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
Washington University School of Law ASIL Links Home Academic Partnership Program Academic Bulletin Archive Career Development Resouces Events In the summer of 2007, Washington University School of Law was pleased to announce the new leadership of its Whitney R. Harris Institute for Global Legal Studies. Leila Sadat, the Henry B. Oberschelp Professor of Law, will serve as the Director of the Harris Institute, and Michael Peil, Assistant Dean for International Programs, will serve as its Executive Director. Washington University Law was also pleased to welcome three new international scholars to its faculty this year. Gerrit De Geest, formerly a professor of law and economics at Utrecht University, joins the faculty as a professor of law, specializing in comparative law and law and economics. Carl Minzner, an expert in Chinese law and politics, and Adam Rosenzweig, who researches and teaches in domestic and international tax law and policy, join the faculty as associate professors of law. Washington University Law and the Harris Institute will host several major international and comparative law events in the Spring of 2008. On January 18 and 19, the Harris Institute will host a Roundtable in Public International Criminal Law & Human Rights and Legal Theory. This Roundtable will bring together leading legal and philosophy scholars for two days of discussion of their latest work in the field. On January 24, the Harris Institute will present its second World Peace Through Law Award to Judge Richard Goldstone, former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda. This gala event will also feature the formal redesignation of the Harris Institute as the "Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute." In February, the Law School will join the St. Louis business, trade and legal communities in welcoming H.E. Zhou Wenzhong, ambassador of the People's Republic of China to the United States, and Ambassador Alan Holmer, Special Envoy to the U.S.-China Strategic Economic Dialogue. On May 8-9, Washington University Law will host a two-day conference celebrating the work and contributions of John O. Haley, professor of law and the immediate past Director of the Harris Institute. John is a pioneer in the comparative study of Japanese law, and the conference will bring together Japanese and Pacific-Rim comparative-law specialists from around the world. Washington University Law students continue to study abroad in great numbers. In addition to our ongoing exchange relationships with Utrecht University (The Netherlands), University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), Catolica Universidade Portuguese (Portugal), and National University of Singapore, the law school is pleased to announce new student and faculty exchange arrangements with Fudan University (China), Korea University, National Taiwan University, and the University of Pretoria (South Africa). The Summer Institute for Global Justice (Utrecht), co-administered with Case Western Reserve University and Utrecht University, enters its fourth year this summer, featuring courses on atrocity law, comparative legal ethics, comparative employment law, international criminal law & procedure, the role of the judge in a comparative perspective, and the law of intervention. The program is taught by top international and comparative law scholars from the three partner institutions, as well as leading scholars and practitioners from throughout the United States and Europe. For more information, visit the Summer Institute website at http://law.wustl.edu/summer_institute/. The Summer Institute in U.S. Law (St. Louis) begins its second year this summer. This two-week program brings undergraduate law students from around the world to St. Louis for an intensive introduction to U.S. law, U.S. legal education methods, and For further information about these and other Washington University Law and the Harris Institute activities, visit our website at http://law.wustl.edu/international/.