Call for Papers
Comparative Environmental Law and Policy – Case Studies and Methodological Perspectives
Time Wednesday 15th - Friday 17th August 2007
Venue Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), seminar room Merilokki, Mechelininkatu 34a, Helsinki, Finland
Environmental problems are on one hand international by nature and on the other similar national challenges world wide. International environmental law presents an extraordinarily important and progressive example of global governance efforts addressing the most difficult collective action problems of our time. Similar or same environmental challenges cry for shared information on available policy instruments, regulatory innovation and innovation spread (diffusion).
This workshop is devoted to the challenges and benefits of comparative research in environmental law and policy as well as the close connection of law and policy in the field of environmental issues. The invited papers deal with methodological aspects of comparative research as well as practical case studies of comparative nature. The results of a comparative study on Environmental Justice in the Nordic Countries will be introduced in the event.
The workshop is a joint effort of the Nordic Environmental Law Network funded by the Nordic Research Academy NordForsk (www.neln.life.ku.dk), the Environment and Law Research Programme funded by the Academy of Finland (www.aka.fi/envlaw), Graduate School Law in a Changing World (http://www.helsinki.fi/omm/english/index.htm) and the Finnish Environment Institute.
Programme
Wednesday 15th August 10.30 - 17.00
Interaction of International, Regional and National Law
10.30 Registration and coffee
11.00 - 13.00 Session 1, chair Tapio Määttä, referent Nunu Pesu
11.00 Professor Tapio Määttä: Opening of the workshop
11.15 Professor Kaarlo Tuori: Law Beyond the Nation State
12.00 Professor Staffan Westerlund: A Linnaean Approach to Comparative Environmental Law - In search for answers to environmental problematisation
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 17.00 Session 2, chair Jan Darpö, referent Annukka Berg
14.00 Professor Erkki J. Hollo: Comparative aspects on environmental institutions and concepts
14.45 Helle T. Anker, Ole Kristian Fauchald, Annika Nilsson, Leila Suvantola: Comparative Study of the Role of the Courts in Environmental Law in the Nordic Countries - Results and lessons learned on comparison
16.00-16.30 Coffee break
16.30 PhD-Student presentation
17.00 Closing the first day and booking into hotel
18.30 - 21.00 Evening programme
Thursday 16th August 9.00 - 16.00
Methodologies of Comparison in Law
9.00 - 12.00 Session 3, chair Annika Nilsson, referent Antti Belinskij
9.00 Professor Jaakko Husa: On methodology of comparative law
9.45 Jan Darpö: Komparation och tradition
10.30 Break
11.00 Ellen Margrethe Basse: Problems in relation to implementation of the new Environmental Liability Directive in Member States based on the legal traditions
11.45 - 12.45 Lunch
12.45 - 16.00 Session 4, chair Ole Kristian Fauchald, referent Lena Wahlberg
12.45 Professor Jonas Ebbesson: A conceptual comparison regarding environmental justice
13.30 PhD-student presentations:
14.30 - 15.00 Coffee break
15.00 PhD-student presentations continue
16.00 - 20.00 Excursion to Nuuksio National Park. Return to city around 22.00.
Friday 17th August 9.00 - 16.30
Interaction of Law and Policy and Methodologies of Comparison
9.00 - 12.00 Session 5, chair Helle Tegner Anker, referent Jette Thygesen
9.00 Professor Hans Christian Bugge: Is environmental law more policy than law?
9.45 Professor Gabriel Michanek: Legal implementation of environmental policies - What should the environmental law researcher think of?
10.30 Break
11.00 PhD-student presentations:
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch
13.00 - 16.00 Session 6, chair Aðalheiður Jóhannsdóttir, referent Katre Luhamaa
13.00 Professor Rauno Sairinen: Societal frameworks of legal policy instrument choices
13.45 Senior researcher Jukka Simiä: On regulation theory
14.30 Coffee break
15.00 PhD-Student presentations
15.30 Conclusions and closing discussion of the seminar
Additional information
The travel and accommodation of researchers in the Environment and Law Research Programme and the Graduate School are financed by their respective projects and institute. Travel and accommodation costs for 12 researchers/scholars working in the Nordic and Baltic countries (the least expensive - but most efficient - travel alternative) will be reimbursed. The travel arrangements have to be organized individually and that expenses have to be carried by the participants initially. Please make sure that you keep the tickets/invoices, in order that expenses can be refunded.
Referents
For the final workshop report to NordForsk, a summary of the workshop is needed, including especially the main conclusions reached at the workshop. A referent has been appointed for each session. The referent is responsible to report the principal aspects and the overall conclusions from the session. The length of the report of each session should be no more than ½-3/4 A4-page per theme.