Conflict of interest is an important issue on all levels of governance, ranging from local to global, both in the public and the corporate sphere. Such conflict 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 order to explore and discuss this topic both from a theoretical and practical angle, the Law Faculty of the University of Basel and the ‘Basel Institute on Governance’ invite to a two-day interdisciplinary and international conference on “Conflict of Interest”. 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.

This event will take place on 7 – 8 May 2010 at the Faculty of Law of the University of Basel, Switzerland.

The papers presented have been selected from submissions to an international call for papers. Furthermore, various keynote speakers from a range of disciplines (such as law, political science, economy, sociology or philosophy) who have already published in the field will be presenting their work. All papers will be discussed, reviewed and edited so as to complement and respond to each other.

For further information on this conference, please visit the homepage (http://www.baselgovernance.org/big/news-single-view/article/interdisciplinary-conference-on-conflict-of-interest/?tx_ttnews[backPid]=295&cHash=0f99ac7dca )

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