Workshop: Understanding the EU as a Good Global Governance Actor

Workshop: Understanding the EU as a Good Global Governance Actor

Thursday, 1 July 2021

08:15 – 12:45 BST

The event is jointly organised by the City Law School Institute for the Study of European Law & the H2020 EUTIP network.

This work-in-progress symposium brings together the contributors for the forthcoming edited collection with Edward Elgar Press due to be published in 2022, tentatively entitled “Understanding the EU as a Good Global Governance Actor” edited by Elaine Fahey and Isabella Mancini, at The City Law School.

For more information and to register https://www.city.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/2021/07/understanding-the-eu-as-a-good-global-governance-actor-workshop#

The workshop is organised as follows:

  1. Opening reflection papers 

Ignacio Garcia-Bercero (European Commission) & Kalypso Nicolaïdis (University of Oxford/ EUI, Florence), Brussels Calling: The paradoxes of power and the trade/regulatory nexus

Ramses Wessel (University of Groningen), The Role of Values in EU External Relations: A Legal Assessment of the EU as a Good Global Actor

  1.  On ‘Good’ Data Governance: the emerging ambitions and values in data flows

Xuechen Chen (New College of the Humanities) & Xinchuchu Gao (Kings College London), EU-China Digital Connectivity: on power and regulatory capture

Jorg Polakiewicz (Council of Europe), The Emperor’s New Clothes – Data Privacy and Cybersecurity from a European Perspective

Thomas Streinz (New York University, NYU), The Limits of the Brussels Effect in the Digital Domain

Svetlana Yakovleva (University of Amsterdam), EU’s policy on cross-border data flows: navigating the thin line between liberalizing digital trade, promoting rules-based multilateralism and safeguarding fundamental rights and values

  1. On ‘Good’ Trade Governance: the emerging ambitions and values of a deeper trade agenda

Jean-Baptiste Velut (Université Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle), Environmental allies and trade competitors: a comparative analysis of US and EU governance models for trade and climate action

Martin Trybus (University of Birmingham), The EU acting through Free Trade Agreements: The case of sustainability and public procurement

Tonia Novitz (University of Bristol), The role of the EU in developing ’sustainable’ labour linkages in contemporary trade

Eva Pander Maat (City Law School, City, University of London), The EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism - merging ‘good’ global leadership on climate and trade?’

Clair Gammage (University of Bristol), The Next Normative Frontier: The EU as a Feminist Trade Actor?

  1. The EU Institutional dimension of ‘Good’ Trade Governance

Maria Garcia (University of Bath), EU as trade negotiator in the international order- Limits of the EU’s normative linkages in trade negotiations

Wolfgang Weiss (University of Speyer), Democratisation of good global governance: The EU’s role in the Parliamentarisation of trade policy

Ewa Zelazna (University of Leicester), The EU as a Good Global Actor in International Economic Relations The Role of Parliaments

Eva Kassoti (TMC Asser Institute) and Graham Butler (Aarhus University), The EU Courts Approach to International Law: Towards a Conceptual Framework

Gesa Kubek (University of Leuphana), Dispute Settlement under EU FTAs: The Role of Sustainable Development Chapters