International Law Workshop

International Law Workshop Fall 2013
 Professor William Alford  &  Professor Gabriella Blum
 Wednesdays 5:00 – 7:00 pm (except as noted), Room WCC 1023

If you would like a copy of any of the papers, please email johnson@law.harvard.edu.

 Wed Sept 18  Kevin Davis, Vice Dean and Beller Family Professor of Business Law, NYU School of Law
 “TRANSNATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION LAW IN ACTION: CASES FROM ARGENTINA AND BRAZIL” (written with Guillermo Jorge and Maíra Rocha Machado)

 Wed  Sept 25  Anu Bradford, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
 “THE LAW AND POLITICS OF ANTITRUST IN OPEN ECONOMIES” (written with Tim Büthe)

 Wed Oct 2  Muna Ndulo, Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for African Development, Cornell Law School
 “HUMAN RIGHTS, CHINESE INVESTMENTS AND AFRICA”

 Wed  Oct 9  Mariana Mota Prado, Associate Professor, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
 “THE PROPOSED BRICS DEVELOPMENT BANK’S POTENTIAL TO RESTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT FINANCE”

 Wed Oct 16  Philomila Tsoukala, Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
 “THE EURO ZONE CRISIS AND THE FUTURE OF SOCIAL EUROPE”

 FRIDAY Oct 25  3 – 5 pm   Charles Sabel, Maurice T. Moore Professor of Law and Social Science, Columbia Law School and Gráinne de Búrca, Florence Ellinwood Allen Professor of Law, NYU School of Law 
 “NEW MODES OF PLURALIST GLOBAL GOVERNANCE”  (written with Robert Keohane)
*Please note different day and time for this session.*

 Wed Oct 30  Katerina Linos, Assistant Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
 “HUMAN RIGHTS BACKSLIDING” (written with Andrew Guzman)

 Wed Nov 6  Sungjoon Cho, Professor of Law, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
 “TOWARD A COMMUNITY OF LAW: NORMS AND DISCOURSE”

 Wed Nov 13  Odette Lienau, Associate Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
 “LAW IN HIDING: MARKET PRINCIPLES AND THE DARK SIDE OF SOFT LAW”

 Wed Nov 20  William Burke-White, Deputy Dean and Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
 “POWER WITHIN INTERNATIONAL LAW: RISING POWERS AND THE EMERGENCE OF A MULTI-HUB INTERNATIONAL LEGAL SYSTEM”

International Law Workshop: The History and Philosophy of International Law                              

Professor William Alford and Professor Gabriella Blum

Fall 2012

Thursday 1:00 - 3:00 pm in Griswold 110

Subject to change.

 
Sept. 13 First class for course faculty and students only

Sept. 20 Liam Murphy  |  NYU School of Law
Herbert Peterfreund Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy
“Law Beyond the State” (a chapter from forthcoming What Makes Law)

Sept. 27 Lawrence Douglas  |  Amherst College
James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought
“A Jurisprudence of Atrocity, the Problem of Punishment and the Situ of Law”   

Oct. 4 David Armitage  |  Harvard University
Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History
“Foundations of Modern International Thought”

Oct. 11 Thomas Lee  |  Fordham University School of Law  
Leitner Family Professor of Law, Director of International Studies
“International Law and the Tobacco Republic”

Oct. 18 Frederic Megret  |  McGill University
Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Law of Human Rights and Legal Pluralism
“The Rise and Fall of ‘International Man’”

Oct. 25 Charles Beitz  |  Princeton University
Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics, Director of the University Center for Human Values
Topic:  human dignity and human rights – OR - beneficence, justice and the state

Nov. 1 John Witt  |  Yale Law School
Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law
“Two Conceptions of Suffering in the Laws of War”

Nov. 8 Odette Lienau  |  Cornell University Law School
Assistant Professor of Law
“Rethinking Sovereign Debt: Politics, Reputation and Legitimacy in Modern Finance”

Nov. 15 Moria Paz  |  Stanford Law School  
Fellow in International Law
“The Failed Promise of Language Rights: a Critique of the International Language Rights Regime”

Nov. 29 William Burke-White  |  University of Pennsylvania Law School
Deputy Dean and Professor of Law
“International Law and International Relations Scholarship: The First 20 Years and Beyond”

Dec. 6 Last class for course faculty and students only