Workshops will be held on Thursdays at 4:15 p.m. in the Faculty Lounge unless otherwise noted.
Please consult weekly announcements and posters for room changes.
For more information, contact the Schell Center at 203-432-7480 or schell.law@yale.edu

September 10 (Room 128): Kim Scheppele
George W. Crawford Visiting Professor of Law and Robina Foundation Senior Fellow, Yale Law School, and Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor and Director, Program in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Russia and the Rule of Law?
Background Reading:
Memo from Kim Scheppele
Kim Scheppele, " Double Accounting: The Dual Registers of Narrative Explanation and Monetary Compensation After the Moscow Theater Siege"
Lauren A. McCarthy, "Beyond Corruption: An Assessment of Russian Law Enforcement’s Fight against Human Trafficking"
Peter H. Solomon Jr., "Judicial Power in Russia: Through the Prism of Administrative Justice"

September 24: John Fabian Witt
Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Learned Puffendorffs and Jacksonian Soldiers: The Problem of the Laws of War in American History
Background Reading:
Memo from John Witt
Jane Mayer, "The Dark Side" (excerpt)
Mark Weston Janis, "The American Tradition of International Law Great Expectations 1789-1914" (Chapter 2)

October 8: Lucas Guttentag
Robina Foundation Distinguished Senior Fellow in Residence and Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School, and Founding National Director, Immigrants’ Rights Project, American Civil Liberties Union
Immigrants’ Rights and the Obama Administration: Developments and Dangers
Background Reading:
The materials cover some of the Obama Administration's new initiatives, provide relevant background data, and identify judicial review and discrimination policy issues.
1.  Background Statistical Information
2.  Pew Unauthorized Immigrant Report
3.  New ICE worksite enforcement strategy
4.  Napolitano announcement re 287g agreements
5.  ICE press release on detention reforms
6.  Holder Decision Vacating Compean
7.  Guttentag.IRCA and judicial review
8.  GAO.1990 Report on IRCA and Discrimination-exec summary

October 29: Mark A. Drumbl
Class of 1975 Alumni Chair Professor of Law and Director, Transnational Law Institute, Washington and Lee University School of Law
Child Soldiers, Justice, and the International Legal Imagination 
Background Reading:
Mark A. Drumbl, "Always Innocent?: Child Soldiers, Justice, and the International Legal Imagination"

November 12: Balakrishnan Rajagopal
Professor of Law and Development and Director, Program on Human Rights and Justice, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The State of the Right to Development After Developmentalism 
Background Reading:
Stephen Marks, "Implementing the Right to Development: The Role of International Law"

December 3: Seyla Benhabib
Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Yale University
and
Judith Resnik
Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Migrations and Mobilities: Citizenship, Borders, and Gender
Background Reading:
Benhabib & Resnik, "Introduction from Migrations and Mobilities: Citizenship, Borders, and Gender"