The Comparative and International Law Workshop, led by Professor Anu Bradford, is a faculty and student seminar where leading scholars from the US and abroad present their scholarly work on a range of topics pertaining to comparative and international law.
The Spring 2024 workshops will meet regularly on Wednesdays throughout the semester. Faculty are welcome to join the workshop from 5:15 to 6:15 pm in Jerome Greene Hall, Room 502. Please see the workshop schedule below for details. Email [email protected] for more information.
| Date: | January 17 |
| Guest Speaker: | Kim Lane Scheppele Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs Princeton University |
| Title: | Restoring Democracy through International Law |
| Date: | January 31 |
| Guest Speaker: | Mara Revkin Associate Professor of Law Duke University School of Law |
| Title: | Civilian Harm and Military Legitimacy in War |
| Date: | February 7 |
| Guest Speaker: | Haris Durrani PhD candidate (History of Science) Princeton University |
| Title: | Marketing A Socio-Legal Imaginary: Technology, Freedom, and Empire in the Global Cold War, 1961-1962 |
| Date: | February 14 |
| Guest Speaker: | Andrew Woods Milton O. Riepe Professor of Law & Distinguished Legal Scholar University of Arizona College of Law |
| Title: | Man, Machine, Market, State: Rethinking Sovereignty in the Digital Age |
| Date: | February 21 |
| Guest Speaker: | Katharine Young Professor and Associate Dean of Faculty and Global Programs; Dean's Distinguished Scholar Boston College Law School |
| Title: | The Misappropriation of Human Rights: A Dobbs Backstory |
| Date: | February 28 |
| Guest Speaker: | Anne van Aaken Chair for Law and Economics, Legal Theory, Public International Law and European Law; Director of the Institute of Law and Economics Universität Hamburg |
| Title: | Identifying Communities of Practice in International Law: An Experimental Study With Frontline Humanitarian Negotiators |
| Date: | March 6 |
| Guest Speaker: | Curtis Bradley Allen M. Singer Professor of Law University of Chicago Law School |
| Title: | Becoming A Nation: Sovereign Power and the Constitution |
| Date: | March 20 |
| Guest Speaker: | Alan Sykes Professor of Law and Warren Christopher Professor in the Practice of International Law and Diplomacy; Senior Fellow, SIEPR Stanford University Law School |
| Title: | The Utility of Appellate Review at the WTO and Its Optimal Structure |
| Date: | March 27 |
| Guest Speaker: | Adam Chilton Professor of Law; Walter Mander Research Scholar University of Chicago Law School |
| Title: | Forced Migration and Women’s Empowerment: Evidence from Rohingya Refugees |
| Date: | April 10 |
| Guest Speaker: | Jaya Ramji-Nogales Associate Dean for Research; I. Herman Stern Professor of Law Temple University School of Law |
| Title: | Safe Transit |
| Date: | April 17 |
| Guest Speaker: | Angela Zhang Associate Professor; Director, Philip K. H. Wong Centre for Chinese Law University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law |
| Title: | The Promise and Perils of Chinese AI Regulation |
Date: Tuesday, September 6, 2022
Time: 5:15 – 6:15 pm EDT
Guest Speaker: Daniel Halberstam, Eric Stein Collegiate Professor of Law and Director, European Legal Studies Program, University of Michigan Law School
Title: Bringing Structural Injunctions to Europe
Date: Tuesday, October 4, 2022
Time: 5:15 – 6:15 pm EDT
Guest Speaker: Obiora Okafor, Edward B Burling Chair in International Law, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
Title: Antinomies and Aporias in Official Human Rights Solidarity Argumentation across the Global South/North Axis
Date: Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Time: 5:15 – 6:15 pm EDT
Guest Speaker: Adam Chilton, Professor of Law, Walter Mander Research Scholar, The University of Chicago Law School; and Katerina Linos, Irving G. and Eleanor D. Tragen Professor of Law, Co-Faculty Director, Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law, UC Berkeley Law School
Title: Dynamic Diffusion
Date: Tuesday, November 1, 2022
Time: 5:15 – 6:15 pm EDT
Guest Speaker: J. Benton Heath, Assistant Professor of Law, Temple University School of Law
Title: The Chinese Boycotts and the Emergence of International Sanctions Law: 1905–1933
Date: Tuesday, November 15, 2022
Time: 5:15 – 6:15 pm EST
Guest Speaker: Kristen Eichensehr, Martha Lubin Karsh and Bruce A. Karsh Bicentennial Professor of Law, Director, National Security Law Center, University of Virginia School of Law
Title: National Security Creep in Corporate Transactions
Date: Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Time: 5:15 – 6:15 pm EST
Guest Speaker: Mila Versteeg, Henry L. and Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation Professor of Law, Director, Center for International & Comparative Law, Director, Human Rights Program, Senior Fellow, Miller Center, University of Virginia School of Law
Title: The Effect of Constitutional Gender Equality Clauses