Lunch time lecture: Thomas
Hickey, Assistant General Counsel, Hess
Corporation
Thomas
Hickey will discuss how companies such as Hess work to develop policies
and procedures to eradicate bribery and corruption, and to ensure
compliance with anti-corruption legislation, protocols, and conventions.
Mr. Hickey is admitted to practice in the state of California and in
England and Wales. He has worked in London, Houston, and Kuala Lumpur in
support of Hess’s oil and gas production business.
C.V. Starr Lecture III: Outsourcing and Insourcing Crime: The Political Economy of Globalized Criminal Activity
Doron
Teichman, a law professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, will explain
how crime control policies adopted by one country increasingly affect
criminal behavior in others and describe the competitive dynamics that
drive legislation relating to global criminal activity.
Lunch in the Boardroom: Jordan Kanfer '97, Senior Vice President & General Counsel, T-Systems North America
Jordan
Kanfer '97 will speak to students in an informal setting about his work at
T-Systems (a division of Deutsche Telekom) which provides information and
communication technology solutions to corporations and industry sectors in
over 20 countries. Before joining T-Systems in 2005, Kanfer held senior
in-house legal positions at Telerate (Reuters) and Global Crossing.
NEW SEMESTER ABROAD PROGRAM IN THE
NETHERLANDSNew York Law School has partnered with Radboud University in the
Netherlands to create a semester abroad program. Beginning in Fall 2012,
New York Law School students may study at Radboud, a well-regarded Dutch
university with a broad array of courses which significantly complements
our course offerings in the areas of international and comparative law.
Click
here for application procedures.
C.V. STARR SUMMER FELLOWSHIPS
Through a generous grant from the Starr Foundation, the Center for
International Law will grant summer stipends to a limited number of
students to pursue summer internships (beginning in summer 2012) in the
area of international business law. Click
here for eligibility requirements and application
procedures.
Lunch time lecture: Peter Damiano, Senior Director, J.Crew
One of the most well-known retail brands in the United
States, J.Crew has now begun expanding its business internationally. It
already has online retail channels in Europe and Asia, and, last year, it
opened its first foreign retail store in Toronto, Canada. Peter Damiano
will speak more about his work and the issues which arise when American
companies go abroad.
Information sessions on
joining the Center for International Law
Students
may join the Center for International Law as Harlan Scholars (for those at
the top of their class) or International Associates (which is open to all
students). The Center will hold information sessions on Tuesday, February
28, 2012:
Students may attend either
session. Click
here for more information on these programs.
Fall/Winter 2011 Center newsletter now
available
The Fall/Winter 2011 issue of The
International Review – the only academic newsletter published
by an ABA-accredited law school that reports on a wide range of
contemporary international and comparative law topics – is now
available online for viewing
and downloading. Unlike many international law publications
laden with dense prose and technical jargon, the articles in our
newsletter are written in PLAIN ENGLISH.
First published by the
Center for International Law in 1999, The International Review was
awarded the 2009 Gold Award for “Most Improved Editorial (Print
Newsletter)” in the Sixth Annual Magnum Opus Awards by a panel of
journalism professors and publishing professionals. It was also awarded
the 2007 Gold Award for “Best Edited Organization Newsletter”
by the publisher of The Newsletter on Newsletters, which TIME magazine
described as "the bible of the [newsletter] industry."
C.V. Starr Lecture
II: The
Impact of European Court of Human Rights Judgments on Criminal Law Practice
in Europe
Willem F.
Korthals Altes, a senior judge in the Criminal Law Division of the
Rechtbank of Amsterdam, will provide an overview of the principles and
rules in the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental
Freedoms and the Treaty on the European Union, both of which can have an
immediate impact on criminal law practice when they are enforced in
individual EU member states, but are not always applicable in the same
countries.
Lunch time lecture:
Legislation
by Stealth: Negotiating the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
Michael
Blakeney, a professor of intellectual property law at the University of
London and the University of Western Australia, will explain why the eight
signatory nations to the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement -- which
requires them to create much stronger domestic standards for enforcing
intellectual property rights -- negotiated its terms under unusual
secrecy.
C.V. Starr Lecture I: International Investment Law and Human Rights Treaties: A Sociological Perspective
Moshe Hirsch, a professor of international
law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, will explain why international
investment tribunals have been generally reluctant to use provisions
from international human rights laws when deciding disputes. While several
reasons may explain this reluctance, Professor Moshe Hirsch will focus on
the socio-cultural factors involved in the interaction between these
branches of international law, and discuss how to bridge the gap that
separates them.
Information session on New York Law School’s study abroad program in London, England
Are you interested in studying abroad in London, England,
this summer where you can take various international law courses (for a
letter grade) taught by New York Law School professors along with a
possible internship in London? Attend our information session and find out
more. (You can also find more information here.)
Free pizza and beverages will be provided. To RSVP, please send an e-mail
to jill.rodgers@nyls.edu
For more detailed information on the Law School's policies
concerning summer abroad programs, please click
here.
THE CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL LAW, founded in
1996, supports teaching, research, and activities in a wide
range of areas in international and comparative law.
Professor Lloyd Bonfield serves as Director.
Click here
to learn more or visit our office in SW-920 on
the 9th floor of 40 Worth Street.
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comparative law issues in plain English.
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