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The Fourth Annual Cummings Colloquium on Environmental Law Duke University |
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April 30 - May 1, 1999 Durham, North Carolina For Information call (919) 660-1760 or contact Duke University Conference Services at: confserv@informer.duke.edu |
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Colloquium Abstract Global enviornmental threats increasingly demand global solutions. Yet effective and efficient institutional structures for managing the global commons remain elusive. This colloquium will ask whether new global property systems, such as tradeable allowances for greenhouse gas emissions, can respond to the challenge of protecting the planet. Convening scholars on the environment, economics, political schience, law, and related disciplines, the conference will address important questions about the roles different property regimes could play to ensure a healthy world. Can new global property laws and market-based institutions be successfully designed and implemented to constrain oversue of the global enviornment? Can global environmental resources be "propertized" in effective ways, so that global environmental conservation and stewardship is "internalized" into global markets and can be "purchased" by its beneficiaries? Can property rights in the global environment be created under international treaty law, whereas traditional property rights - even to goods now traded in global markets - have evolved locally? What institutions are needed to create and supervise new global environmental property markets, ensuring both efficiency and fairness? How can the transaction cost of adopting and operating such property systems be minimized, so as to maximize the likelihood and gains of their establishment? How could new environmental property rights mesh with the larger world economy, and with local economies and cultures? |
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Featured Speakers |
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Douglass North, Washington University 1993 Nobel Laureate in Economics Carl Rose, Yale University Terry Anderson, Political Economy Research Center Scott Barrett, London Business School |
David Victor, Council on Foreign Relations Thomas Merrill, Northwestern University Robert Kohane, Duke University Jonathan Wiener, Duke University Director, Cummings Colloquium on Environmental Law, Harvard Law School Visiting Professor |
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Agenda |
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Friday, April 30, 1999 Washington Duke Inn (WDI), Duke University 8:30 am Registration and Continental Breakfast, WDI 9:15 am Welcome 9:15 am Keynote Address: Douglass North Institutional Economics, Property Rights, and the Global Environment 11:15 am Session I: From Local to Global Commons 1:00 pm Lunch 2:45 pm Session II: From Local to Global Property 4:30 pm Spring Break(out) 6:00 pm Reception - Open Bar 7:00 pm Adjourn |
Saturday, May 1, 1999 Washington Duke Inn 9:00 am Session III: Constructing International Environmental Agreements 10:45 am Session IV: Making Global Environmental Markets Work 12:30 am Lunch 2:00 pm Adjourn |
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Sponsored by Duke University: The Nicholas School for the Environment, The Duke School of Law and The Office of the Provost Duke University |
Additional Sponsors: Duke Center for International Studies Duke Environmental Law Society Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum |