First UK-Russian Symposium on Jurisprudence and Sovereignty [Manchester, UK 16th & 17th March 2016]

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First UK-Russian Symposium on Jurisprudence and Sovereignty

Manchester, UK 16^th & 17^th March 2016

Programme

Wednesday 16^th March 2016, 12:00pm-7:00pm

VENUE: MMU, BS3.02, BS3.17, BS3.18 (“BS” stands for Business School, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK).

12:00-12:30pm REGISTRATION (BS3.02)

12:30pm-1:00pm (BS3.17)

Welcome by Dr Mikhail Antonov  (St. Petersburg) and Dr Jorge Núñez (Manchester)

1:00pm-3:30pm (BS3.17)

• HoD Dr Eugenio Potseluev (Ivanovo): “Discussing sovereignty in Russian legal science at the turn of the XXth century”
• Asst. Prof. Antonia Waltermann (Maastricht): “Popular Sovereignty without Democracy”
• Dr. Lisa Rodgers (Leicester): “Sovereignty and rights in the labour context”

3:30pm-4:00pm Coffee Break (BS3.02)

4:00pm-6:00pm (BS3.17)

• Asst. Prof. Dr. Svetlana Chekhovskaya (Moscow): “Soft Law and Sovereign State System”
• Alexander Green (London): “International Law and the Value of Statehood”
• SL Dr. Jorge Núñez (Manchester): “Sovereignty Conflicts and Distributive Justice Principles: the Egalitarian Shared Sovereignty”

6:00pm-7:00pm (BS3.17)

Conclusive remarks and Open floor discussion.

7:30pm Dinner (BS3.18)

Thursday 17^th March 2016, 09:00am-7:00pm

VENUE: UoM, UPB3.204, UPB2.217, UPB1.219 (“UPB” stands for University Place Building, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK).

09:00am-11:00am (UPB3.204)

• Prof. Bill Bowring (London): “Russia’s Annexation of Crimea: Sovereignty, Legal Justifications, the Constitutional Court, and Pandora’s Box”

11:00am-12:00pm Coffee Break (tbc)

12:00pm-2:00pm (UPB3.204)

• Asst. Prof. Dr Mikhail Antonov (St. Petersburg): “Questioning sovereignty: balancing of human rights by the RF Constitutional Court”
• Dr. Maria Smirnova (Manchester): “Russian Constitutional Court and ECtHR: The ‘Right to Object’ as a Tool for Constructive Dialogue, not a Revolution”
• Dr Christopher Walshaw (Berlin): “The Sovereignty Merry-go-Round”

2:00pm-3:00pm Lunch (UPB2.217)

3:00pm-6:00pm (UPB1.219)

• SL Dr. Evgenii Tonkov (St. Petersburg): “Rethinking legitimacy and sovereignty”
• SL Dr. Jackson Maogoto (Manchester): “Statal Discipline and Indiscipline: Sovereignty as Fealty of the Independent State to International Humanitarian Normativity”
• Prof. Dr Marianna G. Muravyeva (St. Petersburg): “Conservative Jurisprudence and Selective Sovereignty: How Do Judges Interpret the Hierarchy of Laws?”

6:00pm (UPB1.219)

Conclusive remarks by Dr Mikhail Antonov (St. Petersburg) and Dr Jorge Núñez (Manchester)