International Organizations & International Law (IO/IL)
PARTICIPANTS
Karen J. Alter Political Science, Northwestern
kalter@northwestern.edu
Research Interests: The Politics of International Courts, International Regime Complexity, International law as it influences domestic politics
Recent IO/IL Related Scholarship:
The European Court’s Political Power: Selected Essays (Oxford University Press, 2009); "Islands of Effective International Adjudication: Constructing an Intellectual Property Rule of Law in the Andean Community," with Laurence Helfer and Maria Florencia Guerzovich, American Journal of International Law 103 (1) 2009 1-43; "The Politics of International Regime Complexity," Symposium project with Sophie Meunier, Perspective on Politics 7 (1) 2009: 13-24; "
Agent or Trustee: International Courts in their Political Context," European Journal of International Relations 14 (1) 2008: 33-63; "Delegating to International Courts: Self-Binding vs. Other-Binding Delegation," Law and Contemporary Problems 71 (1) 2008: 37-76
Olufunmilayo B. Arewa Law, Northwestern
o-arewa@law.northwestern.edu
Research Interests: issues related to international law and business, including international intellectual property, global financial markets, and financial market regulation
Recent IO/IL Related Scholarship: "Vultures, Hyenas, and Third World Debt: Private Equity and Zambia," Northwestern Journal of International Business (2009)
Bernadette Atuahene Chicago-Kent College of Law
batuahene@kentlaw.edu
Research Interests: law and international development, particularly the dispossession and restitution of property rights in the developing world; challenges faced by transitional democracies that provide compensation for past property dispossession as well as how land titling programs can best address urban poverty
Recent IO/IL Related Scholarship: "From Reparation to Restoration: Moving Beyond Restoring Property Rights to Restoring Political and Economic Visibility," SMU Law Review (2007)
Ilan Benshalom Law, Northwestern/Hebrew University
ilan.benshalom@gmail.com
Research Interests: the distributive impact of International organizations and rules governing trade and tax arrangements.
Recent IO/IL Related Scholarship:"The New Poor at Our Gates: Global Justice Implications for International Trade and Tax Law"; "Taxing the Financial Income of Multinational Enterprises by Employing a Hybrid Formulary and Arm’s Length Allocation Method," Va. Tax Rev. (forthcoming 2009); "The Quest to Tax Interest Income in a Global Economy: Stages in the Development of International Income Taxation," 27 Va. Tax Rev. 631 (2008)
Bruce Carruthers Sociology, Northwestern
b-carruthers@northwestern.edu
Research Interests: economic sociology and comparative-historical sociology; credit, financial institutions, and financially-relevant law
Recent IO/IL Related Scholarship: Bankrupt: Global Lawmaking and Systemic Financial Crisis, co-authored with Terence Halliday (Stanford University Press)
Theodore Christov Political Science, Northwestern
tchristov@northwestern.edu
Research Interests: history of international thought, from the seventeenth century to the present; theory and history of international relations; political theory of empire and imperialism; Europe's encounter with non-Europeans; the idea of Europe
Rifka Cook Spanish & Portuguese, Northwestern
rifka18@northwestern.edu
Research Interests: innovative teaching methods for teaching Spanish as a second language and teaching Spanish for Lawyers
Tom Ginsburg Law, University of Chicago
tginsburg@uchicago.edu
Research Interests: international and comparative law from an interdisciplinary perspective
Recent IO/IL Related Scholarship: "International Delegation and State Disaggregation," Constitutional Political Economy (2009); "The Clash of Commitments at the International Criminal Court," 9 Chicago Journal of International Law 499-514 (2009); "Symposium Introduction: Public International Law and Economics 2008 U. Ill. L. Rev. 101-37 (2008) (with Anne van Aaken and Christoph Engel); "Commitment and Diffusion: Why Constitutions Incorporate International Law," 2008 U. Ill. L. Rev. 201-38 (2008)
Ian Hurd Political Science, Northwestern
ianhurd@northwestern.edu
Research Interests: design and practice of international law and international organizations; how states use and interpret international treaties and organizations
Recent IO/IL Related Scholarship: After Anarchy: Legitimacy and Power at the UN Security Council (Princeton University Press, 2007). The UN Security Council and the Politics of International Authority (Bruce Cronin and Ian Hurd eds. Routledge, 2008). “Myths of Membership: The Politics of Legitimation in UN Security Council Reform,” Global Governance, v.14, n.2, 2008. “Breaking and Making Norms: American Revisionism and Crises of Legitimacy,” International Politics, 2007, v.44:194-213.
Erin Kimball Political Science, Northwestern
Research Interests: domestic reasons for involvement in regional and international Institutions, impact of participation in international/regional institutions on the diplomatic standing of weak states in the international community
Dissertation Project: Peacekeeping for Approval: Africa's Strategic use of Regional Interventions
Eugene Kontorovich Law, Northwestern
e-kontorovich@northwestern.edu
Research Interests: international and constitutional law, with a emphasis on jurisdiction; particularly the use of economic and empirical methods to analyze international legal questions
Recent IO/IL Related Scholarship: "'A Guantanamo on the Sea': The Difficulty of Prosecuting Pirates and Terrorists," 98 California Law Review (forthcoming, Feb. 2010); "The Constitutionality of International Courts: The Forgotten Precedent of Slave Trade Tribunals," 158 University of Pennsylvania Law Review (forthcoming, 2009); "International Decisions: United States v. Shi," 103 American Journal of International Law (2009); "International Legal Responses to Piracy off the Coast of Somalia," ASIL Insights, vol. 13, no. 2 (2009); "Responses to Territorial Conquest by Third-Party States," 102 American Society of International Law Proceedings (forthcoming, 2009)
Jacqueline R. McAllister Political Science, Northwestern
j-mcallister@u.northwestern.edu
Research Interests: international organizations as actors; international criminal courts; interface between international criminal courts and domestic politics
Dissertation Project: analysis of the potential role(s), or lack thereof, of international criminal courts in on-going conflicts
Jide Nzelibe Law School, Northwestern
Research Interests: Foreign Relations; Separation of Powers; WTO
Representative Publications: "Courting Genocide: The Unintended Effects of Humanitarian Interventions," CAL. L. REV. (2009 forthcoming); "The Case against Reforming the WTO’s Enforcement Mechanism," 2008 ILL. L. REV. 319; "Do International Criminal Tribunals Deter or Exacerbate Humanitarian Atrocities?" (with Julian Ku), 84 WASH. U. L. REV. 777 (2006); "The Credibility Imperative: The Political Dynamics of Retaliation in the World Trade Organization’s Dispute Resolution Mechanism," 6 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 215 (2005).
James E. Pfander Law, Northwestern
j-pfander@law.northwestern.edu
Research Interests: the structure of judicial systems, particularly those in federal systems; the role of courts in enforcing government accountability and the rule of law
Recent IO/IL Related Scholarship: "Köbler v. Austria: Expositional Supremacy and Member State Liability," 17 Eur. Bus. L. Rev. 275-97 (2006) (invited submission to symposium on member state liability sponsored by British Institute on International and Comparative Law); "The Limits of Habeas Jurisdiction and the Global War on Terror," 91 Cornell L. Rev. 497-540 (2006) (invited submission to Cornell Law Review symposium); "Government Accountability in Europe: A Comparative Perspective," 35 Geo. Wash. Int'l L. Rev. 611-652 (2003) (invited submission to symposium held in connection with the Judicial Conference of the United States Court of Federal Claims); "Member State Liability and Constitutional Change in the United States and Europe," 51 Am. J. Comp. L. 237-274 (2003)
Galya Ruffer International Studies, Northwestern
g-ruffer@northwestern.edu
Research Interests: theories of legal cosmopolitanism and democratic citizenship; international law as it related to immigration and asylum (recently launched the Center for International Asylum Evidence Advocacy to work on these issues)
Recent IO/IL Related Scholarship: “Pushed Beyond Recognition? The Liberality of Family Reunification Policies in the EU,” Journal of Ethnic Migration Studies (2009)
Regina M. Schwartz English and Law, Northwestern
regina-s@northwestern.edu
Research Interests: ideas of justice elaborated in classical, biblical, literary, political, theological and philosophical traditions
Recent IO/IL Related Scholarship: SSRN article: "Holy Law and Holy Terror"
Carole Silver Georgetown University Law Center
c-silver@law.northwestern.edu
Research Interests: relationship between globalization and the legal profession, including legal practice organizations, legal education and professional regulation
Recent IO/IL Related Scholarship: Silver, Phelan and Rabinowitz, “Between Diffusion and Distinctiveness in Globalization: US Law Firms Go Glocal” (Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, forthcoming); and Silver, Van Zandt & DeBruin, “Globalization and the Business of Law: Lessons for Legal Education,” 28 Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business 399 (2008)
Arthur L. Stinchcombe Sociology, Northwestern (emeritus)
a-stinch@northwestern.edu
Research Interests: comparative and Historical analysis of institutional change, Methods, Sociological and Political Economy Theory; state formation in provinces, and so the underpinnings of federal law, commercial law, creation of joint public goods by provincial, sub-provincial, and central governance, flows of resources and claims, etc. and other forms of intergovernmental relationship
J. Samuel Tenenbaum Bluhm Legal Clinic, Northwestern
s-tenenbaum@law.northwestern.edu
Research Interests: comparative law and the study of foreign legal systems
Martin Walter Northwestern - Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
valt@hotmail.com
Research Interests: the changing role of International Organizations in the development of environmental governance systems
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