The Center on Global Governance engages in ongoing review of the Columbia Law School's extensive curriculum and identifies collaborators for teaching and research from communities outside the law school, including the worlds of practice and public policy.
Since its founding in 2003, the center has run a public speaker series featuring distinguished members of the international policy community as well as the academy. The Center has also hosted dozens of conferences addressing issues including transitional justice in the wake of mass atrocity, international crime and terrorism, the regulation of the multinational enterprise and transnational capital, immigration, and human rights.
Overall the center’s initiatives flow naturally from Columbia Law School’s exceptionally rich curriculum relating to global law issues. Its activities, in turn, affect that curriculum. As part of its regular curriculum, the Columbia Law School offers what is perhaps the largest number of courses and seminars of any U.S. law school, focusing on the challenges emerging from transnational movement of goods, capital, people, or ideas.
Articles
A Convenient Constitution? Extraterritoriality After Boumediene, Christina Duffy Ponsa-Kraus
Adapting the Law of Armed Conflict to Autonomous Weapon Systems, Kenneth Anderson, Daniel Reisner, and Matthew C. Waxman
Aggravating Youth: Roper v Simmons and Age Discrimination, Elizabeth F. Emens
Ambivalence About Treason, George P. Fletcher
Arbitrating Trade Disputes (Who's the Boss?), Petros C. Mavroidis
Article III and Supranational Judicial Review, Henry Paul Monaghan
A Transaction Theory of Crime?, George P. Fletcher
Collective Guilt and Collective Punishment, George P. Fletcher
Consensus Decision-Making and Legislative Inertia at the WTO: Can International Law Help?, Americo B. Zampetti, Patrick Low, and Petros C. Mavroidis
Correcting Criminal Justice through Collective Experience Rigorously Examined, James S. Liebman and David Mattern
Criminal Theory in the Twentieth Century, George P. Fletcher
Crosby and the "One-Voice" Myth in U.S. Foreign Relations, Sarah H. Cleveland
Cyber-Attacks and the Use of Force: Back to the Future of Article 2(4), Matthew C. Waxman
Cyber Attacks as "Force" Under UN Charter Article 2(4), Matthew C. Waxman
Defining and Punishing Offenses Under Treaties, Sarah H. Cleveland and William S. Dodge
Detention as Targeting: Standards of Certainty and Detention of Suspected Terrorists, Matthew C. Waxman
Disenfranchisement as Punishment: Reflections on the Racial Uses of Infamia, George P. Fletcher
Dogmas of the Model Penal Code, George P. Fletcher
Do Legal Origins Predict Legal Substance?, Anu Bradford, Yun-chien Chang, Adam S. Chilton, and Nuno Garoupa
Domination in Wrongdoing, George P. Fletcher
Efficient Enforcement in International Law, Anu Bradford and Omri Ben-Shahar
Embedded International Law and the Constitution Abroad, Sarah H. Cleveland
Eroding "Checks" on Presidential Authority – Norms, the Civil Service, and the Courts, Peter L. Strauss
Fairness and Utility in Tort Theory, George P. Fletcher
Foreign Authority, American Exceptionalism, and the Dred Scott Case, Sarah H. Cleveland
Free Lunches? WTO as Public Good, and the WTO's View of Public Goods, Petros C. Mavroidis
From Contract to Status: Collaboration and the Evolution of Novel Family Relationships, Elizabeth S. Scott and Robert E. Scott
From Rethinking to Internationalizing Criminal Law, George P. Fletcher
From Sunshine to a Common Agent: The Evolving Understanding of Transparency in the WTO, Petros C. Mavroidis and Robert Wolfe
From the White Paper to the Proposal for a Council Regulation, Petros C. Mavroidis and Damien J. Neven
Hamdan Confronts the Military Commissions Act of 2006, George P. Fletcher
Hamdi Meets Youngstown: Justice Jackson's Wartime Security Jurisprudence and the Detention of Enemy Combatants, Sarah H. Cleveland
How Federalism Built the FBI, Sustained Local Police, and Left Out the States, Daniel C. Richman and Sarah Seo
How International Institutions Evolve, Anu Bradford
Human Rights in the United States, Sarah H. Cleveland and Catherine Powell
International Antitrust Negotiations and the False Hope of the WTO, Anu Bradford
International Human Rights Law in Soviet and American Courts, Lori Fisler Damrosch
Justice and Fairness in the Protection of Crime Victims, George P. Fletcher
Kosovo and the Great Air Power Debate, Daniel L. Byman and Matthew C. Waxman
Law and Morality: A Kantian Perspective, George P. Fletcher
Legal Status and Rights of Undocumented Workers: Advisory Opinion OC-18, Sarah H. Cleveland
Manifest Criminality, Criminal Intent, and the Metamorphosis of Lloyd Weinreb, George P. Fletcher
National Security Federalism in the Age of Terror, Matthew C. Waxman
No Outsourcing of Law? WTO Law as Practiced by WTO Courts, Petros C. Mavroidis
On Justice and War: Contradictions in the Proposed Military Tribunals, George P. Fletcher
Paradoxes in Legal Thought, George P. Fletcher
Parallel Exclusion, C. Scott Hemphill and Tim Wu
Police, Race, and the Production of Capital Homicides, Jeffrey A. Fagan and Amanda Geller
Powers Inherent in Sovereignty: Indians, Aliens, Territories, and the Nineteenth Century Origins of Plenary Power over Foreign Affairs, Sarah H. Cleveland
"Project Exile" and the Allocation of Federal Law Enforcement Authority, Daniel Richman
Promoting International Cybersecurity Cooperation: Lessons from the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), Duncan B. Hollis and Matthew C. Waxman
Punishment, Deterrence and Social Control: The Paradox of Punishment in Minority Communities, Jeffery Fagan and Tracey L. Meares
Punishment, Deterrence and Social Control: The Paradox of Punishment in Minority Communities, Jeffery Fagan and Tracey L. Meares
Remembering Gary – and Tort Theory, George P. Fletcher
Richard Gardner: Scholar, Statesman, Columbian, Gillian L. Lester
Scrubbing the Wash Sale Rules, David M. Schizer
Secret Evidence and the Due Process of Terrorist Detentions, Daphne Barak-Erez and Matthew C. Waxman
Sharing the Risks and Rewards of Economic Migration, Anu Bradford
Should Intolerable Prison Conditions Generate a Justification or an Excuse for Escape?, George P. Fletcher
Siegecraft and Surrender: The Law and Strategy of Cities and Targets, Matthew C. Waxman
Some Unwise Reflections about Discretion, George P. Fletcher
Street Stops and Broken Windows: Terry, Race and Disorder in New York City, Jeffery Fagan and Garth Davies
Syria, Threats of Force, and Constitutional War Powers, Matthew C. Waxman
Syria, Threats of Force, and Constitutional War Powers, Matthew C. Waxman
The Brussels Effect, Anu Bradford
The Case for Treason, George P. Fletcher
The Chicago School’s Limited Influence on International Antitrust, Anu Bradford, Adam S. Chilton, and Filippo Maria Lancieri
The Fall and Rise of Criminal Theory, George P. Fletcher
The Fault of Not Knowing, George P. Fletcher
The Genesis of the GATS (General Agreement on Trade in Services), Juan A. Marchetti and Petros C. Mavroidis
The Individualization of Excusing Conditions, George P. Fletcher
The Known Unknowns of the Business Tax Reforms Proposed in the House Republican Blueprint, Michael J. Graetz
The Law of Armed Conflict and Detention Operations in Afghanistan, Matthew C. Waxman
The Law of War and Its Pathologies, George P. Fletcher
The Legacy of Louis Henkin: Human Rights in the "Age of Terror" – An Interview with Sarah H. Cleveland, Sarah H. Cleveland
The Meaning of Morality, George P. Fletcher
The Metamorphosis of Larceny, George P. Fletcher
The Nature and Function of Criminal Theory, George P. Fletcher
The Place of Victims in the Theory of Retribution, George P. Fletcher
The Power to Threaten War, Matthew C. Waxman
The Power to Wage War Successfully, Matthew C. Waxman
The Presumption of Innocence in the Soviet Union, George P. Fletcher
The Protective Power of the Presidency, Henry Paul Monaghan
The Right and the Reasonable, George P. Fletcher
The Right Deed for the Wrong Reason: A Reply to Mr. Robinson, George P. Fletcher
The Role of Firearms in Violence "Scripts": The Dynamics of Gun Events among Adolescent Males, Deanna L. Wilkinson and Jeffrey Fagan
The Storrs Lectures: Liberals and Romantics at War: The Problem of Collective Guilt, George P. Fletcher
The Structure of Terrorism Threats and the Laws of War, Matthew C. Waxman
The Universal and the Particular in Legal Discourses, George P. Fletcher
The Use of Force Against States that Might Have Weapons of Mass Destruction, Matthew C. Waxman
The WTO Legal System: Sources of Law, David Palmeter and Petros C. Mavroidis
"They say I am not an American…": The Noncitizen National and the Law of American Empire, Christina Duffy Ponsa-Kraus
Trade Openness and Antitrust Law, Anu Bradford and Adam S. Chilton
Trading Pharma Goods the WTO Legal Framework, Neeraj Rajan Sabitha and Petros C. Mavroidis
Treaties' Domains, Tim Wu
Truth in Codification, George P. Fletcher
"Twisting Slowly in the Wind": A Search for Constitutional Limits on Coercion of the Criminal Defendant, John C. Coffee Jr.
Two Kinds of Legal Rules: A Comparative Study of Burden-of-Persuasion Practices in Criminal Cases, George P. Fletcher
Two Modes of Legal Thought Symposium on Legal Scholarship: Its Nature and Purposes, George P. Fletcher
Universal Exceptionalism in International Law, Anu Bradford and Eric A. Posner