7th Annual Environmental Law & Institutions Colloquium

Certification Institutions and Private Governance
New Dynamics in the Protection of Workers and the Environment

December 7-8, 2001

Participant Talks

Introduction: The Certification Trend
Duke Project on Social and Environmental Certification
Duke University
Ronie Garcia-Johnson
Nicholas School of the Environment & Earth Sciences
Erika Sasser
Nicholas School
Gary Gereffi
Department of Sociology
Ben Cashore
Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental
Studies; Chair, Program on Forest Certification, Global Institute for Sustainable Forest Management
Panel I: The Role of Non-governmental Organizations
Brooks Yeager
Vice President for Global Threats, World Wildlife Fund
Paul Rice
Executive Director, TransFair USA
Ann Florini
Senior Associate and Director of the
Transparency and Transnational Civil Society Project,
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Keynote Address:
'Soft' Governance: Trends and Transformations
Virginia Haufler
Associate Professor
Dept. of Government & Politics University of Maryland
Senior Associate,
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Panel II: The Role of Multinational Corporations
Jessica Eskow
Manager of Environmental Strategies,
International Paper
Dennis Rondinelli
Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC-Chapel Hill
Panel III: Certification -- An Insider's Perspective
Dan Roczniak
Director of Implementation and Performance for
Responsible Care
Judy Gearhart
Program Director, Social Accountability International
Aseem Prakash
The George Washington University, School of Business and Public Management
Panel IV: Grappling with Effectiveness
What constitutes an "effective" certification institution? How should effectiveness be defined and measured?
Dara O’Rourke
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Pete Andrews
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill
Dan Fiorino
Director, Performance Incentives Division, United States Environmental Protection Agency