Research Conference on Post - Crisis International Financial Regulation: Fragmentation, Harmonization and Coordination

From the International Economic Law Interest Group (IEcLIG) of American Society of International Law (ASIL) and Suffolk University School of Law:

 

Post - Crisis International Financial Regulation: Fragmentation, Harmonization and Coordination

December 2, 2011

Suffolk University School of Law

8:30-9:00

Continental Breakfast

9:00-9:15

General Introduction: Elizabeth Trujillo, Suffolk University School of Law, Co-Vice Chair, IEcLIG

Welcome Remarks: Dean Camille A. Nelson, Suffolk University School of Law

9:15- 10:45

Panel 1: International Financial Regulation in a Time of Crisis: The Big Picture

Moderator:     Professor Kathleen Engel, Suffolk Law School           

1. Pierre Verdier, University of Virginia School of Law, “Why Regulate International Finance”
2. David Zaring, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, “Domestic and International Reform”
3. Juscelino F. Colares, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, “Trade Imbalances and Liquidity-Induced Bubbles: Replacing the View of Trade and Finance Flows as a Morality Play with Concrete International Monetary Reform Proposals”

10:45-11:00

Coffee break

11:00-12:30

Panel 2: Institutional Responses to Financial Crisis: Regional and Domestic Perspectives

Moderator: Claire Kelly, Brooklyn Law School, Co-Chair, IEcLIG

1. Christop Henkel, Mississippi College School of Law & Wulf Kaal, University of Saint Thomas University School of Law “Taking Contingent Capital Seriously” 
2. Andromachi Georgosouli, School of Law, University of Leicester, “Post-Crisis Financial Regulation And the Pursuit of Policy Coherence”  
3. Stephen Kingah, UN University, Belgium, “How Regional and Global Development Banks Responded”

12:30-1:30

Lunch: Keynote Speech by Joel Trachtman, The Fletcher School, Tufts University

1:45-3:15

Panel 3: Institutional Responses to Financial Crisis: Global Perspectives

Moderator:  Professor Jason Yackee, University of Wisconsin School of Law (Madison), Co-Vice Chair, IEcLIG 

1. Jennifer Welch, Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, “The Financial Crisis in the European Union” 
2. Monique Egli Costi, Former New Zealand Securities Commission/Financial Markets Authority, Head of International Affairs, “The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO)”
3. Hanna Boeckmann, Fellow, Institute of International Economic Law, Georgetown University School of Law, “The Financial Sector Surveillance after the Crisis”
4. Panagiotis Delimatsis, Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC), Tilburg University, “Financial Innovation and Prudential Regulation: The New Basel III Rules”

 3:15-3:30

 Closing Remarks: Sungjoon Cho, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Co-Chair, IEcLIG

 Please register at http://asil.org/activities_calendar.cfm?action=detail&rec=211.