2008 Biennial ASIL IELIG Conference: The Politics of International Economic Law: The Next Four Years

2008 Biennial ASIL Interest Group Conference: The Politics of International Economic Law: The Next Four Years November 13, 2008 ~ November 15, 2008 George Washington University School of Law 2000 H Street, NW Washington DC 20052 USA

Only ten days after the U.S. presidential election, and in the midst of international economic uncertainty and financial crisis, the ASIL International Economic Law Interest Group will convene in Washington, DC, to discuss the politics of international economic law. After an election campaign that spotlighted the intensifying relationship between international and domestic economic issues – as seen in trade, financial interdependence, exchange rates, investment, immigration, energy, and regulation – our focus turns to the international agenda of the next four years, for the new administration, for global economic governance, and for the international community at large. In addition to more than 35 academic presentations, the conference will include commentators & distinguished speakers from practice, government, and academia, including: A keynote lunch speech by Daniel M. Price (Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs and Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs); An endnote discussion between John H. Jackson (professor at Georgetown University Law Center) and William Frenzel (Former Ranking Member, House Committee on Ways and Means; U.S. Congress, 1971-1991; Guest Scholar, Brookings Institution); A roundtable on the international financial crisis with Peter Bakstansky (former Senior Vice-President, New York Federal Reserve Bank; Michael Bradfield (Jones Day LLP; former General Counsel, Federal Reserve Board); and Edwin M Truman (Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics; former Ass’t Sec. of Treasury for Int’l Affairs; former Director, Division of Int’l Finance, Federal Reserve Board); and Moderator: R. Michael Gadbaw, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Georgetown University Law Center; former Vice-President and Senior Counsel, General Electric; and others to be confirmed. To view the draft program, please click here. To register, click here. For more information, please contact Tomer Broude at [email protected].