This is an optional session for sharing insights on teaching international economic law.

The workshop will be held in the form of a roundtable to facilitate a conversation on how our teaching practices could be transformed to enable more plural, diverse and critical engagement with IEL disciplines in classroom. Please see Teaching IEL Workshop for details.

Facilitator: Mavluda Sattorova, School of Law, University of Liverpool

• Daria Davitti, School of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Lund and School of Law, University of Nottingham
• Luis Eslava, School of Law, University of Kent
• Mavluda Sattorova, School of Law, University of Liverpool
• Celine Tan, School of Law, University of Warwick
• Anil Yilmaz, School of Law, University of Essex

Session 1 (a): Resource Extraction and Communities (S.011)

Session 1 (b): Equality, Precarity and IEL Agreements (S0.20)

Session 1 (c): Governance and Complexity of Development Finance (S0.18)

• Who Speaks for the Beach?: Investment, Extraction and Community in 'Local Hero'

Ruth Buchanan, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

• Indigenous Women vs the Corporation

Sahar Shah, University of Warwick

• The Coloniality of the Colombia Case before the ISDS and the Disputes over Natural Resources

Jimena Sierra, Faculty of Law, University of Rosario

Chair: Daria Davitti, Faculty of Law, University of Lund and University of Nottingham

• Private Sector and Sustainable Development: Can IFC Self-Regulate it’s ‘From Billions to Trillions’ Agenda?

Stephanie de Moerloose, School of Government, University of Austral

• Financing Development and the Promise of (Multi-stakeholder) Partnerships

Gamze Erdem-Türkelli, Law and Development Research Group, University of Antwerp

• The Practice of Independent Accountability Mechanisms at Development Banks: Tools for Studying Development Projects in Context

Andria Naude-Fourie, International and European Union Law, Erasmus School of Law

• Human Rights at the Frontline? Mapping the Harms to Caregivers During Global Health Emergencies

Sharifah Sekalala, School of Law, University of Warwick

Chair: Annamaria La Chimia, School of Law, University of Nottingham

• 'Social Dialogue' and the Negotiation Process for the Next Generation of International Economic Agreements in the 21st Century

Ohiocheoya Omiunu, School of Law, De Montfort University

• Memo for Times of Precarity: Beyond Neo-Nationalism And More Of The Same Globalisation

Nicolas Perrone, Faculty of Law, Universidad Andrés Bello

• Making Social and Legal Plurality Visible: Lessons From and For Cyprus

Amanda Perry-Kessaris, School of Law, University of Kent

• Differentiation and Fragmentation: Thinking about International Institutions as Normativity Generators

Athene Richford, School of Law, University of Glasgow

Chair: Ruth Bergan, Trade Justice Movement

Session 2 (a): Questioning International Investment Law: Coloniality, Development, Human Rights (S0.11)

Session 2 (b): Hegemony, Rights and Inter-Disciplinarity in Transnational Trade (S0.20)

Session 2 (c): Sovereign Financing and Public Debt (S0.18)

• International Investment Law as a Means of 'Development' Constraining Narratives on Developing States

Claiton Fyock, School of Law, University of Leicester

• Positioning to Bring about Change in International Investment Law: The Role of Research Methodologies

Edward Guntrip, School of Law, University of Sussex

• Using the Duty to Regulate Paradigm in the International Investment Law and Human Rights Debate: A Normative Instrument to Foster Inter-Disciplinarity in the Research of IEL

Maria Jose Luque Macias, Public Law and Public International Law Department, Law School, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg

• The Coloniality of Investment Law

David Schneiderman, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Stockholm University and Gothenburg University

Chair: Mavluda Sattorova, School of Law, University of Liverpool

• Mainstreaming Gender Rights through Free Trade Agreements: The Promises of Canada's Progressive and Feminist International Trade Policy

Chijoke Chijoke-Orfoji, School of Law, Liverpool John Moores University

• The Hidden Dimension of International Intellectual Property Hegemony: Global Technical Assistance and Local Administrative Policies

Vitor Henrique Pinto Ido, Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo and South Centre, Geneva

• Development Aid and the Hypocrisy of the WTO Free Trade Agreements

Annamaria La Chimia, School of Law, University of Nottingham

• Unlocking Interdisciplinary Intersections of Neoliberalism: Links between the WTO and the ICC

Christine Schwobel-Patel, School of Law, University of Warwick

Chair: Anil Yilmaz Vastardis, Scjool of Law, University of Essex

• The Growth of Bank-Sovereign Bilateral Finance: A Case for Reform to Combat Financial Complicity

Stephen Connelly, School of Law, University of Warwick

• Monetary Sovereignty and Sovereign Debt Restructuring: A Law and Political Economy Approach to IEL

Karina Patricio Ferreira Lima, School of Law, University of Durham

• The Unsettled Pursuit for Development: International Law and Macroeconomics

Kangle Zhang, Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki

Chair: Celine Tan, School of Law, University of Warwick

Exploring links and barriers between academia and practitioners in the IEL field with a view to thinking about what role the IEL Collective might play to bring the communities together in the future

• Ruth Bergan, Senior Advisor, Trade Justice Movement
• Vitor Henrique Pinto Ido, Programme Officer, Health, Intellectual Property and Biodiversity Programme, South Centre, Geneva, South Centre
• Vice Yu, Third World Network

Chair: James Harrison, School of Law, University of Warwick

• Value Chain Trade, Development and Social Reproduction

Donatella Alessandrini, School of Law, University of Kent

• Writing an Economic History and the Historiography of International Law

Michael Fakhri, School of Law, University of Oregon

• Epistemological Blindspots in International Economic Law

Jean Ho, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore

• The Peace at Hand: Global Prohibition and the Impossibility of Peace in Colombia

Julieta Lemaitre, Judge at the Justice Chambers of the Colombian Special Jurisdiction for Peace

Chair: Luis Eslava, School of Law, University of Kent

Session 3 (a): Essences, Representations, Radicality and the Global Economy

Session 3 (b): Financial Architecture, Infrastructures and Risks

Session 3 (c): Technology, Intellectual Property and the Digital Revolution

• Implications of Emergent Intersections of Law, Economics and Technologies for International Economic Law Epistemologies

Jeremmy Okonjo, School of Law, Queen Mary London

• The Digital Turn in International Economic Law: Is a Politics of Redistribution Possible?

Serena Natile, School of Law, Brunel University

• Global Intellectual Property Rights Regime, 'Disciplinary Normative Order' and Emergent Subjectivity

Mizanur Rahaman, Jindal Global Law School, OP Jindal Global University

• Patent Games in the Global South: Pharmaceutical Patent Law-Making in Brazil, India and Nigeria

Amaka Vanni, Independent Researcher and President-Elect, African International Economic Law Network (AfLEN)

Chair: Vitor Henrique Pinto Ido, Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo and South Centre, Geneva

• The Corporation in Colonial and Decolonial Perspectives

Grietje Baars, School of Law, City University London

• Role of Knowledge Producers in Investment Arbitration: A Discourse Analysis

Kusum Dhanania, International Law, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

• Celso Mello: The Forgotten Brazilian TWAILer (co-authored with Fabio Morosini)

Matheus Leichtweis, Faculty of Law, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

• Staging International Economic Law from Below: On Lynn Nottage’s Sweat

Matthew Windsor, School of Law, University of Reading

Chair: Christine Schwobel-Patel, School of Law, University of Warwick

• One Law For RBS, Another for its SME Customers

Iain Frame, School of Law, University of Kent

• Risk and Reputation: The Political Economy of Bank Regulation in Developing Countries

Emily Jones, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford

• International Economic Law and the Challenges in Imposing the Digital Tax in Developing African Countries

Lyla Latif, Cardiff Law and Politics, University of Cardiff

• Fiscal Jurisdiction: What You Are, You Are Only by Treaties

John Snape, School of Law, University of Warwick

Chair: Donatella Alessandrini, School of Law, University of Kent

Session 4 (a): Rethinking Lawyering and Perspectives on IEL

Session 4 (b): Head to Head: Corporations, Labour and Rights

Session 4 (c): International Economic Law, Regionalism and the World-System

• Law and Political Economy of Global Commodity Rushes: Methodological Questions of International Economic Law

Lorenzo Cotula, International Institute for Environment and Development

• Reform Debates in International Trade and Investment Law: Rethinking Rights and Responsibilities of the Corporation

James Harrison, School of Law, University of Warwick

• Human Rights in Dispute: Corporations and Latin America

Flavia do Amaral Viera, Federal University of Pará, Brazil

Chair: Tara Van Ho, School of Law, University of Essex

• Going by the Book: What International Trade Lawyers are Not Allowed to Know

Ana Luisa Bernardino, International Law, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

• International Economic Law and Legal Education in Nigeria

Suzzie Onyeka Oyakhire, Department of Jurisprudence and International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Benin

• Doing and Knowing IEL through the Lens of Caribbean, Rastafarian and Indigenous Philosophy

Yentyl Williams, School of Law, University of Bristol

Chair: Amanda Perry-Kessaris, School of Law, University of Kent

• Global Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Framework: Local Realities

Nkechikwu Valerie Azinge, School of Law, University of Lincoln

• Of Ties and Strings of International Economic Relations at the Semi-Periphery of Central Europe

Darina Mackova, School of Law, University of Kent

• Multilateralism in Decay and African Continental Economic Integration: Questioning the Reliance on Variable Geometry and Differential Treatment

Regis Simo, Mandela Institute, Oliver Schreiner School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand

Chair: Jean Ho, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore

Session 5 (a): Within and Beyond: Crisis and the Global Environment

Session 5 (b): Tragedies, Struggles and Reconfigurations in Law and Development

Session 5 (c): Investment Arbitration: Critique, Dialogue and Resistance

• A Tragedy of Juridification in International Development

Giedre Jokubauskaite, School of Glasgow and David Rossati, Salford Business School, University of Salford

• Shifting States: The Constitutional Risks of Extractive Development

Jenny Lander, School of Law De Montfort University

• Transparency and the Struggle for Transnational Corporate Accountability

Liliane Mouan, Faculty of Business and Law, University of Coventry

Chair: Lorenzo Cotula, International Institute for Environment and Development

• Critical Analysis of Investment Arbitration Through the Lens of Systems Theory

Rafael Quintero-Godinez, School of Law, University of Warwick

• A Critical Discourse Theory of International Economic Adjudication: A Gramscian Perspective

Eduardo Stoppioni, International Dispute Settlement, Max Planck Institute for Procedural Law

• Public Interest Captured by Foreign Investment in Colombia

Federico Suarez Ricaurte, Faculty of Law, Externado University of Colombia

• Stakeholders of Investment Arbitration: Establishing A Dialogue Among Arbitrators, Academics and Other Actors in International Investment Law

Paolo Vargiu, School of Law, University of Leicester

Chair: Nicolas Perrone, Faculty of Law, Universidad Andrés Bello

• Seeing Beyond Repackaged ‘Rubbish Laws’: Conceptual Challenges to Designing Circular Economy Laws

Feja Lesniewska, Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP), University College London and Katrien Steenmans, School of Law, University of Coventry

• The Emerging Bioeconomy in International and Transnational Law

Alexander Stingl, Institute for Advanced Study and Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick

• A New Politics for the Environment

Aaron Wu, Legal Counsel, FTAs (Americas, Africa, Eastern Europe), Services and Investment Team, Department for International Trade Legal Advisers

Chair: Vice Yu, Third World Network