Welcome to the Center for International Law
Upcoming lecture
How “Wilsonian” was Woodrow Wilson?
- Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2010
- Time: 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
- Location: 185 West Broadway (Room W-202, 2nd floor)
Prof. Mark Weston Janis of the University of
Connecticut School of Law will explore how Woodrow Wilson's interest
in international law developed only late in life. He will also show
how Wilson's changing world view reflected and shaped both American
foreign policy and the development of international law.
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Center appoints International Law Fellow
The Center for International Law has appointed Raymond P. Girnys II
as International Law Fellow. During their semester-long appointments,
Fellows provide timely international law memoranda to practitioners,
government bodies, civic groups, and international organizations. As part
of his fellowship, Mr. Girnys will work closely with Associate Professor
Tai-Heng Cheng towards the completion of his forthcoming book with Oxford
University Press, INTERNATIONAL LAW AS COMMITMENT.
A 2L at New
York Law School, Mr. Girnys is a member of the Law Review and also a John
Marshall Harlan Scholar. He graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of
Arts degree in both history and political science from the University of
Scranton where he was a four-year varsity letterwinner on the school's
baseball team.
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Center lectures now available online as streaming
videos
Fall 2009 lectures are now available online
as streaming videos for viewing at any time. Every semester, the Center
sponsors lectures and conferences which bring together business people,
legal practioners, and national and international public figures to
discuss timely topics in international law.
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Fall 2009 Center newsletter now
available
The Fall 2009 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 issues -- is now available for viewing
and downloading. You may also pick up actual copies on the
bulletin boards outside of C-303. Unlike most international law
publications which are unreadable and laden with obscure and
technical jargon, the articles in our newsletter are written in plain
English, yet still provide information that is legally accurate.
Created 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. 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."
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Upcoming lectures
Accountability
for War Crimes: Israel and
Hamas
- Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009
- Time: 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
- Location: 185 West Broadway (NEW LOCATION: AUDITORIUM)
Judge Richard J. Goldstone will
discuss the main findings of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the
Gaza Conflict, which he led. The Fact Finding Mission investigated
alleged violations of international humanitarian and international human
rights laws by Hamas and the Israel Defense Forces during Israel’s
ground operation in the Gaza Strip from December 2008 through January
2009.
Legal
Logic and Its Limits: An International
Perspective
- Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009
- Time: 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
- Location: 185 West Broadway (Room W-202, 2nd floor)
Professor James C. Raymond, President of the
International Institute for Legal Writing + Reasoning, will argue that the
rigor of legal logic is a patent fiction, and that “judicial
reasoning can never achieve the precision of mathematics or
science,” with examples drawn from more than 25 years of teaching
writing and reasoning to judges and lawyers in more than 17 countries. His
lecture will be both practical and theoretical, and will have profound
implications for legal education and for the development of international
jurisprudence.
The
Goldstone Report and the Laws of War: Raising the Bar Too
High?
- Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2009
- Time: 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
- Location: 185 West Broadway (Room W-202, 2nd floor)
Prof. Yuval Shany of Hebrew University
in Jerusalem will argue that the report issued by the
United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict serves as an
illustration of the growing consensus among, what he calls, international
legal elites of the desirability of converging international human rights
and the laws of war. The report also demonstrates, says Prof. Shany, some
of the problems associated with extending the human rights discourse to
armed conflict situations.
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Center newsletter wins major award
The
International Review was awarded the 2009 Gold Award for
“Most Improved Editorial (Print Newsletter)” in the Sixth
Annual Magnum Opus Awards. Managed by ContentWise in conjunction with the
Missouri School of Journalism, the Magnum Opus Awards is “the
leading custom publishing awards program recognizing excellence in
editorial content, design, and strategy.” According to the awards
program, The International Review, which marked its 10-year
anniversary this past spring, “stood out as among the best in custom
publishing.”
A panel of
publishing professionals and professors from the Missouri School of
Journalism judged the competition, which included almost 600 entries.
Other award winners include The Walt Disney Company, Toyota, Oak Ridge
National Laboratory, and Deloitte, LLP. (Last year, New York Law
School Magazine also received an award in the category of “Most
Improved Editorial.”)
First published in 1999 by New York
Law School's Center for International Law under the direction of Professor
Sydney M. Cone, III, and Managing Editor Michael Rhee, The
International Review is the only academic newsletter published by an
ABA-accredited law school that reports on a wide range of contemporary
international and comparative law issues. Unlike similar publications
whose stories are often unreadable and laden with technical and obscure
jargon, the articles in The International Review are written in
plain English, yet still provide information that is legally accurate.
This makes the newsletter’s content accessible to non-specialists in
international law and also to non-lawyers and the general public.
The International Review 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."
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