It is my pleasure to welcome you to the fifth annual Rudolph C. Barnes Sr. Symposium at the Law School. The Barnes Symposium presents a unique opportunity to bring together the Law School and cross campus academic communities with scholars, practitioners and policy makers from around the world. Sponsored by the Law School, the Barnes Symposium provides a forum to engage in serious academic inquiry on pressing issues of law and morality understood in the broadest sense.

This year's Barnes Symposium, Legitimacy, Economic Development & Change, will examine the general problems of the brave new world of outward investment from Asia into the developing world, challenging established patterns. Who cooperates, who competes, who benefits, and where is law in this picture? In this way, we hope to make a small contribution to understanding currently intertwined economic and  international law challenges.

I hope you will join us at the Law School for a stimulating examination of these issues by prominent scholars and practitioners. Moreover, the proceedings will be shared live with overseas universities in the Southeast Asian part of the Islamic world where the Law School has operated projects since 2000. For a broader and lasting contribution, the proceedings are also being recorded and will be posted in streaming form on this website for future reference and academic use.

I look forward to seeing you at the Law School Jan 25th & 26th.

Walter "Jack" Pratt, Jr.