Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main hosts International Investment Law and the Global Financial Architecture: Sovereign Debt, Taxation and Financial Market Regulation on March 14-15, 2014. Papers are invited.
Recent years have seen governments around the world re-regulate (or consider re-regulating) markets in response to financial, banking, and sovereign debt crises. Re-regulation has been most clearly felt in the banking sector, but has also affected, amongst others, capital markets, rating agencies, and cross-border finance. All of this takes place in order to stabilize financial markets and to reduce the exposure of governments and central banks, but also supranational and international institutions (such as the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank, or the European Stability Mechanism) as lenders of last resort. Accordingly, the crises also involve serious concerns about public finance, including sovereign debt and taxation, monetary and fiscal policy, and sovereign insolvency. Government activities as regulators of, but also participants in, global financial markets therefore move center stage and with it questions about the role of international investment law in the current reorganization of the global financial architecture.
Invited papers will address the interaction between international investment law and financial market and banking regulation, free flow of capital, public finance, taxation, sovereign debt, and monetary and fiscal policy.
Deadline: November 10, 2013. Original and non-published submissions from both junior and senior scholars and practitioners are invited on the themes outlined above. An abstract of max. 800 words and the applicants CV should be sent (in .pdf or .doc format) to filw2014[@]mpil.de. The abstract must include a statement of the issue area of the paper, as well as an indication of the major arguments to be made, a title, and contact details. im
