Conference: The Law and Politics of International Cooperation

Later this week, on January 18th and 19th, the Vanderbilt International Legal Studies Program will host its Winter 2008 Roundtable. The topic is "The Law and Politics of International Cooperation." Here are the papers and commentators:

• Andrew Kent (Fordham Univ. - Law), The Insular Cases Outside the Courts
• Comment: Ingrid Wuerth (Vanderbilt Univ. - Law)
• Tom Ginsburg (Univ. of Illinois - Law & Political Science), International Delegation: The Nth Power
• Comment: Jacob Katz Cogan (Univ. of Cincinnati - Law)
• Larry Helfer (Vanderbilt Univ. - Law), Constructing an Intellectual Property Rule of Law in the Andean Community
• Comment: Arnulf Becker Lorca (King's College London - Law)
• Catherine Powell (Fordham Univ. - Law), Tinkering with Torture in the Aftermath of Hamdan: Testing the Relationship between Internationalism and Constitutionalism
• Comment: Jaya Ramji-Nogales (Temple Univ. - Law)
• Mark Axelrod (Duke Univ. - Political Science), Saving Institutional Benefits: Path Dependence in International Law
• Comment: Hannah Buxbaum (Indiana Univ., Bloomington - Law)
• Anupam Chander (Univ. of California, Davis - Law), Trade 2.0
• Comment: Monica Hakimi (Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law)
• Susan Franck (Univ. of Nebraska - Law), Empiricism and International Law: Application to Investment Treaty Dispute Resolution
• Comment: Chris Brummer (Vanderbilt Univ. - Law)
• Asif Efrat (Harvard - Government), Governing Guns, Opposing Opium: The Politics of Internationally Regulated Goods
• Comment: Bernadette Atuahene (Chicago-Kent College of Law)