Please join us on 27 February for Private and Public Law & Organization of Agreements between States—a special session of Professor Richard Brooks’ Contract Theory and Law Colloquium with:
Julian Arato, Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
David Dyzenhaus, Professor of Law and Philosophy, Albert Abel Chair, and University Professor, University of Toronto
Michael Waibel, Professor of International Law, University of Vienna
The colloquium will take place from 4.10 to 6.30 pm, in the Lester Pollack Colloquium Room on the 9th Floor of Furman Hall, 245 Sullivan Street. The IILJ’s History and Theory of International Law Workshops are co-sponsoring this special session.
On 3 March we will hold a follow up session, 9:00-11:00 am at 22 Washington Square North, focusing on Professor David Dyzenhaus’ paper, ‘Kelsen’s Contribution to Contemporary Philosophy of International Law’. For this session only, please RSVP to Rachel Jones at rachel.jones@nyu.edu.
The IILJ History and Theory of International Law Workshops are presented with the support of the NYU Global Institute for Advanced Study, Project on International Legal Orders and their Histories.
More about the Contract Theory and Law Colloquium
The overarching aim of the Contract Theory and Law Colloquium is to bring together scholars from law, the social sciences, and the humanities to explore ideas of contracts, broadly conceived, from specific forms of legally enforceable private exchange to more expansive notions of social contracts. While always seeking to maintain this broad perspective, in each term the Colloquium will be organized around a specific topic or question of inquiry.
For spring 2020 our focus is “private and public law & organization.” To structure the inquiry, the Colloquium will concentrate on four discrete areas of contractual thought—contracting over property, contracting between states, contracting through coercion and power, and finally contracting for punishment—each of which will be the focus of a monthly conversation between two to four speakers. As the Colloquium’s format is a somewhat unconventional, a few words about its structure may be warranted. For each individual session, invited speakers are to submit a 15 to 30-page document (which may be a working paper or something previously published by the speaker or someone else). Rather than limiting discussion to these specific documents, the objective here is to give the audience some background on the speaker’s thoughts and likely comments on the topic. At the beginning of each meeting the session coordinator will summarize and relate the submitted documents and then lead off with questions and open up a discussion between the speakers. Following that exchange, the session coordinator will invite questions and comments from the audience.