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 Jan Klabbers, Gianluigi Palombella, Joseph Weiler, David Kretzmer, Marta Cartabia, Grainne de Burca, Beth Simmons, Daryl Levinson, and Benedict Kingsbury.

Upcoming Events

February 8: NYU Investment Forum. with Robert Howse: "Custom in International Investment Law: Glamis Gold and other developments" Commentators: Andrea Menaker (White & Case LLP, Washington DC) and Andreas F Lowenfeld (NYU Law).
6:15-8:00 PM, Furman Hall, Pollack Colloquium Room

February 26 & March 5: IILJ Scholars Conference. Extended discussion of research papers authored by IILJ Scholars.

All event items on our Events Page

News

Professor Richard Stewart blogs from the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi: Dispatches from WFES

Global Faculty teaching at NYU in NY in 2010-11 are expected to include: Sabino Cassese, Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy; Ariel Porat, Tel Aviv; Eyal Benvenisti, Tel Aviv; Martti Koskenniemi, Helsinki; Benjamin Van Rooij, Amsterdam (an expert in Chinese law); Franco Ferrari, Verona (International commercial law and arbitration); Michael Lang, Vienna (international tax); Catherine Kessedjian, Paris X (International Commercial Transactions).

Informal Seminar Report: Selecting International Judges: Principle, Process and Politics - September 9, 2008. Sponsored by UCL, the Hauser Global Law School Program, and the IILJ's Global Administrative Law Project (for information only, this text has not been approved by the participants or by the sponsoring organizations)

NYU's inaugural Straus Institute Fellows focus on global governance. Fellows in residence at NYU's Straus Insitute for 2009-10 to work on global governance issues include Gráinne de Búrca, Marta Cartabia, Andrew Hurrell, Robert O. Keohane, Benedict Kingsbury, Jan Klabbers, David Kretzmer, Daryl Levinson, Gianluigi Palombella, Beth Simmons, and Richard B. Stewart. Each will present papers in the IILJ Collioquium at the Law School

Global Professors teaching at NYU Law 2009-10

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Welcome to the IILJ website

This site brings together the research, scholarship, teaching, and outreach activities of New York University School of Law's acclaimed international law program.

IILJ Academic and Policy Work

Global Administrative Law Project

Global Administrative Law is a path-breaking approach to participation, transparency, accountability and review in global governance. IILJ GAL conferences in 2009 are in Geneva, Abu Dhabi, Beijing, etc. The Project homepage provides details on all GAL project events, links to full-text articles, bibliography, working papers series and blog.

全球行政法项目中文网页(Chinese)

Financing Development Program

Access to financial capital can be a crucial determinant of countries’ prospects for development. The sources of financing available to inhabitants of developing countries, the terms upon which financing is provided and the kinds of projects being financed have become increasingly varied, but very restricted since the 2008-09 credit crisis. The research program on financing development maps this changing legal order, its social and economic implications, and the scope for innovation.

Recent event:
December 4-5, 2009. The 15th Annual Herbert and Justice Rose Luttan Rubin International Law Symposium: The Privatization of Development Assistance.

International Climate Finance Project

This project examines the impact on development and on developing countries of carbon markets and climate-related investment. The objective is to elaborate a more useful and effective framework for climate-based development. It draws on the expertise of NYU Law faculty in climate change, environmental law, development finance, international trade and investment, international transaction taxation and tax policy generally, global institutions, and global regulatory governance. It is closely linked to both the IILJ's Global Administrative Law project and the IILJ Financing Development program.

Recent event:
U.N. Climate Change Conference
Dec 07 – 18, 2009, Copenhagen

Indicators as a Technology of Global Governance Project

This program, led by Professors Davis, Kingsbury, and Merry, starts from the premise that the use of “indicators” has become an important mechanism of global governance. Indeed, International organizations, IGOS and NGOS have produced a number of development-related indicators that become instruments of governance when used to as a basis for assigning legal or moral responsibility, allocating foreign aid or supporting claims of scientific authority. The Indicators project aims to describe and trace the historical origins of the use of indicators as forms of governance, to explain this phenomenon, and to analyze its impact on the countries being evaluated.

Investment Law Project

Upcoming Events:

NYU Investment Forum
Spring sessions will be held: January 11, February 8, March 8 and April 19, 2009.
6:15-8:00 PM, Furman Hall, Pollack Colloquium Room

Program in the History and Theory of International Law

This Program encourages scholarship and teaching on topics in the history and theory of international law that are vital to deepening an understanding of the field. The premise of the Program is that the future development of international law depends on sustained theoretical work, including careful historical study, and that collective efforts are needed to enhance worldwide research and teaching in these areas. The Program holds periodic conferences and workshops, sponsors a refereed working paper series, hosts visiting fellows (including faculty from other disciplines, and post-docs), supports research and publications, provides a center bringing together people interested in these fields, and each year offers a set of courses in these areas at the Law School.

International Law and the UN

The IILJ integrates the Law School’s scholarly excellence in international law into the policy activities of the United Nations. Issues examined by the IILJ include the administrative tribunals and the UN, role of the Security Council in strengthening a rules-based international system (jointly with the Permanent Mission of Austria to the UN), the role of the UN Secretary-General in World Politics, and state-building, governance and accountability in United Nations law.

Private and Transactional International Law

NYU School of Law provides a rich academic environment for the study of private and transactional international law. The Law School offers a diverse array of courses, special internship opportunities, and extra-curricular activities designed to provide students with a solid foundation upon which to develop careers in the fields of private and transactional international law – in an academic, governmental, inter-governmental, or professional setting.

Prior Projects:

Private Military and Security Companies

Publications

International Law and Justice Working Papers

Working Paper 2009/9: Benedict Kingsbury and Lorenzo Casini, Global Administrative Law Dimensions of International Organizations Law

Working Paper 2009/8: Peter Borschberg, The Johor-VOC Alliance and the Twelve Years’ Truce: Factionalism, Intrigue and International Diplomacy (1606–13)

Working Paper 2009/7: Richard B. Stewart and Michelle Ratton Sanchez Badin, The World Trade Organization and Global Administrative Law