News from the Center for International
and Comparative Law
Catch up on all the news from the Center for Comparative and International Law. Our faculty continue their important scholarship, and we recently hosted a very successful global conference on Republicanism. Details below.
Professor Nienke Grossman, co-director of the Center for International and Comparative Law, has been active as co-chair of the Women in Law Interest Group (WILIG) of the American Society of International Law (ASIL). She is in her final year of a three-year term in that role.

On Oct. 6, 2021, she participated in a panel discussion, "Afghanistan Aftermath: Faculty Perspectives," with several Baltimore Law colleagues. On Nov. 17, she joined a law school webinar panel to discuss "The Coming Wave: Dealing with Climate Change and Global Migration," which was also the cover story for the fall 2021 Baltimore Law magazine. The webinar recording is available here.

In July 2021, Grossman made a presentation,“Current Levels of Representation of Women in Human Rights Organs and Mechanisms: Ensuring Gender Parity,” to the Washington College of Law Academy on Human Rights at American University.

In May 2021, her article, “Litigating US Policy Toward the International Criminal Court,” was published in ASIL Insights.
Professor Mortimer Sellers, co-director of the Center for International and Comparative Law, hosted the Wilson H. Elkins Conference on Republicanism Oct. 7-9 at the law school.

Sellers and other noted lawyers, philosophers and political scientists discussed Republican law, Republican justice and the Republican form of government. The results of the conference will be published by Oxford University Press as The Oxford Handbook of Republicanism.

Philip Pettit, the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton, and Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University, will deliver the Wilson H. Elkins Lecture on “Freedom in the Republic,” available here.

Quentin Skinner, the Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities and co-director of The Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought at Queen Mary University of London, delivered the John Sumner Stead Lecture on “Republican Liberty and Fundamental Rights,” available here.
Curacao for Winter Break!
Thanks to an ongoing partnership with Hofstra's Maurice A. Deane School of Law, several Baltimore Law students will be studying comparative and international law in Curacao over the winter break.

Dean Ronald Weich will teach Comparative Legislative Process, and Hofstra Prof. Miriam Lyman will teach International Sales Law.
Professor James Maxeiner gave a virtual presentation, "The Authoritative Text as Imperative to Comprehensibility of Legislation," at the 5th European Symposium on the Comprehensibility of Legal Provisions in March 2021.

He wrote an article, "America's covid-19 preexisting vulnerability: a government of men, not laws," for the journal, The Theory and Practice of Legislation (vol. 8, 2020).

In July 2020 Maxeiner gave a virtual presentation, "Covid 19 America: A government of men not laws," as part of Global Legislative Responses to Coronavirus, sponsored by the British Institute of International and Comparative Law.
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