Law, Globalization and Development Colloquium

Spring 2025
Mondays, 4:45–6:45 p.m.

Vanderbilt Hall (40 Washington Square South), Room 202

Organizer: Professor Kevin E. Davis

The Colloquium on Law, Globalization and Development will focus on the role that law and legal institutions play in economic, social, and political development. Each public session will involve a presentation of a work-in-progress by an invited speaker and will be open to members of the NYU community.

Please email Tiffany Scruggs for copies of the papers.

Schedule of Presenters

Monday, February 10
Julio Ríos-Figuero, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Mexico City
"Perverse Autonomy, Bureaucratic Insiders, and the Limits of Meritocratic Reform. Evidence from the Mexican Judiciary, 1917–2018"

Monday, February 24
Rohit De, Yale University
"Brown Lawyers, Black Robes: Indian-African Lawyers, and Transnational Histories of Minority Rights"

Monday, March 10
Weijia Rao, Boston University School of Law
"Signaling through National Security Lawmaking"

Monday, April 14
Rabiat Akande, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
"Outsourcing Legal Modernity"

Monday, April 21
Margaret Boittin, Osgoode Hall Law School at York University
"The Unintended Consequences of Mass-Media Anti-Trafficking Campaigns: Experimental Evidence from Nepal"

Monday, April 28
Susan Ostermann, Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame
"Ending Legal Exceptionalism: State-Led Subnational Authoritarianism and its Demise in Pakistan"