• Human Trafficking: A Human Rights or a Criminal Law issue?
• The Necessity of a Victim-Oriented Approach to Human Trafficking
• Trafficking Initiatives in South Florida
• Research and Training Needs in the Field and Incipient Responses

Professor Dr. iur. Siegfried Wiessner, the Director of the Graduate Program of Intercultural Human Rights, has been elected Chairperson of the International Law Association Committee on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at the ILA's Biennial Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August, 2008.

He also published an article on Indigenous Sovereignty: A Reassessment in Light of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, at 41 VANDERBILT J. TRANSNAT'L L. 1141 (October, 2008), available at http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3577/is_4_41/ai_n31027078.

Dr. iur. Roza Pati, the Executive Director of the Graduate Program of Intercultural Human Rights, has completed her Doctorate of Law (Dr. iur.) degree summa cum laude at the University of Potsdam Faculty of Law, Germany in December, 2008.

Her dissertation on "Due Process and International Terrorism" will be published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers as Volume 1 of a newly-established series entitled "Studies in Intercultural Human Rights." For details, see http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=210&pid=31414.

Reviews:

"Thanks to Pati's rigorous research and balanced and wise appraisal, her book will be indispensable for scholars and decision makers." Michael Reisman, Professor, Yale Law School & former President, Inter-American Commission of Human Rights

"This book should be read by everyone who is interested to know more about the narrow borderline separating legally acceptable from unacceptable measures in the fight against international terrorism." Eckart Klein, Professor, University of Potsdam Faculty of Law & former Member, United Nations Human Rights Committee

Georgetown Law offers one of the largest transnational legal education programs in the world. With an ideal location and a campus of major new buildings that include an international and comparative law library, Georgetown Law is one of the leading global law schools.

Georgetown Law's distinguished faculty includes numerous scholars in the field of international law. Recent international law research and publications by faculty include the following. [Selected works, compiled by Marylin J. Raisch, Associate Law Librarian for International and Foreign Law, January 2009]

Dean of the Law School and Professor of Law T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Immigration and citizenship: process and policy. 6th ed. St. Paul, MN: Thomson/West, 2008.

Professor of Government, Georgetown University; Adjunct Professor of Law Anthony C. Arend and Robert J. Beck, International Law and the Use of Force: Beyond the U.N. Charter Paradigm. London: Routledge, 2008.

Professor Barry E. Carter, Making Progress in International Institutions and Law, in Progress in International Law 51-68 (Russell Miller & Jessica Bratspies eds., Leiden, Neth.: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 2008).

Professor David Cole. Justice at War: The Men and Ideas That Shaped America's War on Terror. New York: New York Review Books, 2008.

Professor Viet D. Dinh, Structures of Governance: "Fixing" International Law with Lessons from Constitutional and Corporate Governance, 3 N.Y.U. J. L. & Liberty 423-447

Professor Larry O. Gostin and David P. Fidler, Biosecurity in the Global Age: Biological Weapons, Public Health, and the Rule of Law. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Law and Politics, 2008.

_____________________, Lawrence O. Gostin on Biosecurity Policy: Are We Safer Today?, 2008 Emerging Issues 2918. [SSRN]

______________________ and Catherine A. Hankins, Male Circumcision as an HIV Prevention Strategy in Sub-Saharan Africa, 300 JAMA 2537-2541 (2008). [WWW]

______________________, International Development Assistance for Health: Ten Priorities for the Next President, Hastings Center Rep., Sept./Oct. 2008, at 10-11.

_______________________, The International Migration and Recruitment of Nurses: Human Rights and Global Justice, 299 JAMA 1827-1829 (2008).

Professor John H. Jackson and William J. Davey, eds. The Future of International Economic Law. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Dean for Transnational Legal Studies and Professor of Law Vicki C. Jackson, Constitution Making After National Catastrophes: Germany in 1949 and 1990, 49 William & Mary L. Rev. (Constitution drafting in post-conflict states symposium issue) March, 2008.

Professor Neal Kumar Katyal and Richard Caplan, The Surprisingly Stronger Case for the Legality of the NSA Surveillance Program: The FDR Precedent, 60 Stan. L. Rev. 1023-1078 (2008).

Professor Donald C. Langevoort, U.S. Securities Regulation and Global Competition, 3 Va. L. & Bus. Rev. 191-205 (2008).

Professor Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Are Cross-Cultural Ethics Standards Possible or Desirable in International Arbitration?, in Melanges en l'honneur de Pierre Tercier 883-904 (Peter Gauch, Franz Werro & Pascal Pichonnaz eds., Zurich, Switz.: Schulthess 2008)

Professor Susan Deller Ross. Women's Human Rights: The International and Comparative Law Casebook. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.

Professor Daniel K. Tarullo. Banking on Basel: The Future of International Financial Regulation. Washington, DC: Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2008.

Professor Carlos M. Vázquez. Less Than Zero?, 102 Am. J. Int'l L. 563-572 (2008).

_______The Separation of Powers as a Safeguard of Nationalism, 83 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1601-1637 (2008).

_______ Treaties as Law of the Land: The Supremacy Clause and the Judicial Enforcement of Treaties, 122 Harv. L. Rev. 599-695 (2008).

Professor Jane Stromseth, Some Skepticism About Normative Constitutional Advice, 49 William & Mary L. Rev. (Constitution drafting in post-conflict states symposium issue) March, 2008.

Professors Don Wallace, Borzu Sabahi and Christopher F. Dugan. Investor-State Arbitration. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Professors Edith Brown Weiss, John H. Jackson, and Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder, eds. Reconciling Environment and Trade. 2nd ed. Leiden; Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2008.

The Center for Transnational Legal Studies
(www.ctls.georgetown.edu)
In 2008, Georgetown also inaugurated the London-based Center for Transnational Legal Studies (CTLS). The Center offers second and third year students a unique, semester-long opportunity to study transnational legal topics in a truly transnational setting. This new academic endeavor draws not only students, but also faculty, from over a dozen select partner schools located in almost as many countries, around the globe. This one-of-a-kind environment creates a truly transnational faculty, which develops and offers a curriculum specifically designed for those intent on transnational careers.

The Payson Center for International Development & Technology Transfer became a part of Tulane Law School in 2008. Through the Payson Center, law students may pursue joint degrees in law and international development, and a variety of summer internship opportunities throughout the world have been made available to Tulane law students. In 2008, students worked in Europe and Africa.

Our international and comparative law faculty continues to be among the strongest in the world with the recent arrival of Professor Joerg Fedtke from University College London. Professor Fedtke is well known for his expertise on questions of constitutionalism throughout the world. His current research projects include the use of comparative methodology in international commercial practice; human rights protection in Germany, the United Kingdom, and on the European level; constitutionalism in post-conflict societies; data protection and access to information; and questions of law reform. He has published extensively on constitutional law, tort law, and comparative methodology. Professor Fedtke joins Professor James Gordley, who joined Tulane's faculty in 2007 from Berkeley Law. Professor Gordley's most recent publication addresses the protection of privacy in Europe and the US. He is an expert on private law in both common law and civil law systems. Professor Gunther Handl continues his work in the area of international environmental law, as well as other aspects of public law.

Professor Tania Tetlow spoke at an International Workshop on public interest and legal education sponsored by John Hopkins' School of International Studies in Nanjing China on December 9, 2008. In November, Professor Tetlow participated in an Oxford Union-style debate about the "End of American Ascendency" opposite a Deputy U.S. Secretary of State. This was part of a British-American Project conference in Los Angeles. In June, Professor Tetlow spoke about the "Nature of American Citizenship," at a conference on British-American Identity in Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, UK.

Faculty, researchers and students of the Law School of the University of Geneva focus their research and publications in the field of international law on issues of the law produced by, applicable to and enforced by many of the world's international organizations based in Geneva. This covers areas such as:

• International Organizations, United Nations Law, the League of Nations, WTO law, European Law
• International Dispute Settlement, International Environmental Law, International Economic Law, in particular aspects such as: Integration, Environment, Labour, Human Rights, WTO, NGOs, Fragmentation, Coherence
• International Humanitarian Law, its relationship with International Human Rights Law, its application to and by non-State actors such as armed groups and private military companies
• International and European Human Rights Law, International Criminal Law, International and European Social Security Law, International Intellectual Property Law, International Contract Law and Conflict of Laws

Major Research Projects funded by outside sources are:

• Mutual Assistance between States and International Organizations; International Law and Freshwater Resources (both directed by Laurence Boisson de Chazournes)
• Private Companies in International Humanitarian Law: Challenges and Perspectives (directed by Marco Sassòli)
• The International Protection of Prisoners of War: Application and Developments of the provisions of Geneva Convention III (directed by Robert Kolb)
• The Promotion of the Cross-border Exchange of Intellectual Assets between China, Japan and Switzerland - The Case of Music and Trade Secrets; International and comparative law on transboundary transfer of intangible assets; The Law of Software Contracts - a Transatlantic Perspective (all directed by Jacques de Werra)
• What Future for the Bilateral Way between Switzerland and the European Union? Agenda Definition and Consequences of a Possible Framework Agreement (directed by Christine Kaddous)

Recent publications of note by faculty members:

Laurence Boisson de Chazournes:

• International Trade Law, United Nations Law, and Collective Security Issues (with T. Boutruche), in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW (D. Bethlehem, D. McRae, R. Neufeld and I. Van Damme, eds., Oxford Univ. Press, 2009) pp. 695-722.
• Precaution in International Law: Reflection on Its Composite Nature, in LAW OF THE SEA, ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES? LIBER AMICORUM JUDGE THOMAS A. MENSAH (T. M. Ndiaye and R. Wolfrum, eds., Nijhoff, 2007) pp. 21-34.
• The Bretton Woods Institutions and Human Rights: Converging Tendencies, in ECONOMIC GLOBALISATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS (W. Benedek, K. De Feyter and F. Marrella, eds., Oxford Univ. Press, 2007) pp. 210-242.

Pierre-Yves Greber:

• SECURITE SOCIALE : ASPECTS DE DROIT NATIONAL, INTERNATIONAL ET EUROPEEN (with B. Kahil-Wolff) (Dossiers de droit européen, N° 14, Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Bruylant, and L.G.D.J, 2006) 389 pp. (Social Security: National, International and European Law).
• Le droit international de la sécurité sociale, in SCHWEIZERISCHES BUNDESVERWALTUNGSRECHT, BAND XIV: SOZIALE SICHERHEIT (Ulrich Meyer, ed. (2d edn), Helbing & Lichtenhahn, 2007) pp. 83-147 (International Social Security Law).
• Le droit international de la sécurité sociale relatif à la réadaptation des personnes vivant avec un handicap (Cahiers genevois et romands de sécurité sociale, 40-2008) pp. 71- 94 (International Social Security Law regarding the re-adaptation of persons living with disabilities).

Maya Hertig:

• L'exécution des arrêts de la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme à la lumière de l'arrêt Verein gegen Tierfabriken Schweiz (VGT) c. Suisse du 4 octobre 2007, PRATIQUE JURIDIQUE ACTUELLE no. 6, 2008, p. 651-664 (with Xavier-Baptiste Ruedin) (The execution of judgments rendered by the European Court of Human Rights in the Light of the VGT v. Switzerland judgment of 4 October 2007).
• La nouvelle loi sur l'asile à l'épreuve des droits de l'homme, in JUSLETTER 28 April 2008. (The New Asylum Law Under Human Rights Scrutiny).
• Der Schutz von Grundrechten und individuellen Freiheiten in der Europäischen Union aus schweizerischer Sicht , I REVUE DE DROIT SUISSE 2007, pp. 487-527 (The Protection of Fundamental Rights and Individual Liberties in the European Union from a Swiss Perspective).

Christine Kaddous:

• Role and position of the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy under the Lisbon Treaty, in THE LISBON TREATY EU CONSTITUTIONALISM WITHOUT A CONSTITUTIONAL TREATY? (Stefan Griller and Jacques Zillers, eds., Springer Verlag, 2008) pp. 205-221.
• Effects of International Agreements in the EU Legal Order, in EU FOREIGN RELATIONS LAW: CONSTITUTIONAL FUNDAMENTALS (Marise Cremona and Bruno de Witte eds., Hart Publishing, 2008) pp. 291-312.
• The Relations between the EU and Switzerland, in LAW AND PRACTICE OF EU EXTERNAL RELATIONS (Alan Dashwood and Marc Maresceau eds., Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008) pp. 227-269.

Robert Kolb:

• AN INTRODUCTION TO THE INTERNATIONAL LAW OF ARMED CONFLICTS (Hart, 2008) (with Richard Hyde).
• INTRODUCTION AU DROIT DES NATIONS UNIES (Helbing & Lichtenhahn, 2008) (Introduction to the Law of the United Nations).
• THE COVENANT OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS - A COMMENTARY, IN REGARD OF UNITED NATIONS LAW (forthcoming in 2011).

Gabrielle Marceau:

• Institutional Challenges to Enhance Policy Coordination -How WTO Rules Could Be Utilized to Meet Climate Objectives?, in PROCEEDINGS OF THE WORLD TRADE FORUM 2007, INTERNATIONAL TRADE ON A WARMING GLOBE: THE ROLE OF THE WTO IN THE CLIMATE CHANGE DEBATE, 2008 (with Mireille Cossy).
• A Guide to the World Trade Organization Law of Domestic Regulation of Goods and Trade and labour: Rematching an old divorced couple? (2 chapters), in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW (D. Bethlehem, D. McRae, R. Neufeld, and I. van Damme eds, Oxford Univ. Press, 2009 (forthcoming)). (Guide co-authored with Joel Trachtman).
• Fragmentation in International law: The Relationship between WTO Law and General International Law - a Few Comments from a WTO Perspective or the Search to Understand Non-WTO Dispute, FINNISH YEARBOOK ON INTERNATIONAL LAW 2006, p. 31 (forthcoming).

Robert Roth:

• Article VII (extradition) , in COMMENTARY ON THE GENOCIDE CONVENTION (P. Gaeta ed. Oxford Univ. Press, 2009 (forthcoming)).
• Ne bis in idem transnational: vers de nouveaux paradigmes? in QUEL CONTROLE JUDICIAIRE POUR L'ESPACE PENAL EUROPEEN? (Which judicial control for the European penal area?) (S. Braum and A. Weyembergh, eds., Editions ULB, 2009) (Transnational ne bis in idem: towards new paradigms?).
• Politiques pénales et évaluation: des défis renouvelés, in THE EVALUATION OF EUROPEAN CRIMINAL LAW: THE EXAMPLE OF THE FRAMEWORK DECISION ON COMBATING TRAFFICKING IN HUMAN BEINGS, (V. Santamaria and A. Weyembergh, eds. Editions ULB, 2009) (Criminal policies and evaluation: new challenges).

Marco Sassòli:

• HOW DOES LAW PROTECT IN WAR? (with A. Bouvier) 2d ed. (Geneva, ICRC, 2006) 2473 pp., also published in French, Chinese, Russian and Serbian.
• Terrorism and War, 4 JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE (2006), pp. 959-981.
• The relationship between international humanitarian law and human rights law where it matters: admissible killing and internment of fighters in non-international armed conflicts, 871 INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF THE RED CROSS (2008) (with Laura M. Olson).

Jacques de Werra:

• Fighting Against Biopiracy: Moving From the Obligation to Disclose to Effective Benefit Sharing, 42 VANDERBILT JOURNAL OF TRANSNATIONAL LAW (forthcoming January 2009).

Afghanistan - The College was chosen as a leading training center for the Public Private Partnership for Justice Reform in Afghanistan, a project developed by the U.S. State Department and several private law firms. Organized and presented by professors James Holbrook and Wayne McCormack, 16 prosecutors, 13 men and 3 women, came to the College of Law for three weeks to give lectures and participate in discussions, simulations, and workshops with professors,local judges,and attorneys.
http://www.law.utah.edu/media/show-media.asp?MediaID=493&TypeID=4

Non-State Governance - This February 2009 symposium explored a variety of "non-state" issues involving insular religious communities, Indian tribes, survivalists, sects and cults, and others with global reach.

Trans-boundary Environmental Issues - The College hosted a September 2008 seminar on air, water, and land pollution and resource conflicts that transcend borders.
http://www.law.utah.edu/news/show-news.asp?NewsID=168

Textbook Series

Aspen Publishers and the College Plan New 'Law Across Borders' Textbook Series - Aspen and the College are developing a series of cross-border complements to basic U.S. law courses. The first set of books are forthcoming in 2009-10.
http://www.law.utah.edu/news/show-news.asp?NewsID=61

Scholarship and Professional Honors

Amos Guiora, professor of law and retired Lieutenant Colonel in the Israel Defense Forces, was recently named a Corresponding Member to the School of Human Rights Research at Utrecht University; a Research Fellow at the International Institute on Counter-Terrorism at The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzeliya, Israel; and a Senior Specialist Fulbright Fellowship for The Netherlands in 2008. Guiora is the author of a number of books including Fundamentals of Counterterrorism (Aspen, 2008) and Constitutional Limits on Coercive Interrogation (Oxford, 2008).

Christian Johnson, professor of law, teaches courses on corporate finance and tax. He is a frequent speaker on international finance and derivatives, having given workshops over the past 12 months for the Inter-American Development Bank, the Brunei Investment Agency, and EDC (the Canadian Export Development Bank), and a presentation to the University of British Columbia National Centre of Business Law on "Derivatives, Lehman Brothers and Global Systemic Risk."

Chris Whytock, associate professor of law, focuses on transnational litigation, international law and international relations, and comparative law and comparative politics. His publications include "Myth of Mess? International Choice of Law in Action," forthcoming in the New York University Law Review; "Taking Causality Seriously in Comparative Constitutional Law: Insights from Comparative Politics and Comparative Political Economy," in the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review; and "Who 'Won' Libya? The Force-Diplomacy Debate and Its Implications for Theory and Policy," in the peer-reviewed political science journal International Security (with Bruce W. Jentleson).

Erika George, professor of law, teaches International Human Rights Law, International Environmental Law, Civil Procedure and Constitutional Law. She is the author of the book Scared at School: Sexual Violence Against Girls in South African Schools (2001). Her recent and forthcoming publications include: "Like a Virgin? Virginity Testing as HIV/AIDS Prevention: Human Rights Universalism and Cultural Relativism Revisited" (California Law Review 2009); "After Atrocity Examples from Africa: The Right to Education and the Role of Law in Restoration, Recovery and Accountability" (Loyola Chicago International Law Review 2008); and "The Place of the Private Transnational Actor in International Law: From Law Breakers to Law Makers? Multinationals and Human Rights, Understanding Corporate Self-Regulation as Soft Law" (American Society of International Law Proceedings).

Hiram Chodosh, dean and professor of law, directs the Global Justice Project Iraq, serves as general editor of Aspen's forthcoming global series, Law Across Borders, is on the executive board of the Afghanistan Justice Reform Public Private Partnership, and has been asked to advise the Indian Legal Services Authority on a national mediation project. Last year he published "The Eighteenth Camel: Mediating Mediation Reform in India," with the German Law Journal.

James Holbrook, clinical professor of law, teaches courses in interviewing, counseling, negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and trial advocacy. In April 2007 he and Dean Hiram Chodosh taughtnegotiation andmediation in three law schools in southwestern India. He is co-author with Dean Chodosh of ADR EDUCATION IN LAW SCHOOLS (Mumbai, India: The American Center, 2007). They also co-authored"Filling the Justice Capacity Gap," 2008 G8 SUMMIT MAGAZINE 154-55 (The CAT Company, Inc., 2008).In 2009, Holbrook is serving as Chief of Party of the law school's Global Justice Project Iraq.

Chibli Mallat, Presidential Professor of Law and Professor of Middle Eastern Law and Politics, is the author or editor of over 25 books in French, English and Arabic, the latest being Introduction to Middle Eastern Law, Oxford University Press, 2007, pbk 2009; and Iraq: Guide to Law and Policy, Aspen, in press 2009. He is the only EU Jean Monnet Professor of Law in the entire Middle East (formerly at St Joseph's University in Lebanon). Mallat is the senior legal advisor to the University of Utah's ongoing Global Justice Project Iraq, and is Amnesty International's legal advisor for its Middle East Office.

Wayne McCormack, professor of law, teaches constitutional law, terrorism and the international law of crimes, and civil procedure. In 2008, he published Understanding the Law of Terrorism (Lexis/Nexis) and Legal Responses to Terrorism (Lexis/Nexis 2d ed.). McCormack also edited a volume of essays, Values and Violence (Springer) that included his own essay "Value Choices in the Struggle with Terrorism." Additionally, he presented the lectures Global Federalism: Poverty and Violence to the Dee Lecture Series 2007 and Legal Regimes Affecting Migration presented to the Tanner Center Conference and scheduled for publication in 2009.

About the Center

The Center for International Law and Justice (CILJ) at Florida A&M College of Law (FAMU COL) was established on September 3, 2008. CILJ was created at the behest of Dean Leroy Pernell of FAMU COL and is directed by Dr. Jeremy I. Levitt, Associate Dean for International Programs and Distinguished Professor of International Law. It seeks to develop scholarly, educational, and practice-orientated activities for students and faculty. CILJ endeavors to be the nation's leading center of excellence in research, training and advocacy in the international and comparative law of developing nations.

An important aim of CILJ is to support and complement Florida A&M University's (FAMU) international mission by: (1) cultivating scholarly interest, discourse, debate, and research in international and comparative law among students and scholars at the COL, FAMU, general public, and centers of excellence throughout the world; (2) Strengthening and expanding the university's international presence in the developing world, and promote and engage in activities that facilitate multi-disciplinary and comparative research within and outside of the University.

Director of CILJ

Dr. Jeremy I. Levitt, Distinguished Professor of International Law and Associate Dean for International Programs.

• Ph.D., University of Cambridge, St. John's College
• J.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
• B.A., Arizona State University

Dr. Levitt is a public international lawyer, political scientist, historian, and Africanist with expertise and publications in the law of the use of force, humanitarian law, human rights law, transitional justice, international organizations, democratization, African politics, state dynamics and regional collective security. He is also an expert in African-American history, politics and Diaspora studies. Dr. Levitt is a scholar-practitioner who has demonstrated a talent for teaching, passion for human rights advocacy, zeal for legal and multidisciplinary scholarship and strong commitment to public service.

Dr. Levitt is currently the head of the International Technical Advisory Committee of the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He previously served as the Senior Legal Consultant to the Principal Defender's Office at the Special Court for Sierra Leone and was the Special Assistant to the Managing Director for Global Human and Social Development at the World Bank Group in Washington, D.C.

The CILJ faculty is conducting cutting-edge research in a variety of areas. Professor Barbara Bernier is conducting research on the legal, political, moral and economic complexities of bio-fuel development in the Caribbean for a forthcoming article tentatively titled, "The Sugar Belt: Redefining "Extractive" Industry In the Era of Biofuel Development", which will primarily focus on legal efficacy of bio-fuel development in the Caribbean.

Professor Patricia Broussard is conducting research on the inability of the domestic, regional and international law system to halt and effectively respond to the rape pandemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as well as critique what remedies are available, if any, to rape victims.

Jeremy Levitt, Associate Dean and Professor of International Law, is currently conducting research on the legality of power-sharing arrangements in Africa in a forthcoming book that will be published by Cambridge University Press, and in a separate work examining the legality of the 2006 Ethiopian intervention in Somalia.

In the summer of 2008, Kenneth Nunn, Associate Dean and Professor of Law, conducted research in Egypt (KMT) Kemetic approaches to law and legal institutions, and is writing an article titled "Truth and Reconciliation in Post-Apartheid South Africa - A Pan-Africanist Perspective", which addresses the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the current state of human rights in South Africa.

In the summer of 2008, Professor Omar Saleem taught two law courses at the Royal University of Law and Economics in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, one of the country's finest universities. In addition, he conducted research for a forthcoming article comparing the criminal laws and procedures in the United States, Cambodia, and China.

Professor Jeremy I. Levitt

ILLEGAL PEACE?: AN INQUIRY INTO THE LEGALITY OF POWER-SHARING WITH AFRICAN WARLORDS AND REBELS (Forthcoming: Cambridge University Press, UK: 2009)

HURRICANE KATRINA: AMERICA'S UNNATURAL DISASTER, (eds. With Matthew C. Whitaker) (University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln: 2009)

Henry J. Richardson, III (center), author of The Origins of African-American Interests in International Law and Temple University Beasley School of Law Professor, poses with Dean Leroy Pernell (left) and Associate Dean Jeremy Levitt (right). Richardson was the featured lecturer at 2008 Annual Lecture on Human Rights and Global Justice, held on October 14, 2008.

"Jack Johnson", ICONS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN SPORTS, in Matthew C. Whitaker (eds.) Vol. 1 (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2008).

"The Three Most Important Features of My Country's Legal System that Others Should Understand: Reflections from an African-American Legal Academician", in Learning From Each Other: Enriching the Law School Curriculum in an Interrelated World, 1st International Association of Law Schools Proceedings, 349-353, (2007).

"Paving the Way: Africa and the Future of International Criminal Law", 100 American Society of International Law Proceedings, (2007).

Professor Barbara Brenier

Unholy Troika: Gender, Race and Religiosity in the 2008 Presidential Contest, Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy, Vol. 15 No. 2 (August 2008)

Professor Patricia Broussard

Female Genital Mutilation: Exploring Strategies for Ending Ritualized Torture; Shaming, Blaming, and Utilizing the Convention Against Torture, Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy, Vol. 15 No. 1 (January, 2008); 15 Duke J. Gender L. & Pol'y 19

Professor Kenneth Nunn

Associate Editor for Law and Society, MACMILLAN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RACE AND RACISM (Thomson Pub.,2007).

"'Still Up On the Roof': Race, Victimology and the Response to Hurricane Katrina," in HURRICANE KATRINA: AMERICA'S UNNATURAL DISASTER (Jeremy I. Levitt & Matthew C. Whitaker, eds.) (Univ. of Nebraska Press, forthcoming 2008).

The CILJ is developing a range of research-related and advocacy-based activities that forge new scholarship on cutting-edge issues facing the developing world including its intersections with the West. In 2009 it will launch a new publication titled the Yearbook on International and Comparative Law in the Developing World (YICLDW) that will focus exclusively on Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Middle East and be peer reviewed using external editors of international repute, internal editors and student assistance.

One common thread connecting the nation's most highly regarded law professors is that they find a way to balance excellence in the classroom with a strong scholarship agenda. Both of these pursuits are embraced by the faculty at the University of Georgia School of Law. Scholarly research at Georgia Law focuses on global and national issues and is highly regarded by local, state, national and international leaders. This work has also been referenced in opinions written by judges and justices at various levels, including the U.S. Supreme Court. Learn more about works with an international focus by the Georgia Law faculty.

To enrich this pursuit of high level research and dialogue, Georgia Law regularly invites prominent academic peers and practitioners to campus to discuss cutting-edge legal issues. Of special note is the International Law Colloquium Series, which brings leading international law scholars from other institutions to present works in progress to the Georgia Law faculty and upper-level students.

Also providing a forum for academic discussion on current global topics is the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law. Presently in its 37th volume, the journal chronicles nearly four decades of legal issues, theories and developments on the global front. From its inception in 1970, the journal continues to maintain itself as a pre-eminent forum for academic discussion on important international subjects.

Learn more - http://www.law.uga.edu/gjicl/index.html

Another publication that helps document and disseminate scholarly work on various global issues is the Dean Rusk Center's Occasional Paper Series, which summarizes and publishes the discussions and findings of leading scholars and practitioners participating in conferences, panels, projects, research and other international programs hosted at the School of Law.

Learn more - http://www.uga.edu/ruskcenter/about-papers.html

The School of Law also offers specialized research and coursework to foreign and U.S. law graduates through its Master of Laws Program. For participants, the majority of whom obtained their legal degrees outside of the United States, the program offers the added advantage of a substantial introduction to the major subject areas of U.S. law, including the various aspects of federalism and the common law legal method.

Learn more - http://www.uga.edu/ruskcenter/llm.html

In addition to the LL.M. Program, Georgia Law offers an array of courses in international law, both public and private, to its Jurist Doctor students. Several faculty members regularly teach courses in international law, comparative law, international transactions, European Union law, international environmental law, international trade, intellectual property and taxation. Other faculty members offer occasional seminars on comparative aspects of their subjects. Additionally, renowned experts from foreign universities and organizations, as well as American specialists, supplement Georgia Law course offerings in specific areas of international law.

Other international initiatives supported by Georgia Law for students, faculty and alumni, as well as the broader legal community, include:

• Three ABA-accredited study abroad learning experiences:
  
  Georgia Law at Oxford is one of the few semester-long ABA-accredited study abroad opportunities offered by an American law school and is held at the famed university each spring. Learn more - http://www.law.uga.edu/facstaffstu/students/oxford.html

  Georgia Law Summer Program in China is a three-plus-week ABA-accredited program, held in Beijing and Shanghai, which offers an introduction to the Chinese legal system. Learn more - http://www.uga.edu/ruskcenter/china/

  Brussels Seminar on the Law and Institutions of the European Union is a three-week ABA-accredited course on EU law held at the Institut d'Études Européennes of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Learn more - http://www.uga.edu/ruskcenter/brussels.html

• The Dean Rusk Center, which recently celebrated its 30th anniversary as one of the premier international law centers in the United States, contributing to the exploration of regional and global issues of significance through teaching, research, scholarship and international outreach programs. Many of the School of Law's international programs emanate from this unit. Learn more - http://www.uga.edu/ruskcenter/index.html

• In March of 2008, more than 2,000 people gathered to hear former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger, James Baker III, Warren Christopher, Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell discuss current U.S. foreign policy with the goal of providing bipartisan advice to the next presidential administration. This event was sponsored by the University of Georgia School of Law's Dean Rusk Center in association with the Southern Center for International Studies.

  Conferences and Lectures, seeking to increase the understanding of international law and policy decisions as well as to contribute to the solution of challenges of global significance. Recent events include: The Report of the Secretaries of State: Bipartisan Advice to the Next Administration; International Commercial Arbitration: 50 Years After the New York Convention; International Trade Under the Rule of Law, an ASIL Centennial Regional Meeting; and speaker Lee Hamilton, co-chair of the Iraq Study Group and former vice-chair of the 9/11 Commission. Learn more:http://www.uga.edu/
  ruskcenter/conferences.html

• Global Internship Program, providing students with six to 10 weeks of study and/or work experience in a legal learning environment in one of more than 30 countries spanning the world, making it UGA's largest international offering in terms of geographic reach. Learn more - http://www.uga.edu/ruskcenter/externships.html

• Louis B. Sohn Library on International Relations, comprised primarily of monographs from the late scholar's private holdings, providing a marvelous resource for specialized research. Learn more - http://www.law.uga.edu/library/libraryinfo/collection.html

• Georgia Law's Sonali Garg was named the Best Oralist at the 2004 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.

  International Courtroom Experience, giving students much needed global advocacy experience through participation in the prestigious Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition and other international exchanges. Learn more - http://www.law.uga.edu/academics/advocacy/index.html

• International Judicial Training Program, celebrating a decade of operation this program aids in the development and reform of foreign national judiciaries. Learn more - http://www.uga.edu/ruskcenter/ijtp.html

• International Alumni Network, serving as a valuable resource for those working on international matters or living abroad. Learn more - http://www.ugallm.de/

• International Student Organizations, offering social occasions to explore different cultures and global issues. Learn more - http://www.law.uga.edu/facstaffstu/students/semesters/studentorganizations.html

International and Comparative Law at Duke Law School

Duke Law faculty members are innovative, interdisciplinary, and practical in their approach to international and comparative law and related subjects.

Curtis Bradley, Richard and Marcy Horvitz Professor of Law and Professor of Public Policy Studies, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

A prolific scholar of international law and U.S. foreign relations law, Professor Bradley's recent articles include "Intent, Presumptions, and Non-Self-Executing Treaties," 102 American Journal of International Law 540-551 (2008) and Self-Execution and Treaty Duality, Supreme Court Review (forthcoming 2009). He is the co-editor, with Christopher H. Schroeder, of Presidential Power Stories (Foundation Press 2008) and the co-author of Foreign Relations Law: Cases and Materials (Aspen Publishers, 1st ed. 2003, 2d ed. 2006, 3d. ed. 2009) (with Jack L. Goldsmith) and International Law (4th ed. 2003) (with Barry E. Carter & Phillip R. Trimble). His forthcoming book, to be published by Oxford University Press, focuses on international law in the U.S. legal system.

Bradley serves on the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on International Law, and is a member of the American Society of International Law Executive Council and on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law.

Donald Horowitz, James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science

Professor Horowitz has written extensively on the problems of divided societies and issues related to constitution building and electoral systems. The author of six books, including The Deadly Ethnic Riot and A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society, Horowitz's forthcoming book is An Inside Job: Constitutional Change and Democracy in Indonesia. His article, 'The Federalist' Abroad in the World, will accompany a new edition of The Federalist (Ian Shapiro ed., Yale University Press, forthcoming 2009).

A member of the Secretary of State's bipartisan Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion, Horowitz is president of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy.

Ralf Michaels, Professor of Law

The director of Duke's Center for International and Comparative Law, Professor Michaels focuses his research on combining comparative law, conflict of laws, and legal theory into a theory of global legal pluralism. His forthcoming book will lay down a general theory of jurisdiction for an age of globalization.

Michaels' recently-published books and edited volumes include "Transdisciplinary Conflict of Laws," a symposium issue of Law & Contemporary Problems, for which he served as special editor (with Karen Knop and Annelise Riles), and Beyond the State? Rethinking Private Law, (ed. with Nils Jansen), forthcoming from Mohr/Siebeck, Tübingen. Among his numerous forthcoming articles is Global Legal Pluralism, 5 Annual Review of Law & Social Science (2009). Michaels also is an editor of the German Law Journal and an elected member of the International Academy of Comparative Law.

Madeline Morris, Professor of Law

A scholar of international criminal law and the law of war, Professor Morris has played a key role in framing the legal challenges to the Military Commissions Act and other laws governing the Guantanamo detentions. She has served both as chief counsel to the Office of the Chief Defense Counsel for Military Commissions in the U.S. Department of Defense and as adviser to the chief defense counsel. In 2005 she founded the Guantanamo Defense Clinic at Duke Law School through which law students have worked closely with lead counsel representing detainees in military commission and federal court proceedings. Morris has been involved in such cases as U.S. v. Khadr, U.S. v. Hamdan, Boumediene v. Bush, and U.S. v. Al-Marri. She has given expert testimony to the military commission in U.S. v. Jawad, and currently serves as counsel to the defense in Jawad and in U.S. v. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, et. al.

A member of the U.S. Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on International Law, Morris is currently completing Terror and Integrity: Preventive Detention in the Age of Jihad, co-authored with Stephen Bornick, Allison Hester-Haddad, and Landon Zimmer, forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

Jerome Reichman, Bunyan S. Womble Professor of Law

Professor Reichman is a leading scholar of intellectual property law, including comparative and international intellectual property law, and the connections between intellectual property and international trade law. Much of his recent work has focused on the problems faced by developing countries in implementing the World Trade Organization's Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (the TRIPS Agreement), intellectual property rights in data, the appropriate contractual regime for online delivery of computer programs and other information goods, and on the use of liability rules to stimulate investment in innovation.

Reichman's recent projects include "Intellectual Property and Alternatives: Strategies for Green Innovation," submitted to the Chatham House Project on Climate Change Technologies and Intellectual Property Rights (with Duke colleagues Jerome Reichman, Arti K. Rai, Jonathan Wiener, and Richard Newell); and "Identifying and Addressing Global Trends to Restrict Access to Scientific Data from Government Funded Research," in The Global Flow of Information (Jack M. Balkin & Eddan Katz eds., forthcoming from Yale University Press forthcoming) (with Paul F. Uhlir).

Jonathan Wiener, William R. and Thomas L. Perkins Professor of Law, Professor of Environmental Policy, and Professor of Public Policy Studies

A scholar of environmental law and policy and an expert in risk analysis and regulation, Professor Wiener has cross appointments at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment and Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy. In 2008 he served as president of the Society for Risk Analysis.

A prolific writer on a broad range of issues pertaining to U.S., European, and international environmental law and risk regulation, his recent projects include: "Radiative Forcing: Climate Policy to Break the Logjam in Environmental Law," NYU Environmental Law Journal (2008); "Intellectual Property and Alternatives: Strategies for Green Innovation," submitted to the Chatham House Project on Climate Change Technologies and Intellectual Property Rights (with Duke colleagues Jerome Reichman, Arti K. Rai, Elvin R. Latty Professor of Law, and Richard Newell); "Issues in Comparing Regulatory Oversight Bodies," for the OECD Public Management Directorate, Working Party on Regulatory Management and Reform; and "Climate Change Policy and Policy Change in China," 55 UCLA Law Review 1805 (2008).

Vermont Law School's commitment to international law is well demonstrated by the extensive scholarly research and fieldwork of its faculty and students. From collaborative research with environmental lawyers in China to mapping the continental shelf aboard a Coast Guard icebreaker in the Arctic, our faculty contribute to a broader understanding of international law.

Human Rights and Gender
Vermont Law School's commitment is evidenced by the work of Professor Stephanie Farrior, who joined the faculty as the international programs director in 2008. A leading figure in international human rights law and the former legal director of Amnesty International, her work spans continents.

Professor Farrior's scholarly research focuses on the role and functioning of international organizations in protecting human rights, issues relating to identity-based discrimination, and state accountability for human rights abuses by non-state actors. Her work has been published in Harvard, Columbia, and Berkeley law journals and has been cited by several UN special experts in reports to the United Nations.

Recently invited by Oxford University Press to submit an article on gender issues for the inaugural issue of a new journal it is publishing, Journal of Human Rights Practice, Professor Farrior wrote what will be the lead article, "Human Rights Advocacy on Gender Issues: Challenges and Opportunities." It reviews recent developments in international human rights law and advocacy on women's rights and on sexual orientation and gender identity, and identifies opportunities and challenges to come.

Environmental Law in China
Now in its third year, the Vermont Law School Partnership for Environmental Law in China operates under the directorship of Professor Tseming Yang to advance environmental and energy law and policy in the region. Through a partnership with Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), Chinese scholars study at Vermont Law School, while VLS faculty work with hundreds of lawyers, judges, and law students in Beijing and Guangzhou and helped to develop an environmental law curriculum at SYSU.

Professor Yang's scholarly research focuses on environmental justice, global climate change and China's environmental laws. Recent publications include:

• "The Emergence of Global Environmental Law," coauthored with Robert V. Percival (University of Maryland), forthcoming in Ecology Law Quarterly (Fall 2009).
• "The Implementation Challenge of Mitigating China's Greenhouse Gas Emissions," 20 Georgetown International Environmental Law Review 681 (2008).

Professors Yang and Percival are also coauthoring the casebook Global Environmental Law (Aspen). The first of its kind, the book will present cases and materials that represent the principal approaches to environmental law employed by various countries around the world.

Publication of Chinese-Vermont student collaborative research
Research undertaken jointly by students in the VLS-China partnership is also being published:

• Timothy Riley and Lilly Huiyan Cai, "Unmasking Chinese Business Enterprises: Using Information Disclosure Laws to Enhance Public Participation in Corporate Environmental Decision Making," Harvard Environmental Law Review (February 2009).
• Jack Sautter and Jeanne Li, "The Clean Development Mechanism in China: Assessing the Tension between Development and Curbing Anthropogenic Climate Change," Virginia Environmental Law Journal (Fall 2009).
• Mark Qiu, "China's Environmental Super Ministry Reform: Background, Challenges, and Future," (coauthored with Honglin Li), Environmental Law Reporter (February 2009).

The Interplay of Law and Science in Arctic Sovereignty Issues
Professor Betsy Baker was the only lawyer among 38 scientists aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Icebreaker Healy on a three-week mission in August 2008 to map the U.S. extended continental shelf in the Arctic. She returned from that mission with new respect for the role of science in the law as it relates to drafting international treaties and legal interpretation.

Baker produced a wealth of research, field work and presentations following her trip, including:

• "Mapping the U.S. Extended Continental Shelf: Legal Issues," 2008 New England Marine Law Workshop, sponsored by the Environmental, Earth & Ocean Sciences Department, UMass/Boston & Marine Law Institute, Maine School of Law, November 2008, Boston.
• Conference on Arctic Climate Change and Security Policy, cosponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace, the Dartmouth College Dickey Center for International Understanding, and the University of the Arctic, Dartmouth College Center for Arctic Studies, December 2008, Hanover, N.H. (Invited participant).
• "Science-driven Cooperation and Policy: Addressing Canadian/U.S. Diplomatic Concerns in the Arctic", Session on: The Law and Politics of Canadian Jurisdiction on the Arctic Ocean Seabed, Arctic Change 2008 Conference, December 2008, Quebec City.
• "Mapping for Advocacy - Using Marine Geophysical Data to Establish the Limits of the Extended Continental Shelves under the Convention on the Law of the Sea" (poster), with B. Coakley, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, December 2008, San Francisco

The Global Climate
Professor Tracy Bach has been actively publishing on issues of climate change and international law, including:

• "Recent Developments in Australian Climate Change Litigation: Forward Momentum from Down Under," 8 Sustainable Development Law and Policy 39 (Winter 2008). This article chronicles the grassroots movement spearheaded by Australian conservation foundations to use courts as a tool for climate change reform.
• "Trends in U.S. Climate Change Litigation," Japan Environmental Lawyers Federation (Summer 2008). Translated into Japanese. This article describes the U.S. climate change litigation "boomlet" of the past three years.

Bach is also coauthor, with VLS Distinguished Visiting Professor Burns Weston of a green paper produced by Vermont Law School's Climate Legacy Initiative (CLI), of which Bach is associate director, in collaboration with the University of Iowa's Center for Human Rights:

• "Recalibrating the Law of Humans with the Laws of Nature: Climate Change, Human Rights, and Intergenerational Justice" (Climate Legacy Initiative 2009).

International Law and National Security
Professor Stephen Dycus, an internationally recognized authority on national security, has published casebooks that go beyond the domestic legal issues to address the enforcement of international agreements, the law of armed conflict, and humanitarian law concerns.

Professor Dycus is most recently the lead author of National Security Law (4th ed.) with Arthur L. Berney, William C. Banks and Peter Raven-Hansen (Aspen Publishers 2006), and Counterterrorism Law , with Banks and Raven-Hansen (Aspen Publishers 2007).

Faculty scholarship is the backbone of Columbia Law School's predominance in comparative and international law. Professors publish in leading journals and the popular press. In our more than 70 class offerings, ideas are passed on to students who will provide leadership in international legal practice and policymaking in the decades ahead.

Columbia's history in international law began three years after the School's founding in 1858, when Professor Francis Lieber delivered a series of lectures titled "The Laws and Usages of War." These talks later became the basis for the Geneva Conventions. In Lieber's footsteps came scholars such as John Bassett Moore, as well as James Brown Scott, who played a key role in the founding of the ASIL in 1906. Later, Professors Louis Henkin and Oscar Schachter pioneered new areas of international law, while current faculty members engage in cutting-edge global research with complexities Lieber-wounded in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815-could have scarcely imagined.

Listed below is the work of some of our faculty:

Jose E. Alvarez
The Hamilton Fish Professor of International Law and Diplomacy
During his just-completed two-year term as ASIL president, Jose Alvarez challenged members to think hard about the relevance of international law in a series of columns, as well as in a number of books with subjects ranging from international criminal law to the World Trade Organization. Alvarez's writings on foreign direct investment (FDI), include a forthcoming co-edited book, The Future of International Law and Policy, essays in two other books, Coherence and Consistency in International Investment Law and Global Players in Emerging Markets (all being co-edited by colleague Karl Sauvant, director of the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment); and an article, "The Argentine Crisis and Foreign Investors: A Glimpse into the Heart of the Investment Regime" which will launch the Vale Center's new Yearbook of International Investment Law & Policy (Oxford University Press) in 2009.

George A. Bermann
The Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law and the Walter Gellhorn Professor of Law
George Bermann is a renowned leader in several areas of law, evidenced by his current roles as chief reporter for the American Law Institute's Restatement Third (the U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration) and his presidency of the International Academy of Comparative Law in Paris. He also serves as editor of the ABA-sponsored Administrative Law of the European Union, a multi-volume set on rulemaking, adjudication, judicial review, transparency, and oversight. With Columbia colleague Petros Mavroidis he is co-editor of a number of books on WTO law.

Philip C. Bobbitt
The Herbert Wechsler Professor of Jurisprudence
One of the nation's leading constitutional theorists, Philip Bobbitt is a highly-regarded expert in constitutional law and international security. His most recent book, Terror and Consent, garnered highly positive media attention when national security issues became part of the national debate this past election year. He has served in the State Department and on the National Security Council, as well as on the editorial board of Biosecurity and Bioterrorism. His essays appear in the Independent and the New York Times.

Christina Duffy Burnett
Associate Professor of Law
Legal historian Christina Duffy Burnett examines the constitutional and international legal history of American empire, a topic that sheds light on issues of fundamental importance in the American polity, such as federalism, citizenship, and nationhood. Her recent articles include "'They Say I Am Not an American': The Noncitizen National and the Law of American Empire" in the Virginia Journal of International Law and the forthcoming "Convenient Constitution? Extraterritoriality after Boumediene" in the Columbia Law Review.

Sarah H. Cleveland
Louis Henkin Professor of Human and Constitutional Rights
Sarah Cleveland is a noted expert in the constitutional law of U.S. foreign relations, international law in domestic law and the interface between human rights and international trade. She co-directs the Law School's Human Rights Institute (HRI) and is a co-author of the newly revised and forthcoming casebook, Human Rights (with Louis Henkin, et al.). Her current scholarship focuses on the relationship between the U.S. Constitution and international law. Her recent activities include participation in an amici curiae brief on behalf of petitioners in Boumediene v. Bush and serving as co-coordinator of HRI's Detention without Trial Working Group.

Lori Fisler Damrosch
The Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organization
Lori Damrosch, who serves as co-editor of the American Journal of International Law, brings a wide variety of experience to her scholarship, including a position at the State Department's Office of the Legal Adviser and her work on cases before international arbitral tribunals (including the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal) at Sullivan & Cromwell. She is author of the authoritative International Law: Cases and Materials and her current scholarship delves into how constitutional democracies make war and peace decisions.

Benjamin L. Liebman
Professor of Law, Director of the Center for Chinese Legal Studies
Benjamin Liebman's broad expertise in Chinese law is evidenced by recent articles with Columbia colleagues that include "Reputational Sanctions in China's Security Markets" (with Curtis Milhaupt) in the Columbia Law Review and "Chinese Network Justice" (with Timothy Wu) in the Chicago Journal of International Law. He also directs the Center for Chinese Legal Studies, a focal point for curricular, extracurricular, and exchange activities that attract students and scholars from all over the world.

Petros C. Mavroidis
The Edwin B. Parker Professor of Foreign & Comparative Law
Petros Mavroidis is an expert on the legal framework of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and in the past few years has written and edited six books on varying aspects of WTO law. In addition to scholarship, he is the co-creator of novel courses that include Columbia's WTO Seminar, in which students write reaction papers based on lectures by visiting economists, political scientists, and lawyers.

Katharina Pistor
Professor of Law
Katharina Pistor's work focuses on the organization of firms and financial markets across the country and globally. She has published a recent book with colleague Curtis Milhaupt called Law & Capitalism: What Corporate Crises Reveal about Legal Systems and Economic Development around the World, which explores firm level governance across six countries. Her most recent research project focuses on "Global Network Finance." This area of law probes the increasingly dense ties of equity linking major financial intermediaries such as large banks and wealth funds, as well as how these vital connections can help nations respond to marketplace uncertainties.

Washington and Lee faculty affiliated with the Transnational Law Institute leave important footprints in many areas of international and comparative law.

Johanna E. Bond, Associate Professor of Law, continues with her cutting-edge work in international human rights and gender. She published Constitutional Exclusion and Gender in Commonwealth Africa, 31 FORDHAM INT'L L.J. 289 (2008) and Pluralism in Ghana: The Perils and Promise of Parallel Law, in OREGON REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (2008). She also recently traveled to Gaborone, Botswana, where she presented on "Gender Equality and Customary Law Reform: The Potential Of Regional and Sub-Regional Human Rights Frameworks" at a conference organized by Fordham Law School's Leitner Center.

Mark A. Drumbl, Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law and Director of the Transnational Law Institute, delivered "Justice after Atrocity: A Cosmopolitan Pluralist Approach" as a Foundation for Law, Justice, and Policy Honorary Lecture at Oxford University in January 2009. His book, Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law (Cambridge University Press) continues to be the subject of numerous book reviews in the scholarly literature. This book explores the potential and limits of criminal law as a method of accountability in the aftermath of atrocity. This past year, he published several short pieces: Transnational Terrorist Financing: Criminal and Civil Perspectives, 9:7 GERMAN L. J. 933 (2008); Introductory Note, Genocide Accountability Act of 2007, 47 INT'L LEGAL MATERIALS 125 (2008); A Hard Look at the Soft Theory of International Criminal Law, in THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF M. CHERIF BASSIOUNI (Sadat and Scharf eds., 2008). Professor Drumbl presented at the Second Annual International Humanitarian Law Dialogs, an event co-sponsored by the ASIL, and in November 2008 spoke at a CIA/Department of State Colloquy. Works-in-progress, which involve (1) the crime of aggression and (2) the agency of child soldiers, were presented at workshops to many law faculties. In October 2008 he delivered a C.V. Starr Lecture at New York Law School. Recent appointments include Professeur invité, Université de Paris II (Panthéon-Assas); Faculty, African Centre for Legal Excellence, Kampala, Uganda; Advisory Board, War Crimes Committee, International Bar Association; expert in U.S. immigration court; and Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario.

Susan D. Franck, Associate Professor of Law, has been asked by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to present evidence at an expert meeting on the development dimension of international investment agreements. Professor Franck also has been invited to serve as co-chair of the ASIL International Economic Law Interest Group. Her article, "Empiricism and International Law: Insights for Investment Treaty Dispute Resolution," published in the Virginia Journal of International Law, received the "OGEMID Best of 2008 Award." She also recently published Reconsidering Dispute Resolution Options in International Investment Agreements, in APPEALS MECHANISMS IN INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT DISPUTES (Ed. Karl P. Sauvant 2008) and An Empirical Analysis of Investment Treaty Awards, 101 AM. SOC'Y INT'L L. PROC. 214 (2007); and presented her work at Queen Mary School of International Arbitration, London; the American Society of International Law; University of Cincinnati; Suffolk University; London Court of International Arbitration European User's Council Symposium; Conference on Empirical Legal Studies; Society of International Economic Law, Geneva; Institute for Transnational Arbitration Annual Workshop; and the Law and Society Annual Meeting. Recent appointments include as a Committee Member, ASIL Awards Committee; American Society of International Law Committee Steering Group Member, Committee on Commercial Dispute Resolution; American Bar Association Section of International Law Executive Committee; and the American Association of Law Schools, Section on Alternative Dispute Resolution.

Frederic L. Kirgis, Law Alumni Association Professor of Law Emeritus, published International Law in the American Courts -- The United States Supreme Court Declines to Enforce the I.C.J.'s Avena Judgment Relating to a U.S. Obligation under the Convention on Consular Rights, 9 GERMAN L.J. 619 (2008).

Russell A. Miller, Associate Professor of Law, published a number of edited books and articles this past year. Edited books include PROGRESS IN INTERNATIONAL LAW, (edited with Rebecca Bratspies) (Martinus Nijhoff Press, 2008), which formed the basis for an exciting panel at the ASIL 102nd Annual Meeting; and U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY, INTELLIGENCE AND DEMOCRACY: FROM THE CHURCH COMMITTEE TO THE WAR ON TERROR (Routledge, 2008), which joins key voices from the Church Committee with contemporary analysis of issues in national security, intelligence and constitutional governance implicated by the War on Terror. Within each of these edited collections Professor Miller authored chapters on national security, non-state actors and international law, and militant democratic theory. He also authored contributions to THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW. Professor Miller presented a paper entitled "Collective Discursive Democracy and International Law Personality for Transnational Enterprises" at the European Society of International Law Biennial Meeting; and also spoke at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting; U.S. Embassy, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; RUAHA University, Iringa, Tanzania; and Duke University School of Law. He continues as the Co-Editor-in-Chief, German Law Journal and now serves as Chair-Elect, Section on Comparative Law, Association of American Law Schools.

Hari M. Osofsky, Associate Professor of Law, is an expert in the areas of climate change, international environmental law, and law and geography. She published: A Right to Frozen Water: The Institutional Spaces for Supranational Climate Change Petitions, in PROGRESS IN INTERNATIONAL LAW (Rebecca Bratspies and Russell Miller eds., 2008); The Intersection of Scale, Science, and Law in Massachusetts v. EPA, 9 OREGON R. INT'L L. (2008), reprinted in ADJUDICATING CLIMATE CHANGE: SUB-NATIONAL, NATIONAL, AND SUPRA-NATIONAL APPROACHES (William C.G. Burns & Hari M. Osofsky, eds., 2008); The Geography of Justice Wormholes: Dilemmas from Property and Criminal Law, 53 VILL . L. REV. (2008). She presented her work this past year at events held at Georgetown University School of Law; Washington University, School of Law; Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting; University of Colorado; and University of Virginia Law School.