Trade as the Guarantor of Peace,
Liberty and Security?
Conference Schedule
Unless otherwise noted, sessions will be held at the Washington College of Law, 4801 Massachusetts, NW
Thursday, February 24, 2005
5:00 p.m.
Registration
Please sign in and pick up your reception nametag
Outside Room 603
6:00-7:30 pm
Welcome
DEAN CLAUDIO GROSSMAN, Washington College of Law
Room 603
Introduction
PROFESSOR PADIDEH ALA’I, Washington College of Law
PROFESSOR PHILIP NICHOLS, Wharton School, University
Pennsylvania
(Co-Chairs, IELG)
of
Role of Peace in the Bretton Woods Institutions
Panelists:
AMBASSADOR JULIO A. LACARTE - former WTO Appellate Body
Member
DEBRA P. STEGER - University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, former
Director of the WTO Appellate Body Secretariat (1995-2001)
JAMES M. BOUGHTON - Assistant Director, Policy Development &
Review Department, International Monetary Fund
URI DADUSH – Director, International Trade Department
Development Economic Prospects Group, World Bank
Moderator:
PADIDEH ALA’I, American University, Washington College of Law
7:30-9:00 pm
Reception and Book Signing
“Peace through Trade: Building the World Trade Organization” by
DEBRA STEGER
Outside Room 603
Please be courteous of your colleagues and turn off all cell phones and pagers during all sessions. Thank you.
Friday, February 25, 2005
8:30 am
Breakfast and Registration
Please sign in and pick up your nametag and materials.
Outside Room 603
9:00-10:20 am
Trade, War & Peace in the Twenty-First Century
Panelists:
AN CHEN, Xiamen University - “The Three Big Rounds of U.S.
Unilateralism versus WTO Multilateralism in the Last Decade”
JEFFERY ATIK, Loyola Law School - “Afghanistan’s Nascent Trade
Policies”
JAN KLEINHEISTERKAMP, HEC School of Management – “Trade
as an Agent of War?”
ANTONIO F. PEREZ, Columbus School of Law, Catholic University
of America - “Traditional Paradigms of the Causes of War
Applied to the International Trade System”
Room 603
Commentator:
DAVID GANTZ, Samuel M. Fegtly Professor of Law, University of
Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law
10:35-11:55 am
International Trade Regimes & Promotion of Peace
Panelists:
ARI AFILALO and DENNIS PATTERSON, Rutgers-Camden
School of Law - “Commerce in the Age of Terror: Restructuring
the WTO after the Long War”
KIM VAN DER BOGHT, University of Hull, United Kingdom “Legalization & Judicialization of Trade Relations as Guarantor of
Peace”
NABOTH VAN DEN BROEK, Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hall & Dorr
LLP - “International Trade and New Threats to National Security’”
TOMER BROUDE, Hebrew University of Jerusalem – “From Pax
Mercatoria to Pax Europea: How Trade Dispute Settlement
Procedures Serve the EC's Regional Hegemony”
Room 603
Commentator:
TODD WEILER, University of Windsor, Faculty of Law; Director,
NAFTALaw.org
12:00-1:55 pm
Luncheon
Introduction:
PADIDEH ALA’I, Professor of Law, American University, Washington
College of Law
WCL Dining Room
6th floor
Speaker:
TIMOTHY REIF, Chief International Trade Counsel, Minority,
Committee on Ways and Means
Please be courteous of your colleagues and turn off all cell phones and pagers during all sessions. Thank you.
Friday, February 25, 2005 (continued)
2:00-3:20 pm
Trade, Liberty & Security: Theoretical Perspectives
Panelists:
FRANK GARCIA, Boston College of Law - “Trade, Justice and
Security”
JOHN LINARELLI, University of La Verne College of Law - “The
Principle of Fairness for International Economic Treaties”
SAMUEL MURUMBA, Brooklyn Law School- “Trade, Peace and
Human Dignity: An Interplay of Freedom & Cognition”
KEVIN TIERNEY, University of California, Hastings College of Law “The Limitations of John Stuart Mill: Linkages of Trade & Peace”
Room 603
Commentator:
CHERIE TAYLOR, Professor of Law, South Texas College of Law
3:30-4:50 pm
Trade, Peace and the Colonial Legacy
Panelists:
JAMES GATHII, Albany Law School - “Commerce, Conquest &
Colonialism”
PHILIP NICHOLS, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- “Trade as an Instrument of Pax Mongolia”
TEEMU RUSKOLA, American University, Washington College of
Law - “From the Boston Tea Party to the Opium War to the WTO:
The Colonial History of the First Sino- American Trade Treaty”
Room 603
Commentator:
PADIDEH ALA’I, Professor of Law, American University,
Washington College of Law
5:15 pm
Bus Departs for Hilton Embassy Row Hotel
The bus will leave from the shuttle stop behind the Washington
College of Law on 48th St NW promptly at 5:15 p.m. Staff members
will be in front of the school to help direct you to the shuttle stop.
At shuttle stop behind
Washington College of
Law
48th St NW
5:30-6:30 pm
Reception
Consulate Room
Hilton Embassy Row
Hotel
2015 Massachusetts Ave
NW
6:30-7:30 pm
The Future of the WTO: Economic and Non-Economic Policy
Considerations
Introduction:
PHILIP NICHOLS, Co-Chair, IELG, ASIL
Consulate Room
Hilton Embassy Row
Hotel
2015 Massachusetts Ave
NW
Speaker:
PROFESSOR JOHN H. JACKSON, Georgetown University Law
Center
Commentators:
DONALD M. MCRAE - University of Ottawa, Common Law Section
GARY CLYDE HUFBAUER - Reginald Jones Senior Fellow, Institute
of International Economics
Concluding Remarks:
PADIDEH ALA’I, Co-Chair, IELG, ASIL
Please be courteous of your colleagues and turn off all cell phones and pagers during all sessions. Thank you.
Friday, February 25, 2005 (continued)
7:45-9:30 pm
Dinner
If you need transportation back to the Washington College of Law
following dinner, please see a staff member and arrangements will
be made for you.
Consulate Room
Hilton Embassy Row
Hotel
2015 Massachusetts Ave
NW
Saturday, February 26, 2005
9:30-10:50 am
Trade & Peace: Empirical Studies
Panelists:
KAREN HALVERSON CROSS, John Marshall School of Law - “King
Cotton, Developing Countries, and the ‘Peace Clause’: A
Discussion of the U.S.- Subsidies on Upland Cotton Decision”
COLIN PICKER, University of Missouri, Kansas City - “An Empirical
Study of the Relationship between Free Trade Agreements and
the State Use of Force”
EUGENE KONTOROVICH, George Mason University - “Can
Foreign Policy Excuse Violations of National Treatment under the
GATT?”
Room 603
Commentator:
AMELIA PORGES, Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood
11 am-12:20 pm
Free Trade: New Issues & Future Challenges
Panelists:
SUNGJOON CHO, Chicago-Kent College of Law - “New Agenda for
Peace: International Trade Law as a Practical Discourse”
DWIGHT NEWMAN, Rhodes Scholar, St. John’s College, Oxford
University - “Burning Barriers, Building Borders: Free Trade &
Sovereigntist Movements”
CONSTANCE WAGNER, St. Louis University School of Law “Gender Main- streaming in International Trade Law as a
Mechanism for Enhancing Economic Welfare and Political
Stability”
Room 603
Commentator:
COLIN PICKER, University of Missouri, Kansas City
12:20-12:30 pm
Closing Remarks
PADIDEH ALA’I and PHILIP NICHOLS
Room 603
12:30-1:30 pm
IELG Business Meeting
Facilitators: IELG Officers & Planning Committee
Discussion Items: Publication of Conference Proceedings, Future
Meetings and Elections.
Room 603
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