| FEBRUARY 2008 VISITING SCHOLAR: DAVID KENNEDY
 David Kennedy is the Vice President for International Affairs, University Professor of Law and David and Marianna Fisher University Professor of International Relations at Brown University. At Brown, he has responsibility for the university’s international strategy, for oversight of the Watson Institute of International Affairs, and for strengthening programs of education in research and in the field of legal studies. Kennedy is also the Manley O. Hudson Visiting Professor of Law and Director of the European Law Research Center at Harvard Law School, where he taught for more than twenty five years before moving to Brown, and Visiting Professor of Law at the School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. He teaches international law, international economic policy, European law, legal theory, and law and development. He has practiced law with various international institutions, including the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Commission of the European Union, and with the private firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton in Brussels. His work with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton combined European antitrust litigation, government relations advising and general corporate law.
Professor Kennedy is the author of various articles on international law and legal theory, and founder of the New Approaches to International Law project. His most recent books are Economic Development: An Intellectual History (Princeton University Press, forthcoming), Of War and Law (Princeton University Press, 2006), and The Dark Sides of Virtue: Reassessing International Humanitarianism (Princeton University Press, 2004). His research uses interdisciplinary materials from sociology and social theory, economics and history to explore issues of global governance, development policy and the nature of professional expertise. Professor Kennedy is particularly interested in the politics of the transnational regime for economic policy making. He has been particularly committed to developing new voices from the third world and among women in international affairs.
UMN Visit: February 28-29, 2008.
Public presentation: February 28, 2008, 4:00 pm, Cowles Auditorium Title: "The Mystery of Global Governance" Download |
