Conference on the “New” New Haven School

Next week the Yale Journal of International Law will host a conference entitled The “New” New Haven School: International Law—Past, Present, and Future. Here’s a description:

A generation ago, Yale Law School gave birth to the so-called “New Haven School of International Law,” which insisted that law is more than formal legal institutions, that international law is best studied by evaluating social practice, and that international legal scholars should take a policy-oriented approach to determining what constitutes effective world order.

The March 10 conference will consider whether a “New” New Haven School is emerging, as scholars trained in the New Haven School methodology take the helm at law schools nationwide and begin to chart their own scholarly course. Topics to be discussed include the impact and legacy of the New Haven School; lessons from the New Haven School for the so-called War on Terror; and the methodological gulfs between international law and international relations. The conference will also give the winners of the Yale Journal of International Law’s student scholarship competition an opportunity to share their work.

A schedule of the conference’s events is available here. I will be presenting a paper at the conference on law, hegemony, and conflict in Eurasia. (More on that in some other post.) Opinio Juris alums Hari Osofsky and Janet Levit as well as many other scholars who should be familiar to readers of this blog will also be presenting.

Moreover, we at Opinio Juris will also welcome our first student guest-bloggers as a couple of Yale Law students will join us to write about the conference.

If you come to New Haven for the conference, please stop by to say hello. If you can’t make it in person, we hope you will follow the proceedings via the blog.