Stanford University

Implementation of European Law in the New Member States of the EU

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Adoption of European law was a central part of the accession process of new member states of the EU but turned out to be much more difficult than implementation of European Law in the old member states. Problems included not only the amount of European legislation, its dynamic nature and language problems. Literal implementation resulted in diminishing the coherence of national legal rules and structures. In addition, legislation did not take account of national specifics and differences in legal culture. Built-up of working institutions and procedures takes time and efforts and deficiencies add to hampering implementation and application of European law.

Many problems of new member states in the accession process are present in the old member states as well. They may lead to a review of the European legislative process and structural reforms. The pace of legislation should slow down, it should be more reflexive and “re-connect” to the national and local level. Care should also be taken by national legislators in better integrating European law into national law. Structural reform would include strengthening of democratic institutions on a European level including the European court system. This should be accompanied by practical cooperation and mutual exchange.

Prof. Dr. Wiebe studied law at the University of Hannover, Germany, and at the University of Virginia (U.S.A.) where he received the LL.M. degree in 1988. In 2001 he completed his habilitation. Since Sept. 2002 he is a professor on the newly established Chair for Information Law and Intellectual Property Law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (www.infolaw.at). Prof. Dr. Wiebe is a member of various academic associations and Vice President of the German Computer Law Association (DGRI e.V.).

Stanford Law School
Room 182

Andreas Wiebe

Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
Department of Information Technology Law and Intellectual Property Law
Althanstrasse 39-45
1090 Wien

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Distinguished Visiting Austrian Chair Professor, 2007-2008
Visiting Professor, Stanford Law School
Head of the Deparment of Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
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Andreas Wiebe, LL.M., is Head of the Deparment of Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. From January through June 2008, Professor Wiebe served as Distinguished Visiting Austrian Chair Professor at the Forum on Contemporary Europe, during which time he taught courses in e-commerce law and intellectual property law at the Stanford Law School. Professor Wiebe co-organized the June 14 "Transatlantic Information Law Symposium," held at the Stanford Law School and presented by the Transatlantic Technology Law Forum and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.

Andreas Wiebe Chair for Information Law and Intellectual Property Law Speaker Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
Seminars

The New Cold War: Putin, Medvedev, and the Threat to the West

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A resurgent Russia is shaking Europe to its core. At the NATO summit in Bucharest, Russia in effect exercised a veto for the first time on the alliance' decision-making, by blocking expansion to Ukraine and Georgia. Too much attention has gone on the intricacies of internal politics at the top in Russia, and not enough to the big-picture story of how Russia is achieving its foreign policy goals: buying back its former empire with a mixture of bribes and gas, and Finlandising western Europe.

The "New Cold War" is about exactly this: the use of cash, clever diplomacy and energy to succeed where the Soviet Union failed. Russia has built a special relationship with Germany which is now the dominant security axis in the continent of Europe. The countries of eastern Europe now realise that their security is decided in secret deals between Moscow and Berlin--just as 70 years ago.

It is time for the west to wake up and do something about this while it still can.

Edward Lucas is the Central and Eastern Europe correspondent for The Economist. He has been covering the region for more than 20 years, witnessing the final years of the last Cold War, the fall of the Iron Curtain and the collapse of the Soviet empire, Boris Yeltsin's downfall and Vladimir Putin's rise to power. From 1992 to 1994, he was the managing editor of The Baltic Independent, a weekly English-language newspaper published in Tallinn. He holds a BSc from the London School of Economics, and studied Polish at the Jagiellonian University, Cracow. The New Cold War is his first book.

Co-sponsored by the Forum on Contemporary Europe, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies.

CISAC Conference Room

Edward Lucas Central and Eastern Europe correspondent for The Economist Speaker
Seminars

Poland in an Integrated Europe: Perspectives for sustainable development, greater innovation and strategic partnership in the globalized economy

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Economic security, sustainable development, clean energy and energy security, better regulations, greater innovativeness and the growing share of Polish economy in the international market; these are the main priorities of the Polish government and Ministry of Economy. How is Poland going to handle the 21st Century challenges? How will Poland find its niche in the globalized economy? These are the questions that will be discussed by the Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy, Mr. Waldemar Pawlak.

Born in 1959, Mr. Waldemar Pawlak graduated from the Warsaw University of Technology with an engineering degree in automotive and construction machinery. He has served as a member of the Polish Parliament since 1989; as President of the board of the Warsaw Commodities Exchange from 2001 to 2005; as Prime Minister of Poland in 1992 and again in 1993 to 1995; and as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy of Poland since November 2007.

 

This seminar is jointly sponsored by the Forum on Contemporary Europe, the Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, the U.S.-Polish Trade Council, and the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Los Angeles.

Oksenberg Conference Room

Waldemar Pawlak Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy, Poland Speaker
Seminars

German Muslims and Turkish Christians: Cultural Racism, Fears of Religious Conversion, and National Security in the New Europe

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Esra Ozyurek is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Nostalgia for the Modern: Privatization of State Secularism in Turkey. Her areas of expertise are the following: Islam, Secularism, Modernity, Social and Cultural Memory and Turkey. 

This event is jointly sponsored by the Mediterranean Studies Forum and the Forum on Contemporary Europe at Stanford University.

For more information: The Mediterranean Studies Forum

History Building (200), Room 307
Stanford University

Esra Ozyurek Assistant Professor of Anthropology Speaker University of California, San Diego
Seminars

The Laws of Others: Three Constitutionalist Responses to Interdependence

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Jan-Werner Mueller's research interests include the history of modern political thought, liberalism and its critics, nationalism, and the normative dimensions of European integration.

He is the author of A Dangerous Mind: Carl Schmitt in Post-War European Thought (Yale University Press, 2003; German, French, Japanese, and Chinese translations) and Another Country: German Intellectuals, Unification and National Identity (Yale University Press, 2000). In addition, he has edited German Ideologies since 1945: Studies in the Political Thought and Culture of the Bonn Republic (Palgrave, 2003) and Memory and Power in Post-War Europe: Studies in the Presence of the Past (Cambridge UP, 2002). His book Constitutional Patriotism is published by Princeton UP in 2007.

He has been a fellow at the Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, the Remarque Institute, NYU. and the Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute, Florence; he has also taught as a visiting professor at the EHESS, Paris.  He serves on the editorial boards of the European Journal of Political Theory, the Journal of Contemporary History, and Raison Publique: Revue Internationale de Philosophie Pratique et Appliquée.

Co-sponsored with the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in Global Justice and the Forum on Contemporary Europe at Stanford

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Encina Ground Floor Conference Room

Jan-Werner Mueller Speaker Dept of Politics, Princeton University
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Petra Heindl

Stanford Law School
Transatlantic Technology Law Forum
Crown Quadrangle
559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford, CA 94305-8610

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Research Affiliate, Stanford-Vienna Transatlantic Technology Law Forum
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Petra Heindl is a TTLF Fellow of the Stanford-Vienna Transatlantic
Technology Law Forum and an FCE Research Affiliate. Her research work is
connected with the Vienna Technology Law Program of the University of
Vienna School of Law as well, where she earned her JSD. Her research
focuses on transatlantic software copyright issues and software piracy.
She is also a senior associate with Binder Grösswang Attorneys at Law in
Vienna, Austria, working in the field of M&A and corporate law in an
international, primarily European, environment.

Heindl received her JD and JSD from the University of Vienna School of Law
in Austria and studied European Union law at the Lapland University of
Rovaniemi, Finland. After graduating from the Vienna Law School, she
specialized in European Union business law at the Danube University Krems
in Austria, where she completed an LLM in European Union law. In addition,
she earned an LLM in U.S. Law from Santa Clara University School of Law.

Christine Reiter

Transatlantic Technology Law Forum
Crown Quadrangle
559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford, CA 94305-8610

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Research Affiliate, Stanford-Vienna Transatlantic Technology Law Forum
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Christine Reiter is an FCE Research Fellow as well as a Research Affiliate of the Stanford-Vienna Transatlantic Technology Law Forum. Her research work is connected with the Vienna Technology Law Program of the University of Vienna School of Law, where she is a PhD candidate. The focus of her research is on transatlantic patent law issues. Before joining the Intellectual Property Department of Red Bull, Reiter worked as a legal clerk at the District Court in the First District of Vienna. Reiter also worked as an intern with Dorda Brugger Jordis Attorneys at Law in Vienna and with the Austrian Embassy in Berlin, Germany. She is a Member of the Academic Forum of Foreign Affairs.

Reiter received her JD from the University of Vienna School of Law in Austria. In addition, she studied U.S. intellectual property law and U.S. business law at Santa Clara University School of Law.

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