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.
Publications from 2022
Article: Consensus Decision-Making and Legislative Inertia at the WTO: Can International Law Help?, Americo B. Zampetti, Patrick Low, and Petros C. Mavroidis
Publications from 2021
Article: Do Legal Origins Predict Legal Substance?, Anu Bradford, Yun-chien Chang, Adam S. Chilton, and Nuno Garoupa
Article: Trading Pharma Goods the WTO Legal Framework, Neeraj Rajan Sabitha and Petros C. Mavroidis
Book: Advanced Introduction to Landmark Criminal Cases, George P. Fletcher
Book: China and the WTO: Why Multilateralism Still Matters, Petros C. Mavroidis and André Sapir
Publications from 2020
Article: The Chicago School’s Limited Influence on International Antitrust, Anu Bradford, Adam S. Chilton, and Filippo Maria Lancieri
Book: The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World, Anu Bradford
Book: The Regulation of International Trade, Vol. 3: The General Agreement on Trade in Services, Petros C. Mavroidis
Book: The Restatement and Beyond: The Past, Present, and Future of U.S. Foreign Relations Law, Paul B. Stephan and Sarah H. Cleveland
Memo/Briefing Note: Incorporating Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) into Investment Approval Processes, Kelly Dudine and Sam Szoke-Burke
Memo/Briefing Note: Submission to Bonsucro re Production Standard v5 (2019-21), Nami Patel and Sam Szoke-Burke
Podcast: Beyond "Unprecedented" S1 Ep6: Pandemic Pressures on Global Trade, Eric L. Talley, Anu Bradford, and Petros C. Mavroidis
Report/Policy Paper: Free, Prior and Informed Consent: Addressing Political Realities to Improve Impact, Tehtena Mebratu-Tsegaye and Leila Kazemi
Working Paper: Constitutional War Powers in World War I: Charles Evans Hughes and the Power to Wage War Successfully, Matthew C. Waxman
Working Paper: Cyberattacks and the Constitution, Matthew C. Waxman
Working Paper: Insulating a WTO Investment Facilitation Framework from ISDS, George A. Bermann, N. Jansen Calamita, Manjiao Chi, and Karl P. Sauvant
Working Paper: Making Sense of the Arbitrator’s Ruling in DS 316 EC and Certain Member States – Measures Affecting Trade in Large Civil Aircraft (Article 22.6-EC): A Jigsaw Puzzle with (at Least) a Couple Missing Pieces, Petros C. Mavroidis and Kamal Saggi
Working Paper: Presidential Use of Force in East Asia: American Constitutional Law and the U.S.-Japan Alliance, Matthew C. Waxman
Working Paper: Preventing the Bad from Getting Worse: The End of the World (Trade Organization) As We Know It?, Bernard Hoekman and Petros C. Mavroidis
Working Paper: Stakeholder Preferences and Priorities for the Next WTO Director General, Matteo Fiorini, Bernard Hoekman, Petros C. Mavroidis, Douglas Nelson, and Robert Wolfe
Working Paper: To AB or Not to AB?: Dispute Settlement in WTO Reform, Bernard M. Hoekman and Petros C. Mavroidis
Working Paper: War Powers: Congress, the President, and the Courts – A Model Casebook Section, Stephen M. Griffin and Matthew C. Waxman
Publications from 2019
Article: Eroding "Checks" on Presidential Authority – Norms, the Civil Service, and the Courts, Peter L. Strauss
Article: Richard Gardner: Scholar, Statesman, Columbian, Gillian L. Lester
Article: Trade Openness and Antitrust Law, Anu Bradford and Adam S. Chilton
Book: Basic Documents Supplement to International Law: Cases and Materials, Lori Fisler Damrosch and Sean D. Murphy
Book: International Law: Cases and Materials, Lori Fisler Damrosch and Sean D. Murphy
Book: The Grammar of Criminal Law, Vol. 2: International Criminal Law, George P. Fletcher
Working Paper: Burning Down the House? The Appellate Body in the Centre of the WTO Crisis, Bernard Hoekman and Petros C. Mavroidis
Working Paper: Conceptualizing Legal Childhood in the Twenty-First Century, Elizabeth S. Scott and Clare Huntington
Working Paper: Driving Toward Autonomy? The FBI in the Federal System, 1908-1960, Daniel C. Richman and Sarah Seo
Working Paper: Greening the WTO: EGA, Tariff Concessions and Policy Likeness, Petros C. Mavroidis and Damien J. Neven
Working Paper: The Global Dominance of European Competition Law Over American Antitrust Law, Anu Bradford, Adam S. Chilton, Katerina Linos, and Alex Weaver
Working Paper: The Trump Administration and the Rule of Law, Peter L. Strauss
Publications from 2018
Article: Police, Race, and the Production of Capital Homicides, Jeffrey A. Fagan and Amanda Geller
Article: Promoting International Cybersecurity Cooperation: Lessons from the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), Duncan B. Hollis and Matthew C. Waxman
Article: Unintended Agency Problems: How International Bureaucracies are Built and Empowered, Anu Bradford, Stavros Gadinis, and Katerina Linos
Working Paper: All Quiet in the Western (European Football) Front: Regulation of Football in the European Continent, Petros C. Mavroidis
Working Paper: Another One BITes the Dust: The Distance between Luxembourg and the World is Growing after Achmea, Petros C. Mavroidis and Carlo M. Cantore
Working Paper: Competition Law Around the World from 1889 to 2010: The Competition Law Index, Anu Bradford and Adam S. Chilton
Working Paper: Competition Law Gone Global: Introducing the Comparative Competition Law and Enforcement Datasets, Anu Bradford, Adam S. Chilton, Chris Megaw, and Nathaniel Sokol
Working Paper: Die Another Day: Zeroing in on Targeted Dumping: Did the AB Hit the Mark in US – Washing Machines?, Petros C. Mavroidis and Thomas J. Prusa
Working Paper: Dissenting Opinions in the WTO Appellate Body: Drivers of Their Issuance & Implications for the Institutional Jurisprudence, Petros C. Mavroidis and Evan Y. Kim
Working Paper: Last Mile for Tuna (to a Safe Harbor): What is the TBT Agreement All About?, Petros C. Mavroidis
Working Paper: Presidents and War Powers, Matthew C. Waxman
Working Paper: The Caroline Affair in the Evolving International Law of Self-Defense, Matthew C. Waxman
Working Paper: Things Have Changed (or Have They?): Tariff Protection and Environmental Concerns in the WTO, Petros C. Mavroidis and Damien J. Neven
Working Paper: What's So Great About the Declare War Clause?, Matthew C. Waxman
Publications from 2017
Article: The Power to Wage War Successfully, Matthew C. Waxman
Book: The Internationalization of Government Procurement Regulation, Aris C. Georgopulos, Bernard M. Hoekman, and Petros C. Mavroidis
Working Paper: Cyber Strategy & Policy: International Law Dimensions, Matthew C. Waxman
Working Paper: Debating Autonomous Weapon Systems, Their Ethics, and Their Regulation Under International Law, Kenneth Anderson and Matthew C. Waxman
Working Paper: Free Markets, State Involvement, and the WTO: Chinese State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in the Ring, Petros C. Mavroidis and Merit E. Jano
Working Paper: Is EU Merger Control Used for Protectionism? An Empirical Analysis, Anu Bradford, Robert J. Jackson Jr., and Jonathon Zytnick
Working Paper: The Known Unknowns of the Business Tax Reforms Proposed in the House Republican Blueprint, Michael J. Graetz
Books from 2016
Book: The Regulation of International Trade, Vol. 2: The WTO Agreements on Trade in Goods, Petros C. Mavroidis
Book: The World Trade Organization: Law, Economics, and Politics, Bernard M. Hoekman and Petros C. Mavroidis
Working Paper: Ask for the Moon, Settle for the Stars: What is a Reasonable Period to Comply with WTO Awards?, Petros C. Mavroidis, Niall Meagher, Thomas J. Prusa, and Tatiana Yanguas
Working Paper: Dispute Settlement in the WTO: Mind Over Matter, Petros C. Mavroidis
Working Paper: MFN Clubs and Scheduling Additional Commitments in the GATT: Learning from the GATS, Bernard Hoekman and Petros C. Mavroidis
Working Paper: The Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight: The Not so Magnificent Seven of the WTO Appellate Body, Petros C. Mavroidis
Working Paper: The Power to Wage War Successfully, Matthew C. Waxman
Working Paper: The WTO Dispute Settlement System 1995-2016: A Data Set and Its Descriptive Statistics, Louise Johannesson and Petros C. Mavroidis
Working Paper: Trade, Social Preferences, and Regulatory Cooperation: The New WTO-Think, Thomas J. Bollyky and Petros C. Mavroidis
Publications from 2015
Article: Defining and Punishing Offenses Under Treaties, Sarah H. Cleveland and William S. Dodge
Article: From Sunshine to a Common Agent: The Evolving Understanding of Transparency in the WTO, Petros C. Mavroidis and Robert Wolfe
Book: The Question of Intervention: John Stuart Mill and the Responsibility to Protect, Michael W. Doyle
Book: The Regulation of International Trade, Vol. 1: GATT, Petros C. Mavroidis
Book: The World Trade Organization: Law, Practice, and Policy, Mitsuo Matsushita, Thomas J. Schoenbaum, Petros C. Mavroidis, and Michael Hahn
Working Paper: A Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement for Services?, Bernard Hoekman and Petros C. Mavroidis
Working Paper: Black Cat, White Cat: The Identity of the WTO Judges, Louise Johannesson and Petros C. Mavroidis
Working Paper: Commentaire de l'Article 19 de la Convention de Vienne de 1978 sur la Succession d'État en Matière de Traités: Participation à des Traités Signés par l’État Prédécesseur sous Réserve de Ratification, d’Acceptation ou d’Approbation, Petros C. Mavroidis and Dr. Vassilis P. Tzevelekos
Working Paper: Competition Policy and Free Trade: Antitrust Provisions in PTAs, Anu Bradford and Tim Buthe
Working Paper: Dispute Settlement in the WTO (Mind Over Matter), Petros C. Mavroidis
Working Paper: From Sunshine to a Common Agent: The Evolving Understanding of Transparency in the WTO, Petros C. Mavroidis and Robert Wolfe
Working Paper: Three Essays in Criminal Justice, Bernard E. Harcourt
Publications from 2014
Article: Adapting the Law of Armed Conflict to Autonomous Weapon Systems, Kenneth Anderson, Daniel Reisner, and Matthew C. Waxman
Article: Correcting Criminal Justice through Collective Experience Rigorously Examined, James S. Liebman and David Mattern
Article: How International Institutions Evolve, Anu Bradford
Article: The Power to Threaten War, Matthew C. Waxman
Working Paper: Adapting the Law of Armed Conflict to Autonomous Weapon Systems, Kenneth Anderson, Daniel Reisner, and Matthew C. Waxman
Working Paper: A Turquoise Mess: Green Subsidies, Blue Industrial Policy and Renewable Energy: The Case for Redrafting the Subsidies Agreement of the WTO, Aaron Cosbey and Petros C. Mavroidis
Working Paper: Exporting Standards: The Externalization of the EU's Regulatory Power via Markets, Anu Bradford
Working Paper: Merger Control Procedures and Institutions: A Comparison of the EU and US Practice, William E. Kovacic, Petros C. Mavroidis, and Damien J. Neven
Working Paper: Reaching Out for Green Policies: National Environmental Policies in the WTO Legal Order, Petros C. Mavroidis
Publications from 2013
Article: Sharing the Risks and Rewards of Economic Migration, Anu Bradford
Article: Syria, Threats of Force, and Constitutional War Powers, Matthew C. Waxman
Article: Syria, Threats of Force, and Constitutional War Powers, Matthew C. Waxman
Book: Fletcher's Essays on Criminal Law, Russell L. Christopher and George P. Fletcher
Book: Law and Economics of Contingent Protection in International Trade, Kyle W. Bagwell, George A. Bermann, and Petros C. Mavroidis
Book: Regulations of Foreign Investment: Challenges to International Harmonization, Zdeněk Drábek and Petros C. Mavroidis
Book: The Law of the World Trade Organization (WTO): Documents, Cases and Analysis, Petros C. Mavroidis and Mark Wu
Book: The Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy 2011-2012, Karl P. Sauvant
Working Paper: Defining and Punishing Offenses Under Treaties, Sarah H. Cleveland and William S. Dodge
Working Paper: Het Gebruik Van Risicotaxatie Instrumenten Onder SPV-EN (The Use of Risk Assessment Instruments among Community Psychiatric Nurses), Sophie de Valk, Corine de Ruiter, Jorge Folino, Matthew Large, Thierry Pham, Kim Reeves, Carolina Condemarin, Louise Nielsen, Martin Rettenberger, Robyn Mei Yee Ho, Verónica Godoy-Cervera, Kimberlie Dean, Maria Francisca Rebocho, Karin Arbach-Lucioni, Martin Grann, Katharina Seewald, Michael W. Doyle, Sarah Desmarais, Richard Van Dorn, Randy Otto, and Jay Singh
Working Paper: In the Shadow of the DSU: Addressing Specific Trade Concerns in the WTO SPS and TBT Committees, Henrik Horn, Petros C. Mavroidis, and Erik Wijkström
Working Paper: MEAs in the WTO: Silence Speaks Volumes, Henrik Horn and Petros C. Mavroidis
Working Paper: Multilateral Environmental Agreements in the WTO: Silence Speaks Volumes, Henrik Horn and Petros C. Mavroidis
Working Paper: Self-Defensive Force Against Cyber Attacks: Legal, Strategic and Political Dimensions, Matthew C. Waxman
Working Paper: Sharing the Risks and Rewards of Economic Migration, Anu Bradford