Monday, December 5, 2011

Sciences Po Law School Workshop on "Private International Law as Global Governance”

This academic year, the Law School at Sciences Po is hosting a workshop on Private International Law as Global Governance. Here's the schedule:
  • October 21, 2011: Horatia Muir Watt & Diego P. Fernandez Arroyo, Introduction to the PILAGG research project)
  • October 28, 2011: Ivana Isailovitch, “Recognition and legal pluralism”
  • November 17, 2011: Robert Wai, “Private v. Private: Models of Private Governance in Private International Law”
  • November 18, 2011: Kerry Rittich, Robert Wai, & Horatia Muir Watt, “Tools for distributional analysis in law”
  • November 25, 2011: Veronica Corcodel, “What room for comparative law in the governance debate?”
  • November 29, 2011: Martti Koskenniemi (Julie Saada, Jean Matringe, debaters)
  • December 2, 2011: Geoffrey Samuel, “Comparative Law as Resistance”
  • December 9, 2011: Ralf Michaels, “Post-critical Private International Law: From Politics to Technique”
  • December 16, 2011: Tomaso Ferrando, “Sovereignty abuse, homogeneization of legal orders and land grabbing”
  • January 20, 2012: Mads Andenas, “External effects of national ECHR judgments”
  • January 26, 2012: Shotaro Hamaoto (title forthcoming)
  • January 27, 2012: Ingo Venzke, “On words and deeds: How the practice of interpretation develops international norms”
  • February 9, 2012: Benoit Frydman (title forthcoming)
  • February 11, 2012: David Kennedy
  • February 16, 2012: Michael Waibel, “Privatizing the adjudication of sovereign defaults”
  • March 8, 2012: Michael Karayanni, “The extraterritorial application of access to justice rights: The case of Palestinian plaintiffs seeking civil justice before Israeli courts”
  • March 9, 2012: George A. Bermann (title forthcoming)
  • March 22, 2012: Jeremy Heymann, “Jurisdiction: A discourse on method”
  • March 23, 2012: Alex Mills, “Variable geometry and peer governance in private international law”
  • April 12, 2012: Diego P. Fernandez Arroyo, “Does global governance require arbitral precedent?”
  • April 13, 2012: Michael Hellner (title forthcoming)
  • May 4, 2012: Jodie Kirshner (title forthcoming)