CTEI Geneva Speaker Series

   
 

MUDDY WATERS, PERILOUS SHORES:
The dangerous incoherence of the Tuna/Dolphin III Panel Report

Robert Howse
Lloyd C Nelson Professor of International Law at New York University Law School

Friday, 9th December, 2011  I  13:00 - 14:30

Venue
Salle Bungener,
Rue Rothschild 20-22, Geneva

Organised by
This lecture is organised by the Graduate Institute's Centre for Trade and Economic Integration (CTEI) in collaboration with the MIDS programme.

Registration Deadline
To register for this event, please submit the Registration Form by Wednesday 7th December.

 

 
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Biography
 

Robert Howse is Lloyd C Nelson Professor of International Law at New York University Law School, and Co-Director of the Law School's Institute for International Law and Justice. He is also convener of the Law School's Investment Law Forum and co-founder and co-director of the New York City Area Working Group on International Economic Law. Howse is the author, co-author, or co-editor of numerous books, including The World Trading System: Law, Politics, and Legitimacy; Trade and Transitions; Economic Union, Social Justice, and Constitutional Reform; The Regulation of International Trade (4th edition forthcoming); Yugoslavia the Former and Future and The Federal Vision: Legitimacy and Levels of Governance in the EU and the U.S. He is also the co-translator of Alexander Kojève’s Outline for a Phenomenology of Right and the principal author of the interpretative commentary in that volume. He is a frequent consultant or adviser to government agencies and international organizations such as the OECD, the World Bank, UNCTAD, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Law Commission of Canada and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. He is a contributor to the American Law Institute project on WTO Law. Professor Howse has acted as a consultant to the investor's counsel in a number of investor-state arbitrations. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, Tel Aviv University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Paris 1 (Pantheon-Sorbonne), Tsinghua University, and Osgoode Hall Law School in Canada.