Globalization and labor:
Outsourcing v. Immigration
May 5, 2009
2:45-6:00pm
Lubar Commons (7200 Law)
University of WisconsinLawSchool
Agenda
2:45-3:00Registration
3:00-3:05Welcome
Professor Heinz Klug
Evjue-Bascom Professor in Law, UW LawSchool
Director, Global LegalStudiesCenter
3:05-3:25Fences, Raids and the Production of Migrant illegality
Daniel Morales
William H. Hastie Fellow, UW LawSchool
3:25-3:50Specialty occupations – highly skilled labor
Attorney Grant Sovern
Partner, Quarles & Brady
Adjunct Professor, UW LawSchool
3:50- 4:10Q&A
4:10-4:20Break
4:20-4:45The Movement ofLabor Within North America Since NAFTA: Causal, Coincidental, or a Little of Both?
Professor Kevin Kennedy
Professor of Law, MichiganStateUniversity
4:45-5:10Movement of labor in the EU
Maria Pia Belloni Mignatti
Visiting scholar, NYU
5:10-5:30Q&A
5:30-6:00Reception
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Biographies of Speakers
Kevin Kennedyis professor of Law at the MichiganStateUniversity. After four years of private practice in Hawaii, Professor Kennedy served as a law clerk at the U.S. Court of International Trade in New York. After his clerkship he was a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D. C. where he was responsible for international trade litigation. Before joining the LawCollege faculty in 1987, he was an assistant professor of law at St. ThomasUniversityLawSchool in Miami, Florida.
Professor Kennedy has written more than 50 law review articles and book chapters, primarily in the area of international trade regulation. In addition to his law review articles, he has written a casebook, International Trade Regulation, published by Aspen Publishers in 2008; a monograph, Competition Law and the World Trade Organization; and co-authored an international trade law treatise, World Trade Law. Professor Kennedy has conducted international trade training programs in China, Egypt, Nigeria, and Uganda, has consulted the governments of Kenya, Vietnam, and Sri Lanka on international trade regulatory issues, and was a foreign legal consultant for the law firm of Lim, Shin & Kim in Seoul, South Korea. In addition to his teaching and scholarship Professor Kennedy serves as a NAFTA Chapter 19 binational dispute settlement panelist. In 2008 he was awarded a Fulbright grant to teach and lecture in Sri Lanka.
Maria Pia Belloni Mignattiis currently a visiting scholar at NYU from the University of Pavia. She has also been a visiting scholar at CUNYCenter for European Studies and a Research Fellow at the University of Paris I. Some of her research Interests includeFood Safety Regulations in the European Union and USA, EU Immigration Policy, The Education Policy of the European Union, The Free Movement of Professionals within the European Union. A few of her other recent professional positions include: Promoter of the Master “European Immigration: A New Strategy of Integration.”, Promoter of the Conference “The EU Regional Policy: Which Perspectives?”, Founding member of the Association “Ali Spahia” between Italy and Albania, to improve local infrastructures and increase available medical treatments, and Member of the Scientific Committee of the Conference “Which Europe?” Pavia, School of Political Science, 5 May 2003
Daniel Moralesjoined the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2008 as a William H. Hastie Fellow. He graduated from YaleLawSchool in 2005, and WilliamsCollege in 2002. While at Yale, Daniel developed a scholarly interest in immigration law after he represented three African asylum-seekers before immigration officers. Daniel's primary research focuses on immigration law and policy. While at Wisconsin he will complete a thesis examining the ways in which American legal culture works to create and sustain the "illegal" immigrant.
Daniel comes to Madison from Chicago, where he formerly worked as an associate in the Intellectual Property group at Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He is a member of the Illinois Bar, and currently splits his time between Madison and Chicago, where his wife works as an associate in the Labor & Employment Group of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP.
Grant Sovern practices in the area of immigration law. His area of concentration is employment immigration for employers and employees, specifically non-immigrant visas such as the H-1B, L-1, O-1, TN and immigrant visas (permanent residence) through employment means such as outstanding researcher, extraordinary ability, and labor certification. He counsels companies on developing, maintaining, and defending immigration compliance programs. His experience includes: representing pharmaceutical/biotech and high-tech companies to implement overall immigration policies and procedures; counseling health care systems, hospitals, and physicians to navigate the immigration regulations related to waivers of the J-1 home residency requirement through the Conrad state programs, H-1B visas, O-1 visas, and permanent resident (green card) options; assisting employers and employees with PERM Labor Certification filings to obtain permanent residence; developing I-9 compliance and enforcement programs for companies; and representing scientists and others in pursuing J-1 waivers through the no-objection process and U.S. interested government agencies.
Mr. Sovern has served the U.S. Department of State and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) as an International Elections Supervisor in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger, West Africa, and pro bono attorney working with asylum-seekers in the U.S. He was also warded the John and John Quincy Adams Pro Bono Publico Award for outstanding work in the area of asylum law for pro bono clients by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in 2005, was on the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and won the Mintz Levin Pro Bono Award in 1999.
Mr Sovern studied at the Institut D'Etudes Politiques de Paris, graduated from TuftsUniversity in 1989 with a B.A. and magna cum laude honors, and obtained his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1996.