NYU Law faculty engage on global public law issues at International Society of Public Law conference

Mattias Kumm
Gráinne de Búrca

The International Society of Public Law (ICON·S) held its annual conference June 17-19 at the Humboldt University of Berlin. The three-day event, themed “Borders, Otherness and Public Law,” was hosted by Mattias Kumm, Inge Rennert Professor of Law, and co-organized by Gráinne de Búrca, Florence Ellinwood Allen Professor of Law and co-president of ICON·S.

Robert Howse

NYU Law professors served as panelists on topics including subsidiarity in global governance, structural weaknesses in the European legal order, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, the regulation of food, the legal construction of motherhood, family regulation and sexual freedom, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, global constitutionalism and human rights, and transnational legal publishing.

Richard Stewart

Kumm made opening remarks on the first day of the conference. On the final day, de Búrca and Weiler interviewed Koen Lenaerts, president of the Court of Justice of the European Union, and Guido Raimondi, president of the European Court of Human Rights. Among the more than 700 other participants from around the world were Robert Howse, Lloyd C. Nelson Professor of International Law; University Professor Richard Stewart; and University Professor Joseph Weiler. Many current and former NYU Law scholars and research fellows also participated. 

J.H.H. Weiler
Joseph Weiler

ICON·S was founded three years ago at the European University Institute in Florence to promote cross-fertilization between the various branches of public law, domestic and global. Its mission reflects the belief that constitutional law can no longer be fully understood or studied in isolation from administrative law and international law, and that the boundaries between public law, political science, and other disciplines are similarly becoming porous. ICON·S, which has grown to more than 800 members, is closely linked to I·CON (International Journal of Constitutional Law), edited by Weiler and de Búrca.

Posted July 1, 2016