09:00 – 09:30 Introduction
William Neukom, President, American Bar Association
James Heckman, University of Chicago
Robert Nelson, American Bar Foundation & Northwestern University
Session I: 09:30 – 10:20 The Rule of Law and Political Development
Margaret Levi, University of Washington - “Creating a Virtuous Cycle of Contingent Consent”
Thomas Ginsburg, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign – “The Politics of Law in Democratization”
Session II: 10:30 – 11:20 Measuring the Rule of Law
Daniel Kaufmann, World Bank – “Misrule of Law in Numbers: Worldwide Empirics and its Implications for Law and Economic Development Orthodoxy”
Mark Agrast, Center for American Progress – “World Justice Project Rule of Law Index”
Session III: 11:30 – 12:20 The Rule of Law in Transitional Societies
Katharina Pistor, Columbia University & Antara Haldar, Trinity College, University of Cambridge – “The Ties That Bind”
Terence Halliday, American Bar Foundation – “The Legal Complex and the Fates of Basic Legal Freedoms: Comparative Research Findings”
12:30 – 1:30 Luncheon (Lowden Hall, Northwestern Law School)
with Amartya Sen, Harvard University, on “The Idea of Global Justice”
Session IV: 1:45 – 3:00 The Evolution of the Rule of Law: Historical and Comparative Perspectives
Timur Kuran, Duke University – “The Rule of Law in Islamic Thought and Practice"
Ron Harris, Tel Aviv University – “State Interventions or State Inactivity: The Dutch and English East India Companies”
Barry Weingast, Stanford University – “The Political Foundations of Democracy and the Rule of Law”
Session V: 3:10 – 4:00 What Lessons Should Be Learned from Modern Welfare States
James Heckman, American Bar Foundation and University of Chicago - “What Lessons Should Be Learned From Modern Welfare States?”
4:00 – 5:00 Wrap-up Discussion
Robert Nelson and James Heckman will lead