Speakers and Events 2005-2006
April 17-19, 2006
Professor David Kennedyh
April 6, 2006
An LLM Panel on Europe.
February 22, 2006
Professor Barbara Koremenos, of the University of Michigan on “If Only Half of International Agreements Have Dispute Resolution Provisions, Which Half Needs Explaining?”
Co-sponsored with the JD/LLM program.
February 17, 2006
Jumana Musa, Amnesty International USA’s Advocacy Director for Domestic Human Rights and International Justice, on “Guantanamo and the War on Terror.”
Co-sponsored with the Duke Human Rights Initiative.
February 9, 2006
An LLM Panel on Asia-Oceania. Six LLMs from Asia and the Oceania will introduce their unique legal experiences and interesting aspects of their culture including the influence of Japanese triads, pop culture.... Countries that will be presenting include: Thailand, Japan, Korea, China, Australia, and Kazakstan
February 3, 2006
Professor Jerome Cohen from New York University on East Asian Law.
China`s Legal System: How "Legal"? How "Political"? How "Just"? with Professor Jerome Cohen
Professor Cohen teaches at NYU Law School and is the senior American expert on East Asian law. As Director of East Asian Legal Studies at Harvard Law School from 1964-1979, he helped pioneer the introduction of East Asian legal systems and perspectives into American legal curricula. If you are interested in current issues on the legal system in China, Professor Cohen will shed much valuable insight. For more information, see: http://its.law.nyu.edu/faculty/profiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=cv.main&personID=19840
Lunch will be provided. Sponsored by the Asian Law Students Association and International Law Society. Co-sponsored with the Asian Law Students Association.
3:00 pm: Courtesy of Professor Gulati and his International Debt Finance class, Professor Dan Tarullo will come speak to students at Duke Professor Tarullo was assistant to President Clinton for international economic policy. He has also represented the United States around the world negotiating trade agreements as assistant secretary of state and deputy director of the National Economic Council. For more information about Mr. Tarullo, see: http://www.law.georgetown.edu/curriculum/tab_faculty.cfm?Status=Faculty&Detail=1298
January 31, 2006
Professor Toshiyuki Kono from Kyusu University on “The Preservation of Cultural Heritage.”
Prof. Kono is a Professor of Law at Kyushu University and has worked on many projects of UNESCO, such as the Convention for Safeguarding of Intangible Heritage and the Draft Convention on Cultural Diversity. He taught Cultural Heritage at Duke's Asia-American Summer Institute in Hong Kong summer 2005 and was the director of Duke's Fukuoka summer institute in 2004. For more information, see:
http://hyoka.ofc.kyushu-u.ac.jp/search-cgi/faculty2_e.cgi?ID=K000146
Lunch will be provided. If you did not RSVP previously, feel free to come and bring a brown bag lunch. It is highly likely that there will be extra lunches available.
Co-sponsored with the Asian Law Students Association.
January 23, 2006
Private Military Contractors and the Laws of War, a panel discussion with Duke Law Professor Scott Silliman, journalist Joe Neff, Doug Brooks, President of the International Peace Operations Association, and Frank Fountain, former White House as Chief Counsel to the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) and the President’s Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB). Moderated by Duke Law Professor Madeline Morris.
Co-sponsored with Duke Human Rights Initiative, and the JD/LLM program.
December 1, 2005
Susan Somach, Duke Law Alumna on her career as a lawyer, her 11 years of professional and volunteer nonprofit management experience and 8 years of focused community and international development mainly in USAID.
Co-sponsored with SID/NCT and the Women’s Law Student Association.
November 30, 2005
Presentation of part two of the film “Well-founded Fear.” Part of the Immigration Law Film Series.
Co-sponsored with the Refugee Asylum Project and the Hispanic Law Students Association.
November 10, 2005
An LLM Panel on “A glimpse into Latin-American businesses: How Latin-America is dealing with business and legal stability.”
Co-sponsored by HLSA, WLSA, and ILS.
November 9, 2005
Presentation of part one of the film “Well-founded Fear.” Part of the Immigration Law Film Series.
Co-sponsored with the Refugee Asylum Project and the Hispanic Law Students Association.
November 9, 2005
Kal Raustiala, Professor, UCLA Law School & Program on Global Studies on “Does the Bill of Rights Stop at the Border?”
October 25, 2005
David Rawson, former Ambassador to Rwanda, on “Dealing ‘Diplomatically’ with Genocide.”
Co-sponsored with the Black Law Students Association, Duke Human Rights Initiative, Office of Career Services and the JD/LLM program.
October 24-28, 2005
International Week.
Please see the attached flyer for International Week (.pdf).
The program for the Cultural Extravaganza.
The program for International Movie Night (.pdf).
October 20, 2005
Randa Siniora, General Director of Al-Haq speaks on the current human rights situation in Palestine.
Co-sponsored with the Duke Human Rights Initiative
October 7, 2005
Linda Malone, Duke Alum, Board of Visitors Member, and Professor of Law at Williams and Mary speaks on her work advising the Iraqi Special Tribunal trying Saddam Hussein.
September 23, 2005
Gao Xi Ging, Vice-Chairman of the National Council for Social Security Fund of China, on “The State of Social Security in China and the Development of Chinese Capital Markets.”
Co-sponsored with the Global Capital Markets Program and the Business Law Society.
September 16, 2005
Pier Eckhout, Professor at King’s College, London on “The New Constitution for Europe and Why it Failed in the French and Dutch Referenda.”
Co-sponsored with the JD/LLM program.
Speakers and Events 2004-2005
Judges from Afghanistan - a comparative law exercise
LLM Mangyo Kinoshita's Presentation about working in Japanese law firms
Pietro Pouche's presents about working in Italian law firms
LLM Gulnara ISKAKOVA, awarded a Muskie Fellowship to study in the LLM program at Duke, is on the law faculty at the American University in Bishkek. Studying constitutional design and electoral systems at Duke Law, she witnessed the overthrow of her Kyrgyzstan’s government from afar and presents this through the reports of her family members, who were present at the events.
USAF Brigadier General Charles J. Dunlap, Jr. presents his experience as the Staff Judge Advocate (senior attorney) at Air Combat Command at Langley AFB in Virginia.
ICTY Prosecutor Dan Saxon's Presentation Discussion on international water law
Speakers and Events 2003-2004
Wednesday, September 3, 12:10, Moot Courtroom (4049)
Lunch with Professor Iannis Tassopoulos
Prof. Tassopoulos from the University of Athens will speak on “Greek/Turkish Negotiations over Cyprus.” Lunch will be served.
Monday, September 8, 5pm
Room 240, Franklin Center on Erwin Road
Henry Rousso, “The Witnesses of the Klaus Barbie trial: Lyon, 1987”
Klaus Barbie was head of the Gestapo in Lyon France during World War II. In 1987, he was found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Tuesday, September 16, Noon, Room 3043
Professor Christian Joerges
Prof. Joerges of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy speaks on “The Challenges of Europeanization in the realm of Private Law: A Plea for a new Legal Discipline.”
Wednesday, October 8
Japanese Corporate Governance
Visiting Scholar and Law Professor at Chuo University Hisaei Chuck Ito discusses Japan's challenge to reform corporate governance. Professor Ito will also discuss recently introduced legislation modeled on that of the U.S., although fierce resistance to its application remains. Lunch will be provided.
Tuesday, October 21, 12:15, Room 3043
Meet the Professors
During this session, students are invited to join many of Duke's international law professors, including those teaching specific classes in the JD/LLM curriculum, in a discussion on their international law interests and current course offerings. Lunch will be served.
Thursday, October 23, Rooms 4048 and 4049
International Movie Night
Thursday, October 23, 1:15, Room 3043
JD/LLM Curriculum
JD-LLM students, especially first-years, are strongly encouraged to attend this academic advising info session, during which time Chris McLaughlin, the Academic Advisor from Student Affairs, will discuss program requirements and ILS will present a model curriculum for private, public and mixed international law study. Snacks will be served.
Thursday, November 13, Rooms 4045 and 4049
International Movie Night
Tuesday, November 18, 12:10, Room 4045
Professor Petros Mavroidis, "US-EU Trade Policy in a Post-Cancun WTO"
Prof. Mavroidis, a professor at Columbia law school and Universite de Neuchatel in Switzerland, will speak on the post-Cancun WTO. Prof. Mavroidis previously worked for the legal affairs division of the WTO, and presently does consulting for developing countries. He is currently leading the American Law Institute's Restatement on International Trade Law. Lunch will be served. Sponsored by the International Law Society and Professor Joost Pauwelyn.
Thursday, February 19, 4:00, Room 3043
Britt Snider, "Intelligence Cooperation in the War on Terrorism"
Britt Snider will discuss the topic of intelligence cooperation in the war on terror. Mr. Snider served as Counsel to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence from 1987-1995, the last 6 years as the General Counsel. Since then, Mr. Snider has worked with the CIA, including stints as the Special Counsel to Director of Central Intelligence George J. Tenet, and as Inspector General of the CIA. Since 2001, Mr. Snider has been self-employed, writing and lecturing. An exciting speaker, Snider has lectured at Georgetown, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, Duke University, Princeton, University of Virginia, American University, and the U.S. Air Force Academy. Snacks will be served.
Speakers and Events 2002-2003
Monday, September 9 at 12:10:
Lunch/reception with professor Hein Kotz
Lunch/reception with professor Hein Kotz on Monday, September 9 at 12:10. Professor Kotz, perhaps the most important comparative law professor alive, is coming from Germany to honor the memory of Duke Law Professor Bernstein who died suddenly in 2001. He will be appearing at several public events, but this one is just for the International Law Society. He will be talking about his career and his recent experience establishing a law school, the first private and bi-lingual law school in Germany. If you are interested in attending, please rsvp by tomorrow, Friday, at 3pm.
Wednesday, September 18, 2002, 12:15 PM, Room 4045:
Criminal Justice Reform in Developing Countries
Bill O'Neill has worked extensively in Hait, Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, among other places, reforming police, court and prison systems. Professor Madeline Morris, Director of the International Legal Clinic, which lends support to the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. This Panel is the first in a series entitled "The Role of Law in International Development." It is co-spondered by the JD/LLM program, the Franklin Center for International and Interdisciplinary Studies and the Duke Journal of International and Comparative Law.
Monday, September 23 at 12:10 in the Blue Lounge:
Private Practice Across Borders
Contact: sarah.dadush@law.duke.edu
Brief Notes: Paulo Aragao, Managing Partner of the firm Barbosa, Mussnich & Aragao, in Brazil will speak on "Private Practice Across Borders." He will talk about the relationship of a foreign firm with its U.S. counterparts in the practice of international private law. He has extensive experience as a private attorney, managing director of Brazil's largest private equity fund, as well as involvement with the Brazilian Securities Exchange Commission. We will be serving lunch. Sponsored by the Global Capital Markets Center and the International Law Society.
Monday, September 23 at 3:45, Room 4000:
Business Negotiations in the International Arena
Contact: jeremy.entwisle@law.duke.edu
Brief Notes: Business Negotiations in the International Arena: A Practitioner's View
Full Notes: Mr. Shuji Yanase is a founding partner in Japan's largest law firm, Nagashima, Ohno and Tsunematsu. He is one of the foremost lawyers in Japan, and is internationally known for his work in alternative dispute resolution. He has given presentations on negotiation and mediation to UN organizations and has vast experience in international securities, and transnational business. Mr. Yanase will give a short presentation on the topic of international negotiaions, followed by an open forum for questions and a reception. This is an excellent opportunity for students with an interest in any aspect of international law or business to meet a lawyer who is pre-eminent in the field.
Friday, September 27 at 12:15 in the Blue Lounge:
The Situation with Iraq: Will the UN issue a new resolution? What should it say?
There will be three speakers, see mini-bios below, Professor Byers (Duke), Professor Silliman (Duke), and Professor Weisburd (UNC).
Professor Weisburd assisted on the legal advisory team of the Constitutional Convention of the Northern Mariana islands. He teaches International law classes at UNC Law School.
Professor Byers has written on the subject of the use of force in international law. Recently, he has been very outspoken against the "Bush Doctrine" of preemptive self-defense.
Professor Silliman is an expert in National Security Law, including the laws of war. As a Judge Advocate General, he supervised all Air Force attorneys involved with the first Persian Gulf war against Iraq.
Please join us! (refreshments will be served.)
Wednesday, October 9, 2002, 12:15 PM, Room 3043:
International Trade and Environmental Protection
The International Law Society is delighted to invite you to attend the second panel in our series on the role of law in international development:
Enough wraps to feed 50 of you...
Speakers:
From UCLA, Prof. Kal Raustiala, will be talking about the protection of genetic resources and international trade. He teaches International Environmental Law and Public International Law, and at the College of Letters & Science, Global Environmental Politics. He is associated with UCLA's Institute of the Environment, a campus-wide multidisciplinary program. He is the co-editor of The Implementation and Effectiveness of International Environmental Commitments: Theory and Practice (with Victor and Skolnikoff, 1998). His most recent publications focus on sovereignty and multilateralism, and international regulatory cooperation.
From the European Office of the Center for International Environmental Law in Switzerland, Matthew Stilwell. Mr. Stilwell is the managing attorney for CIEL, a nonprofit, public interest law firm to civil society, governments and intergovernmental organizations. He leads efforts to reform economic rules and institutions to support sustainable development and environmental justice.
Chair: Professor Wiener from Duke Law School, and the Nicholas School of the Environment & Earth Sciences at Duke. He is the Faculty Director of the Duke Center for Environmental Solutions. Professor Wiener has written on U.S. and international environmental law, climate change, risk regulation, risk-risk tradeoffs, and related topics.
THIS EVENT IS CO-SPONSORED BY:
THE CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS
THE DUKE JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL LAW
THE JD/LLM PROGRAM AND
THE FRANKLIN CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES
Friday, October 11, 2002, 12:15 PM, Room TBA:
WTO and the USA
Please note that you will need to rsvp if you are interested in attending this event. In light of the recent tensions arising between the United States and the World Trade Organization, International Trade Professor Joost Pauwelyn, the Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law, and the International Law Society, are delighted to invite you to attend a talk by Professor William Davey, on Friday October 11 at 12:15 (location TBA). William Davey was the very first Director of the Legal Affairs Division of the WTO (between 1995 and 1999) and is currently the Edwin M. Adams Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law. Professor Davey will give us some background on the sources of tension in the US/WTO relationship, and address some of the more controversial issues surrounding the WTO. He will also tell us about his career and experience working inside the WTO. We will be having a luncheon with Mr. Davey but can only accommodate about 35 people, so please rsvp to sarah.dadush@law.duke.edu.
Monday, February 17, 2003, 12:10 PM, Room 3043:
Is the World Trading System Biased Against the World's Poor
The new trade department coordinates all the Bank's activities in support of trade reforms in developing countries, advocacy on the global trade agenda, and trade-related capacity building. Mr. Dadush will be accompanied by Duke Law Professor, Joost Pauwelyn, who teaches international trade and dispute resolution in the World Trade Organization, and worked at the WTO Secretariat for 6 years prior to joining our faculty.
With the global economy slowing prior to and post 9/11, world trade has suffered and developing countries, which today constitute 70 percent of the WTO membership, have seen a significant drop in demand for their exports. At the same time, the anti-globalization sentiment has intensified, and the newly launched Doha Round of trade negotiations has declared itself the development round, promising to incorporate developing countries' concerns into the shaping of the world trading system, providing technical assistance and strengthening these countries' bargaining powers to increase their access to channels of economic growth. What is the World Bank's role in this process? How has the world trading system historically favored or disfavored developing countries and is this likely to change? How does the legal realm intersect with the economic? This promises to be a vibrant discussion.
This event is part of the International Law Society's speaker series on Law and International Development, and is co-sponsored by the JD/LLM program. Interested students and faculty from the University are invited to attend. Lunch will be served.
 Frederick Abbot
Speakers and Events 2001-2002
January
28 (Mon)- AFTERNOON SESSION.
Prof. James Li
TOPIC: Sino/US Relations and the case of the air collision between Chinese and US military
aircraft.
5:15PM, Blue Lounge
Prof. Li is visiting Duke Law School for the month of January from Tsinghua Law School, and is
teaching Chinese-American International Relations.
29 (Tues)- INTERNATIONAL CAREER VIDEOCONFERENCE.
Erik Schmidt (Duke JD '97), Credit Suisse First Boston, Frankfurt
12:15 PM, Room 4045
Erik Schmidt, who is currently working at Credit Suisse First Boston in Frankfurt and has
also worked at law firms in the US and Germany, will speak with students via videoconference
about his international career experiences and give advice on the international career search.
30 (Wed)- GLOBAL CAPITAL MARKETS EVENT.
Mr. Xi-Qing Gao
TOPIC: Recent Changes in China's Securities Market Regulation
4:00 PM, Room 3043
Mr. Gao is Executive Vice Chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, a Duke
Law alumnus ('86), and a member of the GCMC's affiliated faculty.
31 (Thurs)- KIRAN FILM AND LECTURE.
Domestic Violence in South Asian Immigrant Communities, Shivali Shah, 3L
Shivali Shah, a founding member of KIRAN: Domestic Violence and Crisis Services for South
Asians in NC, will show a short film and discuss the social, institutional, and legal barriers that
battered immigrant woman face in assessing assistance.
12:15 PM, Room 4048
Sponsored by Asian Law Student Association
http://www.kiraninc.org
February
7 (Thurs)- INTERNATIONAL CAREER VIDEOCONFERENCE.
Charlie Broll (Duke JD '97), Hunton & Williams, Hong Kong
7:00 PM, Room 4045
Charlie Broll, who is currently working at Hunton & Williams in Hong Kong, will speak about
his international career experiences and give advice on the international career search.
11 (Mon)- EXTERNSHIP AND EXCHANGE PROGRAMS MEETING.
12:15 PM, Room 4047
12 (Tues)- BROWN BAG LUNCH.
Mary Lee Hall, Managing Attorney, Legal Services of NC Farmworkers Unit
12:15 PM, Blue Lounge
Sponsored by the Hispanic Law Students Association
17 (Sun)- ALSA PARTY.
Lunar New Year Dumpling Party
7:00PM, International House
Sponsored by the Asian Law Students Association
21 (Thurs)- DISTINGUISHED LECTURE AND DISCUSSION.
Ambassador Richard Sezibera, Rwandan Ambassador to the US
TOPIC: Justice after Genocide in Rwanda: The Current Posture
12:15 PM, Moot Courtroom with reception to follow on 4th Floor Loggia
22 (Fri)- SYMPOSIUM.
The Legal and Political Implications of State-Sponsored Terrorist Attacks
Panelists to include Professor Ruth Wedgwood (Yale Law School), Professor Robert Keohane
(Duke University), Ambassador David Scheffer (United States Institute for Peace), Professor
Madeline Morris (Duke Law School)
1:00 PM-6:00 PM, Location TBA
Sponsored by the Duke Journal of International and Comparative Law
26 (Tues)- INTERNATIONAL CAREER VIDEOCONFERENCE.
Susan Lamb, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, The Hague
12:15 PM, Room 4044
Susan Lamb is presently a legal advisor in international law to the Office of the Prosecutor of the
ICTY. She gained degrees in law and politics from the University of Otago in New Zealand and
read toward a D.Phil. in public international law at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes scholar.
http://www.un.org/icty/
28 (Thurs)- INTERATIONAL ALUMNI CAREER PANEL.
12:15 PM, Room 3043
March
13-16 (Wed-Sat, Spring Break)- ASIL CONFERENCE.
The Legalization of International Relations/The Internationalization
Of Legal Relations
Washington Monarch Hotel, Washington DC
NOTE: Should you be interested in attending this conference, please see
Prof. Morris for further details on panels and speakers.
21 (Thurs)- DISTINGUISHED LECTURE AND DISCUSSION.
Canadian Minister of Health and Former Attorney General
The Honourable Anne McLellan
12:15 PM, Room 4045 with reception to follow on the 4th Floor Loggia
http://canada.justice.gc.ca/en/mag http://www.annemclellan.ca/
28 (Thurs)- BROWN BAG LUNCH.
Prof. Ralf Michaels
TOPIC: "Globalization and Private International Law"
12:15 PM, Blue Lounge
Prof. Michaels is currently a Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private Law and
Private International Law in Hamburg. He will spend the semester at Duke Law School,
teaching Comparative Law and Conflict of Laws. He is, among other projects, working on a
Habilitation "Globalization and Private International Law."
April
11-12 (Thurs and Fri) LENS SPRING CONFERENCE.
New Security Challenges After September 11th
Washington Duke Inn
Sponsored by The Center on Law, Ethics and National Security
Speakers and Events 2000-2001
Monday, September 4, 2000, 7:00 PM, Room 4045:
David Ross, Office of the United States Trade Representative
Graduated from the University of Illinois, Urbana with a BA in Political Science (International Studies) in 1989. JD/LLM from Duke in 1993. After graduation, worked from 1993-1997 as an attorney-advisor in the Office of the Chief Counsel for Import Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, providing legal advice on the implementation of the U.S. antidumping and countervailing duty laws and defending IA determinations in U.S. federal courts. Left CCIA in December 1997 for the Washington DC office of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, where he was an associate in the international section, with practice areas including AD/CVD, Customs, NAFTA/WTO, and general international policy. In March 1999, took a position as an Assistant General Counsel, now Associate General Counsel, in the Office of the General Counsel, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Areas of responsibility at USTR have included antidumping and subsidies, safeguards, steel, legislation, aerospace, and preference programs. Represented the United States before the WTO Appellate Body in the Canada and Brazil export subsidy cases (as third party intervenor) and before a WTO dispute settlement panel in defense of the U.S. safeguard measure on lamb meat in a challenge brought by Australia and New Zealand. Currently representing the United States in WTO consultations with Brazil over the Brazil customs valuation regime.
Monday, September 18, 2000, 7:00 PM, Room 4045:
Duke Law Journal Fall Lecture: "Human Rights in Northern Ireland - A Status Report"
Professor Brice Dickson, Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission
Professor of Law and Head of Legal Studies at the University of Ulster. Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Law at Queen's University, Belfast between 1979 and 1991. Educated at Oxford University (1st class BA in Jurisprudence (1974); 2nd class BCL (1975)); called to the Northern Ireland Bar in 1976. Professor Dickson also has an MPhil from the University of Ulster (1998). He was a member and Deputy Chair of the Equal Opportunities Commission from 1990-96, the Winston Churchill Fellow on Bills of Rights in Southern Africa in 1994, and acted as a consultant to the South African Forum for Peace and Reconciliation. He has been a long-standing member of the Committee for the Administration of Justice (CAJ), Amnesty International and Liberty.
Monday, October 2, 2000, 7:00 PM, Room 4045:
Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill, Oxford University
Guy S. Goodwin-Gill, MA, DPhil (Oxon), Barrister, is Professor of International Refugee Law and Rubin Director of Research in the Institute of European Studies, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Wolfson College. He taught law at the College of Law in London from 1971 to 1976, when he joined the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as a Legal Adviser. After serving in various countries, including the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States of America, his last posting was as Senior Legal Research Officer, responsible for the development of refugee law and doctrine, at UNHCR's Geneva Headquarters. He returned to teaching in 1988 and in 1990 was appointed Professor of Law at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. In 1994 he was named to the unique Chair in Asylum Law at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Refugee Law (IJRL) since its first issue in 1989, in November 1997 he was elected President of the Refugee Legal Centre (a non-governmental organization providing advice and representation to refugees and asylum seekers in the United Kingdom), and he continues as Co-Rapporteur of the International Law Association's Committee on Refugee Procedures.
His publications include: Codes of Conduct for Elections, Inter-Parliamentary Union, Geneva, (1998, also in French and Spanish); The Refugee in International Law, Clarendon Press, Oxford (Second edition, 1996), (also published in Russian, 1997); Free and Fair Elections: International Law and Practice, Inter-Parliamentary Union, Geneva (1994, also in French, Spanish, Arabic and Khmer); Child Soldiers, (with Ilene Cohn), Clarendon Press, Oxford (1994), published in French as Enfants soldats by Éditions Méridien, Québec. Canada (1995) and in Spanish as Los niños soldados by Editorial Fundamentos and Cruz Roja Juventud, Madrid (1997); International Law and the Movement of Persons between States, Clarendon Press, Oxford, (1978); and many articles on these and related international law issues.
Monday, October 23, 2000, 6:30 PM, Room 4045:
Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law Fall Lecture:
Dr Edward Kwakwa, World Intellectual Property Organization
Edward Kwakwa, a national of Ghana, is Assistant Legal Counsel at WIPO in Geneva. He holds law degrees from the University of Ghana, Queen's University, and Yale University. Before joining WIPO, he practiced corporate and international trade law and investment with the law firm of O'Melveny and Myers in Washington, DC, worked as International Legal Adviser at the Commission on Global Governance in Geneva, as Senior Legal Adviser at the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, and briefly as Legal Affairs Officer at the World Trade Organization. His publications include "The Legal Profession and the Protection of Human Rights in Africa" (co-edited with Evelyn Ankumah, Africa Legal Aid, 1999), "The International Law of Armed Conflict" (Martinus Nijhoff/Kluwer, 1992) and numerous articles on international law.
Monday, October 30, 2000, 7:00 PM, Room 4045:
Franz Werro, Professor of Law, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, Visiting Professor, Georgetown University Law Center.
"The Spirit of the Civil Law"
Professor Werro's talk will be of particular interest to students of comparative and international law. If you have ever wondered what comparative law is, or why it is becoming so incredibly important, this is an event you will not want to miss.
Professor Werro is an extremely accomplished academic who also has significant practical experience, both as a lawyer (including a stint at the world's leading law firm specializing in international arbitration) and as a judge. He is, in addition, an excellent teacher, as those students who took his course in Geneva this past summer with attest.
Wednesday, November 1, 2000, 7:00 PM, Room 4045:
Judge Nicholas Forwood, Court of First Instance of the European Communities
Judge Forwood will be speaking on "The Judicial Architecture of the European Union: Challenges and Changes." Judge Forwood is a member of the Court of First Instance, one of the two principal judicial organs of the European Union. Before joining the Court, Judge Forwood spent twenty years practicing EU law in Brussels and was considered among the leading English barristers in the field. For anyone interested in international law, this is a unique opportunity to learn about one of the most successful supranational legal systems to have been established to date.
All welcome. Reception to follow.
Monday, November 6, 2000, 7:00 PM, Room 4045:
Jayashree Watal, Center for International Development, Harvard University
"Negotiating Strategies for Developing Countries in the WTO: Lessons from Punta del Este and Seattle"
Ms Watal is on leave from the Government of India, on behalf of which she served as India's negotiator for the WTO agreement on intellectual property (TRIPS). She subsequently represented India in the WTO. She has also published widely in the fields of intellectual property and international development, including a piece co-authored with Duke's own Jerome Reichman.
This event is part of the University Seminar on Globalism and International Law. All are welcome. Reception to follow
Monday, November 13, 2000, 7:00 PM, Room 4045:
Jeremy Carver, CBE, Head of Public International Law Group, Clifford Chance, London
Jeremy Carver is one of the world's leading practitioners of public international law. As a senior partner in the world's largest law firm, he represents states, government agencies and international organisations in relation to proceedings in England and elsewhere. His clients include Kuwait's Oil Sector companies with respect to claims before the United Nations Compensation Commission, and the US Department of Justice with respect to all litigation in England concerning the US government. His areas of expertise include state and diplomatic immunity, the status, privileges and immunities of international organisations, upstream oil and gas operations, international economic sanctions, maritime and territorial boundary issues, world trade law, jurisdiction, conflicts of laws, and extraterritoriality.
Tuesday, November 14, 2000, 12:15 PM, Room 3032:
Regan Ralph, the Executive Director of the Human Rights Watch Women's Rights Division
Regan Ralph, the Executive Director of the Human Rights Watch Women's Rights Division, will speak at a Law School Town Meeting at 12:15 p.m. on Tuesday, November 14, in Room 3032. Ms. Ralph's visit is sponsored by the International Law Society, the Asian Law Student Association, the Center for European Studies, WLSA (Women's Law Student Association), and the Duke Office of the Dean of Public Interest Activities and Special Projects. This town meeting will be about domestic violence and the trafficking of women--two truly international issues. Participants are encouraged to make comments and ask questions. It will last until 1:00 p.m.
Immediately following the town meeting (from 1:15 to 2:15) in the same room (3032), Ms. Ralph will speak about "Choices Along the Way: How to become a Women's Rights Champion."
Regan Ralph is the executive director of the women's rights division of Human Rights Watch, the largest human rights monitoring organization based in the United States. On behalf of Human Rights Watch, she has investigated and reported on violations of women's human rights in countries including Turkey, Russia, Afghanistan, Egypt, and the former Yugoslavia and worked with women's organizations around the world to improve the protection of women's rights. Her human rights investigations have targeted violations of women's human rights ranging from the rape of women in war to forced exams to determine women's virginity to state failure to prosecute violence against women. As the chief advocate for the women's rights division, Regan raises women's human rights concerns with abusive governments as well as with policymakers in the United States government, at the United Nations, and at the European Union.
Regan also is an adjunct professor of women's studies at Georgetown University where she teaches a course on women's international human rights. She has a law degree from Yale Law School and a Bachelor's degree in International Relations from Harvard University. She also studied international law at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Arabic at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, Regan worked on behalf of battered women seeking temporary restraining orders against their batterers, to improve the labor conditions of migrant workers in the United States, and with prisoners in state and federal prisons. She is co-editor of The Human Rights Watch Global Report on Women's Human Rights and the author of articles and reports including "A Matter of Power: State Control of Women's Virginity in Turkey," "Rape in War: Challenging the Tradition of Impunity," "Neither Jobs Nor Justice: State Discrimination in Russia," and "Female Sexual Autonomy and Human Rights."
Monday, November 20, 2000, Room 3043, 12:15 p.m.
"International Relations and International Law"
Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter, Harvard Law School
This is a brown bag event sponsored by the University Seminar on Globalism and International Law.
Professor Slaughter is the Director of Graduate and International Legal Studies at Harvard Law School and the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law.
Tuesday, November 21, 2000, Blue Lounge, 12:15 p.m.
"The importance of international studies"
Pamela Gann, President, Claremont McKenna College
This is a brown bag event sponsored by the JD/LLM program in international and comparative law.
President Gann served for 11 years as dean of the Duke University School of Law. She is a graduate of Duke Law School and joined the Duke faculty in 1975. She taught in the areas of international taxation, international trade, and international business transactions.
President Gann is an active leader in law, higher education, and international public policy. She has been elected to membership in the Council of Foreign Relations, the International Women's Forum, the Society of International Business Fellows, and the American Law Institute. She is an elected Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. She serves as a member of the Board of Governors of the Center for Creative Leadership. She chaired the North Carolina Chapter of the International Women's Forum. In 1988, she was awarded the "Woman Lawyer of the Year" award by the North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys.
Monday, February 5, 2001, 7:00 PM, Room 4045:
"The Australian Intervention in East Timor from a Legal, Political and Military Perspective"
Professor Ivan Shearer of the University of Sydney, Australia, and the US Naval War College
Professor Shearer is a captain in the Australian Naval Reserve and one of the world's leading experts on public international law, the law of the sea, and the laws of war.
All welcome. Reception to follow.
Monday, February 12, 2001, 7:00 PM, Room 4045:
"Towards a Geology of 20th Century International Law: The Paradox of Law Making and Enforcement"
Professor Joseph Weiler, Harvard University
Joseph Weiler is Jean Monnet Chair and Manley Hudson Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is also Co-Director of the Academy of European Law at the European University Institute in Florence. He is the author of The Constitution of Europe (Cambridge University Press, 1999), Europa, fin de siglo, (Centro de Estudios Constitucionales, 1995), European Union--The Human Rights Challenge, (Nomos, 1991).
Monday, February 19, 2001, 12:15 p.m. to 1:00 p.m., Blue Lounge:
"The future of EU foreign policy vis-a-vis the U.S., especially in light of the experience in the former Yugoslavia"
Dr. Erhard Busek, former Vice Chancellor of the Republic of Austria
Mr. Busek currently serves as Special Representative of the Austrian Government for the Enlargement of the European Union, Chairman of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe, and Coordinator of the Southeast European Cooperative Initiative (SECI).
All are welcome. Sandwiches will be provided (arrive early).
Monday, February 19, 2001, 7:00 PM, Room 4045:
"International Law and the United States"
Professor Georg Nolte, University of Göttingen
Sponsored by Seminar on Globalism and International Law. Reception to follow.
Georg Nolte is Professor of International Law at the University of Göttingen. From 1987 to 1999 he was a Fellow of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. During this time he taught at the Universities of Leipzig (1990-1), New York University (1992), Saarbruecken (1998-9) and Regensburg (1999). He is the author of "Eingreifen auf Einladung (Intervention upon Invitation)" (Springer, 1999) as well as a number of articles on international law, comparative constitutional law, and comparative administrative law. He is a member of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (the "Venice" Commission).
Monday, February 26, 2001, 5:00 p.m., Room 3041:
"No Extradition to Death: Burns v. United States of America"
Edward L. Greenspan
On February 15, 2001, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled unanimously that Canada could not extradite any individual to the United States who might be subject to the death penalty. The Court expressed considerable concern about the criminal process in death penalty cases in the US and placed great emphasis on the rapid movement worldwide to abolish capital punishment. The case, entitled Burns and Rafay v. United States of America, is reported at:
http://www.lexum.umontreal.ca/csc-scc/en/rec/html/burns1.en.html
Mr. Greenspan was lead counsel for Burns, and he is also considered by many to be Canada's most prominent lawyer. This event is part of the University Seminar on Globalism & International Law. It is co-sponsored by the International Law Society, the JD/LLM Program in International and Comparative Law, and the Center for North American Studies. All are welcome.
Friday, March 2, 2001, 12:15-1:00 p.m., Room 3037 (note: there are two ILS events on this day--see next announcement)
"Alternative dispute resolution procedures in international commercial disputes"
Lorraine Brennan, Director of Arbitration and ADR for the U.S. Council for International Business
This is a brown bag lunch event. Drinks will be provided.
The USCIB is the American affiliate of the International Chamber of Commerce and serves as the U.S. contact point for the ICC Court of Arbitration. In this capacity, the USCIB provides assistance in the nomination of arbitrators, makes referrals to parties seeking attorneys, organizes seminars and corporate roundtables, and answers questions regarding the ICC arbitration process.
The talk is co-sponsored by the ILS and the International Studies Office.
ILS Inaugural Distinguished Speaker
Friday, March 9, 12:30pm - 1:30pm, in Room 4048
"The Worldwide Rise of Courts: Reasons and Perspectives."
Professor Dieter Grimm, former judge of German Constitutional Court
Professor Grimm has been a professor of law at Bielefeld University and is now a professor at Humboldt University, Berlin. He is also a Permanent Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study - Berlin). Professor Grimm is also a Distinguished Member of the Global Faculty of New York University Law School and is currently a Visiting Professor at Yale Law School.
Wednesday, April 11, 2001, 12:15 - 1:15 PM, Room 4000, Duke Law School
"Careers in International Law"
Professor Paul McCusker, US Foreign Service Officer (retired), UN Secretariat (retired), etc.
Paul McCusker spent much of his career recruiting international lawyers and international policy experts for the UN Secretariat in New York. He also served for many years in the State Department, and worked as a private practitioner. He can therefore offer insights and tips that may prove invaluable for those interested in careers in all areas of international law.
This event is co-sponsored by the International Law Society and the JD/LLM program in international and comparative law.
Thursday and Friday, April 19 and 20, Washington Duke Inn:
"The Future of Humanitarian Intervention"
Sponsored by the ILS, the Center on Law, Ethics & National Security, the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, the Kenan Institute for Ethics, Center for European Studies and The Duke Global Capital Markets Center .
For more information: www.law.duke.edu/general/program/lens/2001Spring.htm
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