On law making and public trust, programme

Administrative Law Research Seminar June 11, 2014
Landgoed De Coendersborg, Groningen

9.30
Registration, Tea / Coffee

10.00
Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Suzanne Comtois, Visiting Professor, University of Groningen and Professor at the University of Sherbrooke

10.10
SESSION I: ON GLOBAL TRIBUNAL'S NETWORK AND PUBLIC TRUST

• Chair: Professor Suzanne Comtois

Transnational Communication between Courts: Enhancing or Jeopardising Public Trust in Judicial Decision-Making in the Globalised World?
Professor Elaine Mak, Erasmus University, Rotterdam

Public Law and Public Trust: First Impressions of a Troubled Relationship
Professor Marc Hertogh, University of Groningen

Questions and comments

11.15
Tea / Coffee break

11.30
SESSION II: Judicial decision-making: the extension of judges' basic interpretive web
• Chair: Professor Dick A. Lubach, University of Groningen

The Europeanization of administrative law
Professor Jan Jans, University of Groningen

The circle of Interpretation: the interaction between national courts, the ECJ and the legislators
Dr. Peter Mendelts, University of Groningen

The increased influence of soft law, information and communication on administrative law
Professor Herman Bröring, University of Groningen

Questions and comments

13.00
Lunch break

14.00
SESSION III: Law making through implementation and public trust
• Chair: Mr. Dr. Albertjan Tollenaar, University of Groningen

Differentiated forms of supervision and control and the principle of equality
Professor Pauline Westerman, University of Groningen

Access to Justice and the Dutch GALA: closing the gap between the intention and the application of legal rules?
Dr. Kars de Graaf, University of Groningen, and Professor Bert Marseille, University of Groningen and Tilburg

Law and custom. The crowding out of lawful behaviour by legal rules
Professor Ko de Ridder, University of Groningen

Questions and comments

15.30
Tea / Coffee break

15.45
SESSION IV: The increased role of administrative bodies and the civil society in the legislative lawmaking process: where does that lead to?
• Chair: Professor Gerhard Hoogers, University of Groningen

Ex-ante evaluation in relation to law making
Professor Heinrich Winter, University of Groningen

The European Citizens' Initiative (ECI)
Dr. Nicolle Zeegers, University of Groningen

Participatory rights and decentralisation of the legislative function: democratisation or lure? Case study of the reengineering of the regulatory welfare state in NL
Professor Gijsbert Vonk, University of Groningen

Questions and comments

17.00
CLOSING REMARKS

17.15
Drinks