Regulation Beyond the Law? New Approaches to Social Regulation under Conditions of Complexity, Uncertainty and Risk

7th Annual German-Japanese Colloquium

Jointly organized by: JSPS and Münster University (Institut für Informations-, Telekommunikations- und Medienrecht)
Date: February 16-19 , 2011
Venue: Münster, Leonardo Campus 9
 

PROGRAM

February 16th

18:00

Pre-Meeting Dinner, Stadthotel

 

February 17th

09:00

Welcome and Introduction

 

09:20

From Danger Prevention to Risk Management - Changing Paradigms of Coping with Uncertainty in the Knowledge Society

Dr. Dr. Ino Augsberg (Munich University)

 

09:40

Can the contemporary welfare system be upheld by the logic of ‘justice’?

Kazuo Seiyama (Tokyo University)

 

10:00

Social Regulation after efficiency: Communitarian perspectives

Mark Fenwick (Kyushu University)

 

10:20

Questions

11:00

Coffee Break

11:20

Discussion

12:00

Lunch Break at the mensa

 

13:00

Towards a new Social Contract on Culture

Dr. Volker Grassmuck (Berlin University)

 

13:20

Is Law a Useful Tool for More Creations?

Toshiyuki Kono (Kyushu University)

 

13:40

Questions

14:40

Nanotechnology: Pacemaker for new markets

Prof. Dr. Harald Fuchs (Münster University)

 

15:10

Practices and Possible Future Institutionalization of TA in Japan

Hideaki Shiroyama (Tokyo University)

 

15:30

Scientific Uncertainty and the Value of Statistical Life

Hiroaki Matsuura (Harvard University)

 

15:50

Public Risk Perceptions and the Legitimacy of Emotions

Prof. Dr. Sabine Roeser (TU Delft)

 

16:10

Questions

16:30

Coffee Break

16:50

Discussion

18:00

Official Welcome, Friendssaal

Wine, Town Hall

Dinner, Restaurant Pfefferkorn

 

February 18th

09:00

Digital Publishing: From the Perspective of Copyright and Cultural Policy

Ryu Kojima (Kyushu University)

 

09:20

International IP Enforcement - A Casestudy for Diverse Regulatory Tools and Actors

Dr. Henning Große-Ruse-Kahn (MPI for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law and Munich University)

 

09:40

Who Owns Information? Some Thoughts about IP, IT and Privacy from a European Perspective

Prof. Nikolaus Forgó (Hannover University)

 

10:00

Questions

11:00

 Coffee Break

11:20

Discussion

12:20

 Lunch Break at the Mensa

 

13:40

Regulating Economy and the Incentive of the Rule Makers in Japan

Hatsuru Morita (Tohoku University)

 

14:00

Transborder Implications of Jurisdictional Rules: The "New York Times” Decision of the German Federal Court of Justice

Dr. Till Jaeger (ifOSS/Berlin)

 

14:20

Legal Risk Management as a Methodical Perspective on Uncertainty and Complexity

Tobias Mahler (University of Oslo)

 

14:40

Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoeren (Münster University)

 

15:00

Questions

15:20

Coffee Break

15:40

Discussion

 

February 19th

08:45

Arrival at Burg Hülshoff and Tour

11:00

Arrival at Burg Vischering and Tour

13:30

Arrival at Schloss Nordkirchen and Tour (Start: 13.30)

15:00

Arrival at Brillux, Welcome
Presentations on Nanotechnologie

Tour of the Brillux R&D department

Dinner at Brillux