Global Financial & Economic Crisis
Panel on Business and Ethics
December 1st, 12:30 PM
Room 105 (Law School)
A webcast of the program will be available
With
Richard Buxbaum,UC Berkeley School of Law
Ernesto Dalbo, Haas Business School
Christopher Kutz, UC Berkeley School of Law
David Vogel, Haas Business School
John Quigley, Goldman School of Public Policy
A clear lesson from the global economic meltdown is that corporate governance and ethics matter. Less clear are the steps to improving how financial firms operate. Join a panel of UC Berkeley professors to explore and respond to questions such as: How should executives incorporate potential global and long term impacts into their business decisions? Can corporate governance structures and rules be improved to provide meaningful oversight and socially favorable incentives to financial firm leaders? Are the recent announcements of bonuses to financial executives a sign of economic recovery or continued ethical lapses?
This event is co sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy
Religious Norms in Public Sphere (RPS) Network: launching meeting
Florence, Italy-December 10th-12th, 2009
iGov-Institutions and Governance program at UC Berkeley’s Institute of International Studies with the Berkeley School of Law launch under the supervision of Prof. Olivier Roy of the Mediterranean Program of Robert Schuman Center for advanced studies (RSCAS), an international, interdisciplinary network of scholars exploring the issue of religious norms in the public sphere (RPS).
From the Danish cartoon controversy to the debates over school prayer in American schools, the question of how secular democratic societies should accommodate religion, particularly in the public sphere, is a pressing one. All too often discussion of this issue degenerates into polemics which pigeonhole people of faith either as democracy’s foe or its victim. The goal of the RPS international network of scholars is to move beyond polemics and to analyze this “return to the sacred” i.e. the call by people of faith to recognition and/or enforcement of religious norms by governments, legislatures, schools
A launching meeting will take place in Florence where the participants will design the blueprint of the network and establish its first research priorities.. Further information is available here. Draft program available.
This event is co-sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation, the Partner University Fund (PUF) and the Mediterranean Program of Robert Schuman Center for advanced studies (RSCAS).
Global Financial & Economic Crisis
Panel on Global Unemployment
October 28th, 12:30 PM
Booth Auditorium (Law School)
A webcast of the program is available here
With
Brad Delong, Department of Economics
David Card, Department of Economics
Andy Rose, Haas Business School
John Quigley, Goldman School of Public Policy
Despite recent upticks in the economy, the U.S. and worldwide employment picture continues to be bleak. Are we facing a “jobless recovery?” Did the international economic collapse in 2008-09 alter the labor market permanently? What employment patterns and prospects should we expect as global markets and economies recover? What are the remedies?
A panel of distinguished UC Berkeley scholarshave discussed the future of employment here and around the world.
A series of panel on financial and economic turmoil have already been organized.
These programs were webcast and recorded.
Global Financial Market Turmoil, October 2, 2008
Good Bank Bad Bank, February 18, 2009
Global Financial & Economic Crisis: What Should the G20 do? March 18, 2009
This event is co sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy and the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
A European Perspective on Copenhagen
Where is Climate Change Headed in Europe?
What May Be Accomplished in Copenhagen?
Presentation by Frank Convery
Wednesday, August 19th
Heritage Trust Professor of Environmental Policy at University College, Dublin. He is an adviser on climate change policy to the EU Commission and the Japanese Government Cabinet Office. Power Point presentation available click here
Co-sponsored by the Climate and Energy Policy Institute of Berkeley Law
China Summer Economics Institute
June 27th-July 1st, 2009, Bejiing
The China Summer Economics Institute will take place again in 2009 after a first successful meeting (Working papers available here) . The objective of the China Summer Economics Institute is to create a network and community of top level scholars working on Chinese economic development. This initiative is co-sponsored by UC Berkeley, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, the LICOS-Center for Institutions and Economic Performance at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Hong Kong University and the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University. The Summer Institute will be organized in collaboration with the BREAD, NBER and CEPR networks of academic economists.
Click here for the papers that will be presented
Click here for a draft of program
Please contact director Heddy Riss for more information
Conference on Managing Biosafety and Biodiversity in a Global World-EU, US, California
Youtube Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 or UCB Webcast Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Next conference June 10th, 2009 at the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts
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California-EU Regulatory Cooperation Project |
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The IGS-UC Berkeley Center on Institutions and Governance (http://igov.berkeley.edu) and the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and LICOS (University of Leuven) will be holding a conference on June 10th at the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, Hertogsstraat 1 1000 Brussels.
This conference is the culmination of a two-year project "Managing Biosafety and biodiversity in a global world-EU, US, California and Comparative perspectives".
The preliminary conference program may be accessed at the project web site.
The goal of the project is to examine the roles that California and the European Union play in defining the forefront of domestic and international environmental policy solutions and to produce concrete, actionable policy recommendations to further regulatory cooperation between the EU, California and the US on transatlantic environmental issues, including climate change, chemicals policy, biosafety, water regulation, and biodiversity protection.
As socioeconomic and environmental issues become increasingly integrated, innovative policy solutions are required to identify and address the complex nexus between society and environment. The project has developed a network of representatives from the US and the EU in academia, industry, the NGO-sector, and government.
A first conference has taken place in Washington on April 30th, 2009.
Click here for the program
Click here for the papers that have been discussed.
Click here for the presentation
CONFERENCE ON ISLAMIC NORMS IN SECULAR PUBLIC SPHERES: POLITICAL PROBLEMS, LEGAL ISSUES AND SOCIAL PRACTICES
UC BERKELEY, May 7th-8th, 2009
Youtube
webcast.berkeley.edu
The conference aims at merging two dynamics: on the one hand the "judicialisation"of related religious disputes in secular contexts,and on the other one the "de-judicialisation" of a relgion based set of norms often designated under the label of sharia.
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Valérie Amiraux |
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Olivier Roy |
By focusing on Muslims and Islam as core objet of study
the goal is not to consider it as exceptional. On the contrary, the conference wishes to widen the scope to the place of religion in the public sphere.
The conference will take place on May 7th and 8th, 2009 on "Islamic norms in secular public spheres: political
problems, legal issues, and social practices" with the support
of Olivier Roy who teaches at UC Berkeley in 2008-2009 and Valérie
Amiraux from the University of Montreal.
Click here for the program.
Co-sponsors: The Robert Schuman Centre, The Carnegie Corporation, The Graduate Theological Union, The Institute of Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies, Chaire de recherche du Canada en etude du pluralisme religieux et
de l'ethnicite (CRSH/Universite de Montreal)
Welcome Visiting Scholars
CIG would like to welcome our visiting scholar Klaus Berend (EU Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry, head of unit Chenicals). To contact him and find out more about his research initiatives, go to the About CIG page.
Mr. Klaus Berend was awarded one of ten fellowships under the 2009 EU Fellowships Program, which funds stays at select universities in the U.S., Europe and Asia for EU officials focusing on Transatlantic relations.
The UC Berkeley Center on Institutions and Governance promotes research and education on the way that institutions shape politics and policy and on the way that politics and policy shape institutions. The goal of the Center is to advance our understanding of institutions across a wide range of substantively diverse issues and to develop new approaches from political science and economics as applied to this emerging area of research. Core research areas include:
Politics and Policy in Weakly Institutionalized Environments
Politics and Policy in Highly Institutionalized Environments
The Interface between Weakly and Highly Institutionalized Environments
The Center will host conferences this academic year on topics that span CIG's research. CIG also organizes the Positive Political Theory Seminar, which provide a venue for researchers working in these areas to present their work. The Center also hosts the website VoteWorld which provides researchers access voting records from national legislatures, the United Nations, the European Parliament, and other international organizations.
The Center is under the leadership of Professor Robert Powell and Director Heddy Riss.
December 1st 2009: Panel on Business and Ethics, Boalt Law School
December 10th-12th 2009: Workshop launching the Religious Norms in the Public Sphere network, European University Institute, Florence (IT)
Director:
Heddy Riss hriss@berkeley.edu
Faculty Director:
Robert Powell rpowell@berkeley.edu
Institute of International Studies
Website maintained by Jessica Owen:
ojessie@berkeley.edu