Recent events have underscored the timeliness
and topicality of this year’s Annual Meeting theme statement.
Given the many serious challenges now facing the international
legal system, the program committee has attempted to encourage
discussion of as many facets of the theme as possible. Accordingly,
this year’s program seeks to enhance opportunities for participation
by the Society's membership. We have framed events and invited
participants to reflect the diverse interests and perspectives
of all segments of the Society—public international lawyers
and international business practitioners; attorneys in government
and in the private sector; academics in law and other disciplines;
and practitioners and scholars from the United States and from
other countries.
The program committee adopted several innovations
to achieve these objectives. One was the "call for proposals"
circulated to the entire membership last Spring. This invitation
elicited numerous responses from individual members of the Society
and from its interest groups. Using these proposals as a starting
point, the program committee worked to assemble a selection of
events that offers a balanced exposition of the issues evoked
by the theme statement.
Second, without detracting from the strength
and success of the traditional program format, this year’s
program makes use of additional and expanded meeting facilities
to include a number of smaller group events and calls for papers
that will take place in parallel to the more familiar panels and
lectures. We hope these more intimate and alternative formats
will promote broader participation and discussion among those
attending the Annual Meeting and will enable inclusion of viewpoints
or subjects that might otherwise have been overlooked.
Finally, we hope that the order-disorder debate
that lies at the heart of this year’s theme statement will
form an eloquent platform for the issues and challenges that the
Society will address at its Centennial Annual Meeting in 2006.
2005 Program Committee
Co-Chairs
LAURENCE R. HELFER, Vanderbilt University Law School; RAE LINDSAY,
Clifford Chance U.S. LLP
Members
WILLIAM J. ACEVES, California Western School of Law; SIMON CHESTERMAN,
Institute for International Law & Justice, New York University;
VIRGINIA C. DAILEY, Hunton & Williams LLP; ASHLEY DEEKS, U.S.
Department of State; DONALD F. DONOVAN, Debevoise & Plimpton
LLP; GREGORY H. FOX, Wayne State University Law School; JAMES
A. GRESSER, U.S. Department of State; DAVID SLOSS, Saint Louis
University School of Law; NASSIB G. ZIADE, Administrative Tribunal,
The World Bank
ASIL Staff
CHARLOTTE KU, Executive Director and Executive
Vice President
EARL GLADNEY, Controller
RICHARD LARUE, Deputy Director
SANDRA LIEBEL, Meetings Coordinator; Executive
Assistant to the Executive Director
MICHAEL NELLENBACH, Marketing Manager
ASHLEY PALMER, Special Projects Coordinator
CARA SMITH, AJIL Managing Editor
SCOTT SMITH, ILM Assistant Editor
ANDREW SOLOMON, Director of Research and
Outreach
MARIA STAUNTON, Outreach Program Assistant
RUTH TEITELBAUM, ILM Managing Editor
TRISH THOMAS, Assistant to the Deputy Director
DANIEL VICKERS, Web Content Editor
KELLY VINOPAL, Manager, Library and Information
Services
FREDDYE WIGGINS, Receptionist/Office Management
Assistant
