Joseph Straus

The Role of Law and Ethics in the Globalized Economy - MPI Studies on Intellectual Property and Competition Law Joseph Straus 2009 edition

Marc Notes: Conference papers.; Includes bibliographical references. Table of Contents: Preface -- List of Contributors -- Opening Addresses -- Joseph Straus -- R&uumlet;diger Wolfrum -- Dietmar Willoweit -- Felix Unger -- Session I. Globalization and the Responsible Political Decision Making / Danilo T&uumlet;rk -- The Challenge of Globalization and the Response of Politics / G&uumlet;nther Beckstein -- The Challenge of Globalization and the Response of Industry / Andreas Barner -- Session II. The Role of Corporations in Shaping Globalization with a Human Face / Klaus M. Leisinger -- Panel Statements -- Personalities Make the Difference / Robert W. MacGregor -- Corporate Responsibility-Essential! / Bertram Huber -- Session III. Towards Creating the Right Kind of Globalisation-Why it does not happen, and what to do about it / Prabhu Guptara -- Panel Statements -- Global Tax Competition and Tax Cooperation / Stanislaw Soltysiński -- Improving Process of Globalization: Role of WTO / Harsha Vardhana Singh -- Session IV. The Subprime Crisis and Financial Regulation: An International Perspective / Kenneth W. Dam -- Panel Statements -- Does the World Need TRIPS-like Instruments in Other Areas of Commerce and Finance? / Herbert Kronke -- The Future of Banking Regulation / David H. Mcilroy -- Session V. Regions Response to Globalization / Emilia M&uumlet;ller -- Panel Statements -- Munich as a Knowledge Hub / Reinhard Wieczorek -- Heterogeneous Response of Countries in Transition to the Globalization Challenge / Andrzej Olechowski -- Experiences and Actions of the Committee of the Regions of the European Union / Gerhard Stahl -- Session VI. Challenges of Globalization for Science and Research / Hubert Markl -- Panel Statements -- The Emphasis Should be on Advantages not an Challenges of Globalization / Russell K. Osgood -- In Need of an Ethic and Legal Framework to Secure International Cooperation / Sir Brian Heap -- Valorization of Knowledge-A Key to Success / Alain Pompidou. Publisher Marketing: Preface International conferences are not organized overnight especially not when high ranking personalities from politics, business and academia should be offered an adequate platform for addressing and discussing highly relevant contemporary issues. The conference on The Role of Law and Ethics in the Globalized Economy, which took place on May 22 and 23, 2008 in the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Munich, was no exception. When the first preparations started at the end of 2006, neither the subprime crises nor the general crises of the global financial system, whose shock waves have rocked the financial businesses in subsequent months, were known; nor were they predictable or even imaginable. Based on our monitoring of the globalization process and its apparent impact not only on the economic and technological environment, but also on the social en- ronment it was appropriate for the conference to begin by serving as a platform for analysing the status quo of the process of globalization, as relevant to politics, business and academia, and for exploring how the interest groups in those domains cope with the challenges of globalization. In the end, however, the purpose of the conference was to produce proposals for conditions for upwards global compe- tion, meaning that minimum conditions should be worked out to enable people to live and labour humanely. Such conditions would be those which should help avoid otherwise inevitable frictions in society, both nationally and internationally."