CENTRE FOR JUDICIAL COOPERATION INSTITUTIONS EUDO european union democracy observatory & Centre for Judicial Cooperation Workshop National Courts vis-à-vis EU Law: New Issues, Theories and Methods Villa Schifanoia, Sala Europa Via Boccaccio, 121 Florence Co-organized by Bruno de Witte EUI and Maastricht University Marlene Wind University of Copenhagen Overview Florence, 29-30 November 2012 Nearly from the beginning of the existence of the European Communities, later the European Union, political and legal scholars have been aiming at providing various and frequently competing theories regarding the problem of the determinants that influence the manner national judges behave in the process of integration within the EU. This interdisciplinary stream of scholarship has paid attention to, inter alia, the problem of judicial co-operation between the Court of Justice of the European Union and national judiciaries and the role national judges play in this process. Individual writers focused on, for instance, the cooperation between the CJEU and national constitutional courts, the role national litigants play in the preliminary reference procedure, the reasons of accepting the principles of supremacy and direct effect of EU law by national judges, etc. The workshop will follow and develop a new research agenda and review some old aspects on how and why courts are involved in the process of EU legal integration by raising new questions and discussing different empirical aspects concerning the relevance of national judges knowledge, experiences and judicial networks for the application of EU law or the impact of national courts on the implementation of EU rights, policies and treaty ratification, among others. The general purpose of the workshop is to bring together scholars who work in the area of judicial behaviour in the process of legal integration within the Union and who employ a new methodological and theoretical approach to the problem. This would allow for cross-fertilization, exchange of opinions and knowledge between the academics but also for the critical assessment of the new tools which the scholars use to scrutinize the problem of judicial behaviour in the context of EU law.
Programme Florence, 29-30 November 2012 Thursday 29 09.10-09.30 Welcome Bruno de Witte Co-Director of the EUDO Observatory on Democratic Institutional Reforms, EUI Loïc Azoulai Director of Centre for Judicial Cooperation, EUI Marlene Wind Director of Centre for European Politics, University of Copenhagen 09.30-11.15 Panel I Judicial Europeanization Chair: Hans-Wolfgang Micklitz Marlene Wind University of Copenhagen Courts, Democracy and the Nordic Dilemma Michal Bobek University of Oxford EU Law in National Courts: Should Reality Matter? Tobias Nowak University of Groningen Generation Effects on the Approach of National Judges to EU Law: Myth or Reality? Nicola Corkin University of Birmingham National courts and the Europeanisation of social norms 11.15-11.30 Coffee break 11.30-13.15 Panel II Networks and External Influences Chair: Miguel Maduro Monica Claes Maastricht University Marc de Werd Amsterdam Court of Appeal - EU & ECHR Law Coordinator Maartje de Visser Maastricht University EU Law in National Courts - Operationalising the European Mandate Allan Tatham CEU San Pablo University Emulate The Neighbour : Dialogues between the ECJ and Non-EU Courts? Giuseppe Martinico Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, Spain Giuseppe Bianco University of Cambridge Two Worlds (Still) Apart? EU Law and the ECHR before National Judges: The Italian Experience Marcin Górski University of Łódź Anna Wyrozumska University of Łódź EU Law and the ECHR before National Judges: The Polish Experience Cristina Dallara Institute on Judicial Systems of the National Research Council (Irsig-CNR) Rosanna Amato University of Bologna Judicial and Legal Expert Networks. New Actors for an EU Area of Justice? 13.15-14.30 Lunch break
15.00-16.45 Panel III - Immigration, criminal law and discrimination Chair: Urszula Jaremba Tatjana Evas Global Governance Programme, EUI Judicial Application of EU Law in Post-Communist Countries Costanza Hermanin Open Society European Policy Institute What Does Domestic Case Law Tell about EU Policy? Lessons from EU Anti-Discrimination Law Philippe de Bruycker Deputy Director of the Migration Policy Centre, EUI Henri Labayle University of Pau The Reluctance of Judges about European Integration in the Field of Immigration and Asylum Nina Miller University of Edinburgh UK Tribunals and EU Legal Integration: Alleviating the Friction between EU Free Movement Rules and UK Immigration Law Rosa Raffaelli European Parliament Immigration and Criminal Law:Is there a Judge in Luxembourg? Friday 30 09.00-11.15 Panel IV Judicial Dialogue Chair: Bruno de Witte Iyiola Solanke University of Leeds Doing Dialogue Differently Polish Civil Judiciary vis-à-vis the Preliminary Ruling Procedure. In Search for Mid-Range Theories Kelley Littlepage University of Oregon Transnational Judicial Dialogue and Evolving European Jurisprudence in British National Courts? Madalina Moraru EUI Gabriela Zanfir University of Craiova Dragos Efrim University of Craiova The Hesitating Steps of the Romanian Courts towards the Judicial Dialogue with the CJEU On EU Law Supremacy: Endogeneizing Judges Preferences towards Legal Doctrines and its Use 11.15-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-13.15 Panel V Constitutional Courts Chair: Marlene Wind Aida Torres Pompeu Fabra University Between Judicial Cooperation and Confrontation: The Tension between the European Arrest Warrant and Fundamental Rights Arthur Dyevre Max Planck Institute for International and Comparative Law Judicial Non-Compliance in a Non-Hierarchical Legal Order: Isolated Accident or Omen of Judicial Armageddon? Darinka Piqani Leiden University The Simmenthal Mandate Revisited: What Role for National Constitutional Courts? Pablo Castillo-Ortiz Institute of Public Goods and Policies, CSIC The Last Say : Explaining Courts Declarations of Kompetenz-Kompetenz in t he Process of Ratification of the Lisbon Treaty 13.15 Lunch
Participants Rosanna Amato Loïc Azoulai Giuseppe Bianco Michal Bobek Pablo Castillo Monica Claes Nicola Corkin Cristina Dallara Philippe de Bruycker Maartje de Visser Marc de Werd Bruno de Witte Arthur Dyevre Dragos Efrim Tatjana Evas Marcin Górski Costanza Hermanin Urszula Jaremba Henri Labayle Kelley Littlepage Giuseppe Martinico Juan Antonio Mayoral Díaz-Asensio Nina Miller Madalina Moraru Tobias Nowak Darinka Piqani Rosa Raffaelli Iyiola Solanke Allan Tatham Aida Torres Marlene Wind Anna Wyrozumska Gabriela Zanfir University of Bologna rosanna.amato@unibo.it European University Institute loic.azoulai@eui.eu University of Cambridge g.bianco@hotmail.com Oxford University michal.bobek@iecl.ox.ac.uk Spanish National Research Council pablojose.castillo@cchs.csic.es Maastricht University monica.claes@maastrichtuniversity.nl University of Birmingham nicola.corkin@sthughs-oxford.com Institute on Judicial Systems of the National Research Council (Irsig-CNR) cristina.dallara@eui.eu Migration Policy Centre, EUI philippe.debruycker@eui.eu Maastricht University maartje.devisser@maastrichtuniversity.nl Amsterdam Court of Appeal - EU & ECHR law coordinator mfjm.de.werd@rechtspraak.nl European University Institute / Maastricht University bruno.dewitte@eui.eu Max Planck Institute for International and Comparative Law dyevre@mpil.de University of Craiova dragos.efrim@tcpa.ro European University Institute - Global Governance Programme ta_ev@uni-bremen.de University of Łódź marcin.gorski@tga.com.pl Open Society European Policy Institute costanza.hermanin@opensocietyfoundations.org Erasmus Rotterdam University jaremba@law.eur.nl University of Pau henri.labayle@univ-pau.fr University of Oregon klittlep@uoregon.edu Centro de Estudios Politicos y Constitucionales, Spain martinico@sssup.it European University Institute juan.mayoral@eui.eu University of Edinburgh nina.miller@glasgow.ac.uk European University Institute madalina.moraru@eui.eu University of Groningen t.nowak@rug.nl Leiden University d.piqani@law.leidenuniv.nl European Parliament rosa.raffaelli@europarl.europa.eu University of Leeds i.solanke@leeds.ac.uk CEU San Pablo University allanftatham@yahoo.co.uk Pompeu Fabra University aida.torres@upf.edu University of Copenhaguen mwi@ifs.ku.dk University of Łódź awyrozumska@uni.lodz.pl University of Craiova gabriela.zanfir@gmail.com