American Society of International Law (ASIL)
International Economic Law Interest Group
2010 Biennial Meeting Agenda

8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.
Registration (continued) and Continental Breakfast (Outside Room 25)

8:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Panel A (Room 15) - Transnational Law and Domestic Regulation

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• Mariana Mota Prado - University of Toronto
  
  • Transnational Influences on National Regulatory Reform in Large Developing Countries: Brazil's Contrasting Experiences in Electricity and Telecommunications Governance
• Joseph Yockey - University of Iowa
  
  • Passive Corruption and Transnational Firms: A Regulatory Analysis
• Alexia Brunet Marks - University of Colorado
  
  • Check Please: Evaluating the Means of Deterrence in the Food Import Industry
• Jarrod Wong - McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific
  
  • The International Phenomenon of Clawbacks
• Moderator: David A. Gantz- Samuel M. Fegtly Professor of Law and Director of the International Trade Law Program, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law

8:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Panel B (Room 25) - International Economic Law Governance and International Policy Space

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• Claire Kelly and Sungjoon Cho - Brooklyn Law School and Chicago-Kent Law School
  
  • Promises and Perils of New Global Governance
• Nicole Foster - University of West Indies
  
  • The WTO, Developing Countries and the Problem of Development
• Alvaro Santos - Georgetown University
  
  • Carving Out Policy Autonomy for Developing Countries in the WTO
• Moderator: Jeffrey L. Dunoff - Temple University, Beasel School of Law
  

10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Coffee Break

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Panel A (Room 15) - International Monetary Law

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• Joseph Perkovich - Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  
  • The Structural Problem of International Monetary Law
• Aldo Caliari - Rethinking Bretton Woods Project
  
  • Updating the International Monetary System to Respond to Current Global Challenges: Can It Happen Within the Existing Legal Framework?
• Adam Feibelman - Tulane University
  
  • Globalization and the Regulation of Consumer Finance
• Ioana Ciobanasu - VU University Amsterdam
  
  • Expanded Mandate for the IMF: Global Financial Stability and Legal Implications for the Articles of Agreement
• Moderator: Anna Gelpern - Associate Professor of Law, American University, Washington College of Law
  

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Panel B (Room 25) - Roundtable: Robert Hudec’s Developing Countries in the GATT—Where are we now and why?

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• J. Michael Finger - Arlington, VA
  
• Bernard M. Hoekman - World Bank Group - Research Manager and Former Lead Economist, Development Research Group
  
• Chiedu Osakwe - WTO Secretariat, Director of the Accessions Division
  
• Moderator: Gregory Shaffer - Melvin C. Steen Professor of Law, The Law School
  

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Lunch (Spannaus Commons, Ground Floor)

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Keynote Lecture (Room 25) - "Professor Hudec and the Appellate Body"

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• Ricardo Ramirez Hernandez - WTO Appellate Body Member, 2009-2013

2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Panel A (Room 15) - International Financial Law

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• Galit Sarfaty - Wharton School of Business
  
  • Harmonization of Anti-Corruption Efforts among Multilateral Development Banks
• David Zaring - Wharton School of Business
  
  • Can International Finance be Understood Through the Lens of International Trade?
• Odette Lienau - Cornell University
  
  • Emerging Norms of Sovereignty in International Debt
• Sarah Woo - New York University
  
  • Regulatory Reforms: Flawed Ratings and Regulatory Arbitrage
    
• Moderator: Chris Brummer - Professor of Law, Georgetown Law

2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Panel B (Room 25) - International Economic Law and Domestic Intersections

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• Jide Nzelibe - Northwestern University
  
  • Strategic Globalization: The Logic of Partisan Support and Opposition to International Law
• Rachel Brewster - Harvard University
  
  • Supplying Compliance: Domestic Sources Trade Law and Policy in the United States
• Julian Ku - Hofstra University
  
  • The Rights of Corporations under International Law
• Moderator: Padideh Ala'i - Professor of Law, American University, Washington College of Law

3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Coffee Break

4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Panel A (Room 15) - International Trade, Economic Regulation and Interactions

• Tania Voon and Andrew Mitchell - University of Melbourne
  
  • International Trade Law Implications of the National Broadband Network
• Juscelino Colares - University of Syracuse
  
  • The Limits of WTO Adjudication: Is Compliance the Problem?
• Efraim Chalamish - New York University Law School
  
  • International Law and State Capitalism
• Markus Wagner - University of Miami
  
  • Law Talk v. Science Talk: The Languages of Law and Science in WTO Proceedings
• Moderator: Mark Wu - Assistant Professor, Harvard Law School

4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Panel B (Room 25) - Roundtable: Fostering Collaboration in International Economic Law Through Web 2.0

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• Stephen Zamora (University of Houston), Tony Van Duzer (University of Ottawa) and Ricardo Ramirez (WTO/Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico - UNAM)
  
  • Law Students Without Borders: Collaborative International Exercises for Law Students via the Internet
• Susan Franck - Washington & Lee University / Vanderbilt University
  
  • Lessons from Collaboration
• Mary Rumsey - University of Minnesota
  
  • Giving Students Tools to Research International Economic Law
• Thomas McDonnell - Pace University School of Law
  
  • Commentator
    
• Moderator: Chiedu Osakwe - WTO Secretariat, Director of the Accessions Division

5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Cocktail Reception (Auerbach Commons, Ground Floor)