VSR Yearly Conference 2014

Langs de randen van de (rechts)staat[1]

VSR annual conference on 16 and 17 January 2014

Kasteel Oud Poelgeest, Poelgeesterweg 1, 2341 NM Oegstgeest

Preliminary program

The program can be downloaded in Word here: Program VSR annual meeting 2014

Photo’s of the conference can be found here.

Thursday 16 January

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee and Registration

10:30-12:00 Keynote

10:30 – 10:40 Opening

10:40 – 11:15 Keynote: Christian Lund[2] – Along the Edges of Rule of Law

11:15 – 11:30 Discussant: Nick Huls (UL / EUR)

11:30 – 12:00 Questions and Discussion

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-14:30 Workshops round 1:

‘Author meets reader’: Capita Civilologie – Handboek empirie en privaatrecht

Coordinator: Rob Schwitters (UvA)

Chair: Marc Hertogh (RUG)

Auteurs/ Editors: Willem van Boom (EUR), Ivo Giesen (UU), Albert Verheij (RUG)

– referenten: Kees van den Bos, Nick Huls en Rob Schwitters

Contextualising Regulatory Governance I

Chair: Peter Mascini (EUR)

Presenters: 1. Jeroen van der Heijden (UvA):

Waar is de overheid gebleven in regulatory governance?

2. Paul Verbruggen(RU) :

Meta-regulering als vorm van regulatory governance

3. Anne Meuwese (TU):

Alternative Review of Government Action: An Inventory

Legal Aid in the Lowlands

Chair: Bernard Hubeau (UA)

Presenters: 1. Lia Combrink

– referent: Bert Niemeijer (WODC)

2. Tamara Butter (RU)

– referent: Steven Gibens

3. Koen Van Aeken (TU)

– referent: Jean Van Houtte (UA)

4. Ashley Terlouw (RU):

summary, conclusions, book

14:30-15:00 Tea break

15:00-16:30 Workshops round 2:

Universele waarden in een globaliserende samenleving

Presenters: 1. Roland Pierik (UvA):

Rule of Law and Human Rights: Two Sides of the Same Coin or Different Currencies altogether?

– referent: Adriaan Bedner

2. Marijke Malsch

De groei van ‘onschadelijkmaking’ als strafdoel en als interventie

3. Michiel Köhne

p.m.

Civilologie I

Organiser: Rob Schwitters (UvA)

Chair: Bernard Hubeau

Presenters: 1. Masha Antokolskaia (VU):

Van politiek gestuurde wetgeving naar evidence-based wetgeving –Perspectieven vanuit het familierecht

– referent: Petra Jonkers

2. Jef De Mot (Universiteit Gent):

Special insurance systems for motor vehicle liability in Belgium and the Netherlands

– referent: Peter van Wijck

3. Liesbeth Enneking (UU):

Public interest litigation in Nederland: trend of hype?

– referent: Frederiek de Vlaming

Contextualising Regulatory Governance II

Chair: Martijn Scheltema (EUR)

Presenters: 1. Willem Bantema (RUG):

Commitment, Resistance, Disengagement en Game-Playing: wat is de invloed van ‘motivational postures’ op de (niet-) naleving van het rookverbod in de horeca?

2. Peter Mascini (EUR):

Bilaterale regulatory governance relaties: Wanneer werken ze en hoe kunnen regulerende overheidsinstanties aan hun werkzaamheid bijdragen?

3. Martijn Scheltema (EUR):

Assessing Effectiveness of Transnational Private Regulation in the Corporate Social Responsibility Arena

17:30-18:30 Drinks

18:30-19:00 Schemerlampgesprek: Keebet von Benda-Beckmann

19:00-21:00 Dinner

Friday 17 January

9:00-10:15 Ledenvergadering VSR

10:30-12:00 Workshops round 3:

Civilologie II

Organiser: Rob Schwitters (UvA)

Chair: Roel Pieterman
Presenters: 1. Lianne Wijntjens (UT):

‘Mea culpa’ and civil justice: towards an apology-friendly tort system

– referent: Chris Reinders Folmer

2. Rianka Rijnhout (UU):

Bewijswaardering in een civiele procedure en het anchoring effect

– referent: Sanne Raats

3. Marnix Hebly (UU):

Je hebt geluk als je van een pauw mag plukken – ervaringen van slachtoffers van strafbare feiten met het verhalen van hun schade

– referent: Bert Niemeijer

4. Britt Weyts en Charlotte Henskens (UA):

Aansprakelijkheidsverzekeringen: tussen bescherming en preventie. Een juridische en rechtssociologische benadering

– referent: Rob Schwitters

Opening the Black Box: Processual and Microsociological Approaches to Judicial Sense- and Decision-Making Practices

Chair: Irene van Oorschot (EUR) and Peter Mascini (EUR)

Presenters: 1. Irene van Oorschot (EUR):

‘An Image of the Case’: Professional Vision and Judicial Sense-Making Practice

2. Yedan Li (UvA):

Judges Who Mediate or Mediators Who Judge: How Mediation Influences and Gets Entangled with Adjudication for Chinese Trial Judges

3. Nina Holvast (UvA):

The role and influence of judicial assistants in the judicial decision making process in Dutch courts

12:00-13:15 Closing panel: Ombudsmen on the Edge of the Rule of Law State

Chair: Adriaan Bedner

Presenters: 1. Alex Brenninkmeijer (Nationale Ombudsman)

2. Bernard Hubeau (UA, voorheen Vlaamse Ombudsman)

3. Roel Fernhout (RU, voorheen Nationale Ombudsman)

4. Marc Hertogh (RUG)

13:15-14:00 Lunch

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Sessions will be conducted in Dutch or English. We will make sure that during each round at least one workshop will be conducted in English. The keynote speech and the discussion will be in English, the closing panel in Dutch.

Information and questions: a.w.bedner@law.leidenuniv.nl

[1] ‘Along the edges of the rule of law’.

[2] Professor of Development, Resource Management, and Governance, at the Department of Food and Resource Economics, at Copenhagen University – http://www.christian-lund.dk/Home.html.