People
Visiting Fellows
IILJ VISITING FELLOWS IN RESIDENCE 2007-08:
Michelle Ratton-Sanchez
Global Crystal Eastman Research Fellow (Brazil)
Professor Ratton-Sanchez is a professor at the Law School of Getulio Vargas Foundation (DireitoGV/ FGV-EDESP), in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and researcher at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Research (CEBRAP), for the project entitled "Democracy and Law in Brazil." She earned a Ph.D. with distinction from the Law School of the University of Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil, Department of Philosophy and General Theory of Law (2004). She was a visiting scholar at the International Law Department of the Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS), in Geneva, Switzerland (2001) and she has a Bachelor in law from the Law School of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, with a specialization in Business Law (1998). She received a fellowship from the State of Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) during her Ph.D. studies (2001-2004) and, during her undergraduate studies (1995-1998), as well as a fellowship from the Brazilian Governmental Foundation in the Special Program Trainee for Undergraduate and Graduate Students (PET-CAPES). Her areas of interest include international economic law, recent changes in international regulation and how non-state actors influence and participate in international fora and policies. Since 2003, she has worked together with other researchers on the creation of an innovative course on global law for the DireitoGV Law School, this course was started for undergraduates in 2005. Professor Ratton-Sanchez's research proposal is entitled, "The Incorporation of OECD Rules and Practices by the Brazilian Legal System: Intergovernmental System vs. Transnational Regulation." During her residency, Professor Ratton-Sanchez will be affiliated with the Institute for International Law and Justice's Global Administrative Law project.
Makane Mbengue
Global Crystal Eastman Research Fellow (Geneva / Senegal)
Dr. Makane Moise Mbengue, a native of Senegal, is a Teaching Assistant and Researcher at the Law Faculty of the University of Geneva, Switzerland. In 1997, he received his LL.B. from the University Gaston Berger of Saint-Louis (Senegal) in Public Law. In 1998, he received a Masters degree (Maitrise in the French system) in Public Law from the University of Saint-Louis. In 1999, he received an LL.M. in Business and Economic Law from the same University. In 2001, he obtained the Certificate of the Center for Studies and Research in International Law and International Relations. Dr. Mbengue completed his Ph.D. in international law, summa cum laude, from the University of Geneva in June 2007.
Dr. Mbengue is also the author of a number of articles in widely respected and cited scientific journals and books on trade and environment, international dispute-settlement, the law of treaties, law of international watercourses and WTO law. From 2001 to 2005, he worked as a researcher for the Swiss National Science Foundation on a project entitled "Trade, the Environment and the International Regulation of Biotechnology". From September 2004 to June 2005, he was a law clerk at the International Court of Justice (The Hague, Netherlands). He has been a consultant for the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the Nile Basin Initiative and the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health. At NYU School of Law, he will focus on the relationship between Globalization and Regionalism in the Protection of the Environment and of Health. The research will identify and describe the various types of relations between multilateralism and regionalism in the field of natural resources management and health protection. Dr. Mbengue's research proposal is entitled "Globalization and Regionalism in the Protection of the Environment and of Health." During his residency, Dr. Mbengue will be affiliated with the Institute for International Law and Justice.
RECENT IILJ VISITING FELLOWS:
Catriona Drew
Global Crystal Eastman Research Fellow (United Kingdom)
Dr. Catriona Drew teaches Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. She holds an LL.B. from the University of Aberdeen and a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and lectured in public international law at the Universities of Dundee and Glasgow in Scotland before moving to SOAS in 2003. She has been a Visiting Fellow at the Human Rights Program of Harvard Law School, and is co-founder of the Centre for International Law and Colonialism at SOAS. Her principal research interest relates to the international law of self-determination. At the IILJ in 2006-07 she is completing a book for Cambridge Univerity Press developing an international legal history of the relationship between the principle of self-determination and population transfer.
Michael Likosky
Global Crystal Eastman Research Fellow (United Kingdom)
Dr. Michel B. Likosky teaches International Economic Law, Law and Globalization, and Public International Law, in the Law School of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. His research at NYU in 2006-07, on the intersections of commercial, development, and human rights issues in infrastructure projects, continues from his recent book Law, Infrastructure, and Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2006). An earlier book, The Silicon Empire (Ashgate 2005) examined the continuities and discontinuities between colonial and present-day high technology-based transnational legal orders. He has also edited two books: Transnational Legal Processes (Cambridge University Press 2002) ,and Privatising Development (Martinus Nijhoff 2005).
Stephen Macedo
Alberico Gentili Fellow (Princeton University)
Stephen Macedo is Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and Director of the University Center for Human Values at Princeton. Steve Macedo is a leading political theorist whose work also has a srong policy engagement. He was the principal co-author of Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation, and What We Can Do About It (2005). His other books include Diversity and Distrust: Civic Education in a Multi-cultural Society, and Liberal Virtues: Citizenship, Virtue and Community in Liberal Constitutionalism, as well as 10 edited and co-edited volumes, icluding several in the Nomos series. His work in residence at the IILJ in 2006-07 addresses the implications of globalization for democratic theory. He is interested in the moral significance of the national political community against the background of two sets of challenges: increasing globalization and increasing inequalities that are organized by locality.
Patrick Macklem
Senior Global Human Rights and Global Justice Research Fellow (Canada)
Patrick Macklem is a Professor of Law at University of Toronto, a Permanent Visiting Professor at Central European University, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He holds law degrees from Harvard and Toronto, and an undergraduate degree in political science and philosophy from McGill. He served as Law Clerk for Chief Justice Brian Dickson of the Supreme Court of Canada and as a constitutional advisor to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. His book on Indigenous Difference and the Constitution of Canada (2001) was awarded the Canadian Political Science Association 2002 Donald Smiley Prize for best book on Canadian governance and the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences 2002 Harold Innis Prize by for the best English-language book in the social sciences). His co-edited books include Canadian Constitutional Law (2003), The Security of Freedom: Essays on Canada's Anti-terrorism Bill (2001), and Labour and Employment Law (2004). He has published numerous articles on international human rights law, cultural minorities, constitutional law, indigenous peoples and the law, and labour law. His research at NYU in 2006-07 focuses on minority issues.
Mario Savino
Global Crystal Eastman Research Fellow (Italy)
Dr. Mario Savino is a researcher at the Tuscia University of Viterbo, Italy. He received his Ph.D. in Administrative Law from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 2004. In 2005, he was UE Law Poros Chair Professor at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India. He teaches European Administrative Law at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and is coordinator of the research team on "Evolution of a polycentric administrative space," within the Connex Network (Connecting Excellence on European Governance), at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research-Mzes, University of Mannheim, Germany.
His fields of research interest are global and European administrative law. He has published a monograph on the EU committee system (I comitati dell’Unione europea, Milano, Giuffrè, 2005). He has also written on international transgovernmental bodies, the European Commission, Italian administrative reforms and other topics related to domestic administrative law. He is currently researching on public order, public security and immigration at national, European and global levels. His focus at NYU School of Law in Fall 2006, conducted within the ambit of the IILJ's Global Administrative Law project, is the accountability of transgovernmental networks.
Benjamin Straumann
Alberico Gentili Fellow , Global Research Fellow (Switzerland)
Benjamin Straumann completed his doctoral dissertation (insigni cum laude) on the classical foundations of Hugo Grotius' natural and international law in 2005 at the University of Zurich after studies in Zurich and Rome. He is currently a Samuel I. Golieb Fellow in legal history. Previously Benjamin has worked for the Swiss Mission to the United Nations and was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University. His research interests include ancient political and legal thought, the history of natural and international law, natural rights and social contract theories as well as the early modern reception of Roman law and ancient political thought.
His publications include Hugo Grotius und die Antike. Römisches Recht und römische Ethik im frühneuzeitlichen Naturrecht (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2007); “‘Ancient Caesarian Lawyers’ in a State of Nature: Roman Tradition and Natural Rights in Hugo Grotius’ De iure praedae,” Political Theory 34, 3 (June 2006), pp. 328-50; “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 (available at http://www.historyofethics.org/022006/022006Straumann.shtml); and an article on Rome and her influence in modern culture and scholarship in Brill's New Pauly. Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World, ed. M. Landfester (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, forthcoming).
Jean d'Aspremont Lynden
Global Crystal Eastman Fellow (Belgium)
Dr. Jean d’Aspremont Lynden was a visiting fellow in the IILJ in 2005-06. He now holds a position at Leiden University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Louvain, Belgium, in August. He received his LL.M. from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. His doctoral research was devoted to the topic of Non-Democratic States and International Law, a research conducted in an empirical perspective (publication in 2006). He is also the author of various articles in the Revue générale de droit international public (RGDIP) or the Revue belge de droit international (RBDI) on questions pertaining to unilateral acts of States or normativity in International Law. He contributed to the third edition of the commentary of the United Nations Charter as well. Dr. d'Aspremont Lynden has also been a correspondent for the Bulletin of Legal Developments published by the British Institute for International and Comparative Law for several years. At a domestic level, he has written a couple of articles on issues related to the exercise of universal jurisdiction or the relation between international law and municipal law.
As a Global Crystal Eastman Research Fellow at NYU School of Law, he worked on the Effects of War on International Treaties.
