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Schedule

Duke Law School
March 3-4, 2006

(Sessions will be held in Room 4044 of the Law School)

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Thursday, March 2
7:00 pm Informal Dinner for Participants
Pop’s Restaurant, 810 West Peabody Street
(Duke faculty will drive participants to and from the restaurant. Please meet in the lobby of the hotel at 6:45 pm if you are on the list to go to dinner.)
Friday, March 3
8:00 — 8:30 am Continental Breakfast
8:30 — 8:45 am Opening Remarks by Chris Schroeder, Curtis Bradley, and
Judith Kelley
8:45 — 10:30 am Session 1: The Concept of International Delegation

Papers: Curtis A. Bradley & Judith G. Kelley,
The Concept of International Delegation

David Epstein & Sharyn O'Halloran,
Delegation Games and Sovereignty

Andrew T. Guzman & Jennifer Landsidle,
The Myth of International Delegation

David A. Lake, Delegating Divisible Sovereignty: Some Conceptual Issues

Commentators: Laurence Helfer and Robert Keohane

10:30 — 10:45 am Break
10:45 am — 12:15 pm Session 2: U.S. Constitutional Issues

Papers: Curtis A. Bradley, Unratified Treaty Amendments and Constitutional Process

Eric A. Posner, International Delegation

Edward T. Swaine, Taking Turns

Commentator: Christopher Schroeder

12:15 — 1:30 pm Lunch in the Burdman Lounge
1:30 — 3:00 pm Session 3: The U.S. as a Delegator

Papers: Rachel Brewster, Delegating Retaliation:
Two American Experiences with the WTO

Judith G. Kelley & Robert O. Keohane, The United States and Delegation to International Institutions

Oona Hathaway, Does Delegation Undermine U.S. Sovereignty?

Commentator: Judith Goldstein

3:00 — 3:15 pm Break
3:15 — 5:00 pm Session 4: Behavior of International Institutions

Papers: Tim Buthe, Institutional Persistence and Change in International Delegation

Laurence R. Helfer, Theories of Change in International Organizations

Mark A. Pollack, Principal-Agent Analysis
and International Delegation: Red Herrings, Theoretical Classifications, and Empirical Disputes

Michael J. Tierney, Delegation of Authority in International Relations: The Promise and Limits of Agency Theory

Commentators: Karen Alter and Eric Posner

6:15 — 7:00 pm Reception at the Washington Duke Inn
7:00 pm Dinner at the Washington Duke Inn
Saturday, March 4
8:00 — 8:30 am Continental Breakfast
8:30 — 10:15 am Session 5: Adjudicative Delegations

Papers: Karen J. Alter, Delegating to International Courts: Four Varieties of Delegation and their Implications for "Delegating Sovereignty"

Judith L. Goldstein & Richard H. Steinberg,
Delegation to the WTO: Liberalizing Through Legislation or Litigation?

Joost Pauwelyn, Calibrating the Life-Cycle
of International Delegation

Ernest A. Young, Allocating Remedial Responsibilities Between Domestic and Supranational Courts

Commentators: Rachel Brewster and Michael Tierney

10:15 — 10:30 am Break
10:30 — 11:00 am Session 6: Humanitarian Intervention

Paper: Bruce W. Jentleson, Humanitarian Intervention and Sovereignty Delegation: Why? When? Who Decides? How Much?

Commentator: David Lake

11:00 — 11:05 am Break
11:05 am — 12:00 pm Wrap-Up Discussion
Boxed lunches will be available at the conclusion of the workshop.