International Law Calendar



       


  1. Event Information
    Wednesday, February 17 2010 / 12:30 PM
    Arnold & Porter, 555 12th Street, NW; Metro Center
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    Where is the Obama Administration headed in the area of foreign relations and what is its stand on key international law issues? Harold Hongju Koh, who as Legal Adviser to the Department of State is the U.S. Government's most senior attorney on matters of international law, will share his perspective on those questions at this luncheon program. As Legal Adviser, Mr. Koh manages an office of more than 170 lawyers advising the Secretary of State, the White House, and other U.S. Government departments and agencies, on the wide scope of domestic and international law matters affecting U.S. foreign relations. He will discuss the challenges facing the Obama Administration in a variety of areas and the progress the Administration has made through strategic and practical steps at home and abroad. He also will provide insights into how the Administration envisages its role in fostering improved U.S. foreign relations in the years ahead, including through support for the rule of law. John B. Bellinger III, who served as the State Department Legal Adviser under the Legal Adviser to the Department of State from 2005 to 2009 under Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and is now a partner in the international and national security practices at Arnold & Porter and an Adjunct Senior Fellow in International and National Security Law at the Council on Foreign Relations, will offer comments from the perspective of a previous Legal Adviser. The moderator will be Nancy L. Perkins, Counsel at Arnold & Porter. This program is sponsored by The Public International and Criminal Law Committee of the International Law Section in Co-sponsorship with the Administrative Law and Agency Practice Section and the American Society of International Law.

    Contact Information
    DC Bar Sections Office
    sections@dcbar.org
    202-626-3463

  2. Event Information
    Monday, February 22 2010 / 8:00 AM - Tuesday, February 23 2010 / 8:00 AM
    University of Illinois College of Law and the University of Chicago Law School
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    As an ASIL Academic Partner, the University of Illinois College of Law is pleased to host ASIL President Lucy Reed and ASIL Executive Vice President and Executive Director Betsy Andersen for a day of discussion about contemporary developments in international law as well as careers in this field. Students and faculty will have opportunities to meet with our guests as well as to attend panels on International Law and the Financial Crisis and on Careers in International Law. The career panel will take place over lunch and is co-sponsored by the International Law Society and the Office of Career Planning and Professional Development. These programs will include an overview of the resources and networks of the American Society of International Law. This day-long visit will provide the College of Law community an opportunity to meet with one of the top practitioners in international law in the world today and to engage with the leader of one of the world?s premier international law organizations. For more information about this program and to register, please visit the above event link.

    Contact Information
    Charlotte Ku
    chku@law.illinois.edu

  3. Event Information
    Monday, February 22 2010 / 12:30 p.m.
    SAIS Rome Building, Room 806 1619 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C.
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    The International Law & Organizations Program at The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies Johns Hopkins University is pleased to invite you to a talk on:"Current Trends in International Development Law" with Professor Rumu Sarkar. Professor Sarkar is currently serving as Senior Legal Advisor to CALIBRE Systems, a defense consulting group based in Alexandria, VA. Immediately prior to this position, she was the former General Counsel for the 2005 Defense Base Closure and Realignment (BRAC) Commission. She also served as the General Counsel for the Overseas Basing Commission, prior to joining the BRAC Commission. Professor Sarkar was also the former Assistant General Counsel for Administrative Affairs for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), and formerly a staff attorney with the Office of the General Counsel of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). She began her career as a litigation associate with two Wall Street law firms in New York. She is an Adjunct Law Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center where she teaches an LL.M. seminar, and has extensively published legal texts and articles on a variety of subjects. Professor Sarkar has authored two legal textbooks, INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LAW, and TRANSNATIONAL BUSINESS LAW. She was awarded the 2007 First (Grand) Prix of the St. Cyr Foundation for her essay on "A Fearful Symmetry." Her forthcoming publication, A FEARFUL SYMMETRY: THE NEW SOLDIER IN AN AGE OF ASYMMETRIC CONFLICT, will be released in April 2010. She completed her undergraduate studies at Barnard College, Columbia University; her law degree from the Antioch School of Law; and her Masters of Law (LL.M.) degree, and her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Newnham College, Cambridge University. Her professional career reflects her work in government administrative and litigation work, development issues related to Rule of Law as well as international business transactions.

    Contact Information
    Tiffany Basciano
    tbascia1@jhu.edu
    202-663-5982

  4. Event Information
    Thursday, February 25 2010 / 8:30 AM
    James B. McNally Amphitheater, Fordham Law School, located at 140 West 62nd Street, New York, NY.
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    Symposium of the Fordham International Law Journal. Topics include the 2010 NPT Review Conference, International Law and the Nuclear Deterrent, the Obama Administration's Nuclear Posture Review, and Proliferation Threats in North Korea, Iran and Syria. Speakers include Charles Moxley, John Burroughs, Orde Kittrie, Greg Schulte, Leonard Spector, and Carl Stoiber.

    Contact Information
    Fordham Law School Office of Public Programming
    cle@law.fordham.edu
    212 636-7295

  5. Event Information
    Friday, February 26 2010 / 10:30 AM
    Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut
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    On February 26, 2010, the Yale Journal of International Law will host a conference on the theme of 'Government Lawyering and International Law' in commemoration of the Journal's thirty-fifth anniversary and with the support of the American Society of International Law's Government Attorneys Interest Group. The one-day conference, to be held at the Yale Law School will bring together scholars, policy-makers, and legal practitioners from around the globe to explore the diverse approaches taken in the interpretation and development of international law by governments. U.S. Department of State Legal Adviser Harold Hongju Koh will provide the keynote address. For the full schedule, please visit www.yjil.org. YJIL?s thirty-fifth anniversary conference presents a unique opportunity for government lawyers, private practitioners, and academics from around the world to engage with one another about the process by which international law is elaborated. The conference is free and open to the public. Please register by February 19, 2010, by sending an email to yjilconference2010@gmail.com with your name and institutional affiliation.

    Contact Information
    yjilconference2010@gmail.com
    yjilconference2010@gmail.com

  6. Event Information
    Friday, March 05 2010 / 08:45 AM
    The University of Iowa College of Law, Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1113
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    The Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems, a Journal of the University of Iowa College of Law,with the support from the American Society of International Law is holding its annual international law symposium. This year's symposium will bring together preeminent and notable thinkers and actors to think, discuss and engage the international law community about the issues of U.S. use of torture, military detention, women's rights, children's rights, U.S.-Muslim relations, U.S. attitudes toward the international community and the role of international law in U.S. foreign policy. Our keynote speaker is Manfred Nowak, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture, who is a key player in the current controversy unfolding about U.S. use of torture against Guantanamo detainees. This event is free and open to the public.

    Contact Information
    Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems
    tclp@uiowa.edu
    (319) 335-9736

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