March 3, 2010

C.V. Starr Lecture
Global Competition Law: Current Issues with Marc Firestone (Executive Vice President, and General Counsel, Kraft Foods, Inc.)

 

February 17, 2010

C.V. Starr Lecture
How "Wilsonian" Was Woodrow Wilson? with Mark Weston Janis (William F. Starr Professor of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law)

 

November 4, 2009

C.V. Starr Lecture
The Goldstone Report and the Laws of War: Raising the Bar Too High? with Yuval Shany (Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in International Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

The streaming video is available here.
 

October 28, 2009

C.V. Starr Lecture
Legal Logic and Its Limits: An International Perspective with James Raymond (President, International Institute for Legal Writing + Reasoning; and Professor Emeritus, University of Alabama)

The streaming video is available here. (Please note that due to technical difficulties with the video itself, you will have to set your computer settings to a HIGH volume.)
 

October 20, 2009

C.V. Starr Lecture
Accountability for War Crimes: Israel and Hamas with Judge Richard J. Goldstone (Head, United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict; and former chief prosecutor, United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda )

The streaming video is available here.
 

April 22, 2009

The 2009 Otto L. Walter Lecture
Foreign Law and U.S. Courts: History, Federalism, and Other Thoughts with Judge Guido Calabresi (United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; and Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law and Professorial Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School)

The streaming video is available here.
 

April 15, 2009

C.V. Starr Lecture
The International Commercial Arbitration Restatement with George Bermann (Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law; Walter Gellhorn Professor of Law; and Director, European Legal Studies, Columbia Law School)

The streaming video is available here.
 

March 24, 2009

C.V. Starr Lecture:
Kosovo's Declaration of Independence: One Year Later with Steven Hill (Deputy Head, Legal Unit, International Civilian Office, Kosovo)

The streaming video is available here.

March 19, 2009

C.V. Starr Lecture:
Global Intellectual Property as a Matter of Life or Death with speaker Ruth Okediji (William L. Prosser Professor of Law), University of Minnesota Law School

The streaming video is available here.

November 10, 2008

C.V. Starr Lecture:
Free Trade Agreements: Which Way Now? with Jagdish Bhagwati, University Professor, Columbia University; and Senior Fellow in International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations

November 5, 2008

C.V. Starr Lecture:
State-building and the Interplay Between U.S. and Local Institutions: Lessons from Iraq with Jeremiah S. Pam, Esq., Former U.S. Treasury Financial Attache in Iraq

October 29, 2008

C.V. Starr Presentation:
A Paradigm for Democracy and Counter-Terrorism in Pakistan (Sponsored by the Center for International Law and Network 20/20)

October 15, 2008

C.V. Starr Lecture:
Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law with Mark Drumbl, Class of 1975 Alumni Professor, and Director, Transnational Law Institute, Washington and Lee University School of Law

April 16, 2008

C.V. Starr Lecture:
The European Union and Russia: Strategic Partners or Vexing Neighbors? with George L. Bustin, Senior Counsel, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP; and Lecturer, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University

April 9, 2008

The 2008 Otto L. Walter Lecture:
Self-defense from the Wild West to 9/11 with Amos Guiora, Professor of Law, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah; and formerly of the Israel Defense Forces Judge Advocate General's Corps (Lt. Col. Ret.)

February 20, 2008

C.V. Starr Lecture:
Smart Power and Human Rights: Reestablishing U.S. Human Rights Leadership with Suzanne Nossel, Chief of Operations, Human Rights Watch

November 8, 2007

Center Discussion:
Meeting Policy Challenges of Bioviolence with Barry Kellman, Professor of International Law, and Director of the International Weapons Control Center at DePaul University College of Law

November 7, 2007

C.V. Starr Lecture:
New York v. the United Nations: The Implications of Unpaid Property Taxes with John J.P. Howley '89, Partner, Kaye Scholer LLP

October 16, 2007

C.V. Starr Lecture:
Jurisdiction to Decide Jurisdiction in Commercial Arbitration with William W. Park, Professor of Law and R. Gordon Butler Scholar in International Law, Boston University School of Law

October 4, 2007

C.V. Starr Lecture:
Reforming Legal Services in the United Kingdom with the Rt. Hon. The Lord Kingsland, QC

April 11, 2007

C.V. Starr Colloquy:
NAFTA: National, Regional, and Multilateral Implications with Ricardo Anzaldua-Montoya, former negotiator for Mexico during the NAFTA negotiations; William Davey, former Director of the Legal Affairs Division of the World Trade Organization; and Debra Steger, former founding Director and first Chief Legal Advisor to the WTO Appellate Body

 

March 21, 2007

Center Discussion:
Iran: What Next? with Tai-Heng Cheng, Associate Director, Center for International Law at New York Law School, and Associate Professor of Law; Neda Shahidyazdani, human rights lawyer, Iran Human Rights Documentation Center; and George Billard, Presidents of Do Diligence, and Miracle Media

 

February 21, 2007

C.V. Starr Lecture:
Beyond Sarbanes-Oxley: Competitive Consequences at Home and Abroad with Alan L. Beller, Former Director, Division of Corporation Finance, United States Securities and Exchange Commission
The speaker's remarks are now on-line in PDF format.

 

November 8, 2006

The 2006-07 Otto L. Walter Lecture:
The Emergence of a New Science of Mind: Legal and Ethical Considerations with Dr. Eric R. Kandel, Nobel Laureate, and University Professor of Physiology and Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
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November 1, 2006

C.V. Starr Lecture:
Russia: Going in the Wrong Direction? with Padma Desai, Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of Comparative Economic Systems, and Director of the Center for Transition Economies, Columbia University
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October 25, 2006

C.V. Starr Lecture:
International Law in Diplomacy, Some Reflections with Andrew Jacovides, Former Ambassador of Cyprus to the United States
The speaker's remarks are now on-line in PDF format.
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April 5, 2006

The 2006 Otto L. Walter Lecture:
Civil Liberties in the Age of Terrorism with Floyd Abrams, Partner, Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP, and one of America's best-known and well-respected First Amendment attorneys
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March 22, 2006

C.V. Starr Lecture:
Trade in Services in the Doha Round with Christine Bliss, Acting Assistant Trade Representative for Services and Investment, Office of the United States Trade Representative
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February 22, 2006

C.V. Starr Lecture:
A Colloquy Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the United States Court of International Trade with Thomas J. Aquilino, Jr. (Senior Judge, United States Court of International Trade); Andreas F. Lowenfeld (Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law, New York University School of Law); Amelia Porges (Counsel, Sidley Austin LLP); and Barbara S. Williams (Attorney-in-Charge, International Trade Field Office, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice)
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November 16, 2005

C.V. Starr Lecture:
Legitimacy Through Law in China with Benjamin L. Liebman, Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Chinese Legal Studies, Columbia Law School
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