The U.S. Department of Education and the International and Foreign Language Education (IFLE) office is pleased to announce a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program opportunity.
Tulane University Law School’s Payson Center for International Development is introducing an exciting new opportunity for students to complete a Panama Field Work Experience Master’s Program in International Development. Master’s students admitted for Fall of 2013 can enroll in the program! This will be the inaugural cohort!
During the Fall 2013 semester, Payson Center Executive Director and Law School Faculty member, Colin Crawford is teaching a unique, two-credit course on the evolving subject of property law in Cuba. Open to both Law School and International Development Graduate students, this course includes field work in Havana, Cuba during Spring Intersession from January 3-11, 2014.
First-year, international development graduate student, Kayemba Mvula will be spending his summer in Kinshasa, DRC as a Tetra Tech DPK (Tt DPK) Global Law and Development Fellow working on their Rule of Law Institutional Strengthening (ROLIS) Project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) ProJustice initiative.
Tulane University Law School's brand new Master in Laws and Development (LLM) degree program will welcome its first graduate students in August 2013. The program is a pioneering first on the part of the Law School. Programs of this kind exist in the United Kingdom and Australia, but at present U.S. students must go abroad for this kind of training - and even then will not receive the unique features offered by Tulane.
Every Summer, the Payson Center for International Development offers intensive, two (2) to three (3) week long programs with one (1) to two (2) courses per location. Courses are open to graduate students and non-Tulane graduate level-students. All courses earn three (3) credits. The cost is $4,100 for one course or $7,500 for two. (Note: Price does not include airfare).
Payson Center's Dr. Julie Hernandez was a moderator for Tulane's Direction Lecture SeriesMonday night, featuring Wendell Pierce, a New Orleans native and acclaimed actor, most notably from HBO's "The Wire" and "Treme".
Visiting Assistant Professor Martín Mendoza-Botelho’s article “Social Capital and Institutional Trust” was accepted for publication in the prestigious Journal of Development Studies. Using the notion of social capital as background, this article measures the effects of institutional changes, such as decentralization, in civic participation and activism in countries with weak institutional settings.
During the 2013 Spring semester, Payson Center Executive Director and Law School Faculty member, Colin Crawford is teaching a unique, two-credit course on the evolving subject of property law in Cuba. Open to both Law School and International Development Graduate students, this course includes field work in Havana, Cuba during Spring break.
Tulane is excited to announce the addition of a new semester study abroad program at its CIAPA campus in San José, Costa Rica. Led by the Office of Study Abroad at Tulane, undergraduate students interested in tropical biology, environmental studies and development studies are being recruited to spend the spring semester studying with Tulane faculty at the CIAPA campus.
The USAID Donald M. Payne International Development Fellowship is designed to attract outstanding young people to careers in international development as USAID Foreign Service Officers.
Professor Martín Mendoza-Botelho, faculty at the Department of Political Science at Tulane and affiliated with the Payson Center for International Development, has been selected to serve another year as evaluator in the validation panel for the prestigious Katerva Awards (www.katerva.org).
We are excited to announce Dr. Nanette Svenson, Assistant Adjunct Professor with the Payson Center, has been published in Higher Education. Dr. Svenson has experience in the private sector, international development and academia, and currently works as a consultant for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and various Panamanian public and private entities. She received a BA from Stanford University, an MBA from IESE in Barcelona, and an MS and PhD in International Development from Tulane University.
The Tulane Law School Payson Center for International Development is looking to connect with prospective graduate students who want to make a difference in the fields of international development and law at the Fall 2012 Idealist Grad Fair.
Payson Center staff and alumni will have a booth at the fair in the following four cities:
November 29 - December 1, 2012 Co-sponsored by the International Studies Association’s Global South Caucus and The Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) – Campus Moyen-Orient Méditerranée à Menton
Sharing Insights and Ideas: Theorizing, Teaching, Research, and Publishing on the Global South
In response to students' requests for short, focused, skills-based courses, Executive Director, Colin Crawford has coordinated a series of weekend-long, one credit, mini-courses for the Fall 2012 semester. Registration is currently open for three workshops. The final mini-course in the series, offered in November, called Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Investment will be presented by Damon C.
Starting in the Fall 2012 Semester, Payson Center Executive Director and Law School Faculty member, Colin Crawford is teaching a two-credit course, Sustainable Development, Law and Policy Field Course in Panama, which is open to both Law School and International Development Graduate students.
On May 3, 2012 the Payson Center entered into an Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Government of Haiti to assist in fostering sustainable human development in Haiti. The Payson Center aims to assist the Government of Haiti in three major focus areas: Higher Education, Legal Reform and Affordable Housing.
The Payson Center for International Development in conjunction with the Payson Graduate Student Association (PGSA) invites you to attend the following lecture in the Payson International Development Colloquium Series:
Rio + 20 and Global Environmental Governance, A discussion led by Günther Handl, Professor of International Law at Tulane University Law School
This white paper analyzes and critiques both the SEC and NAM economic impact models relative to the implementation of Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and proposes a 3rd model which is more reflective of the actual economic impact of this law.
