The International Law Colloquium, a time-honored tradition here at the University of Georgia School of Law, returns this spring semester with another great lineup of global legal experts.

In Spring 2025, this for-credit course is designed to introduce students to features of international economic law, broadly defined, through engagement with scholars in the international legal field.  The course broadly defines “international economic law” to include traditional approaches (trade and investment agreements) as well as non-traditional, emerging approaches (examining the effects of IEL on marginalized communities and considering re-distributional policies). This course consists of presentations of substantial works-in-progress on a variety of international law topics by prominent scholars from other law schools. In keeping with a tradition established when the series began in 2006, students will write reaction papers on the scholars’ manuscripts, and then discuss the papers with the authors in class. Leading the class will be Desirée LeClercq, Assistant Professor of Law & Faculty Co-Director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center. Other Georgia Law faculty, including Diane Marie Amann and Christopher Bruner, will join in the dialogues.

Further supporting the colloquium are staff at our Center; in particular, the Center’s Global Practice Preparation team, which includes Catrina Martin and student workers Casey Smith (J.D. ’26) and Aubry Tedford (J.D. ’25). The colloquium further benefits from generous support from the Kirbo Trust Endowed Faculty Enhancement Fund and the Talmadge Law Faculty Fund.

Presenting at the Spring 2025 Colloquium (pictured above, clockwise from top left):

January 17: Harlan Cohen, Fordham University School of Law
“The International Order, International Law, and the Definition of Security”     

January 24: Luwam Dirar, Western New England University School of Law
“Emancipation, Decolonization, and Gender in the Context of African Integration”

January 31: Diane Marie Amann, University of Georgia School of Law 
“Economies of Injustice and the Forced Residential-Schooling of Indigenous Americans”

February 7: Christopher Bruner, University of Georgia School of Law
“Sustainable Corporate Governance and Prospects for a US Value Chain Due Diligence Law”

February 14: Katrin Kuhlman, Georgetown University School of Law
“Micro International Law”

February 21: Olabisi D. Akinkugbe, Schulich School of Law
“Trade and Development in an Era of Geopolitics: A Third  World  View”

February 28: Ben Heath, Temple University School of Law
“Sanctions and Sanctuary: Refuge, Violence, and the Legal Ordering of (Economic) Warfare”

March 14: Weijia Rao, Boston University School of Law 
“Signaling through National Security Lawmaking”

March 21: Julian Arato, Michigan University School of Law
“The Institutions of Exceptions”

April 4: Trang (Mae) Nguyen, Temple University School of Law
“Goods’ Citizenship”

April 11: Rachel Brewster, Duke University School of Law
“Global settlements in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act”

April 18: Sarah Dadush, Rutgers Law School
“Shared Responsibility in American Contract Law”