NYU Honors Andreas Lowenfeld with Symposium on International Law
On April 16, at the Thirteenth Annual Herbert Rubin and Justice Rose Luttan Rubin International Law Symposium, New York University School of Law and the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics paid tribute to the extensive and impressive scholarship of Andreas F. Lowenfeld, the Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law, as he entered his 42nd year of teaching at the law school. The event was organized by Professor Linda J. Silberman of NYU, who was Co-Reporter with Professor Lowenfeld for the Institute’s project on Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments. Professor Lowenfeld, an ALI member since 1978, also served as an Associate Reporter for the Restatement Third, The Foreign Relations Law of the United States, and as an Adviser for the Principles of Transnational Civil Procedure. The symposium focused on four areas of Professor Lowenfeld’s work: public international law, trade and economic law, private international law, and international commercial arbitration.
On April 17 and 18, NYU also hosted the biannual conference of the Journal of Private International Law. The conference, sponsored in part by ALI, included plenary sessions on private-international-law issues in commercial law, a possible Restatement Third of Conflicts, and transnational litigation and arbitration. Among the symposium and conference participants were ALI Director Lance Liebman; Chair of the Council Michael Traynor; NYU Professor Rochelle Dreyfuss, a Co-Reporter for the ALI project on Transnational Intellectual Property; and Professor George A. Bermann of Columbia, Reporter for the Restatement Third, The U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration.
A native of Berlin, Professor Lowenfeld is a magna cum laude graduate of both Harvard College and Harvard Law School. His career has spanned private practice, government service, and academe. He has taught, practiced, and written in nearly all aspects of international law for more than five decades, and he is frequently an arbitrator in international controversies, both public and private. He is also the author of a major treatise on international economic law, as well as casebooks and textbooks on conflict of laws and aviation law. An elected member of the Institut de Droit International and of the International Academy of Comparative Law, Professor Lowenfeld has twice been a lecturer at the Hague Academy of International Law. At The American Society of International Law’s Annual Meeting in 2007, he received the Manley O. Hudson Medal in recognition of his exceptional contributions to scholarship and achievement in international law.