International Organizations & International Law (IO/IL)

Convenors
Karen Alter (Political Science)
Terry Halliday (ABF-Sociology)
Ian Hurd (Political Science)
Jide Nzelibe (Law)

The IO/IL Working Group is a meeting place for scholars with an interest in international law and international organization, broadly defined. Its mission is to bring together faculty, visitors, and advanced graduate students and facilitate joint research and events. It has a deliberately interdisciplinary mandate and welcomes members and scholarship dealing with all aspects of international institutions and institutionalization, international regulation and governance, and the relationship between domestic and international rules, norms, and laws.

Events and Plans

Past recent events include a series of meetings on international law in its social context, a conference on the changing authority of the UN Security Council, a workshop on international law violations, and a series engaged in the comparative study of international courts and tribunals. Meetings generally take place at the Buffett Center or at the homes of group members, and vary in format from formal conferences and workshops to informal readings groups and themed discussions.

In 2009-10, the group will launch a working paper series to publish relevant scholarship by group members and guest speakers. These will appear on the website of the Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies.

There will be a workshop in fall 2009 that brings together scholars in the midwest who work on international law and international organizations. In addition, we have events and speakers once or twice each quarter. The project on International Law in its Social Context continues into 2009-10 with a workshop and invited papers.

A list of events and speakers will be available in summer 2009.

Members

The Working Group includes members from humanities and social sciences, the Kellogg School of Business, the Northwestern Law School, the American Bar Foundation, and elsewhere around the university. It is open to faculty, researchers, and senior graduate students. To join, please contact the convenors listed below.

Group Administration and Governance

The group is supported by the Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies.

It is directed by:
Karen Alter (Political Science), kalter@northwestern.edu
Terry Halliday (American Bar Foundation), halliday@abfn.org
Ian Hurd (Political Science), ianhurd@northwestern.edu
Jide Nzelibe (Law), j-nzelibe@law.northwestern.edu