The Center for International and Comparative Law hosts events throughout the academic year featuring experts on international law, national security, and foreign relations law.
Event Spotlight
View the Data Cartels book discussion, with author Sarah Lamdan, Rosa Arriaga of Georgia Tech and Jennifer Romig of Emory Law.
View the 2023 Annual Bederman Lecture: Destroying Democracy by Law featuring Kim Lane Scheppele.
Upcoming Events
Join the Center for International and Comparative Law for "Transatlantic Conversations on Consumer Law Enforcement - Class Actions and More" featuring Dr. Jagna Mucha (Assistant Professor, the Centre for European Institutional Design; Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw, Poland; Visiting Scholar, Harvard Law School) and Dr. Magdalena Tulibacka (Assistant Visiting Professor of Practice, Emory Law) on Tuesday, June 18, 2024 from 10 a.m. to - 2 p.m. This is a hybrid event and will be held in Gambrell Hall Room 575 and Zoom. RSVP to law-cicl@emory.edu by June 13 for to receive the Zoom link.
Tulibacka and Mucha will discuss the latest developments in consumer law enforcement in Europe and in the US:
- the new EU class actions law (the Representative Actions Directive),
- other private and public mechanisms for enforcing consumer law in Europe (ADR, ODR, ombudsmen, regulatory bodies).
- developments in the US class actions,
- mandatory arbitration in consumer cases,
- the recent phenomenon of multiple individual arbitrations in the US,
- other mechanisms used in the US such as regulatory enforcement, ADR, and a new potential mechanism - qui tam actions,
- costs and funding, including third party litigation funding.
The discussion will focus on highlighting the differences and similarities in how consumer law is enforced on both sides of the Atlantic.
Recent Events
Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Feminism and Legal Theory (FLT) Project on Friday, April 5, 2024.
The celebration includes a diverse group of feminist scholars exploring the reach and impact of the FLT Project generally, as well as on their own academic careers as well as the official dedication of the FLT Archive in the MacMillan Law Library.
The archive holds 40 years of working papers and other FLT workshop materials exploring issues of social transformation and policy change as they were occurring in the wake of the gender-equality and no divorce revolutions. This unique archive also contains recordings and videos of the discussions and evolving debates around those issues, providing an unparalleled resource for scholars of intellectual history and critical thought.
The Emory Law Center for International and Comparative Law presents the 2024 David J. Bederman Lecture: "The Rise of Counter-terrorism: the Limits of Human Rights in a Post-9/11 World" with Professor Fionnuala D. Ni Aoláin, former U.N. Special Rapporteur on Counter-terrorism and Human Rights University Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota Holder of the Robina Chair in Law, Public Policy, and Society, Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center at the University of Minnesota Law School, and Professor of Law at the Queen's University of Belfast, School of Law
Thursday, March 28, 2024, at 4 p.m., Tull Auditorium and Live on Zoom. Reception to Follow in Hunter Atrium.
The Center for International and Comparative Law presents "Frozen (Es)scapes and the Antarctic Treaty - Can Melting Ice Bring States Together?" featuring Atieno Mboya Samandari, Professor of Practice.
Antarctic ice is melting at unprecedented rates, and the climate of that continent is changing. This has negative implications for some of the species that live in Antarctica, and for coastal communities around the world that are faced with rising sea levels. Professor Samandari will discuss the Antarctic treaty and how adherence to its motivations can be instructive for state responses to climate change.
Wednesday, February 28, 2024, 4 - 5 p.m., Emory University School of Law, Gambrell Hall, Hunter Atrium.
This is part of the "What We've Been Up to" lectures hosted by the Center for International and Comparative Law.
Issues of International Interest: Media Influence on High-Profile Criminal Cases, Mitigation Measures, and Mens Rea in Argentine and U.S. Criminal Cases featuring Matt Cavedon (Robert Pool Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion), Agustina Mitre (Austral University, Argentina), and Gabriel Perez Barbara (University of Cordoba, Argentina).
Professors Cavedon and Mitre will discuss their recently published international comparative law piece, "Lessons about Media Influence, Mitigation Measures, and Mens Rea from Argentine and U.S. Criminal Cases" (Brooklyn Journal of International Law, 2024) investigating the impact of media attention on high-profile criminal cases in Argentina and the United States, with Professor Perez Barbara providing additional expertise and commentary.
Wednesday, Feb 21, 2024, 2 p.m., Emory University School of Law, Hunter Atrium and Zoom. This is part of the "Issues of International Interest" lecture series
The Center for International and Comparative Law presents "Taxing Nudity: Sex Work and the Constitution" featuring Sasha Volokh (Associate Professor of Law), Randee Waldman (Clinical Professor of Law), and John Acevedo (Visiting Associate Professor of Practice and Faculty Director, LLM/MCL Programs)
In 2015, the Georgia Legislature passed the Safe Harbor/Rachel's Law act, which, among other things, imposed a 1% tax on the gross revenues of adult entertainment establishments, with the money going into a fund to provide services to sexually exploited children. This tax was challenged on first amendment grounds, as an unconstitutional content-discriminatory tax on erotic expression. Over the last few years, the challenge has worked its way through the Georgia courts, from the trial court to the Georgia Supreme Court and back. This event will discuss the issues involved in the litigation, the issues involved in the statute generally, and other questions related to the regulation of sex work.
Wednesday, January 24, 2024, 3 p.m., Emory University School of Law, Hunter Atrium and Zoom. This is part of the "What We've Been Up to" lectures hosted by the Center for International and Comparative Law.
