Hauser Colloquium Spring 2005: Globalization and Its Discontents

"The Social Dimensions of Global Markets"

SEMINAR DESCRIPTION

The Globalization and its Discontents Colloquium has been convening for several years, taking up different themes each year and led by different conveners. The Colloquium format at NYU Law is designed to further research and scholarship whilst serving at the same time as a stimulating learning vehicle for our students.

Format

The Colloquium meets once a week with a Guest Speaker. The students receive the paper ahead of time and, seminar style, will write short comments on it. A couple may be designated as principal interlocutors during the discussion which takes place. The Colloquium is attended also by interested colleagues and visiting scholars to the law school. From the perspective of the invited guest speaker it characteristically provides a very stimulating, friendly, workshop and produces a wealth of reaction that assist in developing work-in-progress.

The Theme

In this year's Colloquium we are hoping to explore socio-political dimensions of the legal regimes which undergird global and regional transnational markets. We are interested in this both in developing and developed societies.   Exploring the "discontents" of globalization is not exactly virgin territory. We are, however, interested in individuating, or at least focusing more strictly on, the relationship between the legal and the socio/political. We are also advisedly using the term socio-political "dimensions" rather than, say, socio-political "pathologies" or "dislocations," because of our belief that the relationship and impact of the legal regimes is normatively differentiated and at times even contradictory.

 

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

Student evaluation will be based upon the following factors:

a) regular attendance (25%)

b) four 2-3 page comments on the papers, to be submitted 48 hours in advance of the presentation (15%)

c) one 15-20 page paper that represents an extended comment on one of the papers (60%)

Class Assignments and Materials :

Assigned introductory readings from The Globalization Reader, 2nd Ed.; Presenters' papers to be distributed in advance of session.

 

SEMINAR SCHEDULE

January 12th: Introductory Session
The Globalization Reader, Part IV ("Economic Globalization") (Lechner and Boli, eds.)

January 19th: Susan Rose-Ackerman, Yale Law School
"Foreign Direct Investment and the Business Environment in Developing Countries: The Impact of Bilateral Investment Treaties" (co-authored with Jennifer Tobin)

January 26th: TBC

February 2nd: Anthony Anghie, University of Utah School of Law
"International Institutions and the Colonial Origins of Law and Development"
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February 9th: Rob Howse, University of Michigan Law School
"Trade Policy and Labour Standards"   (co-authored with Michael J. Trebilcock)
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February 16th: Michael Trebilcock, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
"The Law and Economics of Immigration Policy" plus "Critiquing the Critics of Economic Globalization"
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February 23rd: Don Regan, University of Michigan Law School
"What Are Trade Agreements For? And What Difference Does It Make?"

March 2nd: Adelle Blackett, Faculty of Law, McGill University
"Social Regionalism in West Africa? The Paradox of OHADA' Transnational, Hard Law, Labour Harmonization Initiative"

March 9th: Kerry Rittich, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
"The Future of Law and Development: Second Generation Reforms and the Incorporation of the 'Social'"

March 16th: NYU Spring Break

March 23rd: Bryant Garth, American Bar Foundation
"Legal Globalization as the Reproduction and Legitimation of Local and International Hierarchies" (based on work with Yves Dezalay)

March 30th: Jackie Peel, Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne
"Risk Regulation under the WTO SPS Agreement:   Science as an International Normative Yardstick?"

April 6th: TBC     

April 13th: Ruth Okediji, University of Minnesota Law School
"What International Relations Might Teach Us About the Globalization of Intellectual Property Rights"

April 20th: Closing Session