The American Society of International Law is awarding its highest honor to U.S.-Asia Law Institute Faculty Director José E. Alvarez in 2024.
USALI Faculty Director José E. Alvarez publishs a new article on WHO's Human Rights Rhetoric
U.S.-Asia Law Institute Faculty Director José E. Alvarez published a new article, The WHO’s Mixed Human Rights Messages, in the latest issue of the Yearbook of International Disaster Law
USALI Faculty Director José E. Alvarez reviews Tzouvala’s Capitalism as Civilization in ASIL
U.S.-Asia Law Institute Faculty Director José E. Alvarez recently wrote a review of Tzouvala’s Capitalism as Civilization in the latest issue of the American Journal of International Law.
Faculty Director José E. Alvarez inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
USALI Faculty Director José E. Alvarez was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of the oldest and most prestigious learned societies in the United States, on September 10, 2022. Professor Alvarez was elected in April 2021, but the ceremony was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Institute News: USALI Faculty Director José E. Alvarez to address panel on Ukraine crisis
Event Recording: The Future of U.S.-Japan Trade Relations
Event Recording: Investment Treaty Reform in Asia: Rule Makers, Takers or Breakers?
Event Recordings: Government Perspectives on Reform – The View from Asian Capitals
As global reform activities continue gaining momentum, what do Asian governments think about these efforts? Are they reflective of the concerns of Asian states? How are governments managing the simultaneous reform of existing treaties and the negotiations of new ones? How are ASEAN countries in particular addressing reform? Is there (or could there be) an ASEAN (or Asian) voice on these issues?
Event Recording: Reforming the International Law of Foreign Investment – State of Play in International Organizations
Faculty Director José E. Alvarez elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
JILP: Biden's International Law Restoration by USALI Faculty Director José Alvarez
USALI Faculty Director and NYU Law Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law José Alvarez recently published an article in NYU Law’s Journal of International Law and Politics (JILP) entitled “Biden’s International Law Restoration,” in Volume 53, Number 2 – Winter 2021. JILP is a student-run publication devoted to commentary on contemporary issues in international and comparative law. JILP features articles on international legal topics by leading scholars and practitioners and notes, case comments, and book annotations written by journal members.
Read Biden’s International Law Restoration, 53 N.Y.U. J. Int’l L. & Pol. 523 (2021).
Event Recording: US-Asia Relations in the Biden Administration
Centre for International Law (CIL): "Research and Writing on International Law Topics"
On December 2, 2020 Faculty Director Jose E. Alvarez presented on “Researching and Writing on International Law Topics” as part of a webinar for National University of Singapore’s Centre for International Law (CIL). You may watch the webinar below.
Event Recording: The Rise of China and International Law
Recorded October 21, 2020
One of China’s leading scholars writing about international law from a Chinese perspective, Professor Cai Congyan, will talk about the ways in which an increasingly wealthy and powerful China has evolved from “selective adaptation” of existing international legal norms to “norm entrepreneurship.”
Event Recording: China and Authoritarian International Law
International law has mainly been a product of liberal democracies since World War II. But democracy and liberalism are under assault from populists, economic nationalists, and autocrats. Tom Ginsburg, a professor of law and political science, asks what international law might look like if the global trend toward authoritarianism continues. He argues that today’s authoritarian regimes, including China, are using international law to promote their own survival, and may end up reshaping it in important ways.
Event Recording: A Discussion of the U.S.-China Technology Relationship & The Politics of Data
In this webinar recorded on May 22, 2020, Samm Sacks, a senior fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center and Cybersecurity Policy Fellow at New America, spoke with Professor Jose Alvarez, USALI’s lead faculty advisor, about the struggle among governments to determine who can access our digital data and how it can be used.
U.S.-Asia Law Institute Leadership Change
Katherine Wilhelm: USALI's New Executive Director
Gelatt Dialogue 2018 Video Highlights
In November 2018, the U.S.-Asia Law Institute hosted our 24th Annual Timothy A. Gelatt Memorial Dialogue on the Rule of Law in East Asia. The theme to the forum was “East Asia, America & International Law'“ with noted speakers from Asia and the United States to discuss human rights, intergovernmental and territorial disputes, and international tribunals.