• American University Washington College of Law
• Case Western Reserve Unversity School of Law
• Columbia Law School
• Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
• Georgetown University Law Center
• New England School of Law
• Penn State Dickinson School of Law
• Stetson Univeristy College of Law
• University of Baltimore School of Law

American University - Washington College of Law

International News and Upcoming International Events at American University, Washington College of Law

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has appointed Professor Daniel Bradlow to serve on the 3-member roster of Experts of the Bank Group’s Independent Review Mechanism, a body which ensures that the Bank Group complies with its rules and procedures in the implementation of projects and programs. Professor Bradlow has played a vital role in the establishment of accountability mechanisms in international financing institutions.

At the beginning of July, Dean Claudio Grossman participated at an expert meeting in Berlin convened by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the United Nations Treaty Body System. The aim of the meeting was to look at practicable scenarios of Treaty Body reform and to consider the legal, political and financial implications as they affect the implementation of the respective reform models. Dean Grossman currently serves as Vice-Chair of the UN treaty body, the Committee Against Torture.

Macarena Saez, International Programs Coordinator at WCL, and Cristina Motta, have edited a book on gender and sexuality in Latin America: La Mirada de los Jueces: Decisiones sobre genero y Sexualidad uen Latinoamerica. The book, written by members of Red ALA, a network of Latin American Scholars on gender and the law, is the first comprehensive look at women’s rights in Latin America and should be available in September.

On October 8, 2007, the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property will sponsor International Legal Issues: The Current Debate over the Immunity of Foreign Cultural Property from Suit in the U.S. The panelists will discuss the text and legislative history of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), and survey recent cases affecting its application. The program will concentrate specifically on the FSIA’s impact in stolen art cases, where U.S. plaintiffs endeavor to recover stolen or looted art from foreign countries by filing suit in the U.S. The complex historical facts often involved in such cases offer a particularly interesting and unique context for the application of the FSIA. The program is co-sponsored by The Lawyers’ Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation and The National Parks Service.

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Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Of Note

This year marks the 15th anniversary of the endowment of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, the 30th anniversary of the Canada-US Law Institute, and the 40th anniversary of the Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law.

The Cox Center’s Grotian Moment Blog was the top ranked international law blog in the 2006 Weblog Awards.

The Cox Center’s “War Crimes Prosecution Watch” e-newsletter, a biweekly newsletter that features articles and documents related to war crimes investigations and trials throughout the globe, has grown to 15,000 subscribers.

Projects

On July 12, 2007, Voice of America Radio aired a story about the Case School of Law professors and students who are working with the Cox Center War Crimes Research Office to assist in the prosecution of Charles Taylor and other cases before the Special Court for Sierra Leone, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the International Criminal Court, and the new Cambodia Genocide Tribunal.
See: http://www.voanews.com/english/Africa/2007-07-12-voa11.cfm and click on: Listen to De Capua report on Charles Taylor mp3

The Case Institute for Global Security Law and Policy will host an International Committee of the Red Cross experts meeting on September 14-15, 2007. Participants will examine whether safeguards governing internment and administrative detention of suspected terrorists are adequate.

International Law Faculty News

Professor Michael Scharf, Director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, was selected to Co-Chair the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law.

Scharf’s law review article, “Self-Representation versus Assignment of Defense Counsel before International Criminal Tribunals,” 4 J. Int’l Crim. Just. (2006), was cited as authority in the most recent decision of the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Prosecutor v. Krajisnik (May 11, 2007), Opinion of Judge Schomburg).

Professor Jacqueline Lipton, Associate Director of the Cox Center, received the 2007 Flora Stone Mather Spotlight Series Prize for Women’s Scholarship in recognition of her cutting edge scholarly writings in the field of Cyberspace Law. Lipton has also been selected by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) as a consultant on future developments in the international Internet domain name system.

Jon Groetzinger (J.D. Cornell), former Chief Counsel at American Greetings and former President of International Operations and Chief International Counsel at Martin Marietta Corporation, has accepted a three-year Visiting Professorship, and will teach “International Business Transactions” and related courses.

Adjunct Professor David Leopold, who heads the Case Immigration Law Program, has been elected Vice President of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

Upcoming Events

On September 28, 2007, Case will host a major international conference entitled: “To Prevent and to Punish: An International Conference in Commemoration of the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Negotiation of the Genocide Convention.” Speakers include Cambodia Tribunal Prosecutor Robert Petit, SCSL Appeals Judge Geoffrey Robertson; Iraqi High Tribunal Judge Ra’ad Juhi; and Nuremberg Prosecutors Whitney Harris, Ben Ferencz, and (Case Professor) Henry King. The conference is co-sponsored by the American Society of International Law.

Columbia Law School

Columbia Law School’s International and Comparative Law Programs

From Francis Lieber, whose work formed the basis of the modern laws of war, to Professor Louis Henkin, the widely regarded father of modern international human rights law, Columbia Law School’s faculty have long been on the cutting edge of international and comparative legal scholarship. Columbia Law School was among the first law schools to offer courses in foreign law and comparative legislation, to create joint-degree programs with law schools overseas, and to encourage the enrollment of foreign students.

Today, Columbia Law School's commitment to international and comparative law is primarily reflected in the breadth and depth of its permanent faculty and visiting professors who every year deliver the widest selection of international and comparative law offerings of any law school in the United States and possibly the world. These offerings now include over 70 courses, specialized clinics, inter-disciplinary seminars and innumerable conferences that focus of some on the world’s most pressing legal issues. Indeed, most Columbia Law School professors, and not merely those who are acknowledged leaders in the fields of international or comparative law, engage in the transnational dimensions of what they teach and the result is a truly cosmopolitan approach to legal education. Columbia Law school professors are particularly noted for integrating transnational insights into even those subjects that are usually considered to be purely “national” in scope, such as family law or corporate law. At Columbia, the entire curriculum, including first year subjects, is attuned to the legal dimensions of globalization.

Columbia Law School is not only distinguished by its world-renowned faculty and the scope of its international curriculum, but also by its law library collections, by its rich and innovative study abroad programs, and by its path-breaking regional centers which have no peer among U.S. law schools.

Exchange Programs

In 1994, Columbia was the first U.S. Law School to establish a double degree program providing its participants with both a U.S. Juris Doctor and a foreign law degree, in this instance the French Maitrise en Droit. Recently, Columbia has expanded its foreign double degree programs to include a four-year JD/LLB from Columbia and the University of London, and a three-year JD/LL.M., also with the University of London, and a three-year JD/DESS with the Institut d'etudes politiques ("Sciences-Po") and the Universite de Paris I - Pantheon Sorbonne.

In addition to its dual degree programs, the Law School offers the broadest array of semester abroad programs of any U.S. law school; currently 13 semester study abroad programs in 11 countries are available to its J.D. students. Under the American Bar Association Student-Initiated Study Abroad Guidelines, Columbia also encourages students to create their own study abroad programs with universities with which it does not have institutional ties. Today, Columbia Law School students are participating in law school-sponsored or independent study programs in over twenty countries on six continents.

European Legal Studies Center

The European Legal Studies Center has an outstanding reputation for training students to take on leadership roles in international public affairs and the global economy. The Center's location in New York City offers students unique opportunities for research and work, and makes it one of the best places to study European law in the world. Under the direction of Professor George A. Bermann, the European Legal Studies Center has made its international focus the cornerstone of its teaching, research and student community: faculty are world leaders in their fields, students represent Europe and many other countries, and New York City is home to the United Nations, global corporations and European embassies and cultural centers. Students can also participate in a remarkably diverse set of related hands-on experiences: from externships at the UN or UN missions, to a clinical experience in human rights.

Through a major grant from the Thyssen Foundation, the Center established an annual Visiting Professorship in European Economic Law, which allows two to three experts in the subject to teach the Advanced European Seminar in European Law. The first Thyssen Visiting Professor was Professor Dr. Theodor Baums (University of Hamburg). Additionally, four years ago, Columbia Law School instituted a Faculty Research Exchange program with the European University Institute (EUI) of Florence. The exchange is for a period of up to six weeks, between October and May, and usually combines both teaching and research.

Center for Chinese Legal Studies

Columbia Law School has been a leader in Chinese legal studies for more than thirty years. Established in 1983, the Center for Chinese Legal Studies serves as the focal point for China-related curricular, extracurricular, and exchange activities that attract students and scholars from all over the world to Columbia Law School. The Center hosts one of the largest concentrations outside Asia of students and scholars studying the law of China.

During each academic year, the Center hosts approximately fifty Chinese visiting scholars and students and more than fifty American law students who are proficient in the Chinese language and are committed to pursuing careers involving China. This academic year, for example, more than forty-five students from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan are enrolled at Columbia, divided approximately equally between the LL.M. and J.D. programs. During each academic year the Center also hosts approximately ten visiting scholars from greater China.

Columbia Law School is a leader in working with law schools and legal aid clinics in China to further the development of legal aid and clinical legal education. Columbia clinical faculty are working with Chinese partners to develop clinical legal education in China, Columbia hosts public interest lawyers from China each year, and numerous Columbia students work in public interest positions in China each summer.

Center for Japanese Legal Studies

Columbia Las School was the first law school in the United States to offer courses in Japanese law. The Center for Japanese Legal Studies, directed by Professor Curtis J. Milhaupt, celebrated its 25th anniversary during the 2004-05 academic year. The Center actively promotes research on Japanese law, aided by the country's premier collection of Japanese legal materials housed in the Law School's Toshiba Library for Japanese Legal Research. Holding one of the largest collections of Japanese legal materials outside Japan, the Toshiba Library contains roughly 23,000 volumes of books and bound periodicals, of which more than 90 percent is in Japanese.

The Center's current activities reflect the dynamic process of legal reform underway in Japan, reforms which touch upon virtually every aspect of Japanese society. The Center also maintains extensive ties with Columbia University's Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Business School's Center on Japanese Economy and Business.

Center for Korean Legal Studies

With the establishment of the Center for Korean Legal Studies, Columbia Law School became the first American law school to have a center dedicated to the study of Korean law and the only center devoted entirely to the study of both the South and North Korean legal systems. The Center for Korean Legal Studies, directed by Jeong-Ho Roh, was established at Columbia Law School in 1994 with grants from Hankook Tire Group and the Korea Foundation. The Center serves as the focal point of research and teaching on Korean law and the Korean legal system.

The Center has dedicated itself to building the most comprehensive depository of Korean legal materials outside the Koreas. The Center has also created the Korean Language and Cultural Exchange Program, which matches visiting Korean scholars with law students mutually interested in improving their English/Korean language skills. Other noteworthy programs offered by the Center are the Korean Law Forum, the Annual Trade Law Seminar, and the Visiting Scholars program.

Center for Global Legal Problems

Founded in March 2003, the Center's initiatives flow naturally from Columbia Law School's exceptionally rich curriculum relating to global law issues and its activities in turn affect that curriculum. The law school offers, as part of its regular curriculum, perhaps the largest number of courses and seminars of any U.S. law school focusing on the challenges emerging from transnational movement of goods, capital, people, or ideas. Seminars and courses dealing with the degradation of the global commons, transitional justice in the wake of mass atrocity, international crime and terrorism, the regulation of the multinational enterprise and transnational capital, immigration and human rights form the backbone of our international and comparative law curriculum. The Center engages in on-going review of the law school's extensive curriculum and identifies effective collaborators for teaching and research from communities outside the law school, including the worlds of practice and public policy. It invites distinguished individuals from academe as well as those engaged in international public policy, whether in private practice or other settings, to the law school for speakers’ series, roundtables and other fora, usually in venues that are open to the wider Columbia University community and the general public. The law school's associations with preeminent law faculties or institutes in Paris, London, Leiden, Amsterdam, Jerusalem, Johannesburg, Buenos Aires, and Johannesburg provide the Center with ready access to relevant legal expertise and diverse points of view from throughout the world.

In January 2006, together with Columbia's Earth Institute, the Center launched a Program on International Investment, headed by Karl Sauvant. That Program aspires to be the world's foremost center of excellence for the study of the legal and public policy implications of foreign direct investment.

Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

An LLM with a Global Mission

The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University launches an LL.M. Degree in International Law with its inaugural class in September 2008. The one-year program offers courses in Public International Law, International Business Law, and International Economic Law to a class of 20-30 students. The rigorous, interdisciplinary curriculum is complemented by the "High Table," a continuing colloquium of international law research, convened for the LL.M students by the School’s law faculty. The students conclude the academic year with a spring symposium at Tufts University European Center in scenic Talloires, France.

History of International Law at Fletcher
The Fletcher School began teaching international law when it was founded in 1933, a year of crisis and turmoil. Over the following seven decades, the historic approach of The Fletcher School ? the oldest graduate school of international affairs in the United States ? has continued to examine international law within the context of often turbulent international relations.

Over the years, a series of household names in international law have taught at Fletcher, including Roscoe Pound, Leo Gross, Hans Kelsen, Julius Stone, Walter Sterling Surrey, Philip Warren Thayer, Robert Hudec, Keith Highet, and Louis Sohn.

A network of thousands of alumni, including hundreds of lawyers, has benefited from their knowledge and insight. These former students are now leaders in business, law, government, and the non-profit sector in countries around the world.

Curriculum
The Fletcher LL.M. Program is one full academic year, with four courses each semester. One of these eight courses is a seminar or independent study project with a substantial writing requirement. There are no required courses, but students may follow one of three optional tracks within the law curriculum. These tracks are Public International Law, International Business Law, and International Economic Law.

At Fletcher, international law students study with others from around the world. Each year over 40% of Fletcher’s students c from outside the United States, representing over 70 developing and industrialized countries. They come with backgrounds not only in law but also in economics, history, government, and science.

Program Characteristics
High Table Colloquium The international law faculty organizes a continuing "High Table" colloquium for LL.M. students. It focuses on international law research including regular presentation by the faculty, visiting scholars, speakers, and students concerning their research. LL.M. students regularly participate in the discussions along with MALD/JD joint degree candidates.

Capstone Program in Talloires, France LL.M. students complete their year in residence with a "capstone" symposium at Tufts University European Center in Talloires, France at the end of the academic year. The Center is located in a former Benedictine priory that dates to the 11th century. Situated on the hills on the bay of Lake Annecy, Talloires offers a serene atmosphere for discussion and contemplation. Students reflect upon the year's studies as they participate in thoughtful dialogue with legal experts and visiting scholars from Europe.

Georgetown University Law Center

Georgetown University Law Center offers one of the largest transnational and international legal education programs in the world. Located in the nation’s capital and with a campus of major new buildings that include an international and comparative law library, Georgetown Law is one of the leading global law schools.

The array of courses dealing with transnational, international, and comparative law in many ways is extraordinarily comprehensive, numbering about 115.

This curriculum is generated and sustained by a full-time faculty of 110, which includes more than 30 who are currently focused on transnational and international curriculum subjects. These full-time faculty members are joined by over 90 distinguished Washington, D.C., practitioners from inside and outside the government. In addition, several foreign law professors visit each year, some as part of faculty exchanges.

In spring 2006, the faculty added to the curriculum, “Week One: Law in a Global Context.” Week One introduces all first-year J.D. students at the start of their second semester to a transnational legal problem that builds upon the American law they have studied, adding elements of foreign law, a foreign court or international dispute resolution system, and role playing.

About 300 foreign students from more than 70 countries are a part of the student body. Each year, Georgetown offers Master of Laws degree (LL.M.) programs for over 210 students who received their legal training outside of the United States.
http://www.law.georgetown.edu/graduate.

The transnational and international programs also include:

• Institutes and specialized academic programs, such as the new Human Rights Institute and the Institute of International Economic Law, which launched last Fall its week-long, non-degree course on WTO law and policy;
• A new Semester Abroad program that will place about 40 Georgetown J.D. students at world-class, foreign law schools next year;
• More than 100 international internships during the summer;
• Visiting Scholars and Visiting Researchers;
• Global Law Scholars chosen from the J.D. students;
• Clinics addressing international human rights and political refugees;
• Several law journals, including the Georgetown Journal of International Law; and
• A Summer Program in London.

New England School of Law
Center for International Law and Policy
http://www.nesl.edu/center

Two Projects Added

The Center for International Law and Policy at New England School of Law has recently added three projects.

The Inter-state Complicity Project / CIA Renditions in Europe
In response to a request from the Council of Europe, this project concentrates on the issue of European state complicity in alleged unlawful arrest, detention, and rendition perpetrated by United States agents and occurring within the territory of Council of Europe member states. The research focuses on the applicable international legal framework, with emphasis on the secondary rules of state responsibility (e.g. questions of attribution of conduct and derivative responsibility) and the interaction of those rules with the primary rules of human rights law (the European Convention on Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the Convention Against Torture).

The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia Project
The project provides legal support to the Office of the Prosecutor. The center is currently preparing an international criminal law discussion guide for staff of the Office of the Prosecutor.

Peacekeeper Accountability Project
The center’s work on human rights in post-conflict territories has expanded to include the issue of peacekeeper accountability. The center’s current research focuses on accountability mechanisms for sexual misconduct by civilian and military personnel working on behalf of intergovernmental organizations, including the United Nations.

These efforts join four other active center projects that involve faculty and students in research and pro bono activities on international law issues. Other projects are the Congo Project, Special Rapporteur Support Project, the International War Crimes Project, and an examination of United States Attitudes Toward International Criminal Courts.

Externship Offers ICTY Experience

The Center introduced a one-semester externship in the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in 2006. This externship offers New England students the opportunity to gain direct experience in war crimes prosecutions, placing one or two students at the tribunal each semester. Students attend weekly classes and occasional seminars on international law conducted by the ICTY staff; a journal and a paper are also required. The program enables students to get hands-on experience in international law and network with legal professionals from all over the world. Only three other American law schools maintain programs that regularly place students at the ICTY.

Faculty News

Dina Francesca Haynes has joined the New England School of Law faculty as associate professor of law. Professor Haynes teaches Immigration Law, International Women’s Rights, the Law and Ethics of Lawyering, and Property. Her experience includes work for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Croatia, the United States Department of Justice, and the Constitutional Court of South Africa. She has published articles on international law, immigration law, human rights law, and human trafficking. Before joining the New England School of Law faculty, she was a visiting faculty member at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas Boyd Law School and American University’s Washington College of Law. She served as a teaching fellow at Georgetown University Law Center’s Center for Applied Legal Studies. She received a B.A. from the University of Denver, a J.D. from the University of Cincinnati College of Law, and an LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center.

Professor John Cerone has been invited to serve as a delegate to the first conference of the International Association of Law Schools, entitled “Learning from Each Other: Enriching the Law School Curriculum in an Interrelated World,” which will take place in Suzhou, China, in October 2007. Professor Cerone was a Fulbright Scholar at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in summer 2007 and previously served as a Fulbright Scholar at the Danish Institute for Human Rights.

Recent Faculty Publications

Professor John P. Cerone, “Dynamic Equilibrium: The Evolution of U.S. Policy Regarding International Criminal Courts,” European Journal of International Law, vol. 18, no. 2 (2007)

Professor John P. Cerone, “Human Dignity in the Line of Fire: The Application of International Human Rights Law During Armed Conflict, Occupation, and Peace Operations,” Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, vol. 39, no. 5 (November 2006)

Professor John P. Cerone, “Out of Bounds? Considering the Reach of International Human Rights Law,” Working Paper of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law (April 2006) (available at: http://www.chrgj.org/docs/WPS_NYU_CHRGJ_Cerone_Final.pdf)

Professor George Dargo. “Reclaiming Franz Kafka, Doctor of Jurisprudence,” Brandeis Law Journal, vol. 45, no. 3 (Spring 2007)

Professor Victor M. Hansen, “What's Good for the Goose is Good for the Gander. Lessons From Abu Ghraib: Time for the United States to Adopt a Standard of Commander Responsibility Towards its Own,” Gonzaga Law Review, vol. 42, no. 3 (2006-2007)

Professor Victor M. Hansen, presentation at panel on “Conservative Bastion or Progressive Problem Solver: The Evolving Face of Military Jurisprudence and International Law” (International Law Symposium), ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law, vol. 13, no. 12

Professor Dina Francesca Haynes, “(Not) Found Chained to a Bed in a Brothel: Failures to Implement the Trafficking Victim Protection Act,” Georgetown Immigration Law Journal (Spring 2007)

Professor Dina Francesca Haynes, “Human Trafficking and Migration,” chapter in Human Rights in Crisis, A. Bullard, ed. (Ashgate: London 2007)

Professor David M. Siegel, “Training the Hybrid Lawyer and Implementing the Hybrid System: Two Tasks for Italian Legal Education,” Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce, vol. 33 (Spring 2006)

Professor David M. Siegel, “Canadian Fundamental Justice and U.S. Due Process: Two Models for Guarantee of Basic Adjudicative Fairness,” George Washington International Law Review, vol. 37, no. 1 (2005)

Upcoming Conference

The center will sponsor a conference in September 2007 on child soldiers and trafficking in children that will correspond with the fifth anniversary of the entry into force of the two protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Recent Speakers and Conferences

April 2006 – a conference on international law and the United States legal and political systems, with a focus on finding common ground between domestic and international law principles.

2006-2007 – a speaker series that featured Judge Fatsah Ouguergouz, judge of the African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights; Karen Naimer, former deputy counsel with the Volcker Commission which investigated the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program; and Judge Phillip Rapoza, former chief judge of the Special Panel for Serious Crimes in East Timor

Penn State Dickinson School of Law

Tiyanjana Maluwa Named Inaugural Director of Penn State University’s new School of International Affairs

Tiyanjana Maluwa, the H. Laddie Montague Chair in law at Penn State's Dickinson School of Law, has been named the inaugural director of Penn State's new School of International Affairs.

Maluwa's first priority as director will be to build a core faculty for the school. "I will embark aggressively upon the process of identifying the most highly qualified people in both academic and diplomatic disciplines from throughout the world," he said. "My goal is to put in place the necessary academic and organizational infrastructure that will enable the school to establish its credentials as a highly regarded member of the community of professional schools of international affairs worldwide."

Following several academic appointments at leading universities in Africa and Europe, Maluwa was appointed the first chief counsel to the Organization of African Unity (now the African Union) and subsequently the first legal adviser to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, under the leadership of Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland. During the course of his career, Maluwa also has been invited to undertake several high-level diplomatic assignments on behalf of the United Nations and other international organizations, including his appointment as U.N. special rapporteur for human rights in Nigeria in 1997 and, more recently, his co-authorship of a draft African Anti-Terrorism Model Law for the African Union. Currently, Maluwa serves at the invitation of the government of Sweden as a member of the International Jury for the Stockholm Prize in Criminology, in addition to holding several other distinguished appointments.

The new School of International Affairs came into effect on July 1, 2007. The school will be a highly interdisciplinary unit that draws extensively upon the intellectual resources of faculty in several academic colleges of the University. The school, which will offer a professional master's degree in international affairs with several specialty concentrations, will be housed administratively within Penn State's Dickinson School of Law. Like the law school, the new school emphasizes the practical applications of knowledge for solving complex social problems and the importance of high ethical standards in a variety of challenging situations. These characteristics, together with the internationalization of law practice and legal education, mean that the two schools will share similar educational objectives.

Stetson University College of Law

Stetson University College of Law is Florida’s first law school. It has educated lawyers for more than a century. The 2008 U.S. News & World Report national rankings place Stetson among the nation’s top 100 law schools, first in trial advocacy and fifth for legal writing. The law school is located in the Gulfport/St. Petersburg area with an adjacent campus in Tampa.

Stetson creates new institute to build relationships with Caribbean legal community

Stetson University College of Law has created the Institute on Caribbean Law and Policy to foster academic, scholarly and professional exchanges with the Caribbean legal community.

Stetson professors Dorothea Beane and Darryl Wilson will co-direct the new institute.

Stetson created the new institute to help build meaningful partnerships with law schools and professional legal organizations throughout the Caribbean, including the Caribbean Council on Legal Education and the Caribbean bar associations.

The institute’s mission is to provide a scholarly, professional foundation that will help coordinate beneficial activities for law students, faculty and the bar associations in the U.S. and throughout the Caribbean. The institute also will seek to develop new programs for law students at Stetson and at Caribbean law schools.

Planned activities include educational exchanges, training, development, certifications and employment opportunities. Stetson also is planning to offer a two-week intersession program each January in the Caribbean.

The institute will oversee Stetson's participation in the American Caribbean Law Initiative, a consortium of schools from the U.S. and the West Indies that Stetson hosted in the fall of 2007. Both Beane and Wilson are board members of the American Caribbean Law Initiative.

University of Baltimore School of Law
Center for International and Comparative Law

The University of Baltimore Center for International and Comparative Law promotes the study and understanding of international and comparative law, and of the political and economic institutions that support the international legal order. The center sponsors research, publication, teaching and the dissemination of knowledge about international legal issues, with special emphasis on human rights, democratic institutions, and international business transactions. These and other CICL programs and initiatives are described at http://law.ubalt.edu/template.cfm?page=608. The Center was founded in 1994.

LL.M. in the Law of the United States

The University of Baltimore School of Law is pleased to announce the fifth year of its LL.M. in the Law of the United States. The UB LL.M. program offers three tracks:

• U.S. & International Business Law, which prepares foreign lawyers to practice law in the United States.
• Judicial Studies & Court Practice, designed for judges and public officials who wish to study best practices in the administration of justice.
• Legal Theory, designed for professors and teachers of law who wish to deepen their understanding of legal theory and the fundamental principles of law and justice.

Study Abroad Programs

Aberdeen, Scotland
2008 Dates to be announced
http://law.ubalt.edu/template.cfm?page=96 Courses focus on a comparison of U.S. and U.K. laws. Each course is designed and taught by a team of professors from the United States and Scotland.

Haifa, Israel
2008 Dates to be announced
http://law.ubalt.edu/template.cfm?page=211
Courses focus on comparative international law and are taught by American and Israeli experts in the areas of civil liberties and business law. The program will include educational field trips to Jerusalem, the Israeli Supreme Court and the Knesset.

Curaçao, The Netherlands Antilles
December 21, 2007- January 12, 2008
http://law.ubalt.edu/template.cfm?page=106
Through an intensive, three-week course of study in international and comparative law, the Curaçao program helps to prepare students to practice law in the globalized world economy through experience of the unique legal and social culture of Curaçao, which reflects strong African, Caribbean and European influences. CICL is currently accepting applications for its winter law school session in Curaçao, presented jointly with Hofstra University and Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Ius Gentium The University of Baltimore Center for International and Comparative Law announces Volume 13 of its journal Ius Gentium. Ius Gentium facilities discussion and the exchange of ideas between different legal systems and national traditions, devoting each issue to a separate legal question or area of the law. Volume 13 considers Agreements. Subscriptions are available for $25 ($35 outside the US). For more information see http://law.ubalt.edu/template.cfm?page=615#ius

International Legal Theory The Center for International and Comparative Law is proud to support the ASIL International Legal Theory Symposium on "Particularity and Difference in International Law" that will take place at Tillar House on November 9, 2007.

Books Recent books by CICL Faculty include Republican Principles in International Law: The Fundamental Requirements of a Just World Order by M.N.S. Sellers (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) and Universal Human Rights: Moral Order in a Divided World, edited by David Reidy and M.N.S. Sellers (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005). Prof. Mortimer Sellers will edit a new book series from Springer Verlag entitled "Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice". The first book in the series, "Autonomy in the Law", will appear in September.