2011-2012
October 21 at 4:30pm - Scott Hall, Ripton Room
Michael Barnett (George Washington University) will present a talk on "International Paternalism."
November 14 at 4pm - Harris Hall, rm L05
Nehal Bhuta (New School) will present a talk on indexes of state failure.
December 2 at 3:30pm - Buffett Center
Miguel Maduro, European University Institute and Yale Law School will present from his new book, discussing Constitutionalism as Pluralism: The Form of European Constitutionalism.
January 6 at 3pm - Buffett Center
Peter Katzenstein and Benjamin Brake, Cornell University, “The Transnational Spread of American Law: Legalization as Soft Power”
Co-hosted with the Comparative-Historical Social Science Working Group
January 12
Workshop on Karen Alter’s The New Terrain of International Law
2010-2011
Tuesday, September 28 at 5:30pm - Scott Hall 212
Rawi Abdelal, Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
“The Profits of Power: Energy Security and Commercial Realpolitik in Europe”
October 14, 2010
Elizabeth Borgwardt, Associate Professor, Department of History, Washington St. Louis University
“Commerce and Complicity: Corporate Responsibility for Human Rights Abuses as a Legacy of Nuremberg”
October 27, 2010
Farrell Talk - Lea Brilmayer, Howard M. Holtzmann Professor of International Law
"Super Sovereign: American Exceptionalism and the International Rule of Law"
November 15 at 4pm - 205B Louis Room, Norris Center, 1999 Campus Dr., Evanston
Bernhard Zangl, professor of global governance and public policy, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
Roberta Buffett Visiting Professor Lecture: "Nation States and International Organizations— A Relationship in Transition"
February 7, 2011 at 4:30pm - PAS conference rm.
Claire Dickenson, Senator John B. Breaux Professor of Business Law, Tulane University
"Navigating Formal Law in an Informal World: The Experience of Retail Sellers in Cameroon"
Wednesday, April 27 at 4:30pm – Scott Hall 212
Clifford Bob, Duquesne University
"Gay Rights vs. the Baptist-Burqa Network: Transnational Conflict and International Law"
Wednesday, May 25 - 4:30pm - Scott Hall 212
Dan Nielson, Brigham Young University
"The Causes of Compliance in Normal International Relations: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Financial Transparency"
May 6-7, 2011
2nd Regional Colloquium on Globalization of Law, International Organizations, and International Law, hosted by University of Chicago School of Law
2009-2010
September 25 and 26, 2009
Regional Colloquium on Globalization of Law, International Organizations, and International Law
Thursday October 29, 2009
Jonathan Koppell, Yale University School of Management
The Political Dynamics of Global Rule-Making
Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 5pm, Scott Hall 212
Tim Meyer, US Department of State
Power, Exit Costs, and Renegotiation in International Law
Monday, March 8, 2010
Michael Tomz, Stanford University
Reputation and the Effect of International Law on Preferences and Beliefs
Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 4pm, Scott Hall 212
Beth Simmons, Harvard University
The International Investment Regime: Sovereignty, Investor Security, and Dispute Settlement since the 1980s
2006-2007
October 13, 2006
Workshop—The Institutionalization of International Norms
G. Daniel Cohen, Assistant Professor of History, Rice University
Richard McAdams, Professor of Law, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
Judith Kelly, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, Duke University
Gary Goertz, Department of Political Science, University of Arizona
Gregory Shaffer, Wing-Tat Lee Chair in International Law, Loyola University Chicago
November 1, 2006
Nathaniel Berman and Jacob Katz Cogan
Law-Breaking by States
December 4, 2006
Linn Hammergren, World Bank Latin America Regional Department
International Efforts to Promote the Rule of Law
April 3, 2007
Monica Rosell, Andean Community
Enforcing Trade Agreements in the Andean Context
April 19, 2007
Thomas Biersteker, Henry R. Luce Professor of Transnational Organizations, Brown University
Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights: Reforming the UN Security Council
2005- 2006
January 10, 2005
Nancy Paterson, former senior prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
Emerging laws on Rape as a War Crime
March 9, 2005
Recent research on the legitimation of the UN Security Council
April 5, 2005
Sean Hagan, International Monetary Fund
Lawyers inside of International Institutions: The Work of the General Counsel’s Office at the International Monetary Fund
May 31, 2005
Bill Easterly, The World Bank
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Utopian Efforts to Help the Rest Have Done More Harm than Good
June 6, 2005
Workshop on the UN Security Council and the Politics of International Authority
convened by Ian Hurd and Bruce Cronin
January 11, 2006
Lawrence Helfer, Vanderbilt University
Institutional change in international organizations, with a case study of the International Labor Organization
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