Investment treaties are often said to have two principal effects for the states that enter into them. First, it is asserted that investment treaties act to increase levels of foreign investment in host states. Second, it is said that investment treaties have a positive effect on national governance. Out of their desire to avoid liability for breaches of inve ... Show More
May 2019
The Rise of Investor-State Arbitration: Rethinking Key Moments
What explains the rise of investor-state arbitration? To the extent that investor-state arbitration had founding fathers, what were their motivations, what constraints did they have, what was their thinking? Using documents from the American, British, German, and Swiss archives, ... Show More
39m 56s
Feb 2021
Dangerous proportions: Means and Ends in Non-Finite War
Professor Nehal Bhuta, University of Edinburgh and Dr Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, University of Amsterdam, give a talk for the Public International Law seminar series. Philip Alston’s deep worries about the institutionalization of the tactic of targeting killing, the ensuing extensio ... Show More
39m 29s
Nov 2024
Samantha A. Vortherms, "Manipulating Authoritarian Citizenship: Security, Development, and Local Membership in China" (Stanford UP, 2024)
The redistribution of political and economic rights is inherently unequal in autocratic societies. Autocrats routinely divide their populations into included and excluded groups, creating particularistic citizenship through granting some groups access to rights and redistribution ... Show More
1 h
Jul 2023
G. Edward White, "Law in American History, Volume III: 1930-2000" (Oxford UP, 2019)
For nearly two decades the renowned legal historian G. Edward White has been writing a multi-volume history of law in America. In his third and concluding volume, Law in American History, Volume III: 1930-2000 (Oxford University Press, 2019), he surveys the many developments in A ... Show More
1h 12m
Apr 2021
ABA Law Student Podcast : Critical Issues in National Security Law
In the daily onslaught of news from all corners of the globe, it is sometimes difficult to decipher the implications of current events within our own country. From the pandemic, to cybersecurity, to international relationships, linking current events and national security interes ... Show More
26m 59s
Nov 2024
The Abraham Accords: The Gulf States, Israel, and the Limits of Normalization
In this talk, Dr Elham Fakhro, a Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, launches her new book ‘The Abraham Accords: The Gulf States, Israel, and the Limits of Normalization’ Elham Fakhro is a Research Fellow at the Middle East Initiative, Belfer Center, at the Harvard Ken ... Show More
38m 43s
Apr 2024
S5E5 - Aurelia Nxumalo, Advocate
Aurelia Hlobsile Nxumalo is an admitted Advocate of the High Court of South Africa, recognised for her multifaceted expertise in law, entrepreneurship, public speaking, and digital
influence. With a background spanning in compliance management, corporate governance, risk assessme ... Show More
42m 42s
Apr 22
Ripple and Rules: Rethinking the Indus Water Treaty
The Indus Treaty has been called as one of the world's most enduring water sharing agreements, but is that so? In this episode of All Things Policy, Swathi Kalyani, Research Analyst with the Geospatial Programme at the Takshashila Institution and Arpan A Chakravarty, Research ... Show More
26m 48s
Feb 2025
American Higher Education Under the Second Trump Administration
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI Director John Torpey speaks with Steven Brint, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at UC Riverside, about the early days of the second Trump administration and its impact on higher education. Brint discusses the ad ... Show More
32m 24s
Mar 2024
Yuliya Zabyelina, "Between Immunity and Impunity: External Accountability of Political Elites for Transnational Crime" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
How do top-level public officials take advantage of immunity from foreign jurisdiction afforded to them by international law? How does the immunity entitlement allow them to thwart investigations and trial proceedings in foreign courts? What responses exist to prevent and punish ... Show More
52m 31s