July 10-11th 2014

Conference: "Global Economic Justice"

Hosted by the Centre of Advanced Studies "Justitia Amplificata" Goethe University of Frankfurt (funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)

Organizers

Elizabeth Kahn, Jahel Queralt Lange, Jiewuh Song

Venue

Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften Bad Homburg http://www.forschungskolleg-humanwissenschaften.de/index.php/en/

Speakers

Mathias Risse (Harvard), Robert Howse (NYU School of Law), Miriam Ronzoni (Manchester), Seumas Miller (Charles Sturt/TU Delft), Catherine Lu (Montreal/Frankfurt), Nicole Hassoun (Binghamton/Frankfurt), Bas van der Vossen (Greensboro), Peter Dietsch (Montréal) and Gabriel Wollner (London School of Economics).

Workshop description

The global and transnational justice debate has started to move beyond theoretical ground clearing and toward evaluating specific transnational institutions, international agreements and global practices. This conference seeks to contribute to this difficult task by considering practical questions of global and trans-national economic justice.

The conference will concentrate on normative assessments of global, transnational and international practices that impact production, consumption, the division of labour, productivity and the distribution of income and wealth, as well as control over these factors. We will structure the conference around three panels.

 Global Finance

• Questions of justice and fairness in international debt repayment, cancelation and conditionality, including issues concerning foreign funded bail-outs and the justice of relations between those bailed out and those financing the bail-out.
• The significance of the free movement of capital and its effect on the abilities of states to determine social policy.

 Trade Justice

• Questions about transnational trade, including normative assessments of Free Trade Agreements, investor protection and the enforcement of such agreements.
• Normative assessments of the use of economic sanctions and embargoes, including the conditions in which such measures may legitimately be used.

 Labour and Economic Rights

• Is there a right to work?
• Is there a right to credit?
• Do labour conditions in poorer states violate basic rights?
• Are sweatshops exploitative in a way that violates the rights of workers?
• Who is responsible for the injustice of poor and dangerous working conditions?

Schedule

Thursday July 10th

13:30-14.00 – Registration/ Welcome Drink

Panel 1: Global Finance

Chair: Jahel Queralt-Lange

14.00 Gabriel Wollner – “Morally Bankrupt: International Financial Governance and the Ethics of Sovereign Default”
15.00 Seumas Miller – “The Global Banking Sector: Corruption, Institutional Purpose and Economic Justice”

16.00-16.30 - Coffee Break

16.30 Peter Dietsch – “Normative Dimensions of Monetary Policy”
17.30 Robert Howse – “Sovereign Debt and Global Justice: Do the UNCTAD Principles on Responsible Lending and Borrowing Signal a New Normativity?”

Friday July 11th

Panel 2: Trade Justice

Chair: Stefan Gosepath

9.00 Nicole Hassoun – “Fair Trade in Theory and Practice: The Case for Purchasing Global Health Impact Certified Goods”
10.00 Mathias Risse – “Three Images of Trade: On the Place of Trade in a Theory of Global Justice”

11.00-11.30 - Coffee Break

11.30 Jiewuh Song – “State Consent to International Trade Law”

12:30-13:30 – Lunch

Panel 3: Labour and Economic Rights

Chair: Rainer Forst

13.30 Elizabeth Kahn – “Structural Injustice, Workers Rights and the Responsibility Deficit”
14.30 Catherine Lu – “Autonomy, Vulnerability and Global Labour Justice”

15.30 - Coffee Break

16.00 Bas Van Der Vossen – “In Defense of Productive Human Rights”
17.00 Miriam Ronzoni – “Capital is Back!  Workers of the World Unite … But Not (Necessarily) for the State to Wither Away”

18:00 – End

Registration

Attendance of the workshop is free. Registration is required for organization and catering purposes by June 20.
Places are limited, and will be assigned on a first come, first serve basis.
In order to register, please contact Ms Valérie Bignon: [email protected]

In the interest of maximizing time for open conversation, the papers will be circulated in advanve, the conference participants will be expected to have read them, and authors to only introduce the main lines of argument.