The National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Asian Society of International Law (AsianSIL) invite paper proposals for the NUS Law School-AsianSIL Conference on Sovereign Wealth Funds: Governance and Regulation. This will be held at the NUS Law School in Singapore from Wednesday to Friday, 9-11 September 2009. Paper-givers who are selected through a competitive process will have their reasonable travel and hotel expenses covered.

The aim of this conference is to clarify the role that norms and law may play in future governance and regulation, including analysis of the governance potential of self-regulation and voluntary regimes. Abstracts for new and unpublished papers are invited on these and related issues.

The following subject areas are intended to be illustrative of possible topics that might be considered, but other approaches are welcome:

• Regulation at home (for example, transparency and accountability requirements for SWFs; processes for determining appropriate allocation of assets)
• Regulation abroad (for example, restriction on foreign SWF investment in "sensitive yet capital-intensive" industries)
• Self-regulation and voluntary regimes (for example, the likely impact of the GAPP on SWF investment practices, corporate social responsibility)
• SWFs and international trade (for example, the relationship between bilateral investment treaties and SWF capital investments, and the possibility of including regulatory clauses in future treaties)
• Best practices in corporate governance (for example, emerging standards for risk management and rates of return on investment)
• Avoiding conflicts of interest (for example, a government taking stakes in an entity that it is regulating)
• Stakeholders and the lines of accountability (for example, who the stakeholders in such a fund are and to whom accountability for its activities should be directed)
• The impact of the financial crisis on prospects for regulation of SWFs.
• What is "sovereign wealth" anyway?

All conference papers will be published as "working papers" on the AsianSIL website. A select number of accepted papers will subsequently be considered for formal publication in a special section of the Singapore Year Book of International Law.

The deadline is 24 April 2009.

Please see the detailed submission information: Information for Authors

• NUS Law School-AsianSIL Conference on Sovereign Wealth Funds: Governance and Regulation
• National University of Singapore (NUS)
• Asian Society of International Law (AsianSIL)