IGLP Affiliated Scholar and Research Fellow and PhD Candidate at the University of Hong Kong is pleased to announce the recent publication of her book, Basel Regulations And Operational Risk Management: Conceptual Challenges under Basel II & Basel III.  Abstract: Financial globalization has given an impetus to the development and innovation in financial products. However, [...]

IGLP affiliated Scholar and Research Fellow for the Unit for Global Justice at the University of London, Jose-Manuel Barreto, recently published the article entitled “Decolonial Strategies and Dialogue in the Human Rights Field: A Manifesto in Transnational Legal Theory. Abstract: “Within the horizon of the critique of Eurocentrism, this manifesto presents methods of interpretation that [...]

Politics of Post-Civil Society: A Contemporary History of Political Movements in India by IGLP affiliated scholar, Ajay Gudavarthi, was just released this January by Sage Publications. Politics of Post-Civil Society is an attempt to map the discourse and politics of contemporary political movements in India that have been negotiating with the hegemonic effects born out of the [...]

Oishik Sircar, an IGLP affiliated scholar and Honorary Research Fellow at the Collaborative Research Programme on Law, Postcoloniality and Culture at Jindal Global Law School, recently published the article “Spectacles of Emancipation: Reading Rights Differently in India’s Legal System” in the Osgoode Hall Law Journal. Sircar asks critical questions about how neo-liberalism changes and challenges [...]

IGLP Contributors Jason Jackson (2012 IGLP Docent) and Jonathan Burton-Macleod’s new paper “”Influence of South African Legislation on India’s Mines and Minerals Bill: Problems and Perils” was featured in a recent issue of Economic & Political Weekly.  The paper examines India’s attempt to appropriate, for use in a draft mining bill, elements of the law [...]

HLS SJD Damjan Kukovec’s new Working Paper A Critique of the Rhetoric of Common Interest in the European Union Legal Discourse was originally presented at the IGLP and IEE (CEU San Pablo University) joint seminar, “The European Legal Project: New Approaches” at Harvard Law School on April  13, 2012.  In the paper Mr. Kukovec argues that the [...]

Harvard SJD Candidate Lisa Kelly recently sat down with HLS Prof. Janet Hally for a conversation about Prof. Halley’s new article “What is Family Law?: A Genealogy” and her upcoming symposium “From the Household to the Family: A Genealogy” which will take place at HLS on February 23rd Janet Halley is the Royall Professor of Law [...]

Routledge has published IGLP Contributor and Workshop Alum Surya Deva’s book, Regulating Corporate Human Rights Violations: Humanizing Business. Taking Bhopal gas leak as a case study, this book critically reviews current major regulatory initiatives in the area of business and human rights (including the OECD Guidelines of 2011 and the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights). It [...]

Comparative Law has undergone a series of methodological changes over the last decades which have changed our understanding of the politics, sociology and significance of “area studies” in law.  At the same time, law and the legal profession in Latin America have themselves been changed.  At the 2010 IGLP Workshop, Professor Jorge Esquirol convened a [...]

IGLP Director David Kennedy discusses his new report “Busting Bribery: Sustaining the Global Momentum of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.” Professor Kennedy’s report examines the current efforts in Washington, D.C., to amend the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), a law that forbids U.S.-based companies from bribing foreign officials.

On October 23, 2011 IGLP Director David Kennedy moderated a Panel on “The Future of Libya”at the World Economic Forum Special Meeting on Economic Growth and Job Creation in the Arab World which was held at the Dead Sea in Jordan. Joining Professor Kennedy on the panel were: Naaman El Bouri, Deputy Chairman, Saraya Bank, [...]

Greece. The Sovereignty of the Debt, the Sovereigns Over The Debts and Some Reflections on Law | By Yiannis Z. Drossos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

In the early morning of 27 June 2005, from the terrace of the Armada Hotel overlooking the Golden Horn and the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, I could observe satellite-broadcasting trucks lining up by the door. Soon thereafter, the Jury of Conscience of the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) was to hold a press conference to [...]