International Law & Politics Colloquium

In this Colloquium, participants will address some of the most challenging questions of international law and politics by studying the cutting-edge work of the field’s leading scholars. Each class meeting will feature a guest speaker who will present their research; subjects include issues in international trade, global administrative law, international criminal law, and international legal theory. Colloquium students will be expected to produce short comments in response to the assigned workshop papers and to actively participate in workshop discussion.

Professors:  Katerina Linos and Saira Mohamed

 

 

Spring 2013 Events:  All events will be held from 11:20-1 p.m. in Room 132, UC Berkeley School of Law

Friday, January 25
"Institutional Proliferation and the International Legal Order"
Kal Raustiala (Professor of Law, UCLA)
 
Friday, February 8
"Transnational Legal Orders"
Greg Shaffer (Professor of Law, Minnesota)
 
Friday, February 22
"The Power to Kill or Capture Enemy Combatants" 
Ryan Goodman (Professor of Law, NYU)
 
Friday, March 1
"The Constitutional Power to Threaten War"
Matt Waxman (Professor of Law, Columbia)
 
Friday, March 8
"International Indicators and Gender"
Catherine Powell (Professor of Law, Fordham)
 
Friday, March 15
Title TBA
Mike Tomz (Professor of Political Science, Stanford)
 
Friday, April 12
"Sovereign Debt"
Odette Lienau (Professor of Law, Cornell)