Professors at the UW Law School have received two of ten International Collaboration Grants awarded by the Worldwide Universities Network to scholars at UW-Madison. The awards are designed as a seed fund for international partnerships with colleagues abroad.

Professors Allison Christians and Charles Irish received funding to host a two-day workshop in Madison on Networks, Norms, and the Transnationalization of Tax Lawmaking, targeted for Spring 2010. The workshop will address the question “How does tax policy emerge from international networks like the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and diffuse into national legal institutions?”

The workshop will be an interdisciplinary and intercultural collaboration with project co-leaders Wansu Zhang (Nanjing University, China) and Leyla Ates (Inonu University, Turkey).

Shubha Ghosh will work with David S. Wall of the University of Leeds (England) to develop comparative US-EU research proposals on the Criminalization of Intellectual Property Law. Ghosh and Wall will investigate the forces leading to the increased criminalization of cases involving copyright, trademark, Cyberspace, and trade secrets, and seek to understand the effects that this increasing criminalization has on legal systems, IP users, and innovation.

The awards are made possible by support from the UW-Madison Division of International Studies, College of Letters & Science, Graduate School, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), and Office of  the Vice Chancellor for Administration, as well as the Worldwide Universities Network. 

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