Public Law, Political Economy, Corruption, and Development:
Susan Rose-Ackerman’s Scholarly Legacy
August 26 – 27, 2022
Read bios of the participants.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 2022
| 8:15-9:00AM | Registration and breakfast, Faculty Dining Room |
| 9:00-9:15AM | Welcome: Dean Heather K. Gerken, Jerry Mashaw, and Susan Rose-Ackerman, Room 120 |
| 9:15-10:45AM | PANEL 1: Comparative Administrative Law |
| The Lawfulness of Public Law in Germany and the United States Jud Mathews, Penn State Law School Joshua Spannaus, University of Giessen | |
| The Neoliberal and Neoconservative Turn of French Administrative Law Thomas Perroud, University Paris-Assas (Paris 2) | |
| Judicial Review of Monetary Policy: Testing the Limits of the Law Joana Mendes, University of Luxembourg Law School | |
| Chair: Peter Lindseth, University of Connecticut Law School | |
| 10:45-11:00AM | Coffee break |
| 11:00AM-12:30PM | PANEL 2: Comparative Law, Politics, and Economics |
| Developing Countries’ Utilization of GSP: Labor Standards, the Margin of Preference, and the Demand for Zero Tariffs Jennifer Tobin, Georgetown University | |
| From Election to Autocracy: Can Deeper Decentralization Bring Us Back? Maciej Kisilowski, Central European University | |
| How Do Developing Countries Succeed in Improving Public Sector Performance Jana Kunicova, The World Bank | |
| Chair: Daniel Halberstam, Michigan Law School | |
| 12:30-1:30PM | Lunch, Ruttenberg Dining Hall |
| 1:30-3:00PM | PANEL 3: Political Economy, Corruption, and Development |
| Encouraging Participation (Appendices) Stephen Kosack, University of Washington | |
| Corruption and Organized Crime Bonnie Palifka, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico | |
| The Eye & the Whip: Field Experiments on Corruption Control in the Americas Paul Lagunes | |
| Chair: Kevin Davis, NYU Law School | |
| 3:00-3:30PM | Coffee break |
| 3:30-5:00PM | PANEL 4: Corruption and State Capture |
| State Capture Daniel Kaufmann, Senior Fellow, Results for Development; President Emeritus, Natural Resources Governance Institute | |
| Criminal Liability for Corporate Bribery: Variations Across Countries Tina Søreide, Norwegian Competition Authority Kalle Moene, University of Oslo | |
| Anticorruption Reform in Structurally Corrupt Environments: The Argentine Trap Natalia Volosin, University of Buenos Aires | |
| Chair: Nancy Hite-Rubin, Tufts University, Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life | |
| 7:00PM | Keynote Speaker and Dinner: Peter Strauss, Columbia Law School The Omni New Haven Hotel, 155 Temple Street, New Haven |
SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 2022
| 8:45-9:30AM | Coffee and breakfast, Faculty Dining Room |
| 9:30-11:00AM | PANEL 5: Law and Development, Room 120 |
| State-Owned Enterprises, Finance and Development: A Comparative Study of Pawnshops in Brazil, Mexico, and Taiwan Weitseng Chen, National University of Singapore Mariana Mota Prado, University of Toronto Law School | |
| Patient vs. Impatient Capital: The Political Economy of State-Led Global Financing Stephen Kaplan, George Washington University, Department of Political Science | |
| Equal Versus Efficient Security against Crimes and its Paradoxes Hans-Bernd Schafer, Bucerius Law School, Hamburg | |
| Chair: Jerry Mashaw, Yale Law School | |
| 11:00-11:15AM | Coffee break |
| 11:15AM-1:00PM | PANEL 6: Public Law: U.S. and Elsewhere |
| What’s Democratic About Administration? Blake Emerson, UCLA Law School | |
| Administrative Democracy and Federalism: The U.S., the EU, and Canada Athanasios (Akis) Psygkas, Western University, Faculty of Law, Canada | |
| Bureaucrats as Temporary Agency Leaders Anne Joseph O’Connell, Stanford Law School | |
| Chair: Jennifer Nou, University of Chicago Law School | |
| 1:00-1:30PM | Closing Remarks on the Conference Papers Susan Rose-Ackerman, Yale Law School |
| 1:30PM | Information Lunch, Ruttenberg Dining Hall |