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Institute for Global Law and Policy Harvard Law School Institute for Global Law and Policy Harvard Law School Annual Report – 2014 – 2015 Part I: Report of Activities A. Summary of Academic Year: 2014-2015 a) Research and Scholarship a. Summary Statement Founded in 2009, The Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP) at Harvard Law School is a collaborative faculty effort 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. Global poverty, conflict, injustice and inequality are also legal and institutional regimes. The IGLP explores the ways in which they are reproduced and what might be done in response. 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. Professor David Kennedy serves as Institute Director. The Institute continues the tradition developed at Harvard’s European Law Research Center by focusing on young scholars and policy makers from the global South, who bring new ideas and perspectives to comparative and international legal research and policy. The IGLP aims to facilitate the emergence of a creative dialog among young experts from around the world, strengthening our capacity for innovation and cooperative research. The Institute has built strong relationships with faculty at a wide range of foreign institutions, represented by the scholars who participate in our Advisory Councils. We provide a focal point at Harvard Law School for faculty and students interested in new thinking about issues of global governance and international affairs. Each year, we sponsor a variety of conferences, workshops and symposia, both in Cambridge and in collaboration with our friends abroad. We regularly host both scholars and policy practitioners as Visiting Researchers and Fellows at Harvard, deepening our collaborative network among those seeking new approaches to international law, political economy and economic development from governments, international institutions, the private sector and the non-governmental sector. As a reflection of this mandate, The Institute mounted a strong academic program during the 2014-2015 academic year, sponsoring an array of workshops, lectures and conferences. We were also very pleased to host a terrific group of Visiting Researchers and Fellows. Our most exciting initiatives remained the annual ten-day Workshop for young scholars and policy practitioners held in Doha in January 2015, and the intensive residential program held at Harvard Law School in June. Since 2010, we have convened 444 young scholars representing more than 80 countries and over 230 universities to work alongside 108 convening faculty 1 from some of the world’s foremost universities. Over the three years that we have convened the Workshop in Doha, we have brought 251 young scholars from 65 countries to Education City, along with 56 Senior and 68 Junior faculty members from 39 countries and more than 75 universities. The Doha Workshop: By the Numbers Doha 2013 Doha 2014 Doha 2015 Participants: 81 Participants: 93 Participants: 94 Jr. Faculty: 27 Jr. Faculty: 31 Jr. Faculty 34 Sr. Faculty: 32 Sr. Faculty: 34 Sr. Faculty: 31 YPP: 10 YPP: 6 YPP: 6 Countries Countries Countries Represented: 46 Represented: 50 Represented: 58 Universities Universities Universities Represented: 95 Represented: 109 Represented: 111 Each year, we have sought both to deepen and to broaden the network of faculty and junior scholars engaged in our work by welcoming new scholars and encouraging sustained interest and research engagement among our faculty and participants, both at the Workshop, at Harvard and in their home universities. At each Workshop we welcome new scholars to our network: a full 369 of those who have been with us since 2010 have participated in only one Workshop. At the same time, we have worked to build a core community of scholars dedicated to the project, with ever deeper links to one another and to our work in Doha. We are gratified that 71 of our participant alumni have gone on to become Junior Faculty in successive Workshops and a core group of 185 scholars have participated repeatedly, some joining us for each of our IGLP Workshops. Eighty-five of our participants, Junior Faculty and Senior Faculty have taken part in two or more of the Doha Workshops The 2015 Doha Workshop brought 100 young scholars and policy makers from 58 countries to Qatar for collaborative discussion and debate about global law and economic policy with 65 leading faculty from around the world. We received 563 applications from young scholars to participate in the 2015 IGLP Workshop, along with 18 applications from young policy professionals and 89 applications for our junior faculty program. At the 2015 Workshop we continued our tradition of seeking new ways to deepen the network of collaboration among our Workshop Alumni, while also invigorating our core program with new participants and themes. We hosted a new group of IGLP alumni Docents, each of whom assisted with the organization of a Workshop Stream or convened a Writing Workshop. We also continued our program for Young Policy Professionals (YPP), which was inaugurated in 2013 and has been designed for young professionals from Qatar and the surrounding region who have an interest in sharing their ideas with global academic peers. In June, with the support of our Leading Sponsor Santander, we hosted our 6th annual Cambridge based residential program, combining our large biennial global Conference with four mini-conferences, our annual Colloquium and one Pro-Seminar. In addition, we encouraged a series of panel “streams” within the global Conference allowing participants to follow one area of interest more closely. We were particularly pleased that Professors Yishai Blank (Tel Aviv) and Vasuki Nesiah (NYU) hosted a stream of panels devoted to Jerry Frug’s work 2 on local government law. The mini-conferences considered: The Corporation in Global Society; Critical Thinking About Sex, Sexuality, Gender, and Family; Monetary Design in Global Perspective; and Islamic Law and Empire. All of the conferences were open to the Harvard community and the broader public by registration. Our annual Colloquium, co-chaired by Sundhya Pahuja of Melbourne Law School and Luis Eslava of Kent Law School, on June 3-4, included an interdisciplinary discussion and an Advanced Writing Workshop for IGLP faculty and alumni. IGLP’s June 2015 events exhibited the span of scholarship developed by members of the IGLP network and featured ongoing and new research projects by IGLP alumni and faculty. All together, the June 2015 events brought together over 425 scholars from over 78 countries at Harvard Law School to share their work over the course of the week. Over the course of the two days of the conference, 80 panels convened to share research, engage in discussion, and collaborate on prominent issues of international Law. The 2015 June events offered scholars and thought leaders from across the globe the opportunity to connect with colleagues, to present their research to a global audience, to meet others who share similar intellectual passions, and to engage with innovative scholars from around the world. The mini-conferences offered the opportunity to reflect together on collaborative research projects ongoing within the IGLP network. Since 2010, well over 2,000 young scholars have applied to participate in an IGLP Workshop or IGLP residential June Program. To date, more than 750 scholars have participated in one, or both of these programs. We are grateful to both the Qatar Foundation and Santander Universities for their support of these important initiatives and for their ongoing collaboration with the Institute. Throughout the 2014-2015 academic year we were also pleased to host and sponsor a terrific series of programs and initiatives in collaboration with our other Sponsors whose continued faith and confidence in the work we do at the Institute could not be more timely or significant. With the Real Colegio Complutense we hosted our 12th annual Business Law Seminar at Harvard focused on “Corporate and Financial Law Problems: A Transatlantic Perspective.” With J&A Garrigues, S.L.P., we again organized a North American Lawyers Program in Madrid bringing Harvard law faculty to participate in training young Spanish corporate lawyers. In 2014-2015, we also continued our history of sponsoring important transnational dialog by collaborating with partner institutions abroad and by supporting the ongoing work of our affiliated faculty. In May 2015, the IGLP and Sciences Po Law School jointly sponsored a Workshop in Paris, France, as part of our ongoing research project, headed by Lucie White, on Global Poverty and Heterodox Development Pathways. We continued our close work with Professor Janet Halley and the Program on Law and Social Thought, hosting a series of panels and discussions as part of our ongoing joint research project on Global Genealogy of Family Laws, as well as with Professor Sheila Jasanoff who, along with David Kennedy, leads the multi- year IGLP faculty research project on Expertise and Governance. In 2014, we developed a plan to inaugurate a new format of IGLP Regional Workshops. In August 2015, the first Regional Workshop was convened at The University of Los Andes. As we look forward to 2015-2016, we will seek to find new ways of developing our financial base of support and strengthening our advisory councils to enhance our ability to pursue the 3 Institute’s broad global mandate. We will no longer convene our global workshop in Doha and are in conversation with donors and institutional partners about other potential sites, including the possibility of returning the global workshop to Harvard in 2017. We will expand our Workshop program by inaugurating two Regional Workshops to be held annually. The first, in Latin American, was convened in Bogota Colombia with University of Los Andes law faculty in August 2015 and will rotate between The University of Los Andes and the University of Sao Paolo each year.
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