Washington and Lee law professors Susan Franck and Kish Parella will present this week at the American Society of International Law 2014 Biennial Research Conference. The conference will be held Thursday, November 13, 2014 through Saturday, November 15, 2014. It is sponsored by the American Society of International Law’s International Economic Law Interest Group in partnership with the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. The theme is “Reassessing International Economic Law and Development: New Challenges for Law and Policy.”
Professor Franck will moderate a panel discussion on investment with panelists Thomas Innes (Stepoe & Johnson LLP), Amokura Kawharu (U. Auckland), Jarrod Wong (U. Pacific) and Gabriele Gagliani (U. Palermo). Professor Franck will also participate as a panelist in a session, “Empirical & Social Scientific Approaches to IEL” with Jason Yackee (U. Wisconsin) and Jide Nzelibe (Northwestern U.). Her talk is entitled “Conflating Politics & Development? Examining Investment Treaty Arbitration Outcomes”
Professor Parella will present her work in progress, Transcommercial Institutional Legitimacy, as part of a panel on voluntary standards and regulating business for development with Sarah Dadush (Rutgers U.), Andrew Woods (U. Kentucky) and Ofer Eldar (Yale U.). Her presentation focuses on the legitimacy of private governance of international production. She examines dispute resolution between different actors in global value chains and suggests ways to improve stakeholder engagement regarding the design of these dispute resolution mechanisms. This research is part of her broader examination of global governance performed by the transnational business sector.
