Local to Global: Rethinking Spheres of Authority after a World Financial Crisis — October 2009 | Local to Global: Rethinking Spheres of Authority after a World Financial Crisis

Local to Global: Rethinking Spheres of Authority after a World Financial Crisis — October 2009

Dates

Oct. 16 to 17, 2009

Description

The current financial crisis and resultant economic recession raise issues of immediate importance and profound long-range significance with respect to the regulation of financial markets and institutions and with respect to fiscal and monetary policies. The goal of this conference was to focus less on the question of what substantive regulations or other economic policies are needed, and instead looked at the question of who will do the regulating or carry out the economic policies in a world in which there are multiple layers of governments. The conference was co-sponsored by the World Affairs Council of Northern California, Sacramento Chapter.

Some of the questions that the conference explored include:

Should there be a supranational regulator of financial markets and institutions?
Are sub-national units of government (example, the state courts of Delaware) the appropriate regulators for institutions with significant worldwide economic impact?
Does the lack of a strong central government in the European Union prevent the European Union from taking a sufficiently robust response to the crisis, as, for example, in the event of sovereign defaults in Eastern Europe?
Who regulates units of government when they act as participants in financial markets?

Materials

Agenda (pdf)

Schedule
Friday, October 16th
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2009
9:10 AM	Welcome Remarks Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento 9:10 AM - 9:00 AM
11:00 AM	Panel 1: Lessons from Europe Paul Nihoul, Catholic University Louvain Harald Hau, INSEAD McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento 11:00 AM - 9:10 AM
12:30 PM	Panel 2: The Big Picture John Head, University of Kansas Douglas Arner, University of Hong Kong Anupam Chander, University of California, Davis McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento 12:30 PM - 11:00 AM
3:30 PM	Panel 3: Citigroup: A case Study in Multilayered Regulation Kate Baragona, Formerly with Citigroup Franklin Gevurtz, University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento 3:30 PM - 2:00 PM
5:00 PM	Panel 4: The View from the Trenches: Economists, Policy Makers, Market Players Fred Buenrostro, CalPERA Wayne Strumpfer, US Securities and Exchange Commission Sharmila King, University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento 5:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Saturday, October 17th
9:30 AM	Panel 5: Beyond the U.S. and Europe Sabine Schlemmer-Schulte, University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento 9:30 AM - 9:00 AM
11:30 AM	Panel 6: Part 1 - The Architecture of Regulation James Cox, Duke University School of Law Charles Whitehead, Cornell University Christopher J. Brummer, Georgetown University McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento 11:30 AM - 9:30 AM
12:30 PM	Panel 6: Part 2 - The Architecture of Regulation Robert Ahdieh, Emory University School of Law Jarrod Wong, University of the Pacific Miriam Cherry, University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento 12:30 PM - 11:30 AM