6 October 2014

Time

Topics

Speakers

9:00-9:10

Opening Remarks:

Tsai-yu Lin (林彩瑜), Director, Asian Center for WTO & International Health Law and Policy; Professor, National Taiwan University

Dr. Donald TF Shang (商東福), M.D., Ph.D., Director, Office of International Cooperation, Ministry of Health and Welfare

9:10-10:10

Keynote Speech

Chair: Chang-fa Lo (羅昌發)

Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, Professor, European University Institute

How to Reconcile Health Law and Economic Law with Human Rights? Administration of Justice in Tobacco Control Disputes

10:10-10:40

Tea Break and Group Photos

Session 1

10:40-12:10

TPP/RCEP, WTO and Public Health: Interface Issues

Chair: Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann

1.       

Trade Liberalization and Access to Medicine – How Much Does It Help?

Chang-fa Lo (羅昌發), Justice, Constitutional Court; Professor, NTU College of Law

2.       

Gains from Trade? How WTO Law Could Affect Members’ Efforts to Combat Obesity

Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer, Professor of International Law at the University of Basel

3.       

From Fragmentation to Coherence: A Constitutionalist Take on the Trade and Public Health Debates

Chien-Huei Wu (吳建輝), Associate Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica

12:10-14:00

Lunch Break

Session 2

14:00-15:30

Trade, Investment and Dispute Settlement Relating to Public Health Issues

Chair: Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer

4.       

Investor-State Arbitration, IP and Public Health

Masabumi Suzuki, Professor of Intellectual Property Law

Nagoya University

5.       

Implementation of the FCTC: Some Legal Aspects

Sridhar Patnaik Dabiru, Professor & Director of Postgraduate Legal Studies; Executive Director, Centre for South Asian Legal Studies, Jindal Global Law School, India.

6.       

Deterring Frivolous Challenges to Legitimate Public Interest Measures in Investor-State Dispute Settlement

Tsai-Fang Chen (陳在方), Assistant Professor, Institute of Technology Law, National Chiao Tung University,Taiwan

15:30-16:00

Tea Break

Session 3

16:00-17:30

Pharmaceutical and Medical Service Sectors in WTO and TPP/RCEP

Chair: Mei-ling Hsiao (蕭美玲)

7.       

Pharmaceutical Patents, Competition Policy and Compulsory Licences: Perspectives from the TPP Draft

Burton Ong (王澤恩), Deputy Director, Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law; Associate Professor, National University of Singapore

8.       

Patent Linkage and Public Health Policy: Perspectives from the TPP Draft

Su-Hua Lee (李素華), Associate Professor, College of Law, National Taipei University, Taiwan

9.       

TRIPS Agreement and Medical Procedure Innovation

Hsiao-Yun Lee (李曉筠), M.D.; LL.M. candidate, Graduate Institute of Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, College of Law, National Taiwan University

7 October 2014      

Session 4

9:30-11:50

Food Safety and Security in WHO, TPP/RCEP

Chair: Tsai-yu Lin (林彩瑜)

10.  

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment

Partnership and the Parliamentary Dimension of

Regulatory Cooperation

Alberto Alemanno, Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law & Risk Regulation І HEC Paris Global; Clinical Professor, NYU School of Law

11.  

SPS and TBT Issues in TPP Negotiation

Pei-kan Yang(楊培侃), Associate Professor, Department of International Business, National Cheng-Chi University, Taiwan

12.  

WHO in Global Food Safety Governance: A Preliminary Mapping of Its Normative Capacities and Activities

Ching-Fu Lin (林勤富), S.J.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School

13.  

TPP Serving as Pathway to Resilience for Food Security during Future Natural Disasters

Huei-ying Shiu (許慧瑩), Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate Institute of National Development, College of Social Sciences, National Taiwan University

11:50-12:00

Concluding Remarks (by Professor Tsai-yu Lin (林彩瑜), Director, ACWH)