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The Payson Center for International Development of Tulane University's Law School combines academic degree programs with internships and project-related employment in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Faculty and students are working to improve the quality of life of the world's most vulnerable populations in less economically developed countries.
Our academic offerings include a coordinate undergraduate major in International Development as well as Master’s and Ph.D. degrees with a focus on sustainable human development (SHD) and disaster resilience leadership. Our academic program is problem-oriented, interdisciplinary and uses technology to facilitate learning and problem-solving.
Our focus on sustainable human development requires that our faculty come from a variety of disciplines including: law, economics, public health, political science, history and computer science. This helps students to learn to think in more holistic and comprehensive ways about international development.
But it is not enough to study development issues. Learning and problem-solving occurs in the field, so many of our students work with faculty on grants and projects. Currently, graduate students are working on projects such as measuring the “worst forms of child labor” in the cocoa fields of West Africa, evaluating humanitarian aid initiatives in Haiti, tracking the impact of the BP Oil Spill, and numerous other projects, including HIV/AIDS projects in Rwanda and reconstruction in Northern Uganda.
Our programs are exciting, cutting-edge and important.
The Payson Center has temporarily suspended admissions to its PhD programs so that we may concentrate on appropriate mentorship for currently enrolled doctoral students. This temporary suspension is effective March 7, 2012. As soon as the temporary suspension ends, we will post the news on this website. In the meantime, questions should be directed to Ms. Sheila Favalora, at favalora@tulane.edu
A vacancy exists for the position of TA for the fall 2012 Economics Course that Professor Stanley W. Samarasinghe teaches on-line. Applicants should have completed the course and obtained at least an A minus (A-) grade. If you have additional formal qualifications and/or teaching/research experience in economics mention them in your letter of application. Send your email application letter to reach Sheila Favalora no later than noon, May 11th.
Friday February 10th Law School Room 302
8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Saturday February 11th LBC Race Conference Room 201
9:30 am - 4:30 pm
Many argue that Latin American legal systems seem to be falling into a narrow paradigm of becoming either irrelevant, inoperative, or both. This conference will challenge those assumptions. At the conference legal scholars from across the Americas will address a wide range of topics in anattempt to simultaneously facilitate legal academic debate within Latin America and outside of the region to consider the "reinvention" of Latin America legal studies.
Please join us in this discussion Friday, February 10th in the Law School Room 302 (inside the Law Library) and Saturday February 11th in the LBC Race Conference room 201.
Please contact Kady Weingart, klamb@tulane.edu for more information.
Co-Sponsored by:
The Stone Center for Latin American Studies
The Newcomb College Institute
Tulane University Law School
List of presenters:
Alberto Suarez (Instituto de Investigaciones Juridicas, Universidad Autónoma, Mexico)
Carmen Gonzalez (Seattle University School of Law)
Colin Crawford (Tulane Law School Payson Center for International Development)
Daniel Bonilla (Universidad de los Andes Law School, Colombia)
Diego Lopez (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)
Helena Alviar Garcia (Universidad de los Andes Law School, Colombia)
Imer Flores (Universidad Autónoma, Mexico)
Isabel Cristina Jaramillo Sierra (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)
Jorge Esquirol (Florida International University Law School)
Luciana Romano Morilas (Universidade de São Paulo Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Accountancy of Ribeirao Preto)
Raquel Yrigoen Fajardo (International Institute on Law and Society, Universidad Católica del Peru Law School)
Ronaldo Macedo (Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), School of Law Rio de Janeiro)
Shunko Rojas (Doctor of Judicial Sciences Candidate, Harvard 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.
