The European Union Program at Princeton

co-sponsored with the IR Colloquium

Co-sponsored with the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination

Co-sponsored with the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination

Co-sponsored with the IR Colloquium

By invitation only. Contact smeunier@princeton.edu for information. Co-sponsored by the Department of French and Italian

Steven Hill is Director of the Political Reform Program for the New America Foundation and author of 10 Steps to Repair American Democracy and other books on politics. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Salon.com, TheNation, International Herald Tribune, The Guardian, Prospect, and many other publications and websites. In Europe's Promise, Steven Hill explains Europe's bold new vision. He shatters myths and shows how Europe's leadership manifests in five major areas: economic strength, with Europe now the world's wealthiest trading bloc, nearly as large as the U.S. and China combined; the best health care and other workfare supports for families and individuals; widespread use of renewable energy technologies and conservation; the world's most advanced democracies; and regional networks of trade, foreign aid, and investment that link one-third of the world to the European Union.

Patrick Weil is a Visiting Professor of Law and Robina Foundation International Fellow at Yale Law School and Director of the Center for the Study of Immigration, Integration and Citizenship Policies at the University of Paris, Pantheon-Sorbonne. Professor Weil's work focuses on comparative immigration, citizenship, securalization and integration law and policy. His most recent books are Qu’est ce qu’un français ? Histoire de la nationalité française depuis la Révolution, Paris, Grasset, 2002 (forthcoming in English as How to be French? A Nationality in the Making since 1789, from Duke University Press); L’esclavage, la colonisation et après… France, Etats-Unis, Royaume-Uni (co-editor with Stephane Dufoix), Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 2005; Liberté, égalité, discriminations, l'identité nationale au regard de l'histoire, Paris, Grasset, 2008. Dr. Weil has worked extensively with the French government including participation in a 2003 French Presidential Commission on secularism, established by Jacques Chirac, and preparation of a report on immigration and nationality policy reform for Prime Minister Lionel Jospin in 1997 which led to the implementation of new immigration laws adopted the following year. Dr. Weil also holds an appointment as senior research fellow at the French National Research Center in Paris.