2013 Laura H. Carnell Chair Workshop
Tentative Agenda
FRIDAY, APRIL 12
11:30 – 1:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
- Histories of International Law – Significance and Problems for a Critical View
-Martti Koskenniemi, Erik Castren Institute of International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki
1:15 – 2:15 LUNCH
2:15 – 3:30 USING INTERNATIONAL LAW IN TIMES OF CRISIS
- Constructing the Story of the Union Blockade, 1861-1865: A Case Study in the Tactical Utility of International Law
–John Witt, Yale Law School - The Empire’s New Laws: Terrorism and the New Security Empire after 9/11
-Kim Lane Scheppele, Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton University
Moderator: Craig Green, Temple University Beasley School of Law
3:30 – 3:45 Break
3:45 – 5:00 ON FORMALISM IN INTERNATIONAL LAW
- Koskenniemi in Private: On the Absence of Private International Law in Martti Koskenniemi’s Work
–Ralf Michaels, Duke University School of Law - The Culture of Formalism and the Vocation of Politics
–Jan Klabbers, University of Helsinki
Moderator: Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Temple University Beasley School of Law
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SATURDAY, APRIL 13
9:15 – 10:30 RECONSIDERING THE FRAGMENTATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
- Living with Post-Modern Anxiety: Remedies without (Dis)order?
–Tomer Broude, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Defragmenting International Law: The Significance of Koskenniemi’s 2006 ILC Project
–Sean D. Murphy, George Washington University Law School
Moderator: Duncan Hollis, Temple University Beasley School of Law
10:30 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 12:00 WRITING INTERNATIONAL LAW: QUESTIONS OF CROSS- AND INTER-DISCIPLINARITY
- An Irrelevant Decoration: International Relations and Interdisciplinarity According to Koskenniemi
–Mark A. Pollack, Department of Political Science, Temple University - From Interdisciplinarity to Counterdisciplinarity: Is there a Madness in Martti’s Method?
–Jeffrey L. Dunoff, Temple University Beasley School of Law
Moderator: Ryan Goodman, NYU School of Law
12:00 – 1:00 LUNCH
1:00 – 2:15 REFLECTIONS ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
- Torture, Nuclear Weapons and the Specific Indeterminacy of International Human Rights Law
–Frédéric Mégret, Faculty of Law, McGill University - Martti Koskenniemi as life-writer
–Andrew Lang, London School of Economics
-Susan Marks, London School of Economics
Moderator: Margaret deGuzman, Temple University Beasley School of Law
2:15 – 2:30 Break
2:30 – 3:45 INTERNATIONAL LAW, HISTORY AND PROGRESS
- The International Law That Is America: Reflections on the Last Chapter of The Gentle Civilizer of Nations
–Samuel Moyn, Department of History, Columbia University - Does International Law Today Need (or Imply) a Progressive Theory of History?
–Robert Howse, NYU School of Law
-Ruti Teitel, NYU School of Law
Moderator: David Kennedy, Harvard Law School
3:45 – 4:00 Break
4:00 CLOSING REMARKS
Martti Koskenniemi, Erik Castren Institute of International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki