07 Apr Non-Stop International Law at Yale Law School
I happened to be perusing the Yale Law School calendar looking for a link to this seminar when it hit me: it’s non-stop international law at YLS.
In the month of March there was a featured extra-curricular lecture, presentation, or event about international or foreign law at YLS every single school day of the month:
March 1: Dean Harold Koh on Teaching Human Rights in Multiple Legal Systems
March 2: Human Rights Workshop: The Trial of Communism: Truth, Reconciliation and Justice in Post-Communist Societies
March 5: U.S. Based Careers in International Public Law
March 5: Gender, Sexuality, and Human Rights
March 6: Law and Globalization Breakfast: Should Alleged Terrorist Detainees Have Access to U.S. Courts?
March 7: Global Conversations: The Constitutional Status of Indigenous Peoples
March 8: Federalist Society Debate: What International Law?
March 9: Human Rights Workshop: Leora Bilsky: Between the Imposter and the Refugee
March 10: The “New” New Haven School: International Law Past, Present, and Future
March 12: Speech Before Genocide: Protected Right or Heinous Crime?
March 13: Human Rights Film Screening: The Ghosts of Rwanda
March 14: Robert Sloane: The Cost of Conflation: The Dualism of Jus Ad Bellum and Jus in Bello
March 15: Corporate Law Lunch Lecture: Japanese Law Professor Zinichi Shishido
March 16-26: Spring Break
March 27: The Developing International Judicial System: Investment Treaty Arbitration as an Arch-Example
March 28: The Greening of International Finance: Emerging Norms and Standards
March 29: The Constitutionality of the Military Commissions Act
March 30: Human Rights Workshop: Legal Pluralism and Property in Latin America
March 30: Clean Air Workshop including discussion of tribal concerns of transboundary pollution
March 31: Yale Prom Night (not for the fun of it of course, but to raise money for grants for students to participate in domestic and international public interest summer internships)
I don’t know whether to be envious or aghast. I know that international law is supposed to be sexy, but doesn’t this sound like just a wee bit of international law overkill? Really, it’s not that interesting is it? Or at least not so interesting that other more pedestrian topics like, say, constitutional law don’t deserve equal billing. What gives?
Roger – you missed one important one. Just think – Yale has multiple international law events on a single day.
On March 9, there was the Junior International Law Scholars Roundtable at the Yale Law School that looked at an interdiciplinary approach to international law. See Junior International Law Scholars Workshop.
Susan Franck
yeah this is great except its now APRIL.
dwg:
You missed the point: this was not posted as an advertisement or poster of coming events (hence not in the future tense), Roger’s point was rather in reference to what happened last month, hence, ‘In the month of March there was….’ Some upcoming events can be found here: http://www.law.yale.edu/news/newsevents.htm
I think events of the last several years have greatly upped the popularity of International Law.
It’s far more exciting when it is about extraordinary rendition and covert nuclear projections than when the primary discussions were trade treaties.
Non-stop thrills in New Haven!