Joerges’s work has consistently pointed to the intellectual weakness of the “integration through law” ideology that has shaped the thinking on European integration since its early years. The symposium starts with a discussion on the ideational framework behind the “integration through law” project, connecting its origins with the idea of the Economic Constitution or the darker legacies of law in Europe (Panel 1). Further, we are looking at the effects of the “integration through law” project and systematic neglect of “the economic” and the political dynamics of European integration, which affected the direction in which the European integration project has developed as a polity (Panel 2). Finally, based on Joerges’s thought on Social Europe we look at the relationship between the law and ‘the social’ in the political economy of supranational integration (Panel 3).

Programme

September 27

• 13.00 Get together over light lunch
• 14.00-14.15 Welcome by Anna Beckers (Maastricht University) & Vladimir Bogoeski (University of Amsterdam)
• 14.15-16.00 PANEL 1: THE ECONOMIC CONSTITUTION: PAST AND PRESENT
   Chair: Michelle Everson (Birkbeck College)
  Agustín Menéndez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Tbd
  Turkuler Isiksel (Columbia University) Unpacking the beast of burden: An appreciation of Christian Joerges’s writings on the constitutional, political, and epistemological baggage of European integration
  Katharina Isabel Schmidt (MPI for Comparative and International Private Law) Obscure(d) Legacies of Law in Europe
• 16.00-16.15 Coffee Break
• 16.15-18.15 PANEL 2: TAKING THE LAW IN EUROPEAN INTEGRATION SERIOUSLY
  ​​Chair: Klaas Hendrik Eller (Amsterdam Law School)
  Maria Weimer (Amsterdam Law School) The transformation of global governance: democracy-enhancing unilateralism and the EU global regulatory state
  Harm Schepel (Kent Law School)  The Law of Avoiding Conflicts Law
  Anna Peychev (European University Institute) The ECB’s Role in the Imperfect Construct of EMU: Taking the Law Seriously in Frankfurt
  Poul F. Kjaer (Copenhagen Business School) From Conflicts Law to Transformative Law
• 19.00 Joint Dinner
   

September 28

• 09.00-10.45 PANEL 3: THE SOCIAL IN THE ECONOMY AND ITS LAW
  Chair: Joana Mendes (University of Luxembourg)
  Gunther Teubner (Frankfurt University) Expanding Europe’s Conflicts-Law Constitution
  Sabine Frerichs (University of Vienna / Oñati Institute) Property, Credit, and Monetary Sabotage
  Steven Klein (King's College London) A Transnational Double Movement? Christian Joerges and the Fate of Social Europe
• 10.45-11.00 Coffee Break
• 11.00-12.00 RESPONSES & REFLECTIONS
  Chair: Marija Bartl (Amsterdam Law School)
  Christian Joerges (University of Bremen / Hertie School Berlin) History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes – Mark Twain and the conceptual history of the integration project
• 12.00-13.00 Closed session for speakers only
• 13.00 Lunch & Departures

Registration is required. Please email Vladimir Bogoeski via the contact button below to register and for any questions you may have. Thank you!