Centers & Programs

Visiting Fellows 2006-07

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.

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.

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 an Alberico Gentili Fellow in the Program in the History and Theory of International Law. He is also a Global Research Fellow in the Hauser Global Law School Program. Previously, Benjamin has worked for the Swiss Mission to the United Nations and was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University. His research interests include the history of natural and international law, natural rights and social contract theories as well as the early modern reception of classical antiquity.

His publications include “‘Ancient Caesarian Lawyers’ in a State of Nature: Roman Tradition and Natural Rights in Hugo Grotius’ De iure praedae”, Political Theory (2006); “The Right to Punish as a Just Cause of War in Hugo Grotius’ Natural Law” Studies in the History of Ethics (forthcoming); 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).

Furman Fellow 2005-07

 

Harlan Cohen

Harlan Cohen is a Furman Fellow and coordinator of the Furman Program at NYU Law School. His scholarship focuses on the history and theory of international law. Among his current projects are an attempt to rethink the sources of international law and an exploration of the relationship between American national identity and domestic debates over international law.  He received his J.D. magna cum laude from New York University School of Law in 2003. A member of the Order of the Coif, he was awarded the Maurice Goodman Memorial Prize for outstanding scholarship and character. He received his B.A. in history and international studies from Yale University, and an M.A. in history from Yale in 2000.  After Law School he clerked for Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and worked as a litigation associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, before returning to NYU as a Furman Fellow.  He has published articles in the New York University Law Review, the Berkeley Journal of International Law, and the Yale Journal of International Law. His essay in the Yale Journal of International Law, “The American Challenge to International Law: A Tentative Framework for Debate,” was awarded the Washington Foreign Law Society’s Justice Robert H. Jackson Prize for best published student writing on a topic of international or foreign law.

Visiting Fellows 2005-06:

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.

Benjamin Straumann (see listing of current Fellows)

Alberico Gentili Fellow

 

Visiting Fellows 2004-05:

Lauri Mälksoo Alberico Gentili Fellow , Hauser Research Scholar (Estonia)] is currently the head of international and EC law lectureship at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He studied law in Tartu (L.L.B.) and Göttingen and got his Masters degree at Georgetown University Law Center. He defended his doctoral thesis "Illegal Annexation and State Continuity: the Case of the Incorporation of the Baltic States by the USSR " at Humboldt University, Berlin.

Ana Peyro Llopis [Global Crystal Eastman Fellow (Spain)] is an international lawyer whose research focuses on law of international organizations, peacekeeping, international criminal law and international environmental law. A native of Spain, Peyro received her education in Switzerland, Italy and in her home country, where she obtained a Master's Degree in Law at University of Valencia in 1998. She then moved to France to do a Master's Degree in International Law and Law of International Organizations at University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne). She wrote a Master's thesis on “Universal Jurisdiction for Crimes against Humanity” that was published in Belgium in 2003. At the same time, she completed a Master's Degree in Constitutional Rights and Duties.  In 1999, she became a Research and Teaching Assistant at University of Paris I and prepared, from 1999 to 2004, a Doctoral thesis on “The Relations between the United Nations and Regional Organizations Regarding Enforcement Action”, under the supervision of Professors Yves Daudet (University of Paris I, France) and Jorge Cardona (University Jaume I, Castellón, Spain). She currently teaches in Paris, focusing on taught international law, constitutional law, juridical methodology and international relations.

Visiting Fellows 2003-04 :

Charles Beitz (Spring 2004), Professor of Politics at Princeton University, working on history of international law and philosophy of human rights.

Andrew Hurrell (Fall 2003), University Lecturer in International Relations at Oxford University and Fellow of Nuffield College, working on history of international law and implications of changing power configurations for international institutions.

Nico Krisch (Fall 2003 and Spring 2004), Hauser Research Scholar and Visiting Fellow of the NYU Law Institute for International Law and Justice, working on international law and hegemony.

Janneke Nijman (Fall 2003), recently completed a doctorate at Leiden University (as a fellow of the T.M.C. Asser Institute in The Hague) on the history of international legal personality (including work on Leibniz). At NYU she is extending this to a more specific focus on the history and current practice of international legal personality of corporations.

Doctoral Students from other Departments or other Universities participating in the Program in 2003-04 include (in addition to NYU Law JSD students):

Christina Burnett (PhD student in History, Princeton University), working on the Insular Cases and legal aspects of US expansion in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and has edited a book on elements of this theme with particular reference to Puerto Rico.

Lisa Ford (PhD student in History, Columbia University), working on aspects of the legal history of American Indians in Colonial America.

Tara Helfman (PhD student in Law and Society, New York University), has worked on problems of state agency in international law, and recently published an article on elements of 18th century international law thought in the framing of the US Constitution.

Kelly DeLuca (PhD student in History, Columbia University), working on Alberico Gentili and English materials on international legal history at the end of the 16th century.

Christiane Wilke (PhD student in Political Theory at the New School), is working on transitional justice, integrating philosophical and practical perspectives and drawing particularly on Kant.