Oona Hathaway

The Middle East Legal Studies Seminar is an annual seminar in which lawyers, judges, and law professors gather with Yale professors and students in a location as near the Middle East as possible. Membership remains constant from one year to the next, although the group has grown steadily - it now numbers roughly 35. Past topics have included the concept of legal authority itself, the basic rights and remedies available to individuals, and the challenges of religious pluralism in the Middle East.

The Faculty Research Seminar: Seminario en Latinoamerica de Teoria Constitucional y Politica (SELA) convenes over 100 legal scholars annually to address specific themes. Seminar themes to date have included Equality, The Rule of Law, Fundamental Rights, Law as object and instrument of transformation, Violence, The limits of democracy, Law and Poverty, Executive Power, and Law and Culture. Institution: Peruvian University of Applied Sciences, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Univ of Chile,