Tempering Power

Conference Program

Program subject to change.

8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Welcome and Introductions;
Light breakfast snacks available.

9:00 - 10:30 a.m.

Moderator: DAVID McNAMEE, Baldy Postdoctoral Fellow

Presenters:

MARTIN KRYGIER, University of New South Wales, “What’s the Point of the Rule of Law?”
JESSICA R. GREENBERG, University of Illinois, “How International Legal Concepts Gain Power: A Study of the European Court of Human Rights”
HEINZ KLUG, University of Wisconsin, “Transformative Constitutions and the Role of Integrity Institutions in Tempering Power: The Case of Resistance to State Capture in Post-Apartheid South Africa”

Commentator: GUYORA BINDER, University at Buffalo School of Law

10:30 - 10:45 a.m. Coffee Break

10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Moderator: MARGARET SHANNON, Baldy Senior Fellow

Presenters:

KWAI NG. University of California, San Diego, “The Paradox of Legal Empowerment in China”
SUSAN BIBLER COUTIN, University of California, Irvine, “‘Another World is Possible’: Tempering the Power of Immigration Law through Activism"
NIMER SULTANY, University of London, “What Good is Abstraction: From Liberal Legitimacy to Social Justice”

Commentator: ANYA BERNSTEIN, University at Buffalo School of Law

12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch

1:30 - 3:30 p.m.

Moderator: WERNER REUTTER, Baldy Senior Fellow

Presenters:

MARY ANNE BOBINSKI, University of British Columbia, “Law and Power in Health Care: Challenges to Physician Control”
CYNTHIA WILLIAMS. York University, Toronto, “Institutional Investors and Climate Accountability” (possibly remotely)
DAVID A. WESTBROOK, University at Buffalo School of Law, “Those People Were a Kind of Solution: Late Imperial Thoughts on the Humanization of Officialdom”
PEER ZUMBANSEN, King's College, London, “Looking for Law in all the Wrong Places: The Problem of ‘Background’ and ‘Context’ in a Divided World”

Commentator: MATEO TAUSSIG-RUBBO, University at Buffalo School of Law

3:30 - 3:45 p.m. Coffee Break

3:45 - 5:15 p.m.: Supporting Interdisciplinary Research on Tempering Power