Good Morning The third forum in the Centre for Public Policy 'Australian Trade Policy Directions' series will be held on Tuesday the 17th of September, 5:30pm.
During this session we will be joined by Associate Professor Donald MacLaren who will be discussing 'Controversies in Australia's Trade in Agriculture and Food Products', and Professor Gillian Triggs who will be discussing 'Dispute Resolution Under The WTO: A Legal Quagmire or Effective Procedures' (biographies are below). This forum will be chaired by the Dr Ann Capling, author of the 2001 book 'Australia and the Global Trade System' (Cambridge University Press), and will be held in the Public Policy Lecture Theatre, 2nd Floor, 234 Queensberry St, Carlton. No cost involved and no RSVP needed. The full program for this series can be obtained by visiting <http://www.public-policy.unimelb.edu.au/events/trade_policy.html>. Please forward this email on to friends and colleagues. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to email me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or phone me on 8344 9482. Hope to see you on the 17th. - Lauren. -- Lauren Rosewarne Centre Manager Centre for Public Policy, University of Melbourne 3010 Phone : 8344 9482 / Fax : 9349 4442 Visit our website <http://www.public-policy.unimelb.edu.au/> Participant Biographies Associate Professor Donald MacLaren Donald MacLaren gained his PhD degree from Cornell University in 1970, majoring in agricultural economics with minors in economic theory and econometrics. He was employed at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, from 1970 until 1988 as a Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer in Agricultural Economics. During that time he did consulting work with the European Commission and the European Parliament in Brussels, and the National Consumer Council in London. In 1988, he took up an appointment at the University of Melbourne in the School of Agriculture and Forestry. He was Head of the Agricultural Economics and Extension Section of the School from 1990 until 1994. He joined the Department of Economics in 1996. From 1996 to 1998 he was Associate Dean (Undergraduate Studies) for the Faculty of Economics and Commerce. Donald is a member of the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium and is currently a consultant for the OECD. He has held visiting positions at the University of Guelph, Cornell University, University of California at Davis and Stanford University. His research interests include: agricultural trade policy and the World Trade Organization competition policy and trade policy; the industrial organisation of international commodity markets and uncertainty aversion and international trade policy. Professor Gillian Triggs Professor Gillian Triggs has a chair in Law at the Law Faculty, University of Melbourne and is a Co-Director of the Institute of Comparative and International Law. Her publications in international law concern a wide range of issues including offshore petroleum rights, indigenous rights, climate change and dispute resolution under the World Trade Organsiation. Gillian provides legal advice to governments both in Australia and the Asian region and maintains a commercial legal practice. She is currently writing an international law text from an Australian and regional perspective. Gillian Triggs areas of expertise include international dispute resolution; international law and international trade law. -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
