A very special film event will open IntLawGrrls! 10th Birthday Conference, the global gathering we’re hosting this spring. On the evening of Thursday, March 2, 2017, the conference will begin with a screening of “500 Years,” a documentary about Guatemala. This Athens, Georgia, screening – taking place just weeks after the film’s premiere at the … Continue reading Pamela Yates’ new Guatemala film “500 Years” to screen at our 10th Birthday Conference
IntLawGrrls celebrated its 10th year anniversary on the 3rd of March 2017 with a Conference at the University of Georgia. The Conference opened on the 2nd of March with the screening of Sundance-selected documentary 500 Years directed by Pamela Yates, shedding light on the resistance of Mayan people against the violent and repressive military measures of the … Continue reading IntLawGrrls 10th Year Anniversary Conference: “We have come a long way baby!”
This past week, we, Sabrina Tremblay-Huet and Mélissa Beaulieu Lussier, had the pleasure of attending the IntLawGrrls 10th year anniversary conference. While Mélissa was presenting on the expressive function of international criminal law in the context of prosecuting sexual violence against child soldiers and the possible challenges ICL is facing in this regard, Sabrina was … Continue reading IntLawGrrls 10th year anniversary conference: A great example for conference organization
The past year has been the bleakest of years. At least, for those of us, who believe we are stronger together. And in invoking that particular slogan, I speak more broadly than the US election. Today many of those acts of international and regional solidarity born and crystallised by war are under threat, or seem … Continue reading The bare knuckled fight for rights
Delighted to announce that about a hundred scholars and practitioners in international law and related fields will participate in IntLawGrrls! 10th Birthday Conference, to be hosted by the Dean Rusk International Law Center, University of Georgia School of Law, on March 2 and 3, 2017. The call for papers issued last autumn produced a trove … Continue reading 100 from around world to join IntLawGrrls’ birthday conference March 2 and 3 at Georgia Law
With thanks to all of you who’ve already submitted proposals for IntLawGrrls! 10th Birthday Conference at the University of Georgia School of Law, we’re pleased both to extend the call for papers deadline till Monday, January 9, and to report on how the conference is shaping up: ► Festivities will begin on Thursday, March 2, … Continue reading Join Wald, Dudziak, many more at IntLawGrrls! 10th Birthday Conference: Call for papers deadline extended until Jan. 9
Founded in 2007 by Diane Marie Amann, an original editor along with Kathleen A. Doty, Jaya Ramji-Nogales, and Beth Van Schaack, we at IntLawGrrls have welcomed more than 400 women, plus several men, as contributors. (To learn how to become a contributor, please e-mail us at intlawgrrls@gmail.com.) Our contributors include judges, professors in law and … Continue reading Contributors
Each year at IntLawGrrls, we like to take the opportunity to celebrate the numerous achievements of our contributors. Below, we’ve provided a most impressive list of awards, new jobs, publications, and other accomplishments by the ‘Grrls whose contributions have kept the blog going. (If you’ve already sent in your updates but don’t see them here, … Continue reading You go, ‘Grrls!
Over the past year, our contributors have had so many noteworthy accomplishments that we had to write two posts to fit them all (see Part 1 here). Congratulations to all! Rachel Anderson was promoted and is now a tenured full professor at the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. … Continue reading You go, ‘Grrls! (Part 2)
An op-ed on cultural patrimony laws in today’s Los Angeles Times has done a great disservice to the public by misrepresenting the purpose, history, impact, and very definition of such legislation. In “The Archaeology Paradox: More Laws, Less Treasure,” Adam Wallwork argues that “tight restrictions on export and ownership of artifacts is leaving the world a poorer place.” Mr. Wallwork is not the first … Continue reading LA Times OpEd Distorts Both Archaeology and the Law