Center on Law and Globalization
A partnership between the American Bar Foundation and the University of Illinois College of Law
The Center on Law and Globalization brings together leaders of international organizations, journalists, and legal scholars to understand the legal dimensions of key global issues, to stimulate exchanges on how these issues are addressed, and to advance research and conclusions on major topics in global debates.
The Center focuses on international human and legal rights issues, notably justice and security, the international economy and marketplace, and health. By advancing social scientific understanding of global law, global legal institutions and global legal behavior, Center scholars lay foundations for potential solutions.
Based on the background research and thorough examination of each situation, the Center can assist in identifying specific problems and provide concrete recommendations to better society and help global leaders advance the proper use of law and justice in a variety of international situations.
Smart Libraries
The Center on Law and Globalization is committed to bringing the best research on topics that affect all members of the globalizing community to the broadest audience. The purpose of the Smart Libraries is to provide non-specialists with access to user-friendly executive summaries of seminal research in different topical areas. The aim is to identify not only the major research, discussions and perspectives within a given topical area, but to present these findings and perspectives in a non-technical, quickly accessible fashion. The Center seeks to make the best work in the identified topical areas available to a broad audience. Users do not need legal or statistical training to grasp the key ideas and findings of the leading research.
- Click here to view the Smart Library on Law and Globalization
- Click here to view the Smart Library on Genocide
Conferences
The Center on Law and Globalization aims explicitly to help international legal agencies, such as the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, the Hague Courts, and the International Monetary Fund, to advance the research and scholarly frames available to global leaders, to enable national legal professions to catch a vision of the contributions they can make to advance participatory democracy and to help global and local leaders better understand the constraints, ideologies, and difficulties of advancing global agendas in a world of nation-states.
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In June 2009, the Center conducted a high profile conference at The Hague entitled, “International Colloquium on Sexual violence as International Crime”. The conference brought together world experts on international law, global health, and social science and human rights to focus on innovations and challenges of empirical and other evidence for the prosecution of cases of sexual violence.
See Press Releases about the 2009 Colloquium: