Center for International Law
Center newsletter (Fall 2008) now available
The Fall 2008 issue of The International Review is now available
for viewing
and downloading. You may also pick up actual copies outside of C-303.
Unlike most international law publications which are laden with obscure
and technical jargon that is mostly inaccessible to
non-specialists in international and comparative law, the articles in our
newsletter are written in plain English.
The International Review was awarded the 2007 Gold Award for
“Best Edited Organization Newsletter” by the publisher of
The Newsletter on Newsletters. It is also the only academic
newsletter published by an ABA-accredited law school that reports on a
wide range of contemporary international and comparative law issues.
Upcoming lecture: Free
Trade Agreements: Which Way Now?
• DATE: Monday, November 10, 2008
• TIME: 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
• LOCATION: Wellington Conference Center (5th floor
of the “C” building)
Professor Jagdish Bhagwati – a world-renowned international trade
expert – will discuss the legal implications of the proliferation of
free trade agreements (which he describes as "termites in the trading
system") after the collapse of international trade talks
sponsored by the World Trade Organization.
Upcoming lecture: Lessons
learned from state-building in Iraq
• DATE: Wednesday, November 5, 2008
• TIME: 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
• LOCATION: Wellington Conference Center (5th floor
of the “C” building)
Since its invasion of Iraq in 2003, the United States has made an
extraordinary commitment of resources—including the expenditure of
billions of dollars—in rebuilding that country. But progress toward
the establishment of a functioning and sustainable Iraqi state has been
uneven at best. What lessons should we draw from the U.S. civilian
experience in Iraq for future state-building efforts? Jeremiah Pam will
argue that a significant and underappreciated element limiting U.S.
effectiveness has been the institutional dynamic between U.S. agencies and
Iraq’s own civilian agencies.
Upcoming lecture: Democracy
and Counter-Terrorism in Pakistan
• DATE: Wednesday, October 29, 2008
• TIME: 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
• LOCATION: Wellington Conference Center (5th
floor of the “C” building)
Speakers who recently visited Pakistan in May 2008 (including New York
Law School Associate Professor Tai-Heng Cheng) will present the findings
of their trip where they spoke to a cross-section of Pakistani society
(including government officials, military officers, business executives,
religious leaders, journalists, and persons-on-the-street) to see how the
United States and Pakistan – a frontline state in the U.S. war on
Islamic extremists – can increase their cooperation in a variety of
matters.
Upcoming lecture: Punishing
mass atrocity crimes
• DATE: Wednesday, October 15, 2008
• TIME: 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
• LOCATION: Wellington Conference Center (5th
floor of the “C” building)
Professor Mark Drumbl of Washington and Lee University School of Law
– one of the nation’s leading scholars in international
criminal law – will challenge the notion that the punishment of
extraordinary international crimes by global tribunals (such as those
created by the United Nations) should uncritically adopt the methods
and assumptions of ordinary criminal law. Crimes such as genocide, he
believes, are simply not the same as common crimes.
Upcoming events in Fall 2008
The Center for International Law will have four exciting
lectures this fall semester on topics ranging from free trade
agreements to punishing individuals responsible for
committing large-scale human rights abuses. (See the brief
listing below.) Lecture details are available at /centers/harlan_scholar_centers/center_for_international_law/events.
The lectures are free for members of the New York Law School community.
Appointment of new International Law Fellow
The Center for International Law has appointed Stuart R. Barden
as International Law Fellow. During their semester-long appointments (with
honoraria), Fellows provide timely international law memoranda to
practitioners, government bodies, civic groups, and international
organizations. In his fellowship, Mr. Barden will research and draft a law
review article on the role and control of sovereign wealth funds in
international law. A year-end report of a former International Law
Fellow, Bryan Johnson, is available online.
A third-year student at New York Law School, Mr. Barden is a member of
the New York Law School Foreign Direct Investment International Moot
Competition Team. He also provided research assistance in several articles
on topics ranging from international investment law to international human
rights. Mr. Barden graduated from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana
University with a Bachelor of Science in Finance and a Minor in Spanish.
