Israel's Borders & International Law

A discussion featuring Eugene Kontorovich (Northwestern School of Law) and J.H.H. Weiler (NYU School of Law)

Thursday 3/13

12:15 pm

Furman Hall, Rm. 210

Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP

Eugene Kontorovich is Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law. His research spans the fields of constitutional law, international law, and law and economics. Prof. Kontorovich has also written and lectured extensively about the legal aspects of the Israel-Arab conflict. After law school, he clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

J.H.H. Weiler is Joseph Straus Professor of Law as well as holder of the European Union Jean Monnet Chair at New York University School of Law, and Co-Director of the Tikvah Center for Law & Jewish Civilization. Weiler served as a member of the Committee of Jurists of the Institutional Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, co-drafting the European Parliament's Declaration of Human Rights and Freedoms and Parliament's input to the Maastricht Inter-intergovernmental Conference.

Bond v. United States Debate

Time:  Monday, 11/4 at 12:30 pm

Location:  VH-218

The Federalist Society invites you to a Bond v. United States debate featuring 

Richard Pildes 

(Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law at NYU)

Nicholas Rosenkranz 

(Professor of Law and Georgetown University Law Center)

Bond is currently before the Supreme Court and presents the question:

Whether the Constitution's limits on federal authority impose any constraints on the scope of Congress’ authority to enact legislation to implement a treaty?  In other words, if Congress legislates to enforce a treaty, is Congress limited to the powers it otherwise has in Article I?

Learn more about the case here. See a preview of the debate on The Volokh Conspiracy here.

Lunch will be served. Please RSVP here.

Sponsored by the Federalist Society

Event Wednesday: Eugene Kontorovich on Disputing Occupation

On Wednesday, January 25, Eugene Kontorovich will discuss the topic of "Disputing Occupation: Israel's Borders and International Law." The speech will examine such central questions as legal status of settlements, the “1967 borders,” and Palestinian statehood and self-determination.

Professor Kontorovich’s research spans the fields of constitutional law, international law, and law and economics. He has authored a series of papers that extend the economic analysis of law to public law. Prof. Kontorovich is also one of the leading experts on maritime piracy, universal jurisdiction and international criminal law. He has been called on to advise lawyers in historic piracy trials around the world. He is working on a book, Justice at Sea: Piracy and the Limits of International Criminal Law, under contract with Harvard University Press. His scholarship has been relied upon in numerous federal judicial opinions.

What: Eugene Kontorovich on "Disputing Occupation: Israel's Borders and International Law"

When: Wednesday, 1/25 @ 4pm

Where: Vanderbilt Hall 218


FREE FOOD will be provided!

Fed-Soc'rs and Foreign Policy

Doves or Hawks?

One issue that has been the subject of much debate within the Federalist Society itself is the proper role of warfare in foreign policy.  Fed-Soc includes under its umbrella people who run the spectrum from hawkish neo-cons to libertarian pacifists.

If you're in the DC area, on Wednesday, the Volokh Conspiracy's Ilya Somin and Bryan Caplan of GMU's Economics Department will debate foreign policy from a libertarian standpoint.  Caplan has presented his more dovish version of libertarianism many times, and you can read more about it here.  Somin, on the other hand, argues that libertarianism can be consistent with offensive warfare when necessary for humanitarian reasons.

Ilya Somin & Bryan Caplan Debate Libertarian Foreign Policy
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 7 PM
George Mason Law School - Room 221
3301 Fairfax Dr., Arlington, VA