Conference: Indicators as a Technology of Global Governance
Conference Program
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Monday Sept 13, 2010
9:00-9:45 Indicators as a Social Phenomenon: Framing the Study (Video webcast)
Benedict Kingsbury, NYU School of Law
Sally Merry, NYU Department of Anthropology, NYU School of Law
Kevin Davis, NYU School of Law
9:45-11:15 Regulatory Implications of Governance by Information (Video webcast)
Unintentional Regulation: How Measures Can Become Disciplinary (investigate the influence of media rankings on higher education)
Michael Sauder, University of Iowa, and Wendy Espeland, Northwestern University
Taming and Framing Indicators: A Legal Reconstruction of the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
Armin Von Bogdandy and Matthias Goldmann, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
Discussant: Professor Sabino Cassese, Italian Constitutional Court
Moderator: Benedict Kingsbury, NYU School of Law
11:30-12:55 Design and Construction of Indicators: Sources of Authority and Distribution of Power (Video webcast)
Re-Construction of Private Indicators for Public Purposes
Katharina Pistor, Columbia Law School
Problems of Power in the Design of Indicators of Safety and Justice in the Global South
Christopher Stone, Harvard Kennedy School
Discussant: Bruce Carruthers, Northwestern University
Moderator: Kevin Davis, NYU School of Law
2:00-3:45 Demand and Supply of Indicators in Economic Decision-Making (Video webcast)
Prepare your indicators: Economics imperialism on the shores of law and development
Amanda Perry-Kessaris, School of Law, SOAS, University of London
Supply of Indicators in the Context of International Trade
Tim Buthe, Duke University
Social Investment Impact Indicators
Sarah Dadush, NYU School of Law
Discussants: Richard Stewart and Eyal Benvenisti, NYU School of Law
Moderators: Kevin Davis, NYU School of Law
4:00-6:00 Round Table Discussion (Video webcast)
Juan Carlos Botero, The World Justice Project
Paul Benjamin, University of Cape Town
Yamini Aiyar, Center for Policy Research, New Delhi
Vijay Tata, World Bank
Jose Maria Garrido, World Bank
Luciana Gross Cunha, Escola de Direito de São Paulo, FGV
Tuesday Sept 14, 2010
9:00-10:40 Use of Indicators and their Alternatives (Video webcast)
Indicators in International Economic Governance
Andrew Lang, London School of Economics, Department of Law
Legal Yardsticks: International Financial Institutions as Legal Diagnosticians and Remedial Agents
Terence Halliday, American Bar Foundation
Corporations, Indicators, and Human Rights: A Material Semiotics View
Ronen Shamir, Tel Aviv University
Discussant: Gregory Shaffer, University of Minnesota Law School
Moderator: Sally Merry, NYU Department of Anthropology, NYU School of Law
10:55-12:55 Improving the Quality of Life: Knowledge Production and Use of Indicators in Developing Countries (Video webcast)
Manufacturing Malaria Indicators: Making ‘malaria’ in a Tanzanian location
Rene Gerrets, University of Amsterdam
Local Practices and Translocal Indicators: ethnographic case studies in the fields of Urban Water Supply (Tanzania), Drug Supply (Uganda) and Community Courts (South Africa)
Richard Rottenburg, Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Immunization Coverage Indicators: Technology of Public Health Governance
Angelina Fisher, NYU School of Law
Quantitative and Ethnographic Research on Child Rights: Implications for the Assignment of Culpability and Responsibility
Elizabeth Boyle, University of Minnesota
Discussant: Emily Martin, NYU Anthropology Department
Moderator: Sally Merry, NYU Department of Anthropology, NYU School of Law
1:55-3:35 Exercise of Power and Political Mobilization: Using Trafficking-in-Persons Indicators (Video webcast)
Human trafficking prosecutions, monitoring systems, and transnational organized crime
Kay Warren, Brown University
The Politics of Human Trafficking Reporting in Eastern Europe: A Case Study of Belarus
John Hagan, Northwestern University
The Use of Indicators to Measure Government Responses to Indicators
Janie Chuang, American University, Washington College of Law, and Anne T. Gallagher, Asia Regional Trafficking in Persons (ARTIP) Project
Discussant: Sally Merry, NYU Department of Anthropology, NYU School of Law
Moderator: Angelina Fisher, NYU School of Law
3:50-5:30 Use of Indicators to Define Concepts and Measure Compliance: Case Studies of State Effectiveness, Human Rights and Humanitarian Assistance (Video webcast)
Design, creation and deployment of numerical indexes to measure state effectivness
Nehal Bhuta, The New School Graduate Program in International Affairs
Internally Displaced Population in Colombia: A case study on indicators as technologies of global governance and their local appropriation
Rene Urueña, Universidad de los Andes
Indicators in Crisis: Rights-Based Humanitarianism in Post-Earthquake Haiti
Meg Satterthwaite, NYU School of Law
Discussant: Ryan Goodman, NYU School of Law
Moderator: Benedict Kingsbury, NYU School of Law
5:30-5:45 Wrap-Up and Moving Forward
