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Agenda

Confronting Iraq: Legal and Policy Considerations

April 10-11, 2003

Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club
3001 Cameron Boulevard
Durham, North Carolina


Sponsored by Duke University's

Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy;
Kenan Institute for Ethics;
Global Capital Markets Center;
the Law School's Center on Law, Ethics and National Security;
the Law School's Program in Public Law;
and
The Triangle Institute for Security Studies

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Thursday, April 10th (webcast)
8:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 am Opening Comments

Robinson O. Everett
Founder, Center on Law, Ethics and National Security
Duke University School of Law

8:45 am Panel I: Weapons Inspections
Chair: Horace B. Robertson
Professor of Law (Emeritus)
Duke University School of Law
Speakers:

Terence Taylor
President and Executive Director
International Institute for Strategic Studies
Washington, DC

Rexon Ryu
Office of Regional Affairs
Bureau of Nonproliferation
U.S. Department of State

Tim Trevan
Former UNSCOM Weapons Inspector

David Fidler
Professor of Law and Ira C. Batman Faculty Fellow
Indiana University School of Law

10:45 am Panel II: Regional Context: Iraq, the Arab-Israeli Conflict, and Regional Stability
Chair: Peter Feaver
Associate Professor of Political Science
Duke University
Speakers:

Bruce Jentleson
Director, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, and Professor of Public Policy and Political Science
Duke University

William Kristol
Editor
The Weekly Standard

Robert S. Litwak
Director, Division of International Studies
Woodrow Wilson Center

Kenneth M. Pollack
Senior Fellow and Deputy Director for National Security Studies
Council on Foreign Relations

12:45 pm Luncheon
Speaker: His Excellency Dr. Hussein Hassouna
Ambassador, League of Arab States
2:15 pm Panel III: Use of Force: The Legal Predicates
Chair: Scott L. Silliman
Professor of the Practice of Law andExecutive Director,
Center on Law, Ethics and National Security
Duke University School of Law
Speakers:

A. Mark Weisburd
Professor of Law
University of North Carolina School of Law

Guy B. Roberts
Associate Counsel (Arms Control and International)
Strategic Systems Program
Department of the Navy

Francoise Hampson
Professor of Law
University of Essex, U.K.

Michael Byers
Associate Professor of Law
Duke University School of Law

6:30 pm Reception

7:00 pm Dinner
Speaker:

C. Dean McGrath. Jr.
Deputy Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States
The White House

Friday, April 11th (webcast)
8:00 am Continental Breakfast
8:30 am Panel IV: Rebuilding the Nation: The Issue of Democratization
Chair:

Joost H. B. Pauwelyn
Associate Professor of Law
Duke University School of Law

Speakers:

Allen Buchanan
Professor of the Practice of Public Policy Studies and Philosophy
Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy
Duke University

Marina Ottaway
SeniorAssociate, Democracy and Rule of Law Project
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

J. Scott Carpenter
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor
U.S. Department of State

10:30 am Panel V: Restoration and Accountability
Chair:

Gerald J. Postema
Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Speakers:

David M. Malone
President
International Peace Academy

Madeline Morris
Professor of Law
Duke University School of Law

Mark A. Drumbl
Assistant Professor of Law
Washington and Lee University School of Law

Fiona McKay
Director, International Justice Program
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights

12:30 pm

Luncheon
Speaker:

Brigadier General Charles J. Dunlap, Jr.
USAF
Staff Advocate
Air Combat Command

2:15 pm Adjourn

* Invited but not yet confirmed

The sponsors wish to express their appreciation to Warren Wickersham; the Duke University Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs; and Duke's Center for International Studies, with funding provided by the Department of Education, for their financial assistance which helped to make this conference possible.