Speaker event with Prof. Kamari Maxine Clarke. A discussion on Prof. Clarke’s new book, Affective Justice, and about adopting an affect lens in anthropological and ethnographic studies of transnational projects.

IGLP hosted Dr. Ayca Cubukcu to discuss her most recent work on the racialised legacies of Hannah Arendt.

The group met to read a selection of legal ethnography pieces which seek to grapple with the state-based imaginaries of global life.

A discussion on ‘good scholarship’ – what it is, what it isn’t, and how our position as young scholars is influenced by alternate conceptions of what good scholarship means

IGLP hosted the second installment of a conversation between Profs. Kennedy and Comaroff on the legacies of the critical turn in law and legal anthropology.

IGLP hosted a viewing of the movie Roma followed by a group discussion

IGLP hosted the first of a two-part conversation between Prof. David Kennedy and Prof. John Comaroff. The topic of discussion focused on the critical turn in law and legal anthropology, its antecedents, traits, and divergences across the disciplines of law and legal anthropology.

IGLP hosted a viewing of the movie Parasite followed by a group discussion.

IGLP hosted a viewing of the movie American Factory followed by a group discussion.

IGLP welcomed back all interested members for the Spring term

IGLP fellows, visiting researchers, and faculty hosted a discussion group in the Spring 2020 on various themed topics.

The Graduate Institute Geneva and the Institute for Global Law & Policy at Harvard Law School began a new collaborative initiative: The Global Scholars Academy. The three-day intensive scholars Workshop took place in Geneva, Switzerland from January 5-8, 2020. The Global Scholars Academy is an intensive residential experience designed to enable junior faculty and post- doctoral

The IGLP roundtables explored issues of power, law, and political economy in global affairs, in particular the way new digital technologies are impacting patterns of dominance and inequality. Profs. Balakrishnan Rajagopal and Jason Jackson led the discussion on November 20, 2019.

The IGLP hosted a 10-year retreat in Chatham, Massachusetts for select IGLP Faculty. This retreat served as an opportunity to take stock, both individually and as a group, of where we are intellectually, professionally, politically.

The IGLP roundtables explored issues of power, law, and political economy in global affairs, in particular the way new digital technologies are impacting patterns of dominance and inequality. Prof. Samuel Moyn led the discussion with excerpts from his latest book Not Enough.

The IGLP roundtables explored issues of power, law, and political economy in global affairs, in particular the way new digital technologies are impacting patterns of dominance and inequality. The October 23, 2019 roundtable featured Prof. Katharina Pistor.

On October 23, 2019, IGLP hosted a Workshop for IGLP and INET young scholars.

The IGLP sponsored a lunch talk with Prof. Lionel Zevounou on October 16, 2019

The IGLP roundtables explored issues of power, law, and political economy in global affairs, in particular the way new digital technologies are impacting patterns of dominance and inequality. Prof. Fleur Johns (University of New South Wales, Faculty of Law) discussed the relation between international law and data governance, with particular regard to data jurisdictions.

The IGLP roundtables explored issues of power, law, and political economy in global affairs, in particular the way new digital technologies are impacting patterns of dominance and inequality. Prof. Frank Pasquale from the University of Maryland, Corey School of Law lead the discussion on September 16, 2019. Among other things, he is the author of The Black Box

Psycho Brunch is a discussion group open to Fellows, Visiting Researchers, and anyone who has an interest in exploring the realm of the unconscious. The aim of the exercise is to shake legal and methodological assumptions, take a step back from our ideas and automatisms. The discussion takes the move from selected concepts borrowed from

The Idea lab aimed to bring together a range of young scholars moving from different angles to more critically engage with the dominant theme of technology. While most debates focus on the relation between law and technology, this event explored the idea of law as technology: how law and technology share assumptions and modalities in a process of co-production.

The Idea lab aimed to bring together a range of young scholars moving from different angles to more critically engage with the dominant theme of technology. While most debates focus on the relation between law and technology, this event explored the idea of law as technology: how law and technology share assumptions and modalities in a process of co-production.

The IGLP roundtables explored issues of power, law, and political economy in global affairs, in particular the way new digital technologies are impacting patterns of dominance and inequality. Prof. John Haskell led the discussion on November 4, 2019.

During the Spring 2019, the Fellows started a semester-long “sister” initiative of the writing group, called Idea Lab. The desirability of this exercise derives from the observation of one common problem: part of the struggle with writing is that we often work out ideas while writing. The Idea Lab aims at offering an opportunity to

The Writing Group is a year-long workshop coordinated by the Fellows and open to every young scholar who works in the wake of heterodoxy. The exercise aims at providing valuable feedback from peers, so to help one another in overcoming impasses or other challenges we all face in writing complex works. The group offers support

During the Spring 2019, the Fellows organised a semester-long workshop series titled “Modes of Circulation”. The initiative emerged from the basic observation that most people around IGLP conduct research on themes that deal with circulation, but such research often focuses on that which is circulated rather than the dynamic of circulation as such. Hence, there

Psycho Brunch is a year-long discussion group open to Fellows, Visiting Researchers, and anyone who has an interest in exploring the realm of the unconscious. The aim of the exercise is to shake legal and methodological assumptions, take a step back from our ideas and automatisms. The discussion takes the move from selected concepts borrowed

In August 2019, the U.N. International Law Commission is expected to complete a project that might become a U.N. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Humanity. Is such a convention needed? If so, what obligations might it impose upon States? How would it relate to the International Criminal Court? What are the

IGLP Sponsored the Human Rights Program for a talk by Dr. Sindiso Mnisi Weeks, Assistant Professor at the School for Global Inclusion and Social Development at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Professor Mnisi Weeks discussed her work examining the “empowerment / dis-empowerment paradox of rights discourses” in South Africa–the most unequal country in the world.

The IGLP Scholars Workshop is an intensive, regionally-focused residential program that brings together an international cohort of young doctoral scholars, post-doctoral scholars and junior faculty for intensive collaboration, mentoring, and cross-training. IGLP’s signature Workshops aims to strengthen the next generation of scholars by placing them in collaboration with their global peers as they develop innovative ideas and

On January 6-10, 2019, the IGLP co-sponsored a workshop with the Thailand Institute of Justice. The Workshop for Emerging Leaders grows out of the collaborative effort between IGLP and TIJ to endow professional and practitioners from different sectors and fields with the knowledge and tools to effectively tackle the policy challenges they are confronted with in

Throughout the Fall semester 2018, the Fellows and Visiting scholars at IGLP, together with SJDs and LLMs, have met on a monthly basis to better explore and question the foundational ideas and imaginaries of public international law. For each session, a brief excerpt from classics is juxtaposed to more recent scholarly research, either echoing or

Lunch and discussion with Prof. Martti Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki). Prof. Koskenniemi discussed on one of his recent works, “Law of Nations and ‘The Conflict of the Faculties'”.

On September 24-26, 2018, the IGLP co-sponsored a Fall Seminar with RCC.

IGLP is first and foremost a global network of like-minded scholars who share a commitment towards heterodoxy. Periodically, IGLP organises a series of global and regional events to bring together different members of the network around themes and projects. One such events is the Colloquium. On August 22nd-26th, 2018, IGLP, in association with the Universidad

On June 25-29 2018, the IGLP co-sponsored a conference, Higher Institute for Internet Development in partnership with the RCC

Respect for human dignity at the end of life and the limits of power available to each person regarding their own existence have become major issues in the Western world. The aim of this international seminar is to bring new ideas to the contemporary debate on human dignity in life and death in Europe and

The Institute encourages academic collaboration among young scholars from across the world, aiming to support a network of scholars and policy makers who share our belief that ideas matter, and our commitment to new voices and viewpoints for thinking about global governance, social justice and economic policy. IGLP: The Conference is typically held every other June at

Throughout the Spring semester 2018, the Fellows and Visiting scholars at IGLP, together with SJDs and LLMs, have met on a monthly basis to better explore and question the foundational ideas and imaginaries of public international law. For each session, a brief excerpt from classics is juxtaposed to more recent scholarly research, either echoing or

On May 9-10, 2018, the IGLP co-sponsored a conference, Constitutional Law Seminar with the RCC.

Recent developments have shaken the international trade and investment regime, highlighting flaws and contradictions. The current regime has fostered globalization. The bright side of globalization has seen billions of people emerging from poverty, triggering an unprecedented economic and political growth for many countries. Yet there is a dark side that critics have been trying to

On March 29th-31st, together with Northeastern University Law School Program on the Corporation, Law and Global Society, IGLP has proudly co-sponsored An Idea Lab, hosted and organised by the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice of the University of Texas at Austin. The Idea Lab is a way to stimulate the emergence of a community

Populism is on the rise worldwide, including in places that have for long considered themselves immune from such threat. Whether populism is a disease of democracies, a symptom of deeper and more structural societal problems, or a healthy and somewhat revitalizing phase of the political life, it is open to question. However, populism does question

One distinct feature of IGLP is its systematic and constant commitment to critical and theoretical engagement. IGLP and its scholarship aims at pushing academic frontiers, sometimes demolishing, sometimes reconfiguring disciplinary and intellectual borders and boundaries. Theoretical refinement, the idea of looking at things from different and unusual angles in order to understand them better, is

On January 10, 2018, the IGLP sponsored student workshop. The Thailand Institute of Justice (TIJ) and the Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University, (LawChula) co-hosted the “Student Workshop for Next-Gen Global Leaders”. The workshop aimed to prepare undergraduate students to take on global challenges as next generation leaders and was open to students from any field and

On January 7-11, 2018, the IGLP co-sponsored a workshop with the Thailand Institute of Justice. The Workshop for Emerging Leaders grows out of the collaborative effort between IGLP and TIJ to endow professional and practitioners from different sectors and fields with the knowledge and tools to effectively tackle the policy challenges they are confronted with in

The 2018 IGLP Scholars Workshop, coordinated in collaboration with The Thailand Institute of Justice was an intensive, regionally-focused residential program that brought together an international cohort of young doctoral scholars, post-doctoral scholars and junior faculty for intensive collaboration, mentoring, and cross-training. From January 7th to 11th, 2018, the workshop gathered over fifty highly selected young scholars from all

As part of IGLP’s global reach, IGLP co-sponsored the Ministerial Conference, December 14 – 15, 2017, Insertion of Argentina in the World: 2025 Vision, organized by the Argentina’s Secretariat of Commerce of the Ministry of Production, in view of its upcoming G20 presidency. The Conference took place in Buenos Aires on December 14th-15th, 2017. IGLP senior

As part of IGLP’s global reach, together with other partners, IGLP co-sponsored the Think Conference MC11: Challenges and Opportunities on the Eve of the WTO’s 11th Ministerial Conference, organized by the Institute for the Integration of Latin America and the Caribbean of the Inter-American Development Bank together with the Argentinian Ministry of Production. The Conference took place

IGLP believes and promotes inter-, multi-, and counter-disciplinarity. In such spirit, IGLP co-sponsored a one-in-its-kind event, hosted by the Kennedy School of Government and co-ordinated by IGLP Faculty – James Parker. Led by Veit Erlmann, the workshop explored the juridical dimensions of sound. Much of the law is about “listening”, but can we think of

The Institute regularly organizes, participates, and/or co-sponsors events with or at partner institutions all over the world. On November 25th, 2017, IGLP sponsored a roundtable hosted by the Manchester International Law Centre. The event was interested with the growing tendency of discussing ‘international law’ in terms of ‘global governance’, which suggests there might be a

IGLP is proud to co-sponsor a number of events, including lectures and workshops, organized by the RCC. On November 17th, 2017, José Manuel Martinez Sierra, Director of RCC, chaired a talk by Holger Spamann (HLS), who challenged some core aspects of the widespread distinction between Common and Civil Law, often representing the former as more business-friendly and efficient.

On November 16th-17th, 2017, together with the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University, the Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and the Templeton Religion Trust, IGLP co-sponsored a two-days-long workshop reflecting on the status, forms, and social meanings of disenchantment

IGLP is proud to co-sponsor a number of events, including lectures and workshops, organized by the RCC. On October 18th, 2017, José Manuel Martínez Sierra, Director of RCC, engaged in a conversation witheProf. Pasquale Pistone on the recent trend from the European Commission to progressively but systematically reduce State aid to companies. As the financial and economic

The Congress took place on October 2nd-4th, 2017, at Harvard Law School. In the context of their long-standing cooperation, the Congress was jointly organized by the Real Colegio Complutense, the Institute for Global Law and Policy (Harvard Law School), and the Department of Commercial Law at the UCM. The emphasis of this conference was the

Coordinator: Luca Bonadiman Throughout the Fall semester 2017, the Fellows and the Visiting scholars at IGLP met on a weekly basis to share their most recent works. The idea was to get together in order to both better familiarize with each other research endeavors and to provide fruitful feedback for advanced working drafts, duly circulated

Coordinator: Luca Bonadiman A selected group of Fellows and Visiting Researchers tackled the problematic notion of power. The reading group explored some philosophical stances in order to extrapolate a more adequate and effective concept of power, which could allow to better map its effects and articulations in the contemporary world. Readings included excerpts from diverse

Hosts: Luca Bonadiman, Jean Grosdidier, Arm Tungnirun The Institute is regularly home to both Fellows and Visiting Researchers from all over the world, all sharing a critical angle, but often tackling radically different themes. The Welcome Seminar aspired to bring all IGLP scholars together for a get-to-know lunch. Everyone had the opportunity to introduce him/herself,

April 17, 2017 / Cambridge, MA On April 17, 2017, IGLP hosted a Book Talk and discussion with Lucas Lixinski’s for his upcoming book “International Cultural Heritage Law as a Stage: the Intersections of Identity, Sovereignty, and Global Law and Politics.” Discussants were IGLP Fellows Deval Desai, Christopher Gevers and Adil Hasan Khan. Lucas Lixinski

One distinct feature of IGLP is its systematic and constant commitment to critical and theoretical engagement. Throughout the Fall 2017, IGLP and HLS faculty, Janet Halley, has conveyed regular dinner meetings to improve the discussion and exchange between the local Harvard Law School faculty and the IGLP network. Intended for more advanced scholars and faculty, the IGLP

On July 20, 2017, the IGLP co-sponsored a launch event for the Global Legal Action Network. Led by Ioannis Kalpouzos and Paul Clark. The Global Legal Action Network was first conceived during an IGLP Conference, while reasoning and discussing the notion of “Progressive Lawyering”. The upshot of these discussions was to establish a legal non-profit group called GLAN,

From June 26-30, 2017, the IGLP co-sponsored the RCC / ISDI International Digital Business Seminar, a week-long seminar on international digital business led by Nacho de Pinedo, CEO of ISDI and Colin Maclay at Director of the Digital Initiative at Harvard Business School.

May 22-23, 2017 / London School of Economics & Overseas Development Institute On May 22-23, 2017, IGLP co-sponsored  “The Law and Politics of New Experimentalism”. The event, organized by Deval Desai (IGLP Fellow, Harvard Law School), Andrew Lang (IGLP Faculty, London School of Economics) and Pilar Domingo (ODI), convened a group of legal and social science scholars, development practitioners, and policymakers to discuss

June 20-23, 2017 / Mexico City, Mexico From June 20-23, 2017, the IGLP co-sponsored the International Law and Politics Collaborative Research Network event at LSA Mexico City on the theme of “The South.” The event was organized by Rose Parfitt (University of Kent) and Luis Eslava (University of Kent). As part of the event, the CRN hosted 29 panels, roundtables, salons, author-meets-reader sessions

June 18-20, 2017 / Mexico City, Mexico From June 18-20, 2017, the IGLP co-sponsored the workshop “Fascism and the International The Global Order, Yesterday and Tomorrow.” This workshop was the first in a series of two international workshops organized by Rose SydneyParfitt (Melbourne Law School/Kent Law School), as part of a wider research project entitled “International

June 7-9, 2017 Cambridge, MA On June 7-9, 2017, the IGLP co-sponsored the International Taxation Seminar “Issues and Challenges in the International Taxation Field” at Harvard Law School, organized by Rey Juan Carlos University and the Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard. The  course focused on international taxation issues such as state aid, tax havens, anti-abuse clauses in double taxation conventions,

On June 6, 2017, a small group of IGLP Faculty convened at Harvard Law School for the launch of IGLP’s new research initiative, “The New Political Economy of Globalization.” This preliminary discussion helped to shape a multi-year, multi-disciplinary research agenda for the initiative. Primarily, this meeting grappled with ideas around Rethinking the Trade and Investment Law

June 2, 2017 / Cambridge, MA On June 2, 2017, the IGLP Fellows convened “Learning From Failure”, a workshop which served as the concluding piece for the reading group of the same name. Panel discussants included David Kennedy (Harvard Law School), Xolela Mangcu (University of Cape Town / Harvard University), Vasuki Nesiah (New York University), Adam Sitze (Amherst College), and Jennifer Wenzel (Columbia University).

April 26-28, 2017 / Cambridge, MA On April 26-28, 2017, IGLP co-sponsored the workshop “Editorial Aspirations: Human Integrity at the Frontiers of Biology” held at Harvard University. Complete details here.

Friday, April 14, 2017, 12:00pm to 1:15pm at Harvard Law School / Wasserstien Hall, Room 3016 The Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP) co-sponsored a talk by Joaquín Almunia, President CEPS, Former Vice-President European Commission. During this talk he discussed the European Union’s actions in the wake of the European Commission’s findings that Ireland granted Apple undue tax benefits. This talk

April 6, 2017 / Cambridge, MA On April 6, 2017, IGLP co-sponsored the talk “Nuclear Chimeras: Britain’s Slow Death as a Nuclear Power” by Jonathan Porritt, a part of Harvard Kennedy School’s Program on Science, Technology & Society’s Forum for the Future. This lecture was part of a two-day workshop hosted by HKS’ STS Program, “New Nuclear Imaginaries.”

March 21, 2017 / Cambridge, MA On March 21, 2017, IGLP hosted the authors of Anti-Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda for a book launch talk and discussion. Refreshments will follow. The event was presented by the Institute for Global Law & Policy and co-sponsored by the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice and the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law

March 3 – April 21, 2017 / Cambridge, MA The reading group, “This is the End: Learning from Failure in Law and Governance”, was organized by the IGLP Residential Fellows in the Spring Term of 2017. The group explored strategies to comprehend failure – personal failure, that of others in whom we invest and from

On January 7-11, 2017, the IGLP co-sponsored a conference, TIJ Workshop for Emerging Leaders. For more information visit: http://www.tijthailand.org/main/en/content/408.html

December 16, 2016 from 1pm - 2:20pm in Hauser Hall 101 at Harvard Law School The IGLP sponsored a lunch discussion with Caroline Elkins, Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Harvard. Her work – along with missing archives she uncovered – has had a direct bearing on legal claims by former

December 12-13, 2016 in Lewis 214A at Harvard Law School This intimate workshop sought to generate a conversation not so much about the Global South, as how it might be possible to speak about the Global South across disciplinary lines in productive and disruptive ways. It brought together those working with postcolonial theory, political economy, law,

The aim of the reading was to explore interdisciplinary approaches to international law by engaging in a close reading of classic texts from the fields of history and literary studies. The reading group offered participants the opportunity to develop new critical insights into their own work individually and opened up opportunities for new, collaborative work.

December 2, 2016, 9:00am - 12:00pm in Wasserstein Hall, Roon 3018 at Harvard Law School In Collaboration with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the Harvard Law School Brazilian Studies Association. Over the past years, the use of information and communication technology (ICT) have grown exponentially across the globe.

December 1, 2016 from 4pm - 6pm The current Brazilian government led by the center-right Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) is seeking to consolidate a long term agenda of reduction of the state. The government recently proposed an Amendment to the Constitution that aims at instituting what has been called a “New Fiscal Regime.” If

November 29, 2016 from 5pm - 7pm in Hauser Hall 104 at Harvard Law School Globalization is presented as a natural, inevitable, and evolutionary process that will bring prosperity and economic growth to all members of the global community. However, the current situation has proved that the system has produced not only winners, but also

Osama Siddique, IGLP Faculty and Henry J. Steiner Visiting Professor in Human Rights at Harvard Law School October 28, 2016 from 12pm - 1pm in Hauser Hall 102 Harvard Law School The IGLP co-sponsored a lunchtime discussion with Osama Siddique, IGLP Faculty and Henry J. Steiner Visiting Professor in Human Rights on the human rights implications

October 1st & 28th, 2016 / Medford, Massachusetts The IGLP co-sponsored a tour by IGLP Faculty and Harvard Law School Professor Janet Halley of the Royall House and Slave Quarters in Medford, Massachusetts on October 1st and October 28th. The Royall House and Slave Quarters showcases archeological and historical knowledge about the man whose grant established the first law

October 25, 2016 at 12pm in WCC 3036 at Harvard Law School The IGLP co-sponsored a lunch discussion in collaboration with the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School with IGLP Residential Fellow and Human Rights Program Research Fellow and S.J.D. candidate Deval Desai on regulating transnational corporations. Drawing on his research in northern Uganda and Sierra Leone, Deval examined

Monday, October 17, 2016 from 3:30 - 4:30pm at Harvard Law School - Hauser Hall, Room 102 The Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP) sponsored a talk by Onur Ulas Ince, IGLP Faculty and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Singapore Management University. His paper is part of a larger book project that examines the impact of colonial economic relations

September 7, 2016 / Cambridge, MA On September 7, 2016, the IGLP welcomed all new and returning IGLP Fellows and Visiting Researchers at the Harvard Faculty Club to get to know one another and share their research projects.

MADRID, SPAIN | JULY 17-23, 2016 The Workshop The IGLP convened its 7th global Workshop for young scholars and university faculty in Madrid in July 2016, organized in collaboration with the Complutense Institute for International Studies, Completense University of Madrid. Scholars from around the world came together for a week of serious collaboration and intensive debate with our global senior

June 27 - July 1, 2016 / Cambridge, MA From June 27-July 1, 2016, the IGLP co-sponsored a week-long seminar on international digital business led by Nacho de Pinedo at the Real Colegio Complutense and Colin Maclay at Harvard Business School.

June 20 - 24, 2016 / Perugia, Italy From June 20-24, 2016, a small group of IGLP Faculty convened in Perugia, Italy for an IGLP Writer’s Workshop, organized in collaboration with Maria Rosaria Marella and Giovanni Marini at the Università degli studi di Perugia. Participating IGLP faculty included: Yishai Blank (Tel Aviv University), Karen Engle (University of Texas Law School), Günter Frankenberg (Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main), Vasuki Nesiah (New

June 6, 2016 / Cambridge, MA On June 6, 2016, the IGLP sponsored a meeting of the IGLP Reading Group on New Experimentalism. Organized by Deval Desai and Andrew Lang, this reading group explored a number of theoretical and policy texts related to Experimentalist approaches to policy- and law-making in order to better examine the ways in which they institutionalize

The Global Legal Order and Its Anthropologies June 2, 2016 / New Orleans, Louisiana From June 2-5, 2016, the IGLP co-sponsored the International Law and Politics Collaborative Research Network event at LSA New Orleans on the theme of “The Global Legal Order and its Anthropologies.” The event was organized by Rose Parfitt (University of Kent) and Luis Eslava (University of Kent). As part

June 3, 2016 / Cambridge, MA On June 3, 2016, the IGLP co-sponsored an international seminar entitled “Human Dignity and Law in Life and Death” at the  Real Colegio Complutense. This day-long seminar brought new ideas to the contemporary debate on euthanasia and human dignity in life and death in Europe and America in the 20th

A talk by IGLP Residential Fellow, Mostafa Haider May 31, 2016 / Cambridge, MA On May 31, 2016, the IGLP hosted a talk by IGLP Residential Fellow Mostafa Haider. Mostafa explored some of the key knowledge-makers of poverty eradication – economists, lawyers and sociologists of the poor and the so-called poor themselves – to better understand

April 14, 2016 / Cambridge, MA On April 14, 2016, the IGLP co-sponsored International Legal History Day at Harvard Law School in collaboration with Afroditi Giovanopoulou and the Harvard Law School SJD Association. The conference was a day-long event on international legal history that featured book talks, paper presentations and a discussion on methodology.

A talk by John Sopko, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction April 7, 2016 / Cambridge, MA On April 7, 2016 the IGLP co-sponsored a talk by John F. Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), at the Warren Center at Harvard University. Mr. Sopko discussed the challenges, problems, and root causes of the United States’ reconstruction efforts

February 12, 2016 / Cambridge, MA On February 12, 2016, the IGLP sponsored a Workshop at Harvard Law School organized by IGLP Residential Fellow Mai Taha to investigate methodologies that help conceptualize how systems of empire and capital operate. Workshop participants discussed the role of law in the formation of modern societies in a colonial context, encompassing questions about

April 4 - 5, 2016 / Geneva, Switzerland On April 4-5, 2016, the Global Studies Institute of the University of Geneva hosted the Workshop “Regional and Constitutional Structures in Tension.” The aim of the workshop was to interrogate possible tensions and interactions between regional organizations and constitutional law. Particular attention was paid to the increased prominence of constitutional language at the

IGLP Regional Workshop 2016: Africa | January 17 - 23, 2016 | Cape Town, South Africa Participants of the IGLP African Regional Workshop in Cape Town, South Africa | January 2016 About the African Regional Workshop From January 17-23, 2016, the IGLP held its first African Regional Workshop in Cape Town, South Africa, co-hosted by the University of

December 10 - 15, 2015 / Sydney, Australia On December 10-12, 2015, the IGLP co-sponsored The Data Associations in Global Law and Policy Workshop at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia. The project’s aim was to explore the significance for global legal relations and governance decision-making of growing reliance on data analytics. A public forum was

November 24, 2015 / Cambridge, MA On November 24th, 2015 the IGLP sponsored a seminar by IGLP Residential Fellow Onur Özgöde. Onur discussed how the Federal Reserve came to govern the sector most closely associated with capitalism, finance, against the most fundamental principle of political liberalism, private risk-private reward, by tracing the emergence of systemic risk

The ILOs Technical Assistance Mission to Egypt and the Interwar Colonial Labor Policy by Mai Taha October 7, 2015 / Cambridge, MA On October 7, 2015 the IGLP sponsored a seminar by IGLP Residential Fellow Mai Taha who explored how “class” has become a subject of concern for international law and its institutions, specifically during the formative interwar

An IGLP & Real Colegio Complutense Business Law Seminar September 21 - 23, 2015 / Cambridge, MA On September 21-23, 2015, the IGLP co-sponsored a conference with the Real Colegio Complutense to offer a transatlantic perspective on the financial crisis. The event offered the opportunity to analyze and debate some of the key issues in

On April 12-13th at Harvard Law School the IGLP hosted a conference on “The Next Left: Building New Communities.”  This event focused on the contemporary state of social democratic politics and the potential for a progressive global agenda for the 21st century. Among those taking part in the discussion were Dr. Alfred Gusenbauer, the former Chancellor of Austria, Dr. Ricardo

On September 15th at 5:30 PM in Pound 200, the IGLP and the Tobin Project will co-host Cornell University Professor Annelise Riles for a discussion of her new book, Collateral Knowledge: Legal Reasoning in the Global Financial Markets. In the book, Professor Riles explores the uses of collateral in the financial markets as a regulatory device for stabilizing market transactions.