Workshop on States, Development, and Global Governance
March 12-13, 2010
Lubar Commons (7200 Law), UW Law School
Day 1 – Friday, March 12, 2010 (Global Issues)
8:30-8:45 Registration/breakfast
8:45-9:00 Introduction
John Ohnesorge, UW-Madison
9:00-10:30 Panel 1 – BRICs as a Response to Changing Global Context
Chair: John Ohnesorge, UW-Madison
“BRICs and Global Governance”
Cynthia Roberts, Hunter College, CUNY
Discussant 1: Tricia Olsen, UW-Madison
Discussant 2: Jon Pevehouse, UW-Madison
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:15 Panel 2 – Governance of International Financial Institutions and BRICs
Chair: Gay Seidman, UW-Madison
“Reforming Global Financial Governance: Opportunities and Challenges for the BRICs”
Mark Copelovitch, UW-Madison
Discussant 1: David Trubek, UW-Madison
Discussant 2: Aseema Sinha, UW-Madison
12:15-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Panel 3 - Finance Policy
Chair: Aseema Sinha, UW-Madison
“Why Do Some Financial Markets Develop and Others Do Not?: Politics of India’s Capital Market Reform”
John Echeverri-Gent, University of Virginia
Discussant 1: Nicholas Howson, University of Michigan
Discussant 2: John Ohnesorge, UW-Madison
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-4:45 Panel 4 - Trade/WTO and Domestic State Capacity
Chair: David Trubek, UW-Madison
“Beyond the Countertrade Taboo: Why the WTO Should Take Another
Look at Barter and Countertrade”
Robert Howse, New York University School of Law
Discussant 1: Joe Conti, UW-Madison
Discussant 2: Jason Yackee, UW-Madison
6:30 Dinner for speakers and discussants (invitees only)
Harvest Restaurant, 21 North Pinckney Street
Madison, WI 53703
Day II – Saturday, March 13, 2010 (Domestic Issues)
8:30-9:00 Breakfast
9:00-10:30 Panel 5 - Industrial Policy: R&D
Chair: David Trubek, UW-Madison
“Beyond Developmentalism and Market Fundamentalism in Brazil:
Inclusionary State Activism without Statism”
Glauco Arbix, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Discussant 1: Shubha Ghosh, UW-Madison
Discussant 2: Brad Barham, UW-Madison
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:15 Panel 6 - Industrial Policy: Job Creation versus Protecting Workers’
Rights
Chair: John Ohnesorge, UW-Madison
“A Developmental Island in a Predatory State: The Ministry of Labor in
the Dominican Republic"
Andrew Schrank, University of New Mexico
Discussant 1: Gay Seidman, UW-Madison
Discussant 2: Mary Gallagher, University of Michigan
12:15-1:15 Lunch
1:15-2:45 Panel 7 - Social Policy
Chair: Aseema Sinha, UW-Madison
"Addressing Inequality: What Can We Learn from Brazil's Pro-poor
Strategies?"
Gay Seidman, UW-Madison
Discussant 1: Christina Ewig, UW-Madison
Discussant 2: Sida Liu, UW-Madison
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-4:00 Closing Roundtable
John Ohnesorge, David Trubek, Aseema Sinha & Gay Seidman
Biographies of Speakers and Discussants
Glauco Arbix is Professor of Sociology at the University of São Paulo. From 2003 to 2006 he was the President of the Institute for Applied Economic Research, the most important government think tank in Brazil, and general coordinator of the Strategic Unit, an advisory board to the President of the Republic. He is a member of the Brazilian National Council of Science and Technology and heads the Observatory for Innovation in the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of São Paulo. He served as the general coordinator of the Strategic Unit (NAE – 2003-2006), an advisory board to the President of the Republic, as well as a member of the United Nations Development Program’s International Advisory Group (2006-2009).
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Brad Barham is Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research centers on themes related to Wisconsin agriculture, technology adoption and innovation, and environment and development issues, especially in Latin America. He is also the Co-Director of the Program on Agricultural Technology Studies. Professor Barham has active research projects on agricultural biotechnology adoption, university ag-biotech patents and spillovers, structural change in Wisconsin dairy farming, the equity and efficiency impacts of land market reforms in Central America, and resource use patterns of peasants in biodiverse regions of the Peruvian Amazon.
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Joe Conti is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He specializes in international trade disputes and world society. He is currently a collaborator at the NSF Center for Nanotechnology and Society. Professor Conti received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California – Santa Barbara, where his research focused on dispute resolution in the World Trade Organization. Before joining the faculty at UW, Professor Conti was a collaborator at the National Science Foundation Center for Nanotechnology and Society.
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Mark Copelovitch is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He studies and teaches international political economy, with a focus on global financial governance, exchange rates and monetary institutions, the effects of global capital flows on national economic policies, and theories of international cooperation. Prior to his appointment at UW-Madison, Professor Copelovitch was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University.
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John Echeverri-Gent is an Associate Professor in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia. His research investigates the politics of capital market development and the impact of economic inequality on economic development. Previously he has completed projects comparing economic reform in India, China and Russia and rural poverty alleviation programs in the United States and India. Professor Echeverri-Gent currently serves as the treasurer of the American Institute of Indian Studies. Previously he served as chair of the American Political Science Association’s Task Force on Difference, Inequality in Developing Societies and as Director of the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Virginia.
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Christina Ewig has a joint appointment in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies and Political Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She teaches courses on Latin American politics, gender and politics, global feminisms, and comparative gender and welfare policy. Her research centers on gender, race and social policy in Latin America. She has a book under contract with Pennsylvania State University Press in which she analyzes the politics of neoliberal health sector reforms and their impacts on women’s lives in Peru. She also has a second project underway which compares the politics of health reforms and their effects on gender equity in Peru, Mexico, Colombia and Chile. In addition to contributions to edited volumes, she has published articles in the Latin American Research Review, Social Politics, and Feminist Studies. Her research has been supported by a Fulbright New Century Scholars award and a Rockefeller residential fellowship.
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Mary Gallagher is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan in Chinese Studies and Political Science, Professor Gallagher studies Chinese politics, law and society, and comparative politics. She is currently working on two projects. The first, funded by a Fulbright Research Award and the National Science Foundation, examines the development of rule of law in China by looking at the dynamics of legal mobilization of Chinese workers. The second project examines labor standards and practices in four Chinese regions, discerning the diffusion effects in legislation, court behavior, and labor practices across different regions and looking for evidence of a “race to the bottom” in labor standards and social welfare within China’s own domestic economy.
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Shubha Ghosh is professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School and Associate Faculty Director of Initiatives on Studies in Technology and Entrepreneurship (INSITE). Professor Ghosh has taught in the fields of intellectual property, business organizations, tort law, antitrust, property, and law & economics since 1996. He is the author of over fifty articles and book chapters, as well as the co-author of two intellectual property casebooks. Professor Ghosh is currently at work on a variety of projects, addressing such issues as global patent law, the role of non-price competition in defining the scope of intellectual property rights, copyright law in India pre- and post-Independence and its influence on the film industry, and patent activity in personalized medicine.
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Robert Howse is the Lloyd C. Nelson Professor of International Law at NYU School of Law. Since 2000, Professor Howse has been a member of the faculty of the Master’s in International Law and Economics Programme at the World Trade Institute, Berne. He is a frequent consultant or adviser to government agencies and international organizations such as the OECD, the World Bank, UNCTAD, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Law Commission of Canada and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. He is a contributor to the American Law Institute project on WTO Law. He has acted as a consultant to the investor's counsel in several NAFTA investor-state arbitrations. He is a core team member of the Renewable Energy and International Law (REIL) project and serves on the editorial advisory boards of the European Journal of International Law and Legal Issues in Economic Integration. He is sub-series editor for the Oxford University Press Commentaries on the WTO treaties. Prior to pursuing legal studies, Professor Howse held a variety of posts with the Canadian foreign ministry, including as a member of the Policy Planning Secretariat and a diplomat at the Canadian Embassy in Belgrade.
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Nicholas Howson is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan Law School, and a former partner of the New York-based international law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP where he practiced out of that firm’s New York, Paris, London and Beijing Offices. He writes and lectures widely on Chinese law topics, focusing on the PRC’s developing corporate and securities law and financial regulatory systems. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, a former Chair of the Asian Affairs Committee of the New York Bar Association, and a designated arbitrator at the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC). He has also consulted on Chinese law for the Ford Foundation, the UNDP, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and various PRC ministries and administrative agencies, served as an expert in China-related corporate and commercial litigation in the United States and internationally, and taught Chinese law at the Columbia, Cornell and Harvard Law Schools.
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Sida Liu is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests focus on the historical change, social structure, and political mobilization of the legal profession. He has conducted extensive research on the Chinese legal profession as an empirical case for understanding how social structures such as professions, market, and the state are produced by two general social processes, boundary-work and exchange. Meanwhile, he has also started a collaborative project with Terence C. Halliday on the everyday work and political mobilization of Chinese lawyers in the criminal justice system. Methodologically, he is primarily interested in the shape of social structures and how they transform over time, and he uses a combination of interviews, participant observation and archival research to investigate the various processes of social change in the legal system and beyond.
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Tricia Olsen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Political Science department at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Her dissertation explores the political economy of microfinance policy outcomes across emerging and developing economies. During the 2008-09 academic year she conducted fieldwork in Brazil and Mexico for her dissertation. Ms. Olsen is also a Senior Researcher for the Transitional Justice Data Base Project. Before beginning graduate school, she worked as a policy analyst and development director. Tricia graduated from Carleton College with a B.A. in Latin American Studies and a minor in Political Science, where she refined her Spanish and Portuguese language skills. She earned her M.A. in Political Science from UW-Madison in 2006.
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John Ohnesorge is an Associate Professor of Law, the Director of the East Asian Legal Studies Center and co-chair of the UW-Madison China Initiative. He received his B.A. degree from St. Olaf College (1985), his J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School (1989), and his S.J.D. from Harvard Law School (2002). Along the way he has spent several years in East Asia, first as a teacher and law student in Shanghai in the 1980s, and then as a lawyer in private practice in Seoul in the 1990s. During the course of his S.J.D. studies, Professor Ohnesorge spent the 1997-98 academic year as a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg, Germany, on a fellowship from Harvard's Center for European Studies. In 2000 he served as a lecturer at Harvard Law School, co-teaching the Pacific Legal Community seminar with Professor William P. Alford. From 2000 to 2001 he clerked for Federal District Court Judge Rya W. Zobel (D. Mass), and came to Madison in the fall of 2001. Professor Ohnesorge teaches Business Organizations, Administrative Law, Chinese Law, and Law and Modernization.
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Jon Pevehouse is Professor of Political Science and Leon Epstein Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He specializes in American foreign policy, international security issues, and international trade policy. Professor Pevehouse focuses on the link between international institutions and their political and economic outcomes, whether at the domestic or international level. Topics on which he has recently published include the separation of powers in American foreign policy, regional trade agreements, international influences on democratization, and economic interdependence.
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Cynthia Roberts teaches international relations at Hunter College, CUNY and is also an Adjunct Senior Associate and AdjunctAssociate Professor at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. Previously, Professor Roberts was Director of the Russian Area Studies Graduate Program at Hunter and has held research fellowships at the Brookings Institution and Stanford University. Professor Roberts’ teaching and research interests include theories of international relations, European and international security, post-communist transitions, and Russian politics and foreign policy. Most recently she edited a forum in Polity (2010) on BRICs as challengers or stakeholders in the liberal world order for which she contributed the introduction and an article analyzing Russia’s BRICs diplomacy.
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Andrew Schrank is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico. He served as program co-chair for the 2008 SASE meetings in Costa Rica. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 2000. He studies the organization, performance, and regulation of industry, especially in Latin America. He has received grants and fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, National Science Foundation, and MacArthur Foundation. He served as a consulting editor/board member at the American Journal of Sociology, Politics and Society, and Latin American Politics and Society. He has also consulted for the Inter-American Development Bank, Japanese External Trade Organization, and a number of UN agencies. Professor Schrank has published articles in disciplinary and interdisciplinary journals like the American Journal of Sociology, the Journal of Politics, Social Forces, Theory and Society, and World Development.