CONFERENCE

DEBACLESIllusIons and FaIlures In the hIstory

oF InternatIonal adjudIcatIon

Luxembourg, 24 & 25 November 2016

P r o g r a m m e

Thursday, 24 November 2016

09:00 Registration

09:15 Introductory Remarks

09:30 I. Theory

11:00 Coffeebreak

11:30 II. History

13:00 Lunchbreak

14:30 III. Human Rights

16:45 Coffeebreak

17:15 IV. International Economic Law

19:00 Dinner Cocktail

Friday, 25 November 2016

09:00 V. Regional Integration Organisations

10:15 Coffeebreak

10:45 V. Regional Integration Organisations (2nd part)

12:15 Lunchbreak

13:30 VI. International Criminal Law

15:00 Coffeebreak

15:30 VI. International Criminal Law (2nd part)

17:00 Concluding Remarks

17:30 Closure

DEBACLES: ILLuSIonS AnD FAILurES In thE hIStory oF IntErnAtIonAL ADjuDICAtIon

Encouragedby thepost-ColdWar riseof international adjudication,mostinternational lawyers have focused their attention on judicial ‘successstories’. They have thereby revitalised a liberal-modernist narrative thatviewstheconstantexpansionandimprovementofinternationaladjudicationas historically ineluctable. Against this backdrop, the DEBACLES project,inauguratedat theMaxPlanck Institute forProcedural Law in2015,aimstocastanunconventionallightonthehistoryofinternationaladjudication,bringing to the foreground itsmany illusions and failures, the paths nottaken,and,moregenerally,thenonlinearityofitsdevelopments.

Thepresentconference,whichmarksanimportantmilestone,willengagewith specific failed attempts to create and operate international judicialforums,aswellaswithbroaderhistoricalandtheoreticalissuesrelatedtosuchfailures.Firstamongthese is theclarificationof theveryconceptof‘failure’ and the identification of its subjective and objective dimensions.The conferencewill offer a rich inventory of cases of failure arranged infour thematic sessions on— respectively— human rights, internationaleconomic law, regional international organisations, and internationalcriminallaw.Prominentandostensiblythrivinginstitutions—includingtheInternationalCourtof Justice, theCourtof Justiceof theEuropeanUnionandtheInternationalCentreforSettlementofInvestmentDisputes(ICSID)—areexaminedalongwithlesser-knownoralmostforgottenones,liketheInternationalLoansTribunalandotherdeadlettercourts.Onemaysee,inthechoicetotakeacloser lookatcasesof failure,anattemptatdrawinglessons from past setbacks with a view to the progressive advancementandfurtherexpansionofinternationaladjudication.Theanalysesweoffermay,ofcourse,beputtosuchuse,althoughtheproject’smainpurposeis,rather, todevelopadispassionatecritiqueof thepracticeof internationaladjudicationitself,itsideologicalunderpinnings,mostnotablyasreflectedinitshistoriography,anditsstructurallimits.

I. thEory

Chair: Prof. Moshe Hirsch

DrLucaPasquetFailureasDisappointment

Prof.PaulaWojcikiewiczAlmeidaandProf.SerenaForlatiIsNon-compliancewithJudgmentsaFailureofInternationalAdjudication?

DrWimMullerInternationalAdjudicationAgainstGreatPowers:DestinedforFailure?TheNicaragua, Arctic Sunrise, and South China SeaCasesfromthePointofViewofPowerAsymmetry

Q&A session

II. hIStory

Chair: Prof. Bardo Fassbender

DrIngoVenzkeAnExtendedCritiqueofInternationalAdjudication:TheIllusionofNecessityandtheFailureofImagination

Dr Ignacio De la Rasilla y del Moral WhyaStoryofDeadLetterInternationalCourtsandTribunalsToday?

Daniel LitwinHow the Story of International Adjudication Has Been Told: The LinearSensibilityofInternationalAdjudicationHistoriography

Q&A session

III. humAn rIghtS

Chair: Dr Jarna Petman

MichelErpeldingFailure by Oblivion: The Invisible Legacy of the Upper Silesian MixedCommission

DrNicolasKang-RiouTheEuropeanSocialCharterCollectiveComplaintMechanism:FromLimitedSuccesstoFailure

DrOlivierBarsalouTheInternationalCourtofJustice,ColdWarPolitics,andtheInterpretationofPeaceTreatieswithBulgaria, Hungary and RomaniaCase:AHumanRightsDebacle?

DrAthanasiosChouliarasTheDevelopmentofStateResponsibility forSeriousViolationsofHumanRightsandtheDubiousRoleoftheInternationalCourtofJustice

DaliaPalomboHumanRightsAdjudication:BetweenHopeandDebacle

Q&A session

IV. IntErnAtIonAL EConomIC LAw

Chair: Prof. Hélène Ruiz Fabri

Dr Emanuel CastellarinTheInternationalLoansTribunalThatNeverWas

Prof.NikitasHatzimihailOfDebaclesandCrises: ‘De-colonisation’Meets InvestmentArbitration intheColdWarMiddleEast

Ksenia PolonskayaDoestheICSIDSufferfromaGeneticDisease?

Yuliya ChernykhFoldDownUmbrellas!TheDebacleof theUmbrellaClause in InvestmentArbitration

Q&A session

V. rEgIonAL IntEgrAtIon orgAnISAtIonS

Chair: Prof. Antoine Vauchez

DrFreyaBaetensTheTriumphofHopeoverExperience?IllusionsandFailuresofSuccessiveCentralAmericanCourtsofJustice

Prof.HenrideWaeleNotAllThatGlitters isGold:CovertFailingsof theCourtof Justiceof theEuropeanUnion

AndréNunesChaibWhyCourtsFailinLatinAmerica?ConstitutionalistImaginaryattheHeartofLatinAmericanJurisdictionalProjects

MarianaPeña-PinonTheFiascooftheMercosur‘sAdvisoryOpinionMechanism

Prof.KonstantinosD.MagliverasWhenPoliticsPrevailover theRuleof Law:TheUnfortunateStoryof theSADCTribunal

Evelyn MogereTheJudicialInstitutionsoftheEastAfricanCommunity(1967-1977):ATaleofThreeFailures

Q&A session

VI. IntErnAtIonAL CrImInAL LAw

Chair: Prof. Ilias Bantekas

HeejinKimEndingaCultureofImpunity:AHistoryoftheUseofInternationalJudicialMeansforthePunishmentofAtrocityCrimesinAsia

DrPatrycjaGrzebykHiddenintheGlareoftheNurembergTrial:TheImpunityforthe‘ButcheryofWola’astheGreatestDebacleofPost-warProsecutionofInternationalCrimes

LuigiProsperiTheMissed Italian Nuremberg: The History of an Internationally-sponsoredAmnesty

SergeyVasilievDebacles of International Criminal Adjudication: Deliberation Practices andLessonsUnlearned

DrDiGoreSimmalaAfrican Challenges to the Legitimacy of the International Criminal Court: IsInternationalCriminalJusticeFacingBreakdown?

YaelVlasGvirsman WhatInternationalCriminalJusticeCannotDo:TheLimitedRolesofInternationalCriminalCourtsandTribunalsinConflictResolution

Prof.GabrieleDellaMorteTheFailureoftheDiscourseAbouttheFailureofInternationalCriminalLaw

Q&A session

mAx PLAnCk InStItutE LuxEmBourg For ProCEDurAL LAwProcedurallawmatters–thiscouldbetheleitmotifforthenewMaxPlanckInstituteLuxembourgforProceduralLaw.TheInstitutewasfoundedinthesummerof2012.Today,itsresearcherscomingfromallovertheworldinvestigatealltypesofdisputeresolutionandprocedurallaw.WithintheMaxPlanckSociety,itisthefifthMaxPlanckInstituteestablishedoutsideGermany,andthefirstofthesefocusingonlaw.

ThelocationinLuxembourgisidealforaMaxPlanckInstitutefocusingonprocedurallaw:LuxembourgisindeedthesynonymfortheconstantdevelopmentandexpansionofthelegalsystemsoftheEUMemberStatesbymeansofEuropeanlawandofthejurisprudenceoftheCourtofJusticeoftheEuropeanUnion.ThisgivestheresearchersandguestsoftheInstitutetheopportunitytomaintainacontinuousdialoguewiththemembersoftheCourtandtogainadirectinsightintotheworkingsoftheEuropeanjudiciary.ObservingthepracticeofcourtsindifferentcountriesandatdomesticandinternationallevelsisanimportantsuccessfactorforstudyingEuropean,comparativeandinternationalprocedurallaw.

DEPArtmEnt oF IntErnAtIonAL LAwAnD DISPutE rESoLutIonLed by Professor Hélène Ruiz Fabri, the Department of International Law andDisputeResolution examines and analyses variousmechanisms and techniques ofinternationaldisputesettlement–includingtraditionallitigationaswellasalternativemethodsofdisputeresolutionandadjudication–butalsoextendsitsresearchtoallkinds of decision-making processes. Its research agenda focuses on the principlesandprocessesunderlyingeachofthesemechanismsandexploresvarioustheoreticalandhistoricalschoolsofthoughtininternationallawinordertoassesstheiraccuracyregardingproceduralissues.

SinceherappointmentasDirector,ProfessorRuizFabrihasgatheredinherdepartmentpromising senior and junior research fellowswith various disciplinary and culturalbackgrounds.Currently,theresearchactivitiesofthisinternationally-mindedteamareinparticularfocusedontwoambitiouslong-termprojects:

• The Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law, which aims to bringinto focusessential topics in internationaldispute resolution, to cover the latestdevelopments in the field and to reflect international law from a proceduralperspective;

• The Making of International Judicial and Arbitral Decisions, which combines theperspectivesoflaw,politicalscience,sociology,psychologyandhistory,andaimsatopeninguptheblackboxwhichinmanyrespectsstillencryptsthedecision-makingprocessesofcourtsandtribunals.

Besidesthetwoaforementionedchallengingprojects,theDepartmentofInternationalLaw and Dispute Resolution is actively engaged in international research projects,scientificandprofessionalnetworks,internationalorganizationsandforums.Seminars,colloquia and in-house workshops that gather leading scholars and practitionersof international laware regularlyheld, aswell as Lecture Seriesorganized in closecollaborationwiththeDepartmentofEuropeanandComparativeProceduralLaw.

uPComIng EVEntS

Wewouldliketoinviteyoutoourupcomingevents!

30 November 2016 / 16:00MaxPlanckLectureSeriesonSovereignDebtProposals for the Reform of Sovereign Debt Restructuring - The Contractual ApproachLecturer:MrPhilipR.WoodCBE(Allen&Overy,London)Discussant:ProfessorChristophG.Paulus(HumboldtUniversityofBerlin)

14 December 2016 / 16:00MaxPlanckLectureSeriesonSovereignDebtProposals for the reform of Sovereign Debt Restructuring - The Statutory ApproachLecturer:MrLeeC.Buchheit(ClearyGottlieb,NewYork)Discussant:ProfessorLuisM.Hinojosa-Martínez(UniversityofGranada)

30 - 31 March 2017WorkshopThe Making of Decisions of the United Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies

27 - 28 April 2017ConferenceExperts in International AdjudicationincollaborationwiththeUniversityofGeneva

25 - 26 September 2017ConferenceA Bridge over Troubled Waters: Dispute Resolution in the Law of International Watercourses and the Law of the Sea

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Pictures:Frontcover:Piranesi-View of the Temple of Minerva Medica, 1748-1774I.Theory:Piranesi-Veduta del Sepolcro di Cajo Cestio, 1748-1774II.History:Piranesi-Appian Way, Piranesi's Frontispiece for La Antichità Romane, T. II, 1756III.HumanRights:Piranesi-Pronaos Façade Drawn and Described in Plate, V, 1778IV.InternationalEconomicLaw:Piranesi-Theater of Marcellus, 1756V.RegionalIntegrationOrganizations:Piranesi-Remnant of a Covered Porch, 1748-1774VI.InternationalCriminalLaw:Piranesi-The Tomb on the Via Appia, 1756Backcover:Piranesi-Fragments of the Marble Plan of Ancient Rome, 1756

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