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conferences
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WORLD
TRADE, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY,
AND
THE GLOBAL ELITES: INTERNATIONAL LAWMAKING IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM
Benjamin
N. Cardozo
School
of Law
Yeshiva
University
March
7, 2001
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DESCRIPTION
Globalization
and the information revolution have presented great challenges for the
American business community. To cope with these challenges, U.S.
industries and trade associations have been actively lobbying Congress
for legislation protecting their interests. They have also urged the
U.S. government to push forward an international trading system that
offers protection and increases market access for their products.
However,
such a corporate-driven system may be detrimental to the American people
and the global community, for the system may ignore important issues
such as consumer interests, national sovereignty, cultural diversity,
and ecological sustainability. It may also create tension within the
existing system and breed hostility among the less developed countries,
which repeatedly protest their lack of representation in the
international lawmaking process.
By
bringing together policymakers, legal scholars, practitioners, industry
people, political scientists, and economists, this symposium seeks to
create a dialogue that addresses these difficult issues. It also hopes
to provide a better understanding of the role and impact of U.S.
industries and trade associations in the lawmaking processes at the
national and international levels, as well as in foreign countries.
SCHEDULE
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8:30 |
Continental
Breakfast
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9:00 |
Welcoming
Remarks
Dean
Paul R. Verkuil, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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9:15 |
Opening
Address
Geoffrey
Sau Kuk Yu, Assistant Director General, World Intellectual
Property Organization
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9:45 |
World
Trade and the Global Elites
Moderator
and Speaker:
Speakers:
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Prof.
Robert W. McGee, W. Paul Stillman School of Business, Seton
Hall University
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Prof.
Paul B. Stephan, III, University of Virginia School of Law
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Prof.
Michael P. Ryan, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown
University
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12:00 |
Keynote
Luncheon
Prof.
Marci A. Hamilton, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva
University & Visiting Professor, New York University School of
Law
"Industry:
The Nexus Between National and International Intellectual Property
Lawmaking"
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1:30 |
Private
Sectors, Public Interests, and International Intellectual Property
Regime
Moderator:
Speakers:
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Prof.
Rosemary J. Coombe, Faculty of Arts, York University
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Prof.
Assafa Endeshaw, Nanyang Business School, Nanyang
Technological University
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Prof.
Hugh Hansen, Fordham University School of Law
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Prof.
Doris E. Long, John Marshall Law School &
Attorney-Advisor, United States Patent and Trademark Office
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Prof.
Samuel K. Murumba, Brooklyn Law School
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Robert
Sherwood, author and consultant
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3:45 |
Coffee
Break
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4:00 |
U.S.
Industries, Trade Associations, and Intellectual Property
Lawmaking
Moderator:
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Peter
K. Yu, Executive Director, Intellectual Property Law Program,
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University &
Research Associate, Programme in Comparative Media Law &
Policy, University of Oxford
Speakers:
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Jacques
Gorlin, President, The Gorlin Group
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Geralyn
Ritter, Esq., Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C.
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Shira
Perlmutter, Esq., Vice President & Associate General
Counsel for Intellectual Property—Policy, AOL Time Warner, Inc. & former
Associate Register of Copyright for Policy and International
Affairs, U.S. Copyright Office
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Prof.
Susan K. Sell, Department of Political Science, The
George Washington University
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Eric
H. Smith, Esq., President, International Intellectual Property
Alliance
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Robert
Stoll, Esq., Administrator for External Affairs, Office of
Legislative and International Affairs, U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office
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6:15 |
Reception |
SYMPOSIUM
ISSUE
10
Cardozo J. Int'l & Comp. L. 1-317 (2002)
Peter
K. Yu, World Trade, Intellectual Property and the Global Elites:
International Lawmaking in the New Millennium: An Introduction,
10 Cardozo J. Int'l & Comp. L. 1 (2002)
Jacques J. Gorlin, Geralyn Ritter, Shira Perlmutter, Eric H. Smith &
Robert Stoll, U.S. Industries, Trade Associations, and Intellectual
Property Lawmaking, 10 Cardozo J. Int'l & Comp. L. 5 (2002)
Robert M. Sherwood, Some Things Cannot Be Legislated, 10 Cardozo
J. Int'l & Comp. L. 37 (2002)
Assafa Endeshaw, The Paradox of Intellectual Property Lawmaking in
the New Millennium: Universal Templates as Terms of Surrender for
Non-Industrial Nations; Piracy as an Offshoot, 10 Cardozo J. Int'l
& Comp. L. 47 (2002)
Susan K. Sell, Industry Strategies for Intellectual Property and
Trade: The Quest for TRIPS, and Post-TRIPS Strategies, 10 Cardozo J.
Int'l & Comp. L. 79 (2002)
Robert W. McGee, Legal Ethics, Business Ethics and International
Trade: Some Neglected Issues, 10 Cardozo J. Int'l & Comp. L. 109
(2002)
Doris Estelle Long, "Democratizing" Globalization:
Practicing the Policies of Cultural Inclusion, 10 Cardozo J. Int'l
& Comp. L. 217 (2002)
Michael P. Ryan, Knowledge-Economy Elites, The International Law of
Intellectual Property and Trade, and Economic Development, 10
Cardozo J. Int'l & Comp. L. 271 (2002)
Paul B. Stephan, Institutions and Elites: Property, Contract, the
State, and Rights in Information in the Global Economy, 10 Cardozo
J. Int'l & Comp. L. 305 (2002)
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