2011-12 Annual Report

& 2011-12 ANNUAL REPORT INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL LAW & POLICY HARVARD LAW SCHOOL HARVARD LAW SCHOOL CAMBRIDGE, MA 02138 | WWW.IGLP.LAW.HARVARD.EDU Founded in 2009, The Institute for Global Law and As a reflection of this mandate, The Institute mounted Policy at Harvard Law School is an international a strong academic program during the 2011-2012 collaborative project to foster research and policy dialog academic year, sponsoring an array of workshops, about the structure and potential for global governance lectures and conferences. Our most exciting initiative and international law affecting pressing issues of global is an annual ten day Intensive Workshop for young regulation and policy. We focus on the relationship scholars and policy practitioners which we have hosted between the transnational regulatory environment and each June, beginning in 2010, at Harvard Law School. the potential for sound economic development. The In 2012, IGLP: The Workshop brought more than 150 Institute aims to foster innovative approaches to global young scholars from over 45 countries to Cambridge for policy and political economy, and new thinking about collaborative discussion and debate about global law and international legal and institutional arrangements, with economic policy with more than thirty-five leading faculty an emphasis on ideas and issues of importance to the from around the world. While in residence at Harvard, global South. Much about how we are governed at the participants reviewed current scholarly developments, global level remains a mystery. Scholars at the Institute reconsidered canonical texts, and networked with are working to understand and map the levers of political, colleagues from across the world. Intensive Writing economic and legal authority in the world today. Workshops, led by select alumni ‘Docents’ from our first two Workshops, offered all participants the opportunity The Institute is particularly focused on young scholars to share their own work in progress with a small group who bring new ideas and perspectives to comparative of colleagues and leading scholars. Discussion groups, and international legal research and policy. Over the last which were also led by our Docents, offered participants years we have developed a large global network of young an opportunity to meet with peers and more senior faculty and policy makers who share our belief that ideas colleagues in small groups, and focus on discussion of matter and that original and critical thinking can transform the themes and readings of the Workshop. the ways in which policy experts, intellectual leaders and citizens understand our common global situation. The Institute has also built strong relationships with leading faculty at a wide range of foreign institutions, represented by the scholars who participate in our Advisory Councils. We regularly host both scholars and policy practitioners as Visiting Researchers and Fellows at Harvard. Through this network we seek to deepen collaboration 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. Our aim is to facilitate the emergence of a creative dialog among experts from around the world, strengthening our capacity for innovation and cooperative research about global governance, social justice and economic policy. Usha Nataranjan, assistant professor at the American University in Cairo, served as a Docent in the June 2012 Workshop. i Beginning in 2013, our Harvard-based June Program will feature a series of opportunities for research collaboration. The Colloquium, inaugurated in 2012, will bring our Core Faculty, Docents, select alumni, and invited guests together for three days of intensive exchange around a common interdisciplinary theme. We will continue to host Pro-Seminars in Cambridge each June designed to support small groups of IGLP Scholars engaged in collaboration aimed towards publication. Alumni teams who have received collaborative research grants may also use the June period for small group At IGLP: The Workshop, participants have the opportunity to work one- meetings to advance their work. on-one with faculty and senior colleagues. This year we also convened a five-day Colloquium at In 2013 we will host a global conference at Harvard, Harvard prior to The Workshop for IGLP Core Faculty, convening faculty and IGLP alumni to showcase the invited guests and docents. This year’s Colloquium collaborative work emerging from our network over the focused on the political economy of the modern global last years. IGLP: The Conference will be a biennial order and brought a number of heterodox thinkers from event, open to all IGLP alumni and faculty that will economics, sociology and history together with our provide a chance for alumni to reconnect with global network of Workshop alumni and faculty to discuss new peers, showcase their ongoing scholarship, and explore ideas. new avenues for collaborative work with colleagues. The Workshop and Colloquium was generously Throughout the 2011-2012 academic year we were also supported by Santander Universities and Sovereign pleased to host and sponsor a terrific series of programs Bank. With their support over these last three years we and initiatives in collaboration with our sponsors whose have built a powerful global network of more than 250 continued faith and confidence in the work we do at the young scholars working collaboratively at the cutting Institute could not be more timely or significant. The year edge of contemporary legal and economic policy. We saw our ninth annual Business Law Seminar, focused are grateful to Santander for renewing their faith in our on Transatlantic Views on Corporate and Financial efforts for an additional three years. Law Issues and conducted with support from the Real Colegio Complutense, as well as our ninth annual We are very pleased to announce that in 2012 the Qatar Seminar on European Union and US Antitrust Law co- Foundation joined the Institute as both a co-sponsor of sponsored and organized with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen our Workshop Initiative and as a Leading Sponsor of the & Hamilton’s Brussels office. With J&A Garrigues, Institute. As part of this exciting new collaboration with S.L.P., we again organized a North American Lawyers the Foundation, we are also very pleased to announce Program in Madrid bringing Harvard law faculty to that beginning in 2013 IGLP: The Workshop, with the participate in training young Spanish corporate lawyers. leading support of the Qatar Foundation, will be held each January in Doha. With Santander’s continuing In March, we launched an exciting new initiative with support, we will also continue our Harvard ten-day Visa International with a day-long policy workshop at residential program each June, focused on deepening Harvard focused on day Global Liquidity and Capital as collaboration among our Workshop Faculty and growing Legal Institutions. This Workshop was the first in a new network of Workshop Alumni. series of broad ranging research initiatives between the ii IGLP and Visa to cover the themes of liquidity in the for Human Rights and Justice, we co-sponsored a global economy, productive financial services regulatory two-day conference on Property Rights and the Human structures in emerging markets, and financial inclusion. Rights Agenda at the University of Texas School of Law. In April we also held a joint seminar at Harvard with CEU In 2011-2012 we also continued our history of sponsoring San Pablo University on The European Legal Project: important transnational dialog by collaborating with New Approaches which featured a keynote speech by partner institutions abroad and by supporting the ongoing Miguel Maduro, Director of the Global Governance work of our affiliated faculty. In August we co‐sponsored Programme at European University Institute. We were a policy workshop with the Saranrom Institute of also very pleased to host Alfred Gusenbauer, former Foreign Affairs (SIFA) at Chulalongkorn University Chancellor of Austria and member of our Honorary which brought current and former political leaders Council, as a Visiting Scholar at the Institute and to from Europe, Latin America, Africa, the United States co-host two roundtables discussions as part of his and Asia into dialog with academics and researchers ongoing research project to examine the state of social focused on the emerging economies of the ASEAN democracy today and evaluate the ways it could become region and the potential for further growth of the region a driving force for change in the 21st century. in the coming years. In November we co-sponsored a two-day conference on the History of Capitalism with As we look forward to 2012‐2013, we anticipate Professor Chris Desan and the Program on the Study continuing the development of our financial base of of Capitalism at Harvard Law School and the Culture of support and strengthening our Advisory Councils to the Market Network. This past February, in celebration enhance our ability to pursue the Institute’s broad of Harvard Law School Professor Janet Halley’s new global mandate. In addition to our large residential article “What is Family Law?: A Genealogy,” we hosted activities in January in Doha and at Harvard in June, panel discussions about the significance of the article we will continue to sponsor lectures, workshops and and its relationship to other pieces in the field. In March, conferences throughout the

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