2017 Graduate Student Conference
14:00–14:30 |
MARIA CECILIA DEL BARRIO
“Prudential Oversight and Supervisory Cultures in the Euro Area: The Banking Union and the Integration of National and Supranational Spheres”
Supervisor: Prof. Luisa Antoniolli
The euro-area sovereign-debt crisis revealed the feebleness of the Economic and Monetary Union’s architecture and the need for a strongly regulated, highly capitalized, and tightly supervised banking system. It is in this milieu that the Banking Union, potentially one of the most transformative institutional responses to the crisis, began to take shape. In 2014 the European Central Bank (ECB) and the national competent authorities (NCAs) launched the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM), which entailed a transfer of sovereignty from Member States to an EU institution as important as the creation of the euro itself.
Although the ECB remains ultimately responsible for the effective functioning of the SSM, since one of its objectives is to promote the harmonization and convergence of supervisory approaches, this supranational authority depends on the knowledge and experience of its national counterparts. This institutional arrangement is at the interface between regulatory monocultures and experimentalist governance. Drawing on a distinction between, on the one hand, regulatory and supervisory schemes, consisting of institutional arrangements, and on the other regulatory and supervisory cultures, the aim of the research is to investigate the operational interaction between national and supranational authorities within the SSM framework. To analyse the real-world architecture of banking supervision, the research will incorporate input from legal, political, economic, and cultural perspectives. The analytical rationale of the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework will provide a structure for studying these complex social interactions, complemented by in-depth interviews with key stakeholders and an analysis of relevant background documents such as speeches, positions papers, and official texts. |
14:30–15:00 |
IOTAM ANDREA LERER
“The Provision of Lethal Assistance in International Law: A Taxonomy of Senders and Receivers in the Conventional Arms Trade” Supervisor: Prof. Marco Pertile
Despite the adoption of stricter regulations, military expenditure and the arms trade is on the rise. Since the end of the Cold War, states have adopted global and regional treaties on conventional weapons, but these have not halted the movement of arms and weapons destined for states and non-state actors (NSAs). Data show that even the recently adopted Arms Trade Treaty has not altered the flow of weapons. |
15:00–15:30 |
GIULIA SCIORATI
“National security strategies in contemporary China: learning and convergence in securitization processes” Supervisor: Prof. Paolo Rosa
Conventional wisdom holds that the state is the main architect of national security. This proposal aims to challenge this assumption by investigating the trajectory of China’s national |
15:30 - 16:00 | BREAK |
16:00-16:30 |
BROVINA BLETA
“The role of exogenous state-building and associated factors on multi-ethnic societies: a comparative study of Kosovo and Macedonia”
Supervisor: Prof. Jens Woelk
After the attacks of 11 September 2001, in general there has been a shift in priority from human rights to counter terrorism. However, in the past decade several cases of violence in majority-minority relations have refocused the Responsibility to Protect debate and brought attention on minority issues, too. The violence has destabilized the nexus between kin-states, host states, and the minorities living in the latter. Therefore, majority-minority relations have an important role notably in terms of human rights, but also for geostrategic purposes and spheres of influence. |
16:30-17:00 |
VINCENZO TUDISCO
“Reconciling Law and Context: A Comparative Study of Constitutional Bans on War in Japan, Italy, and Germany”
Supervisor: Prof. Jens Woelk Constitutional bans on war pose challenges to constitutional systems in a changing security environment. Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution was generally considered to be a model of absolute constitutional pacifism. Interpretative evolution over time, however, has changed the original and textual meanings of this clause to such an extent that a re-examination of this Japanese “uniqueness” is required. (1) The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law, ed. Michel Rosenfeld and András Sajó, Oxford Handbooks (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), 55–74, 62.
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17:00-17:30 | ISABELLA OLDANI “Reconciling Data Localization demands and calls for the free flow of data: an International Law perspective” Supervisor: Prof. Antonino Alì In a context where data are incessantly relocated from one place to another and often replicated in multiple places simultaneously, countries are making increasing efforts to exert their control over the flow of information entering and leaving their territorial borders. States’ practices that directly or indirectly aim to localize data within national geographic borders are generally known as data localization measures. These measures are mainly driven by privacy and security concerns. However, privacy is often used as a smokescreen for furthering other less exalted purposes such as protectionism and political control over the States’ own citizens. Unsurprisingly, the adoption of these measures has paved the way to stiff opposition from those countries and companies that seek to fully exploit the benefits stemming from the cross-border transfer of services and goods, and in turn, from the free flow of data. |
EVALUATION COMMITTEE
Prof. Jens Woelk
Prof. Paolo Carta
Prof. Louisa Parks
Full proposals are available in Moodle.