Each year, the IILJ hosts the International Law and Human Rights Emerging Scholarship Conference in partnership with the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. Begun in 2003, the conference aims to foster a culture of appreciation for high-quality, engaged scholarship among the law school’s international law and human rights communities. Students present original papers and receive expert feedback in a constructive, collaborative setting. Papers presented at this conference have gone on to be published in quality journals, including the Canadian Yearbook of International Law, the Journal of International Criminal Justice, and the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics.
This year, the 17th Annual International Law and Human Rights Emerging Scholarship Conference will be held (virtually) at NYU School of Law on April 23-24, 2020. Students whose papers or works-in-progress are selected will briefly present their work at the conference and will receive comments from an interdisciplinary group of faculty members and practitioners, who will lead discussion and debate following presentations.
One student will be awarded the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice’s Emerging Scholar Essay Prize for the best paper on human rights. Outstanding papers on any issue of international law may also be considered for inclusion in the IILJ Emerging Scholars Working Papers.
Please RSVP for Zoom access. Daft papers available upon request, but are not for circulation.
9:30-10:00 a.m.
Ngozi Nwanta — “Creating Identities for Development: The Identification for Development Project of the World Bank”
1:00-1:30 p.m.
Rachel Riegelhaupt — “Asylum as Reparation for Past Historical Wrongs: United States’ Involvement in Creating Today’s Central American Refugee Crisis”
1:30-2:15 p.m.
Beenish Riaz — “Immigration and the Access to Justice Crisis: Community Paralegals in the United States”
2:30-3:00 p.m.
Eden Lapidor — “The Influences of Modern-Day Asymmetric Warfare on the Interpretation of the Laws Regulating Warfare”
9:00-9:45 a.m.
Matthew Blainey — “Strategic Litigation in Hong Kong: the City of Protest”
10:45-11:30 a.m.
Emma Iannini —”Cultivating Civilization: The Confucian Principles Behind the CCP’s Mass Imprisonment of Uighurs and What Human Rights Advocates Can Do to Stop It”
11:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Tatiana August-Schmidt — “Defending Climate Change Policies in International Investment Law: The Necessity Defense and Essential Security Exceptions”
12:00-12:30 p.m.
Victoria Adelmant — “Climate Change and Strategic Human Rights Litigation: An Insurmountable Challenge or an Opportunity for Broader Change?”
12:30-1:00 p.m.
Jackson Gandour — “Labour and Globalization”
1:00-1:30 p.m.
Sasha Boutillier — “Statutory Analogy and Liability of American Corporations under the Alien Tort Statute”
1:30-2:00 p.m.
Julia Chen — “Modernizing Corporate Veil Piercing: A Critique of the Yaiguaje v. Chevron Decision”
2:00-2:30 p.m.
Kathryn Gundersen — “Private Regulation of Space”
2:30-3:15 p.m.
Lucas Cuatrecasas — “Global Stablecoin as an International Investment”
3:15-3:45 p.m.
Charlotte Verdon — “Improving the Present to Repair the Past: A Proposal to Redefine the Guiding Principle of Reparation for Gross Violations of Human Rights”
3:45-4:15 p.m.
Daniela Pedraza Moreno — “Transformative Reparations As A Catalyzer Of Processes Where Women Advance From Victims To Citizens: Analysis Of The Colombian Land Restitution Program”
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