Seminar
International Law and the New Global Political Economy Seminar is a colloquium-style course that challenges students to think about the current backlash against globalization, what may have caused it, and how imaginative institutional responses to address such concerns would look like.
Leading scholars in the field of international law present a paper each week. These scholars come from different disciplinary backgrounds, including law, economics, political science, and sociology. They present on a wide range of topics, from investment, trade, sovereign debt, and finance, to immigration, global value chains, labor, and development.
The colloquium is open to students enrolled in the course, as well as to Georgetown Law faculty and other DC area scholars and practitioners. It runs on Fridays in the spring semester and is open to the public from 12:00pm to 1:20pm in the Hotung Faculty Dining Room. Lunch is provided.
List of Speakers (Spring 2020)
Feb. 7 – Larry Helfer – Duke Law School
Populism and International Human Rights Law Institutions: A Survival Guide
Feb. 14 – Aziza Ahmed – Northeastern School of Law
Feminist Contestation in Global Health Governance
Feb. 21 – Chantal Thomas – Cornell Law School
Economic Inequality and International Law
Feb. 28 – Jennifer Gordon – Fordham Law School
Refugees and Decent Work: Lessons Learned from Recent Refugee Jobs Compacts
Mar. 6 – Gunther Frankenberg – Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Authoritarian Power as Private Property
Mar. 20 – Katharina Pistor – Columbia Law School
The Code of Capital
Mar. 27 – Jason Jackson – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Global Rise of Platform Firms and Markets
Apr. 3 – Moria Paz – Stanford Law
Refugees and International Law
Apr. 17 – Todd Tucker – Roosevelt Institute
Industrial Policy
List of Speakers (Spring 2018)
Jan. 26 – Robert Howse – NYU Law School
International Investment Law and Arbitration: A Conceptual Framework
Feb. 2 – Amy Cohen – Ohio State, Moritz College of Law
We Are All Value Creators Now: A Case Study of Negotiation in New Indian Agricultural Value Chains
Feb. 9 – Kimberly Kay Hoang – U Chicago, Department of Sociology
Risky Investments: Varieties of Relational Obfuscation and Heterogeneous Relations Between Market Actors and State Elites in an Emerging Market
Feb. 16 – Jennifer Bair – U Virginia, Department of Sociology
Labor Standards in post-Rana Plaza Bangladesh: Public Regulation, Private Governance and the Struggle for Worker Safety
Feb. 23 – Charles Sabel – Columbia Law School
Sovereignty and Complex Interdependence
Mar. 2 – Muneer Ahmad – Yale Law School
Beyond Earned Citizenship
Mar. 9 – Lance Compa – Cornell ILR School
Re-Negotiating NAFTA’s Labor Accord: Looking Back, Where We Are Now, and a Look Ahead
Mar. 23 – Michael Trebilcock – U Toronto Faculty of Law
The Puzzle of Canadian Exceptionalism in Contemporary Immigration Policy
Apr. 6 – Gregory Shaffer – UC Irvine School of Law
Retooling Trade Agreements for Social Inclusion
Apr. 13 – Anna Gelpern – Georgetown Law
Who Knows about Government Debt?
Apr. 20 – Lucie White – Harvard Law School
South Africa: Toward a New Constitutional Political Economy – Transition and Transformation
Apr. 27 – Benedict Kingsbury – NYU Law School
TPP and Belt & Road: Two Models of Ordering