March 4, 2006
\nHarvard Law School<\/p>\n
The Harvard International Law Journal hosted its most recent Symposium at Harvard Law School on March 6, 2006. For more information about the Symposium, including the event schedule and audio downloads of Symposium sessions, please see below.<\/p>\n
Symposium Statement of Purpose<\/p>\n
As forces such as technology and economic integration continue to make the world a smaller place, different legal cultures and regimes are constantly drawn into contact with one another. Agents of globalization have eroded the provinciality of law. Scholars across legal disciplines seeking to ascertain the state of the law in their field must now account for an increasing fluidity triggered by this erosion. Changes brought upon by inter-jurisdictional interactions and influences have jumped to the forefront in our understanding of the law.<\/p>\n
What are the processes, then, by which these changes occur? What actors and mechanisms are responsible? What is the extent of these changes? Are the levels of change different across the different fields of law? What distinctions might account for these differences? In order to answer these questions, scholars have turned to the subject of “diffusion of law.” They have developed theories to describe the ways in which legal norms and rules spread across different jurisdictions and cultures.<\/p>\n
Yet, at the same time as the legal academy seeks to understand this phenomenon, practitioners encounter it everyday in their work. Judges from around the world meet to discuss domestic implementation of environmental laws. Lawyers at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund engage in legal reform projects in transitional countries. Legislators seek to reform corporate governance for multinational corporations or attempt to combine elements of constitutional democracy with shari’a-based family law. What sort of exchange is going on during these activities? Do academic theories accurately describe the process? What can these practitioners learn from the academic study of diffusion?<\/p>\n
This Symposium will bring together scholars and practitioners from across the different fields of law to engage in a self-conscious examination of how law is diffused in this period of globalization. Topics will range from comprehensive theories of diffusion to practical discussions of diffusion in prominent substantive fields.<\/p>\n
7:30-8:15 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Registration and Breakfast — Pound Hall Lobby<\/p>\n
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\nOpening Remarks: Elena Kagan<\/strong> (Harvard Law School)<\/p>\n
\nPlenary Session: Theories of Legal Diffusion<\/strong>
\nPound Hall 101
\n1 main presenter and 2 respondents:
\nModerator: Duncan Kennedy (Harvard Law School)
\nKeynote: David Westbrook (University at Buffalo Law School SUNY)
\nWilliam Twining (University College of London)
\nPierre Legrand (Universite Pantheon-Sorbonne, Paris I)<\/p>\n
\nCoffee Break — Pound Hall Lobby<\/p>\n
\nPanel A: Family Law — Pound Hall 100
\nModerator: Janet Halley (Harvard Law School)
\nPhilomila Tsoukala (SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School)
\nAlan Watson (University of Georgia)
\nMaria Rosario Marella (University of Perugia)
\nKerry Rittich (University of Toronto)<\/p>\n
\nModerator: Frank Michelman (Harvard Law School)
\nLouis Aucoin (Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy)
\nDennis Davis (High Court of South Africa)
\nSujit Choudhry (University of Toronto)
\nLama Abu-Odeh (Georgetown University Law Center)
\n12:15-1:15<\/p>\n
\nPanel A: Private Law — Pound Hall 100
\nModerator: Detlev Vagts (Harvard Law School)
\nFranz Werro (Georgetown University Law Center\/University of Fribourg)
\nDaniela Caruso (Boston University School of Law)
\nAmr Shalakany (American University in Cairo)
\nUgo Mattei (UC Hastings School of Law, Universita’ Degli Studi di Torino)<\/p>\n
\nModerator: William Alford (Harvard Law School)
\nEric Orts (Wharton School of Business)
\nWerner Ebke (NYU School of Law, University of Heidelberg)
\nDan Danielsen (Northeastern University School of Law)
\nJeffrey Gordon (Columbia Law School)
\nLeia Castaneda (SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School)<\/p>\n
\nPound Hall 101
\nModerator: Ryan Goodman (Harvard Law School)
\nGeoffrey Robertson (Sierra Leone Special War Crimes Court, Doughty Street Chambers)
\nBeth Simmons (Harvard University)
\nPieter Bekker (White & Case LLP)
\nJohn Ohnesorge (University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Law)
\nMark Berlin (Department of Justice Canada)
\nElizabeth Andersen (CEELI, American Bar Association)<\/p>\n
\nModerators report from their panels, discuss connections among substantive areas, and relate these areas to theory.
\n– Duncan Kennedy
\n– Detlev Vagts
\n– Lama Abu-Odeh
\n– William Alford
\n– Janet Halley
\n– Ryan Goodman<\/p>\n
\n1. Plenary Session: Theories of Legal Diffusion
\n2. Private Law Panel
\n3. Constitutional Law Panel
\n4. Commercial Law Panel
\n5. Family Law Panel
\n6. Plenary Session: Mechanisms of Legal Diffusion<\/p>\n
\n Area Map<\/a><\/p>\n