Colloquia and Clinical Programs

Spring 2009 IILJ Colloquium

IILJ International Legal Theory Colloquium Spring 2009:
Virtues, Vices, Human Behavior and Democracy in International Law

Benedict Kingsbury and Joseph Weiler

NYU Law School

Pollack Colloquium Room, Furman Hall 9th Floor, 245 Sullivan Street
Thursdays 4pm-5.50pm

[student seminar also meets separately, Tuesdays 4pm-5.50pm]

 

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

January 15 -       Derek Jinks, University of Texas Law School
                             Topic: Humanization and Individualization in the Enforcement of International
                             Humanitarian Law

January 22 -       Anne van Aaken, University of St Gallen Law School, Switzerland
                            Topic: International Investment Law and Rationalist Contract Theory

January 29 -       Craig Calhoun, NYU Institute for Public Knowledge & President, SSRC
                             Topic: The Idea of Emergency: Humanitarian Action and Global (Dis)Order

February 5 -       Paolo Carozza, Notre Dame Law School and Chair, IACmHR
                            Topic: Global Values, Local Virtues: Human Rights, Democratic Self-Governance and
                             International Justice

February 12 -     Leigh Payne, Oxford University Sociology (Latin American Societies)
                            Topic: Performances of Power: Paramilitary Confessions in Colombia
                            Chapter 1 and Conclusion of Leigh Payne's recent book titled: Unsettling Accounts: Neither
                             Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence

February 19 -     NO COLLOQUIUM

February 26 -     William Miller, University of Michigan Law School
                            Topic: Messengers and Intermediaries: Insights from Ancient Law

March 5 -          Armin von Bogdandy, NYU Law School, Director MPI Heidelberg
                            Topic: Developing the Publicness of Public International Law: Towards a Legal Framework for
                            Global Governance Activities (paper co-authored with Philipp Dann and Matthias Goldmann)

                            The Exercise of International Public Authority through National Policy Assessment (paper
                            co-authored with Matthias Goldmann)

March 12 -        Continued discussion of Armin von Bogdandy's papers on March 5 (see above)

March 19 -         NO COLLOQUIUM – Spring Break

March 26 -         Joseph Weiler, NYU Law School
                            Topic: Europe Against Itself: On the Distinction between Values and Virtues (and Vices)
                             in the Construction and Development of European Integration

April 2 -             Pierre Rosanvallon, Collège de France
                           Topic: The Metamorphoses of Democratic Legitimacy

 Tuesday, April 7-       (SPECIAL SESSION, 4:00 pm to 5:50 pm)- Faculty Club, D'Agostino Hall
                           Alexander Somek, University of Iowa
                           Topic: Democracy-Enhancing International Law: The Argument for Transnational Effect

April 9 -             NO COLLOQUIUM

April 16 -           Conference in Honor of Professor Andreas Lowenfeld
                           (More information here – all welcome!)

April 23 -          Student Presentations
                           Furman Hall 324