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 2013 lectures:

• Tuesday, January 22, 2013: A Conversation with F. Peter Phillips, International Arbitrator and Mediator 
• Thursday, January 24, 2013: The Supreme Courts of France and the United States: A Comparative Perspective with Professor Anne Deysine, Paris Ouest Nanterre University
• Monday, February 4, 2013: C.V. Starr Lecture: European Integration at a Turning Point: Switzerland's Distinctive Approach with Dr. Andreas Kellerhals, University of Zurich
• Monday, February 11, 2013: C.V. Starr Lecture: Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards in Chinese Courts with Judge Jianli Song of the Supreme People’s Court of China
• Thursday, February 14, 2013: C.V. Starr Lecture: The Role of International Law in the Arab-Israeli Conflict with Ambassador (Ret.) Robbie Sabel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Wednesday, February 27, 2013: A Conversation with Jenifer Joyce '90, U.S. Foreign Service Officer
• Tuesday, March 5, 2013: Issues in Intellectual Property Rights in Chinese Law with Bing Cheng, Partner, The Anjie Law Firm, Beijing
• Monday, March 18, 2013: How I Convinced the French Supreme Court to Cancel the First French Legislative Elections in the United States with Pierre Ciric ’09, Founder, Ciric Law Firm, PLLC
• Wednesday, March 20, 2013: A Conversation on Immigration Law with Agata Ratajczyk '10 and Margaret Laufman Saselu '10 (both associates with Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen and Loewy, LLP)
• Tuesday, April 23, 2013: UN Sanctions and the North Korean Nuclear Threat (presented in conjunction with Young Professionals in Foreign Policy) with Joshua Black, Chief of the Sanctions Unit at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations
• Wednesday, April 24, 2013: Real or Fake? Says Who? A Panel Discussion on Art Authentication Boards, Forgeries, Appraisal, and International Law (presented by the New York Law School Fine Arts & Culture Law Association in conjunction with the Center for International Law)

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