I N S T I T U T E F O R I N T E R N A T I O N A L L A W & P U B L I C P O L I C Y
A New Day for the International Criminal Court? Assessing the Court's Work and Looking to its Future under the New Prosecutor
On Tuesday, April 10, please join the Institute for a panel discussion entitled: "A New Day for the International Criminal? Assessing the Court's Work and Looking to its Future under the New Prosecutor". Panelists will include Håkan Friman, a Swedish government lawyer and judge who has been involved in the ICC's work since its inception, Christine Chung, the ICC's first Senior Trial Attorney, and Rupert Skilbeck, a former international defense attorney and current Litigation Director at the Open Society Justice Initiative. Our own Professor Margaret deGuzman will moderate.
The panel will be held in room 1A starting at noon.
Outsourcing War and Peace: Preserving Public Values in a World of Privatized Foreign Affairs
 On April 9, The Institute is pleased to host Professor Dickinson, who will be discussing her recent monograph entitled "Outsourcing War and Peace", published by Yale University Press. The book examines the increasing privatization of military, security, and foreign aid functions of government, considers the impact of this trend on core public values, and outlines mechanisms for protecting these values in an era of privatization. The discussant will be David Zaring, Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, The Wharton School.
Laura A. Dickinson joined GW Law in 2011 as the Oswald Symister Colclough Research Professor of Law. Previously, Professor Dickinson was the Foundation Professor of Law and the faculty director of the Center for Law and Global Affairs at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University (ASU). Her work focuses on human rights, national security, foreign affairs privatization, and qualitative empirical approaches to international law.
The talk will start at noon in room 1C.
The (Presidential) Politics of Immigration ReformSub-National Governments and International Institutions: The Case of Europe's Regions
On Thursday, March 22, the Institute will host Professor John Hopkins, Associate Professor, University of Canterbury (New Zealand) School of Law, who will be giving a talk entitled "Sub-National Governments and International Institutions: The Case of Europe's Regions."
Professor Hopkins will discuss the increasingly prominent role of subnational governments in the context of the EU. The development of federalism and strong regionalism in many western European states in the latter part of the twentieth century was an “unexpected” revolution almost as important as the much more prominent, parallel move to centralized EU governance. The EU experience has interesting parallels with development in US constitutional federalism.
The talk will begin at noon in room 8A.
Waterboarding and Drones: Guidance from International Legal Theory
 On March 15, the Institute will sponsor a talk at noon by Professor Tai-Heng Cheng entitled "Waterboarding and Drones: Guidance from International Legal Theory." The talk will be based on a chapter from his recent book, "When International Law Works: Realistic Idealism after 9/11 and the Global Recession."
Tai-Heng Cheng is Professor of Law at New York Law School, where he has been since 2006. He is Co-Director of the Institute for Global Law, Justice, & Policy, and of the New York City International Economic Law Working Group.
The talk will begin at noon in room 7A.
False Dichotomies of Transitional Justice: Gender, Conflict and Combatants in Columbia
On Wednesday, March 14 at noon, the Institute will be hosting Prof. Shana Tabak, who will be discussing her recently published article, "False Dichotomies of Transitional Justice: Gender, Conflict and Combatants in Columbia. Prof. Tabak is currently Visiting Associate Professor of Law and Friedman Fellow at George Washington University Law School.
The talk will be held in room 8A.
Can International Criminal Law Ever Be Just and Effective? Rethinking the Lessons from Sociology and Psychology
On Monday, February 27, the Institute will host a presentation by Ziv Bohrer entitled “Can International Criminal Law Ever Be Just and Effective? Rethinking the Lessons from Sociology and Psychology.” Ziv Bohrer currently serves as a Visiting Research Scholar at the University of Michigan School of Law. He is pursuing his Ph.D at Tel Aviv University, and previously served in the Military Advocate General Corps of the Israel Defense Forces. He has served as co-editor in chief of the I.D.F Law Review, and as an Editorial Board Member of the Haifa University Law Review.
The talk will start at noon and take place in room 7A.
Live From L: The Arab Spring and International Law
On Thursday, February 23 from noon to 2:00 p.m., Temple’s Institute for International Law and Public Policy will host a live webcast of an event entitled “Live from L: The Arab Spring and International Law.” The event will feature a number of lawyers from the U.S. Department of State, and is sponsored by the ABA Section on International Law, the American Society of International Law, and George Washington University Law School. The webcast will be held in room 1D.
State Department lawyers participating in this event will include:
Harold Hongju Koh, Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State
Linda Jacobson, Assistant Legal Adviser for African and Near Eastern Affairs
Emily Kimball, Attorney Adviser, Office of United Nations Affairs
Meg Pickering, Attorney Adviser, Office of Legislation and Foreign Assistance
Margaret Taylor, Attorney Adviser, Office of Economic and Business Affairs
The event will be moderated by Sean D. Murphy, Patricia Roberts Harris Research Professor of Law, George Washington University, and Member, International Law Commission
Deference and Direct Democracy in Same-Sex Marriage Litigation in Ireland and the U.S.
On February 14, Dr. Conor O'Mahony will be giving a talk entitled "Deference and Direct Democracy in Same-Sex Marriage Litigation in Ireland and the U.S." The talk will begin at noon and will be held in room 1C.
 Conor O'Mahony is a graduate of UCC (BCL 2001, LLM 2002, PGCTLHE 2009) and the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (PhD, 2005). He has lectured in UCC since 2005, and is currently the Director of Graduate Studies in the Faculty. His research interests lie broadly in the areas of constitutional law and fundamental rights with a particular focus on constitutional interpretation, educational rights, special educational needs and children's rights. He is the author of Educational Rights in Irish Law (Thomson Round Hall, 2006) and has published numerous articles in such journals as Public Law, the Irish Jurist, the Child and Family Law Quarterly, the Dublin University Law Journal and the Irish Journal of Family Law . He is a member of the editorial committee of the Judicial Studies Institute Journal. He has delivered papers at conferences in Ireland, the UK, Canada and South Africa and contributes regularly to analysis in the national media.
Clash of Paradigms: Actors and Analogies Shaping the Investment Treaty System
 On November 15, Professor Anthea Roberts presented a talk entitled “Clash of Paradigms: Actors and Analogies Shaping the Investment Treaty System." Roberts is a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, and a member of the law faculty of the London School of Economics. Her research covers the areas of international dispute resolution, investment treaty law, international law before national courts and the sources of international law. Professor Roberts’s presentation was part of the Institute’s International Law Colloquium speaker series, which brings leading international law scholars to Temple to present works-in-progress.
EU Law: Constitutionalism in Search of a Constitutional Theory
On November 14, the Institute hosted Miguel Maduro for a Faculty Forum on “EU Law: Constitutionalism in Search of a Constitutional Theory.” Maduro is Professor at the European Univeristy Institute in Florence where he serves as Director of the Global Governance Program. During the current semester, he is a Visiting Professor at Yale Law School where also he serves as Gruber Constitutionalism Fellow. Maduro served as Advocate General of the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg from 2003 to 2009, and he is a leading scholar in the fields of European Union law and international economic law.
Images of the Arctic and the Law and Politics They Suggest
 On September 22, the Institute will be hosting David Caron, President, American Society of International Law, and C. William Maxeiner Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley Law, who will be giving a talk entitled "Images of the Arctic and the Law and Politics They Suggest"
As the polar ice caps in the Arctic region begin to melt and recede, various peoples and nations are approaching this change with quite different images of that region. In this wide-ranging lecture involving boundary disputes, environmental and resource concerns, as well as indigenous peoples, Prof. Caron identifies the images involved, the politics and law implicit in each, and the futures for the Arctic that are both possible and likely.
The talk will take place on September 22, at 4:00 p.m., in Room 2A, Klein Hall.
Co-sponsored by the American Society of International Law.
2011 International Law Colloquium
Co-directed by Institute director Jeffrey Dunoff and Mark Pollack, Jean Monnet Chair, Department of Political Science, this year’s series is genuinely interdisciplinary, bringing together students and faculty from law and political science to explore theories from the interdisciplinary field of international law and international relations (IL/IR) and examining the making, interpretation, and enforcement of and compliance with international law. In addition, the Colloquium will host four prominent IL/IR scholars who will present works-in-progress or recently published articles.
Please click here to see the list of speakers for this fall.
War-Time: An Idea, its History, its Consequences
This fall, the Institute will host an informal, invitation only roundtable on Mary Dudziak’s forthcoming book, War Time: An Idea, its History, its Consequences. This forthcoming volume explores changing understandings of wartime and their implications for governmental powers. |
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