ASIL 104th Annual Meeting: International Law in a Time of Change

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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Track »	Plenary	Energy, Environment & Development	International Legal Theory	Human Rights, International Humanitarian & Criminal Law	Use of Force, Security & Terrorism	Transnational Institutions, Courts Actors Networks	Trade, Finance & Investment	Interest Groups, Resource Sessions & Others
9:00am								9a - 11:30a Executive Council Orientation 9a - 1:30p ITA meeting 12p - 3:30p Executive Council Meeting
10:00am
11:00am
12:00pm
1:00pm
2:00pm
3:00pm
3:00pm
4:00pm
4:00pm	4:30p - 6:30p Grotius Lecture: Should International Law Lead or Follow in Changing Times? 6p - 8p Grotius Reception (AU Co-Sponored)
5:00pm
6:00pm
6:00pm								7p - 9p Arbitral Women Reception 7p - 8p Intellectual Property Law Interest Group Meeting 7:30p - 11p AJIL Board Dinner
7:00pm
8:00pm
9:00pm
10:00pm
11:00pm

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Track »	Plenary	Energy, Environment & Development	International Legal Theory	Human Rights, International Humanitarian & Criminal Law	Use of Force, Security & Terrorism	Transnational Institutions, Courts Actors Networks	Trade, Finance & Investment	Interest Groups, Resource Sessions & Others
7:00am								7a - 8a New Member Breakfast 7a - 9a Interest Group Meetings 8:30a - 10:30a International Law of the High Seas Fisheries in a Time of Change 9a - 10a Dispute Resolution Interest Group Meeting 9a - 10:30a New Voices I 9a - 10:30a Teaching International Law Interest Group: The Challenges and Rewards of Teaching International Students
8:00am
9:00am			9a - 10:30a Empirical Approaches to International Law	9a - 10:30a New Thinking on Social and Economic Rights: Honoring Virginia Leary 9a - 10:30a International Human Rights Law, Foreign Sovereign Immunity, and National Courts		9a - 10:30a Getting to Closure: Winding Up the International and Hybrid Criminal Tribunals	9a - 10:30a Risk, Science and Law in the WTO
10:00am			9a - 10:30a Empirical Approaches to International Law				9a - 10:30a Risk, Science and Law in the WTO
10:00am		10:45a - 12:15p Providing Global Public Goods Under International Law		10:45a - 12:15p The Goldstone Report and the Modern Law of War 10:45a - 12:15p Haiti: International Law and Disaster	10:45a - 12:15p A Comparative Look at Extraterritoriality: Bagram and Beyond		10:45a - 12:15p Hot Topics in GATS and Human Rights	10:45a - 12:15p Rights of Indigenous Peoples Interest Group Meeting: A New Direction in Human Rights Advocacy? 10:45a - 12:15p Teaching International Law: Lessons from Clinical Education 11a - 12p International Courts and Tribunals
11:00am
12:00pm
12:00pm	12:30p - 2:30p WILIG Luncheon: Where I Sit and Where I Stand featuring Professor Dinah Shelton, George Washington University
1:00pm					1p - 2:30p Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Modern Challenges to Use of Force Law	1p - 2:30p Evolving Intersections Between Treaty Law and Domestic Law		1p - 2:30p International Organizations Interest Group: Cuba: Its Re-entry into the Inter-American SystemCuba: Its Re-entry into the Inter-American System 1p - 2:30p Law in the Pacific Rim Region Interest Group: Asian Economic Integration - Reflecting or Reshaping Legal and Economic Realities 1p - 2:30p Post-Conflict Natural Resources Management and Development: Lessons Learned and Future Directions for International Law and Practice
2:00pm
2:00pm	2:45p - 3:45p Annual General Meeting and Award Ceremony
3:00pm	2:45p - 3:45p Annual General Meeting and Award Ceremony							3p - 4p International Legal Theory Interest Group Meeting 3:45p - 4:45p Teaching and Practicing International Law in a Global Environment: Towards A Common Language of International Law 3:45p - 5:00p International Environmental Law Interest Group Meeting 4:00p - 5:00p ASIL-West Interest Group Meeting
4:00pm
5:00pm	5p - 6:30p Keynote: Harold Koh, Legal Adviser, US Department of State (Co-Sponsored by Georgetown University Law Center)
6:00pm
6:00pm	6:30p - 8p Member Reception (Co-sponsored by Georgetown Law Center)							6:30p - 7:30p Executive Council Meeting/Reception 6:30p - 8p Interest Group Meeting 6:30p - 8p International Legal Materials Reception 6:30p - 8p L Alumni Reception 7:30p - 9p "Courting Justice" Film Screening
7:00pm
8:00pm
9:00pm
10:00pm
11:00pm

Friday, March 26, 2010

Track »	Plenary	Energy, Environment & Development	International Legal Theory	Human Rights, International Humanitarian & Criminal Law	Use of Force, Security & Terrorism	Transnational Institutions, Courts Actors Networks	Trade, Finance & Investment	Interest Groups, Resource Sessions & Others
7:00am								7a - 8a Interest Group Co-Chairs Breakfast 7a - 8:30a Interest Group Meetings
8:00am
								8:00a - 10:30a Lieber Society Interest Group: Current Developments in the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) 9a - 10:30a International Economic Law Interest Group: Policy Updates on International Economic Law 9a - 10:30a International Law in Domestic Courts Interest Group: Recent Developments in Alien Tort Statute Litigation 9a - 10:30a New Voices II 9a - 10:30a International Courts and Tribunals Interest Group Meeting
9:00am		9a - 10:30a International Environmental Justice: Possibilities, Limits and Tensions		9am - 10:30a Corruption and Human Rights	9am - 10:30a Arms Control Challenges Faced by the Obama Administration	9a - 10:30a International Law 2.0
10:00am
		10:45a - 12:15p Non-State Actors and the Emerging Climate Change Law Regime	10:45a - 12:15p Updating the Restatement		10:45a - 12:15p Same or Different? Bush and Obama Administration Approaches to Fighting Terrorists	10:45a - 12:15p The Rising Use of International Law by African Judiciaries	10:45a - 12:15p Preventing the Next Financial Crisis: Coordination and Competition in Global Finance	10:45a - 12:15p Nonproliferation, Arms Control, and Disarmament Interest Group: International Law and Iran's Nuclear Program 10:45a - 12:15p International Refugee Law Interest Group: Occupation and Refugee Status: State Responsibility Arising out of War, Intervention, and Prolonged Foreign Territorial Control
11:00am
12:00pm
		12:45p - 2:15p Reform and Restructuring at International Financial Institutions	12:45p - 2:15p Theoretical Insights at the Margins of International Law: CLS Meets TWAIL	12:45p - 2:15p Family, Sex, and Reproduction: Emerging Issues in International Law	12:45p - 2:15p Creating and Building a "State": International Law and Kosovo 12:45p - 2:15p War and Law in Cyberspace		12:45p - 2:15p Implications of the Global Financial Crisis on International Trade and Investment Regimes
1:00pm
2:00pm
			2:30p - 4:00p Bottom-Up Strategies for Survival and Resistance: Examples from Latin America and Elsewhere	2:30p - 4:00p Transnational Legal Dialogue, a Human Rights-Based Hierarchy, and the Creation of Norms	2:30p - 4:00p Remembering Tom Franck: What He Taught Us About the Recourse to Force	2:30p - 4:00p ICSID in the Twenty-First Century: An Interview with Meg Kinnear		2:30p - 4:00p Cultural Heritage and the Arts Interest Group: Wrestling the Dead Hand of History: Perspectives on a Proposed State Department Commission on Nazi Looted Art
3:00pm
4:00pm
	4:15p - 5:15p Hudson Medal Lecture: On Being Accountable in a Kaleidoscopic World
5:00pm
	5:30p - 6:30p Keynote by Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin: The Use of Foreign Law: a Comparative View of Canada and the United States
6:00pm								6p - 7p Human Rights Interest Group Meeting 6:30p - 8p Patrons' and Major Donors' Reception (by invitation) 7p - 9:30p New Professional Interest Group Happy Hour
	6:30p - 8p President's Reception (Co-Sponsored by George Washington University Law School)
7:00pm
8:00pm	8p - 10p ASIL Annual Dinner: Reflections on Change in International Law
9:00pm
10:00pm	10p - 12a ASIL-ILSA Dessert and Dance Party
11:00pm

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Track »	Plenary	Energy, Environment & Development	International Legal Theory	Human Rights, International Humanitarian & Criminal Law	Use of Force, Security & Terrorism	Transnational Institutions, Courts Actors Networks	Trade, Finance & Investment	Interest Groups, Resource Sessions & Others
7:00am
8:00am
8:00am								8:30a - 10:30a Islam and Human Rights in Africa: Studies of Legal and Social Change 9a - 12:15p Recent Developments in Private International Law 9a - 12:15p Government Attorneys Interest Group: The Role of Government Lawyers in Shaping Change 10:45a - 12:15p Transitional Justice and Rule of Law Interest Group Meeting 12:30p - 2:00p ABILA Board Meeting
9:00am		9a - 10:30a The Road Forward from Copenhagen: Climate Change Policy in the 21st Century		9a - 10:30a The ICC Review Conference and Changing U.S. Policy Towards the Court			9a - 10:30a China and East Asia on the World Stage
10:00am							9a - 10:30a China and East Asia on the World Stage
10:00am				10:45a - 12:15p Advancing Women's Rights Internationally		10:45a - 12:15p Treaty Bodies and Beyond: The Practice and Process of Translating International Norms into Domestic Law
11:00am
12:00pm
12:00pm
1:00pm
2:00pm
3:00pm
4:00pm