International Law Workshop

Professor William Alford and Professor Gabriella Blum

Fall 2011

Wednesday 5:00 - 7:00 pm in Pound 204

Subject to change.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Christof Heyns, University of Pretoria, South Africa 
"Minimum Standards for Regional Human Rights Systems"

Friday (3-5pm), September 30, 2011 (note different day and time)
Beth Stephens, Rutgers School of Law - Camden, Rutgers University
Paper topic: The modern common law of foreign official immunity

Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Samuel Moyn, Columbia University
"From Anti-war Politics to Anti-torture Politics" 

Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Martha Minow, Harvard Law School
Paper topic forthcoming.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Marty Flaherty, Fordham University School of Law
"Restoring Separation of Powers, and Individual Rights, in Foreign Relations" 

Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Hurst Hannum, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
"Back to the Future: New Strategies for Human Rights Protection" 

Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Anthea Roberts, Visiting Professor at HLS from the London School of Economics 
"Choice of Analogies: Rethinking the Nature of the Investment Treaty System" 

Friday (3-5pm), November 11, 2011 (note different day and time)
David Luban, Georgetown Law  
Paper topic forthcoming.

Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Katerina Linos, UC Berkeley Boalt School of Law 
"Legislative Borrowing" 

Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Naz Modirzadeh, Harvard Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, Harvard University 
"Folk IHL: 9/11 Lawyering and the Transformation of LOAC to Human Rights and Human Rights to War Governance"