The College of Law is proud to continue our tradition of connecting the heartland to the world through teaching, research, and service. ICLP faculty have an array of international and comparative expertise, noted below. Please consider joining us at an international program, some of which are highlighted here:

Programming highlights for 2009-10:

ASIL President Lucy Reed to present Murray Lecture, April 16, 2010. Her remarks, Enforcing International Law Through Claims Commissions and Victim Compensation, will draw on her experiences in resolving disputes through international arbitration. In addition to her public remarks, President Reed will meet with students about career opportunities in International Law. Boyd Law Building, Room 225, 4.00 pm.

19th Annual Symposium by Journal of Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems: A Critical Juncture - U.S. Standing in the World and Foreign Policy Under the Obama Administration, March 5-6, 2010. For more information please visit: http://www.uiowa.edu/~tlcp/index.html.

London Law Consortium Semester Study Abroad Program, Spring 2010 Arcahon France Study Abroad Program with extension class in Cairo, Egypt, Summer 2010. For more information, please visit www.law.uiowa.edu.

UI Center for International Finance and Development - an interactive website on international finance and development designed for use by the layperson: http://www.uiowa.edu/ifdebook/, developed in 1999 by Professor Enrique Carrasco.

Selected Faculty Notes:

Steven J. Burton again will teach International Commercial Arbitration. He is currently participating in an arbitration located in Melbourne, Australia, as an expert witness on questions of contract law. His book, The Elements of Contract Interpretation, was published recently by Oxford University Press.

Jonathan Carlson is on leave from the College of Law while he serves in central administration as Senior Associate to President Sally Mason. He continues to pursue scholarship in international environmental law, having published two papers on climate change - Climate Change and the Rights of States and International Environmental Law, Climate Change, and Intergenerational Justice - earlier this year. He is currently working on updating his casebook, International Environmental Law and World Order (Thomson West), which he co-authors with Burns Weston and Geoffrey Palmer.

Enrique Carrasco continues to direct the University of Iowa Center for International Finance & Development, and has been invited to participate in a symposium held by the University of Oregon in March 2010 on the global financial crisis. Professor Carrasco will be offering International Business Transactions at the UI Summer Program in Arachon, France summer 2010.

Marcella David is completing service to central administration as the University of Iowa's senior diversity officer, and is returning to the law school as the new Associate Dean for International and Comparative Law, a role previously held by Professor John Reitz. She was pleased to visit Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and to meet with alumni during a recent visit to Kampala, Uganda. She is looking forward to continuing research on the impact of American exceptionalism on international law.

Aya Gruber joined the faculty of the College of Law in Fall 2009. Prior to her appointment at Iowa, she was a founding faculty member at Florida International University College of Law, South Florida's first public law school. Professor Gruber teaches, among other topics, criminal law, criminal procedure and international criminal law. She recently co-taught a course on international criminal law and terrorism law with three members of the Universidad de Sevilla law faculty in Sevilla, Spain, and is working on an essay entitled, Casualties of the War on Terror: Treaty Jurisprudence and the Supreme Court's International Reputation and a book, scheduled to be completed in December, Practical Global Criminal Procedure: United States, Argentina, and Japan (Carolina Academic Press).

Mark Osiel His current research assesses the place of lawyers in the emerging global economy, particularly the ingenuity by which they overcome legal obstacles to large cross-border transactions. This work examines how countries retain their distinctive legal traditions (and the values these may embody) in the face of globalizing pressures. The study is based on interviews with over 300 of the world's leading practitioners of international finance law. His current research assesses the place of lawyers in the emerging global economy, particularly the ingenuity by which they overcome legal obstacles to large cross-border transactions. This work examines how countries retain their distinctive legal traditions (and the values these may embody) in the face of globalizing pressures. The study is based on interviews with over 300 of the world's leading practitioners of international finance law.

John Reitz completed two articles this year, Toward a Study of the Ecology of Judicial Acitivism? 59 U. TORONTO L.J. 185 (2009); and Legal Origins, Comparative Law, and Political Economy, 57 AM. J. COMP. L. ___ (forthcoming 2009). For the spring semester, 2009, he served as the director of the London Law Consortium, a consortium of law schools offering a semester in London to U.S. law students under the leadership of the University of Iowa College Of Law. He also completed his second year of a three-year appointment as the Pao Yu-Kong Visiting Professor at the Zhejiang University Law Faculty in Hangzhou, China, pursuant to which he lectures on comparative law and comparative and U.S. administrative law for six weeks a year and advises graduate students. In the fall semester, he is on leave working on a book on the way in which major differences among legal systems reflect differences in political economy. This year Reitz is completing his second term as Vice President of the American Society of Comparative Law.

Mark Sidel has two volumes forthcoming this year: Regulation of the Voluntary Sector: Freedom and Security in an Era of Uncertainty (Routledge, 2009), and The Constitution of Vietnam: A Contextual Analysis (Hart, 2009). He continues as president of the International Society for Third Sector Research, the international scholarly group focused on civil society, philanthropy and the nonprofit sector, coordinating ISTR projects with funding from the Ford, Mott, Kellogg and Japan foundations; has been working under a grant from the MacArthur Foundation with Chinese nonprofit legal scholars and officials through the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL); and has research projects underway on legal reform in Vietnam funded by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Alexander Somek is preparing the third stage of his three-stage project on the current transformation of modern constitutional and ideas. While the first two stages examined "constituent power" and "solidarity", the third concerns "constitutional normativity". Among other things, it will address the alleged "constitutionalization" of public international law. He has recently given presentations at New York Law School and the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg.

Burns H. Weston, Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar, The University of Iowa Center for Human Rights (UICHR), was conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa (LL.D.) by the Board of Trustees of Vermont Law School. He recently contributed to The Climate Legacy Initiative, a joint project of The University of Iowa Center for Human Rights and the Environmental Law Center of Vermont Law School, and co-authored with Tracy Bach Recalibrating the Law of Humans with the Laws of Nature: Climate Change, Human Rights and Intergenerational Justice (2009).

Adrien K. Wing directed the 25th anniversary session of the Arcachon, France study abroad program. She also took students to Egypt where they visited the Supreme Court and a trial court, and presented a lecture for the Egyptian Society of International Law, which will cohost a conference with ASIL next June. In the spring, she will be the onsite director for the London Law Consortium, a consortium of law schools offering a semester in London to U.S. law students under the leadership of the University of Iowa College of Law. Her recent publications include International Law, Secularism and the Islamic World, 24 American U. Int'l L. Rev. 407 (2009); An Agenda for the Obama Administration on Gender Equality: Lessons from Abroad, 107 Mich L. Rev. First Impressions 124 (2009); Founding Mothers for a Palestinian Constitution, in Constituting Equality 290 (Susan H. Williams ed., Cambridge Press 2009); African Women in the Twenty-first Century, in Power, Gender, and Social Change (Muna Ndulo & Margaret Grieco eds., Cambridge Scholars, 2009).

Selected Alumni Notes:

2003 Leah Nicole C. Perry, Den Haag, Netherlands, was awarded the LLM from The University of Leiden in Holland. Ms. Perry received the LLM in Advanced International Law and graduated in the top 10 percent of her class. She was the Assistant Editor for Leiden Journal of Public, International Law. She previously worked as an International Affairs Advisor to a member of Congress.

2004 M. Dujon Johnson, China, has been named as a 2008 International Visiting Scholar at the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy. The Taiwan Foundation for Democracy is one of the most prestigious thinktanks in Asia and is the only one in Asia devoted to democracy. Mr. Johnson is the only African-American to be named a visiting scholar.

2006 Samuel J. Sadden, Sioux City, Iowa completed the prestigious Dean Acheson Stage program at The Court of Justice in Luxembourg. He was selected for the three month internship from a competitive pool of applicants who were nominated by prominent American law schools and selected to work in the chambers of EU Judges.