In February 2022, Prof. Nienke Grossman participated in a two-day virtual workshop for authors of the Oxford Handbook on Women and International Law, which she is co-editing with J. Jarpa Dawuni (Howard University), Jaya Ramji-Nogales (Temple University Beasley School of Law), and Hélène Ruiz Fabri (Max Planck Institute Luxembourg).
In October 2021, Senior Fellow Prof. Sonya Ziajawas an invited participant at the First Annual Starved Planet Environmental Law Scholars Workshop, sponsored by Loyola University Chicago, on the topic, "The Green Constitution -- Do Environmental Rights Matter?"
Senior Fellow Prof. Sonya Ziaja was an invited panelist at Probing Democracy -- Inaugural Conference of the Central European University Democracy Institute in Budapest, in October 2021. She spoke on the topic, "How can knowledge production contribute to (re-)democratization?"
In October 2021, Prof. Mortimer Sellers, director of the Center, hosted the Wilson H. Elkins Conference on Republicanism Oct. 7-9 at the law school. Sellers and other noted lawyers, philosophers and political scientists discussed Republican law, Republican justice and the Republican form of government. The results of the conference will be published by Oxford University Press as The Oxford Handbook of Republicanism.
In July 2021, Prof. Nienke Grossman made a presentation,“Current Levels of Representation of Women in Human Rights Organs and Mechanisms: Ensuring Gender Parity,” to the Washington College of Law Academy on Human Rights at American University.
In March 2021, Prof. Nienke Grossman was elected for a three-year term to the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law (ASIL). She is currently serving a three-year term as co-chair of the Women in International Law Interest Group of ASIL, through 2022.
In March 2021,Prof. James Maxeiner gave a presentation titled "The Authoritative Text as Imperative to Comprehensibility of Legislation," at the program "5th European Symposium on the Comprehensibility of Legal Provisions," which was sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection in Berlin.
Prof. Nienke Grossman was a panelist on “National Nomination Procedures for Judicial Elections: Why Do They Matter?,” during the 19th Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute, in December 2020.
Prof. Nienke Grossman was a panelist on “Innovation to Promote Parity in Justice Systems” at the First International Forum on Justice Innovation, in November 2020. She gave her presentation in Spanish.
In July 2020, Prof. Nienke Grossman participated in the Virtual Regional Consultation on the Preparation of Guidelines about the Current Levels of Female Representation in UN Human Rights Bodies and Mechanisms.
