Events

The Center for International Law sponsors a series of symposia on a broad range of topics in international and compararive law which combine scholarship and practice. The audiences for these events have been drawn from leaders of the business, financial, and legal communities in New York, and the speakers have included accountants, bankers, business leaders, economists, judges, government officials, international organization officials, and lawyers from this country and abroad.

The Center's symposia programs have garnered coverage in The New York Times, the Journal of Commerce, the National Law Journal, the International Securities Regulation Report, Eurowatch, and C-SPAN.

Spring 2012 lectures:

• Thursday, January 26, 2012: C.V. Starr Lecture I: "International Investment Law and Human Rights Treaties: A Sociological Perspective" with Moshe Hirsch, Professor of International Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Tuesday, February 7, 2012: Lunch time Lecture: "Legislation by Stealth: Negotiating the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement" with Michael Blakeney, Professor of Intellectual Property Law, University of London, and the University of Western Australia
• Wednesday, February 8, 2012: C.V. Starr Lecture II: "The Impact of European Court of Human Rights Judgments on Criminal Law Practice in Europe" with Willem F. Korthals Altes, Senior Judge, Criminal Law Division, Rechtbank of Amsterdam

Click here for a list of past events (along with links to the streaming videos).