Professor Lastra participated in Yale's project on The Future of the Global Financial System
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Professor Lastra participated in The Future of the Global Financial System project at Yale University on 13 June 2014. She joined the video conference at the invitation of Professor Jeffrey E Garten of the Yale School of Management.
Professor Lastra and Professor Garten discussed the following topics among others:
- The difference between international law and legal cooperation across borders.
- Comparisons on how national law works in the global economic sphere aside from finance, such as trade, investment or commercial competition.
- The lessons to be drawn from the effort to forge more effective integration in the European region.
- The role of powerful and independent institutions (the IMF, the FSB, the G-20, the BIS, etc) in formulating international financial and monetary law.
- The question of whether multilateral cooperation may be substituted for a greater level of international law in regards to finance and monetary affairs.
- The cost to the global financial system of underdeveloped international law.
- The development of international law relating to monetary affairs and financial regulation.
- The most important research questions that are being worked on or that need to be worked on.