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

8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Registration (continued) and Continental Breakfast (outside Room 25)

9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Panel A (Room 65) - International Economic Law and Development

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• Uche Ewelukwa - University of Arkansas
  
  • South-South Trade and Investment: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - African Perspectives
    
• John Baloro - University of the Free State, South Africa
  
  • The BIT Gold Rush: Emerging Voices of Dissent from the South with Specific Reference to the Experience of South Africa
    
• Pasha Hsieh - Singapore Management University
  
  • The Roadmap for an ASEAN-US FTA: Legal and Geopolitical Considerations
    
• Moderator: Chinwe Esimai - Assistant Professor, University of St. Thomas (Minneapolis) School of Law
  

9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Panel B (Room 55) - International Standard Setting

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• Errol Meidinger - SUNY Buffalo
  
  • Competition and Coordination Among Transnational Non-Governmental Regulatory Programs
    
• Caroline Bradley - University of Miami
  
  • Consultation and Legitimacy in Transnational Standard-Setting
    
• Janelle Diller - International Labour Office
  
  • The Interaction of Private International Standards Regimes with Public Law
    
• William E. Kovacic and Hugh M. Hollman - Federal Trade Commission
  
  • The ICN at 10: What's Next?
    
• Moderator: Brad Karkkainen - Professor, The Law School
  

10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Coffee Break

10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Panel A (Room 65) - International Investment Law: Investment Treaties and Dispute Resolution

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• Jason Yackee - University of Wisconsin
  
  • Do Bilateral Investment Treaties Promote Foreign Direct Investment? Some Hints from Alternative Evidence
    
• Andrea Schneider (Marquette University) and Nancy Welsh (Penn State University)
  
  • Dispute Systems and Procedural Justice
    
• Mariana Hernandez Crespo - University of St. Thomas (Minneapolis) School of Law
  
  • Building Conflict Resolution Capacity and Frameworks for Sustainable Implementation of IIAs in Latin America
    
• R. Doak Bishop (King & Spaulding LLP) and Ben Love (Freshfields LLP)
  
  • The Increasing Influence of Soft Law in International Disputes
    
• Moderator: Michael Tracton - Senior Negotiator for Bilateral Investment Treaties, Office of Investment Affairs, U.S. Department of State
  

10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Panel B (Room 55) - International Economic Law, Climate Change and Responsibility to Protect

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• Anu Bradford and Travis Bradford - University of Chicago
  
  • The Perils of Incrementalism in Solving Climate Change
    
• Sadeq Bigdeli - Waikato University School of Law
  
  • Resurrecting the Dead? The Expired Non-Actionable Subsidies and the Lingering Question of "Green Space"
    
• Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer - Universitat Basel
  
  • Reassessing International Economic Law in Light of the Responsibility to Protect
• Jessica Lawrence, Gareth Davies and Laurens Ankersmit - Amsterdam University
  
  • Extraterritorial Social and Environmental Concerns and Trade: Pathways to Conflict between the WTO and EU
    
• Moderator: Oren Gross - Irving Younger Professor of Law and Director, Institute for International Legal and Security Studies, The Law School
  

12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Lunch (Spannaus Commons, Ground Floor)

1:15 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Keynote Lecture (Room 25) - "The Return of the State"

• Jose E. Alvarez - Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law, NYU School of Law
  

2:15 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Panel A (Room 65) - International Economic Law and Climate Change

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• Deepa Badrinarayana - Chapman University School of Law
  
  • The Unbreakable Heaviness of Economic Interests in Shaping Climate Law: The Case of India's Civilian Nuclear Program
    
• Hari Osofsky - The Law School
  
  • The BP Oil Spill and Transnational Governance: Addressing Fragmentation and Overlap at the Intersection of Economic and Environmental Law
    
• Varun Rai - University of Texas LBJ School of Public Affairs and Center for International Energy and Environment Policy (CIEEP)
  
  • Technology and Policy Approaches for Low-Carbon Growth in Developing Countries
    
• Elizabeth Trujillo - Suffolk University Law School
  
  • Tuna/Dolphin Revisited: Transnational Governance Implications for Trade Regulation in the Context of Climate Change
• Jonathan Zasloff - UCLA School of Law
  
  • Priability Rules: Using the WTO Framework to Enhance US-India Cooperation on Clean Energy Technology
    
• Moderator: Sungjoon Cho - Professor, Chicago-Kent Law School
  

2:15 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Panel B (Room 55) - Trade, Human Rights, Technology and Jurisdiction

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• Valentina Vadi - University of Maastricht
  
  • Unity in Diversity? Cultural Diversity Disputes and the Judicial Function in International Economic Law
    
• Henry Gao - Singapore Management University
  
  • Searching for the Missing Link: Trade, Censorship and Human Rights in the Digital Era
    
• Julia Qin - Wayne State University
  
  • Pushing the Limit of Global Governance: Trading Rights and Political Censorship - A Commentary on the China-Publications Case
    
• Shashank P. Kumar (Yale University) and Meghana Sharafudeen (National Law University Jodhpur)
  
  • Extraterritoriality of Intellectual Property Law in an Era of Globalization: The Doctrine of Manufacturing Fiction and Goods in Transit
• Anupam Chander - University of California, Davis
  
  • Law in the Cloud
    
• Moderator: Ruth Okediji - William L. Prosser Professor of Law, The Law School
  

4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Business Meeting (Room 25)

• Co-Chairs Susan Franck and Gregory Shaffer
  
  • Leadership Elections
  • Brainstorming for the Future