Recent Events

Speaker: C. Evan Stewart, Partner, Cohen & Gresser LLP

The U.S. Supreme Court has handed down numerous consequential decisions. With respect to international law and the reach of the executive branch’s powers, the Court has not been reticent about issuing sweeping rulings; many of those rulings are not studied, however, and most Americans (and American lawyers) are unaware of them. Join Mr. Stewart, who recently published “The Worst Supreme Court Decisions, Ever!”, for a discussion on several of these consequential decisions.

Speaker: Noah A. Rosenblum, Associate Professor of Law, New York University School of Law

Noah Rosenblum will examine two recent, parallel developments in French and American administrative law.  First, in both countries, judicial review has increasingly become a way to pursue politics by other means. Second, courts have increasingly reviewed less formal administrative materials, such as press releases and tweets. In the United States these two developments seem related, as politicization has contributed to deformalization; in France the two developments seem to have been initially disconnected. Join Noah for a discussion on these trends,…

Speaker: Professor Martin S. Flaherty, Fordham Law School

In the past several decades, there has been a growing chorus of voices contending that the Supreme Court and federal judiciary should stay out of foreign affairs and leave the field to Congress and the President. Join Professor Martin Flaherty as he challenges this idea by arguing instead for a robust judicial role in the conduct of U.S. foreign policy. In this presentation he will draw upon constitutional history, international relations theory, and legal doctrine to demonstrate that the Supreme…

Speaker: Martin T. Hamilton, Tax Partner, Proskauer Rose LLP

Join Martin T. Hamilton for a discussion on the current U.S. income tax treaty landscape. Topics will include a review of changes to the income tax treaties in force, the potential for expansion (and perhaps contraction) of that treaty network, and an overview of certain significant U.S. tax questions arising under those tax treaties that cross-border tax practitioners and their clients should be aware of.

Speaker: Daniel R. Alonso, Adjunct Professor of Law, Cornell Law School and Partner, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 (FCPA) was the first law in the world that allowed a sovereign nation to prosecute its citizens and companies for corrupt payments overseas to the foreign officials of other sovereign nations. As groundbreaking as it was, neither the FCPA, nor laws sanctioned by many other countries in the decades since, allow the prosecution of foreign officials (the demand side of bribery), reflecting a policy choice to focus only on the bribe payers, or…

Speaker: Professor Anu Bradford, Columbia Law School

Based on her recent book, Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology, Professor Anu Bradford will discuss the three competing regulatory approaches governing the digital economy (the American market-driven model, the Chinese state-driven model, and the European rights-driven regulatory model) and how governments and tech companies navigate the inevitable conflicts that arise when these regulatory approaches collide in the international domain. Each digital empire is advancing a competing vision for the digital economy while attempting to expand its sphere…

Speaker: Annmarie Giblin, Partner and Co-Chair of Cybersecurity, Data Management & Privacy Practice at Tarter, Krinsky & Drogin LLP

Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) is poised to disrupt many established areas of law, but none more so than the rapidly emerging area of cybersecurity law. Join Annmarie Giblin for an overview of cybersecurity law which will provide practitioners with the high-level information needed to anticipate and prepare for cybersecurity law’s impact on their practice and their clients. Annmarie will also discuss the impact that AI and cybersecurity law will have on each other and best practices to identify emerging legal issues…