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Global Fellows Forum

Fall 2006 Semester

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 Fall 2006 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 Do not cite without the expressed consent of the author.

Date Presenter Faculty Commentators
Wednesday
September 20
Professor Patrick Macklem
Senior Global Human Rights and Global Justice Research Fellow
Canada

Appointment: Professor of Law, University of Toronto

Forum Paper Title: "Humanitarian Intervention and the Distribution of Sovereignty in International Law"

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Professor Philip Alston
Professor Mattias Kumm
Wednesday
October 4
Dr. Catriona Drew
Global Crystal Eastman Research Fellow
United Kingdom

Appointment: Lecturer in Public International Law, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Forum Paper Title: "Population Transfer: The Untold Story of Self-determination"

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Professor Simon Chesterman
Professor Thomas Franck
Wednesday
October 11
Mr. Ben McFarlane
Global NYU-Oxford Research Fellow
United Kingdom

Appointments: University Lecturer in Property Law & Trusts, Oxford University; Fellow and Tutor in Law, Trinity College, Oxford

Forum Paper Title: "The Problem of Pre-Contractual Reliance: Three Ways to a Third Way"

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Professor Kevin Davis
Vice Dean Barry Adler
Wednesday
October 25
Dr. Jichun Shi
Global Research Fellow
China

Appointment: Professor of Law, Renmin University of China

Forum Paper Title: "How Chinese Enterprises are to Live in Freedom and Competition: Further Integration of the Corporate Law and Competition Law of China with Global Standards"

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Professor Jerome Cohen
Professor Eleanor Fox
Wednesday
November 1
Dr. Ralf Rogowski
Senior Emile Noel Fellow
Germany

Appointment: Associate Professor and Reader in Law, School of Law, University of Warwick

Forum Paper Title: "Reflexive Coordination: Thoughts on the Social Model of the European Union"

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Professor Christine Harrington
Professor Stephen Holmes
Wednesday
November 8
Dr. Julio Ríos-Figueroa
Hauser Research Scholar
Mexico

Appointment: Associate Professor, Political Sciences Department, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE)

Forum Paper Title: "The Determinants of Judicial Independence and Constitutional Adjudication: A Study of Latin America, 1950-2002"

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Professor John Ferejohn
Professor Lewis Kornhauser
Wednesday
November 15
Dr. Benjamin Straumann
Global Research Fellow
Alberico Gentili Fellow in the Program in the History and Theory of International Law
Switzerland

Forum Paper Title: "Is Modern Liberty Ancient? Roman Remedies and Natural Rights in Hugo Grotius' Early Works on Natural Law"

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Professor Leslie Green
Professor Roderick Hills
Wednesday
November 29
Prof. Dr. C.W. Maris
Senior Global Research Fellow
The Netherlands

Appointment: Professor of Legal Philosophy, University of Amsterdam

Forum Paper Title: "Laïcité in the Low Countries? On Headscarves in a Neutral State"

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Professor David Richards
Professor Jeremy Waldron
Wednesday
December 6
Dr. Theodore Georgopoulos
Emile Noel Fellow
Greece

Appointments: Full-time Senior Lecturer, Reims Law School; Research Fellow, Centre for International and Community Studies (Aix-en-Provence)

Forum Paper Title: "Tax Treaties and Human/Constitutional Rights: Bridging the Gap? Tax Relief in a Cosmopolitan Context"

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Norman Redlich, Dean Emeritus
Professor Georg W. Kofler
Wednesday
December 13
Dr. Mario Savino
Global Crystal Eastman Research Fellow
Italy

Appointment: Research Fellow, Tuscia University of Viterbo

Forum Paper Title: "EU Procedural Supranationalism: On Models for Global Administrative Law"

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Professor Mattias Kumm
Professor Richard Stewart