The New York Law School (NYLS) and The American University of Rome (AUR) partnered to offer a unique Summer School on Law and Global Society in Rome. The program was delivered on AUR’s campus in June 2023 and was designed as a complete package, i.e., students enrolled to attend all four courses for a total of six credits. Watch this space for information on future enrollment for this exclusive summer program.
Transitional and Restorative Justice
This course focuses on how the tools of restorative justice and the application of restorative practices have been implemented in legal and political transitions from authoritarian regimes or from civil conflicts to democracy. The course also addresses how restorative justice and practices are used to resolve conflicts and heal from harm between non-governments when individuals are held accountable for violence, crimes, hate speech, civil wrongs, or harmful behavior and want to work toward peace and healing. Restorative practices, which derive from the traditions of various indigenous peoples, are increasingly being implemented in the United States and around the world, in schools, courts, community organizations, prisons, and more, to focus on the underlying causes of crime or harm, healing, change, restoring relationships, strengthening communities, and reducing recidivism. Transitional justice has provided the vehicle for societies to address past human rights abuses, mass atrocities, or other forms of severe trauma in order to increase the probability of a transition into a more democratic, just, peaceful future. Transitional justice consists of legal and extra-legal measures that are pursued to redress the consequences and the legacies of gross violations of human rights. Such measures may be punitive (criminal prosecutions) or restorative (truth commissions), as well as a series of reparative measures such as economic redress, memorials, apologies, and various cultural forms. The transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa, especially the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, will be offered as a case study.
Professors:
Penelope Andrews
Ruti Teitel
Susan J. Abraham
Credits:
This program is designed as a package. Students take all four courses for a total of six credits.
Schedule:
Mon. - Thurs.. 9:00 am - 16:30 pm
Economic Inequality in a Comparative Context
The experience of the COVID-19 pandemic has made it more critical than ever to understand the social and legal structures that create and sustain economic inequality around the world. This course examines how, historically, laws in many nations have helped to create structures that produce and sustain the racial wealth gaps that reverberate to this day in property ownership, education, employment, and healthcare. The course will draw on and further build upon students’ knowledge of this background and its impact in the United States. The course will offer thoughtful comparative analysis by exploring patterns of economic inequality in the European Union and other societies. Students will examine the efforts of governments, non-governmental organizations, multinational corporations, and citizen advocacy groups who have undertaken policy initiatives and widespread campaigns to effect solutions to redress structural inequality.
Professors:
Ann Thomas
Rachel Van Cleave
Credits:
This program is designed as a package. Students take all four courses for a total of six credits.
Schedule:
Mon. - Thurs. 9:00 am - 16:30 pm
Environmental governance, policy, and law
Environmental governance, policy, and law are relatively new subjects that are critically important and rapidly changing. This course covers three main topics: (i) a comparative perspective of environmental law and policymaking in the United States (US), the European Union (EU), and China; (ii) how international environmental treaties contribute to global environmental governance; (iii) the interests and impact of major stakeholders (i.e., governments, citizens, multinational corporations, and non-governmental organizations).
Professor:
Edoardo Agamennone
Credits:
This program is designed as a package. Students take all four courses for a total of six credits.
Schedule:
Mon. - Thurs. 9:00 am - 16:30 pm
No Peace Without Justice
This course aims to improve understanding of the relationship between peace, justice, and human rights from an international perspective by addressing the international community's legal obstacles and ethical dilemmas in pursuing these different but reciprocally connected goals. It addresses the maintenance of peace and security both between and within states, the fight against impunity for international crimes such as genocide and war crimes, the protection of human rights such as the right to life, the right not to be tortured, and the right to personal freedom in the context of different types of conflicts (including the “war on terror”). Specific issues explored during the course include the extraterritorial jurisdiction of states, international criminal tribunals, immunities from jurisdiction, different approaches to the fight against terrorism, and different models of post-conflict transitional justice.
Professor:
Antonio Marchesi
Credits:
This program is designed as a package. Students take all four courses for a total of six credits.
Schedule:
Mon. - Thurs. 9:00 am - 16:30 pm