Global Fellows Forum - Past Year

Moderator(s) at the 2024-2025 Global/Emile Noël Fellows Forum were Professor , Beller Family Professor of Business Law and Faculty Director, Hauser Global Law School Program, and/or Professor , University Professor, Joseph Straus Professor of Law, European Union Jean Monnet Chaired Professor and Co-Director, Jean Monnet Center.

Spring 2025 Global/Emile Noël Fellows Forum 

22 Washington Square North

 

Tuesday, January 28

11:00–11:50 a.m.
Marian Ahumada Ruiz (commentator: Stefania Ninatti)
Constitutional Courts Transformations

12:00–12:50 p.m.
Kris van der Pas (commentator: Bruno Dantas)
Framework for researching impact of strategic litigation campaigns in the field of European migration law

 

Wednesday, January 29

10:00–10:50 a.m.
Bruno Dantas (commentator: Alicja Sikora-KalÄ—da)
Transnational Legacy of Class Actions: Procedural, Territorial, and Regulatory Issues

11:00–11:50 a.m.
Stefania Ninatti (commentator: Marian Ahumada Ruiz)
Law, Religion and Distrust

12:00–12:50 p.m.
Valerio Bontempi (commentator: Gianmarco Cristofari)
Digital State(s) and Administrative Law. A Comparison between Models of Public Regulation

 

 

Fall 2024 Global/Emile Noël Fellows Forum 

22 Washington Square North

 

WEEK 1

 

Thursday, September 19

1:00–1:50 p.m.
Sam Bookman (commentator: Alicja Sikora-KalÄ—da)
What Happens When You Win? The Implementation of Structural Climate Litigation

2:00–2:50 p.m.
Joseph David (commentator: Nathalie Smuha)
Rethinking Law and Normativity in the Age of Data-Driven Technologies

3:00–3:50 p.m.
Agnieszka FrÄ…ckowiak-Adamska (commentator: Enzo Cannizzaro)
The application of EU fundamental rights against the Member States - lessons from the American experience

 

Friday, September 20

10:00–10:50 a.m.
Poonam Puri (commentator: Masanori Wakita)
The Future of Corporate Governance and Financial Markets in an Era of Digital Disruption

11:00–11:50 a.m.
Alicja Sikora-KalÄ—da (commentator: Sam Bookman)
(Re)constructing legitimacy: mapping the substance and limits of the EU’s emerging environmental constitutional identity

 

WEEK 2

 

Wednesday, September 25

10:00–10:50 a.m.
D. Tinashé Hofisi (commentator: Stefania Cirillo)
From Symbolic to Substantive Models: Rethinking Presidential Election Petitions in Apex African Courts

11:00–11:50 a.m.
Andreas Voßkuhle (commentator: Alon Harel)
"Balancing" or "Prioritization" -- The German Constitution as "Constitution of the Middle" in Comparison to US Constitutional Practice

 

Thursday, September 26

1:30–2:20 p.m.
Alon Harel (commentator: Andreas Voßkuhle)
A Liberal Perspective of Constitutionalism

2:30–3:20 p.m.
Federica Fedorczyk (commentator: Christian Neumeier)
Democratizing AI: a critical examination of the EU AI Act in the context of AI top-down misuse

 

Friday, September 27

10:00–10:50 a.m.
Masanori Wakita (commentator: Poonam Puri)
Tender Offer Regulation from the Comparative Standpoint

11:00–11:50 a.m.
Enzo Cannizzaro (commentator: Agnieszka FrÄ…ckowiak-Adamska)
The Transformation of Customary Law: A theoretical and normative enquiry

 

WEEK 3

 

Wednesday, October 2

10:00–10:50 a.m.
Gianmarco Cristofari (commentator: Alon Jasper)
The boundaries of the legal system. Assessing the constitutional legitimacy of platform institutionalization in the EU

11:00–11:50 a.m.
Christian Neumeier (commentator: Federica Fedorczyk)
The Power to Speak. Government speech in the European public sphere

 

Thursday, October 3

1:30–2:20 p.m.
Darina Petrova (commentator: Moritz Schramm)
The Making of Alternative Global Governance: BRICS project and its Implications for International Law

2:30–3:20 p.m.
Stefania Cirillo (commentator: D. Tinashé Hofisi)
The Role of Ideologies in Comparative Studies of Civil Procedure Law

 

Friday, October 4

10:00–10:50 a.m.
Hyojung (Claire) Bae (commentator: Wolfgang Schön)
A Comparative Study of Tax Regulations on Digital Assets

11:00–11:50 a.m.
Eric Shoemaker (commentator: Jorge Urdánoz)
The Democratic Legitimacy & Political Meaning of Juries

 

WEEK 4

 

Wednesday, October 9

10:00–10:50 a.m.
Alon Jasper (commentator: Gianmarco Cristofari)
Fostering Flows: The Role of Infrastructure in Legal Reasoning

11:00–11:50 a.m.
Antonio Aloisi (commentator: Marco Dell'Erba)
Integrating the EU Twin (Green and Digital) Transition. Synergies, Tensions and Pathways for the Future of Work

 

Thursday, October 10

1:30–2:20 p.m.
Wolfgang Schön (commentator: Mario Osorio Hernandez)
The Future of the Fiscal State in Europe

2:30–3:20 p.m.
Jorge Urdánoz (commentator: Eric Shoemaker)
On the different meanings of the Majority Principle

 

Friday, October 11

10:00–10:50 a.m.
Henry Krahn (commentator: Nour Benghellab-Outtas) 
Reimagining Reasons: Protest and Deep Moral Change

11:00–11:50 a.m.
Marco Dell'Erba (commentator: Antonio Aloisi)
(Decentralized) Finance in the Metaverse: The Role of Financial Law

 

WEEK 5

 

Wednesday, October 16

10:00–10:50 a.m.
Mario Osorio Hernandez (commentator: Hyojung (Claire) Bae)
The Crumbling Institutions of the Corporate-Driven Trading System

11:00–11:50 a.m.
Nour Benghellab-Outtas (commentator: Henry Krahn)
From Empire to Reich: A Genealogy of National-Socialist Colonial Legal Concepts