News and Events
Events in 2011
Fall 2011
November 28, 2011
The Straus Public Lectures Series; Democratic Sovereignty and International Law: the Contemporary Debate. Speaker: Professor Seyla Benhabib, Straus Fellow, NYU School of Law and Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Yale University.
November 14, 2011
Investment Law Forum: The Clash of Analogies and Approaches in the Investment Treaty System. Guest Speaker: Professor Anthea Roberts, London School of Economics. Commentators: Viren Mascarenhas, Senior Associate, Freshfield's; Professor Sadeq Bigdeli,Waikato University, Visiting Fellow, Institute for International Economic Law, Georgetown University.
November 11-12, 2011
International Symposium on Restorative Justice, Reconciliation and Peacebuilding. Speakers: John Braithwaite, Australian National University; Phil Clark, School of Oriental and African Studies; Stephen Hopgood, School of Oriental and African Studies; Louise Mallinder, Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster; David Tolbert, International Center for Transitional Justice; Charles Villa-Vicencio, Georgetown University.
November 11, 2011
How Best to Assure the Independence of the ICC Prosecutor. Moderator: Professor José Alvarez. Speakers: Luis Moreno-Ocampo, ICC Prosecutor; Professor Hector Olasolo, Utrecht University; Christian Wenaweser, Ambassador.
November 10, 2011
Global Governance and Political Economy. Speaker: Professor David Kennedy; Harvard Law School. Commentators: Professor José Alvarez, NYU School of Law; Professor Rosalind Fredericks, NYU Gallatin.
October 26, 2011
The Responsibility of International Organizations and the International
Law Commission: A Conversation between Professors Georg Nolte,
member of the International Law Commission, and José E. Alvarez, NYU. Vanderbilt Hall, Rm. 214, 6-7:30 p.m.
October 24, 2011
Investment Law Forum: Amazon Crude in The Hague: The Implications of Chevron v. Ecuador for Investor-State Arbitration. Moderators: Michael D. Goldhaber, The American Lawyer; Professor Robert Howse, NYU Law School. Commentators: Professor Roger Alford, Pepperdine Law School; Stuart Newberger, partner Crowell & Moring; Oliver Armas, partner Chadbourne & Parke; Catherine Amirfar, partner Debevoise & Plimpton; Eric Bloom, partner Winston & Strawn (counsel to Ecuador); Steven Donziger, New York lawyer and human rights advocate.
October 20, 2011
Book Launch: Does the Elephant Dance? Contemporary Indian Foreign Policy, by David M. Malone.
October 14, 2011
The 17th Annual Herbert Rubin and Justice Rose Luttan Rubin International Law Symposium. From Rights to Reality: Beth Simmons’s Mobilizing for Human Rights and Its Intersection with International Law.
October 14, 2011
Information Session: International Law and Human Rights Fellowship Program and International Finance and Development Fellowship Program and The Hague Conference on Private International Law Internship. Furman Hall, Rm 212, 2:00-3:45pm.
September 22,2011
The Eighth Annual Emile Noël Lecture with President of Cyprus, Mr. Demetris Christofias, sponsored by the Jean Monnet Center. Please RSVP in advance with the Jean Monnet Center.
September 21,2011
“Europe and the United States: A Transatlantic Dialogue” panel series. Panelists: Mr. Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Union; J.H.H. Weiler, University Professor and Director of The Jean Monnet Center; Gráinne de Búrca, University Professor at NYU School of Law; and Renée Haferkamp, Senior Visiting Scholar from Harvard University. Co-sponsored by Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice at New York University School of Law. Please RSVP in advance with the Jean Monnet Center.
September 19,2011
Book Event: The Public Interntional Law Regime Governing International Investment. Reception and talk with the author, Professor José Alvarez. Invitation Poster
September 19, 2011
Investment Law Forum: Reconsidering ICSID Awards. Guest speaker: Professor Tai-Heng Cheng, Co-Director, Center for Global Law, Justice and Policy, New York Law School. Discussants: Professor Ruth Wedgwood, Burling Professor of International Law and Diplomacy and Director, Program on International Law and Organizations, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, and Jose Alvarez, New York University Law School.
Spring 2011
June 10-11, 2011
Viterbo VII: Private and Public-Private Global Regulation: Global Administrative Law Dimensions. The 7th Viterbo GAL Seminar will provide an opportunity to present advanced research projects on private and hybrid regulation through a global administrative law perspective.
Tuscia University, Viterbo, Italy
June 3-4, 2011
The Research Network on Indicators will hold panels on The Law and Society Association 2011 Annual Meeting.
San Francisco, CA
May 25-26, 2011
GAL Network Project Workshop: Balancing Wealth and Health: Access to Medicines in Latin America as a Case Study of the Global Administration of Intellectual Property Law.
New York, NY
April 28, 2011
Global Farewell Reception
April 11, 2011
Investment Law Forum: International Investment Law and Comparative Public Law: Ways out of the Legitimacy Crisis?. Guest speaker: Dr. Stephan Schill, Senior Research Fellow at Max Planck Institutefor Comparative Public Law and International Law. Discussants: Professor Dr. Armin von Bogdandy, Goethe-Universität, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, and Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Director) and Kabir Duggal, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP.
March 31, April 1st, 2011
Global Regulatory Governance and Global Administrative Law Workshop.
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March 7, 2011
Investment Law Forum: The Effect of BITs on Regulatory Quality and the Rule of Law in Developing Countries. With Cesar E. Aranguri, 3L NYU and former Associate in Research, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University; Discussants: Benedict Kingsbury and Pablo Spiller, NYU School of Law.
February 24-25, 2011
IILJ Scholars' Conference. Extended discussion of research papers authored by IILJ Scholars, with comments by faculty and practitioners. Participating Scholars were: Julian Arato, Elizabeth Ashamu, Christine Chiu, Wamiq Chowdhury, Thomas D Earnest, Margaret Graham, Ben Heath, Joanna Langille, and Nikki Reisch. Commentators included: José Alvarez, Emily Berman, Efraim Chalamish, Michael Goldhaber, Matthias Goldmann, Rob Howse, Maximo Langer, Liam Murphy, Tawanda Mutasah, Smita Narula, Samuel Rascoff, Meg Satterthwaite, Ingo Venzke, and Tal Zarsky. Program
February 22, 2011
Trying The Tyrants: The Trials of Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein. Panelists: Professors Lisa DiCaprio and Jennifer Trahan, Judith Armatta, and Hon. Patricia Wald. Co-sponsored by: Center for Global Affairs and Paul McGhee Division, NYU-SCPS, and IILJ, NYU School of Law. NYU Law news coverage.
February 7, 2011
Investment Law Forum: Transparency in Investment Related Arbitration. Joint session with the Center for Transnational Litigation and Commercial Law's Arbitration Forum. Guest speakers: Mark Kantor and David Bigge; Discussant: Barry Appleton, Appleton and Associates and Robert Howse, NYU School of Law.
February 4-5, 2011
Workshop on Comparative Competition Law Institutions. Convened as part of the GAL Network, and co-hosted by Professor Eleanor Fox (NYU) and Professor Michael Trebilcock (University of Toronto). Project team members from six continents discussed system design and process and performance norms for antitrust enforcement in 11 countries and four international institutions.
January 26, 2011
Pervasive Prevention: Social Control, Migrants, and Immigration in Contemporary Italy. Tamar Pitch, leading Italian legal scholar, spoke about immigration and social control in contemporary Italy. Co-sponsored by the Law School’s Institute for International Law & Justice; the School of Continuing and Professional Education (Center for Global Affairs, Paul McGhee Division, Liberal Arts Programs); and the Casa Italiana.
IILJ International Legal Theory Colloquium Spring 2011. Convened by Professor J. H. H. Weiler. Guest speakers included: Joseph Weiler, Gabriella Blum, Yitzhak Benbaji, Michael Walzer, Doreen Lustig, David Kretzmer, Matthew C. Waxman, Paul Kahn, Andreas Zimmermann, and Philip Alston.
