Europe’s Migration Crisis March 21 | Noon | Room K2A | Klein Hall More than one million migrants and refugees reached Europe’s shores in 2015. Which Member State(s) should bear the responsibility of hosting refugees? How will this large influx impact Europe’s regional stability? Why are so many forced to …
This Thursday, Feb. 25, IILPP Co-Director Jaya Ramji-Nogales will participate in a workshop at Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania titled “Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Global Challenges of Urbanization and Migration” at Claudia Cohen Hall, G14 (Terrace Room). Professor Ramji-Nogales will be featured in the panel “Gender-based Approaches to Urbanization …
Presenting pre-publication works-in-progress to one’s colleagues at home and away is a central part of academic life. It’s a way to test, engage, and promote scholarly work. In this tradition, Temple’s International Law Colloquium brings top international legal academics to introduce their work to students and the law school community. …
Steven Donziger, a self-styled social activist and Harvard educated lawyer, signed on to a budding class action lawsuit against multinational Texaco (which later merged with Chevron to become the third-largest corporation in America). The suit sought reparations for the Ecuadorian peasants and tribes people whose lives were affected by decades …
States increasingly turn to non-binding agreements to advance international cooperation in such areas as environmental protection, human rights, and financial regulation. But what explains the rise of these “soft law” instruments? On October 10, the Institute convened an invitation-only book roundtable to consider Andrew Guzman and Tim Meyer’s Goldilocks Globalism: …
On May 20th, 2013, the Institute hosted a book workshop on Professor Barbara Koremenos’ forthcoming Continent of International Law. The book explores questions of international institutional design, using a data base of several hundred treaties ranging across four issue areas: economics, environment, human rights, and security. Professor Koremenos is currently …
