Description: Diplomacy plays a critical role in the management and resolution of armed conflict and crises in the international system. After a war breaks out, decision makers see the opening of talks as a constructive step in the conflict’s resolution - dialogue allows for deals to be brokered and the logistics of war…
LEGS, or "Law-Engaged Graduate Students," meets during the academic year to discuss a work in progress by one of our Graduate Associates. Academic papers, dissertation proposals, and dissertation chapters have been presented at these meetings, to an audience of fellow graduate students.Abstract: "A number of scholars have…
LAPA's seminar format asks attendees to familiarize themselves with the paper in advance. The commentator opens the session by summarizing the main themes in the paper and presenting some topics for discussion. Paper copies of the seminar paper are generally available a week before the talk in 416A Robertson Hall during regular…
The workshop will consider the questions: What is human nature? Are there innate, hierarchical, human needs and motivations? Have they transformed? What are the social-political implications? Over seventy years ago Abraham Maslow submitted "A Theory of Human Motivation" (1943). His subsequent pyramid-shape hierarchy of needs…
This workshop will assemble a set of papers on text analysis and political economy, with the goal of seeing whether legal and political institutions, as embodied in text, have measureable socio-economic outcomes.
