Conference Schedule | Registration Information
Library of International Relations | Illinois Institute of Technology | Chicago-Kent College of Law

China has emerged as a major force in the global economy. Rapid economic growth in this home to more than one-fifth of the world's population has placed it among the leading recipients of American, European and Japanese investment. China's export trade surplus with the United States rivals that of Japan. Trade relations with China have become a "front burner" issue not only in the United States, but in numerous other countries as these trade and investment relations have developed.

This conference brings together government and business leaders who are directly involved in trade relations with China as well as some of the world's leading international economists and international trade lawyers. These leading figures will examine the critical issues in China-U.S. trade relations, China's accession to the World Trade Organization, and China's role in the world trading system. Included in the program are representatives of some of the major U.S. corporations that already have a presence in China. The issues to be discussed are of the greatest importance to business executives doing or contemplating doing business in China or Asia, to international lawyers representing such businesses, and to students of international law and international relations.
A highlight of the two-day conference will be the keynote address of Long Yongtu, Vice Minister and Chief Representative for Trade Negotiation, Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, People's Republic of China. Vice Minister Long's address will be at Dinner on Thursday, 6 November 97 and may be attended separately. Registration for the dinner is included for all Conference registrants.
Thursday, November 6

8:15 Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 Welcoming Remarks
Prof. Lewis Collens, President, Illinois Institute of Technology
Prof. Mickie Voges, Director, Library of International Relations

9:15 Introductory Remarks
Prof. Frederick Abbott, Conference Organizer, Chicago-Kent College of Law

China as an Economic Actor on the World Stage: An Overview
Mr. Gary Hufbauer, Director of Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, New York

China's Economic System and its New Role in the World Economy
Tan Xiaobing, Economic Affairs Officer, Trade Analysis and Systemic Issues Branch, International Trade Division, UNCTAD

China's Economic Development and Business Opportunity
Sig Ramseyer, Vice President, Asia-Pacific Division, Caterpillar, Inc.

Questions and Comments

10:20 Coffee Break

10:40 The Process of WTO Accession
Jeffrey Gertler, WTO Legal Division, Secretary to the China Accession Working Party

The Institutional Ramifications of WTO Accession
John Jackson, Professor of Law, University of Michigan

WTO Accession: A Private Sector View
Michael Gadbaw, Vice President and Senior Counsel, General Electric Co.

Questions and Comments

11:40 The European Union and China
Meinhard Hilf, Professor of Law, University of Hamburg

Japan and China, and the Appellate Body in the New WTO Dispute Settlement Systems
Mitsui Matsushita, Member of the WTO Appellate Body, Professor of Law, Seikei University

The United States and China
Lee Sands, Co-Chair, International Trade Practice, Mayer, Brown & Platt, former Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for China and Japan

Questions and Comments

12:45-
2:30		 Lunch
Welcome -- Prof. Henry H. Perritt, Jr., Vice-President of the Downtown Campus
and Dean of Chicago-Kent College of Law

Introductions -- Ms. Lyric Hughes, President, TLI International, Inc.

Keynote Speaker -- Mr. David Brooks,
Director of International Product Strategy, Microsoft, Inc.

Keynote Speaker -- Mr. Robert Cassidy,
Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for China

2:45 Emerging Doctrines of Good Governance
Thomas Cottier, Professor of Law, University of Berne, former Deputy Director General,
Swiss Federal Intellectual Property Office

Intellectual Property Law in the Economic Development of China(Synopsis & Paper)
Gao Lulin, Commissioner, China Patent Office

China's Intellectual Property Rights Regime
Deborah Lehr, Co-Chair, International Trade Practice, Mayer, Brown & Platt,
former Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for China and Japan

Questions and Comments

3:45 Coffee Break

4:00 Developments in Chinese Enterprise Law
Stefan Riesenfeld, Professor of Law, University of California at Berkeley and University of California, Hastings

China and Hong Kong, Lessons of the Transition
Dan Tarlock, Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law

Questions and Comments

6:30 Cocktails and Dinner Keynote

Introductions
Richard Daley, Mayor, City of Chicago
American Airlines, TBA
Deborah Lehr, Co-Chair, International Trade Practice, Mayer, Brown & Platt, former
Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for China and Japan

Keynote Speaker -- Long Yongtu,
Vice Minister and Chief Representative for Trade Negotiation, Ministry of
Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, People's Republic of China

Friday, November 7

9:00 APEC as the Asia-Pacific Model for Regional Economic Cooperation
Jonathan Fried, Director General and Chief Negotiator on China's WTO Accession,
General Trade Policy Bureau, Department of Foreign Affairs, Canada

The Aerospace Industry Role in China and APEC
Raymond Waldmann, Vice President of International Business, The Boeing Company

APEC as a Forum for the Settlement of Disputes
Thomas Schoenbaum, Director of the Dean Rusk Center and Professor of Law
University of Georgia

APEC as Promoter of Sustainable Development
Bartram Brown, Assistant Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law

Questions and Comments

10:30 Global Information Infrastructure in China and the Developing Countries
Larry Forgy, Acting Work Program Administrator, World Bank InfoDev Program

Private Enterprises and the Telecommunications Market in China
Motorola, Inc., TBA

Questions and Comments

11:30 Coffee

11:50 Agriculture and Agricultural Trade
William Miner, Centre for Trade Policy and Law, Ottawa, former Assistant Deputy
Minister of Agriculture, Canada

The Potential Role of Competition Law in China's Economic Development
David Gerber, Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law

State Trading in China
Will Martin, Senior Economist, International Trade Division, World Bank

Questions and Comments

1:00 Concluding Remarks
Frederick M. Abbott, Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law

Library of International Relations Conference Schedule
Illinois Institute of Technology Registration Information
Chicago-Kent College of Law Global Law and Policy Initiative
Return to the Top