Society of International Economic Law: Annual Conference
The Eighth Biennial Global Conference of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL) will take place on 12-14 July 2023 in Bogotá (Colombia), in collaboration with Universidad Externado de Colombia and Universidad del Rosario Colombia.The twin forces of geo-political confrontation between today’s economic superpowers and looming geo-economic fragmentation of the world economy are undermining the global economic system. At the same time the global political and economic outlook is clouded by persistent inflation and the risk of economic recession. The 2023 Global SIEL Conference will address the impact of these developments on international economic law (IEL) and its underlying principles, rules and procedures. The 2023 Global SIEL Conference seeks to establish how, if at all, IEL can mitigate the geo-political confrontation and the geo-economic fragmentation affecting the global economic system and can contribute to the latter’s preservation.
Event schedule
Opening Remarks
9:00 – 9:15
Peter Van den Bossche, SIEL President
Introduction to the opening keynote event - TBC
9:15 – 9:20
Opening keynotE lecture - TBC
9:20
Break
10:00
I: Industrial Policy in the 21st Century - Speakers TBC
10:00 – 11:00
Break
11:00 – 11:45
II: The National Security Challenge to Trade and Investment Law - Speakers TBC
11:45 – 13:00
Lunch break
13:00 – 14:30
Parallel Sessions
14:30 – 16:00
Panel 1: Saving International Trade Agreements: The Potential of “Package Treaties”
- Joost Pauwelyn - Geneva Graduate Institute (TBC)
- Charlotte Sieber-Gasser - Geneva Graduate Institute
- Gregory C Shaffer - University of California
- Timothy Meyer - Duke University
- Rohan - Geneva Graduate Institute
Panel 2: The Sustainability Revolution in Trade Agreements
- Geraldo Vidigal - University of Amsterdam
- Kathleen Claussen - Georgetown University Law Center
- Yuka Fukunaga - Waseda University
- Sonia Rolland - Northeastern University School of Law
- Greg Messenger - University of Bristol Law School
- James Nedumpara - Centre for Trade and Investment Law
Panel 3: Opportunities & Challenges of IEL Community
- Pinar Artiran (TBC) - WTO Chair, Turkey
- Rafael Tamayo-Álvarez - WTO Co-Chair, Colombia
- Victor Saco - WTO Chair, Perú
- Rosemery Hernández Pereira - WTO Chair, Costa Rica
- Maria Elena Jara - WTO Chair, Ecuador
- René Urueña - WTO Chair, Colombia
- Ignacio Sánchez - WTO Chair, Chile
Panel 4: Greening International Trade
- Umberto Celli Junior - Universidade de São Paulo
- Shannon Ward - Ministry of Justice, New Zealand
- Michelle Zang - Victoria University of Wellington
- Sophia Paulini - Humboldt University Berlin
- Alexandra Harrington - Lancaster University
- Billy Alexis Melo Araujo - Queen's University Belfast
- Sean Stacy - Swiss Institute of Comparative Law
- Tsai-fang Chen - National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Break - Speed Mentoring / Book Talk / Poster Sessions
16:00 – 16:30
Parallel Sessions
16:30 – 18:00
Panel 9: CBAM / Climate Club
- Tetyana Peyasova
- Alessandro Monti - University of Copenhagen
- Goran Dominioni - Dublin City University
- Rafael Leal-Arcas - Alfaisal University
- Ilaria Espa - Università della Svizzera italiana
- Kateryna Holzer - University of Eastern Finland Law School
Panel 10: Digital Trade
- Werner Zdouc
- Kholofelo Kugler (TBC) - University of Lucerne
- Rafael Tamayo-Álvarez - Universidad del Rosario
- René Urueña - Universidad de los Andes
- Juan Pablo Gómez Moreno - Universidad de los Andes
- Neha Mishra - Geneva Graduate Institute
- Rutendo Tavengerwei - University of Oxford
Panel 11: Food Security v. Food Safety
- Tracey Epps
- Markus Wagner - University of Wollongong
- Vishakha Srivastava - Centre for Trade and Investment Law
- Miguel Rábago Dorbecker - Centro de Investigaciones y Docencia Económicas
- James Nedumpara - Centre for Trade and Investment Law
Panel 12: Anti-Coercion
- TBC
- Kornel Olsthoorn (TBC) - Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Ting-Chen NIEH - NYCU University
- Ljiljana Bukovic - University of British Columbia
Parallel Sessions
9:00 – 10:30
Panel 5: Sanctions 2.0
- Ben Heath - Temple University
- Daniel Franchini - University of Sheffield
- Niall Moran - DCU
- Diana Wade - Bocconi University
- Qingxiu Bu - University of Sussex
- Anna Ventouratou - University of Sheffield
- Regis Simo - Queen's University Belfast
- Armin Steinbach - HEC Paris and Max Planck Institute for Collective Goods
Panel 6: Mainstreaming Gender in Free Trade Agreements: Latin America and the Caribbean Experience
- Carolina Palma - Universidad de Costa Rica
- Amrita Bahri - ITAM
- Chingwen Hsueh - National Chengchi University
- Camila Villard Duran - ESSCA School of Management
- Julia Lambert Gomes Ferraz - University of São Paulo
- Diana María Beltran - Universidad Externado de Colombia
Panel 7: Supply chains / Due diligence
- Elisa Baroncini - University of Bologna
- Manya Gupta - Centre for Trade and Investment Law
- Arnav Sharma - Centre for Trade and Investment Law
- Lorand Bartels - University of Cambridge
- Tibisay Morgandi - Queen Mary University of London
- Vivian Daniele Rocha Gabriel - University of São Paulo
- Henry Gao - Singapore Management University
Panel 8: A Challenge of Multilateralism: Managing Trade, Regulatory influence, and Environmental Justice
- Gustavo Guarin - Universidad Externado de Colombia
- Sara Dangon - Universidad de los Andes
- Ildiko Szegedy Maszak - Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
- Luciano Donadio - Universidad Empresarial Siglo 21
- Esther López Barrero - Madrid Open University
Break
10:00 – 10:45
III: Addressing the Climate Crisis in a Context of Geo-Political
10:45 – 12:00
Lunch Break
12:00 – 13:00
Key note: "The Color of Sovereing debt"
13:00 – 14:15
- Professor James Gathii, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Break
14:15 – 14:30
Parallel Sessions
14:30 – 16:00
Panel 13: What Future for Security Exceptions?
- Michelle Ratton Sanchez Badin
- Alexandr Svetlicinii - University of Macau
- Xueji Su - City University of Hong Kong
- Iryna Bogdanova - World Trade Institute
- Caroline Henckels (TBC) - Monash University
Panel 14: Geopolitics and Trade
- Henrique Choer Moraes
- Meredith Kolsky Lewis - University at Buffalo (SUNY) School of Law
- Christian Delev - In person
- Olabisi Akinkugbe - In person
- Victor Crochet - Van Bael & Bellis & Cambridge University
- Weihuan Zhou - UNSW Sydney
Panel 15: Reforming the Multilateral Trading System: Dispute Settlement and Negotiations
- Michael Ewing-Chow
- Moshe Hirsch - Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Junianto James Losari - City University of Hong Kong
- Ana Peres - University of Warwick
- Chios Carmody - University of Western Ontario
Panel 16: Reimagining Subsidies Control
- Mark Wu
- Pieter Van Vaerenbergh - International trade lawyer
- Marcia Don Harpaz - Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Apoorva Vishnoi - London School of Economics
- Kun Hui - University of Ottawa
- Theófilo Aquino - FGV Sao Paulo School of Law
Break - Speed Mentoring / Book Talk / Poster Sessions
16:00 – 16:30
Announcement of SIEL Prizes
16:30 – 17:30
Introduction to Robert Hudec Lecture
17:30 – 17:45
Robert Hudec Lecture: “Reimagining Trade: Shifts in Paradigms”
17:45 – 18:15
- Professor Padideh A'lai, American University
Parallel Sessions
9:00 – 10:30
Panel 17: International Economic Law in Times of Crisis
- Padideh A'lai
- Sylvia Chen - Egmont Trade Consulting
- Tony VanDuzer - University of Ottawa
- Frank Garcia - Boston College Law School
- Qingxiu Bu - University of Sussex
- Elizabeth Sheargold (TBC) - Monash University
Panel 18: Asia Trade and Investment
- (TBC)
- Bashar Malkawi - University of Arizona
- Michelle Limenta - Universitas Pelita Harapan
Panel 19: Decolonization
- (TBC)
- José Manuel Barreto - Catholic University of Colombia
- Enrique Prieto-Ríos - Universidad del Rosario
- Matheus Gobbato Leichtweis - Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Panel 20: Tech and IEL
- Andreas Sennekamp
- Olia Kanevskaia - Utrecht University
- Natália Figueiredo - Universidade São Judas Tade
- Lucas Tasquetto - Federal University of ABC
Break
10:00 – 10:45
The future of Multilateralism in Times of Geo-Political Confrontation and Geo-Economic Fragmentation - Speakers TBC
10:45 – 12:00
Lunch Break
12:00 – 13:00
Parallel Sessions
13:00 – 14:30
Panel 21: Multi-polar rivalry and the geopolitics/economics of China-Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) trade and finance relation
- Keith Nurse - College of Science Technology and Applied Arts Trinidad and Tobago
- Ivan Filipe Fernandes - Federal University of ABC (UFABC)
- Meryl Thiel - High Commissioner for the Protection of rights and liberties in Monaco
Panel 22: International investment law (IIL) and ISDS From the Below: How civil society has impacted IIL making and ISDS: experiences from the Global South
- Leïla Choukroune - University of Portsmouth
- Nicolás Perrone - Universidad de Valparaíso
- Maciej Zenkiewicz - Nicolaus Copernicus University
- Belén Olmos Giuponni - University of Portsmouth
- Sebastian Espinosa Velasco - Universidad de las Américas (UDLA), Quito-Ecuador
- Lorenzo Cotula - IIED
Panel 23: Investment Facilitation Negotiations at the WTO: Progress and Challenges in the context of Geo-Economic Fragmentation
- Rodrigo Polanco - University of Bern, World Trade Institute (WTI)
- Sofia Boza - Ambassador of Chile to the WTO
- Manjiao Chi - University of International Business and Economics, China
- Katia Fach Gómez - University of Zaragoza
- Malebakeng Forere - University of the Witwatersrand, Associate Professor
Panel 24: International Investment Arbitration and Constitutional Law in Latin America
- Alejandro Linares-Cantillo - Constitutional Court of Colombia
- Humberto Antonio Sierra-Porto - Universidad Externado de Colombia
- José Manuel Álvarez Zarate - Universidad Externado de Colombia
- Ana Maria Ordóñez - National Agency for the Legal Defense of the State
Break - Speed Mentoring / Book Talk / Poster Sessions
14:30 – 15:00
Parallel Sessions
15:00 – 16:30
Panel 25: Mainstreaming International Economic Law by Other Means: Chinese Investments in Upper-Middle Income Economies
- (TBC)
- Michelle Ratton Sanchez-Badin - FGV Sao Paulo Law School
- Fabio Morosini - UFRGS Law
- Alisher Umirdinov - Nagoya University of Economics
- Daria Boklan - National Research University Higher School of Economics
- Manu Misra - University of São Paulo
Panel 26: Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration in Operation
- Todd Weiler
- Federico Ortino - King's College London
- Sotirios-Ioannis Lekkas - University of Groningen
- Wojciech Giemza - European University Institute
- Güneş Ünüvar - Max Planck Institute Luxembourg
- Erman Özgür - Özgür Ünüvar Bakiler
Panel 27: International Investment Law: Systemic Appraisals & Reform
- Greg Tereposky
- Huaxia Lai - Peking University
- Mala Sharma - London South Bank University
- Jonathan Bonnitcha - UNSW
- Taylor St John - PluriCourts, University of Oslo
- Gustavo Guarin Duque - Universidad Externado de Colombia
Panel 28: The Screening of Investment Activities in International Investment Law (TBC)
- Maria Laura Marceddu - European University Institute (TBC)
- Agata Daszko - University of Göttingen
- Kilian Wagner - University of Vienna
- Sarah Bauerle Danzman - Indiana University
- Ksenia Polonskaya - Carleton University
Break
16:30 – 17:00
Closing remarks
17:00 – 17:30
- Isabelle Van Damme & Markus Wagner, SIEL Executive Vice Presidents
2023 SIEL GLOBAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
Conference Chairs
Peter Van den Bossche
Isabelle Van Damme
Markus Wagner
José Manuel Álvarez-Zarate
Enrique Prieto-Rios
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