COLLOQUIUM: Peace Through Law: The Versailles Peace Treaty and dispute settlement after WWI (Luxembourg, 6-8 December 2017)

(Source: Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law)

The Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law is organising a colloquium on the Versailles Peace Treaty and dispute settlement after World War I.

Content

Jointly organised by the two research departments, the conference “Peace Through Law: The Versailles Peace Treaty and dispute settlement after WWI” is designed to investigate both the notion of “peace through law” and the new international framework set up by the Treaty in the aftermath of the Great War. Held a century later, the conference will also offer a unique moment of reflection on the state of the dispute settlement system.

Academic Programme

Wednesday, 6 December 2017

18:00	Welcome address by Dr Heinrich Kreft, Ambassador of Germany in Luxembourg and Mr Bruno Perdu, Ambassador of France in Luxembourg
18:20	Opening lecture by Prof. Nathaniel Berman (Brown University)

Thursday, 7 December 2017

09:00	Welcome address by Prof. Hélène Ruiz Fabri and Prof. Burkhard Hess (Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law)
09:15	Panel I: The League of Nations: A world organisation for the prevention of conflicts Chair: Prof. Johan Van der Walt (University of Luxembourg) Dr Thomas D. Grant (University of Cambridge): “The league as an universal organisation” Prof. Michael Callahan (Kettering University): “Preventing a Repetition of the Great War: Responding to International Terrorism in the 1930s”
11:00	Panel II: The political termination of the war Chair: Prof. Johan Van der Walt (University of Luxembourg) Prof. Mamadou Hébié (Leiden University): “The mandate system of the League of Nations” Dr Ralph Wilde (University College London): “Versailles as a landmark in trusteeship and internationalization”
14:00	Panel III: Building a larger economic framework Chair: Prof. Laurence Boisson de Chazournes (University of Geneva) Prof. Patricia Clavin (University of Oxford): "The League of Nations and the making of international trade law" Dr Guy Sinclair (Victoria University of Wellington): “Managing the ‘workers’ threat: preventing revolution through ttripartite negotiation (ILO)” Judge and Prof. Herbert Kronke (Heidelberg University; Iran-United States Claims Tribunal): “The role of private international law: Unidroit, Geneva Conventions on Arbitration”
16:15	Panel IV: The economic consequences of the war Chair: Judge and Prof. Hans Van Houtte (University of Leuven-KUL; Iran-United States Claims Tribunal) Prof. Jean-Louis Halpérin (Ecole Normale Supérieure): “Reparations, Art. 231 VT*” Prof. Didier Boden (University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): “Private rights in wartime and in the context of reparations” Prof. Pierre d’Argent (Catholic University of Louvain – UCL): “The conversion of reparations into sovereign debts (1920 – 1953)”

Friday, 8 December 2017

09:00	Panel V: Settlement of conflicts through international courts (1st part) Chair: Judge and Prof. Bruno Simma (University of Michigan; Iran-United States Claims Tribunal) Prof. Christian J. Tams (University of Glasgow): “The Permanent Court of Justice” Prof. Burkhard Hess and Prof. Marta Requejo Isidro (Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law): “Mixed Arbitral Tribunals in the peace treaties” Dr Jennifer Balint (University of Melbourne): “International criminal justice”
11:15	Panel V: Settlement of conflicts through international courts (2nd part) Prof. Carsten Stahn (Leiden University): “International administrative adjudication” Dr Michel Erpelding (Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law): “The special case of the Arbitral Tribunal of Upper Silesia”
14:00	Round table: The dispute settlement system from a contemporary perspective Chair: Prof. Hélène Ruiz Fabri (Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law) Participants: Prof. Laurence Boisson de Chazournes (University of Geneva) Prof. Photini Pazartzis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) Judge and Prof. Bruno Simma (University of Michigan; Iran-United States Claims Tribunal) Judge and Prof. Hans Van Houtte (University of Leuven-KUL; Iran-United States Claims Tribunal)
16:30	Concluding remarks by Prof. Burkhard Hess (Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law)

Contact:

If you are interested in participating in this conference, please send your reservation request with your contact details (first name, surname and affiliation) to events@mpi.lu or contact Martina Winkel: (+352) 26 94 88 923.

The participation is free of charge.

Venue: 

Max Planck Institute Luxembourg 

4, rue Alphonse Weicker 

L-2721 Luxembourg

More information can be found at the site of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law