COLLOQUIA AND CLINICAL PROGRAMS
Hauser Colloquium on Globalization and Its Discontents
Fall 2008 - convened by Professors Benedict Kingsbury and Richard Stewart
Note: Students considering whether they wish to take this course or not are also welcome to attend the first class and apply right after that for permission to add the course. For details of application procedures please access the link below.
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History of the Globalization Colloquium
The topics of the Hauser Globalization Colloquium rotate annually amongst the particular interests of different IILJ faculty conveners. For one semester each year, a weekly colloquium brings leading scholars from around the world to discuss their research with students,visiting fellows, and faculty.
In Fall 2008 it was convened by Professors Benedict Kingsbury and Richard Stewart and focused on Legal Theory and Global Administrative Law. In Fall 2006 it was also convened by Professors Kingsbury and Stewart, and focused on Public and Private in Global Governance. In the Fall 2005 Colloquium, which was convened by Professors Philip Alston and Benedict Kingsbury, focusing on public and private in international law and global governance, students used the cutting edge ideas of visiting speakers to write their own papers on issues such as governance of the Hawala money-transfer system, rights of non-patent holders to manufacture avian flu vaccine in an emergency, China's approach to bilateral investment treaties, and the liability of oil corporations for events in the Nigerian delta. In Spring 2005 it was convened by Professors Kevin Davis and Joseph Weiler, focusing on the legal bases for 'discontents' with a variety of specific global governance regimes, including immigration, intellectual property, WTO labor and environmental standards, transnational labor law in Africa, and Americanization of legal practice in Asia. The colloquium is an initiative of the Institute for International Law and Justice and the Hauser Global Law School Program. Through class discussion and written papers, students consider core theoretical issues such as: the meanings and usages of concepts of “governance,” “civil society”, “democracy”, and “accountability” in the context of increasing international interdependence; the significance of rising global inequality; relations between international and national law; arguments for and against regulation by formal institutions; the need for and prospects of international administrative law; and unmet demands for justice and fairness at the global level.
Recent speakers include Robert Keohane (Princeton University), Jean-Bernard Auby (Sciences-Po, Paris), Laura Dickinson (University of Connecticut Law School), Christian Joerges (European University Institute, transnational governance of food safety), David Dyzenhaus (Toronto, accountability and the international legal order), James Salzman, (American University, accountability and participation in OECD regulation), Ruth Grant and Robert Keohane (Duke University, accountability and abuses of power in world politics), Bronwen Morgan (Oxford University, local participation and global rule-making in transnational water regulation), Eyal Benvenisti (Tel Aviv, public choice and global administrative law), Sabino Cassese (Rome, international standards for domestic administration), Dan Bodansky (Georgia, the development of a global climate change regime), Hilary Charlesworth (Australian National University, the position of women in internationally-governed post-conflict societies), Katherine van Wezel Stone (Cornell, the roles and limits of international labor standards), Thomas Pogge (Columbia, the claims of moral universalism in determining priorities for global justice), Philippe Sands (London, the impact of international courts and tribunals), Andrew Hurrell (Oxford, new strategies for the Global South), former Italian Prime Minister Giuliano Amato (strategies of the G8), and John Ruggie (Harvard, public-private partnerships in global governance). Students are encouraged to work as research assistants in this project and to write papers for the colloquium. Student papers are considered for the Institute’s online working paper series and special publications.
