Free Trade, Sovereignty, Democracy
The Future of the World Trade Organization
Wednesday, November 14, 2001 | 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Wohlstetter Conference Center, twelfth floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20036
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About This Event
In Free Trade, Sovereignty, Democracy, Claude E. Barfield describes the constitu­tional flaws in the World Trade Organization that in the future may well raise issues of democratic legitimacy and national sovereignty. While writing as a strong supporter of the multilateral trading system, he argues that the new judicial system established at the end of the Uruguay Round "overshot" and should be replaced with more flexible (less rigid) procedures that foster compromise and conciliation on fundamental and divisive issues of social, environmental, and economic policy. Also, while supporting greater transparency and inclusiveness in WTO proceedings, he challenges demands by corporations on the Right and nongovernmental organizations on the Left for more direct participation and for bypassing national governments in the dispute settlement process.
Agenda

2:45 p.m.

Registration

3:00

Introduction:

Christopher DeMuth, AEI

Presentation:

Claude E. Barfield, AEI

Discussants:

John Jackson, Georgetown University Law School

Robert Keohane, Duke University

Stephen Krasner, Stanford University

5:00

Adjournment

AEI Participants

 

Claude
Barfield
  • Claude Barfield, a former consultant to the office of the U.S. Trade Representative, researches international trade policy (including trade policy in China and East Asia), the World Trade Organization (WTO), intellectual property, and science and technology policy. His many books include Free Trade, Sovereignty, Democracy: The Future of the World Trade Organization (AEI Press, 2001), in which he identifies challenges to the WTO and to the future of trade liberalization.
  • Phone: 2028625879
    Email: cbarfield@aei.org
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Christopher
DeMuth
  • Christopher DeMuth was president of AEI from December 1986 through December 2008. Previously, he was administrator for information and regulatory affairs in the Office of Management and Budget and executive director of the Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief in the Reagan administration; taught economics, law, and regulatory policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; practiced regulatory, antitrust, and general corporate law; and worked on urban and environmental policy in the Nixon White House.

     

  • Phone: 2028625895
    Email: cdemuth@aei.org

  • Assistant Info

    Name: Keriann Hopkins
    Phone: 2028625897
    Email: keriann.hopkins@aei.org
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