The Baldy Center's 40th Anniversary Conference, November 10, 2018

Tempering Power

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Tempering Power.

Conference Program

Program subject to change.

8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Welcome and Introductions;
Light breakfast snacks available.

9:00 - 10:30 a.m.

Moderator: DAVID McNAMEE, Baldy Postdoctoral Fellow

Presenters:

  • MARTIN KRYGIER, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of New South Wales, “What’s the Point of the Rule of Law?”
  • JESSICA R. GREENBERG, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Illinois, “How International Legal Concepts Gain Power: A Study of the European Court of Human Rights”
  • HEINZ KLUG, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Wisconsin, “Transformative Constitutions and the Role of Integrity Institutions in Tempering Power: The Case of Resistance to State Capture in Post-Apartheid South Africa”

Commentator: GUYORA BINDER, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ School of Law

10:30  - 10:45 a.m.  Coffee Break

10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

 Moderator: MARGARET SHANNON, Baldy Senior Fellow

Presenters:

  • KWAI NG. ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of California, San Diego, “The Paradox of Legal Empowerment in China”
  • SUSAN BIBLER COUTIN, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of California, Irvine, “‘Another World is Possible’: Tempering the Power of Immigration Law through Activism"
  • NIMER SULTANY, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of London, “What Good is Abstraction: From Liberal Legitimacy to Social Justice”

Commentator: ANYA BERNSTEIN, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ School of Law

12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch

1:30 - 3:30 p.m.

Moderator: WERNER REUTTER, Baldy Senior Fellow

Presenters:

  • MARY ANNE BOBINSKI, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of British Columbia, “Law and Power in Health Care: Challenges to Physician Control”
  • CYNTHIA WILLIAMS. York ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, Toronto, “Institutional Investors and Climate Accountability” (possibly remotely)
  • DAVID A. WESTBROOK, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ School of Law, “Those People Were a Kind of Solution: Late Imperial Thoughts on the Humanization of Officialdom”
  • PEER ZUMBANSEN, King's College, London, “Looking for Law in all the Wrong Places: The Problem of ‘Background’ and ‘Context’ in a Divided World”

Commentator: MATEO TAUSSIG-RUBBO, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ School of Law

3:30 - 3:45 p.m. Coffee Break

3:45 - 5:15 p.m.: Supporting Interdisciplinary Research on Tempering Power

  • THOMAS HEADRICK, former Dean, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ School of Law
  • FRANK MUNGER, New York Law School
  • JOHN BRAITHWAITE, Australian National ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
  • AVIVA ABRAMOVSKY, Dean, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ School of Law