The Center on Global Legal Problems Speaker Series

Challenges in International Governance

This speaker series promotes robust exchanges on issues relating to international public policy. Speakers for this series are drawn exclusively from professors at Columbia Law School currently engaged in scholarly work on these issues. The speakers will be making short presentations, allowing equal time for open discussion.

Subject to available seating, all sessions are open to the Columbia University community as well as to members of the general public. All sessions are from 12:30-1:25 p.m. in room 104, Jerome Greene Hall, 435 West 116th Street with a light lunch provided on a first come, first serve basis (starting at around 12:20 p.m.).

The organizer is Professor Jose E. Alvarez. Presentations in this series will be available via webcast on this page. Speakers for the Academic Year 2003-2004:

  • Wed., Sept. 24th: José E. Alvarez- "The Promise and Perils of International Organization"
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  • Wed., Oct. 8th: Katharina Pistor- "Globalization and Corporate Governance: Can Firms Escape the Local Governance Trap?"
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  • Wed., Oct. 22nd: George P. Fletcher: "Who Should Judge? Some Unconventional Views About Jurisdiction in International Criminal Law"
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  • Wed., Nov. 5th: Jeremy Waldron- "Actually-Existing Cosmopolitanism"
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  • Wed., Jan. 21st: Mark Barenberg- "Global Labor Rights" (Labor regimes)
  • Wed., Feb. 4th: George Bermann- "The E.U. as a Constitutional Experiment"
  • Wed. Feb. 11th: Petros Mavroidis- "Challenges to the WTO Regime After Doha"
  • Wed. Feb. 18th: Roy Lee- "Lawlessness in Armed Conflict"
  • Wed. Mar. 10th: Michael Doyle- "The UN Charter: Is it the Global Political Architecture We Need for the 21st Century?" (UN)

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