Press Releases
A major new book, Bankrupt: Global Lawmaking and Systemic Financial Crisis (Stanford University Press, 2009) by American Bar Foundation and Center on Law and Globalization and Northwestern University scholars has been awarded the Best Book Prize for 2010 by the Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association. The authors, Terence C. Halliday, research professor at the American Bar Foundation and the co-Director of the Center on Law and Globalization, and Bruce G. Carruthers, a Northwestern University professor of sociology and ABF-affiliated scholar, will receive the award at the American Sociological Society Association meetings in Atlanta in August. To read more Click Here John Hagan, Co-recipient of the 2009 Stockholm Prize in Criminology, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Hagan is among a group of 229 elected to the 2010 class of new Fellows, to be inducted in a ceremony on October 9 at the Academy’s headquarters in Cambridge, MA. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an independent policy research center that conducts multidisciplinary studies of complex and emerging problems. The Academy’s elected members are leaders in the academic disciplines, the arts, business, and public affairs. To read more Click Here Responding to a recent decision by the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court directing the Pre-Trial Chamber to consider expanding the arrest warrant issued to Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir to include genocide, American Bar Foundation sociologist John Hagan said “The decision of the appeals panel of the International Criminal Court that judges previously erred in refusing to indict Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir is important because it acknowledges evidence amassed over more than five years that the atrocities in Darfur have claimed two to four hundred thousand lives and displaced two to three million people to camps where they remain or die from continuing health problems.” To read more Click Here To read more Click Here To read more Click Here To read Click Here To see the Smart Library on Genocide Click Here To read Click Here To read Click Here To read Click Here To read Click Here
Terence C. Halliday, Bruce G. Carruthers Awarded Prize for Book on Financial Crisis and International Organizations
May 13, 2010
John Hagan, Center Co-Director Is Elected To The American Academy Of Arts And Sciences
May 3, 2010
John Hagan Reacts To Decision Of The ICC To Possibly Expand Charges Against Sudanese President Al-Bashir To Include Genocide
February 4, 2010
Terence Halliday, Center on Law and Globalization co-Director, addresses the Council on Foreign Relations on China’s Future
December 18, 2009
Social Science Research Seen to Play Key Role in Building Institutions of International Criminal Law
June 22, 2009 (Conference Wrap Up)
Newly Released Web-based “Smart” Library on Genocide Puts Facts and Research in Hands of Global Policy-Makers
June 18, 2009
ICC Prosecutor and U.N. High Commissioner on Human Rights: The World Community Denies Severity of Rape as a War Crime
June 17, 2009 (End of Day 1)
World Experts To Convene Conference On Sexual Violence As International Crime
June 15, 2009
New Study Shows How Systematic Financial Crises Trigger Global Actions and State Reactions
May 27, 2009
Center on Law and Globalization Conference Addresses IMF Governance Reform: Experts find that a muscular IMF must solve governance issues
April 29, 2009