The Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law

The Center spearheads an exciting calendar of events throughout the academic year that spotlights current and emerging issues in international business law and policy. The schedule includes symposia and lectures, breakfast roundtables, international economic law forums, brown bag luncheons, and student-organized programs. Videos are available online for some of the events and presentations.

Upcoming Events

  • 4.3 - Brown Bag Discussion
    Speaker: Professor Boldizsar Nagy of ELTE and CEU
  • 4.4 - Symposium: Private Data/Public Good: Emerging Issues in Trade Secrets Law
    Symposium by the Trade Secrets Institute and the Dennis J. Block Center for International Business Law at Subotnick Conference Center, 10th Floor.
  • 4.5 - Breakfast Roundtable
    Speaker: Professor Boldizsar Nagy.
    Topic: Environmental Law at the International Court of Justice: Pending Negotiations and Ongoing Breaches of International Law
  • 4.11 - Brown Bag Lunch
    Speaker: David Lenter.
    Topic: An Insider's Perspective on Tax Reform.
  • 4.12 - International Economic Forum
    Speaker: David Zaring, Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
    Topic: “The Interface Problem in International Regulation”?
  • 4.16 - Lunch in Honor of the Graduating Fellows

Our Programs and Past Events

  • International Economic Law Forums

    The Center sponsors colloquia that provide students and faculty with opportunities to meet outside the classroom and discuss international economic law topics in a dynamic and informal setting. Scholars from Brooklyn Law School and faculty members of other law schools across the country and around the world present their works in progress to an audience of faculty, IBL Fellows, and invited guests at the Law School. Topics covered at recent International Economic Law Forums have included cybercrime, uniform law conventions, international dispute resolution, and corporate governance in West Africa.

    Past Forums

  • Regulatory Dualism as a Development Strategy: Corporate Reform in Brazil, the U.S. and the EU; Mariana Pargendler, Yale University Law School
  • Taming or Protecting the Modern Corporation? Shareholder- Stakeholder Debates in a Comparative Light; Professor Martin Gelter, Fordham University Law School
  • Welfare, Tax Incentives, and Global Labor Mobility; Professor Ruth Mason, University of Connecticut, School of Law
  • The Epistemology of the Financial Crisis: Complexity, Causation, Law, and Judgment; Professor Jeffrey M. Lipshaw, Suffolk University Law School
  • Why Are There Tax Havens? Professor Adam Rosenzweig, Washington University School of Law
  • 2.24.2012 International Economic Forum: Failures of American Civil Justice in International Perspective

    Speaker: Professor James Maxeiner, University of Baltimore Law School.

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  • 10.19.2011 International Economic Law Forum

    Dr. Arad Reisberg, Reader in Corporate and Financial Law and Vice Dean (Research) Director, UCL Centre for Commercial Law will speak at this International Economic Law Forum.

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  • 4.4.2011 The Promises and Perils of Global Governance

    Professor Sungjoon Cho from Chicago Kent School of Law And Professor Claire Kelly of Brooklyn Law School.

Learn more about our rich history.

Have questions? We have answers.

Brooklyn Law School
Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law
Attn: Deanna Handler
Fellowship Program
250 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201