DUKE CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW WELCOMES PROFESSOR LARRY HELFER AS CO-DIRECTOR, PLANS FULL SCHEDULE FOR 2009-2010

Laurence R. Helfer has joined the Duke University School of Law as the Harry R. Chadwick Sr., Professor of Law and co-director of the Duke Center for International and Comparative Law. Previously a professor of law and director of the International Legal Studies Program at Vanderbilt Law School, Helfer is an expert in international law whose scholarly interests include interdisciplinary analysis of international law and institutions, human rights, and international intellectual property law and policy.

Under the co-direction of Helfer and Duke Law Professor Curtis A. Bradley, the Richard A. Horvitz Professor of Law and Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke's Center for International and Comparative Law is developing a full schedule of programs, conferences, and workshops for the 2009-2010 academic year. The Center is hosting a variety of public lectures and scholarship roundtables, and is co-sponsoring several student-organized conferences.

The Center also sponsors the Global Law Workshop, an upper-level seminar in which students and faculty join together in discussing cutting-edge issues of international law and legal theory. In the Fall 2009 Semester, Professors Bradley and Helfer, together with Duke Law Professor Deborah DeMott, will co-teach "Transnational Regulation of Stolen Art and Cultural Property." The workshop will focus on disputes relating to the ownership and recovery of art and cultural property, ranging from Nazi era expropriations to long-standing debates about the presence of the Elgin Marbles in the British Museum. The theme of the Spring 2010 Global Law Workshop, co-taught by Professors Bradley and Helfer, will be "The Law and Politics of International Cooperation."

INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW ACTIVITIES AT DUKE 2009-2010

Public Lectures

William Taft IV
Former Legal Adviser to the United States Secretary of State
Monday, October 26, 2009

Phoebe Kornfeld (Duke Law Class of 1990)
General Counsel of Intercell AG
Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009

Patricia Wald
Former Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Former judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Monday, Feb. 15, 2010

Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law, Emory Law School
Wednesday, Apr. 7, 2010

Scholarship Roundtables

The Law and Politics of International Cooperation
Friday and Saturday, November 6-7, 2009

Opting Out of Customary International Law
Saturday, January 29, 2010

Conferences

Prosecution at the International Criminal Court:
A Moot and Information Session with Office of the Prosecutor Staff
Friday, September 11, 2009
This daylong conference focuses on the work of the International Criminal Court. Presenters include Bärbel Carl, Associate Trial Lawyer, Prosecutions Division, ICC Office of the Prosecutor, and Antônia Pereira DeSousa, Associate Cooperation Officer in the ICC's Jurisdiction, Complementarity and Cooperation Division. Sessions will introduce students to the ICC prosecution process and the current work of the court; a faculty panel will discuss broader themes and issues raised by the event.

Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law Symposium:
Terrorism and Changes to the Laws of War
Friday, January 22, 2010
Since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, violence perpetrated by non-state terrorist organizations has become an increasingly serious threat to global peace and security. This symposium will consider how international humanitarian law can respond to this development and evolve from its existing focus on interstate armed conflicts. Three panels will address (1) current and future issues concerning the detention and trial of suspected terrorists; (2) targeting and other uses of force against terrorist organizations and militants; and (3) comparative trends on these issues in key national jurisdictions. Presenters will include scholars from the Free University Amsterdam, Tel Aviv University, Columbia University, and the University of Texas; a former U.S. Army Judge Advocate General (JAG) colonel; and a former Clinton Administration State Department official who represented the U.S. in negotiating the treaty establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Publications

CICLOPs
The Duke Center for International and Comparative Law has published the inaugural edition of CICLOPs, The Annual Herbert L. Bernstein Memorial Lecture in Comparative Law: The First Six Years 2002-2007. CICLOPs is an occasional paper series that provides an outlet for Duke-related scholarship on international or comparative law that might otherwise go unpublished or is hard to find. The first issue is a compilation of papers presented through the distinguished Herbert L. Bernstein Memorial Lecture Series in Comparative Law at Duke University. Edited by Duke Law Professor Ralf Michaels, it contains papers by Hein Kötz; Christian Joerges; Chibli Mallat; Richard M. Buxbaum; Jonathan K. Ocko; Zhu Suli; and Joseph M. Lookofsky. The lecture series honors Professor Bernstein, a professor and respected international and comparative law scholar at Duke Law School from 1984 until his death in 2001.

All CICLOPs issues will be freely available in PDF form online. The first issue is also available in printed form. To receive a copy or to sign up for our email list, please email CICL@law.duke.edu.

For more information on these and other international law programs at Duke Law, see http://www.law.duke.edu/cicl.