NYU LAW SCHOOL SYMPOSIUM EXAMINES THE EFFECTS OF GLOBALIZATION ON SMALL STATES

joan.dim@nyu.edu

The Seventh Annual Herbert and Rose L. Rubin Symposium on International Law

Thursday, October 19, 2000
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
New York University School of Law
Greenberg Lounge
40 Washington Square South

Registration will take place at the door from 8:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. and is open to all. The Registration Fee of $10 is waived for students, educators, and employees of governmental, intergovernmental, and nongovernmental organizations. CLE credit is available.

Countries with 250,000 to four million are among both the greatest beneficiaries and the most vulnerable participants of globalization. Whether they are one of the world's least developed countries or an oil-rich nation, small states typically derive a significant portion of their GDP and the majority of their export revenues from only one or two industries. Often, their economy relies on only a handful of significant trading partners and donors. Basics such as food and fuel must be imported, and many smaller countries are highly dependent on international aid. As a result of this combination, small states are extremely vulnerable to changes in external markets and trade rules.

In an effort to fortify themselves through diversification, small states have become more rather than less integrated into the global economy. Increasingly, these states are transforming themselves from labor-intensive commodities-based economies to centers for financial services and tourism. The symposium will address both the challenges and opportunities posed by the economic, social, and legal phenomena of globalization through the following panels:

Panel I: The New International Economic Order will address such timely issues as the emergence of a universal set of international trade rules, the management of export focused sovereign debt, and the effect of these forces on small states' economies.

Panel II: International Civil Society will examine the hazards and changes to local cultural that have accompanied small states' openness to the global community. Topics will include: the impact of globalization on local society, the universalization of human rights norms of crime, the management of structural social and economic change, approaches to ethnic conflicts, and the increased foreign intervention into domestic affairs.

Panel III: Transnational Alliances and Institutions will discuss small states' experiences with international tribunals and alliances, including the practical realities of the negotiation process and the extent to which small states can be equal beneficiaries of these institutions.

Panelists will include Mr. Lee Bucheit, Partner at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton; Mr. Andrew Berg, Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean, U.S. Treasury Department; Ambassador Andrew Jacovides, former Permanent Representative of Cyprus to the UN; Mr. Charles Clifton Leacock, Director of Public Prosecutions for Barbados; Professor Andreas Lowenfield, NYU School of Law; Mr. Dermot McCann, Lecturer, Department of Politics & Modern History, London Guildhall University; Mr. Pandeli Majko, Parliamentary Deputy and Former Prime Minister of Albania; H.E. Anund Priyey Neewor, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Mauritius Mission to the United Nations; Ambassador Robert Van Lierop, former Permanent Representative of Samoa to the U.N. and partner at Van Lierop, Burns & Basset; Professor Ruth Wedgwood, Yale University Law School and Senior Fellow, the International Organizations and Law at the Council on Foreign Relations; and other high profile speakers.

The event is organized by the NYU School of Law's Journal of International Law and Politics. Advanced registration is strongly recommended. To register, please contact Jennie Dorn at (212) 998-6397 or jennie.dorn@nyu.edu or Laura Smith at (212) 998-6355 or laura.smith@nyu.edu. For more information please contact Cheryl Viirand at (212) 998-6520 or email: JILP_symposium@hotmail.com.

09/27/00