University of Georgia Law : International Law Colloquium Past Presenters

International Law Colloquium Past Presenters

Spring 2012 Schedule of Presenters

January 20	Robert M. Chesney (University of Texas School of Law): “Terrorism, Law, and the Coercive Powers of the State”
February 3	Ingrid B. Wuerth (Vanderbilt University Law School): “Pinochet Revisited: Human Rights and Immunity in National Courts”
February 10	Junior International Law Scholars Association
February 17	Andrew T. Guzman (University of California Berkeley Law): “What Do International Organizations Do?”
February 24	Joel P. Trachtman (Tufts University The Fletcher School): “The Future of International Law: Global Government”
March 2	Andrea K. Bjorklund (UC Davis School of Law/McGill Law): “Transparency in International Investment Law and Arbitration”
March 23	Laura A. Dickinson (The George Washington University Law School): “Administrative Law and the Foreign Policy Agencies”
April 6	Douglas Stinnett (University of Georgia): "International River Treaties"
April 13	George A. Bermann (Columbia Law School): “The ‘Gateway’ Problem in International Commercial Arbitration”
April 20	Chris Brummer (Georgetown Law): “Curbing the Extraterritoriality of Dodd-Frank’s Derivatives Regulation: An Examination of the Swap Jurisdiction Certainty Act”

Spring 2011 Schedule of Presenters

January 28	Hari M. Osofsky (University of Minnesota Law School): "The BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Multidimensional Governance"
February 4	Jason Yackee (University of Wisconsin Law School): "Do BITs Attract Foreign Direct Investment? Hints from Alternative Evidence"
February 18	Evan J. Criddle (Syracuse University College of Law): "Proportionality in Counterinsurgency: A Relational Theory"
March 4	Jeffrey L. Dunoff (Temple University Beasley School of Law):"Rethinking Regime Interaction"
April 1	Lesley Wexler (University of Illinois College of Law): "Is International Humanitarian Law Humanitarian?"
April 8	Jide Nzelibe (Northwestern Law School): "Strategic Globalization: International Law as an Extension of Domestic Political Conflict"
April 15	Máximo Langer (UCLA Law): "The Archipelago and the Hub: Universal Jurisdiction and the International Criminal Court"
April 22	Anna Gelpern (American University Washington College of Law): "Banks, Governments, and Debt Crises"

Spring 2010 Schedule of Presenters

January 29	Barbara Koremenos (University of Michigan): "An Economic Analysis of International Rulemaking"
February 5	Robert D. Sloane (Boston University): "Human Rights for Hedgehogs: Global Legal Pluralism, International Law and Some Reservations of the Fox"
February 12	Tom Ginsburg (University of Chicago): "Constitutional Convergence in Human Rights? The Reciprocal Relationship Between Human Rights Treaties and National Constitutions"
February 19	Anu Bradford (University of Chicago): "Universal Exceptionalism in International Law"
March 19	Christiana Ochoa (Indiana University at Bloomington): "Harnessing the Potential of Sovereign Wealth for Sustainable Development"
April 2	Jutta Brunnée (University of Toronto): "An Interactional Theory of International Legal Obligation"
April 9	Julian Ku (Hofstra University): "The Curious Case of Corporate Liability Under the Alien Tort Statute"

Spring 2009 Schedule of Presenters

January 23	Elena A. Baylis (University of Pittsburgh School of Law): "Bellwether Trials"
January 30	Carlos M. Vázquez (Georgetown University Law Center): "'Not a Happy Precedent': The Story of Ex parte Quirin&rdquo"
February 6	Thomas H. Lee (Fordham Law School): "The International Laws of War and the American Civil War"
February 20	Monica Hakimi (University of Michigan Law School), "A Theory of State Bystander Responsibility"
February 27	David Zaring (Wharton School of Business), “Why Do Some Regulatory Networks Fail, While Others Succeed?”
March 20	Andrea K. Bjorklund (UC Davis School of Law), "State Immunity and the Enforcement of Investor-State Arbitral Awards"
April 3	Paul Stephan (University of Virginia School of Law), "Privatizing International Law"
April 17	Rachel Brewster (Harvard Law School), "Trade and Climate Change: Conflicts and Solutions"

Spring 2008 Schedule of Presenters

February 8	Beth Simmons (Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University): "Theories of Commitment"
February 15	Nadia Bernaz (Lecturer, Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland at Galway): "The Caribbean Court of Justice: One Court with Two Jurisdictions - A Unique Judicial Institution?"
February 29	Tonya Putnam (Assistant Professor of Political Science, Columbia University): "Beyond Presumption?: Explaining Extraterritorial Variation over Civil Claims"
March 17	Gregory Shaffer (Wing-Tat Lee Chair of International Law, Loyola University): "A Structural Theory of WTO Dispute Settlement: Why Institutional Choice Lies at the Center of the GMO Case"
March 21	Paul Schiff Berman (Jesse Root Professor of Law, University of Connecticut): "Global Legal Pluralism"
March 28	Frédéric Mégret (Canada Research Chair in the Law of Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, University of McGill): "Civil Disobedience in Defense of International Law"
April 4	David Caron (C. William Maxeimer Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California at Berkeley): "Towards a Political Theory of International Courts and Tribunals"
April 7	Ingrid Wuerth (Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University): "An Originalism for Foreign Affairs?"

Spring 2007 Schedule of Presenters

February 9	Curtis Bradley (Duke University): "Unratified Treaties, Domestic Politics and the U.S. Constitution"
February 16	Melissa Waters (Washington & Lee): "Foreign Authority Through a Narrow Lens: Interpretative Incorporation of Treaties"
February 23	Joost Pauwelyn (Duke University): "Optimal Protection of International Law"
March 2	Jacob Cogan (University of Cincinnati): "Competition and Control in International Adjudication"
March 23	Janet Levit (University of Tulsa): "Bottom-Up Transnational Lawmaking"
April 13	Derek Jinks (University of Texas): "Hamdan and the Laws of War"
April 20	Diane Amann (University of California-Davis): "Slave Trafficking, Crimes against Humanity"

Spring 2006 Schedule of Presenters

February 10	Laura Dickinson (University of Connecticut): "Democracy and Trust"
February 17	Mark Drumbl (Washington & Lee): "Atrocity and Punishment"
February 24	Karen Knop (University of Toronto): "Enemies and Outlaws: War and the Public/Private Citizen"
March 3	Brad Roth (Wayne State): "State Sovereignty and International Legality"
April 7	Diane Orentlicher (American University): "Whose Justice? Reconciling Universal Jurisdiction with Democratic Principles"
April 14	Roger Alford (Pepperdine): Foreign Relations as a Matter of Interpretation: The Use and Abuse of Charming Betsy
April 21	Ed Swaine (University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School): "Alien Authority"