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The Advanced Research Institute in Law, Social Thought and Global Governance will convene emerging scholars for an intensive two-week seminar on new approaches to legal thought and global governance. The Institute will explore the potential value of critical traditions within law and social thought for understanding the institutional and regulatory structures operating at the global level today. The Institute will provide a forum for participants to present their work and for engagement with, and feedback by, scholars with subject specific expertise.

The mornings will be devoted to four week-long courses led by senior scholars, each of which will provide in-depth study of central texts and methodologies, helping participants to create a lexicon for critical legal work. Critical Traditions in American Legal Thought will introduce a canon of ideas and methods for thinking about legal materials and institutions. Law and Social Thought I and II will engage with classical texts from the tradition of social thought to investigate their significance for legal scholarship. Finally, Law and Power: Approaches to Global Governance will investigate efforts to bring these traditions to bear for thinking about issues of global governance today in innovative ways, particularly within the field of international law.

Afternoons will be devoted to subject-specific modules on topics of contemporary significance such as Law and Development; Gender and Sexuality; Human Rights and Post-Conflict Justice; Labor; and International Economic Law. Each module will combine discussion led by subject- specific experts with a workshop to engage ongoing scholarship by participants who work in that field. Participants will present their papers and will receive comments both from their peers and from leading scholars in their field.

Convening Faculty:

David Kennedy
Faculty Director, Institute for Global Law and Policy and
Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Areas of Interest: Issues that relate to law, such as sovereignty, international law, global governance, economic development, war, and humanitarianism.
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Zina Miller
Visiting Fellow, Watson Institute for International Studies

Areas of Interest: Humanitarian law, human security, civil rights, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, reconciliation and transitional justice.
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