Upcoming Events
Interdisciplinary Conference on Conflict of Interest, May 07-08, 2010 - University of Basel, Switzerland
The Basel Institute on Governance has the pleasure of inviting you to submit proposals for a two-day interdisciplinary and international conference on "Conflict of Interest".

Selected contributions to the conference will form the basis for an edited publication, to be submitted to an internationally acknowledged academic publishing house.

The conference will be held on May 07-08, 2010 at the University of Basel, Switzerland.

Conflicts of interest are an important governance problem on all levels of governance, ranging from local to global, both in the public and the corporate sphere. Such conflicts can influence decision making in the management of corporations, town councils, parliaments, national and international courts and tribunals, and in international conferences and organisations.

In accordance with the Institute's activities and academic interests, the Basel Institute on Governance seeks to explore this problem in corporate, public, and global governance, from a legal, political scientific, economic and sociological perspective, and from both a theoretical and practical angle. The conference and the resulting publication are dedicated to seeing how conflicts of interest are defined and dealt with in theory and practice. It also has the ambition of provoking the debate around a topic which can be value-laden, but on which factual evidence is, to some extent, lacking.

The objective is to develop an interdisciplinary and empirically grounded conceptual framework that links specific legal, social, political and economic tools to understand better how conflicts of interest can be defined, regulated, how they work in practice, at which level of governance they are most critical, and how they can be solved. It is aimed at being a mutual learning exercise for all participants.

Presentations will be given by panellists responding to the call for papers, and by invited keynote speakers.