Colloquia and Clinical Programs

Spring 2008 IILJ Colloquium

 

IILJ International Legal Theory Colloquium Spring 2008:
Interpretation and Judgment in International Law

Benedict Kingsbury and Joseph Weiler

NYU Law School

Pollack Colloquium Room, Furman Hall 9th Floor, 245 Sullivan Street
(unless otherwise noted)
Thursdays 4.00pm-5.50pm

[student seminar also meets separately, Wednesdays 2.00pm-3.50pm]

 

Note: speakers’ topics listed are indicative of areas, not final titles, and may change

January 17 –     Jeremy Waldron, NYU Law School
                        Topic: "PARTLY LAWS COMMON TO ALL MANKIND": FOREIGN LAW IN AMERICAN
                        COURTS.

January 24 -     Catharine MacKinnon, University of Michigan Law School
                        Topic: Women’s Status, Men’s States

January 31 -     Beth Simmons, Harvard University Government Department
                        Topic:  Explaining Variation in State Commitment to and Compliance with
                        International Human Rights Treaties

February 7 -     Richard Stewart, NYU Law School
                        Topic: Accountability, Participation, and the Problem of Disregard in Global Regulatory Governance

February 14 -   Joseph Weiler, NYU Law School
                        Topic: Prolegomena to a Meso-theory of Treaty Interpretation at the Turn of the Century

February 21 -   NO COLLOQUIUM

February 28 -  Sungjoon Cho , Chicago-Kent College of Law
                        Topic: Constitutional Adjudication in the WTO

March 6 -         Robert Howse, University of Michigan Law School
                        Topic: Beyond Compliance:  Rethinking Why International Law Really Matters (paper co-authored with Ruti
                        Teitel)

March 13 -       Martti Koskenniemi, University of Helsinki/NYU Law School
                        Topic: International Law and Raison D’état; Rethinking the Prehistory of International Law

Note: March 14 and 15, the Program in the History and Theory of International Law convenes in the same room a conference on Roman Law and Imperialism in the Foundations of Modern International Law (all welcome – see iilj.org)

March 20 -       NO COLLOQUIUM – Spring Break

March 27 -       Jose Alvarez, Columbia University Law School
                       Topic: The Argentine Crisis and Foreign Investors: A Glimpse into the Soul of the Foreign Investment Regime
                       (paper co-authored with Kathryn Khamsi)

April 3 -           Ryan Goodman, Harvard Law School
                        Topic: Sociological Theory Insights into International Human Rights Law

April 10 -         Sally Engle Merry, NYU Anthropology Dept & Law and Society Institute
                        Topic: Indicators in Global Governance
                        NOTE: This session will meet in Furman Hall, Room 210

April 17 -         Christopher McCrudden, Oxford University/U. of Michigan Law School
                        Topic: Human Dignity in Human Rights Interpretation

April 24 -         Stephen Gardbaum, University of California at Los Angeles Law School
                        Topic: The Myth and the Reality of American Constitutional Exceptionalism