International Law Colloquium Series

For more than a decade, the International Law Colloquium Series has brought leading scholars to the School of Law, where they have presented works in progress and invited discussion and comments from students as well as faculty discussants. Past presenters have come from throughout the United States and as far as Galway, Geneva, London, Montreal, Rome and Toronto to explore an array of legal topics: foreign direct investment, refugees, international arbitration, discrimination, climate change, crimes against humanity, international tribunals, state sovereignty, human rights, treaty interpretation, democracy-building, counterterrorism and the laws of war, and global governance.

Led by Harlan G. Cohen, the Gabriel M. Wilner/UGA Foundation Professor in International Law, and supported by the Dean Rusk International Law Center, the Spring 2020 International Law Colloquium is a three-credit course consisting of presentations of substantial works-in-progress on a variety of international law topics by prominent scholars from other law schools. As has been the case since the series began in 2006, students will read and write reaction papers on the scholars’ manuscripts, and then discuss the papers with the authors in class. Other School of Law and university faculty often join in these dialogues.

Our most recent Colloquium Series of lectures, from Spring 2020:

January 17: Professor Karen Alter of Northwestern University Department of Political Science will present “International Economic Governance and Dispute Resolution: A Contractual v. Rule-of-Law Approach?” as part of the International Law Colloquium Series.

January 24: Professor Monica Hakimi of the University of Michigan Law School will present “Making Sense of Customary International Law” as part of the International Law Colloquium Series.

February 7: Professor Jorge Contesse of Rutgers Law will present “The Rule of Advice in International Human Rights Law” as part of the International Law Colloquium Series.

February 21: Professor Karen Knop of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law will present “Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp and Foreign Relations Law From the Ground Up” as part of the International Law Colloquium Series.

February 28: Professor Dan Bodansky of Arizona State University College of Law will present “Is the Concept of War Really Obsolete?” as part of the International Law Colloquium Series.

March 20: Professor Fleur Johns of the University of New South Wales in the Faculty of Law, and current member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, will present “#Help: The Digital Transformation of Humanitarianism and the Governance of Populations” as part of the International Law Colloquium Series.

March 27: Professor Rachel Brewster of Duke Law will present “Corporate Families” as part of the International Law Colloquium Series.

April 17: Professor Matiangai Sirleaf of the University of Pittsburgh Law School will present “Racial Valuation of Diseases” as part of the International Law Colloquium Series.

This program made possible through the Kirbo Trust Endowed Faculty Enhancement Fund and the Talmadge Law Faculty Fund.