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Spring 2010 IILJ Colloquium

IILJ International Legal Theory Colloquium Spring 2010

The Turn to Governance:
The Exercise of Power in the International Public Space

Benedict Kingsbury and Joseph Weiler

NYU Law School
Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice

Wednesdays 2pm-3.50pm on dates shown
Pollack Colloquium Room, Furman Hall 9th Floor, 245 Sullivan Street
(unless otherwise noted)

(additional seminar for students et al is Thursdays 4pm-5.50pm, on GAL)

 

This scholarly Colloquium carried out each Spring examines major theoretical issues in international law. In Spring 2010, it focuses on global governance. Papers will be presented each week by leading scholars from around the world, who in 2009-10 are Fellows of NYU Law's Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice. Students are assigned to write three reaction papers which go to the speakers ahead of the public discussion sessions (Wednesdays 2pm-3.50pm), as well as completing a short related research paper by the end of the semester. Students also meet separately as a group in an intensive advanced international law seminar with the instructors(Thursdays 4pm-5.50pm). Some prior knowledge of international law or legal philosophy or international relations theory is essential.

 

Topics are indicative and are subject to change.

January 13	Students, Auditors etc meet with the instructors to discuss the UN Security Council in Global Governance (teaching session)
January 20	Andrew Hurrell, Oxford University Topic: Emerging Powers, Global Order and Global Justice
January 27	Richard Stewart, NYU Law School Topic: The World Trade Organization: Multiple Dimensions Of Global Administrative Law
February 3	Robert Keohane, Princeton University Topic: The Regime Complex for Climate Change (paper with David Victor, UC San Diego)
February 10	No Colloquium - Postponed due to weather conditions.
February 17	No Colloquium
February 24	Gianluigi Palombella, University of Parma, Law Faculty Topic: Rule of Law in Extra-National Governance Background reading
March 3	Joseph Weiler, NYU Law School Topic: On the Distinction between Values and Virtues in the Process of European Integration
March 10	David Kretzmer, Hebrew University/Ulster Topic: The UN Human Rights Committee and International Human Rights Monitoring
March 11	(SPECIAL SESSION, 4pm-5.50pm, Pollack Colloquium Room, Furman Hall 900) Jan Klabbers, University of Helsinki Topic: Controlling International Bureaucracies
March 17	No Colloquium – Spring Break
March 24	Marta Cartabia, University of Milan Topic: Are Rights Always the Right Answers?
March 31	No Colloquium
April 7	Grainne de Burca, Fordham Law School Topic: EU International Relations:  The Governance Mode of Foreign Policy
April 14	Beth Simmons, Harvard Government Department Topic: Investor-State Treaty Regimes and Arbitral Processes Note: this is the presentation of a new project, not a paper
April 21	Benedict Kingsbury, NYU Law School Topic: Techniques of Global Governance Davis, Kingsbury, Merry; Indicators as a Technology of Global Governance (IILJ Working Paper 2010/2)

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