international widows’ day June 23, 2012
Posted by Bradley in : events , add a commentJune 23 was designated international widows day in 2010 by the UN General Assembly. It has also been designated United Nations Public Service Day (in 2002).
law and society conference June 3, 2012
Posted by Bradley in : events , add a commentThis week I will be at the Law and Society conference. I’ll be talking about a paper with the title Coercive Peer Review in Transnational Financial Regulation: Comparative Law and Compliance as part of a panel on financial regulation. Here is the (June 2012 version).
Here’s the brief version:
The paper examines the development of peer review as a component of the transnational standard setting process, with a particular focus on the financial crisis-related peer review processes which have been established by the G20 and the Financial Stability Board (FSB). The FSB peer review documents, the paper argues, focus mostly on the formal characteristics of the subject states’ regulatory regimes, and to rely to a large extent on the statements made by the subject states themselves. Apart from such statements the reviews are based on old data produced through the IMF-World Bank FSAP process. But the FSB’s documents suggest – although they do not show – that the real significance of its peer review processes may be in the developing dialog between the states involved in these processes. In addition the paper argues that the cumulative impact of the IMF and World Bank’s Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) and the FSB’s peer reviews is to change the characteristics of the transnational standards developed by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Basel Committee), the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) and the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS). Standards which are frequently drafted in vague language and which seem to leave significant discretion to implementing states to decide on the details of implementation are converted through the FSAP and peer review processes into less vague standards with less scope for discretion in implementation. If the FSAP and peer review processes were truly processes of consensus among peers this might not be significant, but peer reviews among the G20 countries are intended as a basis for pressuring non-G20 countries to conform their financial regulatory systems to the international standards, and thus the peer review system raises concerns about the legitimacy of the international standards process.
wendy grossman on we robot April 24, 2012
Posted by Bradley in : events , add a commentHere. Lots to think about. Some videos of the conference are available from discourse.net.
we robot April 20, 2012
Posted by Bradley in : events , add a commentThe We Robot conference is happening here this weekend. Looks interesting (here is the program), and there’s to be a live video feed.
our worldwide alumni reunion March 22, 2012
Posted by Bradley in : events , add a commenttclp conference on the eu’s sovereign debt crisis February 23, 2012
Posted by Bradley in : events , add a commentTomorrow I will be in Iowa speaking at the TCLP conference on The European Sovereign Debt Crisis: A Critical Assessment of the Euro and EMU.
seminar on the state of the eu – university of miami 24 february 2012 February 16, 2012
Posted by Bradley in : events , add a commentThe Miami-Florida European Union Center of Excellence, a consortium of Florida International University and the University of Miami and the UM Jean Monnet Chair, will co-host a seminar discussing the state of the European Union on Friday, February 24th at the UM School of Business, AGB 431 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The event is co-sponsored by the Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, American Jewish Committee, and Center of International Business Education & Research.
Political analysts and scholars will present the projected future of the European Union considering the Eurozone Crisis and the latest decisions of the EU Council that have opened the door to an unknown chapter of European history. With the EU presenting today a different face than decades ago and offering somewhat different challenges to be met, the seminar will focus on questions concerning: the state of the Union(s), the direction the EU is going to take, how the rest of the world understands regional integration, and the consequences and impact of the current EU crisis on international business.
The event is open to the public and to the press.
we robot November 2, 2011
Posted by Bradley in : events , add a commentThe University of Miami School of Law seeks submissions for “We Robot” — an inaugural conference on legal and policy issues relating to robotics to be held in Coral Gables, Florida on April 21 & 22, 2012. We invite contributions by academics, practitioners, and industry in the form of scholarly papers or presentations of relevant projects.
(Nov. 3: You can see the full call from the link above or here at discourse.net)
a round-heeled woman: from coral gables to london October 17, 2011
Posted by Bradley in : events , add a commentI saw Sharon Gless in this play earlier this year at GableStage. Tomorrow the play opens at the Riverside Studios in London. It’s worth seeing.
transparency April 6, 2011
Posted by Bradley in : events , add a commentI’m speaking on Friday at a conference on Law, Finance and Legitimacy after Financial Reform at American University Washington College of Law. My paper is Transparency Is The New Opacity: Constructing Financial Regulation After The Crisis .