'THE REFORM OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE'
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
University of Granada, 9-10 October 2014
Organized by the Research Project "International Law and the New Governance after the Economic Crisis" and the Department of Public International Law
CALL FOR PAPERS
I. Conference Content
The Conference Theme will be “The Reform of International Economic Governance”. The two main sessions will cover, respectively, reform of the trading regime and reform of the monetary and financial architecture.
The multilateral trading system is regarded as a major legal achievement and many agree that the WTO has performed as expected with respect to the 2008 crisis. By contrast, the recent financial crisis has demonstrated the difficulties for the international financial architecture to ensure financial stability. We will review the strength of the multilateral trading system and the challenges that it now faces regarding its two main goals (the stability and the liberalisation of trade relations). Similarly, we will analyse the current structure of the international financial system as well as the elements that would need to be changed in order to achieve the aim of financial stability. This conference seeks to encourage research and papers addressing these issues. Questions such as the appropriate level of national regulatory autonomy, the need for more international harmonization, or the opportunity for the strengthening of existing international organizations will arise within the Conference.
There will be two main discussions devoted, respectively, to the reform of the trading regime and reform of the monetary and financial architecture. Both discussions will be preceded by key lectures where leading academics from these fields will present their views on the issue. The confirmed key note speakers are:
1) The reform of the financial architecture, October 9, 2014: Professor Rosa M. Lastra (Queen Mary University of London), Professor Charles Goodhart (London School of Economics), and Professor Kern Alexander (University of Zurich & Member of the European Parliament's Expert Committee on Financial Services).
2) The reform of the trading regime, October 10, 2014: Professor Dan Sarooshi (Oxford University), Professor Andrew Lang (London School of Economics), and Professor Friedl Weiss (University of Vienna).
After the key lectures, those papers selected from the call for papers will be briefly presented by the authors. A debate will follow these presentations, moderated by the organizers.
II. Submission Procedure and Instructions
Paper proposals must be submitted by 1 June 2014 via email to granadaconference2014@gmail.com in accordance with the following instructions.
Please write ‘Granada Conference 2014 CfP’ in the subject of the email, followed by ‘paper’ proposal, and then the subfield of IEL which should be one of the following: ‘trade’ or ‘finance’.
Paper proposals should include a cover e-mail with full institutional affiliation and contact details of the proposer, and a word attachment with an abstract of no longer than 600 words. The abstract must not include any details identifying the proposer but should contain the title of the paper, along with a line indicating ‘trade’ or ‘finance’.
The conference committee anticipates announcing the results of this call for papers and panel proposals by the end of June 2014.
Conference papers will be made available to conference participants prior to the conference. Accepted papers must be submitted by 1 September 2014, in order to ensure the dissemination of papers among conference attendees.
III. Conference Fees, Costs and Financial Support
All conference participants must cover their own travel, accommodation and attendance costs.
Conference fees and associated attendance costs will be kept as low as possible.
Enquiries
Please submit enquiries to the Conference organizers: granadaconference2014@gmail.com
IV. About the Conference organizers
The Research Project “International Law and the New Governance after the Economic Crisis” (DER 2011-24111) is funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. This Project is developed within the Public International Law Department at the University of Granada.
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Conference Co-Chairs:
Antonio Segura-Serrano
Professor of International Law and European Law
Luis M. Hinojosa-Martínez
Chair of International Law and European Law
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Call for Papers: The Reform of International Economic Governance
A call for papers has been issued for a conference on "The Reform of International Economic Governance," to be held October 9-10, 2014, at the University of Grenada. Here's the call:
