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SUMMARY:EU Trade and Investment Policy
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DESCRIPTION:EU Trade and Investment Policy: The Future of European Law and Policy VII 
14 January 2021 Online
 This interdisciplinary conference is co-organised by Professor Gabriel Felbermayr of the IFW – Institute for the World Economy in Kiel (Germany) and Professor Martin Trybus of the IEL - Institute of European Law of the University of Birmingham (UK) within the framework and as the Network Conference of the EU Trade and Investment Policy ‘EUTIP’ Innovative Training Network funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme.\n
Programme  
 9.00 – 10.10 am CET: Opening Panel\n

Welcome: Martin Trybus (University of Birmingham, EUTIP Network Coordinator, IEL Director)
Keynote 1: Sabine Weyand (European Commission)
Keynote 2: Paola Conconi (Free University of Brussels)

 10.10-10.35: Break\n
 10.35-12.25 CET: Parallel Sessions 1\n
 1a The EU and geonomics\n

Chair: Sven Biscop (Egmont, Brussels)
Stephanie Leupold (Head of Unit, Trade Strategy, DG Trade): EU trade strategy in the 2020s
Tobias Gerkhe (Egmont): EU trade and economic statecraft in the Geoeconomic order
Simon Dekeyrel (University of Nottingham): Pipeline politics: the EU as a geo-economic power?
Gerard Masllorens (ETH Zürich):  GVC: a network analysis perspective

 1b New generation FTAs\n

Chair: Elaine Fahey (City, University of London)
Frank Hoffmeister (DG Trade): Implementation and enforcement of FTAs
Kornilia Pipidi Kalogirou (University of Speyer): Regulatory cooperation in the EU legal order: Remarks on substance and form
Sonali Chowdry (Ifw Kiel): Trade liberalization along the firm size distribution: The case of the EU-South Korea FTA
Iulianna Romanchyshyna (University of Passau): Non-tariff measures in EU ‘New Generation FTAs’ – Open, competing, or conflicting regionalism?

 12.25-13.15 CET: Lunch break\n
 13.15-14.45: Parallel Sessions 2\n

2a Transatlantic trade and labour rights
Chair: Jeff Kenner (University of Nottingham)
Axel Marx (KU Leuven): Pursuing labour rights through EU trade policy: some trends and challenges
Aakriti Bhardwaj (University of Nottingham): Towards better regulatory governance of Transatlantic trade: The case for international labour standards
Isabella Mancini (City, University of London): Taming regulatory cooperation for the protection of labour rights: The case of CETA

 2b The economics of TBT and SPS\n

Chair: Imma Martinez (University of Göttingen)
Jasmin Gröschl (ifo, Munich): Complex Europe: Quantifying the cost of disintegration
Camille Reverdy (CIREM/CEPII, Paris): Trade under TBT uncertainty 
Jorge Soguero (University of Birmingham): Effects of SPS measures in the agricultural sector using structural gravity 

 14.45-15.10 CET Break \n
 15.10-16.40 CET: Parallel Sessions 3 \n
 3a Dispute settlement\n

Chair: Christoph Hermann (University of Passau)
Colin Brown (DG Trade): Dispute settlement in contested times
Aveek Chakravarty (University of Turin): Arbitral discretion and calculation of compensation and damages in investor-state dispute settlement
Cornelia Fuculita (University of Speyer): The EU FTAs and the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanisms: Interacting in times of Appellate Body crisis

 3b Financial services\n

Chair: Fabian Amtenbrink (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
[TBC]
Francesco Pennesi (Erasmus University Rotterdam): The EU equivalence regime in capital markets: A governance mechanism for the post-Brexit management of financial services?
Nathan de Arriba-Sellier (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Mutual recognition aspects in EU financial market regulation

 16.40 Martin Trybus (EUTIP Network Coordinator) Concluding remarks and end of conference\n
LOCATION:Online
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
CLASS:PUBLIC
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