Events Archive
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Global Matters
Read Duke's 2011 newsletter on international and comparative law » More -
The Duke Project on Custom and Law
Faculty launch “conversation” on the relationship between customary practices and the law. -
Bradley says constraints on presidential war powers are primarily political, not legal
The law of war powers rarely influences the behavior of governmental actors, writes Prof. Curtis Bradley. » Lawfare -
International Investment Law and Global Health: Issues and Implications in Philip Morris v. Uruguay
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
12:30 - 1:25 pm
Room 3043 | Duke Law School
Featuring Todd Weiler
Adjunct Professor, University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law -
Annual Bernstein Lecture
Featuring Bernhard Schlink
Professor of Law, Humboldt University, Germany, and author of acclaimed novel, The Reader
Proportionality in Constitutional Law: Why
Everywhere but Here?
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
12:15 - 1:15 pm
Room 3041 | Duke Law School
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The Reader, Movie Viewing and Q&A with Bernhard Schlink
Monday, April 4
5:30 p.m.
Room 4047 | Duke Law School -
Housing Issues in East Jerusalem Recap
Thursday, March 31, 2011
12:15 p.m.
Room 3037 -
Israel-Palestine Peace in a Post-Mubarak Middle East
Monday, March 28, 2011
12:15 - 1:15 pm
Room 3037
Duke Law School
Featuring John B. Quigley
Presidents Club Professor of Law
Ohio State University -
Outsourcing War and Peace: Preserving Public Values in a World of Privatized Foreign Affairs
Monday, March 21, 2011
12:15 - 1:15 pm
Room 3037
Duke Law School
Featuring Prof. Laura Dickinson
Foundation Professor of Law
Faculty Director, Center for Law and Global Affairs
Arizona State University -
Israel: The Peace Process and International Law
Friday, March 18, 2011
12:15 - 1:15 pm
Room 3037
Duke Law School
Featuring Arthur Lenk
Director, Department of International Law at Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs -
Journal article by Bradley, Gulati sparks international law debate
Law profs write about opting out of customary international law. » WSJ Ideas Market blog -
Legitimacy and Legality in International Law: An Interactional Account, featuring Jutta Brunnée
Metcalf Chair in Environmental Law
University of Toronto
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
12:15 - 1:15 pm | Room 3037 -
Helfer to serve as Martin Fellow at State Department Feb. 22
Prof. Laurence Helfer will brief attorneys in Legal Adviser’s office on international LGBT rights. -
Clashing Titans: Extraterritorial Regulation and Its Implications for Antitrust Coordination between the U.S. and EU, featuring Tonya Putnam
Associate Professor, Political Science, Columbia University
Co-sponsored with the International Studies Program in Global Governance & Democracy
Thursday, February 10
5:30 pm | Room 4042 -
CICL-CLRP Scholarship Roundtable
Challenges to Democracy in Divided Societies
Duke Law School, Room 4044
Saturday, January 29, 2011 -
Charles Kupchan, "How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace"
Professor of International Affairs, Georgetown University
Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
(Co-sponsored with the Duke University Program in American Strategy and the Triangle Institute for Security Studies)
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
12:15 - 1:15 pm, Room 3037 -
James Pattison, "Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect: Who Should Intervene?"
Lecturer in Politics, University of Manchester
Monday, November 15, 2010
12:15 - 1:15 pm, Room 3037 -
Duke-Harvard Foreign Relations Workshop
"The Political Economy of U.S. Foreign Relations Law"
Duke Law School, Room 4044
November 6, 2010 » More -
David Kinley, "Too Big to Fail? Making Global Finance Pay for Human Rights"
Chair in Human Rights Law, The University of Sydney
International Week 2010
Thursday, October 28, 2010
12:15 - 1:15 pm, Room 3037 -
Sergio Fabbrini, "Compound Democracies: Why the United States and Europe Are Becoming Similar"
Professor of Political Science and Director of the School of International Studies
University of Trento
Monday, September 27, 2010
12:15 - 1:15 pm, Room 3037 -
Robert Jervis, "Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War"
Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Affairs
Columbia University
Thursday, September 23, 2010
12:15 - 1:15 pm, Room 3037 -
Ann Mayer, "Islam and Human Rights: New Perspectives in Recent United Nations Discussions"
Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
(Co-sponsored with the Duke Islamic Studies Center)
Thursday, September 16, 2010
12:15 - 1:15 pm, Room 3037 -
Susan Sell, "Cat and Mouse: The Intellectual Property Enforcement Agenda"
Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
Director, Institute of Global and International Studies
George Washington University
Topic: "Cat and Mouse: the Intellectual Property Enforcement Agenda"
Thursday, April 15, 2010
12:15-1:15 p.m. • Room 3037 -
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, "The Compatibility of Islamic Law and State Law"
Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law, Emory Law School
"The Compatibility of Islamic Law and State Law"
(co-sponsored with Duke Islamic Studies Center)
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Duke Law, Room 4045
4:30-6:00 p.m. -
Mark Osiel, "Globalizing Lawyers: A Sociology of International Finance Practice"
Aliber Family Chair in Law, University of Iowa Law School
Topic: "Globalizing Lawyers: A Sociology of International Finance Practice"
Monday, April 5, 2010
12:15 - 1:15 p.m. • Room 3037 -
Kal Raustiala, "Is Bagram the New Guantanamo? Obama, Bush, and the Extraterritorial Constitution"
Professor, UCLA School of Law and UCLA International Institute
Director, UCLA Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations
"Is Bagram the New Guantanamo? Obama, Bush, and the Extraterritorial Constitution"
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
12:15 - 1:15 p.m. • Room 3037 -
Beth Simmons, "Mobilizing for Human Rights"
Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University
Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
"Mobilizing for Human Rights"
Thursday, March 4, 2010
12:15 - 1:15 p.m. • Room 3037 -
Annual Bernstein Lecture
Professor John Bell, University of Cambridge Law School
"The Relevance of Foreign Examples to Legal Development"
Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010
12:15 - 1:15 p.m. • Room 3041 -
Feb. 23, 2010: Annual Bernstein Lecture
Professor John Bell of the University of Cambridge Law School will present "The Relevance of Foreign Examples to Legal Development." -
Scholarship Roundtable: "Opting Out of Customary International Law"
This roundtable focuses on the ability of nations to opt out of, or withdraw from, a rule of customary international law. Participants consider the theoretical justifications for this conventional wisdom, whether it is descriptively and historically correct, and whether it is normatively desirable.
Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010 -
Co-sponsored Conference: Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law Symposium: Terrorism and Changes to the Laws of War
Friday, Jan. 22, 2010 -
New ad-hoc course to study social justice in Brazil
Unique seminar will include an international spring break service trip. -
CICL launches “scholarship roundtable” series
Inaugural event offers a venue for discussing works in progress on the law and politics of international cooperation. -
Patty Gerstenblith, "Museums, Markets, and Preservation of the Past: Transnational Regulation of the Trade in Antiquities"
Distinguished Research Professor of Law, DePaul University College of Law, Director of the Center for Art, Museum, & Cultural Heritage Law
Topic: "Museums, Markets, and Preservation of the Past: Transnational Regulation of the Trade in Antiquities"
Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009
12:15-1:15 p.m. • Room 3037 -
John Tasioulas, "What is a Human Right?"
Reader in Moral and Legal Philosophy, Oxford University
(co-sponsored with the Duke Human Rights Center)
"What is a Human Right?"
Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009
5:15 p.m. • Room 4042 -
Scholarship Roundtable: "The Law and Politics of International Cooperation"
This interdisciplinary scholarship roundtable offers an intimate forum for a small group of legal scholars and political scientists to present their works in progress and to receive detailed commentary and feedback from their colleagues. The event centers around eight working papers that will be distributed in advance to participants.
Friday and Saturday, Nov. 6-7, 2009 -
Phoebe Kornfeld '90, "Contagion Without Borders and the Role of International and Comparative Law: The Example of 21st Century Influenza Pandemics"
General Counsel of Intercell AG
(co-sponsored with Duke Global Health Institute)
Topic: "Contagion Without Borders and the Role of International and Comparative Law: The Example of 21st Century Influenza Pandemics"
Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009
12:15-1:15 p.m. • Room 3037 -
International Week Keynote Address: William Taft IV
Former Legal Adviser to the United States Secretary of State
Of Counsel, Fried Frank, Washington D.C.
Topic: "Promises to Keep: The Conduct of American Foreign Policy and International Agreements"
Monday, Oct. 26, 2009
12:15-1:15 p.m. • Room 3037 -
Lives in the Law: Rita Hauser
Dean David Levi interviews noted international lawyer, philanthropist -
Fabrizio Cafaggi, "Private Regulation in European Private Law"
Professor of Comparative Law, European University Institute
"Private Regulation in European Private Law"
Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009
12:15-1:15 p.m. • Room 3037 -
Co-sponsored Conference: Prosecution at the International Criminal Court: A Moot and Information Session with Office of the Prosecutor Staff
Features an interactive analysis of a hypothetical case before the International Criminal Court, and informal discussions with Bärbel Carl, Associate Trial Lawyer, Prosecutions Division, ICC Office of the Prosecutor, and Antônia Pereira DeSousa, Associate Cooperation Officer in the ICC’s Jurisdiction, Complementarity & Cooperation Division.
Friday, Sept. 11, 2009

