NEWS AND EVENTS
Upcoming Events
Spring 2010:
IILJ International Legal Theory Colloquium Spring 2010: The Turn to Governance: The Exercise of Power in the International Public Space. Convened by Professors Kingsbury and Weiler - speakers include Andrew Hurrell, Richard Stewart, Robert Keohane, Jan Klabbers, Gianluigi Palombella, Joseph Weiler, David Kretzmer, Marta Cartabia, Grainne de Burca, Beth Simmons, Daryl Levinson, and Benedict Kingsbury.
NYU Investment Forum.
Spring sessions will be held: January 11, February 8, March 8 and April 19, 2009 with professors J.H.H. Weiler, Rob Howse and Jose Alvarez presenting on the first three sessions (respectively) and ending with a round table session convened by Donald Donovan.
6:15-8:00 PM, Furman Hall, Pollack Colloquium Room
March 11, 2010
Panel discussion on Affluence and International Human Rights Law. Presentation by Dr. Margot E Salomon with Phillip Alston and Robert Howse as commentators. Co-sponsored by CHRGJ. Background reading, abstract & bio, event flyer.
6:00PM - 7:30PM, Pollack Colloquium Room, Furman Hall 900
March 12, 2010
Tracking Human Rights Worldwide: A Conversation on Human Rights in the 21st Century and the State Department’s 2009 Country Reports. A conversation on the trends in human rights for the year 2009 and how those trends and the findings of the reports will influence the democracy and human rights goals of the Department for 2010, as well as those of non-governmental organizations and the United Nations. With
Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor,
Mike Posner,
Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions Philip Alston and
Amnesty USA’s Executive Director, Larry Cox. Co-sponsored by the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) and the Hauser Global Law School Program.
Please RSVP to iilj@exchange.law.nyu.edu , by March 10, 2010 as seating is limited. The event will be followed by a brief reception. Event flyer.
4:00-6:00 PM, Pollack Colloquium Room, Furman Hall 900
April 15, 2010
Book launch: Philosophy of International Law.
With Sam Besson, co-editor of the volume, and NYU Law Faculty members.
6:00Pm - 7:30PM
April 26-27, 2010
Conference: Indicators as a Technology of Governance: the Latin American
Experience (working title) - a meeting of academics, practitioners, NGO
representatives and government officials.
Bogota, Colombia
September 13-14, 2010
Conference: Indicators as a Technology of Governance - a meeting of
academics, practitioners, NGO representatives and policy makers.
New York, NY
