Workshop – Essex – 29th-30th September 2016 – provisional programme

The program for the first workshop of this project is now available in a provisional format.

Thursday 29th September (Essex Business School – Room 2.45)

12:00-13:00 Registration and lunch

13:00-13:30 Session 1 Welcome

Dr Yseult Marique (University of Essex / University of Speyer): Introducing the project and the participants

13:30-15:00 Session 2 Engaging with non-academic actors : Challenges, opportunities and strategies

Chair – Dr Yseult Marique (University of Essex / University of Speyer)

Professor Chris Backes (University of Utrecht): Title to be confirmed
Dr Albert Sanchez Graells (University of Bristol): Some thoughts on “being an expert” and pathways to impact
Discussions

15:00-15:30 Coffee

15:30-17:00 Session 3 Regulation and the public/private divide

Chair – Dr Albert Sanchez Graells (University of Bristol)

Dr Akis Psygkas (University of Bristol): From ‘democratic deficit’ to a ‘democratic surplus’ : constructing administrative democracy in Europe
Oliver Butler (University of Cambridge): Development of public private divide in European data protection law
Liesbeth Todts (University of Antwerp): Towards a general assessment framework for administrative and criminal restrictions of the right to freedom of movement imposed in order to maintain public order
Discussions

19:00-22:00 Dinner at Wivenhoe House

Friday 30th September (Silberrad Student Center – Lakeview Meeting Room)

9:00-9:15 Welcome

9:15-10:45 Session 4 Social policies and solidarity

Chair – Professor John Bell (University of Cambridge)

Dr Mary Guy (University of East Anglia): Sectoral regulation in Dutch and English health care
Dr Margarite Zouteweij (University of Fribourg): Seasonal Workers EU Directive and Switzerland
Dr Emilie Chevalier (Université de Limoges): The promotion of social rights, a core feature of the European model
Discussions

10:45-11:15 Coffee break

11:15-13:00 Session 5 Institutional level of decision-making

Chair – Dr Carlo Panara (Liverpool John Moores University)

Luigi Pedreschi (EUI): Public services in EU law : an external perspective
Ana Bobic (University of Oxford) (with Dr Joséphine Van Zeben, University of Oxford) : European Union as a joint venture by the CJ and national courts
Dr Carlo Colombo (University of Tilburg): Smart transformation in city regional law and governance
Dr Nikos Skoutaris (University of East Anglia): State-region relations at the time of Euro-crisis
Discussions

13:00-13:45 Lunch

13:45-15:15 Session 6 Mapping the next steps

Chair – Professor Chris Backes (University of Utrecht)

15:15-15:30 Conclusions

European Commonwealth ?