Annual Hudson Medal Discussion

Welcome everyone to the 2021 Hudson Medal Presentation. The Manley O. Hudson Medal, the Society’s highest honor, has been awarded since 1959 to a distinguished person of American or other nationality for outstanding contributions to scholarship and achievement in international law. The medal has been conferred on many luminaries, including Rosalyn Higgins, Tom Franck, Michael Reisman, Eli Lauterpacht, John Jackson, Bruno Simma, Peter Trooboff, and Stephen Breyer. I would like to thank Paul Reichler, Larry Martin, and ASIL Law Firm Leadership Circle Partner Foley Hoag LLP, for sponsoring this program—their eighth year of continuous sponsorship

Empirical Research on Bilateral Investment Treaties

Does the partisan orientation of a developing country’s leadership influence the country’s adoption of foreign investment-related laws and policies? Since the formative days of international business studies, observers have suggested that partisan politics might influence the policy environment for foreign investment. Curiously, however, the most well developed empirical literature on the determinants of foreign investment policy (particularly the strand exploring the determinants of expropriation) has largely if not completely ignored the potential role of partisanship. In this article I argue that partisanship offers a potentially useful proxy for the ideas that developing country leaders hold about the costs and benefits of foreign direct investment (FDI). Partisans of the left have historically been likely to view FDI as relatively undesirable, and have accordingly been relatively less likely than partisans of the right to adopt pro-FDI policies. However, I suggest that partisan thinking about FDI has converged in recent years, as the left has updated its beliefs about whether FDI is beneficial. I statistically test these expectations against a large dataset that analyzes the probability that developing countries will sign pro-FDI international treaties

Annual Hudson Medal Discussion

Welcome everyone to the 2021 Hudson Medal Presentation. The Manley O. Hudson Medal, the Society’s highest honor, has been awarded since 1959 to a distinguished person of American or other nationality for outstanding contributions to scholarship and achievement in international law. The medal has been conferred on many luminaries, including Rosalyn Higgins, Tom Franck, Michael Reisman, Eli Lauterpacht, John Jackson, Bruno Simma, Peter Trooboff, and Stephen Breyer. I would like to thank Paul Reichler, Larry Martin, and ASIL Law Firm Leadership Circle Partner Foley Hoag LLP, for sponsoring this program—their eighth year of continuous sponsorship

The International Court of Justice: New Challenges in The Hague for Adjudication of Interstate Disputes

This panel was convened on Thursday, March 30, 2023 at 10:30 a.m. by its moderator Catherine Amirfar of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, who introduced the panelists: Sarah Cleveland of Columbia University Law School; and Juan Manuel Gómez-Robledo Verduzco, the Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations for Mexico