Conference - Fuzzy Borders

   
   

 

Co-Organizers

Graduate Institute

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NCCR Trade Regulation 

 

Trade-And?
The World Trade Organization’s Fuzzy Borders

Conference, 5-6 February 2009
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Geneva, Switzerland

 

 

Programme

 

Thursday, 5 February 2009 (Salle AJF, Auditorium Jacques Freymond)

10.15-10.30    Welcome and objectives
     
10.30-12.15  

Session 1

Cédric Dupont (Graduate Institute, Geneva) and
Manfred Elsig (World Trade Institute, Bern)
“Framing paper”

Marion Jansen (International Labour Organization) and
Patrick Low (World Trade Organization)
“Dealing With Internal Measures in the Multilateral Trading System: Why, How and With What Consequences?”

     
13.45-15.30  

Session 2

Gregory Shaffer (University of Minnesota) and
Mark Pollack (Temple University)
“Hard vs. Soft Law: Alternatives, Complements and Antagonists in International Governance”

Daniel Drezner (Tufts University)
“The Tragedy of the Global Institutional Commons”

     
16.00-17.45  

Session 3

Tim Büthe (Duke University)
“Agent Selection in International Delegation:
The Delegation of Regulatory Authority in the SPS-Agreement of the WTO”

Susan Aaronson (George Washington University) and
Rod Adouharb (Louisiana State University)
“A New Trade Partnership: How the WTO Promotes Some Democratic Rights”

 

Friday, 6 February 2009 (Salle AJF, Auditorium Jacques Freymond)

09.00-10.45   

Session 4

Dirk De Bievre (University of Antwerp) and
Lars Thomann (University of Mannheim)
“Forum Shopping in the Global Intellectual Property Rights Regime”

Heiko Baumgärtner (University of Lucerne)
“Between Hegemonic and Network Governance: Mediating Inter-functional Conflicts in the Domain of Intellectual Property Rights”

     
11.00-12.45  

Session 5

Todd Allee (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
“The Triumph of Bilateral and Regional Approaches in the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment”

Chad Damro (University of Edinburgh)
"Dangerous Negotiations: The Politics of Issue Linkage at the Fuzzy Border"

     
14.15-16.00  

Session 6

Mira Burri-Nenova (World Trade Institute)
“Trade and Culture: Keep the Border Fuzzy, Please”

Tomer Broude (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and
Holger Hestermeyer (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg)
“The First Conditions of Progress? Drawing the Tortuous Boundaries and Overlaps between Free Trade and Free Speech in International Law”

     
16.30-17.20  

Session 7

Sieglinde Gstöhl (College of Europe, Bruges)
“Legalize It? Non-Trade Concerns and the WTO”

     
17.30-18.15   Wrap-up