Paul Berman, University of Connecticut School of Law
"Seeing Beyond the Limits of International Law"
Discussant: Professor David Hoffman
Bill Burke-White, University of Pennsylvania Law School
"Rethinking the Bargain"
Discussant: Professor Rafael Porrata-Doria
David Zaring, Washington & Lee University School of Law
"Choice of Form in International Administration"
Discussant: Professor Craig Green
Oona Hathaway, Yale Law School
"International Law and Domestic Sovereignty"
Discussants: Professors Jaya Ramji-Nogales and Henry Richardson
Joost Paulwelyn, Duke Law School
"Optimal Protection of International Law"
Discussant: Professor Howard Chang (University of Pennsylvania)
David Luban, Georgetown University Law Center
"Fairness to Rightness: Jurisdiction, Legality, and the Legitimacy of International Criminal Law"
Discussant: Dean Robert Reinstein
Catherine Powell, Fordham University School of Law
"Tinkering with Torture in the Aftermath of Hamdan: Testing the Relationship between Internaitonalism and Constitutionalism"
Discussant: Dean Robert Reinstein
Distinguished Visitor Lecture Series
David Luban, Georgetown University Law Center
"The Legitimacy of International Criminal Law"
Brown-Bag Discussion Series
Dr. John Howe, University of Melbourne, Australia
"The International Labour Organisation as a Model of Responsive Regulation"
Professor Andrew Lang, London School of Economics Law Faculty
"Knowledge, Norms and Network Effects: How the Trade Regime Reshapes the International Order"
Judge Song Jianli, Supreme People's Court, People's Republic of China
"Chinese Judiciary: Current Reforms and Challenges"
Dr. Oren Perez, Visiting Professor, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
"Purity Lost: The Paradoxical Face of the New Transnational Legal Body"
Tom Ginsburg, University of Illinois College of Law
"The Lifespan of Written Constitutions"
Kara Abramson, Congressional-Executive Commission on China
"China's Muslim Communities and Policies and Regulations on Religion"
Current Developments in International Relations Lecture Series
Simulcast: Guantanamo
Temple's Institute for International Law and Public Policy hosted a series of events exploring the detention of prisoners at Guantanamo.
(1) Simulcast series of panels and speakers that participated in a nation-wide teach-in on Guantanamo. The teach-in involved more than 200 law schools across the country, as well as numerous other colleges and universities.
(2) The Institute also hosted a debate on Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, the landmark Supreme Court decision on military commissions at Guantanamo. Temple professors Craig Green, Phoebe Haddon, Mark Rahdert, and Peter Spiro discussed the case's implications for the war on terror and executive power. Professor Jaya Ramji-Nogales moderated.
(3) At 4:00, the Institute hosted several local attorneys who represented Guantanamo detainees. Speakers will include Shawn Nolan and Cristi Charpentier, of the Federal Defender Office; Judith Brown Chomsky, of the Law Office of Judith Brown Chomsky; and Peter Ryan, of Dechert LLP. Temple Law student Lauren Elfant moderated.
Panel: "Justice without Borders: Cambodia and other Hybrid Tribunals"
Panelist:
Bill Burke-White, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Roger Clark, Rutgers (Camden) Law School
Laura Dickinson, Visiting Fellow, Woodrow Wilson School
Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Temple University Beasley School of Law
Panel: "The Supreme Court, Detainees and the War on Terror: Debating Hamdan"
Panelists:
Craig Green, Temple University Beasley School of Law
Phoebe Haddon, Temple University Beasley School of Law
Mark Rahdert, Temple University Beasley School of Law
Peter Spiro, Temple University Beasley School of Law
Panel: “HIV/AIDS Advocacy in China”
Dr. Wan Yan Hai
Katie Krauss, Act-Up
Sara (Meg) Davis, Asia Catalyst
Lu Jiefeng