Workshop on States, Development, and Global Governance
March 12-13, 2010
Lubar Commons (7200 Law), UW Law School
Day 1 – Friday, March 12, 2010 (Global Issues)
8:30-8:45
Registration/breakfast
8:45-9:00
Introduction
John Ohnesorge, UW-Madison
9:00-10:30
Panel 1 – BRICs as a Response to Changing Global Context
Chair: John Ohnesorge, UW-Madison
“BRICs and Global Governance”
Cynthia Roberts, Hunter College, CUNY
Discussant 1: Tricia Olsen, UW-Madison
Discussant 2: Jon Pevehouse, UW-Madison
10:30-10:45
Break
10:45-12:15
Panel 2 – Governance of International Financial Institutions and
BRICs
Chair: Gay Seidman, UW-Madison
“Reforming Global Financial Governance: Opportunities and Challenges
for the BRICs”
Mark Copelovitch, UW-Madison
Discussant 1: David Trubek, UW-Madison
Discussant 2: Aseema Sinha, UW-Madison
12:15-1:30
Lunch
1:30-3:00
Panel 3 - Finance Policy
Chair: Aseema Sinha, UW-Madison
“Why Do Some Financial Markets Develop and Others Do Not?:
Politics of India’s Capital Market Reform”
John Echeverri-Gent, University of Virginia
Discussant 1: Nicholas Howson, University of Michigan
Discussant 2: John Ohnesorge, UW-Madison
3:00-3:15
Break
3:15-4:45
Panel 4 - Trade/WTO and Domestic State Capacity
Chair: David Trubek, UW-Madison
“Beyond the Countertrade Taboo: Why the WTO Should Take Another
Look at Barter and Countertrade”
Robert Howse, New York University School of Law
Discussant 1: Joe Conti, UW-Madison
Discussant 2: Jason Yackee, UW-Madison
6:30
Dinner for speakers and discussants (invitees only)
Harvest Restaurant, 21 North Pinckney Street
Madison, WI 53703
Day II – Saturday, March 13, 2010 (Domestic Issues)
8:30-9:00
Breakfast
9:00-10:30
Panel 5 - Industrial Policy: R&D
Chair: David Trubek, UW-Madison
“Beyond Developmentalism and Market Fundamentalism in Brazil:
Inclusionary State Activism without Statism”
Glauco Arbix, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Discussant 1: Shubha Ghosh, UW-Madison
Discussant 2: Brad Barham, UW-Madison
10:30-10:45
Break
10:45-12:15
Panel 6 - Industrial Policy: Job Creation versus Protecting Workers’
Rights
Chair: John Ohnesorge, UW-Madison
“A Developmental Island in a Predatory State: The Ministry of Labor in
the Dominican Republic"
Andrew Schrank, University of New Mexico
Discussant 1: Gay Seidman, UW-Madison
Discussant 2: Mary Gallagher, University of Michigan
12:15-1:15
Lunch
1:15-2:45
Panel 7 - Social Policy
Chair: Aseema Sinha, UW-Madison
"Addressing Inequality: What Can We Learn from Brazil's Pro-poor
Strategies?"
Gay Seidman, UW-Madison
Discussant 1: Christina Ewig, UW-Madison
Discussant 2: Sida Liu, UW-Madison
2:45-3:00
Break
3:00-4:00
Closing Roundtable
John Ohnesorge, David Trubek, Aseema Sinha & Gay Seidman
Biographies of Speakers and Discussants
Glauco Arbix is Professor of Sociology at the University of São Paulo. From 2003 to 2006
he was the President of the Institute for Applied Economic Research, the most important
government think tank in Brazil, and general coordinator of the Strategic Unit, an advisory
board to the President of the Republic. He is a member of the Brazilian National Council of
Science and Technology and heads the Observatory for Innovation in the Institute of
Advanced Studies at the University of São Paulo. He served as the general coordinator of the
Strategic Unit (NAE – 2003-2006), an advisory board to the President of the Republic, as
well as a member of the United Nations Development Program’s International Advisory
Group (2006-2009).
Email: garbix@usp.br
Brad Barham is Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. His research centers on themes related to Wisconsin agriculture,
technology adoption and innovation, and environment and development issues, especially in
Latin America. He is also the Co-Director of the Program on Agricultural Technology
Studies. Professor Barham has active research projects on agricultural biotechnology
adoption, university ag-biotech patents and spillovers, structural change in Wisconsin dairy
farming, the equity and efficiency impacts of land market reforms in Central America, and
resource use patterns of peasants in biodiverse regions of the Peruvian Amazon.
Email: barham@mailplus.wisc.edu
Joe Conti is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Law at the University of WisconsinMadison. He specializes in international trade disputes and world society. He is currently a
collaborator at the NSF Center for Nanotechnology and Society. Professor Conti received
his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California – Santa Barbara, where his research
focused on dispute resolution in the World Trade Organization. Before joining the faculty at
UW, Professor Conti was a collaborator at the National Science Foundation Center for
Nanotechnology and Society.
Email: jconti@ssc.wisc.edu
Mark Copelovitch is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Affairs at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison. He studies and teaches international political economy,
with a focus on global financial governance, exchange rates and monetary institutions, the
effects of global capital flows on national economic policies, and theories of international
cooperation. Prior to his appointment at UW-Madison, Professor Copelovitch was a
postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University.
Email: copelovitch@wisc.edu
John Echeverri-Gent is an Associate Professor in the Woodrow Wilson Department of
Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia. His research investigates the
politics of capital market development and the impact of economic inequality on economic
development. Previously he has completed projects comparing economic reform in India,
China and Russia and rural poverty alleviation programs in the United States and India.
Professor Echeverri-Gent currently serves as the treasurer of the American Institute of
Indian Studies. Previously he served as chair of the American Political Science Association’s
Task Force on Difference, Inequality in Developing Societies and as Director of the Center
for South Asian Studies at the University of Virginia.
Email: johneg@virginia.edu
Christina Ewig has a joint appointment in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies
and Political Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She teaches courses on Latin
American politics, gender and politics, global feminisms, and comparative gender and
welfare policy. Her research centers on gender, race and social policy in Latin America. She
has a book under contract with Pennsylvania State University Press in which she analyzes the
politics of neoliberal health sector reforms and their impacts on women’s lives in Peru. She
also has a second project underway which compares the politics of health reforms and their
effects on gender equity in Peru, Mexico, Colombia and Chile. In addition to contributions
to edited volumes, she has published articles in the Latin American Research Review, Social
Politics, and Feminist Studies. Her research has been supported by a Fulbright New Century
Scholars award and a Rockefeller residential fellowship.
Email: cewig@wisc.edu
Mary Gallagher is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan in Chinese Studies
and Political Science, Professor Gallagher studies Chinese politics, law and society, and
comparative politics. She is currently working on two projects. The first, funded by a
Fulbright Research Award and the National Science Foundation, examines the development
of rule of law in China by looking at the dynamics of legal mobilization of Chinese workers.
The second project examines labor standards and practices in four Chinese regions,
discerning the diffusion effects in legislation, court behavior, and labor practices across
different regions and looking for evidence of a “race to the bottom” in labor standards and
social welfare within China’s own domestic economy.
Email: metg@umich.edu
Shubha Ghosh is professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School and Associate
Faculty Director of Initiatives on Studies in Technology and Entrepreneurship (INSITE).
Professor Ghosh has taught in the fields of intellectual property, business organizations, tort
law, antitrust, property, and law & economics since 1996. He is the author of over fifty
articles and book chapters, as well as the co-author of two intellectual property casebooks.
Professor Ghosh is currently at work on a variety of projects, addressing such issues as
global patent law, the role of non-price competition in defining the scope of intellectual
property rights, copyright law in India pre- and post-Independence and its influence on the
film industry, and patent activity in personalized medicine.
Email: ghosh7@wisc.edu
Robert Howse is the Lloyd C. Nelson Professor of International Law at NYU School of
Law. Since 2000, Professor Howse has been a member of the faculty of the Master’s in
International Law and Economics Programme at the World Trade Institute, Berne. He is a
frequent consultant or adviser to government agencies and international organizations such
as the OECD, the World Bank, UNCTAD, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Law
Commission of Canada and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
He is a contributor to the American Law Institute project on WTO Law. He has acted as a
consultant to the investor's counsel in several NAFTA investor-state arbitrations. He is a
core team member of the Renewable Energy and International Law (REIL) project and
serves on the editorial advisory boards of the European Journal of International Law and
Legal Issues in Economic Integration. He is sub-series editor for the Oxford University
Press Commentaries on the WTO treaties. Prior to pursuing legal studies, Professor Howse
held a variety of posts with the Canadian foreign ministry, including as a member of the
Policy Planning Secretariat and a diplomat at the Canadian Embassy in Belgrade.
Email: robert.howse@nyu.edu
Nicholas Howson is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan Law School, and
a former partner of the New York-based international law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind,
Wharton & Garrison LLP where he practiced out of that firm’s New York, Paris, London
and Beijing Offices. He writes and lectures widely on Chinese law topics, focusing on the
PRC’s developing corporate and securities law and financial regulatory systems. He is a
member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, a former Chair of the Asian
Affairs Committee of the New York Bar Association, and a designated arbitrator at the
China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC). He has also
consulted on Chinese law for the Ford Foundation, the UNDP, the Chinese Academy of
Social Sciences (CASS) and various PRC ministries and administrative agencies, served as an
expert in China-related corporate and commercial litigation in the United States and
internationally, and taught Chinese law at the Columbia, Cornell and Harvard Law Schools.
Email: nhowson@umich.edu
Sida Liu is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Law at the University of WisconsinMadison. His research interests focus on the historical change, social structure, and political
mobilization of the legal profession. He has conducted extensive research on the Chinese
legal profession as an empirical case for understanding how social structures such as
professions, market, and the state are produced by two general social processes, boundarywork and exchange. Meanwhile, he has also started a collaborative project with Terence C.
Halliday on the everyday work and political mobilization of Chinese lawyers in the criminal
justice system. Methodologically, he is primarily interested in the shape of social structures
and how they transform over time, and he uses a combination of interviews, participant
observation and archival research to investigate the various processes of social change in the
legal system and beyond.
Email: sidaliu@ssc.wisc.edu
Tricia Olsen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Political Science department at the University of
Wisconsin - Madison. Her dissertation explores the political economy of microfinance policy
outcomes across emerging and developing economies. During the 2008-09 academic year
she conducted fieldwork in Brazil and Mexico for her dissertation. Ms. Olsen is also a Senior
Researcher for the Transitional Justice Data Base Project. Before beginning graduate school,
she worked as a policy analyst and development director. Tricia graduated from Carleton
College with a B.A. in Latin American Studies and a minor in Political Science, where she
refined her Spanish and Portuguese language skills. She earned her M.A. in Political Science
from UW-Madison in 2006.
Email: tdolsen@wisc.edu
John Ohnesorge is an Associate Professor of Law, the Director of the East Asian Legal
Studies Center and co-chair of the UW-Madison China Initiative. He received his B.A.
degree from St. Olaf College (1985), his J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School
(1989), and his S.J.D. from Harvard Law School (2002). Along the way he has spent several
years in East Asia, first as a teacher and law student in Shanghai in the 1980s, and then as a
lawyer in private practice in Seoul in the 1990s. During the course of his S.J.D. studies,
Professor Ohnesorge spent the 1997-98 academic year as a visiting scholar at the Max
Planck Institute in Heidelberg, Germany, on a fellowship from Harvard's Center for
European Studies. In 2000 he served as a lecturer at Harvard Law School, co-teaching the
Pacific Legal Community seminar with Professor William P. Alford. From 2000 to 2001 he
clerked for Federal District Court Judge Rya W. Zobel (D. Mass), and came to Madison in
the fall of 2001. Professor Ohnesorge teaches Business Organizations, Administrative Law,
Chinese Law, and Law and Modernization.
Email: jkohnesorge@wisc.edu
Jon Pevehouse is Professor of Political Science and Leon Epstein Fellow at the University
of Wisconsin-Madison. He specializes in American foreign policy, international security
issues, and international trade policy. Professor Pevehouse focuses on the link between
international institutions and their political and economic outcomes, whether at the domestic
or international level. Topics on which he has recently published include the separation of
powers in American foreign policy, regional trade agreements, international influences on
democratization, and economic interdependence.
Email: pevehous@polisci.wisc.edu
Cynthia Roberts teaches international relations at Hunter College, CUNY and is also an
Adjunct Senior Associate and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Saltzman Institute of War
and Peace Studies at Columbia University. Previously, Professor Roberts was Director of
the Russian Area Studies Graduate Program at Hunter and has held research fellowships at
the Brookings Institution and Stanford University. Professor Roberts’ teaching and research
interests include theories of international relations, European and international security,
post-communist transitions, and Russian politics and foreign policy. Most recently she edited
a forum in Polity (2010) on BRICs as challengers or stakeholders in the liberal world order
for which she contributed the introduction and an article analyzing Russia’s BRICs
diplomacy.
Email: croberts@hunter.cuny.edu
Andrew Schrank is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico.
He served as program co-chair for the 2008 SASE meetings in Costa Rica. He received his
PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 2000. He studies the organization, performance,
and regulation of industry, especially in Latin America. He has received grants and
fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, National Science Foundation, and
MacArthur Foundation. He served as a consulting editor/board member at the American
Journal of Sociology, Politics and Society, and Latin American Politics and Society. He has also
consulted for the Inter-American Development Bank, Japanese External Trade
Organization, and a number of UN agencies. Professor Schrank has published articles in
disciplinary and interdisciplinary journals like the American Journal of Sociology, the Journal of
Politics, Social Forces, Theory and Society, and World Development.
Email: schrank@unm.edu
Gay Seidman is Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and
currently serves as the Director of African Studies, the Director of Development Studies and
as a WAGE Senior Fellow. Her areas of interest include the sociology of economic change
and development, labor, gender, social movements, political sociology and demography. She
has written numerous articles, book chapters, papers and textbooks on these issues. Her
most recent book Beyond the Boycott: Labor Rights, Human Rights and Transnational Activism
(Russell Sage, 2007) examines transnational campaigns monitoring working conditions.
During 2008-9, she is a visiting fellow at the Princeton Institute for International and
Regional Studies' program on development and democracy. She received her PhD in
Sociology from the University of California at Berkeley, M.A. in Sociology and M.A. in
Demography from University of California, Berkeley and B.A. (summa cum laude) in Social
Studies from the Harvard University.
Email: seidman@ssc.wisc.edu
Aseema Sinha is an Associate Professor of Political Science at University of WisconsinMadison and teaches Comparative Politics. Her research interests relate to political
economy of India, India-China comparisons, emerging powers (Brazil, Russia, India and
China) in the international systems, and international organizations and developing
countries. She teaches courses on South Asia, social movements, globalization and
developing countries, and comparative political economy. She is affiliated with the Center
for South Asia, the Center for World Affairs in the Global Economy and Global Studies.
She is the co-collaborator in a WAGE project on "Remaking the Developmental State,"
2008-2011. Her first book, The Regional Roots of Developmental Politics in India: A Divided
Leviathan (Indiana University Press 2005) received the Joseph Elder award for the Best Book
in the Indian Social Sciences. She is in the process of completing a second book, When David
Meets Goliath: How Global Trade Rules Shape Domestic Politics in India. She has been a fellow at
the Kellogg Institute at the University of Notre Dame in 2001, and a fellow at the Woodrow
Wilson International Center For Scholars in Washington DC in 2004-2005.
Email: asinha@polisci.wisc.edu
David Trubek is Voss-Bascom Professor Emeritus of Law and Senior Fellow of the Center
for World Affairs and the Global Economy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His
main interests are in socio-legal studies and global political economy. He has written on law
and development, the legal profession, civil litigation, EU law and policy, new governance,
critical legal studies, transnational regulation, and social theory. Professor Trubek has helped
develop and manage numerous academic projects and institutions in law and international
studies. He has been active in the Law and Society Association and was a founder of the
Conference on Critical Legal Studies. He was the founding Director of the UW-Law
School’s Institute for Legal Studies and from 1989-2001 served as the UW-Madison’s Dean
of International Studies and Director of the International Institute. Professor Trubek has
also taught at Yale and Harvard Law Schools and the Catholic University Law School of Rio
de Janeiro and been Visiting Scholar in Residence at the European University Institute, the
Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, the London School of Economics, the Harvard Center
for European Studies, and the Joaquim Nabucco Foundation in Recife, Brazil. Currently,
Professor Trubek directs LANDS, the project on Law and the New Developmental State
and is Co-PI of the project on Law and Development in Brazil in Global Context which is a
joint venture of the Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development, the Getulio Vargas
Foundation, and the UW-Madison.
Email: dmtrubek@wisc.edu
Jason Yackee is an Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin Law School and teaches
Contracts, International Investment Law, International Arbitration, and other courses. His
research centers on international investment law, international economic relations, foreign
arbitration, and administrative law and politics. Professor Yackee graduated summa cum
laude and Phi Beta Kappa from University of Pittsburgh, earned M.A. and Ph.D. Degrees in
political science (International Relations) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, and earned a J.D., summa cum laude and Order of the Coif, from Duke University
School of Law where he was an editor for the Duke Law Journal. Prior to joining the faculty
at the Law School Professor Yackee was a Fellow at the University of Southern California
Gould School of Law and a law clerk to Chief Judge James B. Loken, U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Eighth Circuit. He has also clerked with the U.S. Department of Commerce, Office
of the Chief Counsel of International Commerce and was a summer associate with Steptoe
& Johnson LLP.
Email: jyackee@wisc.edu