{"id":100,"date":"2018-05-03T14:30:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T18:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/carola\/news-events\/past-events\/rethinking-trade-and-investment-law-conference\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:15:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:15:01","slug":"rethinking-trade-and-investment-law","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/carola\/news-events\/past-events\/rethinking-trade-and-investment-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking Trade and Investment Law Workshop and Book Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-165 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/carola\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/05\/RETAIL.jpg\" alt=\"Hands at work with CAROLA and IGLP logos\" width=\"598\" height=\"761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/carola\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/05\/RETAIL.jpg 598w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/carola\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/05\/RETAIL-236x300.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On April 13 and 14, 2018, CAROLA and the Harvard Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP) hosted the workshop &#8220;Rethinking Trade and Investment Law.&#8221; The 2-day\u00a0 workshop brought international economic law scholars and leading social scientists together to analyze problems, explore alternative solutions, and chart new research trajectories for the trade and investment regime. It was organized around roundtables on specific issues in the field. Participants agreed to contribute short, bold, and provocative essays relating to one of the issues, critiquing existing approaches and suggesting new paths. The essays will be published by Anthem Press in a volume designed for rapid dissemination.<\/p>\n<h2>Workshop Program<\/h2>\n<h3>Friday, April 13<\/h3>\n<h4>8:30am<br \/>\nBreakfast &#038; Introduction<\/h4>\n<p>David Kennedy | David Trubek | Alvaro Santos | Chantal Thomas<\/p>\n<h4>9:00-10:30am<br \/>\nAuthor Meets Readers: Dani Rodrik\u2019s \u201cstraight Talk on Trade\u201d<\/h4>\n<p>Moderator: David Trubek<br \/>\nDani Rodrik | James Galbraith | Kevin Gallagher | Alvaro Santos | Chantal Thomas<\/p>\n<h4>10:30am<br \/>\nCoffee Break<\/h4>\n<h4>10:45-12:15pm<br \/>\nRoundtable 1 &#8211; Rethinking Investment Agreements<\/h4>\n<p>Moderator: Alvaro Santos<br \/>\nDennis Davis:\u00a0<em>Bilateral Investment Treaties: has South Africa chartered a new course?<\/em><br \/>\nFabio Morosini:\u00a0<em>Making the Right to Regulate in Investment Agreements Work for Development: Reflections from the South African and Brazilian Experiences<\/em><br \/>\nNicol\u00e1s M Perrone:\u00a0<em>The Tragedy of Foreign Investment in Natural Resources: Can We Govern These Projects Differently?<\/em><br \/>\nComments: Rob Howse &amp; Sonia Rolland<\/p>\n<h4>12:15-1:30pm<br \/>\nLunch<\/h4>\n<h4>1:30-3:00pm<br \/>\nRoundtable 2 &#8211; Reasserting Regulatory Power: Slowing Down or Taxing Flows<\/h4>\n<p>Moderator: Chantal Thomas<br \/>\nKevin P. Gallagher:\u00a0<em>Trading Away Financial Stability: Trade and Investment Treaties and the Regulation of Cross-border Financial Flows<\/em><br \/>\nFrank Garcia:\u00a0<em>Trade, Consent and the Country Within the Country<\/em><br \/>\nThomas Streinz:\u00a0<em>Re-Embedding Liberalism: Introducing \u2018Passporting Fees\u2019 for Free Trade<\/em><br \/>\nComments: Kerry Rittich &amp; Jason Jackson<\/p>\n<h4>3:00pm<br \/>\nCoffee Break<\/h4>\n<h4>3:15-4:45pm<br \/>\nRoundtable 3 &#8211; Retooling Trade Distributive Mechanisms<\/h4>\n<p>Moderator: Dan Danielsen<br \/>\nKerry Rittich:\u00a0<em>What Remains of Multilateralism? Four theses on Labour Standards<\/em><br \/>\nAlvaro Santos:\u00a0<em>The New Frontier for the Trade &amp; Labor Linkage<\/em><br \/>\nChantal Thomas:\u00a0<em>Irregular Migration and International Economic Asymmetry<\/em><br \/>\nJamie Galbraith:\u00a0<em>Exchange Rates and Inequality<\/em><br \/>\nComments: Lucie White &amp; Greg Shaffer<\/p>\n<h4>4:45-6:15pm<br \/>\nRoundtable 4 &#8211; Managing Institutional Diversity in Global Trade<\/h4>\n<p>Moderator: Sonia Rolland<br \/>\nPasha Hsieh:\u00a0<em>Rethinking the RCEP in Third Regionalism: Paradigm Shifts in World Trade Law?<\/em><br \/>\nAndrew Lang:\u00a0<em>The Challenge of Institutional Diversity<\/em><br \/>\nGregory Shaffer:\u00a0<em>Bargaining over Policy Space as a Complementary Dimension to Trade Policy<\/em><br \/>\nComments: Daniela Carusso &amp; Fabio Morosini<\/p>\n<h4>7:00pm<br \/>\nDinner<\/h4>\n<h3>Saturday, April 14<\/h3>\n<h4>8:30am<br \/>\nBreakfast<\/h4>\n<h4>9:00-10:30am<br \/>\nRoundtable 5 &#8211; Crisis and Paradigm Shift<\/h4>\n<p>Moderator: Greg Shaffer<br \/>\nPoul F. Kjaer:\u00a0<em>The end of Trade and Investment Law as we know it: From singularity to pluralism<\/em><br \/>\nDan Danielsen:\u00a0<em>Comparative Advantage Reconsidered: Who Benefits from Trade under Value Chain Capitalism<\/em><br \/>\nSonia Rolland and David Trubek:\u00a0<em>Embedded Neo-Liberalism and its Discontents: The Uncertain Future of Trade and Investment Law<\/em><br \/>\nComments: Andrew Lang &amp; Robert Wai<\/p>\n<h4>10:30am<br \/>\nCoffee Break<\/h4>\n<h4>10:45-12:15pm<br \/>\nRoundtable 6 &#8211; New Frontiers in Global Regulation<\/h4>\n<p>Moderator: Andrew Lang<br \/>\nJason Jackson:\u00a0<em>The Global Rise and Regulation of Platform Firms and Markets<\/em><br \/>\nRob Howse and Antonia Eliason:\u00a0<em>Integrating \u201clegal\u201d cannabis into the international trade, investment and finance systems: issues and options<\/em><br \/>\nRobert Wai:\u00a0<em>Transnational Economic Law as Normal Trade Law<\/em><br \/>\nComments: Dennis Davis &amp; Dan Danielsen<\/p>\n<h4>12:15pm<br \/>\nWrap Up &#038; Publishing Discussion<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 13 and 14, 2018, CAROLA and the Harvard Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP) hosted the workshop &#8220;Rethinking Trade and Investment Law.&#8221; The 2-day\u00a0 workshop brought international [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-100","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/carola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/carola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/carola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/carola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/carola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/carola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3053,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/carola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100\/revisions\/3053"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/carola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/carola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}