Global Law Workshop
A workshop on international and comparative law sponsored by the Center for International & Comparative Law, the Global Law Workshop offers an exciting opportunity for the Duke Law School community to engage in current issues in international and comparative law. Law and the legal process can no longer be contained within national borders. As much as today's challenges cross national boundaries — be they environmental, security-related, or economic issues — so do law and the study of law, by becoming increasingly global.
The workshop meets seven or eight times during the semester. Prominent legal scholars present their latest work in the field of international or comparative law. Although there is always a variety of topics, each semester is held together by a loose theme.
The workshop is unique in that it is run, and regularly attended, by Duke and UNC faculty active in the field. This offers students a great opportunity to meet and hear a number of faculty, and fascinating guest speakers, in one single class.
In the Fall 2009, Professors Bradley, Helfer, and DeMott, will co-teach "Transnational Regulation of Stolen Art and Cultural Property." The workshop will focus on disputes relating to the ownership and recovery of art and cultural property, ranging from Nazi era expropriations to long-standing debates about the presence of the Elgin Marbles in the British Museum. Students will examine in detail a set of international treaties and aspects of their implementation by statute in the United States, as well as cases in which a foreign state or its agency is the defendant in U.S. litigation. There are no prerequisites. Grades will be based on a final exam and on class participation. 1 credit.
Classes will be held on the following Wednesdays: Oct. 7, Oct. 21, Oct. 28, Nov. 4, Nov. 11, and Nov. 18.
The theme of the Spring 2010 Global Law Workshop, co-taught by Professors Bradley and Helfer, will be "The Law and Politics of International Cooperation." The workshop will be centered around theoretical readings in international law and international relations theory and discussions of works in progress by visiting scholars. The tentative schedule for the workshop is as follows:
| February 1 | Monica Hakimi | University of Michigan Law School |
| February 22 | Karen Alter | Northwestern University Department of Political Science |
| March 22 | Andrew Guzman | University of California Berkeley Law School |
| March 29 | Eric Posner | University of Chicago Law School |
| April 12 | Tom Ginsburg | University of Chicago Law School |
| April 19 | Barbara Koremenos | University of Michigan Department of Political Science |
» Information about past Global Law Workshops