Spring Semester International Law Colloquia

The new academic term brings a new set of international law colloquia. I note a number of these below. I welcome emails announcing similar events (colloquia, seminars, conferences, and the like), though I cannot promise to post on everything I receive.

Georgetown University Law Center International Human Rights Colloquium

• January 18: Ruti Teitel (New York Law School), Humanity's Law
• January 25: Patrick Keenan (Univ. of Illinois - Law), Resources, Windfalls, and Aid: A Behavioral Economics Theory of Human Rights and Development
• February 1: David Kennedy (Harvard - Law), Of War and Law
• February 8: Paul Kahn (Yale - Law), Torture and International Law
• February 15: Lucie White (Harvard - Law), Innovations in ESC Rights Advocacy
• February 22: Karen Engle (Univ. of Texas - Law), Indigenous Roads to Development: Self-Determination, Human Rights, and Culture
• February 29: Fionnuala Ni Aolain (Univ. of Minnesota - Law), Gender, Truth, and Transition
• March 14: Jenny Martinez (Stanford Univ. - Law), Substance and Process in the War on Terror
• March 28: Paolo Carrozza (Univ. of Notre Dame - Law), The "Art" of Democracy and the "Taste For Local Freedom": International Human Rights and the American Constitutional Difference
• April 4: Martin Flaherty (Fordham Univ. - Law), Executive Authority, Fundamental Rights, and Global Separation of Powers
• April 11: Balakrishnan Rajagopal (Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Urban Studies and Planning), The Limits of Legalizing Social Rights
• April 18: Peter Spiro (Temple Univ. - Law), An International Law of Citizenship
• April 25: Phillip Alston (New York Univ. - Law), Topic TBA

New York University School of Law Institute for International Law and Justice Colloquium: Interpretation and Judgment in International Law

• January 17: Jeremy Waldron (NYU - Law), "Partly Laws Common to All Mankind": Foreign Law in American Courts
• January 24: Catharine MacKinnon (Univ. of Michigan - Law), Women’s Status, Men’s States
• January 31: Beth Simmons (Harvard Univ. - Government), Participation in and Effects of Human Rights Treaties
• February 7: Richard Stewart (NYU - Law), Accountability in Global Governance
• February 14: Joseph Weiler (NYU - Law), The Theory and Practice of Interpretation in International Law
• February 21: No Colloquium
• February 28: Derek Jinks (Univ. of Texas - Law), Fragmentation of International Law concerning Individuals in Armed Conflict
• March 6: Robert Howse (Univ. of Michigan - Law), Interpretation in the World Trade Organization
• March 13: Martti Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki - Law & NYU - Law), Natural Law between Moral History and Raison d’Etat: Understanding the Pre-History of International Law
• March 14 and 15: The Program in the History and Theory of International Law convenes a conference on Roman Law and Imperialism in the Foundations of Modern International Law
• March 20: No Colloquium
• March 27: José Alvarez (Columbia Univ. - Law), Interpretive Problems in International Investment Law
• April 3: Ryan Goodman (Harvard - Law), Sociological Theory Insights into International Human Rights Law
• April 10: Sally Engle Merry (NYU - Anthropology & Law and Society Institute), Indicators in Global Governance
• April 17: Christopher McCrudden (Oxford Univ. & Univ. of Michigan - Law), Human Dignity in Human Rights Interpretation
• April 24: Stephen Gardbaum (Univ. of California, Los Angeles - Law), Is U.S. Constitutional Rights Jurisprudence Exceptional?

Temple University School of Law International Law Colloquia

• January 24: Carlos Vázquez (Georgetown Univ. - Law), Judicial Enforcement of Treaties
• February 7: Melissa Waters (Washington and Lee Univ. - Law), Veni, Vidi, Amici: Law Professors as Transnational Norm Entrepreneurs Before the U.S. Supreme Court
• February 21: Jeremy Rabkin (George Mason Univ. - Law), Exit, Voice, Loyalty in International Organizations: Why Can't the President Check the First Option?
• March 6: Robert Ahdieh (Emory Univ. - Law & Princeton Univ. - Program in Law and Public Affairs), Standardization 2.0: A New Version of the Game
• March 27: Sean Murphy (George Washington Univ. - Law), The Jus Ad Bellum in View of New Security Threats
• April 10: Jutta Brunnée (Univ. of Toronto - Law), Interactional International Law: Reflections on Obligation
• April 24: Rachel Brewster (Harvard - Law), Renegotiation and Reinterpretation of Treaties

University of Cambridge Lauterpacht Centre for International Law Lent Term Lecture Programme

• January 18: Lord Mustill (formerly, Law Lord; Univ. of Cambridge), State Corruption in International Arbitration
• January 22, 23, 24: Ralph Zacklin (formerly, Deputy Legal Adviser, United Nations), Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures: The UN Secretariat and the Use of Force in a Unipolar World
• February 1: Michael Carrell & Iris Müller (both, International Committee of the Red Cross Customary International Humanitarian Law Project), A Report from the Trenches on the ICRC Humanitarian Law Project
• February 8: Richard Plender (20 Essex Street, London), The ECJ's Decision in the MOX Plant Case and Its Implications
• February 14: Philip Allott (Univ. of Cambridge), International Law and the Transcending of Politics
• February 15: Chester Brown (Legal Division, Foreign and Commonwealth Office), Procedure and Remedies Before Different International Courts and Tribunals: Convergence or Divergence?
• February 22: Charlotte Ku (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - Law) & Paul Diehl (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - Political Science), A New Framework for Understanding the International Legal System
• February 29: Major General David Howell (Director of Army Legal Services), The Military Lawyer: Commander's Accomplice or Voice of Conscience?
• March 6: Shaheed Fatima (Blackstone Chambers), The House of Lords Decision in Al Jedda: The Security Council and State Responsibility for Internment
• March 7: Christopher Staker (Deputy Prosecutor, Special Court for Sierra Leone), The Special Tribunal for Sierra Leone

University of Georgia School of Law International Law Colloquium

• February 1: Greg Shaffer (Loyola Univ., Chicago - Law), A Call for a New Legal Realism in the Understanding and Building of International Law
• February 8: Beth Simmons (Harvard Univ. - Government), International Human Rights Law, Politics and Accountability
• February 15: Nadia Bernaz (National University of Ireland, Galway - Irish Centre for Human Rights), Caribbean Court of Justice: Reflections on a Truly Hybrid Court
• February 22: Ingrid Wuerth (Vanderbilt Univ. - Law), The Original Meaning of the Captures Clause
• February 29: Tonya Putnam (Columbia Univ. - Political Science), Beyond Presumption?: Explaining Variation in US Extraterritorial Jurisdiction over Civil Claims
• March 21: Paul Schiff Berman (Univ. of Connecticut - Law), Global Legal Pluralism
• March 28: Frédéric Mégret (McGill Univ. - Law), Civil Disobedience in Defense of International Law: What Should International Law Have to Say?
• April 4: David Caron (Univ. of California, Berkeley - Law), Why International Courts and Tribunals Look and Act as They Do

University of Oxford Public International Law Discussion Group (Hilary Term)

• January 17: Guy Goodwin-Gill (Univ. of Oxford - Law), What Future for the "Right to Seek Asylum" Fifty Years After the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
• January 24: Federico Ortino (British Institute of International and Comparative Law), International Law of Foreign Investment: Emerging Chaos or Emerging System?
• January 31: M. Davison & S. Nesbitt, Topic TBA
• February 7: TBA
• February 14: Jakob Wurm, The Law of State Immunity in Domestic Courts
• February 21: S. Allen, Topic TBA
• February 28: Malgosia Fitzmaurice (Queen Mary, Univ. of London - Law), Topic TBA
• March 6: Giorgio Gaja (Univ. of Florence - Law), Impermissible Reservations