The Summit on the Global Economy, the Rule of Law and their Effects on Indiana will bring together a number of nationally known Hoosiers on Wednesday to discuss how a stable legal environment is vital to personal and business lives. The event is connected to the World Justice Project which seeks to enhance self-government with a strong accessible legal process.

Featured speakers for a panel on doing business in developing countries will include James Morris, former executive director of the UN World Food Program, Randall Tobias, president, Indianapolis International Airport, Gino Sabatini of Eli Lilly & Co. and Robert C. Beasley, General Counsel PAWS Inc.

Attempts to building stable economic and legal systems in foreign countries will include remarks by former Court of Appeals Judge Betty Barteau, Ed DeLaney of DeLaney &  DeLaney, Daniel Fitzgibbon, Barnes & Thornburg and former IU Professor and Dean James P. White, all of whom have international experience.

Whether the US legal and economic system is the best will be discussed by Supreme Court Justice Ted Boehm, Indiana Secretary of Commerce Nate Feltman, and Dean Lauren Robel of the IU School of Law - Bloomington (2:30-3:30 pm).

The event is by invitation only but the media is welcome to cover it. It will be held in the IU School of Law - Indianapolis on Wednesday, April 23 from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm.

It is sponsored by the Indiana State Bar Association, the Indiana Chamber of Commerce and the IU Center on Philanthropy.