Previous Colloquia Events
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Alyssa Battistoni: “Climate Futures and the Future of Work: Rethinking “Green Jobs,” Revaluing Care Work”
Speaker:- Alyssa Battistoni Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard College
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David Kennedy: “Through a Glass Darkly: Political Economy and the Great Disparities”
Speaker:- David Kennedy Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School
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Carrie Freshour: “From Chicken to Broiler: Unraveling the Snarl of Centuries”
Speaker:- Carrie Freshour Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Washington
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Yiran Zhang: “Rethinking the Global Governance of Migrant Domestic Workers: The Heterodox Case of Informal Filipina Workers in China”
Speaker:- Yiran Zhang S.J.D. Candidate at Harvard Law School
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Jennifer Bair: “Financialization, Fissuring, and the Future of Work”
Speaker:- Jennifer Bair Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology, University of Virginia
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Juan De Lara: “Essential Workers or Disposability Politics? Organizing in the Age of Pandemic Capitalism”
Speaker:- Juan De Lara Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Founding Director of the Center for Latinx and Latin American Studies, University of Southern California
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Adelle Blackett: “Racial Capitalism’s Challenge to International Labor Law: Addressing Prison Labor in the U.S.”
Speaker:- Adelle Blackett Professor of Law, Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labor Law and Development, McGill University
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Dr. Prabha Kotiswaran: “An Ode to Altruism: How Indian Courts Value Unpaid Domestic Work”
Speaker:- Prabha Kotiswaran Professor of Law & Social Justice, King’s College London
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Aaron Benanav: “Automation and the Future of Work in the Global Pandemic Economy”
Speaker:- Aaron Benanav Postdoctoral Researcher, Humboldt University, Berlin
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Inequality, China, and Corporate Law
Speaker:- Teemu Ruskola Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law, Emory University
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Economic Empowerment in the Global Periphery: Leaning in to Credit, Property, and Entrepreneurship
Speaker:- Vasuki Nesiah Associate Professor of Practice, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University
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Occupy Citizenship: The Black Struggle against Land Loss in the Americas
Speaker:- Keisha-Khan Y. Perry Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Brown University
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Tracing the Progress of Gay Rights in Political Economy
Speaker:- Libby S. Adler Professor of Law and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Northeastern University
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Feminist Approaches to the Regulation of Sex Work: Patterns in Transnational Governance Feminist Law Making
Speaker:- Hila Shamir Associate Professor of Law, Tel-Aviv University
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Law and the Reproduction of Food Poverty
Speaker:- Tomaso Ferrando Lecturer in Law, University of Bristol
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Inequality and the Elite Origins of Democracy
Speaker:- Michael Albertus Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
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From Disparity to Dignity: Tackling Economic Inequality through Human Rights
Speaker:- Ignacio Saiz Executive Director, Center for Economic and Social Rights
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Trade, Distribution and Development under Supply Chain Capitalism
Speaker:- Dan Danielsen Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Program on the Corporation, Law and Global Society, Northeastern University
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The Future of Labor Rights in Trade Agreements
Speaker:- Alvaro Santos Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
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Delimiting Precarity: Labor Migration, Degrees of Privilege, and the Politics of Hope in Turkey
Speaker:- Ayşe Parla Associate Professor of Anthropology, Sabanci Universitesi, Istanbul; Visitor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
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Dying for a Living: Economic and Moral Restructuring in a French Factory
Speaker:- Pascal Marichalar Research Fellow, French National Center for Scientific Research
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Immigration and the Future of American Families
Speaker:- Ai-jen Poo National Domestic Workers Alliance, Caring Across Generations
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Modern Slavery, Unfree Labour and Migrants’ Rights
Speaker:- Judy Fudge Professor of Law, Kent Law School
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Rethinking the Future of Work: Law, Technology, and Economic Citizenship
Speaker:- Brishen Rogers Associate Professor of Law, Temple University
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Unsustainable International Law: Transnational Resource Extraction and Violence Against Women
Speaker:- Penelope Simons Professor of Law, University of Ottawa
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Using Ghana’s Oil Wealth to Promote Social Rights: A Vanishing Dream?
Speakers:- Lucie E. White
Louis A. Horvitz Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
- William E. Forbath Lloyd M. Bentsen Chair in Law & Associate Dean for Research, Texas Law
- Lucie E. White
Louis A. Horvitz Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
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Extraction, Indigenous Rights and Prior Consent
Speaker:- Patricia Tobón Yagarí Emberá indigenous activist and lawyer, National Indigenous Organization of Colombia
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The Exploitation Bias in the Transnational Law of Natural Resource Extraction
Speaker:- Isabel Feichtner Assistant Professor of Law and Economics, Goethe University, Frankfurt
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Extractive Industries and Inequality: Intersections of Environmental Law, Human Rights and Environmental Justice
Speaker:- Sumudu Atapattu Director of Research Centers and Senior Lecturer, University of Wisconsin Law School
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Sustainable Development Goals: A Course Correction?
Speaker:- Sakiko Fukuda-Parr Professor of International Affairs, The New School
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
Speaker:- Naomi Klein Journalist and Syndicated Columnist, The New York Times; Author
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Right to Development After the Collapse of Development
Speaker:- Balakrishnan Rajagopal Associate Professor of Law and Development and Founding Director of the Program on Human Rights and Justice, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Croesus’ World: Human Rights in the Age of Inequality
Speaker:- Samuel Moyn Professor of Law and History, Harvard University
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A New Greek Tragedy?: Inequality, Human Rights and Democracy
Speakers:- James K. Galbraith
Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations & Professor of Government
- Alvaro Santos Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
- Philomila Tsoukala Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
- Alvaro Santos Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
- James K. Galbraith
Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations & Professor of Government
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Nutrition, Gender and Food Security in Africa
Speaker:- Rajeev Patel Research Professor of Public Affairs
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Bioethics and Human Rights: Can Human Rights Survive the Posthuman?
Speaker:- George Annas William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights, Boston University School of Public Health
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What is (a) Life Worth? Genealogy and Anthropology of Inequality
Speaker:- Didier Fassin James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study
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Sexual and Reproductive Health: Inequality and Human Rights
Speaker:- Sofia Gruskin Director, Program on Global Health & Human Rights and Professor of Preventive Medicine and Professor of Law, University of Southern California
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Recognizing Social Determinants of Health, Combating Health Disparities
Speakers:- Lovell Jones
Professor Emeritus, UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and UT Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
- Mitchell Katz Director, Los Angeles County Department of Health Services
- Lovell Jones
Professor Emeritus, UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and UT Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
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Approaches to Labor Rights
Speakers:- Kerry Rittich
Professor, Faculty of Law and the Women's and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto
- Mitchel Lasser Jack G. Clarke Professor of Law and Director of Graduate Studies, Cornell Law School
- Kerry Rittich
Professor, Faculty of Law and the Women's and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto
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Approaches to Universal Jurisdiction
Speakers:- Michael E. Tigar
- Juan Garcés Spanish Attorney, Lead Counsel in criminal case against Augusto Pinochet in Spain
- Michael E. Tigar
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Approaches to Employment Discrimination
Speakers:- Samuel Bagenstos
Professor, University of Michigan School of Law
- Laura Carlson Associate Professor of Law, Stockholm University School of Law
- Samuel Bagenstos
Professor, University of Michigan School of Law
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Approaches to Religious Freedom and Secularism
Speakers:- Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun
Professor Emeritus of Social Sciences, University Paris Diderot-Paris 7
- Hilal Elver Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights; Research Professor and Co-Director of the Project on Global Climate Change, Human Security, and Democracy, Orfalea Center, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Richard Falk Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice, Emeritus, Princeton University; Distinguished Visiting Professor in Global & International Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Hilal Elver Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights; Research Professor and Co-Director of the Project on Global Climate Change, Human Security, and Democracy, Orfalea Center, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun
Professor Emeritus of Social Sciences, University Paris Diderot-Paris 7
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Approaches to Race, Citizenship and Immigration
Speakers:- Liz Fekete
Executive Director, Institute of Race Relations
- Leti Volpp Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law in Access to Justice, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
- Liz Fekete
Executive Director, Institute of Race Relations
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Approaches to Counter-terrorism
Speakers:- Fionnuala Ní Aoláin
Dorsey & Whitney Chair in Law, University of Minnesota Law School, and Professor of Law, Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster
- Aziz Rana Associate Professor of Law, Cornell University Law School
- Fionnuala Ní Aoláin
Dorsey & Whitney Chair in Law, University of Minnesota Law School, and Professor of Law, Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster