The Global Diffusion of Law: Transnational Crime and the Case of Human Trafficking

Event Details

Please note that this colloquium will take place on a Monday.

BETH SIMMONS is Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University. Her book, “Who Adjusts? Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policy During the Interwar Years, 1924-1939,” was recognized by the American Political Science Association in 1995 as the best book published in 1994 in government, politics, or international relations. Her recent book, “Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics,” received the APSA’s Woodrow Wilson Award, the International Social Science Council’s Stein Rokkan Prize, the American Society for International Law’s Certificate of Merit for a Preeminent Contribution to Creative Scholarship, and the International Studies Association’s Best Book Award.

Simmons was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009, was recently a fellow at the Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice at New York University, and is the current president of the International Studies Association.

Please RSVP to gage@virginia.edu by Thursday, April 12.