A dozen years have passed since the end of the Cold War, but the legacy remains in both Western and Eastern Europe. This workshop aims to bring together scholars and experts from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds to discuss the ways in which the detrimental effects on social, political and economic structures of the legacy can be alleviated.

The workshop will develop two aspects of this issue: the external security structure represented by NATO and the emerging EU security policy; and the internal security structure including threats to civil society and problems of political and economic transition. Four papers would be delivered in each of two sessions. Participation would be balanced between US and European contributors.

Session One: The Legacy of the Cold War on Europe's External Security Structure

Paper 1:

NATO, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and Common Foreign- and Security Policy of the European Union: Cooperation or Competition?

Paper 2:

The Transatlantic Imbalance: Why does the US still carry the burden of Europe's defense?

Paper 3:

NATO Expansion and the Russian Reaction

Paper 4:

The EU's CFSP and the Role of the Rapid Reaction Force

Session Two: The Legacy of the Cold War on Europe's Internal Security and Stability

Paper 5:

Nuclear Safety and the Problem of Nuclear and Other Radioactive Material

Paper 6:

Immigration and Asylum Issues in the Light of EU Enlargement

Paper 7:

Economic Stability and the Incorporation of the Transition Economies

Paper 8:

The Political Legacy of the Cold War and the Development of Democratic Institutions in Central and Eastern Europe

Ever since international economic relations have been established law has been developed to shape them in a satisfactory manner. Conversely, changes in the law have sometimes preceded, and thus fostered, international economic intercourse. The spectacular growth of the international economy over the past decades has called for a more intensive role for the law. This has led to panoply of new legal instruments as well as a resuscitation of the traditional forms. Although there is a substantial amount of legal writings documenting the legal instruments created in different sectors of the economy, efforts to systematize such instruments seem to be largely absent. At the same time the question arises whether the traditional concepts of public and private law jurisdiction are still adequate. The objective of the seminar is twofold. First, we hope to achieve an overview of the legal developments in some selected sectors or areas which display particularly interesting features: international securities and banking, internet, tax, antitrust, maritime and air transport and address the question how the law has coped with globalization. A systematic overview of these developments may enable us to provide input for the second objective, a discussion of the general doctrines of public and private law jurisdiction. To what extent have they been able to accommodate the requirements of a global economy? To what extent have they been adapted and developed for this purpose?

Panelists

• John Barton, Stanford University Law School
  "Antitrust and Intellectual Property Rights"
• Boris Kozolchyk, University of Arizona Law School
  "International Contracts"
• Kees van Raad, University of Leiden
  "International Tax Law"
• Andrew Guzman, University of California, Berkeley
  "Securities"
• Piet Jan Slot, University of Leiden/Stanford Law School and European Forum
  "Air and Maritime Transport, Standards, Mutual Acceptance"
• Patrick Wautelet, University of Leuven/Harvard Law School
  "Law on International Private Law/Conflict of Laws"
• Tom Heller, Stanford Law School
  "International Organizations/General Principles"
• Andrew Guzman, University of California, Berkeley
  "General Principles for Choice of Law/Jurisdisction"

This conference will study a variety of aspects of parliamentary government in Europe. It will analyze the various steps in the transformation of voter preferences into public policy. It will focus on such issues as the impact of public opinion on government policy, the expression of voter preferences in referenda, the effects of electoral systems on voter behavior, and the voters' opportunities to influence government formation and stability. These issues will be studied from a rational choice perspective.