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EMC² 2010-2011 ASIA-PACIFIC REGIONAL ROUND

ACADEMIC CONFERENCE


“ECONOMIC INTERGRATION OF THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION

AND BEYOND”


Date: Friday, 4th March 2011

Venue: CONFERENCE HALL – NTU COLLEGE OF LAW

Organisers:

Asian Center for WTO and International Health Law and Policy

Collage of Law, National Taiwan University

Bureau of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Republic of China


AGENDA


08:15-08:45

Registration and Coffee

08:45-09:00

Welcome by Professor Chang-fa Lo

College of Law, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

09:00-09:10

Opening Remarks by Mr Francis Kuo-Hsin Liang

Vice Minister of Economic Affairs – Republic of China

09:10-09:30

1st Keynote Speech in Honor of Special Contributors to the EMC2 Asia-Pacific Regional Round

Keynote Speaker No. 1Professor Mitsuo Matsushita

(Inaugural Joint Asia Regional Round Administrator)

‘Export Controls of Natural Resources and the WTO/GATT Disciplines’

09:30-10:50


Session I - Economic Integration in Asia-Pacific Region in General

Chairperson - Professor Mitsuo Matsushita

Speaker No. 1 - Professor Chang-fa Lo

‘The Landmark Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) between Taiwan and China and Its International Law and Political Implications’

Speaker No. 2 Associate Professor, Dr Vai Io Lo

‘China-Hong Kong CEPA: Qianhai Modern Service Cooperation Zone’

Speaker No. 3 – Assistant Professor Branislav Hazucha

‘The Role of International Standardization in the Technological Progress of Far East Asian Countries: From Imitators to Innovators’

10:50-11:10

Coffee Break

11:10-12:50

Session II - Trade and Investment Agreements and the WTO

ChairpersonAmbassador Manickam Supperamaniam

Speaker No. 1 – Mr Stefan Amarasinha

‘The Case for Critical Mass Agreements in the WTO’

Speaker No. 2Dr Brett Williams

‘Reconciling Discriminatory Trade Agreements with the GATT/WTO Objective of Eliminating Discrimination in International Trade’

Speaker No. 3Associate Professor, Dr Andrew Mitchell

‘The Implications of WTO & Investment Law for Tobacco Control Measures’

Speaker No. 4Professor Bryan Mercurio

‘The Potential Impact of Intellectual Property Rights in Bilateral Investment Treaties’


12:50-13:50

Lunch

13:50-15:10

Session III - Dispute Resolution, Trade Remedy and Economic Integration

Chairperson: Professor Shin-yi Peng

Speaker No. 1Professor Yasuhei Taniguchi

‘Dispute Settlement and Economic Integration in the Asia-Pacific Region’

Speaker No. 2Professor David Morgan

‘The Future of Dispute Settlement in the WTO, Looking Forward 10 Years’

Speaker No. 3Associate Professor, Dr Yanning Yu

China's Adopting Emergency Safeguard Measures for Services: A Political Economy Analysis


15:10-15:30

Coffee

15:30-17:10

Session IV - Emerging Trade Agreement Issues

Chairperson: Mrs. Letizia Raschella-Sergi

Speaker No. 1 – Ambassador M Supperamaniam

‘Towards an East Asia Free Trade Agreement (EAFTA)’

Speaker No. 2 – Assistant Professor, Dr Chien-huei Wu

 ‘EU-ASEAN relations after 30 Years: Legal Framework and Policy Change’

Speaker No. 3 – Assistant Professor, Dr Pasha L Hsieh

‘America’s Return to Asia? A proposal for an ASEAN-United States FTA’

Speaker No. 4 – Mr James Lockett

‘Negotiation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): Status and Challenges’


17:10-17:30

2nd Keynote Speech in Honor of Special Contributors to the EMC2 Asia-Pacific Regional Round

Keynote Speaker No. 2 – Professor Mary Hiscock

(Inaugural Pacific Regional Round Administrator)

‘Economic Integration through Treaty: The Blurring of Public Law and Private Law’

17:30-17:35

Announcement of EMC2 Semi Finalists by Mrs Letizia Raschella-Sergi

EMC2 Asia-Pacific Academic Supervisor

17:35-17:45

Close of Conference by Professor Chang-fa Lo

Executive Director of ACWH and EMC2 Regional Round Administrator

18:30-21:30

Academic Conference Presenters and EMC2 Panellists Dinner

Dinner Speech by Mr Shih-Chao Cho,

Director General of the Bureau of Foreign Trade