2023-2024
Fall Global Fellows Orientation
Friday, September 1, 10:00 a.m.
Furman Hall, Room 330
We will be holding an informal orientation session where all Fall and Academic Year Global Fellows will have an opportunity to meet each other as well as the Hauser Faculty Director and the Global Fellows Program staff. Administrative and other programmatic informational materials for the Global Fellows Program will be reviewed at the session, to be followed by a short tour of the offices.
Global Welcome Lunch
Friday, September 8, 12:00 p.m.
D'Agostino Hall, Faculty Club
Global Faculty, Global Fellows, Hauser Global Scholars and other global visitors are invited to meet in an informal setting.
Hauser Global Scholars Welcome Lunch
Monday, September 11, 1:10 p.m.
Vanderbilt Hall, Room 202
Informal welcome lunch for all Hauser Global Scholars and Hauser Global Law School Program staff.
Fall Global/Emile Noël Fellows Forum
Tuesdays 8:50–10:50 a.m.and Thursdays 1:30–3:30 p.m. starting September 12
22 Washington Square North Lounge
The Global/Emile Noël Fellows Forum features presentations of research project drafts by Global Fellows and Emile Noël Fellows to an audience of other NYU School of Law fellows, faculty, students, and invited guests. This provides an opportunity for fellows to gather, collaborate, share ideas and provide feedback in a supportive and intellectual environment. The full forum schedule can be found on the Global Fellows Forum web page.
Hauser Mid-Semester Coffee Break
Tuesday, November 7, 2:00–3:00 p.m.
Furman Hall 310
Mid-semester check-in with coffee, tea and afternoon snacks for all Global Faculty, Global Fellows and Hauser Global Scholars.
Dean's Lunch with Global Fellows
Wednesday, November 15, 12:00–1:00 p.m.
Snow Dining Room
Global Fellows are invited to meet the Dean of NYU School of Law at an informal lunch.
Global End of Semester Lunch
Wednesday, December 6, 12:00–2:00 p.m.
22 Washington Square North, 1st Floor Lounge
Fellows, scholars, faculty, and administrators will gather to celebrate the end of the semester.
Spring Global/Emile Noël Fellows Forum
Thursday, January 18, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
22 Washington Square North, 1st Floor Lounge
The Global/Emile Noël Fellows Forum features presentations of research project drafts by Global Fellows and Emile Noël Fellows to an audience of other NYU School of Law fellows, faculty, students, and invited guests. This provides an opportunity for fellows to gather, collaborate, share ideas and provide feedback in a supportive and intellectual environment. The full forum schedule can be found on the Global Fellows Forum web page.
Global Spring Welcome Lunch
Thursday, January 18, 12:00–2:00 p.m.
22 Washington Square North, 1st Floor Lounge
Global Faculty, Global Fellows, Hauser Global Scholars and other global visitors are invited to meet in an informal setting to mark the beginning of the Spring semester.
Faith in Law and Faith in Politics: Judicial and Philosophical Perspectives with Justice Carlos Rosenkrantz
Friday, January 26, 1:00–3:00 p.m. (Lunch will be available at 12:30 p.m.)
22 Washington Square North, 1st Floor Lounge
Please join Hauser Distinguished Global Fellow Justice Carlos Rosenkrantz (Supreme Court, Argentina) for discussion of his paper “Faith in Law and Faith in Politics” with opening comments by Professor Jeremy Waldron. Co-sponsored by the Center for Law and Philosophy and the Hauser Global Law School Program.
Should Civil Law Courts be Bound by Precedent? The Case of Argentina with Justice Carlos Rosenkrantz
Thursday, February 1, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
22 Washington Square North, 1st Floor Lounge
Please join us for a workshop with Hauser Distinguished Global Fellow Justice Carlos Rosenkrantz (Supreme Court, Argentina) to discuss his draft paper: Should civil law courts be bound by precedent? The Case of Argentina. Refreshments will be provided.
Hauser Global Law School Program Annual Dinner
Thursday, March 14, 6:00 p.m.
D'Agostino Hall, Lipton Hall
The Annual Dinner provides an opportunity for current scholars, researchers, faculty and friends of the Program to connect with each other and with alumni of the Hauser Global Law School Program.
Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi and Laurence S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University, will give the keynote address, entitled “The Future of Free Speech: Notes from Contemporary History.”
Global Farewell Reception
Date and Time TBD
Location TBD
Fellows, scholars, faculty and administrators will gather to mark the end of the academic year.
2022-2023
Fall Global Fellows Orientation
Thursday, September 1, 10:30 a.m.
Furman Hall, Room 316
We will be holding an informal orientation session where all Global Fellows will have an opportunity to meet each other as well as the Global Fellows Program staff. Administrative and other programmatic informational materials for the Global Fellows Program will be distributed at the session, to be followed by a short tour of the offices.
Fellows Welcome Breakfast
Tuesday, September 6, 9:15 a.m.-10:15 a.m.
22 Washington Square North, 1st Floor Lounge
We will be holding an informal welcome breakfast for Global Fellows and Emile Noël Fellows and faculty directors.
Global Welcome Breakfast
Thursday, September 8, 10:00-11:30 a.m.
Faculty Club, D'Agostino Hall
We will be hosting a welcome event for all Fellows, Hauser Global Scholars, and Global Faculty to meet in an informal setting.
Hauser Global Scholars Welcome Lunch
Wednesday, September 14, 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Furman Hall, Room 324
We will be hosting a welcome lunch for all Hauser Global Scholars and Hauser Global Law School Program faculty director and staff to meet in an informal setting.
The Origins of the Sicilian Mafia: What We Know and What We Still Cannot Explain
Monday, September 19, 9:30-10:45 a.m.
Furman Hall, Room 120
Please join us for this breakfast talk with Professor Diego Gambetta, who is visiting NYU Law in the Fall of 2022 as a Hauser Distinguished Global Fellow and is the Carlo Alberto Chair in Social and Political Science, Collegio Carlo Alberto. The discussion will be moderated by Reiss Center Faculty Co-Director Stephen Holmes, Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and co-author, most recently, of “The Light That Failed: A Reckoning.”
The origin of the Sicilian mafia has been attributed to the demand of property rights enforcement in the markets of land, sulfur, citrus fruits and labor conflicts in 19th century Sicily. But what about the “supply”? How has the mafia developed and maintained its power of intimidation for 180 years? On September 19, Diego Gambetta, author of “The Sicilian Mafia: The Business of Private Protection” and “Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate,” will reflect on the as yet unsolved mysteries of this organization.
This event is co-hosted by the Reiss Center on Law and Security and the Hauser Global Law School Program.
Hauser Distinguished Global Fellow Talk
Wednesday, September 21, 12:30-2:00 p.m.
22 Washington Square North, 1st Floor Lounge
We will be hosting a talk by our Hauser Distinguished Global Fellow and renowned scholar Diego Gambetta on the topic of "Signaling". Lunch will be available starting at 12:30 p.m. and the event will start at 1:00 p.m. Questions and reflections on Professor Gambetta's talk will be made by: Joyce De Coninck, Scholar in Residence, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice; Elena De Nictolis, Post-Doctoral Global Fellow; Neli Frost, Post-Doctoral Global Fellow; and Stav Zeitouni, JSD student.
Fall Global/Emile Noël Fellows Forum
Thursdays starting September 22, 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
22 Washington Square North, 1st Floor Lounge
The Global/Emile Noël Fellows Forum features presentations of research project drafts by Global Fellows and Emile Noël Fellows to an audience of other NYU School of Law fellows, faculty, students, and invited guests. This provides an opportunity for fellows to gather, collaborate, share ideas and provide feedback in a supportive and intellectual environment. The full forum schedule can be found on the Global Fellows Forum web page.
A Panel on the Virtues and Vices of "Scholactivism"
Wednesday, September 28, 12:00-1:45 p.m.
22 Washington Square North, 1st Floor Lounge
What is the line between the role of an academic legal scholar and a lawyer-activist? Are these roles similar, partially overlapping, or entirely distinct? And how can we negotiate the tensions between the different roles that the study of law and legal scholarship ask of us, if at all?
The Hauser Global Law School Program cordially invites you to a panel discussion of these and related questions about the connections between scholarship and activism in the law, featuring Hauser Global Professor Tarun Khaitan, Princeton University Professor Kim Lane Scheppele, NYU School of Law Professors Gráinne de Búrca, Mattias Kumm and Jeremy Waldron, and Hauser Post-Doctoral Global Fellow Oren Tamir.
The background context for this discussion is a recent editorial written by Professor Khaitan for the International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON) criticizing the increased appearance on the public law and comparative public law scene of “scholactivism,” a practice which in his view inappropriately meshes the role of legal scholar and lawyer-activist. That editorial generated substantial commentary (and quite heated controversy) across the universe of public law scholars and beyond, as reflected in multiple tweet-storms and an online symposium on Professor Khaitan’s intervention in the leading public law blog Verfassungsblog. We encourage those attending to read Professor Khaitan’s brief editorial in advance, as well as his response to the Verfassungsblog symposium.
Light lunch will be available from 12:00 p.m., and the panel discussion will begin promptly at 12:30 p.m.
Dean's Lunch with Fellows
Wednesday, October 26, 12:00–1:00 p.m.
Snow Dining Room
Informal lunch for fellows to meet with the Dean in an informal setting.
End of Semester Open House
Thursday, December 1, 2:30–4:30 p.m.
Furman Hall, Room 316
End of semester check-in with coffee, tea and afternoon snacks.
Global End of Semester Lunch
Wednesday, December 7, 12:30–1:30 p.m.
22 Washington Square North, 1st Floor Lounge
Fellows, scholars, faculty, and administrators will gather to celebrate the end of the semester and the holiday season.
Spring Global Fellows Orientation
Wednesday, January 18, 10:30 a.m.
Furman Hall, Room 316
We will be holding an informal orientation session where all Global Fellows will have an opportunity to meet each other as well as the Global Fellows Program staff. Administrative and other programmatic informational materials for the Global Fellows Program will be distributed at the session, to be followed by a short tour of the offices.
Spring Global/Emile Noël Fellows Forum
Wednesdays starting February 8, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
22 Washington Square North, 1st Floor Lounge
The Global/Emile Noël Fellows Forum features presentations of research project drafts by Global Fellows and Emile Noël Fellows to an audience of other NYU School of Law fellows, faculty, students, and invited guests. This provides an opportunity for fellows to gather, collaborate, share ideas and provide feedback in a supportive and intellectual environment. The full forum schedule can be found on the Global Fellows Forum web page.
Informal Reading Group - Experimentalism: A Paradigm for Our Age?
Tuesdays, February 14, March 07, 4:15–5:45 p.m., March 28, April 18, May 09, 12:15–1:45 p.m.
22 Washington Square North, 1st Floor Conference Room
It is hard to deny that constitutional democracies are under severe strain these days. They face rising levels of polarization and inequality. And they're encountering harsh and extremely vocal criticisms for failing their missions of improving the welfare of their citizens. International organizations don’t fare much better as well, faced as they are with what scholarship has identified as a growing “backlash” against them. This reading group will explore if we might be able to make headway in resolving this contemporary malaise by embracing more seriously a particular governmental paradigm—that of experimentalism. This paradigm suggests a rather radical break from how we usually think about organizing societies and their laws, at both the domestic and the international levels. Among experimentalism’s key features are a commitment to consistent innovation, learning, policy mobility and scale-up of successful innovations, and the blurring of hierarchical lines between regulators, regulated entities, and civil society broadly understood.
The reading group will begin by covering the theory underlying experimentalism, including its key ideas and their supposed advantages. We will then move to explore the application (both real and possible) of experimentalism in three specific contexts: international law, administrative law, and urban law and policy (and localism more broadly). The reading group will then conclude with a discussion of critical views of experimentalism and possible responses to those criticisms. Throughout, we will have various guests who have written and considered experimentalism joining our class—from NYU Law and beyond.
The reading group will be coordinated by Elena De Nictolis (Hauser fellow), Nedim Hogic (Emile Noël fellow) and Oren Tamir (Hauser fellow). All students and NYU affiliates are welcome to join the group, and there are no prerequisites. Light refreshments will be served.
For queries and any other request, feel free to email Elena De Nictolis at: ed2527@nyu.edu. See the post in the Docket.
Global Spring Welcome Lunch
Friday, February 17, 12:15–1:15 p.m.
22 Washington Square North, 1st Floor Lounge
We will be hosting a welcome event for all Fellows, Hauser Global Scholars, and Global Faculty to meet in an informal setting.
Hauser Global Law School Program Annual Dinner
Thursday, March 9, 6:00 p.m.
D'Agostino Hall, Lipton Hall
The Annual Dinner provides an opportunity for current scholars, researchers, faculty and friends of the Program to connect with each other and with alumni of the Hauser Global Law School Program.
Wojciech Sadurski, Challis Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney, Professor of the University of Warsaw Center for Europe, and currently, a Sidley Austin–Robert D. McLean Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School will give the keynote address, entitled “Democratic Backsliding in the Age of Elected Authoritarians.”
Book Discussion: Co-Cities. Innovative Transitions toward Just and Self-Sustaining Communities
Thursday, April 13, 4:00–5:00 p.m.
22 Washington Square North, 1st Floor Lounge
NYU Law’s Hauser Global Law School Program and Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy and Land Use Law cordially invite you to a discussion of the book Co-Cities. Innovative Transitions toward Just and Self-Sustaining Communities by Sheila Foster and Christian Iaione. The discussion will take place on Thursday, April 13, 2023 from 4:00-5:00 pm at 22 Washington Square North in the first floor lounge.
Co-Cities is the winner of the PROSE award for Architecture and Urban Planning for 2023.
Sheila Foster (Georgetown) and Christian Iaione (Luiss University) will join Clayton Gillette (NYU) and Katrina Wyman (NYU) in conversation about the book.
Light refreshments will be served. Register for this event.
Global Farewell Reception
Wednesday, April 26, 12:15 - 1:15 p.m.
22 Washington Square North, 1st Floor Lounge
We will be hosting a farewell event for all Fellows, Hauser Global Scholars, Global Faculty, JSD students and Visiting Doctoral Researchers to mark the end of the academic year.
Panel on Climate Justice before the International Court of Justice
Monday, June 12, 6:00–8:00 p.m.
Furman Hall 210
Register for the June 12 Climate Justice Panel.
On March 29, 2023, the United Nations General Assembly adopted—without a vote and in the absence of objection from any State—its Resolution 77/276. The Resolution requests the International Court of Justice to render an advisory opinion on the legal obligations incumbent on States in respect of climate change. Putting the question of legal obligations in respect of climate change before the principal judicial organ of the United Nations is a historically significant development in international law and in climate justice. In the now pending proceeding, Obligations of States in respect of climate change, the Court is asked, first, what are the obligations of States under international law to ensure the protection of the environment from greenhouse gas emissions? The request asks, secondly, what are the legal consequences under these obligations for States that have caused significant harm to the environment?
The request for an advisory opinion refers to a number of United Nations conventions, such as the Charter, the two Human Rights Covenants, the Convention on the Law of the Sea, and the Paris Agreement. With the achievement of the first major procedural hurdles—agreement on the wording of the request and the passing of Resolution 77/276—the date for the next milestone has been set: written statements must be submitted by October 20, 2023. In light of this deadline, the panel looks into the questions asked of the Court and what legal strategies would be the most likely to produce the outcome that best advances climate justice:
How should the various bodies of law referred to in the request best be conceived of as relating to one another, to the questions asked of the Court and, ultimately, to climate justice?
How does the proceeding before the Court itself relate to the climate change advisory proceedings on foot before other international courts and tribunals? How, if at all, is the proceeding before the ICJ distinct? What would be the cumulative effect of these opinions for the pursuit of climate justice?
And how, no less importantly, do the questions relate to the Paris Agreement, in which the State Parties,recognizing that it would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change, agreed to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels?
Moderator:
Eve Bain LLM '23, Hauser Global Scholar, NYU School of Law
Speakers:
Eirik Bjorge, Senior Global Research Fellow, NYU School of Law
Kevin Chand, Legal Adviser, Permanent Mission of Vanuatu to the United Nations
Aahde Lahmiri, Legal Adviser, Permanent Mission of Morocco to the United Nations
Tim McKenzie, Senior Associate, King & Spalding LLP
This event is co-sponsored by the Hauser Global Law School Program and the Permanent Mission of Vanuatu to the United Nations.