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
George Washington University School of Law ASIL Links Home Academic Partnership Program Academic Bulletin Archive Career Development Resouces GW Law is pleased to announce its two study abroad programs for the summer of 2008: • 14th Annual GW/Oxford Program in International Human Rights Law The Program in International Human Rights Law is offered jointly by the University of Oxford and The George Washington University Law School and is held in Oxford. It is intended to prepare students to contribute to the improvement of human rights conditions in their homelands and around the world. During the program's four-week session, an internationally-recognized faculty offers courses on the philosophy, history, doctrine, and practice of international human rights law. The program emphasizes advocacy and dissemination skills, as well as formal knowledge of human rights law, the means of its enforcement, and its status in a contentious world. Professor Ralph G. Steinhardt of the Law School faculty is co-director of the program. The program begins on Sunday, July 6 and concludes on Wednesday, August 6. For more information on the program, please visit: http://www.gwu.edu/~specprog/abroad/oxford.html • Munich Intellectual Property Law Summer Program As a complement to its leading intellectual property program in Washington, DC, GW Law offers a four-week intellectual property law program at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC) in Munich, Germany, a vibrant city less than an hour from the Alps, known as Europe's "Intellectual Property Capital." The MIPLC is a joint project involving GW Law School, the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, the Technische Universität München, and the University of Augsburg. The ABA-accredited program offers eight one-credit courses of which students can choose up to four, as well as special lectures and visits to local IP institutions such as the European Patent Office. In the summer of 2008, the program will run from July 7 to August 2. For more information on the program, please click here. Upcoming Events at GW Law Enrichment Lecture: 4 p.m., January 30, 2008: former United States Trade Representative Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky, WilmerHale Symposium: Nanogovernance 2008, February 12, 2008: international experts examine issues relating to a comprehensive environmental governance regime for nanotechnology International and Comparative Law Colloquium: noon, February 4, 2008: Professor Christopher Borgen, St. Johns University Law School; noon, March 10, 2008: Professor Paolo Carozza, Notre Dame University Law School Roundtable: Comparative Law Constitutional Law Roundtable, March 7, 2008 Conference: April 7 and 8, 2008: GW Law and the University of Oslo co-host "Transnational Corporate Responsibility for the 21st Century" Roundtable: Second Annual Potomac Foreign Relations Law Roundtable, May 2, 2008 Recent Scholarship by GW Law International & Comparative Law Faculty Members Professor Sean D. Murphy and Professors Thomas M. Franck and Michael J. Glennon have published FOREIGN RELATIONS AND NATIONAL SECURITY LAW: CASES, MATERIALS AND SIMULATIONS (Thompson/West 2008). Thompson/West recently published Professor Greg Magg's 2007 Supplement to TERRORISM AND THE LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS. Professor Peter Raven-Hansen's NATIONAL SECURITY LAW (Aspen 2007) is now in its 4th edition. Professor John A. Spanogle co-authored GLOBAL ISSUES IN CONTRACT LAW (West Group 2007). Professor Dinah Shelton wrote International Human Rights Law: Principled, Double, or Absent Standards?, which appeared in 25 LAW & INEQ. J. 467 (2007). Professor Michael Matheson's The Fifty-Eighth Session of the International Law Commission appeared in 101 AM. J. INT'L L. (2007). Professor Steve Charnovitz penned The WTO's Environmental Progress in 10 J. INT'L EC. L. 685 (2007). GW Law's French Collection GW Law's Library recently offered a viewing of its French Collection to the European Society of International Law-American Society of International Law leadership retreat. GW Law Librarian Dean Scott Pagel discusses the collection with ESIL President Héléne Ruiz Fabri and ASIL President-Elect Lucy Reed. For more information on these and other events, please visit: http://www.law.gwu.edu/News/