Upcoming Events
Applications for the J.D.-LL.M. Program in International Law are due Tuesday, May 15th by 5pm. Interested 2L candidates can find out more about the program here.
NEW! December 5-7, 2012
Indicators as a Technology of Global Governance: IILJ/CIL/NUS Conference at the National University of Singapore Call for Papers - Submissions due May 15, 2012
June 15-16, 2012
Viterbo VIII: Indicators as a Technology of Global Governance Call for Papers
Recent Events
February 29 - March 2, 2012
International Law and Human Rights Scholarship Conference, co-sponsored by the IILJ and the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. Schedule
February 6 , 2012
Investment Law Forum: "EU Investment Policy Post-Lisbon: What a Future EU Investment Agreement Might Look Like and Other Contemporary Issues" Guest Speaker: Colin Brown, Directorate for Trade, European Commission. Commentators: Jose Alvarez, New York University School of Law and Barry Appleton, Appleton and Associates International Lawyers.
January 31 , 2012
Submissions due for the IILJ and Center for Human Rights and Global Justice's joint International Law and Human Rights Scholarship Conference. Call for papers.
January 23, 2012 Investment Law Forum: Balancing Investor Protection and Regulatory Freedom in Investor-State Arbitration: The Complex Search for State
Purpose in a National Treatment Inquiry Guest Speaker: Dr Jürgen Kurtz, Associate Professor and Director of the International Investment Law Research Programme of the Law School's Institute for International Law and the Humanities, Melbourne Law School Commentators: Moshe Hirsch, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law and Department of International Relations, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Robert Howse, Lloyd C. Nelson Professor of International Law, New York University School of Law
All event items on our Events Page
News
NEW! A view of the IILJ's work
Spring 2012
IILJ Faculty, Professors Benedict Kingsbury and Kevin Davis, publish a report for the Rockefeller Foundation, Indicators as Interventions: Pitfalls and Prospects in Supporting Development Initiative
NYU School of Law news features prize won by IILJ's Faculty Director
A view of the IILJ’s work
Spring 2011
NYU Law news coverage of IILJ's recent event with Judge Patricia Wald: Trying The Tyrants: The Trials of Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein
International Law and Human Rights Student Fellowship Program: Spring 2011 Seminars schedule
Activities of IILJ's Faculty Director on leave are featured in the NYU School of Law news
Dispatches from Cancun NYU Law School members blog from COP 16: UNFCCC in Cancun
Global Faculty teaching at NYU in NY in 2011-2012 include: Eyal Benvenisti, Tel Aviv; Daniel Fitzpatrick, Australia(land law and policy in the third world); Phoebe Okawa, London; Marco Torsello, Bologna; Neil Walker, Edinburgh; Patrick Weil, Paris; Ran Hirschl, Toronto; Brian Arnold, senior advisor at the Canadian Tax Foundation; Catherine O'Regan, former judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa; Su Li Zhu, Beijing.
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Welcome to the IILJ website
This site brings together the research, scholarship, teaching, and outreach activities of New York University School of Law's acclaimed international law program.
IILJ Academic and Policy Work
Global Administrative Law Project
Global Administrative Law is a path-breaking approach to participation, transparency, accountability and review in global governance. IILJ GAL conferences in 2009 are in Geneva, Abu Dhabi, Beijing, etc. The Project homepage provides details on all GAL project events, links to full-text articles, bibliography, working papers series and blog.
New: GAL Network page
Financing Development Program
Access to financial capital can be a crucial determinant of countries’ prospects for development. The sources of financing available to inhabitants of developing countries, the terms upon which financing is provided and the kinds of projects being financed have become increasingly varied, but very restricted since the 2008-09 credit crisis. The research program on financing development maps this changing legal order, its social and economic implications, and the scope for innovation.
Papers presented at the Privatization of Development Assistance Symposium, held Dec. 4-5, 2009, can be found here.
Global Climate Finance Project
This project examines the design of climate finance mechanisms, as well as the institutions and governance mechanisms required to ensure that the decentralized climate finance system functions effectively. It draws on the expertise of NYU Law faculty in climate change, environmental law, development finance, international trade and investment, international transaction taxation and tax policy generally, global institutions, and global regulatory governance. It is closely linked to both the IILJ's Global Administrative Law project and the IILJ Financing Development program.
Indicators as a Global Technology/Governance by Information Project
This program, led by Professors Davis, Kingsbury, and Merry, starts from the premise that the use of “indicators” has become an important mechanism of global governance. Indeed, International organizations, IGOS and NGOS have produced a number of development-related indicators that become instruments of governance when used to as a basis for assigning legal or moral responsibility, allocating foreign aid or supporting claims of scientific authority. The Indicators project aims to describe and trace the historical origins of the use of indicators as forms of governance, to explain this phenomenon, and to analyze its impact on the countries being evaluated.
Recent Events:
June 3-4, 2011
The Research Scholars Network on Indicators held 3 panels at The Law and Society Association 2011 Annual Meeting, which was held June 2-5 in San Francisco, CA.
Investment Law Project
The Investment Law Forum is devoted to the rigorous and critical examination of the increasing jurisprudence that is emerging from investor-state arbitral tribunals, as well as the underlying legal norms, whether in bilateral investment treaties or bilateral or regional trade agreements, that these tribunals are applying. The tribunal awards in investor-state arbitration raise important thematic issues, such as canons of treaty interpretation, the nature of state responsibility including remedies, custom as a source of law, and "fragmentation"-the relationship of investment law to other international legal regimes, whether the WTO or environment or human rights. Through anchoring reflection on these and other fundamental themes in the case law and related legal developments, we seek to engage the relevant academic community but also practitioners, policymakers, and activist
Recent Events:
NYU Investment Law Forum
The Spring 2012 sessions were held January 23 and February 6.
6:15 - 8:00 PM, Furman Hall 900, Lester Pollack Colloquium.
Program in the History and Theory of International Law
This Program encourages scholarship and teaching on topics in the history and theory of international law that are vital to deepening an understanding of the field. The premise of the Program is that the future development of international law depends on sustained theoretical work, including careful historical study, and that collective efforts are needed to enhance worldwide research and teaching in these areas. The Program holds periodic conferences and workshops, sponsors a refereed working paper series, hosts visiting fellows (including faculty from other disciplines, and post-docs), supports research and publications, provides a center bringing together people interested in these fields, and each year offers a set of courses in these areas at the Law School.
International Law and International Organizations: the United Nations and International Financial Institutions
Private and Transactional International Law
NYU School of Law provides a rich academic environment for the study of private and transactional international law. The Law School offers a diverse array of courses, special internship opportunities, and extra-curricular activities designed to provide students with a solid foundation upon which to develop careers in the fields of private and transactional international law – in an academic, governmental, inter-governmental, or professional setting.
Prior Projects:
Private Military and Security Companies
Publications
New:
Measuring the World: Indicators, Human Rights, and Global Governance. Sally Engle Merry, Current Anthropology Volume 52, Supplement 3, April 2011.
The Wars of the Romans: A Critical Edition and Translation of De Armis Romanis, Alberico Gentili. Benedict Kingsbury, Benjamin Straumann (eds.), David Lupher (trans.), Oxford University Press, 2011. Review by: David J. Bederman.
The Roman Foundations of the Law of Nations: Alberico Gentili and the Justice of Empire. Benedict Kingsbury and Benjamin Straumann (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2010. Review by: David J. Bederman. Review by Christopher Smith.
International Law and Justice Working Papers
Working Paper 2011/2:Doreen Lustig, The Nature of the Nazi State and the Question of International Criminal Responsibility of Corporate Officials at Nuremberg: Franz Neumann's Behemoth at the Industrialist Trials
Working Paper 2011/1: Karl-Heinz Ladeur, The Emergence of Global Administrative Law and Transnational Regulation
Working Paper 2010/5: Lorenzo Casini, The Making of a Lex Sportiva: The Court of Arbitration for Sport “The Provider”
Working Paper 2010/4: Gregory Shaffer, Transnational Legal Process and State Change: Opportunities and Constraints
IILJ Project Books
Essays presented at the 2009 Symposium on Global Administrative Law in the Operations of International Organizations:
International Organizations Law Review (Vol. 6, no. 2, 2009).
Richard B. Stewart, Benedict Kingsbury and Bryce Rudyk (eds.), Climate Finance: Regulatory and Funding Strategies for Climate Change and Global Development, NYU Press (September) 2009
Benedict Kingsbury [et. al.], El nuevo derecho administrativo global en América Latina, Buenos Aires: Rap, (October) 2009
Simon Chesterman and Angelina Fisher, (eds.), Private Security, Public Order: The Outsourcing of Public Services and its Limits, Oxford University Press, (November) 2009
IILJ Scholarship on the DRC v. Uganda case, Public and Private Partnerships, International Legal Theory...
Emerging Scholars Papers
IILJ ESP 22 (2012): Ayelet Berman, The Role of Domestic Administrative Law in the Accountability of Transnational Regulatory Networks: The Case of the ICH
IILJ ESP 21 (2011): Joanna Langille, Neither Constitution Nor Contract: Understanding the WTO by Examining the Legal Limits on Contracting Out Through Regional Trade Agreements
IILJ ESP 20 (2011): Julian Arato, Subsequent Practice and Evolutive Interpretation: Techniques of Treaty Interpretation over Time and Their Diverse Consequences
IILJ ESP 19 (2011): Amedeo Arena, The Relationship Between Antitrust and Regulation in the US and in the EU: An Institutional Assessment
IILJ Staff Publications
Lorenzo Casini, Euan MacDonald, et al, Global Administrative Law: Cases, Materials, Issues (2nd edition)IILJ Scholars Publications
J. Benton Heath, Human Dignity at Trial: Hard Cases and Broad Concepts in International Criminal Law, 45 Geo. Wash. Int'l L. Rev. (forthcoming 2013)
Julian Arato, Treaty Interpretation and Constitutional Transformation: Informal Change in International Organizations, 38 Yale Journal of International Law (forthcoming 2013)
Robert Howse & Joanna Langille, Permitting Pluralism: The Seals Products Dispute and Why the WTO Should Permit Trade Restrictions Justifed by Non-Instrumental Moral Values, Yale Journal of International Law (forthcoming 2012)
Julian Arato, Constitutional Transformation in the ECtHR: Strasbourg's Expansive Recourse to External Rules of International Law, 37 Brooklyn International Law Journal (forthcoming 2012)
Julian Arato, Constitutionality and Constitutionalism Beyond the State: Two Perspectives on the Material Constitution of the United Nations, 10 International Journal of Constitutional Law (forthcoming 2012)
Elizabeth Ashamu, Centre for Minority Rights Development (Kenya) and Minority Rights Group International on Behalf of Endorois Welfare Council v Kenya: A Landmark Decision from the African Commission, 55 Journal of African Law, 2011
Joanna Langille, Neither Constitution Nor Contract: Understanding the WTO by Examining the Legal Limits on Contracting Out Through Regional Trade Agreements, NYU Law Review, 2011
Emily Berman, Domestic Intelligence Collection: New Powers, New Risks, Brennan Center for Justice Publication, 2011
