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American Society of International Law International Economic Law Interest Group 2014 Biennial Meeting in partnership with the University of Denver Sturm College of Law Leonard v.B. Sutton Colloquium REASSESSING INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW AND DEVELOPMENT: NEW CHALLENGES FOR LAW AND POLICY SPEAKER BIOS Olabisi Akinkugbe is a Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa. His doctoral research, supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, examines how changing conceptions about law and its role as a tool for economic development projects have influenced the design and implementation of the Economic Community of West African States treaties. His research interests include international law and development, legal history, post-colonialism, and international economic law with particular focus on Africa. José Manuel Alvarez Zárate is a lawyer with 24 years of experience in regulatory issues and trade law. He serves as a consultant and litigator, specializing in areas including IP, telecommunications, gas, customs and investment. He founded the boutique law firm Alvarez Zárate & Asociados in 1992. He has also served as Professor of International Law and International Economic Law at Colombia´s Externado University since 1993 and as Director of the International Economic Law masters’ program at the University. Prior to teaching, he studied Administrative Law at the postgraduate level before completing a doctorate focused on defining Colombia´s national interest for its trade foreign policy. He has published books and papers on international law, trade public policy and intellectual property. Douglas Arner, is a Professor in the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong and Project Coordinator of a major five-year project funded by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council Theme- based Research Scheme on “Enhancing Hong Kong’s Future as a Leading International Financial Centre”. In addition, he is Co-Director of the Duke University-HKU Asia-America Institute in Transnational Law, and a Senior Visiting Fellow of Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. Douglas specializes in economic and financial law, regulation and development. He is author, co-author or editor of thirteen books, including Finance in Asia: Institutions, Regulation and Policy (Routledge 2013), From Crisis to Crisis: The Global Financial Crisis and Regulatory Failure (Kluwer 2011), Financial Stability, Economic Growth and the Role of Law (Cambridge University Press 2007) and Financial Markets in Hong Kong: Law Rev. 11/10/2014 Page 1 of 29 and Practice (Oxford University Press 2006), and the author or co-author of more than 100 articles, chapters and reports on related subjects. David Atkins is the Global Community Engagement Advisor for Royal Dutch Shell. In this capacity, he works on improving the ways Shell ventures engage with communities and manages the group-wide effort to implement, improve and report results from community grievance resolution mechanisms. David trained as an environmental and water resources engineer and has worked for over 20 years in the extractive industries. Before joining Shell, he served as technical advisor to the Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman, the independent accountability mechanism of the private sector components of the World Bank Group (IFC and MIGA) where he applied his technical and mediation skills. Associate Professor Shalanda H. Baker teaches International Environmental Law, Renewable Energy Law, Sustainable Development, and related courses in energy, business law, and international development at the University of Hawaii Richardson School of Law. Her research explores large energy and infrastructure project development, including renewable energy projects; indigenous rights; and the effect of development on the environment. Professor Baker is the Faculty Advisor to the Environmental Law Program, and the founding director of an energy law project at the law school. Baker is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and she received her JD at Northeastern University School of Law. Professor Baker also completed a William H. Hastie Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she also received her LLM degree after spending several years in private practice at the law firm of Bingham McCutchen. Alan Blakley practices intellectual property law with a focus on protecting rights through negotiations and litigation. He is admitted to practice in numerous courts and has been litigating simple and complex matters, including national class actions, since 1991. Professor Blakley formerly taught at the University of Montana School of Law and at Thomas M. Cooley Law School. He has taught Contracts, Property, Advanced Trial Practice, Civil Procedure and Evidence. Professor Blakley has published numerous books on discovery in civil litigation and the use of electronic information in litigation, as well as articles in both law reviews and popular legal publications on issues ranging from privacy to litigation to the historical federal courtroom in Butte, Montana. As chair of the Federal Litigation Section of the Federal Bar Association and as a member of The Federal Lawyer editorial board, he published a regular column on litigation issues. He currently writes a column for the Northern Colorado Business Report entitled “Keep It Legal.” Phoenix Cai is an associate professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. She received her BA in Italian and International Relations from Washington University in St. Louis and her JD from University of California Berkeley School of Law, where she was a member of the California Law Review and Order of the Coif. Prior to joining the Denver Law faculty, Professor Cai was a corporate associate with the law firms of Morrison & Foerster, LLP (San Francisco) and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Rev. 11/10/2014 Page 2 of 29 Meagher and Flom LLP (Chicago), specializing in both domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, banking, finance and securities law. Professor Cai is the founding director of the Roche LLM in International Business Transactions, an intensive and experiential graduate program geared at training both US and foreign lawyers in private transactional law. Professor Cai teaches Property, International Law, International Trade, International Sales, and Drafting and Negotiation in an International Business Context. Professor Cai writes primarily in the field of trade law. She is a native of Xiamen, China and is fluent in a number of languages. Antonio Cardesa-Salzmann (PhD, Universitat de Barcelona, 2010) is Juan de la Cierva Post- doctoral Research Fellow at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain. Having conducted research mainly in the field of implementation of and compliance with global multilateral environmental agreements, he is now engaged in several research projects on global justice, environmental protection and international law. His present research focuses on the cultural and ideological foundations of legal processes that sustain global unequal patterns of exchange so as to devise alternative perspectives for re-conceptualizing international law. Chi Carmody is Associate Professor and Canadian Director of the Canada-United States Law Institute at the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law in London, Ontario, Canada. Professor Carmody currently teaches courses in International Trade Law, International Business Transactions, and Contracts. He has been a Visiting Professor at Université Montpellier I (2000), Georgetown University Law Center (2001) and Université de Reims (Champagne-Ardennes) (2011), as well as an Emile Noel Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center, NYU Law School (2005-06). Anupam Chander is the Director of the California International Law Center and Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall Research Scholar. His research focuses on the regulation of globalization and digitization. His new book, The Electronic Silk Road: How the Web Binds the World Together in Commerce, was released in June 2013 by Yale University Press. He has been a visiting professor at Yale Law School, the University of Chicago Law School, Stanford Law School, and Cornell Law School. He has published widely in the nation’s leading law journals, including the Yale Law Journal, the NYU Law Journal, the University of Chicago Law Review, Texas Law Review, and the California Law Review. A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, he clerked for Chief Judge Jon O. Newman of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge William A. Norris of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He practiced law in New York and Hong Kong with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. He serves as a judge and commentator at the Harvard-Stanford Junior International Law Faculty Forum. His writing has received honors from the American Association of Law Schools and been selected for presentation by the Stanford-Yale Junior Faculty Forum. Ambika Chawla is a graduate of the MRLS Program at Sturm College of Law, the University of Denver (2012). Ms. Chawla is currently a visitor at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) where she is developing a strategic partnership between NCAR and United Nations Habitat (UN-Habitat) in Vietnam. She recently returned from Vietnam where she was working as the “Cities and Climate Rev. 11/10/2014 Page 3 of 29 Change Advisor” for the United Nations. In this role, she developed the United Nations’ official policy paper on urban areas and climate change for Vietam. She is also the co-author of the Green Growth