题目：International Development Law and the Global Economy.
时间：2013年6月4日（星期二）上午10:00-12:00
地点：主教519
This lecture will address the parameters of IDL, and who the actors and clients are. The importance of the development equation will be seen in terms of the possible risk of the failure of the state, and the dire consequences that may follow. Also, certain trends with respect to global capital markets, the Euro debt crisis and its impact on developing countries will be explained. The shifting trends in capital investments historically from the North to the South is now changing to from the South to the North (e.g., Asia and Latin America are now investing in Europe and North America). This relatively new phenomena will be examined and explained.
演讲人简介：RUMU SARKAR
Dr. RumuSarkar has won a Fulbright Scholarship and has been added to the Fulbright Specialist Roster as an expert in international law. She is currently serving on the Advisory Board for Loyola University Chicago School of Law. She was also an Adjunct Law Professor and a Visiting Researcher at the Georgetown University Law Center where she taught a graduate law (LL.M.) seminar, and has extensively published law review articles on a variety of subjects.
Professor Sarkar has authored two legal textbooks, INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LAW (Oxford University Press, 2009), and TRANSNATIONAL BUSINESS LAW (Kluwer Law Int’l, 2003). Professor RumuSarkar was awarded the 2007 Grand Prize by the St Cyr Foundation for her essay, “A Fearful Symmetry: A New Global Balance of Power?” The St. Cyr Foundation supports the St. Cyr military academy – in effect, France’s West Point. An expanded version of the essay, THE NEW SOLDIER IN AN AGE OF ASYMMETRIC CONFLICT, was published by Vij Books India in January 2013. She was also awarded Third Prize by the Colonel Arthur D. Simons Center for its 2012 Interagency Writing Competition.
