News and Events
Events in 2009
Fall 2009
The 15th Annual Herbert and Justice Rose Luttan Rubin International Law Symposium: The Privatization of Development Assistance. This symposium provided a forum for an inter-disciplinary academic discussion of the phenomenon of the privatization of development assistance. The objectives were to generate scholarly analyses that would map the dimensions of the phenomenon and shed light on the associated policy questions. This symposium was made possible through the generous support of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
December 4-5, 2009
Book launch: Climate Finance: Regulatory and Funding Strategies for Climate Change and Green Development. As a part of the inauguration of the new NYU Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law & Justice, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen and UN Global Compact Executive Director Georg Kell will speak. The book was edited by Professor Richard Stewart, IILJ Director Professor Benedict Kingsbury and CELUL Fellow Bryce Rudyk and includes an essays from IILJ Fellow Sarah Dadush and Professor Kevin Davis, from Professor Robert Howse, and from former IILJ Scholars Alexandra Khrebtukova and Sandra Mayson.
December 3, 2009
Peter Maass book presentation and panel discussion: “Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil” Panel discussion was moderated by Professor Rob Howse and included Professors Smita Narula (NYU) and Beth Stephens (Rutgers). Co-sponsored by the CHRGJ. Panel Discussants; NYT review
November 6, 2009
Lecture by Professor David M. Malone: Does the Elephant Dance? India's Contemporary Foreign Policy
Co-sponsored by the Hauser Global Program, reception to follow.
November 5, 2009
Annual Global Economic Policy Forum: The Future of Regulation and the Capital Markets.
Invitation & Registration
November 5, 2009
Memorial for International Law Professor Thomas M. Franck
October 28, 2009
( NYT and Guardian Obituaries )
Book launch: El Nuevo Derecho Administrativo Global en America Latina
University of San Andres, Buenos Aires, Argentina
October 16-17, 2009
Ariel Colonomos book presentation: Preventive War in the Rearview Mirror: the Ambiguities of the Just War Tradition. This presentation was based on his recently published book Le Pari de la guerre.
Invitation & Paper
September 17, 2009
Marek Cichocki presentation: Theorizing Sovereignty-A Contemporary European Dilemma.
Invitation & Outline
September 14, 2009
Global Welcome Reception
NYU School of Law
September 8, 2009
Spring 2009
Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, delivered her speech:
A New Course in the World, a New Approach at the U.N.
NYU School of Law
August 12, 2009
The GAL Viterbo V Seminar: "Legality Review in the Global Administrative Space".
Viterbo, Italy
June 12-13, 2009
IILJ GAL Workshop in Beijing. NYU School of Law and Tsinghua University School of Law co-sponsored an international conference on “Legal Issues in the Process of Globalization: Globalization and Legal Governance”. The conference focused on the legal issues brought about by the globalization. The areas covered by the conference included legal aspects of: 1. environment, energy and climate, 2. intellectual property, 3. international finance, trade and investment, 4. international economic regulation and developing countries, 5. food safety, medical service and public health, 6. interactions between international rules and institutions and domestic law and institutions in these fields, 7. general theory of global regulatory governance and global administrative law. The aim was to explore the processes by which rules are made and regulatory institutions operate in these areas, including critiques and proposals for possible improvements or innovations.
Tsinghua University School of Law, China.
May 22-23, 2009
IILJ-Hauser Global Conference in Abu Dhabi: "Climate Change: Financing Green Development". This conference addressed the structure, regulation, and governance of the various forms of climate finance in relation to investment and development in developing countries. It represents the first concerted effort to address this critical complex of issues. The conference engaged not only academics but representatives of the climate finance industry, developing countries, multinational businesses, international organizations, and NGOs.
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
May 3-5, 2009
The Ninth Nicholas J. Healy Lecture on Admiralty Law. The lecture, entitled “On Notice: Why the Maritime Industry Must Embrace Environmental Responsibility,” was presented by the Honorable Peter W. Hall, United States Circuit Judge, Second Circuit.
NYU School of Law
April 30, 2009
Global Programs Farewell Reception
April 27, 2009
Round Table on Global Administrative Law, convened by the IILJ in conjunction with meetings of the International Association of Administrative Law and the Mexican Administrative Law Association, in Monterrey, Mexico
April 25 , 2009
Bi-annual conference of the Journal of Private International Law. Participants included Professor Ronald Brand, Professor Marco Torsello, Professor Ingeborg Schwenzer, Dean Symeon Symeonides, Professor Francisco Garcimartin Alfarez, former ALI President Michael Traynor, Professor Katharina Boele-Woelki, Professor Paul Beaumont, Professor Franco Ferrari and Justice Lawrence Collins (Court of Appeal, England).
Program. Call for papers.
April 17 & 18, 2009
Conference in honor of Professor Andreas Lowenfeld. The conference featured judges, scholars, and practitioners whose own work has been influenced by Professor Lowenfeld. Among the invited speakers were Justice Lawrence Collins (of the English Court of Appeal), Judge Diane Wood (of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals), Dean Harold Koh (of Yale Law School), Professor Jose Alvarez, Professor Thomas Franck, Professor and Judge Theodor Meron, Professor Robert Howse, Professor Mario Giovanoli, Professor Eleanor Fox, Professor George Bermann, Professor Joachim Zekoll, Professor Catherine Kessedjian, and arbitration experts Gary Born, Loukas Mistelis, Donald Donovan, Robert Smit, William (Rusty) Park, and Louise Teitz. Program.
April 16, 2009
CHRGJ's Annual Emerging Human Rights Scholarship Conference
April 10, 2009
IILJ GAL Conference in Geneva: Practical Legal Problems of International Organizations: A Global Administrative Law Perspective on Public/Private Partnerships, Accountability, and Human Rights.
March 20-21, 2009
Lecture by Judge Simma :Human Rights and the International Court of Justice.
March 10, 2009
International Legal Studies Colloquium Series:
February 25, March 26 & April 16, 2009 session reports
IILJ Scholars Conference.
February 27 & March 6, 2009
Public lecture with Judge T. Meron: "International Criminal Justice: Does It Work?"
Invitation, NYU School of Law News
February 11 , 2009
IILJ International Law Colloquium
Spring 2009
