Thursday, June 14th
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h. 14.10 – 16.30 Session One – Governance by Indicators
Chair: Giulio Vesperini (Tuscia University)
- Benedict Kingsbury (NYU School of Law) Indicators and Law in Global Governance
- Christiane Arndt (OECD) The Politics of Global Rankings
Discussant: David Nelken (University of Macerata)
- Ariel Colonomos (CNRS-CERI) Sovereign Ratings as Normative Predictions: The Preference for a Stable Future
- Nehal Bhuta (EUI) Governmentalizing Sovereignty: Indexes of State Fragility and the Calculability of Political Order
- Sabino Cassese (Italian Constitutional Court) and Lorenzo Casini (Sapienza University) Public Regulation of Global Indicators
Discussant: Stefano Battini (Tuscia University)
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h. 17.00 – 19.00 Session Two – Global Health and Human Rights Indicators
Chair: Marcello Clarich (LUISS)
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- Melanie Samson (NYU School of Law) Indicators as a monitoring tool for the implementation of Global Health Law *
Discussant: Gian Luca Burci (WHO)
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- Marta Infantino (Trieste University) The Law of Indicators on Women’s Human Rights: Unmet Promises and Global Challenges *
- Emma Dunlop (St. Anne’s College, Oxford) Indications of Progress? Assessing the Use of Indicators in UNHCR Operations *
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Discussant: Angelina Fisher (NYU School of Law)
Friday, June 15th
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h. 9.00 – 11.15 Session Three – Indicators and Development
Chair: Christiane Arndt (OECD)
- Kevin Davis (NYU School of Law) Legal Indicators: Potential and Perils
- Maria Angelica Prada Uribe (Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá) Development through Data? A Case Study on the World Bank’s Performance Indicators and their Impact on Development in the Global South *, **
- Michael Riegner (Justus Liebig University) Measuring the Good Governance State: A Legal Reconstruction of the World Bank’s “Country Policy and Institutional Assessment” *, **
Discussant: Gaby Umbach (EUI)
- David T. Hofisi and Araya K. Araya (Loyola University Chicago) The Ease of Doing Business and Land Grabbing: Critique of the Investing-Across-Borders Indicators
- Itai Apter (Israel Ministry of Justice) Corruption in the Eye of the Beholder – Creating Milestones for Future Global Corruption Indicators *
Discussant: Kevin Davis (NYU School of Law) and Sarah Dadush (IFAD)
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h. 11.45 – 13.15 Session Four – Framing and Positioning of Issues through Indicators
Chair: Benedict Kingsbury (NYU School of Law)
- Florencia D. Lebensohn (NYU School of Law) Assessing the Indicators of GHG Emissions as a New Form of Governance*
- Peter Robson (S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah) The Global Aquaculture Performance Index *
- Angelina Fisher (NYU School of Law) Education Indicators in India
- Asta Zokaityte (Kent Law School), Imaginaries of Governance: Indexing Happiness and Well-being *
Discussants: Nehal Bhuta (EUI) Rene Urueña (Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá)
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h. 14.15 – 15.45 Session Five – Economic and Financial Indicators
Chair: Kevin Davis (NYU School of Law)
- Matthias Goldmann (Max Planck Institute of Heidelberg) Stress Testing Stress Tests: How to Make Financial Indicators Legitimate and Effective *
- José Angelo Estrella Faria (UNIDROIT) Legal Norms as Indicators: A case study from the UNIDROIT Perspective
- Amparo Salvador (University of Navarra) Marketable Risks in Export Credit insurance: A Global Administrative Law Indicator Case *
- Yinling Zhou (Wuhan University International Law Institute, China) China’s Role in Shaping Global Indicators: Insights on the Global Knowledge Economy *
Discussants: Giulio Napolitano (Roma Tre University) Nicola Lupo (LUISS)
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h. 15.45 – 17.45 Final Session: Indicators and Law
Chair: Marta Cartabia (Italian Constitutional Court)
- Nikhil Dutta (NYU School of Law) Qualitative and Quantitative Conditionality: Accountability in the EU Accession and MCC Processes
- Rene Urueña (Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá) The Rule of Law Index: An exploration of indicators as the working language for interaction among regimes
- Georgios Dimitropoulos (NYU School of Law) Global Administrative Law as “Enabling Law”: How to Monitor and Evaluate Indicator-Based Performance *
Discussant: Edoardo Chiti (Tuscia University)
Concluding Remarks
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