Can the International Criminal Court Deter Atrocity?

The Department of Government and Politics and Distinguished Lecture Series is pleased to announce that Dr. Beth Simmons Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs will be lecturing on "Can the International Criminal Court Deter Atrocity?" Dr. Beth Simmons’ current areas of research include the development of international rules for the protection and promotion of foreign direct investment, international legal cooperation to address transnational crime, and the diffusion of human rights through international and domestic law and politics.  She has worked at the International Monetary Fund with the support of a Council on Foreign Relations Fellowship, as a senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, in residence at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and was a Fellow at the Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice at New York University.  Her first 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 latest book, “Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics” won the 2010 American Society for International Law’s Certificate of Merit for a Preeminent Contribution to Creative Scholarship, the American Political Science Association’s Woodrow Wilson Award for best book published in government, politics or international relations, and the International social Science Council’s Stein Rokkan Award for a very substantial and original contribution to social science research.  Dr. Simmons recently was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Time: 3:00pm-4:30pm

Location: Maryland Room, Marie Mount Hall