Visiting Fellows
History and Theory of International Law Researchers
Benjamin Straumann
Benjamin Straumann is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the History Department at New York University and Alberico Gentili Fellow at New York University School of Law. He is chiefly interested in classical political and legal thought, the history of natural and international law, natural rights and social contract theories, and the early modern reception of classical political thought and Roman law. Benjamin is the author of Hugo Grotius und die Antike (Nomos, 2007) and editor, with Benedict Kingsbury, for Oxford University Press of Alberico Gentili's The Roman Wars (De Armis Romanis, 1599), with an English translation and critical notes by David Lupher. Having recently received a three-year (2008-2011) Fellowship for Advanced Researchers from the Swiss National Science Foundation, Benjamin has also started research on a project on dictatorship and emergency powers in European intellectual history under the working title “Dictatorship and Emergency Powers in the Constitution of the Late Roman Republic and in the History of Political Thought.”
Benjamin received his Ph.D. (insigni cum laude) from the University of Zurich (2005) after studies in Zurich and Rome. He has been a Samuel I. Golieb Fellow in legal history and a Global Research Fellow at NYU Law School, a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, and an Erasmus Scholar at Università degli Studi Roma Tre. Benjamin has also worked for the Swiss Mission to the United Nations in New York.
Books:
Forthcoming, Alberico Gentili’s Wars of the Romans. Ed. and with an introduction by Benedict Kingsbury and Benjamin Straumann, trans. David Lupher. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Forthcoming, A Just Empire? The Roman Foundations of Alberico Gentili's Legal World Order. Edited and with an Introduction by Benedict Kingsbury and Benjamin Straumann. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2007, Hugo Grotius und die Antike. Römisches Recht und römische Ethik im frühneuzeitlichen Naturrecht. Studien zur Geschichte des Völkerrechts 14, ed. A. Bogdandy, M. Stolleis. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2007. [Reviews: Christian Gizewski, Historische Zeitschrift 287 (2008), pp. 123f.; Randall Lesaffer, Journal of the History of International Law 10 (2008), pp. 343-347; Gerhard Köbler, Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte Germanistische Abteilung 127 (2010).]
Articles:
Forthcoming, (with Lauren Benton), “Acquiring Empire by Law. From Roman Doctrine to Early Modern European Practice,” Law and History Review (2009).
2009, “Is Modern Liberty Ancient? Roman Remedies and Natural Rights in Hugo Grotius’ Early Works on Natural Law,” Law and History Review 27, no. 1 (Spring 2009), pp. 55-85.
2008, “The Peace of Westphalia as a Secular Constitution,” Constellations 15, no. 2 (2008), pp. 173-188.
2007, “Natural Rights and Roman Law in Hugo Grotius’s Theses LVI, De iure praedae and Defensio capitis quinti maris liberi,” Grotiana New Series 26-28 (2005-2007), pp. 341-365.
2006, “‘Ancient Caesarian Lawyers’ in a State of Nature: Roman Tradition and Natural Rights in Hugo Grotius’ De iure praedae,” Political Theory 34, no. 3 (2006), pp. 328-350.
2006, “The Right to Punish as a Just Cause of War in Hugo Grotius’ Natural Law,” Studies in the History of Ethics 2 (February 2006), pp. 1-20. http://www.historyofethics.org/022006/022006Straumann.shtml
2004, “Appetitus societatis and oikeiosis: Hugo Grotius’ Ciceronian Argument for Natural Law and Just War,” Grotiana New Series 24/25 (2003/2004), pp. 41-66.
Encyclopedia entries and book chapters:
Forthcoming, (with Benedict Kingsbury), “State of Nature versus Commercial Sociability as the Basis of International Law: Reflections on the Roman Foundations and Current Interpretations of the International Political and Legal Thought of Grotius, Hobbes, and Pufendorf,” in: Philosophy of International Law, ed. by Samantha Besson and John Tasioulas, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Forthcoming, “Rome. I. History and Interpretation. D. Discussing Rome in Culture and Scholarship, 2.-5. E. The Idea of Rome; Rome as Argument, 1.-2., 4.-5.,” in: Brill's New Pauly. Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World, ed. by Manfred Landfester, in association with Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider, Classical Tradition, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. [English edition of my 2002 article in Der Neue Pauly.]
2002, “Rom. I. Geschichte und Deutung. D. Die Auseinandersetzung mit Rom in Kultur und Wissenschaft, 2.-5. E. Rom-Idee; Rom als Argument, 1.-2., 4.-5.,” in: Der Neue Pauly. Enzyklopädie der Antike, ed. by Manfred Landfester, in association with Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider, Rezeptions- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Band XV/2, Pae-Sch, Stuttgart & Weimar: J.B. Metzler 2002, pp. 863-879. [ Review: C. Kallendorf, “Rezeptionsgeschichte Comes of Age: Der Neue Pauly and the Classical Tradition, II,” International Journal of the Classical Tradition 11, no. 2 (2004), p. 298.]
Reviews:
Forthcoming, Sabine MacCormack, On the Wings of Time. Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007), in International Journal of the Classical Tradition 15, no. 1 (2008).
2008, Wilfried Nippel, Antike oder moderne Freiheit? Die Begründung der Demokratie in Athen und in der Neuzeit (Frankfurt a. M.: Fischer, 2008), in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008.10.31.
2007, “Ius erat in armis: The Roman and Spanish Empires and Their Discontents,” International Journal of the Classical Tradition 13, 4 (2007), pp. 597-607. [Review Essay on Lupher, David. Romans in a New World: Classical Models in Sixteenth-Century Spanish America. Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press, 2003.]
Nehal Bhuta
Hauser Research Scholar
Nehal Bhuta , BA 1999 (Melbourne), LLB 1999 (Hons) (Melbourne), MA 2004 (Poli. Sci., New School for Social Research), LLM 2005 (NYU), is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. He has previously worked with the International Justice Program of Human Rights Watch and as a consultant for the International Center for Transitional Justice in New York. His areas of interest are human rights law, humanitarian law, political theory and political economy. He is admitted to practice in Victoria, Australia, and has worked as a clerk in the Federal Court of Australia.
As a Hauser Research Scholar, he will be working on a book manuscript under contract for Columbia University Press, entitled "Between Power and Principle: International Law and Politics after Iraq". He will consider the extent to which the Iraq war and certain aspects of its aftermath may be considered a crucible for certain tensions and contradictory developments in the international legal order after 1989.
Nuhaila Carmouche
Visiting Doctoral Researcher
Nuhaila is a Visiting Doctoral Researcher on exchange from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). Nuhaila is writing a thesis on the "Conceptual Aspects of Global Administrative Law" Prior to beginning her doctoral research at the EUI, Nuhaila completed her LLM at the University of Cambridge. Nuhaila has conducted research for a number of organizations including the Foundation of International and Environmental Law and the British Institute for International and Comparative Law. She also acted as the editorial assistant for the publication: "September 11 2001: A Turning Point for International and Domestic Law".
Thibaut Fleury
Visiting Doctoral Researcher
Mr. Fleury is a Ph.D. student at the University of Paris II, Panthéon-Assas, France. He is the recipient of a three-year fellowship from the French Ministry of Education and Research and an assistant professor of Public Law at the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin. Mr. Fleury, who has been awarded prices in Constitutional Law (2002) and History of Political Philosophy (2005) during his Public Law studies at University Strasbourg III-Robert Schuman (France), holds a D.E.A. of "Philosophy of Law" from the University Paris II.
Mr. Fleury's Dissertation for his D.E.A. on the "Law of Nations in Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s thought ", was published in 2006 by the Michel Villey from the Institute for Philosophy of Law and Legal Culture. He chose to deepen his research on the development of International Law by writing a thesis on territorial issues in the United States, and their contribution to the development of International Law. Parallel to his thesis work Mr. Fleury is a regular contributer to the Revue Trimestrielle de Droit Européen, a French European Law Review.
During his stay at NYU, he will be working with Prof. Benedict Kingsbury from the Institute for International Law and Justice on the links between territory, federation and International Law and on the legal status of U.S. territories and Indian land.
Rene Uruena
Visiting Doctoral Researcher
René Uruena is a Research Fellow and doctoral candidate at the Centre of Excellence in Global Governance Research at the University of Helsinki, where he also lectures on international law. He graduated as a lawyer from the Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia), holds an LL.M (laudatur) in international law (University of Helsinki), and a postgraduate degree in economics (Universidad de Los Andes – Colombia). His publications include the first textbook of international organizations law written in Latin America, as well as several other articles published in international peer-reviewed journals.
During his residency, Mr. Uruena’s research will continue to explore how the prominence of trade law affects the parameters of political participation and democratic decision-making. Political man is becoming a ‘market citizen’: a human being that politically exists only inasmuch as he is economically active - to what extent does the international trade regime contribute to the construction of these developments?. He will be working with Benedict Kingsbury at the Institute for International Law and Justice.
Past Visiting Fellows and Doctoral Researchers in the Program
