News and Developments in International Law and Legal Education Published as an information resource for the ASIL membership, the ASIL Academic Bulletin reports on program developments at ASIL 2008 Academic Partner institutions. January 2008
University of Georgia School of Law ASIL Links Home Academic Partnership Program Academic Bulletin Archive Career Development Resouces The Dean Rusk Center - International, Comparative and Graduate Legal Studies Dean Rusk Center and SCIS to host former Secretaries of State In 1990, Dean Rusk, former Secretary of State under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, took part in the 8th Annual Report of the Secretaries of State held in Athens, Ga. Eighteen years later, as part of the commemoration of the Dean Rusk Center's 30th Anniversary, a highly distinguished group of former secretaries of state will convene once again in Athens during late March for a round table discussion on U.S. foreign policy moderated by Terence Smith of the television program The Newshour. The Annual Report of the Secretaries of State began in 1983 and developed into a series of Peabody Award-winning conferences hosted by the Southern Center for International Studies (SCIS) located in Atlanta. Dean Rusk was instrumental to the success of these early conferences, both through his participation as a former secretary of state in the first nine Annual Reports and through his support of the work of SCIS. Honoring this tradition, the Dean Rusk Center and SCIS will host the former secretaries of state - a group that will include Madeleine Albright, James Baker, Warren Christopher, and Henry Kissinger - on March 27 at the Classic Center in Athens, Ga. "The Report of the Secretaries of State is precisely the type of conference that fits into the Rusk Center's mission of providing a forum for debate on international legal and policy issues," explains Rusk Center Director and former Ambassador C. Donald Johnson. "Here at the Center, we seek to gain insight from participants who have been directly involved in the shaping of law and policy. I can think of no better way to do that than by working with longtime friends of Dean Rusk at the Southern Center for International Studies to bring this group of distinguished former secretaries of state to Athens for an exciting roundtable discussion on foreign policy." For more information about the upcoming conference, please contact Andre B. Barbic at abarbic@uga.edu or (706)542-5141. For more information about the Dean Rusk Center, please visit: www.uga.edu/ruskcenter Study Abroad Programs GEORGIA LAW SUMMER PROGRAM IN CHINA In 2006, Georgia Law debuted an ABA-approved study abroad program in China. Partnering with Tsinghua University in Beijing and Fudan University in Shanghai, this learning experience provides a unique opportunity to study in China's two largest cities. The curriculum offers an introduction to the Chinese legal system, with an emphasis on commercial law and U.S.-China trade issues under the WTO. Several cultural tours and legal field trips are also included in the program. For more information and application materials, please visit: www.uga.edu/ruskcenter/china/ BRUSSELS SEMINAR ON THE LAW AND INSTITUTIONS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION For more than three decades, Georgia Law has helped sponsor the Brussels Seminar on the Law and Institutions of the European Union, which now includes a three-week, ABA-approved course on EU law held at the Institut d'Études Européennes of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. It is taught by officials of the EU Commission and Council, judges of the European Community Court of Justice, leading practitioners of EU law and distinguished professors from European universities. For more information and application materials, please visit: www.uga.edu/ruskcenter/brussels.html