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
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08:15-08:45 |
Registration and Coffee |
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08:45-09:00 |
Welcome by Professor Chang-fa Lo College of Law, National Taiwan University, Taiwan |
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09:00-09:10 |
Opening Remarks by Mr Francis Kuo-Hsin Liang Vice Minister of Economic Affairs – Republic of China |
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09:10-09:30 |
1st Keynote Speech in Honor of Special Contributors to the EMC2 Asia-Pacific Regional Round Keynote Speaker No. 1 – Professor Mitsuo Matsushita (Inaugural Joint Asia Regional Round Administrator) ‘Export Controls of Natural Resources and the WTO/GATT Disciplines’ |
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09:30-10:50
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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’ |
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10:50-11:10 |
Coffee Break |
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11:10-12:50 |
Session II - Trade and Investment Agreements and the WTO Chairperson – Ambassador Manickam Supperamaniam Speaker No. 1 – Mr Stefan Amarasinha ‘The Case for Critical Mass Agreements in the WTO’ Speaker No. 2 – Dr Brett Williams ‘Reconciling Discriminatory Trade Agreements with the GATT/WTO Objective of Eliminating Discrimination in International Trade’ Speaker No. 3 – Associate Professor, Dr Andrew Mitchell ‘The Implications of WTO & Investment Law for Tobacco Control Measures’ Speaker No. 4 – Professor Bryan Mercurio ‘The Potential Impact of Intellectual Property Rights in Bilateral Investment Treaties’
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12:50-13:50 |
Lunch |
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13:50-15:10 |
Session III - Dispute Resolution, Trade Remedy and Economic Integration Chairperson: Professor Shin-yi Peng Speaker No. 1 – Professor Yasuhei Taniguchi ‘Dispute Settlement and Economic Integration in the Asia-Pacific Region’ Speaker No. 2 – Professor David Morgan ‘The Future of Dispute Settlement in the WTO, Looking Forward 10 Years’ Speaker No. 3 – Associate Professor, Dr Yanning Yu ‘China's Adopting Emergency Safeguard Measures for Services: A Political Economy Analysis’
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15:10-15:30 |
Coffee |
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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’
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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’ |
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17:30-17:35 |
Announcement of EMC2 Semi Finalists by Mrs Letizia Raschella-Sergi EMC2 Asia-Pacific Academic Supervisor |
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17:35-17:45 |
Close of Conference by Professor Chang-fa Lo Executive Director of ACWH and EMC2 Regional Round Administrator |
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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 |
