Global Fellows Forum

Each semester the Global Fellows Forum convenes regularly offering a space for fellows to lecture on their research projects and receive feedback from faculty commentators, fellows and invited guests. Below is the schedule for the Spring 2009 forums. All files for download, which are made available here before each event, are draft versions in .pdf format. Do not cite without the expressed consent of the author.

Spring 2009 Fellows Forum

Date

Presenter

Wednesday
January 21st

12:00-2:00 pm

Frank Pedersen
Global Fellow from Practice and Government

Denmark

Appointment: Senior consultant at the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies

Forum Paper Title: "Complexity as the premise for the simplification of income tax".

Commenter: Professor Deborah Schenk

Wednesday
January 28th

12:00-2:00 pm

Benjamin Geva

Senior Global Research Fellow
Canada/Israel

Appointment: Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto

Forum Paper Title: "The Order to Pay: A Legal History".

Commenter: Professor Clayton Gillette

Wednesday
February 4th

12:00-2:00 pm

Lambert Schmidt
Emile Noel Fellow
Germany

Appointment: Directorate-General Justice, Freedom and Security , European Commission

Forum Paper Title: "EU and US Policies on the external dimension of the area of freedom, security and justice and in particular on promoting the rule of law".

Commenter: Professor Joseph Weiler

Wednesday
February 18th

12:00-2:00 pm

Fillippo Valguarnera

Global Research Fellow
Italy/Sweden

Appointment: European Law at New York University's Florence Center

Forum Paper Title: "Opt-in or opt-out? A comparative study (class action lawsuits)".

Commenter: Professor Oscar Chase

Joel Gonzalez

Global Research Fellow
Chile

Appointment: Professor of Law at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Forum Paper Title: "Tort Law in Chile and Latin America: Learning from the American System".

Commenter: Professor Catherine Sharkey

Wednesday
February 25th

12:00-2:00 pm

Iris Canor

Global Emile Noel Fellow
Israel

Appointment: College of Management Academic Studies in Israel, Law Faculty

Forum Paper Title: "The Crossroads of European Union Law, Private International Law and Human Rights Law"

Commenter: Professor Joseph Weiler

Wednesday
March 4

12:00-2:00 pm

Xiuli Han
Global Research Fellow
China

Forum Paper Topic: International Dispute Settlement Bodies and Environmental Protection from a Chinese Lawyer’s Perspective

Commentator: Professor Benedict Kingsbury

Wednesday
April 1

12:00-2:00 pm

Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky
Global Fellow from Practice and Government
Argentina

Forum Paper Topic: Implementing the Responsibility for Abusive Granting of Sovereign Loans

Commentator: Professor Lee Buchheit

Tillman Braun
Global Fellow from Practice and Government
Germany

Forum Paper Topic: The Effects of Globalization on the Development of International Investment Law

Commentator: Professor Rob Howse

Wednesday
April 8

12:00-2:00 pm

Mario Savino
Global Research Fellow
Italy

Forum Paper Topic: The Rule of Law and the "War on Terror": The Case of Interpol "Notices" system

Commentator: Professor Stephen Schulhofer

Raphael van Steenberghe
Global Research Fellow
Belgium

Forum Paper Topic: The Duty to Extradite or Prosecute

Commentator: Professor Stephen Schulhofer

Wednesday
April 15

12:00-2:00 pm

Koichi Inamori
Japanese Federation Bar Association Fellow
Japan

Forum Paper Topic: Examination and analysis of individual communications under international covenant on civil and political rights and its impact on domestic law and jurisdiction

Commentator: Professor Frank Upham

Wednesday
April 22

12:00-2:00 pm

Jacob Nussim
Global Research Fellow
Israel

Forum Paper Topic: Market-based Welfare Mechanisms

Commentator: Professor Lily Batchelder

Duoqi Xu
Global Research Fellow
China

Forum Paper Topic: Legal Issues of Tax Planning: A Sino-US Comparison

Commentator: Professor Lily Batchelder