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Corporations and Capitalism: Policy and Protest (2001)

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Feminism, Corporations, and Capitalism:

Policy and Protest

State University of New York at Buffalo Law School

April 20 - 21, 2001




Table of Contents

1. Program

2. List of Presenters

3. Papers


Sponsored by the Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy,

University at Buffalo Law School,

and the Feminism & Legal Theory Project, Cornell Law School






Feminism, Corporations, and Capitalism: Policy and Protest

State University of New York at Buffalo Law School April 20 - 21, 2001

ORDER OF PAPERS


Friday, April 20, 2001 Law School Faculty Lounge, 545 O'Brian Hall


4:00 - 6:30 p.m. Panel One: Local and Global Perspectives on International Trade


David Driesen, Syracuse University Law School

Free Trade as a "Neutral Principle"


Doug Kysar, Cornell Law School

Sustainability, Distribution and the Macroeconomic Analysis of Law


Cheryl Wade, Hofstra University School of Law

The Role of Empathy in the Processes of Corporate Governance: Elevating the Discourse on Race


Catherine Powell, Columbia University Law School, The Human Rights Institute

Feminism, the State, and the Market: The Need for a Culturally Conscious Human Rights Idea


7:15 p.m. Dinner at the home of Sara Faherty, 92 Fordham Drive, Buffalo. Tel: 875-8407.


Saturday, April 21, 2001 Law School Faculty Lounge, 545 O'Brian Hall


9:30 - 11:30 a.m. Panel Two: Markets, Cultures, and Identities


Teemu Ruskola, American University Law School

How Does One Tell a "Family" from a "Corporation"? Lessons from the Legal History of Late Imperial China


Annelise Riles, Northwestern University, visiting at Cornell Law School

Real Time: Governing the Market After the Failure of Knowledge


Janis Sarra, University of British Columbia Law School

Capital Market Convergence and the Gender Implications of Corporate Governance Change


11:45 a.m.- 1:00 p.m. Lunch in the Faculty Lounge and Courtyard


Marleen O'Connor, Stetson University College of Law

American Corporate Governance: Achieving Sustainable Flexibility Through Work/Family Balance


1:00 - 3:15 p.m. Panel Three: Critical Perspectives on Corporate Governance


Poonam Puri, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, visiting at Cornell Law School

The Death of Liability in the Law Firm: A Critical Analysis of Limited Liability Partnerships


Faith Stevelman Kahn, New York Law School

Feminism, Corporations and Capitalism: A Research Agenda


3:30 - 5:30 p.m. Panel Four: Corporations - Political and Social


Risa Lieberwitz, Cornell University, School of Industrial & Labor Relations

Academic Freedom vs. Corporatization: Rediscovering a Collective Faculty Identity


Joan Gilmour, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

Creeping Privatization in the Health Care System: Implications for Women as the State ReDraws its Role


Linda McClain, Hofstra University School of Law

Unleashing "Armies of Compassion": The Role of the Nonprofit Sector in "Strengthening

Families" and Building the "Civic Capital Economy."


7:00 p.m. Dinner (details of venue forthcoming)




Feminism, Corporations, and Capitalism:

Policy and Protest

Sponsored by the Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, University at Buffalo Law School,

and the Feminism & Legal Theory Project, Cornell Law School

State University of New York at Buffalo Law School

April 20 - 21, 2001


PRELIMINARY PROGRAM


Friday, April 20, 2001 Law School Faculty Lounge, 545 O'Brian Hall


3:30 p.m. Arrivals and registration

4:00 - 6:30 p.m.


Panel One: Local and Global Perspectives on International Trade


David Driesen, Syracuse University Law School

Free Trade as a "Neutral Principle"


Doug Kysar, Cornell Law School

Sustainability, Distribution and the Macroeconomic Analysis of Law


Cheryl Wade, Hofstra University School of Law

The Role of Empathy in the Processes of Corporate Governance: Elevating the Discourse on Race


Catherine Powell, Columbia University Law School, The Human Rights Institute

Feminism, the State, and the Market: The Need for a Culturally Conscious Human Rights Idea


7:15 p.m. Dinner (details of venue forthcoming)


Saturday, April 21, 2001 Law School Faculty Lounge, 545 O'Brian Hall


9:30 - 11:30 a.m.


Panel Two: Markets, Cultures, and Identities


Teemu Ruskola, American University Law School

How Does One Tell a "Family" from a "Corporation"? Lessons from the Legal History of Late Imperial China


Annelise Riles, Northwestern University, visiting at Cornell Law School

Real Time: Governing the Market After the Failure of Knowledge


Janis Sarra, University of British Columbia Law School

Capital Market Convergence and the Gender Implications of Corporate Governance Change


11:45 a.m.- 1:00 p.m Lunch in the Faculty Lounge and Courtyard


Marleen O'Connor, Stetson University College of Law

American Corporate Governance: Achieving Sustainable Flexibility Through Work/Family Balance


1:00 - 3:15 p.m.

Panel Three: Critical Perspectives on Corporate Governance


Poonam Puri, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, visiting at Cornell Law School

The Death of Liability in the Law firm: A Critical Analysis of Limited Liability Partnerships


Faith Stevelman Kahn, New York Law School

Feminism, Corporations and Capitalism: A Research Agenda


3:15 - 3:30 p.m. Break

3:30 - 5:30 p.m.


Panel Four: Corporations - Political and Social


Risa Lieberwitz, Cornell University, School of Industrial & Labor Relations

Academic Freedom vs. Corporatization: Rediscovering a Collective Faculty Identity


Joan Gilmour, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

Creeping Privatization in the Health Care System: Implications for Women as the State Re-Draws its Role


Linda McClain, Hofstra University School of Law

Unleashing "Armies of Compassion": The Role of the Nonprofit Sector in "Strengthening Families" and Building the "Civic Capital Economy."


7:00 p.m. Dinner at the home of Sara Faherty, 92 Fordham Drive, Buffalo. . Tel: 875-8407.

Departures Saturday evening/Sunday morning



Feminism, Corporations, and Capitalism Workshop

April 20-21, 2001

Presenters


Prof. David M. Driesen

Syracuse Univ. College of Law

Syracuse, NY 13244-1030

Tel: (315) 443-4218


Prof. Linda C. McClain

121 Hofstra University

Hofstra University School of Law

Hempstead, NY 11549-1210

Tel: (516) 463-5867

lawlcm@hofstra.edu


Professor Joan Gilmour

Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3

Tel: (416) 736-5561


Prof. Marleen O'Connor

Stetson Univ. College of Law

1401 61st Street, South

St. Petersburg, FL 33707

Tel: (813) 562-7873


Prof. Faith Stevelman Kahn

New York Law School

57 Worth Street

New York, NY 10013

Tel: (212) 431-2197


Prof. Catherine Powell

Human Rights Institute

Columbia University Law School

435 West 116" Street

New York, NY 10027

Tel: (212) 854-5705


Professor Douglas A. Kysar

218 Myron Taylor Hall

Cornell Law School

Ithaca, NY 14853

Tel: (607) 255-1245



Professor Poonam Puri

Myron Taylor Hall

Cornell Law School

Ithaca, New York 14853

Tel: (607) 255-0069


Professor Risa Lieberwitz

Ives Hall

School of Industrial & Labor Relations

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853

Tel: (607) 255-3289

rll5(@cornell.edu


Professor Annelise Riles

Myron Taylor Hall

Cornell Law School

Ithaca, NY 14853

Tel: (607) 255-3763


Prof. Teemu Ruskola

Assistant Professor of Law

American University

4801 Massachusetts Ave., NW

Washington, D.C. 20016

Tel: (202) 274-4172


Dr. Janis Sarra

Faculty of Law

University of British Columbia

c/o 1A Nottawa Avenue

Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5J 1Z5

Tel: (416) 203-9943


Prof. Cheryl Wade

121 Hofstra University

Hofstra University School of Law

Hempstead, NY 11549-1210

Tel: (516) 463-5928

lawclw@mail1.hofstra.edu


Organizers


Prof. Martha Fineman

Myron Taylor Hall

Cornell Law School

Ithaca, NY 14853

Tel: (607) 255-2622


Prof. Dalia Tsuk

Univ. of Arizona College of Law

Tucson, AZ 85721-0176

(520) 626-6451


Prof. Martha McCluskey

714 O'Brian Hall

SUNY Buffalo School of Law

Amherst, NY 14260-1100

Tel: (716) 645-2326





 
 
 

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