Vendredi 29 mai 2009
9.00 am – 9.30 am
Opening remarks :
Welcome : Catherine Bercusson, Keith Ewing
Appreciation : Geoff Shears
Business : Andrea Biondi
9.30 am – 10.00 am
Session 1 : Introduction
Chair : Stephen Cavalier
John Monks : Brian Bercusson and European Labour Law
10.00 am – 11.15 am
Session 2 :
Theoretical and Institutional Perspectives on Social Europe
Chair : Christophe Vigneau
Alain Supiot & Ulrich Mueckenberger,
‘Europe - A Still Unfulfilled Promise'
Thomas Blanke,
‘Institutional and legal sources for the dynamic of Social Europe’.
COFFEE
11.30 – 12.45 pm
Session 3 : The Role of Trade Unions in Social Europe
Chair : Hannah Reed
Antoine Jacobs,
‘The countervailing power of trade unions and the laws
Dave Feickert,
'Building the European Social Dialogue in more
difficult times - how legal advisers can help, based on the
experience of the Social Dialogue so far'.
LUNCH
14.00 pm – 15.30 pm
Session 4: Employment Standards and European Labour Law
Chair : Carolyn Jones
Antonio Ojeda,
'The previous step : works which do not reach the labour Contract'
Simon Deakin & Catherine Barnard,
'Free movement and the de-territorialisation of labour law'.
Nicola Countouris & Mark Freedland,
'Contractual Structure and Termination of Personal Work Contracts
in European Law'.
TEA
15.45 pm – 17.00 pm
Session 5: Developments in EU Equality Law
Chair : Kerstin Ahlberg
Bob Hepple,
'The Future of EU Equality Law'
Aileen McColgan and Sonia McKay,
'Free movement of services and equality as a "fundamental right" in EC law ? : Lessons from Viking and Laval'
DINNER: VENUE TBA