News and Events
2005
FALL 2005
IILJ Holiday Party for Scholars and Visiting Fellows, Faculty and Researchers
December 6, 2005
Workshop on Regulating the Private Commercial Military Sector
December 1-3, 2005
Topic: This meeting brought together representatives from four groups – providers, consumers, regulators, and commentators – with a view to developing an accurate picture of the current field of operations and the prospects for specific modes of regulation, including self-regulation.
Seminar at the United Nations with visiting students from Sciences Po
November 17 & 18, 2005
Hauser Global Law School Program Distinguished Lecture Series
November 9, 2005
Judge Hisashi Owada, Judge of the International Court of Justice
International Law Society session on Careers in Private International Law
November 7, 2005
Pursuing a Doctorate: From Application to Publication
November 4, 2005
ILJ At the UN: Meeting on the Security Council and International Law
October 27, 2005
Topic: The Security Council as Judiciary.
Speakers include: Professor David Caron, University of California at Berkeley; Professor Paula Escarameia, International Law Commission; Judge Nabil Elaraby, International Court of Justice; and other leading judges and lawyers in the field.
IILJ Scholars Lunch
October 25, 2005
Topic: The relationship between the Security Council and the ICC
Guest speaker: Professor Paula Escarameia
History & Theory of International Law presentation
October 17, 2005
Topic: The Political Theory of Alberico Gentili (1552-1608) with guest lecturer Diego Panizza.
Comments by Benjamin Straumann.
Professor Georges Abi-Saab to speak informally with IILJ Scholars, Grotius Scholars, Hauser Scholars and Emile Noel Fellows
September 26, 2005
Topic: Professor Abi-Saab is a former Hauser Global Law Professor, immediate past President of the WTO Appellate Body, Judge ad hoc at the ICJ, former judge at the ICTY, and a member of the UN Compensation Commission.
Europe and the United States - A Transatlantic Dialogue
September 20, 2005
Topic & Speakers: This inaugural session welcomed Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and Gertrude Leubbe-Wolff, Judge of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany . Sponsored by the Hauser Global Law School Program and the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice.
IILJ Welcome Dinner for Scholars and Visiting Fellows
September 19, 2005
Fall 2005
Topic: Globalization and Its Discontents: Public and Private in Global Governance
Speakers included: Sally Merry (NYU), Steven Lukes (NYU), Andrew Hurrell (Oxford), Armin von Bogdandy (Max Planck), Steven Bernstein (Toronto), Tania Li (Toronto), Tim Buthe (Duke), Michael Barr (Michigan), Geoff Miller (NYU), Andrew Arato (New School), and Peer Zumbansen (Osgoode Hall).
Public Interest Law Speaker Series
Fall 2005
Topic: The Public Interest Law Center convenes a regular Leaders in Public Interest Law speaker series. In 2005-2006, speakers with a particular focus on international law issues, many of whom are NYU alumni, included:
Andrew Painter, Rachel Meeropol, Bill Beardall, and Sharon K. Horn.
SPRING 2005
Meeting on Security Council and International Law
May 5, 2005
The second meeting in the series on the Security Council and International Law, co-sponsored by the IILJ and the Austrian Mission to the UN.
Report on November 2004 meeting.
Program in the History and Theory of International Law Workshop
April 27, 2005
Topic: Professors Benedict Kingsbury and Martti Koskenniemi, co-directors of the Program, discussed papers on Grotius' conception of the state of nature and on relations between resource extraction, trade, and violence in the history of international law. Historians, political theorists, law faculty, and students specializing in this field participated in the discussions.
Global Administrative Law Conference
April 22 and 23, 2005
Topic: Global Administrative Law: National and International Accountability Mechanisms for Global Regulatory Governance
Brown Bag Lunch with Morten Bergsmo
April 4, 2005
Topic: The Complimentarity Principle in International Criminal Justice
Morten Bergsmo is the Senior Legal Adviser and Chief of the Legal Advisory Section, Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC).
Human Rights Workshop
March 24, 2005
Topic: Balakrishnan Rajagopal, Assistant Professor of Law and Development and Director of the MIT Program on Human Rights & Justice presented a chapter from his book, International Law from Below: Development, Social Movements and Third World Resistance.
Sponsored by the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice .
IILJ International Law Colloquium (weekly)
Spring 2005
Topic: Rethinking International law
Speakers in the IILJ project included: J.J.H. Weiler (NYU), Benedict Kingsbury (NYU), George Fletcher (Columbia), Michael Riesman (Yale), David Golove (NYU), Gerry Simpson(LSE), Nico Krisch (Oxford), Judge Bruno Simma, Anne Orford (Melbourne), James Crawford (Cambridge), Eyal Benvenisti (Tel Aviv), Moshe Hirsch (Hebrew U), Bhupinder Chimni (NYU).
