Interdisciplinary Conference on Conflict of Interest 7-8 May 2010

The Basel Institute on Governance has the pleasure of inviting you to participate in a two-day interdisciplinary and international conference on “Conflict of Interest”.

The conference will be held on 7-8 May 2010 at the Faculty of Law of the University of Basel, Switzerland.

Conflict of interest is an important governance problem on all levels of governance, ranging from local to global, both in the public and the corporate sphere. Such conflict can influence decision making in the management of corporations, town councils, parliaments, national and international courts and tribunals, and in international conferences and organisations.

The law faculty of the University of Basel and the Basel Institute on Governance seek to explore this problem in corporate, public, and global governance, from a legal, political scientific, economic and sociological perspective, and from both a theoretical and practical angle. The conference and the publication which will arise out of it are dedicated to seeing how conflicts of interest are defined and dealt with in theory and practice. They also have the ambition of provoking the debate around a topic which can be value-laden, but on which factual evidence is, to some extent, lacking.

The objective is to develop an interdisciplinary and empirically grounded conceptual framework that links specific legal, social, political and economic tools to understand better how conflicts of interest can be defined, regulated, how they work in practice, at which level of governance they are most critical, and how they can be solved. The conference is aimed at being a mutual learning exercise for all participants.

Papers will be presented which have been selected from submissions to an international call for papers, and by invited keynote speakers from various disciplines who have already published in the field. All papers will be discussed, reviewed and edited so as to complement and respond to each other. The outcome of the learning process should be a coherent, interdisciplinary scholarly volume which will be proposed to Cambridge University Press for publication.

Download conference programme.

For further information contact: lic. phil. Daniel Hoegger, MA: daniel.hoegger(at)unibas.ch

Link to on-line registration

Conference fee: CHF 120 (CHF 60 for students).

Conference Dinner on 7 May 2010: CHF 60.

For information regarding accommodation, please visit http://www.basel.com.

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Abstracts of the speakers

Prof Dr Kocra Assoua

Prof Dr Jean–Bernhard Auby

Prof Dr Rashid Bahar

Anna Christmann

Michal Davala

Prof Dr Michael Davis

Dr Gregor Dobler

Prof Dr Sergio Fabbrini

Prof Dr Erhard Friedberg

Prof Dr Omer Faruk Genckaya & M. Erdal Okutan

Prof Dr Giovanni Guzzetta

Prof Dr Lukas Handschin

Alexandra R. Harrington

John Onyeukwu

Prof Dr Guido Palazzo

Dr Jan Christoph Richter

Prof Dr Andrew Stark

Prof Dr Alois Stutzer & Thomas Brändle

René Uruena

The conference is generously supported by the Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft (FAG), the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) and the Stiftung zur Förderung der rechtlichen und wirtschaftlichen Forschung an der Universität Basel.