The NYU Journal of International Law and Politics presents its Annual Spring Symposium, States of Violence: Law, Power, and Accountability.

This year’s symposium examines how law structures, legitimates, and contests state violence across domains including surveillance, detention and deportation, racialized governance, and international conflict. Through a series of interdisciplinary panels and moderated dialogues, the symposium explores the legal architectures that shape accountability, responsibility, and restraint in contexts of coercion and harm.

The symposium will focus on the ways domestic and international legal frameworks both constrain and enable state power, with particular attention to questions of secrecy, neutrality, community-based advocacy, and racial justice.

Panelists include leading scholars and practitioners:

• Eleni Manis, Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP)

• Margaret Satterthwaite, New York University School of Law

• Ronald Deibert, Citizen Lab, University of Toronto

• Gay McDougall, Former Chair of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

• José E. Alvarez, New York University School of Law

• Tamar Megiddo, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• David Keane, Dublin City University

• Rachel López, Drexel University School of Law

• Elora Mukherjee, Columbia Law School

• Yvette Borja, Immigrant Defenders Law Center

• Cherry Tang, Judicial Clerk, Judge of Appeal at the Supreme Court of New South Wales

Audience

This event is free and open to the public. All non-NYU attendees must RSVP ahead of time.