IILJ Calendar

Upcoming Events

September 8, 2010
Global Welcome Reception
NYU School of Law

September 13-14, 2010
Conference: Indicators as a Technology of Global Governance - a meeting of academics, practitioners, NGO representatives and policy makers. New York, NY

September 20th, 2010
NYU Investment Law Forum: The Legal Theory of International Arbitration. With Emmanuel Gaillard, Shearman & Sterling and University of Paris XII. Discussants: George A. Bermann, Columbia Law School; and Joseph H. H. Weiler, Visiting Prof. Columbia Law School.
6:15 - 8:00 PM, Furman Hall 900, Lester Pollack Colloquium

October 18, 2010
Mary Kaldor discusses her new book: “The Ultimate Weapon is No Weapon: Human Security and the New Rules of War and Peace”
6:00 - 8:00 PM, Furman Hall 212

October 26, 2010
An Interview with the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno Ocampo.  Panelists include Jose Alvarez, Gabriella Blum and David Tolbert.  Co-sponsored with CHRGJ
6:00 - 8:00 PM, Furman Hall 900, Lester Pollack Colloquium

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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)

New: GAL Network page

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. 

Papers presented at the Privatization of Development Assistance Symposium, held Dec. 4-5, 2009, can be found here.

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.

Indicators as a Global Technology/Governance by Information 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.

Upcoming Event:

September 13-14, 2010
Conference: Indicators as a Technology of Global Governance - a meeting of academics, practitioners, NGO representatives and policy makers. New York, NY

Investment Law Project

The Investment Law Forum is devoted to the rigorous and critical examination of the increasing jurisprudence that is emerging from investor-state arbitral tribunals, as well as the underlying legal norms, whether in bilateral investment treaties or bilateral or regional trade agreements, that these tribunals are applying. The tribunal awards in investor-state arbitration raise important thematic issues, such as canons of treaty interpretation, the nature of state responsibility including remedies, custom as a source of law, and "fragmentation"-the relationship of investment law to other international legal regimes, whether the WTO or environment or human rights. Through anchoring reflection on these and other fundamental themes in the case law and related legal developments, we seek to engage the relevant academic community but also practitioners, policymakers, and activists.

Upcoming Events:

NYU Investment Law Forum
Fall sessions will be held September 20th, October 11th, and November 15th.
6:15 - 8:00 PM, Furman Hall 900, Lester Pollack Colloquium

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.

Recent event:

Book event: The Philosophy of International Law. With Samantha Besson, co-editor of the volume, Jean Cohen, Robert Howse, Benedict Kingsbury, Liam Murphy, Benjamin Straumann, Ruti Teitel, and Jeremy Waldron.
April 15, 2010

International Law and International Organizations: the United Nations and International Financial Institutions

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:

Publications

International Law and Justice Working Papers

Working Paper 2010/4: Gregory Shaffer, Transnational Legal Process and State Change: Opportunities and Constraints

Working Paper 2010/3: José E. Alvarez and Tegan Brink, Revisiting the Necessity Defense: Continental Casualty v. Argentina

Working Paper 2010/2: Kevin E. Davis, Benedict Kingsbury, Sally Engle Merry, Indicators as a Technology of Global Governance

Working Paper 2010/1: Nehal Bhuta, New Modes and Orders: The Difficulties of a Jus Post Bellum of Constitutional Transformation

IILJ Project Books

Essays presented at the 2009 Symposium on Global Administrative Law in the Operations of International Organizations:
International Organizations Law Review (Vol. 6, no. 2, 2009).

Richard B. Stewart, Benedict Kingsbury and Bryce Rudyk (eds.), Climate Finance: Regulatory and Funding Strategies for Climate Change and Global Development, NYU Press (September) 2009

Benedict Kingsbury [et. al.], El nuevo derecho administrativo global en América Latina, Buenos Aires: Rap, (October) 2009

Simon Chesterman and Angelina Fisher, (eds.), Private Security, Public Order: The Outsourcing of Public Services and its Limits, Oxford University Press, (November) 2009

Emerging Scholars Papers

IILJ ESP 18 (2010): Dr. Nicolas F. Diebold, Non-Discrimination and the Pillars of International Economic Law

IILJ ESP 17 (2010): Nikhil K. Dutta, Accountability in the Generation of Governance Indicators

IILJ Scholarship on the DRC v. Uganda case, Public and Private Partnerships, International Legal Theory...

IILJ Staff Publications