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The conference is sponsored by
the Ragnar Söderberg and
the Torsten Söderberg Foundations
Five years legally binding EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
What is the state of play in the protection of fundamental rights in the EU?
9 May 2014
The Lecture Theatre, Ship Street Centre, Jesus College, Oxford
Conference Programme
09.30
10.00
Arrival and Registration
Opening Statement
The constitutional dimension: the EU Charter and the ECHR
Chair: Ulf Bernitz
Four Years of Charter Case Law: Some Observations
10.05
Allan Rosas
(Judge at the European Court of Justice)
The Relationship Between the EU Charter and the ECHR
10.35
10.55
11.10
11.30
11.50
12.30
Sionaidh Douglas-Scott
(Professor of European and Human Rights Law, University of Oxford)
Coffee and Tea Break (The Bastion)
The 'Alleingang' of the European Court of Justice and its Need for Developing a
Methodology for EU Fundamental Rights' Protection
Janneke Gerards
(Professor of Fundamental Rights Law, Radboud University Nijmegen)
Why National Constitutional Courts Should Not Embrace EU Fundamental
Rights
Jan Komarek
(Lecturer, London School of Economics)
Discussion
Lunch (The Bastion)
The scope of application of EU fundamental rights
Chair: Stephen Weatherill
13.45
The Scope of Application of Fundamental Rights on Member States’ Action: a
New Constitutional Framework
Gunnar Thor Pétursson
(Associate Professor, Reykjavik University)
Akerberg Fransson and the Scope of the EU Charter
14.05
Ulf Bernitz
(Professor of European Law, University of Stockholm)
The Silence of the Charter
14.25
Catherine Barnard
(Professor of EU Law, University of Cambridge)
Comment
14.45
14.50
15.20
Jaan Paju
(University of Stockholm)
Discussion
Tea and Coffee Break
Safeguarding fundamental rights in Europe’s internal market
Chair: Sybe de Vries
Protecting the Internal Market from the Charter
15.40
Stephen Weatherill
(Jacques Delors Professor of European Law, University of Oxford)
Strengthening the Protection of EU Fundamental Rights Through the EU Single
Market: the Example of Data Protection
16.00
Sybe de Vries
(Professor of EU Single Market Law & Fundamental Rights – Jean Monnet Chair,
Europa Institute, Utrecht University)
Privacy and Data Protection: the Position of Companies
16.20
16.40
Peter Oliver
(Legal Advisor in the European Commission)
Short Break
Fundamental Rights and Competition Proceedings
16.50
Helene Andersson
(University of Stockholm)
State Aids and the Charter
17.10
17.30
18.00
John Temple Lang
(Senior Consultant, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and Visiting Professor,
Trinity College Dublin)
Discussion
Closing and Drinks