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International Masterclass Thomas G. Weiss (CUNY) and Leif Wenar (King’s College London)

Area of research:	General, theoretical and methodological issues
Location:	Campus Den Haag, Lange Voorhout 44, zaal 0.
Participants:	PhD-students and postdocs
Date:	Thursday 11th of December 2008, from 11.00 - 15.00 hr
Further information:	Otto Spijkers, LLM, MA (o.spijkers@law.leidenuniv.nl)
Subscription:	Obligatory, no later than 1 December 2008
Programme
11.00 - 11.15	Arrival with coffee and tea
11.15 - 11.30	Welcome by Prof. Nico Schrijver and Dr. Koos van der Bruggen
11.30 - 11.50	Presentation on the United Nations and the Evolution of Global Values, by Otto Spijkers
11.50 - 12.10	Presentation on the United Nations Intellectual History Project, by Thomas G. Weiss.
12.10 - 12.30	Presentation on the Role of Global Ethics in International Relations, by Leif Wenar.
12.30 - 13.00	Lunch (Sandwiches)
13.00 - 15.00	Opportunity for PhD Students and Postdocs to present their research to Thomas G. Weiss and Leif Wenar and receive feedback.

Thomas G. Weiss 

Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science at The CUNY Graduate Center and Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, where he is co-director of the UN Intellectual History Project. He is President (2008-9) of the International Studies Association, chair (2007-9) of the Academic Council on the UN System (ACUNS), and was awarded the "Grand Prix Humanitaire de France 2006." As Research Professor at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies (1990-98), he also held university administrative posts (Associate Dean of the Faculty, Director of the Global Security Program, Associate Director), was the Executive Director of ACUNS, and co-directed the Humanitarianism and War Project. Earlier, he was the Executive Director of the International Peace Academy (1985-9); a Senior Economic Affairs Officer at the UN Conference on Trade and Development in Geneva (1975-85); and held professional posts in the Office of the UN Commissioner for Namibia, the University Program at the Institute for World Order, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, and International Labor Organization. He has been a consultant for foundations and numerous inter-governmental and non-governmental organizations and was editor of Global Governance (2000-5) and research director of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (2000-2).

Professor Leif Wenar 

After earning his Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from Stanford, Leif Wenar went to Harvard to study with John Rawls. He wrote his Harvard qualifying thesis on Marx’s theory of history, and his Ph.D. dissertation on property rights with Robert Nozick and T.M. Scanlon. He works in moral, political and legal theory. Much of his current research focuses on international issues such as war, human rights, severe poverty, development aid, and inequalities among nations. His most abstract theoretical work concerns the nature and justification of rights. Most of his scholarly writings have focused on the work of John Rawls, and he co-edited the autobiographical volume Hayek on Hayek. He has been a Visiting Professor and a Fellow at the Princeton University Center for Human Values, a Fellow of the Center for Ethics and Public Affairs at The Murphy Institute of Political Economy, and a Fellow of the Program on Justice and the World Economy at The Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs.