IL/IR Colloquium Short

Information for Students

Here is the syllabus for the academic year 2012/13.

Schedule for Discussants:

Fall 2012

Date Speaker Titles and Discussants

Monday

9/10


James Gathii,

Wing-Tat Lee Chair in International Law and Professor of Law Loyola Chicago University School of Law

 

Strength in IP Protection and FDI Flows in LDC's.

Discussants:

Wendy Leutert, Nicole Weygandt, Andrea Lawrence

Monday

9/24


Neta Crawford,

Professor of Political Science and African American Studies, Boston University

Lawfare' and the 2012 U.S. Civilian Casualty Mitigation Manual  

Focus on the introduction in its entirety and the theory discussion in chapter six.

Discussants: Harris Setzer, Sinja Graf
Tuesday

10/2


Jana Von Stein,

Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan
Faculty Associate, Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan

'The Autocratic Politics of International Human Rights Agreements'

Discussants:
Audrey Comstock, Venilla Rajaguru, Meng Liang

 

 

 

Monday 10/15


Jutta Brunée,

Associate Dean of Law (Graduate)
Professor of Law and Metcalf Chair in Environmental Law
University of Toronto

 

 

 

'Stability and Change in International Law'

Discussants:
Victor Di Wu

Martijn Mos

Monday 10/29


Thania Sanchez,

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University
Faculty Associate, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University

'Does Capacity Building Work?: Lessons from the Landmine Treaty'

Discussants:
Sarah Maxey, Masayoshi Harada



Monday 11/12


Ruti Teitel,

Straus Fellow, NYU Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice (2012-2013)

'Is There a Right to Accountability? Exploring the Jurisprudence of the Inter-American and the European Human Rights Courts'

Discussants:
Nutta Vasantasingh, Sinja Graf


SPRING 2013

Meeting Date

Speaker

Title/Topic

Monday

1/28

Jason Yackee,

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Law

Discussants: Connie Lam

Monday 2/11

Karen Alter,

Northwestern Law & Pol. Sci.

Discussants:

Benjamin Hillengas, Naiyuan Zhou

Monday

2/25

Mark Blyth,

Brown Univ. Pol. Sci.

Discussants:

Isaac Kardon, Andrea Lawrence

Monday 3/11

Laura Dickinson,

George Washington Law

Discussants:

Victor Di Wu, Hamza Minhas

Monday

4/8

Rob Howse,

NYU Law

Discussants:

Elizabeth Acorn, Harris Setzer

Monday

4/22

Sid Tarrow,
Professor Emeritus,
Cornell University
Discussants: