Janet Halley, IGLP contributor and Royall Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, published the second installment of “What is Family Law?: A Genealogy,”  in the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities.  The work offers a genealogy of domestic relations law (later renamed family law) and how it emerged as a distinct field in

In November 2011, the IGLP along with the  Program on the Study of Capitalism at HLS and the Culture of the Market Network hosted a three-day conference on the History of Capitalism.  The conference brought together leading scholars to explore new problems and possibilities in the field. Click HERE to read more about this event

Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 12:00 PM in Hauser 105 Today, more than ever, successful lawyers are those who help their clients effectively navigate complex issues outside the traditional sphere of the law. What do you do when reporters start calling? How do you use digital media to protect or advance your client’s interests? How

In the fall of 2011, the IGLP hosted Dr. Alfred Gusenbauer, Former Chancellor of Austria for a series of meetings related to his research project “The Next Left: Globalised Social Democracy in the North and South.” Dr. Gusenbauer’s Project seeks to examine the state of social democracy today, and to evaluate the ways it could become

From June 12-13, 2011, the IGLP,  along with the Harvard Program on International Legal Studies, the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard, the Sciences Po Law School and the HLS Program on Law and Social Thought, hosted a conference on “Franco-American Legal Influence, Then and Now,” at Harvard Law School. This day-long conference explored historical and contemporary moments

On April 22 & 23, at Harvard Law School, the IGLP will hosted a Pre-Meeting for the June 2011 Workshop Pro-Seminar Transnational Social Policy and Labor Regulation: Crisis and Change. The meeting, which was convened by  IGLP Advisory Council Member, Prof. Kerry Rittich, brought together a network of scholars for discussion and debate about the substantive and

On April 22 & 23 in Dighton, Massachusetts the IGLP hosted a Pre-Meeting for the June 2011 Workshop Pro-Seminar, Gender in Postcolonial Legal Orders.   The meeting, which was convened by IGLP Director David Kennedy and IGLP Advisory Council Member Prof. Janet Halley, brought together a broad network of scholars whose research is concerned with the ways gender,

On April 11, 2011 the IGLP hosted Dr. Klaus Barbknecht, an Executive Board Member of the German energy company Verbundnetz Gas Aktiengesellschaft, for a roundtable discussion on European energy issues with Harvard faculty and graduate students, as well as experts from the private sector.   The discussion focused primarily on the politics and economics of European energy

During the Spring 2011 Semester the IGLP honored the academic work of some of our Network contributors.  On March 30th we hosted a dinner in honor of Prof. Antony Anghie, Samuel D. Thurman Professor of Law at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. Professor Anghie’s research interests include public and private international law; human rights; globalization,

On February 23, 2011 at 5 PM in Langdell North, the IGLP hosted a talk by HLS Professor Jeannie Suk on her article The Look in his Eyes: The Story of State v. Rusk and Rape Reform. Professor Suk’s article tells the story of State v. Rusk through the lens of rape law reform. Beginning in the 1970s,

On Saturday November 13th the IGLP Director David Kennedy hosted a Pre Meeting for the June 2011 Workshop Pro-Seminar on Renewing Latin American Legal Studies.   The meeting brought together a broad network of comparative legal scholars who are thinking in new ways about law in Latin America to discuss their own work and sharpen their

Please join the IGLP and the Workshop on the Political Economy of Modern Capitalism for our first speaker of the fall semester, Professor Perry Mehrling, as he presents a talk based on his forthcoming book The New Lombard Street: How the Fed Became the Dealer of Last Resort. The talk will be held Monday, October

On October 9 at Harvard Law School, the IGLP hosted a Workshop on “The League Of Nations and the Construction of the Periphery.” This Workshop Brought together a group of young international legal scholars to present their research on nation and state formation during the interwar period, in the context of the emergence and development

On September 30, the IGLP Co-Sponsored an interdisciplinary panel discussion on The Meaning of Trauma; Sexual Violence in Berlin, 1945. Participants examined the mass sexual violence experienced by German women during the military defeat of the Third Reich and challenged some of the historical, social, legal, and clinical narratives we typically invoke to construct, interpret

From September 27th – 30th, the IGLP and our Co-founder and Leading Sponsor the Real Colegio Complutense held our 8th annual Business Law Seminar at Harvard Law School. The seminar focused on “Mergers and Acquisitions in the Context of the Financial Crisis.“ Harvard Law School Professors Reinier Kraakman, Einer Elhauge and Guhan Subramanian presented lectures

From August 15-21, 2010 the IGLP, along with The Interdisciplinary Association of Comparative and Private International Law, Vienna, and FOWI – Research Institute for Central and Eastern European Business Law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business hosted our first annual IGLP Austrian Workshop on “Law as a Regulatory Device”, at Schloss Seggau, in