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The IGLP is pleased to announce a new summer grants initiative as part of its ongoing research project on liquidity in the global economy, productive financial services regulatory structures in emerging markets, and financial inclusion. The research initiative is supported by the generosity of IGLP’s sponsor VISA, Inc. In Summer 2012, a small number of research grants [...]
On March 30, 2012 the Institute for Global Law and Policy and Visa, Inc convened a day-long policy roundtable workshop on Global Liquidity and Capital as Legal Institutions. This Workshop is the first in a series of broad ranging research initiatives between the IGLP and Visa to cover the themes of liquidity in the global economy, productive financial services regulatory structures in [...]
The Harvard Law School SJD Association warmly invites applications from students writing doctoral dissertations in law – or related fields such as education and globalization studies – to participate in the Global Legal Education Doctoral Workshop, to take place at Harvard Law School on March 23, 2012, from 9:00am-4:00pm. This Doctoral Forum is designed to set the stage [...]
Janet Halley, IGLP contributor and Royall Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, published the second installment of “What is Family Law?: A Genealogy,” in the latest issue of the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. The article raises important new questions about the rise of the modern family and of family law and offers a genealogy of domestic [...]
The Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP) is pleased to announce the launch of a new, broad-ranging research initiative in collaboration with Visa Inc. to cover the themes of liquidity in the global economy, productive financial services regulatory structures in emerging markets, and financial inclusion. Visa International joined IGLP as a major sponsor in [...]
The Sciences Po Law School has launched an exciting new program initiative on Private International Law as Global Governance (PILAGG) to examine the role that private international law should play in current times in order to contribute to global governance. This new initiative emerged out of collaboration between Sciences Po faculty members Horatia Muir-Watt and [...]
Duncan Kennedy, Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School and a member of the IGLP Advisory Council, has received an honorary degree from Sciences Po in Paris. Kennedy, whose scholarship has focused on juridical thought, economic analysis of the law, the links between law and literary theory, and legal globalization—among many other topics—is [...]
The IGLP proseminar, Transnational Labor and Social Policy: Governing for Crisis and Change, met during the June 2011 Workshop and decided to pursue two broad projects with a view to publication in 2012. The first is the development of a new cartography of the law of work that would more completely describe the formal and [...]
On November 10, David Kennedy Presented a Lecture on “Global Governance and Political Economy“ as part of the Gallatin Human Rights Initiative and the Gallatin Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series at New York University Professor Kennedy’s talk examined the institutions, actors and legal systems that comprise and shape the current global order today have been an [...]
The Institute for Global Law and Policy is pleased to announce the launch of a new Collaborative Research Grant Program designed to provide modest funding to small groups of young scholars who are seeking to carry out substantive research on projects related to the core activities of the IGLP. All projects funded through this Program [...]
