Panel sessions ESELS Conference Warsaw 2023

Tuesday 26 September 2023

09:00 – 10:30 Panel session III.1    Compliance Room 3A
     
Chair: Pieter Desmet
Jerg Gutmann, Universität Hamburg, Germany

Can new constitutions tighten the reins? The effect of constitutional change on constitutional compliance

Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Economic consequences of non-compliance with constitutions – the post-socialist “illiberal democracy” perspective

Moral accounting, real-effort, and unjust enrichment: experimental evidence

Aylin Aydin-Cakir, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Amanda Driscoll, Florida State University, USA; Susanne Schorpp, Independent Researcher

Public (in)tolerance of government non-compliance

Marie-Therese Sekwenz, TU Delft, the Netherlands; Ben Wagner TU Delft, the Netherlands

Myth, Method and Moderation – An Empirical Legal Approach for Very Large Platform Audits for DSA Compliance

Pieter Desmet, Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics/Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Leonie Gerhards, King’s Business School, King’s College London, UK; Franziska Weber, Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics/Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Is compensation fine? Sanction schemes and their effects on deterrence and trust

09:00 – 10:30 Panel session III.2            Criminal Law I Room 3B
Chair: Jesús Aguerri
Piotr Bystranowski, Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics, Jagiellonian University, Poland; Bartosz Janik, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland; Maciej Próchnicki, Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics, Jagiellonian University, Poland

What do we punish for? An experimental inquiry in criminal punishment

Libor Dušek, Charles University, Faculty of Law, Prague, Czech Republic; Christian Traxler, Hertie School, Berlin, Germany

Swiftness and Delay of Punishment

Gabriele Paolini, Hamburg University, Germany & Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands & University of Bologna, Italy; Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Stefan Voigt, Hamburg University, Germany

Plea bargaining procedures worldwide: Drivers of introduction and use

Jesús C. Aguerri, CRIMINA, University of Elche, Spain; Fernando Miró-Llinares, CRIMINA, University of Elche, Spain; Mario Santisteban, University of Elche, Spain

Criminal policy as a background: Twitter discussion dynamics about criminal law

09:00 – 10:30 Panel session III.3            Vulnarable Adults Room 2A
Chair: Anna Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen

 Ildeberto Rodello, Evandro Ribeiro, Edneia Rocha, Luciana Morilas, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Access to Justice of persons with disabilities under the Brazilian Inclusion Law

Roos Nieuwboer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands

The Dutch Legal Practice of Guardianship Measures for Older Adults with Dementia: A Court File Study

Katri Gadd, University of Eastern Finland, Finland; Mervi Issakainen, University of Eastern Finland, Finland; Jenni Savonen, University of Helsinki, Finland; Kaijus Ervasti, University of Eastern Finland, Finland; Anna Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen, University of Eastern Finland, Finland

Spatiotemporal approach to the lives of people with dementia

 

Henna Nikumaa, Anna Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen, Eeva Nykänen, all University of Eastern Finland, Law School, Finland

Lost in the Bermuda Triangle – the Rights of Older People with Disability

Anna Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen; Maija Aalto-Heinilä, both University of Eastern Finland, Finland

Supporting the Autonomy of a Person under Guardianship: From a Philosophical Ideal to a Practical Guardianship work

9:00 – 10:30 Panel session III.4            Human Rights & (Supra)national Courts Room 2B
     
Chair: Pascal Langenbach
Inessa Sakhno, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands

What do we mean by systemic discrimination: empirical legal methods as a tool for forming a concept based on judgements of the European Court of Human Rights

Tilmann Altwicker, University of Zürich, Switzerland; Florian Geering, University of Zürich, Switzerland; Daniel Gerber, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland; Zhivko Taushanov, Center for Legal Data Science at the University of Zurich, Switzerland

Winning Arguments About Rights. An Empirical Analysis of Argument Construction at the European Court of Human Rights

Pascal Langenbach, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Behavioural Law and Economics Group, Bonn, Germany; Cornelius Schneider, University of Mannheim, Germany

Human rights and public opinion in international multi-level court systems. Experimental evidence on the opinion shaping power of the German Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights

09:00 – 10:30 Panel session III.5            Legal Philosophy Room 2E
Chair: Gareth Davies
Piotr Bystranowski, Interdisciplinary Center for Ethics, Jagellonian University, Krakow, Poland,

Measuring meta-interpretation

Johan Lindholm, Umeå University, Department of Law, Sweden; Mattias Derlén Umeå University, Department of Law, Sweden; Daniel Naurin, University of Oslo, ARENA Centre for European Studies, Oslo, Norway

Taking Legal Reasoning Seriously: A General Theory of Legal Methodology and Its Application to the Swedish Supreme Court

Ana B. Gómez-Bellvís, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche, Spain; Vicente Valiente, Universidad de Barcelona, Spain, Fco. Javier Castro-Toledo, Plus Ethics, Elche; Carlos Falces, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche, Spain

The attribution of criminal responsibility in complex contexts: An approach to the actio libera in causa from criminal law and experimental philosophy

Gareth Davies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Ethics in Empirical and Theoretical Legal Research

11:00 – 12:00 Plenary Session 2 Auditorium
Chair: Catrien Bijleveld
   
Plenary address by prof. Adam Bodnar,

Dean of the Faculty of Law of SWPS University, Poland

Rule of law crisis in Poland and its impact on legal safety of business and citizens

Plenary address by prof. Giovanni Battista,

Professor of Economics, Università di Torino

Quantifying Justice: Examining Judicial Systems Through Empirical Lens

13:00 – 14:30 Panel session IV.1           Pre-arranged panel: EBRD Room 3A
Chair: Jaroslaw Beldowski Special session by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development on the digitalisation of commercial courts
13:00 – 14:30 Panel session IV.2           Criminal Law II Room 3B
Chair: Marinella Geronimo da Silva Quinzeiro
Freya Augusteijn, NSCR Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Alice Bosma, NSCR, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Antony Pemberton, NSCR, Amsterdam, the Netherlands & Catholic University Leuven, Belgium; Catrien Bijleveld, NSCR, Amsterdam & Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Victims’ rights in the Netherlands: perception and reality

Gabriel Doménech-Pascual, Universitat de València, Spain; Juan Luis Jiménez, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

The value of time spent in pretrial detention: an empirical study

Andrea Parziale, Institute for Transnational Legal Research (METRO), Maastricht University, the Netherlands

Rationalising full compensation of non-pecuniary damages to reconcile equal treatment and personalisation: Results from the EU project Full Compensation

Marinella Geronimo da Silva Quinzeiro, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil; Clarindo Epaminondas de Sá Neto, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil

Concept of restorative justice and data from restorative juvenile justice programs in Brazil

13:00 – 14:30 Panel session IV.3          International Criminal Justice Room 2A
Chair: Izabele Skoczen
Mirza Buljubasic, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Towards the intergenerational legacies: A Scoping Review of attitudes towards and impacts of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, Erasmus School of Law, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Jaroslaw Kantorowicz, Leiden University, the Netherlands

Delivering Justice for International Crimes: Public Perception of International and National Courts

Anne Brekoo, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

The Potential for Counterterrorism Cooperation When One Man’s Terrorist is Another Man’s Freedom Fighter

Izabela Skoczen, Jagellonian University, Krakow, Poland

The anthropocentric bias of ecocide

13:00 – 14:30

Panel session IV.4

Presidential Round Table: Teaching Methods to Lawyers

Room 2B
     
Chair: Jessie Pool
Catrien Bijleveld, NSCR Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Gareth Davies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Anja Eleveld, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Jessie Pool, Leiden University, the Netherlands; Erik Wesselius, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands; José Becerra, Departamento de Derecho Público, University of Malaga, Spain; Gijs van Dijck, Maastricht University, the Netherlands

How to teach empirical methods to lawyers? Challenges and opportunities

13:00 – 14:30

Panel session IV.5

Pre-arranged panel: Experimental law and Economics:

Regulating Social Dilemmas and Rule Compliance

Room 2C
     
Chair: Alexander Egberts

Alexander Egberts, Christoph Engel, both at Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany and Joshua Fairfield, Washington and Lee School of Law in Lexington, Virginia (US)

Putting off the inevitable: An experiment on deferred public bads and privacy contexts

Pascal Langenbach, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany and Eugenio Verrina, Economics Department of Science Po, Paris

Solving social dilemmas through elected policy makers

Christoph Engel, Thomas Holzhausen, both at Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany and Dorothee Mischkowski, Leiden University, the Netherlands

“The legislator speaks, but nobody listens!” – How does legislative change translate into change in behavior if rules are followed by routine?

14:30 – 15:00 Tea and coffee Mezzanine
 
15:00 – 16:00 Panel session V.1.   Social Security and Labour Law Room 3A
Chair: Kaijus Ervasti
Paulien de Winter, University of Groningen, the Netherlands

Social detectives in action: the human dimension in enforcement of social security legislation in the Netherlands

Anja Eleveld, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Employment status of platform workers

Kaijus Ervasti, University of Helsinki, Finland

Access to Justice and Realization of the Rights of People with Epilepsy

15:00 – 16:00 Panel session V.2           Criminal Law III Room 3B
Chair: Barbara Błońska
Csaba Győry, Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Legal Studies, ELTE Law, Budapest, Hungary; Lili Márk, Central European University, Vienna, Austria; Mihály Tóth, Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Legal Studies, Budapest, Hungary; Balázs Váradi, Budapest Institute for Policy Analysis, ELTE Law, Hungary

The Role of the New Criminal Code in the Punitive Turn in Hungary: a Matching Analysis of Case-level Data

Jadwiga Królikowska, University of Warsaw, Poland

Impunity in empirical socio-legal research “Penal Cultures”

Barbara Błońska; Katarzyna Witkowska-Rozpara, both at Center for Criminological Analysis of the University of Warsaw, Poland

Making news by breaking laws – victims of child sexual abuse in Polish media and public debate

15:00 – 16:00 Panel session V.3     Tax Law Room 2A
Chair: Artur Bogucki
Federica Casano, Leiden University, the Netherlands

The EU tax list

Jarosław Kantorowicz, Leiden University, Institute of Security and Global Affairs and Department of Economics, the Netherlands; Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Poland

Public perception of fiscal rules

Artur Bogucki, Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland; Robert Praas, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, Belgium

Normative dilution of the EU VAT policy

15:00 – 16:00 Panel session V.4.     Consumer Law Room 2B
Chair: Adrianus van Heusden

Mahdi Khesali, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn and Institute of Law & Economics, University of Hamburg, Germany; Monika Leszczynska, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands

Contract as mirror of your image

 

Adrianus van Heusden, Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Jaroslaw Kantorowicz, Leiden University, the Netherlands

Consumer Rights in the Shadow of the Brand: An Experimental Study on Consumer Preferences

15:00 – 16:00 Panel session V.5      Workshop Network Analysis Room 2E
Gijs van Dijck, Maastricht University, the Netherlands

Network analysis of case law

16:10 – 16:30 Closing ceremony Auditorium

Key dates

Abstract Submissions Open: 20 April 2023

Deadline Abstract Submission: 25 May 2023

Abstract Submission Outcome: 1 June 2023

Registration Open: 1 June 2023

Deadline Early Bird Registration: 15 July 2023

Deadline Registration & Payment: 1 August 2023 (please contact us in case you missed the registration deadline and still want to join)

ESELS Conference: 25-26 September 2023

General Assembly European Society for Empirical Legal Studies: 25 September 2023

Conference Dinner: 25 September 2023

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