and HiiL-NIAS 2010-11 Henry G. Schermers Fellow
	*Martin Gramatikov* Assistant Professor of Private Law at Tilburg University, researcher at Tilburg Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Civil Law and Conflict Resolution Systems
	*Ernst Hirsch Ballin* Former Minister of Justice and Interior, Professor of Dutch and European Constitutional Law, Tilburg University, and Professor of Human Rights, University of Amsterdam
	*Ton Hol* Professor of Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy at Utrecht University
	Ewoud Hondius Professor of Private Law and member of HiiL Programmatic Steering Board
	*Gabriela Knaul* United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers
	Emmanuel Lazega Professor of sociology at the University of Paris – Dauphine. Senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France, director of the Observatory of Intra- and Inter-Organizational Networks, and director of the Research Master in Sociology at Dauphine
	*Andrea Lollini* Researcher at the Faculty of Political Sciences, Universita di Bologna, Theme Coordinator Highest Courts at HiiL
	*Elaine Mak* Researcher at the Law Faculty of Erasmus University Rotterdam, HiiL Researcher
	*Abiola Makinwa* Winner of LOTF Young Talent Essay competition. Researcher and PhD candidate at the Department of Private International and Comparative Law of the Faculty of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam
	Ian McDougall VP & Legal Director of LexisNexis International
	Herman Mulder Worldconnector, Member of the Board of the Dutch National Contact Point (NCP), Sustainable finance expert, Initiator Equator Principles
	*Sam Muller* Director of HiiL, Chair Law of the Future Conference 2011
	*Andre Nollkaemper* Professor of Public International Law and Vice-Dean for Research at the Faculty of Law at the University of Amsterdam, Academic Director at the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL)
	Ana Palacio Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Spain; former Vice President, World Bank; Founding Partner, Palacio y Asociados; Senior Strategic Counsel, Albright Stonebridge Group (USA)
	*Joost Pauwelyn* Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva, Switzerland, Co-Director of the Institute’s Centre for Trade and Economic Integration (CTEI)
	*Randall Peerenboom* Law Professor at La Trobe University and an Associate Fellow of the Oxford University Center for Socio-Legal Studies
	*Faustina Pereira* Director Human Rights and Legal Aid Services, BRAC Centre; Member of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh
	David Raic Deputy Director & Head of Research Programming at HiiL
	Michel Rosenfeld Justice Sydney L. Robins Professor of Human Rights and Director, Program on Global and Comparative Constitutional Theory
	Michiel Scheltema Chair of HiiL Programmatic Steering Board
	*Linda Senden* Professor of European and International Public Law at Tilburg University
	*Avrom Sherr* Director and Woolf Professor of Legal Education Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London
	*Jan M. Smits* UM-HiiL Chair on the Internationalisation of Law and Chair of European Private Law at Maastricht University
	Rob Visser Executive Director European Asylum Support Office (EASO); Former Director General for International Affairs and Immigration of the Dutch Ministry of Justice
	Horatia Muir Watt Professor of Law at Sciences Po in Paris, France. James S. Carpentier Visiting Professor of Law (Spring 2011)
	*Judge Christopher Weeramantry* Former Vice-President of the International Court of Justice and former Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka.
	*Ramses Wessel* Professor of the Law of the European Union and other International Organizations, University of Twente
	Stavros Zouridis Professor of Public Administration at Tilburg University
	*Michael Zürn* Director of Transnational Conflicts and International Institutions Department at Social Science Research Center Berlin