Global Fellows Forum - Past Year

Moderator(s) at the 2025-2025 Global/Emile Noël Fellows Forum were Professor Kevin E. Davis, Beller Family Professor of Business Law and Faculty Director, Hauser Global Law School Program, and/or Professor J.H.H. Weiler, University Professor, Joseph Straus Professor of Law, European Union Jean Monnet Chaired Professor and Co-Director, Jean Monnet Center.

Spring 2026 Global/Emile Noël Fellows Forum

22 Washington Square North

Wednesday,  January 28 

10:00–10:50 a.m.
Yehonatan Givati (commentator: Hasan Dindjer)
Tax Residency Day-Count Rules: History, Theory and Evidence

11:00–11:50 a.m.
Gustavo Weiss de Resende (commentator: Yehonatan Givati)
U.S. International Tax Policy and the Fragmentation of Global Fiscal Governance: Competing Visions Under the OECD and UN Frameworks

12:00–12:50 p.m.
Hasan Dindjer (commentator: Gustavo Weiss de Resende)
The Rule of Reason: A Theory of Reasonableness in Administrative Law

1:00–2:00 p.m.
Lunch

 

Wednesday,  February 18 

10:00–10:50 a.m.
Dieter Grimm  (commentator: Óscar Sánchez Muñoz)
The Weimar Constitution and Weimar Constitutional Theory in the United States

11:00–11:50 a.m.
Rosalba Famà (commentator: Maciej Krogel)
The evolution of the principle of budgetary balance in the European Union following Covid-19

12:00–12:50 p.m.
Óscar Sánchez Muñoz (commentator: Dieter Grimm)
The Global Digital Oligarchy: Implications for Democracy and the Rule of Law

1:00–2:00 p.m.
Lunch

 

Fall 2025 Global/Emile Noël Fellows Forum

22 Washington Square North

 

Thursday, October 9 

12:00–1:00 p.m.
Lunch

1:00–1:50 p.m.
Jiajun Luo (commentator: Robert Greally) 
Authoritarian ADR: China’s Fengqiao Model of Dispute Resolution

2:00–2:50 p.m.
Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín (commentator: Sebastian von Massow)
Architects of the Better World: Democracy, Law, and the Construction of International Order, 1899-1998

 

Friday, October 10  

9:00–9:50 a.m.
Robert Greally (commentator: Jiajun Luo)
The Least Examined Branch? A Critical Analysis of How Legislatures Became Distrusted and Neglected within Anglo-American Constitutional Thought

10:00–10:50 a.m.
Shuyu Chu (commentator: Filippo Venturi)
Authoritarian Anti-Corruption Agencies: A Comparative Analysis of China, Singapore, and Hong Kong’s Models

11:00–11:50 a.m.
Sebastian von Massow (commentator: Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín)
The Colonial Twilight Zone: Euro-African Treatymaking between Colonialism and European Integration

12:00–1:00 p.m.
Lunch

 

Wednesday, October 15  

9:00–9:50 a.m.
Síofra O'Leary (commentator: Hèctor López Bofill)
Judicial oversight of EUropean Values: where to from now?

10:00–10:50 a.m.
Filippo Venturi (commentator: Shuyu Chu)
Regulatory Criminal Law and the Authoritarian Nature of Criminalization: Toward a theory of decriminalization

11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Lunch

 

Thursday, October 16

9:30–10:20 a.m.
Jacob Werksman (commentator: Elie Tassel-Maurizi)
Managing the Spillovers of European Climate Leadership: What international law principles, rules and institutions can help support a fair and effective global transition away from fossil fuels?

10:30–11:20 a.m.
Yael Landman (commentator: Noam Oren)
The Biblical Legal Imagination: Law, Narrative, and the Performance of Justice 

1:00–2:00 p.m.
Lunch

 

Friday, October 17

9:30–10:20 a.m.
Nora Markard (commentator: Alezini Loxa)
Three Concepts of Liberty

10:30–11:20 a.m.
Maciej Krogel (commentator: Síofra O'Leary)
Constructing the Theoretical Framework of Knowledge Formation in the Context of the European Union’s Response to the Rule of Law Crisis

11:30 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
Lunch

12:20–1:10 p.m.
Yasmine Ergas (commentator: Jacob van de Beeten)
Changing the Subject: Humanity, plasticity, and the return of the “woman question.”

 

Thursday, October 23

10:00–10:50 a.m.
Alezini Loxa (commentator: Nora Markard)
Revisiting the Normative Foundations of EU Migration Law

11:00–11:50 a.m.
Noam Oren (commentator: Yael Landman)
Rational Deference in Religion Between Moral and Jewish Law Expertise 

12:00–1:00 p.m.
Lunch

1:00–1:50 p.m.
Elie Tassel-Maurizi (commentator: Michela Leggio)
Testing the Impossible: A Legal Framework for Forgiveness in Transitional States

2:00–2:50 p.m.
Jacob van de Beeten (commentator: Yasmine Ergas)
Forgotten Visions: Imagining the Nature of EU law in the Formative Period of European Legal Integration (1950-1965)

 

Friday, October 24

9:30–10:20 a.m.
Hèctor López Bofill (commentator: Maciej Krogel)
The Development of the Rule of Law in the European Tradition

10:30–11:20 a.m.
Michela Leggio (commentator: Jacob Werksman)
Artificial Intelligence in Scientific Research: To Regulate or Not to Regulate? Exploring the Role of University Autonomy in the European Digital Framework

11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Lunch