Role of Law Conference

Conference on Laws Locations: Textures of Legality in Developing and Transitional Societies

April 23-25, 2010 UW Law School

Program

Day 1: Friday, April 23, 2010 (2260 Law)

8:45-9:10 Registration and breakfast

9:10-9:15 Welcome MaiVue Xiong & Jennifer Marie Schank, Wisconsin International Law Journal

9:15-9:20 Welcome Kenneth B. Davis, Jr., Dean, UW Law School

9:20-9:30 Introduction Heinz Klug, UW-Madison

9:30-11:00 Panel 1 – Law in Everyday Life Chair/discussant: Marc Galanter, UW-Madison

Panelists: "Law's Location in China's Countryside" Margaret Woo, Northeastern University “Law as a Social Construct: Cross-National Comparison” Marina Kurkchiyan, University of Oxford, U.K.

“Rootless Justice: Law and Everyday Life in Northern Thailand” David Engel, University at Buffalo Law School, New York

“Varieties of Legal Dualism: Making Sense of the Role of Law in Contemporary Russia” Kathryn Hendley, UW-Madison

11:00-11:15 Break

11:15-12:45 Panel 2 – Transnationalism and legal pluralism Chair/discussant: Mark Goodale, George Mason University

Panelists: “The Power of Definition: Brazil’s Contribution to Universal Concepts of Indigeneity” 1 Jan French, University of Richmond

“Law from Below: Women’s Human Rights and Social Movements in New York City” Sally Merry, New York University “Legal Pluralism: How Many Transitions in the Transition?” Boaventura de Sousa Santos, UW-Madison & University of Coimbra “Take Your Rights Then and Sleep Outside, On the Street: Rights, Fora and the Significance of Rural South African Women’s Choices” Sindiso Mnisi, University of Cape Town, South Africa

12:45-2:30 Lunch for speakers and discussants (Served in Lubar Commons, 7200 Law)

2:30-4:30 Panel 3 – Legal Legacies Chair/discussant: Steve Stern, UW-Madison

Panelists: “Trying Democracy in the Shadow of an Authoritarian Legality: Chile’s Transition to Democracy and Pinochet’s Constitution of 1980” Javier Couso, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile “The Culture of Non-compliance with Rules in Latin America” Mauricio Villegas, Universidad Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia

“Lawfare” Jens Meierhenrich, Harvard University “Rights of the Ruled: Legal Activism in Imperial Russia” Jane Burbank, New York University

4:45-7:00 Reception (Law School Atrium)

Day 2: Saturday, April 24, 2010

8:30-9:00 Breakfast (Lubar Commons, 7200 Law)

Concurrent panels All panels marked (a) will be held in Lubar Commons (7200 Law) All panels marked (b) will be held in 2211 Law

9:00-10:30 Panel 4a – Legal Profession Chair/discussant: Herbert Kritzer, University of Minnesota

“Lawyers, State Officials, and Significant Others: Symbiotic Exchange in the Chinese Legal Services Market” Sida Liu, UW-Madison “Legal Process of Outsourcing and the Rise of the Global Indian 2 Lawyer” Swethaa Ballakrishnen, Stanford University “The Disintegration of the Legal Profession in Sudan” Mark Massoud, University of California, Santa Cruz “The African Lawyer as Political Insider/Outsider” Rachel Ellet, Beloit College “Locating the South African Legal Profession” Jonathan Klaaren, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Panel 4b – Role of Courts I Chair/discussant: Yoshiko Herrera, UW-Madison

“Competitive Elections, Captured Courts: Impunity of Rulers and Judicial Dependence in Ukraine” Alexei Trochev, University of Indiana, Bloomington “Achievements and Failures of Judicial Reform in Russia and the Problem of Judicial Independence” Katya Mishina, Institute of Legal Studies Higher School of Economics Moscow, Russia “Political Competition and Judicial Independence in Electoral Democracies: An Empirical Test of the Strategic Pressure Theory” Maria Popova, McGill University, Canada “Lack of Independence of Judges in Russia: Yukos Case Example” Pavel Ivlev, Institute of Modern Russia, New Jersey

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-12:15 Panel 5a – Mobilization of Rights I Chair/discussant: Alexandra Huneeus, UW-Madison

"Losing Mazibuko: (Re) Considering the Campaign Following Judicial Defeat" Jackie Dugard, Socio-Economic Rights Institute, South Africa “Movement without a Mobilization: How Individuals and Communities Shape Environmental Legal Reform in China"

Leah Larson-Rabin, UW-Madison “The Role of Human Rights Law in Protecting Environmental Rights in South Asia” Sumudu Atapattu, UW-Madison "The Logic of Anti-Reservation Litigation in India: Courts and the Politics of Resentment" Alexander Fischer, School of Oriental and African Studies, London

Panel 5b- Role of Courts II Chair/discussant: Kathryn Hendley, UW-Madison

3 “Law and Informality” Diana Kapiszewski, University of California, Irvine “Judicial Power, Gender and Transformation in South Africa” Penelope Andrews, Valparaiso University “Judges in Transition: The Case of El Salvador”

Cecilia Naddeo, Stanford University “The 'Third Tier': Unofficial Forums in Contemporary India” Marc Galanter, UW-Madison 12:15-1:15 Lunch (Served in Lubar Commons) Speaker: “Reflections on the Crisis in Kyrgystan” Ekaterina Mishina, Institute of Legal Studies Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

1:15-2:45 Panel 6a – Mobilization of Rights II Chair/discussant: Catherine Albertyn, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

“Marriages of Choice: Articulation of Agency, State Interventions and Feminist Locations” Flavia Agnes, Majlis, Mumbai, India “The Unequal Distribution of Rights: Who Gets What and Where at the Subnational Level” Catalina Smulovitz, University Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina “Indigenous People and the State: A Clash of Jurisdictions” Walter Alban, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Perú Title tba Mary Gallagher, University of Michigan

Panel 6b – Constitutions Chair/discussant: Asifa Quraishi, UW-Madison

“Sri Lanka: A Crisis of Institutions and Constitutions” Mario Gomez, Independent Human Rights Lawyer, Sri Lanka “Constitutionalizing Gender Difference: Implications for Women’s Rights Advocacy in the Southern Cone” Druscilla Scribner, UW-Oshkosh “Locating Constitutions: Is the Focus on Constitutional Rights Under-determining the Location of Political Power?" Heinz Klug, UW-Madison

2:45-3:00 Break

3:00-4:30 Panel 7a – Law and Culture 4 Chair/discussant: Mara Loveman, UW-Madison

“The Impact of Soviet Era Law Enforcement Practices on the Prosecution of Human Trafficking Cases in Contemporary Russia” Lauren McCarthy, UW-Madison “Criminalizing Culture” Helen Stacy, Stanford University ‘The ‘Stubborn Persistence of Patriarchy’? Gender Equality and Cultural Diversity in South Africa” Catherine Albertyn, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

"Global Capital, International Institutions and the Emergence of Transnational Activism" Pablo Rueda, University of California, Berkeley

5 Panel 7b – Economic Law Chair/discussant: Peter Carstensen, UW-Madison

“Learning to Dispute: Repeat Participation, Expertise, and Reputation at the World Trade Organization” Joe Conti, UW-Madison “China's Industrial Policy and Law” John Ohnesorge, UW-Madison “Transnational Legal Process and State Change: Opportunities and Limits” Greg Shaffer, University of Minnesota “Taxation in a Time of Crisis: Policy Leadership from the OECD to the G20” Allison Christians, UW-Madison

4:30-4:45 Break

4:45-6:15 Panel 8a – Transitional Justice Chair/discussant: Jane Burbank, New York University

“Transitional Justice and the Inter-American System: Taking National Courts to Task” Alexandra Huneeus, UW-Madison “Outlawing Amnesty: The Return of Criminal Justice in Transitional Justice Schemes” Lisa Laplante, Marquette University, Milwaukee "The USSR and the Politics of the Nuremberg Trials" Francine Hirsch, UW-Madison

Panel 8b - Global Legal Studies Pedagogy: What Can We Learn from Each Other? Chair/discussant: Louise Trubek, UW-Madison

Panelists: Aviva Kaiser, UW-Madison Jessica Slavin, Marquette University Meredith Ross, UW-Madison Shaheda Mohamed, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Walter Alban, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Perú María Fernanda Ramírez Navarro, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico

7:00-9:00 Dinner (by invitation only) 6 (Quarles & Brady Reading Room, Law Library) “Personal Reminiscences of David Trubek” Richard Abel, University of California, Los Angeles

7 Day 3: Sunday, April 25, 2010 (Lubar Commons, 7200 Law)

8:30-9:00 Breakfast

9:00-11:00 Panel 9 – Law and the New Developmental State (LANDS) Chair/discussant: David Trubek, UW-Madison

“The Role of Law in Carving out Policy Autonomy for Developing Countries in the WTO” Alvaro Santos, Georgetown University “Social Policy and the New Developmental State: The Case of Colombia” Helena Alviar, University of Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia “Law and Governance of Social Policies in Venezuela: A Case Study of the Bolivarian Misiones” Manuel Gomez, Florida International University “Development Bank and Innovation Finance: The New Role and Legal Tools of BNDES Action in the Brazilian Economy” Mario Schapiro, Getulio Vargas Foundation Law School, Sao Paulo, Brazil “The International Trade Regime and Policy Space Safeguards in Brazil: An Analysis of the Intellectual Property Regulation and the Trade Finance Domestic Regulation” Michelle Sanchez, Getulio Vargas Foundation Law School, Sao Paulo, Brazil

11:00-11:15 Break

11:15-12:30 Wrap-up Session: Laws Locations? Chair: Heinz Klug, UW-Madison

Panelists: Mark Goodale, George Mason University Richard Abel, University of California, Los Angeles Herbert Kritzer, University of Minnesota Kathryn Hendley, UW-Madison Mara Loveman, UW-Madison Alexandra Huneeus, UW-Madison

12:30-1:30 Lunch