10:30- 11:00
Welcoming Remarks
Winfried Huck (Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences,Faculty of Law, Brunswick European Law School, Germany; Fellow,Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance, University of Cambridge,UK ; Chinese German College for Postgraduate Studies at Tongji University, Shanghai, China and Visiting Fellow, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge,UK)
Paolo Davide Farah (West Virginia University, USA and gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development,UK)
11:00 - 12:30
Chair and Discussant:
Paolo Davide Farah
(West Virginia University, USA and gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development,UK)
Emerging Technologies and Regulatory Frameworks. Effectiveness of Soft Law Instruments and Proposal for Framework Conventions - Jacek Barcik (University of Silesia, Institute of Law, Katowice, Poland)
Innovation Isn’t New: Developing a Framework for AI Regulation- Filipe Jones Mourão (Farfetch, Lisbon,Portugal)
12:15- Discussion
12:30- 14:20 - Lunch Break
14:20- 15:50
Chair and Discussant:
Achim Rogmann
(Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Law,Brunswick European Law School, Institute for European and International Economic Law EIW, Germany and Murdoch School of Law, Perth, Australia)
Future Aspects of Sustainable Development, Emerging Technologies and Artificial Intelligence: Do we need a New Concept of Law? - Jennifer Maaß (Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Law, Brunswick European Law School, Germany)
Global Governance and Blockchain Technology Towards Sustainable Development - Paolo Davide Farah (West Virginia University, USA and gLAWcal- Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development,UK)
15:35- Discussion
15:50- 16:10 - Break
16:10- 17:40
Chair and Discussant:
Leonie Zappel
(Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Law, Brunswick European Law School, Institute for European and International Economic Law EIW, Germany)
The Blame Chain - Maintaining Human Responsibility for Emerging Technologies - Ozlem Ulgen (Birmingham City University, UK)
Artificial Intelligence: “Game Changer”for Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law - Maria Sole Continiello Neri (National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, Moscow, Russia)
Financial Innovation and Consumer Access to Justice – An Initial Look - Carrie Shu Shang (California StatePolytechnic University, Pomona,USA)
17:25- Discussion
17:40- 18:00 - General Discussion
9:30 - 13:00
9:30 - 11:00
Chair and Discussant:
Martin Müller
(Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Law, Brunswick European Law School, Institute for European and International Economic Law EIW, Germany)
A New Governance Model for Digital Economy: The Anatomy of E-Commerce in China - Chuanman You (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Are Emerging technology a stumbling block or a stepping stone for the SDGs? - Winfried Huck (Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Law,Brunswick European Law School, Germany)
10:45 - Discussion
11:00 - 11:20 - Break
11:20 - 12:50
Chair and Discussant:
Winfried Huck
(Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Law, Brunswick European Law School, Germany)
The Potential of Emerging Technologies to Fight Financial Crime and Promote Sustainable Development - Karl Marxen (Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Law, Brunswick European Law School, Germany)
Sustainable Resource Development in the Arctic: Using Export Trade Agreements to Restrict Environmentally Harmful Subsidies - Tomohiko Kobayashi (Otaru University of Commerce, Japan)
12:35 - Discussion
12:50 - 13:00 - Concluding Remarks
The conference will take place on 28 November at BELS in Wolfenbuettel and on 29 November at the “Haus der Wissenschaft” in Braunschweig. For registration for the event please send an email to Anna-Theresia Krein a.krein@ostfalia.de
The organizers have publication plans for the presented papers. The precise format of publication will be discussed during the conference. Among the options already available at the time of the call for papers,the organizers envisage to publish a book collection in the Routledge Publishing (New-York/ London) multidisciplinary gLAWcal book series on “Transnational Law and Governance” or a special issue/symposium in relevant peer-review SSCI or US journals.The presenters, who have previous commitments with other publication outlets or prefer different journals or publishers, will of course remain free to publish their papers independently from the conference symposium/special is-sue/book collection.
Paolo Davide Farah (West Virginia University, USA and gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development,UK )
Winfried Huck (Dean and Professor for International and European Economic Law at Brunswick European Law School (BELS) – Ostfalia,Germany; Fellow, Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG), University of Cambridge,UK ; Professor at the Chinese German College for Postgraduate Studies(CDHK) at Tongji University, Shanghai and Visiting Fellow, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL), University of Cambridge,UK)
The conference is organized at Brunswick European Law School (BELS) – Ostfalia, Germany in collaboration with gLAWcal- Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development, UK, the American Society of International Law (ASIL) Interest Group on International Environmental Law, the American Society of International Law (ASIL) Interest Group on Intellectual Property Law, West Virginia University, Department of Public Administration and West Virginia University, Center for Innovation in Gas Research and Utilization (CIGRU).
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