Welcome to the Center for International Law


Upcoming lecture

The 2010 Otto L. Walter Lecture: The World Trade Organization After the Global Financial Crisis

  • Date: Wednesday, April 7, 2010
  • Time: 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
  • Location: 185 West Broadway (Room W-202, 2nd floor)

Professor Merit E. Janow of Columbia University – who served as the first woman judge ever on the most powerful global court for international trade disputes – will discuss how the recent financial crisis has affected the world trading system, and also legal challenges facing the World Trade Organization and its dispute settlement system.


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Upcoming lecture

Global Competition Law: Current Issues

  • Date: Wednesday, March 3, 2010
  • Time: 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
  • Location: 185 West Broadway (Room W-202, 2nd floor)

Marc Firestone, General Counsel for Kraft Foods, Inc., will discuss his perspective on current issues in global competition law and their implications for doing business around the world. He is responsible for the company's corporate and government affairs, legal, and compliance functions worldwide.


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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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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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