International Law Workshop

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