8:00-9:30- Monday, November 16, 2015 - Governance and the Law-Day One Registration and Coffee Welcoming Remarks -Anne-Marie Leroy, Senior Vice President and World Bank Group General Counsel Keynote Speaker - Hon. Lady Justice Njoki S. Ndun gu, Supreme Court of Kenya 11:15-2:00 2:00- How customary international law is formed Role of IFIs and IOs in global standard-setting (TED talk-style) Hard Law, Soft Law? Do different normative instruments affect national rule of law reform and development differently? Roundtable-Importance of Dialogue with Judiciaries To Promote Governance, Human Rights, Peace and Development and Improve Peoples Lives in Africa Lunch break, and Atrium Experts on Call by appointment only from 12.30-1.00 and 1.30-2.00 How countries transpose international legal norms into domestic legal and regulatory frameworks Ten Years of RtoP: The Way Ahead. Implementation of a normative principle MC6-317 Global Forum Steering Committee Meeting (closed session) Closing the implementation gap: clean solutions for dirty money? - 4:30 4:30-6:00 6:30-8:00 Atrium Knowledge Café - International Board for Economic Regulations Reason for Being, Methodology and First Lessons Learned By Confronting Different Regulatory Systems: A Case in Point Provided by a Compared Analysis of Competition Regulation; - Business and Human Rights: toward a new business governance and the leading role for the legal profession; - Judicial Integrity Scan: Making the Bangalore Principles work in reality; - Knowledge Café on Cybercrime: Past, Present and Beyond; - Justice as a public service to achieve share prosperity improving its delivery and access to citizens and businesses; - Geopolitics as Challenges and Facilitators of legal Development; - Regulation and Oil Wealth Redistribution in Nigeria Citizen participation in the formulation of domestic law Why lawyers and economists should care about how laws are worded and structured? Public services, natural monopolies, and governance and law implications Reception at the George Washington University Location: Michael K. Young Faculty Conference Center 716 20th street, NW 5th floor [TBC].
- 10:30 10:30- - 2:00 2:00- - 4:30 4:30-5:15 6:00-8:00 Tuesday, November 17, 2015 - Governance and the Law-Day Two Registration and Coffee Law s Power to Safeguard Public Health Land Reform and Transitional Justice -Policies, Laws and implementation, and Atrium Experts on Call by appointment only Legal strategies that accelerate or decelerate LGBT rights African Mining Legislation Atlas Why do People Comply with Laws Lunch break, and Atrium Experts on Call by appointment only from 12.30-1.00 and 1.30-2.00 Integrating Human Rights into Development: Donor Approaches Experiences and Challenges Accessible Technology for Persons with Disabilities: Addressing Legal and Governance Gaps Constitutionmaking processes The Role of National Legal Identity in Development: Challenges and Benefits The Role of Precedent in the Effective Application, Interpretation, and Implementation of the Law: Comparative Lessons from Germany, Japan, Mainland China, Taiwan, and the United States Atrium Knowledge Café - Make the law accessible and comprehensible for more legal security: the example of the reform of contract law in France; - The Uniform implementation and application of laws through capacity-building and institutional reform for good governance; - Emerging Technologies to Enhance Accountability Mechanisms for the Justice Sector or Regional Perspectives on Implementing Effective Transitions to Adversarial Criminal Justice Systems; - Revisiting the Legal Origins hypothesis in Economic Development; - Capacity-Building for Secured Transactions Reform to Improve Access to Credit; - OHADA Legal Instrument for Economic and Social Development; - How to make justice work for children in the Middle East; - Developments in International Ocean and Fisheries Law. Concluding Session: Summary and Synthesis of View Reception sponsored by the American Bar Association, Section of International Law [TBC]
- 10:30 10:30- - 2:00 2:00- Registration and Coffee Wednesday, November 18, 2015 MENA Day Welcoming Remarks - Anne-Marie Leroy, Senior Vice President and World Bank Group General Counsel Opening Remarks - Hafez Ghanem, Regional Vice President, Middle East and North Africa Region, World Bank Keynote Speaker - Dr. Nabil El-Araby, Secretary General of the League of Arab States Constitutional reform process in the Middle East: Identifying Trends in Constitutional Reform across the Region Natural Resources, Governance and Development in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries Lunch The development and Impact of International Investment Agreements in the Middle East and North Africa (ICSID session) Islamic Finance and Development Islamic Development Bank Islamic Finance Islamic Finance and Development Project and Trade Finance The Legal Profession in the Middle East (Challenges and Opportunities) Women Business and the Law: Is Legal Reform necessary for Women s Economic Empowerment or will women s economic empowerment lead to legal reform? The Role of Bilateral Development Agencies - 4:00 4:00-5:30 PPP How Governments make Better Decisions * *Please note this session s focus is beyond MENA Legal Challenges facing Refugees in Host Countries Small-scale Public-Private Partnerships: developing urban mobility, environmental improvement and human solidarity The examples of Sao Paulo and Recife* * Please note this session s focus is beyond MENA MENA Metropolises and the Challenges of Immigration, Alienation and Crime: A Plan for Action Islamic Finance and Development Guarantees and Political Insurance Islamic Finance Devolution or Disintegration: Whiter the State in MENA? Implementation Challenges in RoL Processes * * Please note this session s focus is beyond MENA IFC Investments in MENA
- 10:45 Registration and coffee IFIs and Human Rights (Legal and Institutional Considerations) Is Jurisdictional Immunity of International Organizations a Denial of Justice? Thursday, November 19, 2015 IFI Day General Counsels Roundtable (part 1 - Closed Session) Islamic Finance and Anti Money Laundering Drivers of Corruption Study: Third Round Table Child Marriage: Economic, Health, Education and Legal Aspects 10:45- - 1:30 1:30-3:15 3:15- - 5:15 New Directions in International Development Finance. Fragile States Role of Women General Counsels Roundtable (part 2 - Closed Session) TWG ROLJR meeting Lunch break Room [TBC] National Dialogues and Political Settlements Room [TBC] Introduction to the Grievance Redress Mechanism Applying Safeguards in a Challenging Environment Algorithm as Law Preston auditorium Judicial Enforcement of Claims and Macro-Economic Criticality: IMF Approaches an Experiences Index of Legal Certainty Emerging Issues for Lenders and the Intersection of Insolvency and Secured transactions Trust Funds Procurement Reform MC5-100 Drivers of Corruption (closed session) Supporting Anticorruption Efforts Using Anti-Money Laundering TWG ANTICORRUPTION Is Happiness the Ultimate Aim for Social Economic Development MC6-317 Articles Commentary (Closed session) Sanctions and Debarment in IFIs, UN Organizations and other international Organizations 5:30 7:00 Effect of Crime on Development Political Instability and Regime Change Reception: World Bank Legal Review Volume 6 and 7 launch event Rule of Law and Development: Sustainable Development Goals and Environmental and Social Frameworks for Investment Financing
- 10:30 Registration and coffee Insolvency Task Force Friday, November 20, 2015 Promoting Good Practices For Agricultural Investment (part 1) TWG ENVIRONMENT Plenary 10:30- - CoP Health Meeting + Counterfeit Medicines Project Insolvency Task Force TWG EMPOWERMENT meeting Promoting Good Practices For Agricultural Investment (part 2) Corporate Procurement TWG ENVIRONMENT Legal Aspects of Sustainable Energy for All Community of Practice I Building Safety and Security Part 1 [WB staff only]* *This session is tentatively scheduled from to 1:30 1:30 1:30-3:00 Anti-Counterfeiting Technologies TWG ENVIRONMENT - Lead Paint Elimination TWG ENVIRONMENT Legal challenges in financing collective action to arrest climate change Lunch break MC6-317 Poverty and International Poverty Law - Launch of the CoP Insolvency Task Force Out of School Children TWG ENVIRONMENT - Wrap-up session 3:00-3.30-5:00 Insolvency Task Force
Experts on Call (Monday -1:00/1.30-2.00) and Tuesday (10.30-11.00/ -1:00/1.30-2.00) Atrium Areas of Expertise How Can Lawyers be Prepared to Promote Justice, Sustainable Development and the Rule of Law? Law and land tenure security Health and Human rights State-Owned Enterprises: Mitigating Fiscal Risks Thought a Robust Legal Framework European Public Procurement Law The importance of an adequate supervision of Remittance and offshore companies; Anticorruption Compliance: Effective Strategies to Monitor Third Party Risk Anticorruption compliance Equity, inclusion, Poverty Reduction It s about Justice! The Emergence of Strategic Treaty Management and its Implications for International Law and Development International Investment Law: A Tool for Improving Domestic Economic Governance The Relevance of ADR to Financial Market Stability and Sustainable Development ABA and Prime Finance An Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) Initiative for the resolution of low intensity disputes in Chili, Costa Rica and Panama Building the formal judiciary system in conflict-affected area's (particularly the Great Lakes Region) Expert/s - Organization Danny Bradlow University of Pretoria, Center for Human Rights Willy Giachino Conseil Supérieur du Notariat Aurore Mansion Agence Française De Développement AFD Oscar Cabrera, Ana Ayala, O Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Francesca Daverio The World Bank Group, LEGVP Chryssoula Moukiou European Public Law Organization (EPLO) Fausto Martin De Sanctis, Federal Appellate Court for the Third Region, Sao Paulo, Brazil Obiamaka P. Madubuko, McDermott Will & Emery LLP, New York Andrea Redway, Canadian Bar Association Thomas F. McInerney Loyola University Roberto Echandi IFC Valentin Callipel Cyber justice Lab. University of Montreal Flávio Crocce Caetano, Secretary of Judicial Reform, Ministry of Justice, Brazil Erica Broeke, CORDAID