Event Category: Book Talk

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In this webinar, Leslie John, James E. Burke Professor at Harvard Business School, will share insights from her new book REVEALING: The Underrated Power of Oversharing. Drawing on over a decade of research, John provides a roadmap for making smarter, bolder, and ultimately more satisfying decisions about how much to share about ourselves and why. […]

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Book cover image w/ title Redefining Comparative Constitutional Law

This event features a discussion on Redefining Comparative Constitutional Law: Essays for Mark Tushnet with HLS Professor Emeritus Mark Tushnet and volume editors HLS Professor, Vicki Jackson, and Columbia Law School Professor, Madhav Khosla. The book reflects upon the field of comparative constitutional law, which has emerged in recent decades as a major domain of scholarship and judicial practice. Among the most prominent figures in the ongoing renaissance of this field has been Mark Tushnet.

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We are pleased to announce our upcoming book launch for The Criminal State: War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice with Author and Professor Lawrence Douglas. Listed as Foreign Policy’s Most Anticipated Books of the Year, The Criminal State offers a thought-provoking account of how law has confronted the most radical forms of state violence. From Leopold’s rule […]

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Join us for an engaging discussion with Margareta Matache, featuring her recently published book The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism (Un)uttered Sentences. Matache situates anti-Roma racism within national and intra-continental histories and global scholarship, exploring its specific and universal underpinnings and manifestations and its interconnectedness with other systems of oppression. The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism offers a theoretical perspective on the roots […]

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Without the ability to mobilize coercive measures, international adjudicators must rely on their authority to influence real-world outcomes. This paper considers the origin and conceivable uses of the authority of international adjudicators. International courts’ influence relies on their ability to mobilize, through mere authoritative communications, the different internal and external forces that shape state behavior, […]