Center on Global Governance | Columbia Law School
Past Speakers & Conferences
Distinguished Speaker Series 2009 – 2011
Spring 2011 Speakers
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2011
Columbia Law School
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 103
12:10 - 1:00 PM
ANDREW J. SHAPIRO, Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, will be speaking on "Reflections on a Career in Public Service.”
Short Biography:
Andrew J. Shapiro is a 1994 graduate of Columbia Law School and was Professor Richard Gardner's former student. He was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and earned a master’s degree in international affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.
Mr. Shapiro was sworn in as Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs on June 22, 2009. He previously served as Senior Advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Prior to joining the State Department with the Secretary, he served from 2001 to 2009 as Senator Clinton's Senior Defense and Foreign Policy Advisor. In this position, he was Senator Clinton's primary policy advisor on national security issues including Senator Clinton's work on the Senate Armed Services Committee. Mr. Shapiro also traveled with Senator Clinton extensively overseas, joining her on visits to the Iraq and Afghanistan areas of operation. He also served as a member of the Obama-Biden Department of Defense Agency Review Team before shifting to Secretary of State Clinton's confirmation and transition team once she was officially named.
Previously, Mr. Shapiro was counsel to the Justice Department's International Competition Policy Advisory Committee, and was an associate at the Washington, DC law firm Covington & Burling. He received a B.A., cum laude with honors distinction in Diplomatic History from the University of Pennsylvania and a joint law/master's in international affairs degree from Columbia University. Prior to attending law and graduate school, he worked as a senior research assistant at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Andrew Shapiro is a recipient of the Gold Star Wives of America Appreciation Award and the National Guard Association’s Patrick Henry Award. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute of Strategic Studies.
TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2011
1501 International Affairs Building
6:00 - 8:00 PM
THE CENTER ON GLOBAL GOVERNANCE, THE COMMITTEE ON GLOBAL THOUGHT, AND THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF DEMOCRACY, TOLERATION AND RELIGION
Presents
The Egyptian Transition in Context
The panel explores the wider experience of countries that are attempting democratic transitions, including various of the "color revolutions" in Eastern Europe and the experience of other parts of the Islamic world.
Panel:
Mona El-Ghobashy, Assistant Professor Comparative Politics, Barnard College
“Egypt.”
Timothy Frye, Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy, Columbia University
"Color Revolutions in Eurasia.”
Mirjam Künkler, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
“Comparative reflections from Indonesia.”
Alfred Stepan, Wallace Sayre Professor of Government, Columbia University
“Comparing Transitions.”
Moderated by Michael Doyle, Member, Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2011
Columbia Law School
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 103
12:10 - 1:00 PM
SEAN HAGAN, General Counsel and Director of the Legal Department at the International Monetary Fund,
will be speaking on "Prevention and Resolution of Financial Crises -- the Role of the IMF.”
Short Biography:
Sean Hagan is General Counsel and Director of the Legal Department at the International Monetary Fund. In this capacity, Mr. Hagan advises the Fund’s management, Executive Board and membership on all legal aspects of the Fund’s operations, including its regulatory, advisory and lending functions. Mr. Hagan has published extensively on both the law of the Fund and a broad range of legal issues relating to the prevention and resolution of financial crisis, with a particular emphasis on insolvency and the restructuring of debt, including sovereign debt.
Prior to beginning work at the IMF, Mr. Hagan was in private practice, first in New York and subsequently in Tokyo. Mr. Hagan received his Juris Doctor from the Georgetown University Law Center and also received a Masters of Science in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
From left to right: R. Gardner, S. Hagan, and M. Doyle
THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 2011
Columbia Law School
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 103
12:10 - 1:00 PM
SEAN D. MURPHY, Professor of International Law at George Washington and recently nominated by the U.S. Government for election to the International Law Commission, will be speaking on "Litigating Statehood: Reflections on the Kosovo and Macedonia Cases in the World Court."
Short Biography:
Sean D. Murphy is a 1985 graduate of Columbia Law School and was Professor Richard Gardner's former student. Before joining The George Washington University Law School faculty in 1998, Professor Murphy served as legal counselor at the U.S. Embassy in The Hague, arguing several cases before the International Court of Justice and representing the U.S. government in matters before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the Permanent Court of Arbitration, and The Hague Conference on Private International Law. He also served as U.S. agent to the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal, arguing cases on behalf of the U.S. government and providing advice to U.S. nationals appearing before that tribunal. Between 1987 and 1995, he served in the U.S. Department of State Office of the Legal Adviser, primarily advising on matters relating to international environmental law, international claims, and politico–military affairs. He continues to serve as legal counsel to foreign governments, including at present Kosovo and Macedonia in cases before the International Court of Justice.
Professor Murphy has published numerous articles on international law; his article on international environmental liability won the American Journal of International Law 1994 Deak Prize for best scholarship by a younger author. His book Humanitarian Intervention: The United Nations in an Evolving World Order won the American Society of International Law 1997 certificate for preeminent contribution to creative scholarship. His most recent books are International Law: Cases and Materials (5th ed. 2009) (with Damrosch, Henkin & Smit), and Foreign Relations and National Security Law (3d ed. 2008) (with Franck & Glennon).
Education: B.A., Catholic University; J.D., Columbia University; LL.M., Cambridge University; S.J.D., University of Virginia.
Professor Murphy is a member of the board of editors of the American Journal of International Law.
FALL 2011 SPEAKERS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2011
Columbia Law School
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 101
12:10 - 1:00 PM
ROBERT C. ORR, U.N. Assistant Secretary-General for Strategic Planning and Policy Coordination, will be speaking on"We the Peoples: the UN's Next Decade."
Short Biography:
Dr. Robert C. Orr has served as the Assistant Secretary-General for Planning and Policy Coordination in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General since August 2004. His responsibilities include running the Secretary-General’s Policy Committee and serving as the principal policy advisor to the Secretary-General on climate change, food security, global health, counter-terrorism and the UN reform agenda. Dr. Orr joined the United Nations from Harvard University where he served as the Executive Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government. Prior to this, he served as Director of the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C., Deputy to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Director of Global and Multilateral Affairs at the National Security Council in the White House.
Dr. Orr received his Ph.D. and M.P.A. in International Relations from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, and his bachelor’s degree from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). He speaks Spanish and Mandarin.
Richard Gardner & Robert Orr
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Columbia Law School
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 101
12:10 - 1:00 PM
LARRY GARBER, Deputy Assistant Administrator in the Bureau of Policy Planning and Learning (PPL) at USAID, will be speaking on “Obama’s Approach to Development: An Insider’s View.”
Short Biography:
Larry Garber is Deputy Assistant Administrator in the Bureau of Policy Planning and Learning (PPL) at USAID, where he supervises the Offices of Science & Technology and Learning Evaluation and Research. During the first several months of 2010, Mr. Garber led a small team, which conceptualized and stood up the PPL Bureau, and from June-August 2010 he served as the Bureau’s Acting Assistant to the Administrator.
From October 2010-July 2011, Mr. Garber was detailed to the Africa Bureau, where he served as the Agency point person for the Referendum on Southern Sudan independence, and supervised the Offices Southern African Affairs and Development Planning. And from March-August 2011, Mr. Garber led an intra-agency Middle East Strategic Planning Group, which recommended a reframing of Agency programmatic approaches in response to developments in the Middle East and North Africa region.
Mr. Garber was a senior policymaker for USAID in Washington from 1993-99, including serving nine months as the Acting Assistant Administrator for the Bureau of Policy and Program Coordination. He was Director of USAID's West Bank and Gaza Mission from 1999-2004.
Before rejoining USAID in November 2009, Mr. Garber served as the Chief Executive Officer of the New Israel Fund, which aims to strengthen Israel’s democracy by supporting programs that safeguard civil and human rights, bridge social and economic gaps, foster tolerance for all inhabitants, and enable different forms of religious practice to thrive. From 1982-93, Mr. Garber worked with the National Democratic Institute, the International Human Rights Law Group, and Steptoe and Johnson law firm. He also has served as a consultant on election-related matters for the Organization of American States, United Nations, and Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Mr. Garber teaches as an adjunct at the Washington College of Law and has written extensively on issues relating to human rights, democratization, election monitoring, and Palestinian political and economic development. He is the author of the 1984 publication, Guidelines for international Election Observing, and co-editor of The New Democratic Frontier: A Country-by-Country Assessment of the 1990 Elections in Central and Eastern Europe. During 2007-08, Mr. Garber was a member of a six-person National Academies of Science expert panel, which prepared the publication improving Democracy Assistance: Building Knowledge Through Evaluations and Research.
Mr. Garber received a bachelor’s degree from Queens College in 1976 and a joint law degree and master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University in 1980.
SPRING 2010 SPEAKER
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2010
Columbia Law School
JGH Room 101
1:10 – 2:30 PM
ROBERT D. HORMATS, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Energy & Agricultural Affairs will be speaking on "Global Economic Governance: Which Way Forward?"
Short Biography:
Under Secretary for Management Patrick Kennedy swore in Robert D. Hormats as the Department of State's new Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs (E) today. He will serve as the Department's senior economic official, advising the Secretary on international economic policy. As Under Secretary, he will lead the work of the Department on issues ranging from trade, energy, and aviation to bilateral relations with America's economic partners. President Obama nominated Mr. Hormats on July 20, 2009. The Senate confirmed his appointment on September 22, 2009.
Most recently, Mr. Hormats served as Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs (International). He previously served as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs from 1981 to 1982, Ambassador and Deputy US Trade Representative from 1979 to 1981, and Senior Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic and Business Affairs at the Department of State from 1977 to 1979. He served as a senior staff member for International Economic Affairs on the National Security Council from 1969 to 1977, where he was senior economic advisor to Dr. Henry Kissinger, General Brent Scowcroft and Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski.
Mr. Hormats received a B.A. with a concentration in Economics and Political Science from Tufts University in 1965. He received an M.A. in 1966 and a Ph.D. in International Economics in 1970 from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
FALL 2010 SPEAKER
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2010
Columbia Law School
JGH Room 103
12:10 – 1:00 PM
DR. IVAN ŠIMONOVIC, New York Representative of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, will be speaking at Columbia Law School on “The Role of the UN in the Promotion of Human Rights.”
Short Biography:
In May 2010 Šimonovic was appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as the Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights. Šimonovic has extensive experience in the fields of international development, human rights, peace building and development of national institutions, which he has addressed at the political and academic levels.
He has been Minister of Justice of the Republic of Croatia since 2008, after previously serving as Assistant Minister and Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In addition he was Croatia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York for six years, and served as the Senior Vice-President and President of ECOSOC from 2001 to 2003.
Throughout his twenty-year career, he has actively engaged in various human-rights-related activities both as a legal expert as well as a diplomat.
FALL 2009 SPEAKERS
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2009
Columbia Law School
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 107
12:15 – 1:15 PM
ERIC ROSAND, Co-Director, Center on Global Counter-Terrorism Cooperation, will speak on “The Role of International Organizations in Combating Global Terrorism: Can They Make a Difference?”
Short Biography:
Eric Rosand is Co-Director of the Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation and a non-resident fellow at NYU's Center on International Cooperation. Previously he worked in the State Department for nine years, including in the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism and US Mission to the UN. He has served as a consultant to the UN and a number of countries on a range of counterterrorism issues. Mr. Rosand has published numerous articles and book chapters, and lectured widely, on international and regional counterterrorism cooperation, with a particular emphasis on the role of multilateral actors. He has a B.A. from Haverford College, a JD from Columbia University Law School, and an LLM in International Law from Cambridge University.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2009
Columbia Law School
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 107
12:15 – 1:15 PM
EDWARD C. LUCK, Senior Vice President and Director of Studies of the International Peace Institute, will speak on the subject of "Curbing Atrocity Crimes: The Uncertain Journey of the Responsibility to Protect."
Short Biography:
Edward C. Luck is Senior Vice President and Director of Studies of the International Peace Institute, an independent, international institution dedicated to promoting the prevention and settlement of armed conflicts between and within states through policy research and development. In February 2008, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed Professor Luck Special Adviser and Assistant Secretary-General, in which capacity he primarily focuses on the responsibility to protect. He is currently on public service leave as Professor of Practice in International and Public Affairs of the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, where he remains Director of the Center on International Organization.
Before coming to Columbia in 2001, he was Founder and Executive Director of the Center for the Study of International Organization, a research center jointly established by the School of Law of New York University and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs of Princeton University. From 1995 to 1997, he played a key role in the UN reform process as a Senior Consultant to the Department of Administration and Management of the United Nations, as Staff Director of the General Assembly’s Open-ended High-level Working Group on the Strengthening of the United Nations System, and as an advisor to the President of the General Assembly, Razali Ismail, on his proposals for Security Council reform.
From 1984 to 1994, Dr. Luck served as President and CEO of the United Nations Association of the USA, an organization he served in a number of research and management capacities between 1974 and 1984. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Sciences-Po in Paris, a Senior Consultant to the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, a member of the Secretary-General’s Policy Working Group on the United Nations and Terrorism, and a consultant to numerous private foundations and research centers.
A frequent media commentator and prolific author, Professor Luck’s most recent books include The UN Security Council: Practice and Promise (Routledge, 2006), International Law and Organization: Closing the Compliance Gap, co-edited with Michael W. Doyle (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004), and Mixed Messages: American Politics and International Organization, 1919-1999 (Brookings, 1999). He holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College with High Distinction in International Relations and a series of graduate degrees from Columbia University, including an M.I.A. from the School of International Affairs, the Certificate of the Russian Institute, and M.A., M.Ph. and Ph.D. degrees in Political Science from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2009
Columbia Law School
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 107
12:15 – 1:15 PM
IAN JOHNSTONE is Professor of International Law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. He will speak on "Global Peace Operations: Contemporary Dilemmas and Evolving Practice."
Short Biography:
Ian Johnstone is Professor of International Law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. While on part time-leave from Fletcher in the Fall of 2009, he is an Adjunct Professor of International Law at NYU Law School and Visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for International Cooperation. From 1991-2000, Professor Johnstone was a legal and political officer at the United Nations, including five years in the Office of the Secretary-General, as well as the Department of Peacekeeping Operations and the Office of the Legal Counsel. From 2005-07, he served as Editor and Lead Scholar of theAnnual Review of Global Peace. In addition to the 2006 and 2007 volumes of the Annual Review, his recent publications include: The United States and Contemporary Peace Operations: A Double-Edged Sword? (2008); “Law Making Through the Operational Activities of International Organizations,” George Washington International Law Review (2009), “Legislation and Adjudication in the UN Security Council: Bringing Down the Deliberative Deficit,” American Journal of International Law(2008); “The Secretary-General as Norm Entrepreneur,” Secretary or General? The Role of the UN Secretary-General in World Politics (2007). A citizen of Canada, he holds an LL.M. degree from Columbia University and J.D. and B.A. degrees from the University of Toronto.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2009
Columbia Law School
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 546
6:00 – 7:00 PM
JENS MEIERHENRICH is Assistant Professor of Government and of Social Studies at Harvard University. He recently served in Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and has previously worked with Luis Moreno Ocampo, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. He will speak on "Lawfare, the Use of Legal Procedure as a Strategy for the Maintenance of International Peace and Security."
Short Biography:
Jens Meierhenrich is Assistant Professor of Government and of Social Studies at Harvard University. He recently served in Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and has previously worked with Luis Moreno Ocampo, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. A Rhodes Scholar, Professor Meierhenrich is the author ofThe Legacies of Law: Long-Run Consequences of Legal Development in South Africa, 1652-2000 (Cambridge University Press, 2008) which won the American Political Science Association’s 2009 Woodrow Wilson Award for the “best book published in the United States during the previous year in politics, government, or international affairs,” and is currently completing a genocide trilogy, comprising The Rationality of Genocide; The Structure of Genocide; and The Culture of Genocide (forthcoming from Princeton University Press). He is also preparing, for Oxford University Press, Genocide: A Reader as well as Genocide: A Very Short Introduction, and finishing a book on Judicial responses to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, entitled Lawfare: The Institutional Design of Gacaca Jurisdictions in Rwanda.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2009
Columbia Law School
William and June Warren Hall, Room 104
6:00 – 8:00 PM
ROBERT C. ORR was appointed Assistant Secretary-General for Planning and Policy Coordination in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General in August 2004. Dr. Orr serves as the principal policy advisor in the Secretary-General’s office on climate change, global health and counter-terrorism. He will speak on “The Secretary-General’s Agenda and The Challenges He Faces.”
Short Biography:
Robert C. Orr was appointed Assistant Secretary-General for Planning and Policy Coordination in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General in August 2004. His responsibilities include running the Secretary-General’s Policy Committee, and leading the UN Secretariat’s efforts to advance the UN’s substantive reform agenda. Dr. Orr serves as the principal policy advisor in the Secretary-General’s office on climate change, global health and counter-terrorism. Dr. Orr joined the United Nations from Harvard University where he served as the Executive Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government. Prior to this, he served as Director of the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C., Deputy to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Director of Global and Multilateral Affairs at the National Security Council in the White House.