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spacer Global Trade Ethics and the Politics of WTO Reform, Feburary 19, 2009

Draft Schedule

Organized by Sophie Meunier, Princeton University and Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Oxford University

The conference will take place at Princeton University at the Palmer House, 1 Bayard Lane, Princeton, New Jersey

Background Paper: Democracy without Sovereignty: The Global Vocation of Political Ethics

Conference Agenda

 
8:00-9:00am  Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:15am  Introduction
 
9:15-9:45am  Is the WTO Still Relevant?
    Sophie Meunier (Princeton University)
 
9:45-10:15am  Democracy without Sovereignty: The Global Vocation of Political Ethics
    Robert L. Howse (New York University)
 
10:15-10:45am  Refreshment Break
 
10:45-11:15am  Global Trade Ethics, WTO Reform, and Domestic Politics
    Kalypso Nicolaïdis (Oxford University)
 
11:15-11:45am  How to Reform the WTO Without Reforming the WTO
    Lothar Ehring (EU Commission)
    Discussant: Marina Henke (Princeton University)
 
11:45-12:00pm  Discussion of Propositions for WTO Reform
 
12:00-1:30pm  Lunch
 
1:30-2:00pm  Who Will Reform the WTO? Power, Purpose, and Legitimacy in Institutional Reform
    Soo Yeon Kim (University of Maryland)
    Discussant: Mareike Kleine (Princeton University)
 
2:00-2:30pm  Nested Institutions and the Dynamic Time Path Issue: What Do We Know About the Impact of Multilateralism Trading System on Regionalism?
    Max Büge (Science Po Paris)
    Discussant: Harold James (Princeton University)
 
2:30-3:00pm  If Weak Is Good, Will Strong Be Better? Reforming the WTO Enforcement Mechanism
    Tobias Hofmann (College of William and Mary)
    Discussant: Benjamin Shepherd (Princeton University)
 
3:00-3:30pm  Refreshment Break
 
3:30-4:00pm  Protection for Whom? The Uses and Abuses of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Standards in the WTO
    Daniel Kono (University of California-Davis)
    Discussant: Christina Davis (Princeton University)
 
4:00-4:30pm  The Trade-Migration Linkage: GATS Mode IV
    Alexander Betts (Oxford University) and Kalypso Nicolaïdis (Oxford University)
    Discussant: T. Camber Warren (Princeton University)
 
4:30-5:00pm  Closing Remarks


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