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American Society of International Law seeks proposals for 2015 Annual Meeting

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asil_logoIt’s time again to help plan the Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law. The next one – the 109th annual, themed “Adapting to a Rapidly Changing World” – is set for April 8 to 11, 2015, at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Ave, N.W., in Washington, D.C. Already hard at work are the Program Committee members, co-chaired by Professor Monica Hakimi of Michigan Law, Debevoise & Plimpton lawyer Natalie Reid, and Arnold & Porter lawyer Samuel Witten. Seeking session proposals, they write:

‘For better or worse, international law is confronting a period of profound change. Geopolitical developments—in particular, new assertions of economic, political, or military power by countries like Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—have simultaneously aggravated latent territorial disputes and created the potential for unprecedented economic integration. Advances in technology have enabled cyber-conflicts and forged new tools for governmental coercion or control, while also facilitating the dissemination of information. Shared environmental challenges have presented new causes of human suffering or conflict, as well as new possibilities for global cooperation and assistance. And the increased role of non-state actors in international affairs has made more vocal the still unfulfilled demands on, for example, the universal recognition of the human rights of LGBT persons, the responsibilities associated with corporate conduct, and the protection of people from mass atrocities.’

Organizers seek session proposals answering a range of questions related to this theme. Examples:

► Are the existing international legal regimes capable of meeting these challenges or will new regimes be required?
► Through what processes can we expect international law to adapt, and how might new norms emerge in the face of persistent disagreements or holdout problems?
► How is the legal order responding as the world moves from a unipolar system dominated by the United States to a more multipolar system?
► What is the role or relevance of international law where it might be unable to resolve global issues?

The detailed call for submissions, which must filed online no later than June 27, 2014, is here.

Note too that paper submissions for the 4th  Annual ASIL Research Forum, subject of an earlier post, are due very soon: June 8, 2014.

(Cross-posted from Diane Marie Amann)

ASIL Women in International Law Mentoring Program: Call for Mentors and Mentees

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The American Society of International Law’s Women in International Law Interest Group is excited to announce the launch of the second year of the Women in International Law Mentoring Program.

Photo courtesy of ASIL

Photo courtesy of ASIL

Last year’s launch was extremely successful with over 47 groups across the United States and 5 countries worldwide. We look forward to expanding the program even further this year.

The Women in International Law Mentoring Program (WMP) links experienced female international law professionals with female law students and new attorneys interested in professional development in the field of international law. Mentoring takes place in a group setting, with a maximum of four mentees for every mentor. Mentors and mentees meet in person every other month during the course of an academic year to discuss topics and engage in activities designed to help junior women enter and be successful in the beginning years of practicing international law. Upon finishing the requirements of the one-year program, all participants receive a certificate of completion.

We are currently accepting applications for mentees and mentors. We particularly encourage potential mentors to join the Program. If you are considering it, please do sign up. It is the mentors who make this program possible, and we do all that we can to make it fulfilling and hassle-free.

To sign up, please fill out the attached mentor or mentee application form and send to ilfellow1@asil.org.

The deadline for mentee applications is June 15, 2014  and for mentor applications is July 1, 2014.

ASIL seeks paper proposals for 4th Annual Research Forum, November in Chicago

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asil_logoProposals are being sought for scholarly papers to be presented at the 4th Annual American Society of International Law Research Forum, set to take place during the Society’s Midyear Meeting, November 6 to 8 in Chicago. This year’s Research Forum Co-Chairs, Northwestern Political Science Professor Karen J. Alter (an IntLawGrrl) and Berkeley Law Professor Katerina Linos, write:

‘Papers can be on any topic related to international and transnational law and should be unpublished (for purposes of the call, publication to an electronic database such as SSRN is not considered publication). Interdisciplinary projects, empirical studies, and jointly authored papers are welcome.’

Interested scholars should submit abstracts of up to 1,000 words, using the online submission form, no later than June 8, 2014. Authors, whose papers will have been selected by a blind review process, will be notified by mid-July, and required to submit a draft paper 4 weeks before the Forum.

ASIL members interested in serving as discussants should e-mail submissions@asil.org.

(Cross-posted from Diane Marie Amann)

International jurists & Eleanor Roosevelt

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ILGgroup10apr14A feature of recent American Society of International Law meetings has been IntLawGrrls’ group photo – a group that expands with every passing year. The 2014 edition above was made at the close of the WILIG luncheon at which 3 judges of the International Court of Justice, Joan E. Donoghue, Julia Sebutinde, and Xue Hanqin were honored. We are both honored and delighted that they – along with other dignitaries, like Ambassador Patricia O’Brien, ASIL Executive Director Betsy Andersen, and new ASIL President Lori Damrosch – joined the contributors present for this photo. Standing at the very back and watching over us all again this year is our foremost foremother, Eleanor Roosevelt.

ICC Prosecutor’s remarks @ ASIL

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bensoudaIt’s IntLawGrrls’ great pleasure today to the reprint the remarks that Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, gave on April 11, 2014, at the capstone event of the weeklong joint meeting of the American Society of International Law and the International Law Association: the gala dinner at which several distinguished jurists were honored. Bensouda, who served at one time as Gambia’s Minister of Justice, became the 2d woman born in Africa to have received the ASIL Honorary Membership (the 1st was Navi Pillay of South Africa, in 2003).

IntLawGrrls were honored to welcome Bensouda as a IntLawGrrl 2-1/2 years ago, when she contributed the speech she delivered the text of the speech she gave when the ICC Assembly of States Parties elected her as the court’s 2d chief Prosecutor in December 2011. As we noted then, she’d already served as Deputy Prosecutor for a number of years. Before that, she was a prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and both a private-sector and government attorney in Gambia.

The ASIL award is the most recent of many she has received; others include the 2008 ICJ International Jurists Award, 2011 World Peace Through Law Award, honorary doctorates from Middlesex University in London and Vrije Universiteit in Brussels, and a 2012 Time magazine listing as one of the world’s 100 most influential people.

Bensouda’s remarks moved the persons present at this month’s ASIL dinner. We are honored now to share them, below, with all our readers:

 

Honourable Judges,
Excellencies,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Esteemed Friends and Colleagues,

Allow me at the outset to express my most sincere gratitude to the Honors Committee and the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law for awarding me the 2014 Honorary Membership Award.

It is a distinct privilege and an honour to be selected by ASIL, this most eminent institution dedicated to the advancement of international law, for this year’s Honorary Member Award, and to be joining the distinguished group of prior recipients of this award.

There is indeed no finer award than the recognition of esteemed peers for one’s humble contributions to the field of international law, and for this, I am deeply flattered and I thank you.

As I humbly accept this Award, I am reminded of my formative years, when I served as a clerk in the courts of my native home, The Gambia. We all have those moments in our lives; those decisive moments that leave a mark and help us determine our trajectory in our transient earthly existence.

As a young girl, I recall witnessing countless courageous women who were victims of rape as well as other forms of sexual and domestic violence relive their ordeals through the Gambian court system; their agony and suffering in the face of a judicial system and indeed society, which could not fully afford them the protective embrace of the law, are still vivid and etched in my memory. To this day, their plight and cries of injustice are one of the driving forces behind my firm commitment to the pursuit of justice.

At the risk of sounding cliché, I knew from that moment that I desired, indeed that I had a duty to represent such women; I knew from that moment that through the vector of the law, vulnerable groups in society and those whose rights have been trampled upon can and must be protected and afforded a measure of justice. My path had been made crystal clear.

These convictions were only reinforced through my experience at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda where my work exposed me to the horrors that unfolded in Rwanda, including the mass rapes and murder of women as part of a deliberate campaign, as well as the unspeakable violence perpetrated against fellow human beings. What transpired in Rwanda in 1994, defied reason, muted morality and tainted the 20th century with the blood of the innocent in one of modern history’s most violent acts of criminality and mass murder. The vice of tribalism in Rwanda and machination of brute slaughter on a mass scale left a permanent scar on the conscience of humanity. One, and indeed the world, cannot remain silent and indifferent in the face of such atrocities.

As ICC Prosecutor, I have done my best and shall continue to do whatever I can to help restore dignity to the shattered lives of victims of atrocities and to give breath to our common yearning for the international rule of law.

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Dear Colleagues,

The honour you have so generously bestowed upon me tonight is equally an opportune moment to reflect on the vision that James Brown Scott and Elihu Root had more than 100 hundred years ago when they first conceived this Institution, which today boasts some 4,000 members from more than 100 countries from around the world.

As I accept this Award, I rededicate myself to the mission of these visionaries, to foster the study and practice of international law, and to promote the establishment and maintenance of international relations on the basis of law and blind justice.

At the ICC, we are engaged in translating this vision into reality. As the Preamble of the Rome Statute reminds us, mass crimes threaten the peace, security and well-being of the world. My belief in the power of the law as a potent tool to stop and prevent violence and to pacify communities gripped by conflict remains unshaken.

As Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, my objectives are to hold perpetrators of the worst crimes of concern to the international community to account, to bring a measure of justice to victims and affected communities, to deter others from committing mass atrocities, and thereby contribute to the goal of ushering in a world free from the unimaginable atrocities that have plagued humanity over millennia.

To be sure, my contribution to this vision may be modest, but it is given with genuine passion and unyielding dedication. It is incumbent upon all of us to stay committed to the vision and objectives of the Founding Fathers of ASIL and of the Rome Statute, notwithstanding the many challenges present. Today, before you, I once again pledge my dedication to achieving this goal, and challenge all of us to do the same.

I would be remiss if I didn’t take this opportunity to express publicly my heartfelt gratitude to my beloved family and cherished friends. Truth be told: if not for their caring support throughout my career, I would not be standing here today. I thank them from the bottom of my heart for their Godly patience with a renewed promise to continue on the same path so as not to let their sacrifice and faith in me to be in vain.

To conclude, let me state that I accept this prestigious award as a reminder of the great obligations we all have to the promotion of international law.

We are living at a turning point in history where the deficits of the past are slowly giving way, through friction, trial, courage, and sacrifice no less, to a more humane and balanced relations amongst and within states.

We are not there yet by any means, but the velocity of change has been fixed towards a more enlightened path for humanity.

Let there be law, the world over.

Thank you for your attention.

(photo credit)

Sharing in joy at annual WILIG luncheon

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wiliguseWASHINGTON – The President of the International Court of Justice spoke for a banquet room full of women and men yesterday when he said, “I am just here to share in the joy of my colleagues.” The colleagues of whom ICJ President Peter Tomka spoke were Judges Joan E. Donoghue, Julie Sebutinde, and Xue Hanqin. The three women received the Prominent Women in International Law Award during the Women in International Law Interest Group luncheon, a highlight of every American Society of International Law annual meeting. As a special treat, retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor dropped in to congratulate what she called “the women’s division” of the World Court bench.

Each of the honored judges made brief but inspiring comments.

Judge Donoghue, a career U.S. State Department lawyer before she joined the ICJ in September 2010, focused her comments on gender disparity in international law. In a recent three-year period, “93 percent of the arguments judges of the ICJ heard came from men,” Donoghue said, citing “A Study of Lawyers Appearing before the International Court of Justice, 1999-2012,” a forthcoming European Journal of International Law article by Cecily Rose, an IntLawGrrls contributor, and Shashank Kumar. In calling for greater diversity, Donoghue reasoned:

‘We are a world court, and international law in the main is for the world.’

Flashing a broad smile, Judge Xue said, “Indeed, this is a great honor and privilege to receive this award. It’s really like an higgOscar.” Xue, a former diplomat and law professor in China, is senior to Donoghue on the court by a few months. She recalled two women who had preceded both of them – Dame Rosalyn Higgins (right), whose service from 1995 to 2009 included abastid term as the ICJ’s President, and Suzanne Bastid (left), an ad hoc judge in the 1980s. Xue said:

‘Today we have so many women on the court not because today women are so much more intelligent, but because many international lawyers, men and women – I want to stress, men and women – have fought so hard for women’s rights.’

She accepted her award “as a tribute to all women legal professionals working in the field of international law, in recognition of their dedication to international peace and development.”

Having three women on the bench, Judge Sebutinde said, “is indeed a pinch-yourself moment for me.” Sebutinde’s pre-ICJ career included service as a judge in her homeland of Uganda and on the Special Court for Sierra Leone. Sebutinde thanked her colleagues Donoghue and Xue, stating, “I don’t think I would even have had the courage to apply if they were not there.” Sebutinde urged the court to increase public outreach. It is particularly important in her own region: “It is no secret I come from eastern Africa where there has been a lot of conflict for decades. The first thing that nations think of for settling their differences is war. It is never the International Court of Justice. So it’s a great responsibility, especially for judges who come from Africa, to sell the court to our part of the world.”

Adding their own words were audience members  – judges, law students, law professors, law librarians, and practicing lawyers – who took part in WILIG’s introduce-yourself tradition. Among them was International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, who recalled that as a young girl in Gambia, she had felt “helpless” after trying in vain to get police to protect a relative who was suffering domestic violence. “That is why I went to law school,” said Bensouda, another IntLawGrrls contributor. With reference to her current work, she added, “There must be accountability for those crimes, those who perpetrate those crimes. There must be rule of law.” Meanwhile, Washington-based attorneys Lucinda Low and Jennifer A. Hillman (a former member of the World Trade Organization Appellate Body) urged “constant vigilance” to ensure that once earned, gains in women’s participation are maintained.

A University of California-Davis Law student who hails from Kazakhstan summed up the celebratory spirit. Aigerim Dyussenova, known to her new WILIG friends as Aika, proclaimed:

‘This is the happiest day of my life.’

(In photo at top by IntLawGrrl Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, , IntLawGrrls and WILIG Co-Chairs Clara Brillembourg – a cardboard cutout of foremother Eleanor Roosevelt behind her – and Christie Edwards address the luncheon audience. Looking on are, from left, Judges Xue Hanqin, Joan E. Donoghue, and Sebutinde, along with Justice O’Connor. Cross-posted at Diane Marie Amann and ASIL Cables.)

New tool for US judges & litigants: ASIL Benchbook on International Law

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bbIt’s my great pleasure to announce the publication of the American Society of International Law Benchbook on International Law (2014). This represents the culmination of several years of hard work by 4 dozen contributors, international law scholars and practitioners alike (including, of course, many IntLawGrrls; see below). We’ve benefited greatly from advice of the ASIL Judicial Advisory Board, composed of one member from each federal circuit and several state supreme courts, chaired by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It has been an honor to serve as the Benchbook‘s Editor-in-Chief.

As detailed in the Preface, the Benchbook is intended as an aid to judges and litigants when foreign or international law (including treaties and customary norms) forms a part of the case before them.

It will be demonstrated at the joint meeting of ASIL and the International Law Association this week in Washington, D.C. — to be precise, as part of ASIL’s Annual General Meeting, which begins at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, April 10, in Polaris Room A/B at the Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center, on Pennsylvania Avenue a few blocks from the White House. (Full meeting program here.) We will give a brief demonstration and extend heartfelt thanks to all who contributed; all are welcome to attend.

The Benchbook appears online here. Readers will find the Preface and, by clicking the Table of Contents tab, the contents of this 2014 edition. Included are our dedication to the memory of David J. Bederman, followed by these units:

► Primer (International Law Defined; Sources and Evidence of International Law; Uses of International Law in U.S. Courts)

► Preliminaries (Jurisdiction; Immunities and Other Preliminary Considerations; Discovery and Other Procedures)

► Specific Topics (International Arbitration; International Law Pertaining to Families and Children; International Sale of Goods; International Air Transportation; Human Rights, comprising Alien Tort Statute, Torture Victim Protection Act, Human Trafficking, and Non-refoulement or Nonreturn; Criminal Justice; and Environment)

► Resources (Judicial Interpretation of International or Foreign Instruments; Research Resources)

Clicking on any of the above chapters will give you the pdf version of that segment of the Benchbook. If you would like to access and download the 356-page Benchbook as a whole, you may do so here.

In order to make the volume as user-friendly as possible (until our eventual transfer to html with hypertexting), we have cross-referenced throughout all chapters, and further provided several means to locate information:

► Summary Table of Contents

► Detailed Table of Contents

►Tables of Treaties, Cases, Laws, and Scholarly Writings, along with a Keyword Index

You will see toward the end that the Benchbook includes a list with short biographies of each contributor. IntLawGrrls on the project, in addition to yours truly, include Elizabeth “Betsy” Andersen, Kaitlin M. Ball, Kathleen A. Doty, Chimène Keitner, Hari M. Osofsky, Cymie Payne, Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Lucy Reed, Barbara Stark, and Beth Van Schaack. (The book benefited as well from the help of my colleagues and students at the University of Georgia School of Law  – not only Kaitlin M. Ball, but also Kent Barnett, Harlan Cohen, Erika Furlong, and the super staff at the Alexander King Campbell Law Library.)

The book also includes acknowledgments. These cannot begin to express our deep thanks to all of you for ASIL members’ support of this multiyear project. Going forward, we hope to keep the Benchbook current with periodic updating, and also to make it a hands-on training tool for judges and their staffs. We welcome members’ help in those endeavors.

(Cross-posted from Diane Marie Amann)

Women @ ASIL (8th ed.)

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ASILIntLawGrrls is pleased to highlight this year’s roster of incredible women who will speak at the annual meeting of the American Society of International Law this week in D.C. (prior editions here and here). This 108th gathering, entitled The Effectiveness of International Law, marks the first time that ASIL and the International Law Association will jointly convene a conference. Details on registration here.

Highlights include the Grotius Lecture on Wednesday, April 9. Radhika Coomaraswamy (left, photo credit), former U.N. Under Secretary-General and Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict and Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women will deliver this year’s lecture: Women and Children: The Cutting Edge of International Law. We are particularly pleased to note that IntLawGrrls co-founder and contributor Diane Marie Amann (University of Georgia School of Law; Special Adviser on Children in Armed Conflict, International Criminal Court, Office of the Prosecutor) (below right) will serve as discussant.

In addition to the Grotius Lecture, the annual WILIG luncheon on Thursday will honor three International Court of Justice Judges: Julia Sebuntinde, Joan Donoghue, and Xue Hanqin. Justice Sandra Day O’Connor will provide the opening remarks at what promises to be another fascinating WILIG event.

593px-Deputy_ProsecutorJustices Donoghue, Sebutinde, and Hanqin will appear again on Friday, April 11, at the plenary session, and International Criminal Court Prosecutor and IntLawGrrl Fatou Bensouda (right) will be one of the honorees at the Gala Dinner later that evening.

Once again, the panelists at ASIL are as diverse as the topics, with at least one woman on nearly every panel. The Women @ ASIL honor roll is below:

Monday, April 7, 5:00-6:30 p.m.

Opening plenary: IntLawGrrl Ruth Wedgwood (President of the American Branch of the ILA and Chair of the ILA Biennial Conference 2014), and Mary McLeod (U.S. Department of State)

Tuesday, April 8, 2:15-3:45 p.m.chku-small

Teaching International Law – IntLawGrrl Charlotte Ku (University of Illinois) (left, photo credit)

Wednesday, April 9, 1:45-3:15 p.m.:

Corporate Responsibility and Human Rights – Sara Seck (University of Western Ontario), Rachel Davis (Shift)

Wednesday, April 9, 1:45-2:45 p.m.:

Connecting the Dots: Visualizing International Law – Marylin Raisch (Georgetown University Law Center)

Wednesday, April 9, 3:30-5:00 p.m.:

Lori-Damrosch-Profile-1013Is International Law Effective? The Case of Russia and Ukraine – Lori Fisler Damrosch (Columbia Law School) (right, photo credit), Nina Khruscheva (The New School)

The Fourth Restatement of Foreign Relations Law of the United States – Sarah Cleveland (Columbia Law School)

sarfatyThe Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act’s Turn to International Law – Galit Sarfaty (University of British Columbia Faculty of Law) (left, photo credit)

Thursday, April 10, 9:00-10:30 a.m.:

The Approach of Courts to Foreign Affairs and National Security – Ruth Wedgwood (Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies)

Countermeasures in Cyberspace – Alexandra Perina (Council on Foreign Relations)

janina.dillInterpretive Complexity and the International Humanitarian Law Principle of Proportionality – Janina Dill (Oxford University) (right, photo credit)

Thursday, April 10, 10:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.:

Autonomous Weaponry and Armed Conflict – Naz Modirzadeh (Harvard Law School – Brookings Project on Law and Security)

Thursday, April 10, 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.:

The Emergence of New Funding Sources of International Development – Cecilia Akintomide (African Development Bank), Betsy Apple (Open Society Justice Initiative), Uche Ewelukwa (University of Arkansas School of Law)

stromseth-jane_1M_STERIOThe Future of International Criminal Law – IntLawGrrl co-editor Milena Sterio (Cleveland State University) (right), Jane Stromseth (Office of  Global Criminal Justice, U.S. State Department; Georgetown University Law Center) (left, photo credit)

Effectiveness of International Adjudication: Assessing Functions and Performance – Sivan Shlomo Agon (New York University Law School), Joan Donoghue (International Court of Justice)

Thursday, April 10, 12:45 – 2:15 p.m.:

Domestic Human Rights Enforcement After Kiobel – Agnieszka Fryszman (Cohen MIlstein, LLP), Kristin Linsley Myles (Munger Tolles & Olsen, LLP), Katie Redford (EarthRights International)

The Idea of Effective International Law – Rachael Kent (WilmerHale)

Thursday, April 10, 2:30-4:00 p.m.:

Can International Norms Protect Us from Natural Disasters? – Kristen Bookmiller (Millersville University), Elizabeth Ferris (Brookings Institution), Ingrid Nifosi-Sutton (American University Washington College of Law) vanaaken

Possible Paradigmatic Changes in the Settlement of International Investment – IntLawGrrl Anne van Aaken (University of St. Gallen) (right, photo credit)

Is Forced Feeding in Response to Hunger Strikes a Violation of the Prohibition of Torture and Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment? Rachel VanLandingham (Stetson University College of Law), Pnina Sharvit Baruch (Institute for National Security Studies)

Thursday, April 10, 4:15-5:45 p.m.:

bio_Thomas_Chantal_ct343Law Enforcement Across Fields: Comparing Human Rights and Trade – IntLawGrrl Jenny Martinez (Stanford Law School), Chantal Thomas (Cornell Law School) (left, photo credit)

The Making of International Environmental Law: A Conversation with Two Pioneers – Edith Brown Weiss (Georgetown University Law Center), Olivia Radics (Environmental Law Institute), Kiran Sahdev (Georgetown University Law Center), Carina Roselli (Environmental Law Institute)Land, Molly 360x450

Designing Technology for Human Rights – Laura K. Donohue (Georgetown University Law Center), IntLawGrrl Molly Land (University of Connecticut School of Law) (right, photo credit)

Friday, April 11, 9:00-10:30 a.m.:

Everybody Come Together Over Me: Systemic Integration and Vienna Convention Art 31(3)(c) – Helene Ruiz-Fabri (Sorbonne Law School)

International Trade Law and International Investment Law: Complexity and Coherence – Mélida Hodgson (Foley Hoag LLP), Debra Steger (University of Ottawa)

obrien_smWomen’s Economic Rights, International Law and the Financial Crisis – Justice Sujata Manohar (former member of the Supreme Court of India), IntLawGrrl Patricia O’Brien (Permanent Representation of Ireland to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations) (left, photo credit)

spainJudges, Diplomats, and Peacebuilders: Evaluating International Dispute Resolution as a System – Jolynn Shoemaker (Center for Strategic and International Studies), IntLawGrrl Anna Spain (University of Colorado Law School) (right, photo credit)

On Socializing States: A Conversation with Ryan Goodman and Derek Jinks on Their Certificate of Merit Winning Book – IntLawGrrl Monica Hakimi (University of Michigan Law School), Siobhan McInerney-Lankford (The World Bank)

Emerging Trends and Challenges in International Legal Education and Scholarship – Kaitlin M. Ball (International Law Students Association)

Friday, April 11, 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.:

blank“Law of Warcraft”: New Approaches to Generating Respect for the Law – IntLawGrrl Laurie Blank (Emory University Law School) (left, photo credit), Elizabeth Stubbins Bates (SOAS, University of London)

The Effectiveness of the United Nations Human Rights Protection Machinery – Felice Gaer (Jacob Blaustein Institute), IntLawGrrl Beth Simmons (Harvard University), Kathryn Sikkink (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)

Friday, April 11, 12:45-2:15:

The Effectiveness of Trade to Govern “Clean Energy” Strategies – Gabrielle Marceau (WTO), Susan Esserman (Steptoe & Johnson LLP), Antonia Eliason (University of Mississippi)

mcdonald_tnNew Voices in International Law: Making International Criminal Law More Effective – IntLawGrrl Saira Mohamed (University of California-Berkeley School of Law), Maria Varaki (Hebrew University/University of Copenhagen), Adejoké Babington-Ashaye (World Bank Administrative Tribunal), Gabrielle Kirk McDonald (International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and Iran-US Claims Tribunal (retired)) (right, photo credit)

katyaContinuities of Violence: What Role for Transitional Justice and the Rule of Law? – Colette Rausch (U.S. Institute of Peace), Katya Salazar (Due Process of Law Foundation) (left, photo credit), Nahla Valji (UN Women), Julie Werbel (USAID), Lorna McGregor (University of Essex)

Investment Chapters in Trade Agreements: IP Rights as Protected Investments – Susan K. Sell (Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University)

Friday, April 11, 2:30-4:00 p.m.:

Aggression and the Use of Force in International Law – IntLawGrrl Christine Chinkin (London School of Economics)

Intelligence Materials and the Courts – Kim Prost (United Nations)

natalie_kleinThe Dispute Settlement System of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: An Assessment after 20 Years – Joanna Mossop (Victoria University at Wellington), Natalie Klein (Macquarie University) (right, photo credit)

versteegNew Voices in International Law: Empirical Perspectives on International Law – Anna Schrimpf (Princeton University), Mila Versteeg (University of Virginia) (right, photo credit)

Dworkin’s Philosophy of International Law – Jean Cohen (Columbia University)

Saturday, April 12, 9:00-10:30 a.m.:

Combating Tax Avoidance and Evasion – Ruth Mason (University of Virginia)

ms.-elizabeth-dowdeswell The Effectiveness of International Law in “Greening” the Economy – IntLawGrrl Rebecca Bratspies (City University of New York School of Law), Elizabeth Dowdeswell (Council of Canadian Academies) (right, photo credit)

giorgettiChallenges of Arbitrators in International Investment Disputes: Standards and Outcomes – Judith Levine (Permanent Court of Arbitration), IntLawGrrl Meg Kinnear (ICSID), IntLawGrrl Chiara Giorgetti (University of Richmond) (left)

olga-juraszSexual Violence in Armed Conflict – Kimberly Theidon (Harvard University), IntLawGrrl Olga Jurasz (Open University) (right), Dawn Sedman (Oxford Brookes University)

Grossi-webState Law Litigation of International Norms – Beth Stephens (Rutgers University Law School), Cassandra Burke Robertson (Case Western University Law School), Simona Grossi (Loyola Law School, Los Angeles) (left, photo credit)

Saturday, April 12, 10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.:

gowlland-debbasClosing Plenary – Syria: Testing the Effectiveness of International Law – Vera Gowlland-Debbas (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies) (right, photo credit)

ASIL / ILA meeting program now online

/ Diane Marie Amann / 1 Comment

am14_header_sitetop_1Having posted a while back on early registration, I write to report: Now available is the full program for the American Society of International Law Annual Meeting/International Law Association Biennial Conference, set for April 7 to 12 in Washington, D.C., at the Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center, on Pennsylvania Avenue a few blocks from the White House.

Numbering more than a hundred pages, the program, available in full here, details the more than 250 persons, from A (Frederick M. Abbott) to Z (Marten Zwanenberg) scheduled to speak at myriad sessions. Besides my certain attendance the WILIG Luncheon on which I previously posted – note that former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has been added as a luncheon speaker – I’m pleased to note 2 other events in which I’ll be participating:

► I will have the immense honor of serving as discussant for the Grotius Lecture, a keynote event 5-6:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 9. Delivering the lecture will be Radhika Coomaraswamy, whose former posts include Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary-General on Children & Armed Conflict and U.N. Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women. Her talk is entitled “Women and Children: The Cutting Edge of International Law.”

► During the ASIL Annual General Meeting set for 2:30-4 p.m. Thursday, April 10, I look forward to the opportunity to launch ASIL’s Benchbook on International Law, a just-completed volume for which I’m honored to be Editor-in-Chief. (Beta version now online; keep checking here for the final version.) About 4 dozen ASIL member colleagues contributed to this multiyear project intended to aid judges and litigants in federal courts; it will be great to demonstrate the Benchbook and give a heartfelt thanks to all who helped.

You can still register for the meeting here. Would be great to see you there.

(Cross-posted at Diane Marie Amann)