"Navigating Murky Waters: Conflict of Interest and Public Controversies"
A One-day Conference
Webcast
of the keynote address by FPPC Chairman, Karen Getman, “Quagmire of State
Conflicts Law.“
Full text of the address.
Press Release from UCTV News
View the conference program
Friday, February 21, 2003
9:00am 3:00pm
University of California, Berkeley
Lipman Room
8th floor of Barrows Hall
Co-sponsored by:
UC Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies
American University's Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies
UC Berkeley's Center for Campaign Leadership
Col. Charles T. and Louise H. Travers Program in Ethics and Accountability
in Government
With generous support of The Pew Charitable Trusts
CONFERENCE OVERVIEW:
This one-day conference will bring together a distinguished array of scholars, officeholders, political practitioners, and reformers to navigate
the murky waters of conflict of interest and offer a closer look at the controversies surrounding attempts to define and regulate conflicts of
interest in public life. What is a conflict and what is not? Where are the loopholes and gaps in current conflict of interest regulations and how
might they be filled? How do public officials in other countries define and regulate conflicts of interest, and how might their efforts inform the
way conflict of interest is conceived of and understood in the U.S.?
Campaign contributors who are awarded public contracts; political consultants who help elect and then lobby officeholders; federal employees
who now regulate the same industries that they have significant personal or professional ties to -- in recent times, these and other practices have
raised concerns and questions about the adequacy of conflict of interest regulations to prevent private interests from influencing public judgments.
The conference will consist of three panels on the subjects of regulating local conflicts, defining new conflicts, and mapping conflicts abroad. A
keynote speaker will discuss the innovations of and challenges facing conflict of interest law in California.
This conference is wheelchair accessible, free and open to the public. No advance registration required. For more information, contact Dr. Christine
Trost.
PROGRAM:
| 9:00-9:15am |
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Bruce E. Cain, Director, Institute of Governmental Studies,
UC
Berkeley
James A. Thurber, Director, Center for Congressional and Presidential
Studies,
American University
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| 9:15-10:45am |
Regulating Conflicts:
Gaps and Loopholes at the Local Level
Webcast
of this panel
Chair:
Bruce E. Cain, UC Berkeley
Panelists:
Terence Hallinan, San Francisco District Attorney
Miriam Krinsky, President, Los Angeles City Ethics Commission
Bob Stern, President, Center for Governmental Studies
James Sutton, Partner, Nielsen, Merksamer, Parrinello,
Mueller
& Naylor |
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| 10:45-11:00am |
Break |
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| 11:00-12:15pm |
Defining Conflicts:
Campaign Consultants as Lobbyists
Chair:
Congressman Robert Matsui
Panelists:
Patrick Griffin, Principal, Griffin, Johnson, Dover & Stewart
Charles Rund, President, Charlton Research Company
James A. Thurber, American University
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| 12:15-1:30pm |
Hosted Lunch and Keynote Speaker
FPPC Chairman, Karen Getman,
“Quagmire of State Conflicts Law“
Webcast
of this presentation
Full text of the speech
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| 1:30-3:00pm |
Mapping Conflicts Abroad:
Italy, Great Britain, and Canada
Chair: Shannon Stimson, UC Berkeley
Panelists:
Sergio Fabbrini, University of Trento, Italy
Gillian Peele, Oxford University, UK
Andrew Stark, University of Toronto, Canada
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| 3:00-3:15pm |
Closing Remarks
James A. Thurber, American University |
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