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19.11.2015
Conference

Europe’s justice

Eighth Annual International Conference of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”

Program

Thursday, November 19

13.00 to 13.15

Opening of the Annual Conference 2015: EUROPE’S JUSTICE
Welcome: Prof. Dr. Klaus Günther & Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst (Speaker of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”)

13.15 to 15.15

Panel I: EUROPE AS A CONTEXT OF JUSTICE

Chairs: Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst & Prof. Dr. Klaus Günther (Speaker of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”)

Prof. Dr. Kalypso Nicolaïdis (Oxford University): How can a Demoicratic Polity be Just? The Puzzles of Solidarity, Reciprocity and Choice in the EU

Dr. Lisa Herzog (Goethe University): Prices and Dignity in the Eurozone

Prof. Dr. Christoph Burchard (Goethe University): The Contexts of Europe as a Context of Justice – in Light of the Administration of Criminal Justice

3:15 p.m. to 3:45 p.m., foyer on the first floor
Coffee and cake

3:45 pm to 5:45 pm

Panel II: CRISES IN THE EUROZONE

Chairs: Rebecca Caroline Schmidt (Managing Director of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”) & Prof. Dr. Rainer Klump(University of Luxembourg)

Prof. Dr. Francesco Mongelli (ECB, Goethe University) & Jean-Francois Jamet (ECB): How to Exit the Crisis: Reflections on the 4 Unions. Why Do We Need Them?

Prof. Dr. John Milios (National Technical University of Athens): Crisis and Austerity. Is there a Chance for the Welfare State?

Dr. Kolja Möller (Goethe University): From the Constitutionalization of Austerity to Destituent Power: Democratic Challenges in the Context of the Euro-Crisis

18:00 to 20:00
Keynote: Questions of guilt in the European debt crisis
Evening lecture
Prof. Dr. Claus Offe (Hertie School of Governance, Berlin)

Friday, November 20

10:00 to 12:00

Panel III: INEQUALITIES IN EUROPE

Chair: Dr. Dominik Müller (Goethe University)

Prof. Dr. Hartmut Kaelble (Humboldt University Berlin): Why did social inequality in Western Europe decrease during the 20th century?

Prof. Dr. Susanne Schröter (Goethe University): Justice in the immigration society

Dr. Kerstin Weiand (Goethe University): Inequality as a political-social explosive? On the (dis)order function of a structural principle in the early modern period

12:00 to 13:00, Room 5.01 and Lounge
Small lunch snack

13:00 to 15:00

Panel IV: POLICIES OF JUSTICE – ON THE EU’S PROBLEM WITH DRAWING BORDERS BY LEGAL MEANS

Chair: Prof. Dr. Stefan Kadelbach (Goethe University)

Prof. Dr. Helene Sjursen (Arena Centre for European Studies, Oslo): A Duty to Expand? The Question of Obligations Towards “the Other” in a European Context

Prof. Dr. Harald Müller (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt): International Political Justice in Europe: The Distribution of Security and Opportunity for Influence in Security Policy

Dr. Michael Ioannidis (Max Planck Institute Heidelberg): Weak Members and the EU Rule of Law: The Case of Greece

15:00
End of the 2015 annual conference

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