Conference Program
Friday, April 23
9:00-9:30 am
Welcome and Opening Statements
- Patrice Petro, CIE Director
- Dean G. Richard Meadows
- Robert J. Beck, Conference Chair
9:30-10:45 am
Panel 1: The Functions of International Law
Moderator: Robert J. Beck
- Michael Byers, Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia
"International Law during Global Crises: Why Rules are More Important than Ever" - Kennan Ferguson, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
"Speed Limits and Speed Bumps: The Functions of International Law and its Lack"
10:45-11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00-12:15 pm
Panel 2: Human Advocacy and Assistance: Beyond the State/State System
Moderator: Chukuka S. Enwemeka
- Cecelia Lynch, Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies, University of California, Irvine
"Borders, Law, and Muslim Humanitarians in the 'War on Terror'" - Erica Bornstein, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
"Religious Charity Outside the Law in New Delhi"
12:15-1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30-2:45 pm
Panel 3: Law and Transborder Information Flows
Moderator: A. Aneesh
- Elizabeth Buchanan, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
- Michael Zimmer, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
"Information Ethics and Regulation in an Era of Trans-Border Research Flow"
"Trading Up or a Race to the Bottom? How Regional Privacy Laws Impact Online Privacy Across Borders"
2:45-3:00 pm
Coffee Break
3:00-4:15 pm
Panel 4: Law and Art: Copyright and Trademark
Moderator: Lane Hall
- Pat Aufderheide, Center for Social Media, School of Communication, American University
"Remixing the ©: How Academics, Filmmakers, Poets and Lawyers Together Are Righting Imbalance in Copyright Policy Worldwide" - Nathaniel Stern, Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
"Wikipedia Art: Of Performative Citations and Trademark Infringement"
Saturday, April 24
9:00-9:15 am
Welcome
Robert J. Beck, Conference Organizer
9:15-10:30 am
Panel 5: Law and the Construction of the State in an Evolving Global Context
Moderator: Thomas Malaby
- Douglas Howland, Department of History, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
"International Law and State Sovereignty in the Construction of Japan’s Status as a World Power" - Peter Sands, Department of English, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
"Cyberstates"
10:30-10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45-12:00 pm
Panel 6: Law, the Internet, and Communication
Moderator: Tasha Oren
- Monroe E. Price, Center for Global Communications Studies, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
"Communications and Borders: Of Ghosts and Vampires" - Sandra Braman, Department of Communication, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Internet Architecture and the Law
12:00-1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30-2:45 pm
Panel 7: The Origins and Evolution of Law
Moderator: Manu Sobti
- Jan Klabbers, Academy of Finland Center of Excellence in Global Governance Research, University of Helsinki
"Legalization and its Discontents" - Rachel Buff, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
"An International Origin of Immigrant Rights Discourse: Deportation during the Cold War
2:45-3:00 pm
Coffee Break
3:00-4:15 pm
Panel 8: International Law in a Globalized World
Moderator: Johannes Britz
- Friedrich Kratochwil, Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, Florence
"Communication, Niklas Luhmann and the Fragmentation Debate" - Michael Likosky, New York University Institute for Public Knowledge
"America as an Emerging Market: Restructuring Government, Transnational Law & High Technology"
4:15-4:30 pm
Coffee Break
4:30-5:15 pm
Closing Presentation
- Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Department of Sociology, University of Coimbra, School of Economics; Institute for Legal Studies, University of Wisconsin Law School
"Law and the Epistemologies of the South"
5:15 pm
Closing Remarks and Wrap-up
Patrice Petro and Robert J. Beck
