SIEL Inaugural Conference

with the

“Centre on Trade and Economic Integration" at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. 

(As of June 8th, 2008) 

Speakers/Moderators/Commentators List

(Subject to Change)

 

Confirmed:

 

Dr. Anne van Aaken, Professor of Law, Max Schmidheiny Foundation, Professor for Law and Economics, Public, International and European Law, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Padideh Ala’i, Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C.

Alessandra Arcuri, Assistant Professor, School of Law - Erasmus University Rotterdam

Dr. Douglas Arner, Director, Asian Institute of International Financial Law, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong

Mathias Audit, Professor of Law, Caen University, France

Dr Emilios Avgouleas, Reader in International Financial Law, The School of Law, The University of Manchester

Dr. Lorand Bartels, University Lecturer in International Law and Fellow of Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge

Dr. Jan Bohanes, Sidley Austin LLP, Geneva, (Formerly Legal Officer at the Appellate Body Secretariat)

Dr. Tomer Broude, Faculty of Law and Department of International Relations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Christopher M. Bruner, Assistant Professor of Law, Texas Tech University School of Law

Isabella D. Bunn, University of Oxford, Regent's Park College Oxford, England & Chair of Ethics, Florida Institute of Technology College of Business

William W. Burke-White, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Giacinto della Cananea, Professor of Administrative Law and EU Law University of Naples "Federico II", Italy

Chi Carmody, Associate Professor & Canadian Director, Canada-United States Law Institute, Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario

Sungjoon Cho, Assistant Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law

Professor Won-Mog Choi, Associate Professor of Law at Ewha Women's University College of Law

Christopher J. Cochlin, Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP, Ottawa, Canada

Juscelino F. Colares, Associate Professor, Syracuse University College of Law

Dr. Thomas Cottier, Director, World Trade Institute, Professor, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland

Kamala Dawar, University of Amsterdam Law School

Dr. Carolyn Deere, Director, Global Trade Governance Project, Global Economic Governance Programme, University College, Oxford

Dr Melaku Desta, Reader in Intl Economic Law, CEPMLP, University of Dundee

Professor Caf Dowlah, Professor of Economics, The City University of New York

Dr. Gerhard Erasmus, Professor, Senior Research Fellow, Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa (TRALAC), Stellenbosch, South Africa

                        Dr. Alejandro A. Escobar, Special Counsel, Baker Botts, London

Dr Alberta Fabbricotti, Researcher in International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Rome "La Sapienza"

Mary Footer, Professor of International Economic Law, Faculty of Social Sciences, Law and Education, University of Nottingham

Susan D. Franck, Associate Professor, Washington & Lee University School of Law

Mathias Francke, Deputy Chief of Mission, Permanent Mission of Chile to the WTO, Geneva

Susy Frankel, Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington; Co-Director, New Zealand Centre of International Economic Law”

Yuka Fukunaga, Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Waseda University (Japan)

Oscar M. Garibaldi, Partner, Covington & Burling LLP, Washington D.C.

Henry Gao, Associate Professor of Law, Singapore Management University (on leave from the University of Hong Kong)

Michelle Healy, Legal Affairs Officer in the Rules Division of the WTO

Moshe Hirsch, Arnold Brecht Chair in European Law, Faculty of Law & Department of International Relations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Ambassador Faizel Ismail, South African Delegation to the WTO

John H. Jackson, University Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center  

                        Ambassador Alejandro Jara, Deputy Director General, WTO

Marek Jeżewski, Institute for International Law, European Law and International Relations, UKSW in Warsaw, Poland

M.Yakub A. Kadir, International Law Lecture, State Institute of Ar-Raniry, Aceh, Indonesia & Legal Development Manager, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Agency for Aceh-Nias, Indonesia

Robert Kasper, Attaché, United States Mission to the World Trade Organization, Geneva

Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler, Partner at Levy Kaufman-Kohler and Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Geneva

Ruth Kelly, LLM Candidate, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge

Michele Klein-Solomon, Director of the Migration Policy, Research and Communications Division, International Organization for Migration, Geneva

Tomohiko Kobayashi, Associate Professor of International Economic Law, Department of Law, Otaru University of Commerce, Japan.    

Qingjiang Kong, Faculty of Law, Zhejiang Gongshang University

Markus Krajewski, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Potsdam, Germany

Devashish Krishan, Baker Botts, LLP, Washington D.C.

Jurgen Kurtz, Senior Lecturer and Director, International Economic Law Research Programme, Institute for International Law and the Humanities, Law School, University of Melbourne  

Dr. Andrew Lang, Law Department, London School of Economics

Jean-Pierre Laviec, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

Y.S. Lee, St. John's University School of Law

Simon Lester, Worldtradelaw.net

Zhaojie Li, Professor of International Law, Tsinghua University  School of Law in Beijing

Cynthia Crawford Lichtenstein, Professor Emeritus Boston College Law School            

Nicolas Lockhart, Sidley Austin LLP (formerly Appellate Body Secretariat, WTO)

Xiaojie Lu, Lecturer of Law, Tsinghua University Law School
Beijing

Daniel Magraw President and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), Washington, D.C.

Hamid Mamdouh, Director, Trade in Services Division, WTO

Gabrielle Marceau, Legal Counselor in the Cabinet of Pascal Lamy, DG of the WTO

Mitsuo Matsushita, Professor Emeritus at Tokyo University, Former Member of the WTO Appellate Body

Petros Mavroidis, Columbia Law School & Université de Neuchâtel

Donald M. McRae, Hyman Soloway Chair in Business and Trade Law, Law Faculty (Common Law Section), Univ. of Ottawa & Member, UN International Law Commission

Ricardo Melendez-Ortiz, Chief Executive, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development

Joshua Meltzer, First Secretary (Trade Policy), Embassy of Australia, Washington, D.C.

Armand de Mestral C.M., Jean Monnet Professor of Law, McGill University

Kate Miles, Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney

Dr. Andrew D Mitchell, Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne; Scholar-in-Residence, International Arbitration Department, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr (London)

Lorenza Mola, Research Fellow, University of Turin

Fabio Morosini, Professor of Law, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Junji Nakagawa, Professor of International Economic Law, Institute of Social Science at the University of Tokyo

Offah Ako Obale, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Juanita Olaya, Revenue Transparency Programme Manager, Transparency International (TI), International Secretariat, Berlin

Richard Frimpong Oppong, Lecturer in Law, Lancaster University Law School (Ph.D Candidate, University of British Columbia)

Stephen J. Orava, Partner - King & Spalding, LLP

Federico Ortino, King's College London

Dr. Marion Panizzon, Marion Panizzon, Senior Research Fellow, World Trade Institute, University of Bern

Martins Paparinskis, D Phil cand, University of Oxford, the Queen's College, AHRC Scholar.

Joost Pauwelyn, Professor of International Law, the Graduate Institute, Geneva

Shin-yi Peng, Professor and Director, Institute of Law for Science and Technology, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Dr. Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, Head of Law Department, European University Institute, Florence - Italy

Colin B. Picker, Daniel L. Brenner/UMKC Scholar & Professor of Law, Univ. of Missouri Kansas City School of Law

Amy Porges, Sidley Austin LLP, Washington, D.C.

Julia Ya Qin, Associate Professor of Law, Wayne State University Law 
School; Visiting Professor, Tsinghua University School of Law

Ms. Seema Sapra, Director, Trade & Policy, Amarchand Mangaldas, Delhi, India

Dr. Michelle Ratton Sanchez, Professor of Law at the Law School of Sao Paulo, Getúlio Vargas Foundation (DireitoGV)

Dr. Maxi Scherer, Counsel,  International Arbitration Department, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr (London); Permanent Lecturer at the University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne

Stephan Schill, Research Scholar, New York University School of Law

Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Director, Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL); Directrice adj, Ressources naturelles Canada; and Fellow, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law

Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer, Senior Research Fellow, World Trade Institute, Berne

Gregory Shaffer, James L. Krusemark Chair of International Law at the University of Minnesota Law School

Ambassador Dr. Magda Shahin, Director, Trade-Related Assistance Center (TRAC), American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt

Wen-chen Shih, Associate Professor of Law, Department of International Businness, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan

Dr Fiona Smith, Faculty of Laws, University College - London

Debra P. Steger, Professor and Director, EDGE Network, Faculty of Law (Common Law) University of Ottawa

Brigitte Stern, Professor of International Law at the University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Surya P. Subedi, Professor of International Law, University of Leeds (Barrister in England and an Advocate in Nepal)

Antony Taubman, Director (a/g), Global IP Issues, World Intellectual Property Organization College of Law and Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture, Australian National University (on leave) (Presenting in a personal and not an official capacity)

Chantal Thomas, Chair and Ibrahim Shihata Visiting Professor of Law (2007-08), Law Faculty, the American University in Cairo & Professor of Law, Cornell University Law School

Lisa Claire Toohey, Lecturer, TC Beirne School of Law and Fellow of the Centre for Public, International, and Comparative Law, the University of Queensland.

Joel P. Trachtman, Professor of International Law, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University

David Trubek, Senior Fellow, Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) Voss-Bascom Professor of Law Emeritus University of Wisconsin Law School

Aniekan Iboro Ukpe, Graduating Post-Graduate Student, CEPMLP, University of Dundee

René Uruena, Research Fellow  - Centre of Excellence in Global Governance Research (Helsinki, Finland); Lecturer, Universidad de Los Andes (Bogota, Colombia)

Dr. Isabelle Van Damme, Turpin-Lipstein Fellow, College Lecturer, Clare College Affiliated Lecturer, University of Cambridge

Gus Van Harten, Assistant Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada

Annamaria Viterbo, Ph.D. in International Economic Law, University of Torino, Faculty of Law

Dr. Heng Wang, Deputy Director, Center of Law for International Investment and Finance; Research Fellow, Institute of EU Law; and Lecturer, Economic and Trade Law School Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Chongqing, China

Jiang Yu Wang, Associate Professor, School of Law, the Chinese University of Hong Kong

Thomas W. Wälde, Professor, CEPMLP, Univ. of Dundee & Essex Court Chambers

Todd Grierson-Weiler, Naftaclaims.com, Ontario Canada

Margaret Young, William Charnley Research Fellow in Public International Law, Pembroke College and the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, the University of Cambridge

Michelle Q. Zang, PhD Candidate, Law Department, Durham University

David Zaring, Assistant Professor, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania

Claus D. Zimmermann, Doctoral Student in Law, University of Oxford

Dr. Galina Zukova, Riga Graduate School of Law