IGLP: The Conference

IGLP’s 2013 Conference: New Directions in Global Thought: IGLP at Five will take place June 3-4, 2013 at Harvard Law School. Thank you to all of those who offered to share their ongoing research with us. The Conference Program will be posted May 1, 2013.  We expect more than 200 scholars from around the world to share their work on a variety of panels during the Conference.

Our inaugural conference will be a celebration of the IGLP’s first five years and we invite all those interested in pursuing new thinking about law and global policy to join us in Cambridge.  We are particularly hopeful that IGLP alumni and friends will find the Conference a useful opportunity to share their ongoing research.  The 2013 IGLP Conference will be held directly following the 2013 Law and Society Association conference (May 30-June 2, 2013), which will be convened in Boston.

Information about the Conference

About IGLP: The Conference:  

The Institute encourages academic collaboration among young scholars from across the world, aiming to support a network of scholars and policy makers who share our belief that ideas matter, and our commitment to new voices and viewpoints for thinking about global governance, social justice and economic policy.  More than 500 scholars from scores of nations have participated in our activities.  Our annual IGLP Workshop offers junior scholars from around the world the opportunity to share their research and reflect together on new thinking in the fields of international law, political economy, and global governance.

IGLP: The Conference will be held every other June at Harvard Law School and is open to all those who are interested in pursuing new thinking about law and global policy, including those who are new to our network as well as IGLP alumni and friends. Our aim is to provide an ongoing opportunity for scholars connected to the Institute to return to Cambridge to present their research, to reconnect with peers from across the globe, and to find new opportunities for collaborative research with other innovative scholars.

We expect many of the discussions at the Conference to continue thinking spawned in streams of investigation begun at our annual Workshops or in the Pro-Seminars we have sponsored.  They include: Comparative Legal Studies; the Corporation in Global Society; Human Rights and Social Justice; Global Science and Technology Studies; Law and Economic Development; International Economic Law and Regulation; Revitalizing Arab and Islamic Legal Traditions; Globalization and Labor; Legal Architecture of Monetary Integration; Private International as Global Governance; and Global Law and Political Economy.

IGLP: The Conference 2013 Registration 

Registration for IGLP: The Conference will take place Sunday, June 2, 2013, 11:00 AM – 8:00 PM on the first floor of Pound Hall, 1563 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138. There will be a Welcome Reception that evening from 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM.  Click here for a Harvard Law School campus map.  There will also be a Registration table open Monday, June 3, beginning at 8:30 AM.  Registration fees are USD$100 for faculty and USD$50 for students.  Registration fees are waived for all panelists, organizers, and moderators.  Registration fees will be collected (cash or check only) at the Conference Registration on June 2 and June 3, 2013.

If you are not a panelist, speaker, or moderator, and you wish to attend the Conference as a general attendee, please click here to complete our pre-registration form.  Completing this form will help us plan for your attendance.

Travel and Accommodations:  The deadline to apply for Conference travel grants has passed.  On-campus housing during the Conference is now completely full.  If you still need accommodations, it is your responsibility to find and pay for them.  Please see our Frequently Asked Questions for more information about housing.

Please direct any questions to iglp@law.harvard.edu.

The Conference Sponsors: The IGLP is particularly grateful to our Conference Leading Sponsors and collaborators Santander Universities and Sovereign Bank, who continue to show their faith in our efforts to develop innovative ideas and alternative approaches to issues of global law, economic policy, social justice and governance as well as to strengthen the next generation of scholars by placing them in collaboration with their global peers. Santander Universities and Sovereign Bank have generously agreed to be the Leading Sponsor of the June Conference as part of their commitment to higher education. Harvard Law School is proud to join with them in this effort.

About the IGLP: The Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP) at Harvard Law School is a collaborative faculty effort to continue to show their faith in our efforts to provide a focal point for European, international and comparative law, and economic development study at Harvard Law School.particularly grateful to nurture innovative approaches to global policy in the face of a legal and institutional architecture manifestly ill-equipped to address our most urgent global challenges. We aim to provide a platform at Harvard for new thinking about international legal and institutional arrangements, with particular emphasis on ideas and issues of importance to the global South. We are particularly grateful to the Qatar Foundation, and to our other Sponsors the Real Colegio Complutense, Visa Inc., and J&A Garrigues, S.L.P., who continue to show their faith in our efforts to provide a focal point for European, international and comparative law, and economic development study at Harvard Law School.

 

 Check back soon for more information about the 2013 IGLP: The Conference!