| January 18 |
Ruti Teitel, New York Law School
Humanity's Law |
| January 25 |
Patrick Keenan, University of Illinois School of Law
Curse or Cure? China's Investments in Africa and their Impact on Human Rights |
| February 1 |
David Kennedy, Harvard Law School
Of War and Law |
| February 8 |
Paul Kahn, Yale Law School
Torture and International Law |
| February 15 |
Lucie White, Harvard Law School
Stones of Hope: African Lawyers Reclaim Human Rights to Challenge Global Poverty |
| February 22 |
Karen Engle, University of Texas School of Law
Indigenous Roads to Development: Self-Determination, Human Rights, and Culture |
| February 29 |
Fionnuala Ni Aolain, University of Minnesota School of Law
Gender, Truth, and Transition |
| March 14 |
Paolo Carrozza, University of Notre Dame Law School
The 'Art" of Democracy and the 'Taste For Local Freedom': International Human Rights and the American Constitutional Difference |
| March 28 |
David Luban, Georgetown University Law Center
Lawfare and Legal Ethics in Guantanamo |
| April 4 |
Martin Flaherty, Fordham University School of Law
Executive Authority, Fundamental Rights, and Global Separation of Powers |
| April 11 |
Balakrishnan Rajagopal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Limits of Legalizing Social Rights |
| April 18 |
Peter Spiro, Temple University Law School
An International Law of Citizenship |
| April 25 |
Phillip Alston, New York University Law School
National commissions of inquiry as a response to unlawful killings: cure or cover-up? |