Go On! Land & jurisdiction

(Go On! is an occasional item on symposia and other events of interest)

The Struggle for Land: Property, Territory, and Jurisdiction in Early Modern Europe and the Americas is the title of a free, public symposium to be held Friday, April 8, 2011, at the Newberry Library in Chicago.
It's organized by Tamar Herzog (below right), Professor of Latin American and Spanish History at Stanford University (who will speak on :How the Indios Lost Their Land: Spanish Debates and Practices of Recession"), and Richard J. Ross, Professor of Law and History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. They write:

The struggle to possess and control land, both as property and as jurisdictional territory, was central to the formation of early modern European societies as well as their colonial domains. This conference will look at how Europeans and indigenous peoples defined the right to land. We will examine how so-called European expansion influenced the conceptualization of property and territorial jurisdiction and the relationship between them. Conference participants may explore how notions of property and territoriality changed over time; and how colonial needs and the encounter with new cultures reshaped these notions. In what ways did “international competition” and the emergence of an “international law” (to use an anachronism) modify property and jurisdiction? How did economic, social, and political developments influence new ideas and experiences regarding the land? In what ways did these ideas and experiences shape practical strategies for claiming land and asserting rights to govern it and profit from it? We are particularly eager to know whether these encounters encouraged, consciously or not, borrowing between different European legal systems as well as between settlers and indigenous peoples. How was the movement and refashioning of legal knowledge bound up with the movement of peoples and refashioning of modes of control over land?

Other scheduled panelists include Dominique Deslandres, Professor of History at the University of Montreal, Bianca Premo, Associate Professor of History at Florida International University; Professor Julia P. Adams, Chair of the Department of History at Yale; Yale Law Professor Claire Priest; and Alison LaCroix, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Chicago.
Detailed program and registration information here.

Guest Blogger: Erin Daly

It's IntLawGrrls' great pleasure to welcome Erin Daly (left) as today's guest blogger.
Erin is Professor of Law and Associate Dean of Faculty Research and Development at Widener Law School in Wilmington, Delaware. She earned her B.A. from Wesleyan University and her J.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan, then practiced 1st Amendment and employment law at the San Francisco law firm of Cooper White & Cooper.
Since entering academia in 1993, she's produced many publications on comparative environmental law, constitutional law, and transitional justice, among them Reconciliation in Divided Societies: Finding Common Ground (2006), for which a Nobel Peace Prizewinner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, wrote the foreword. Co-authoring the book (issued in paperback in 2010) with Erin was Jeremy Sarkin, the South African legal expert about whom we posted yesterday.
Erin has served as a Vice-Chair of the Young Lawyer’s Division Law and Media Committee of the American Bar Association. Earlier this month, Erin was elected the Chair of the Section on International Human Rights of the Association of American Law Schools (a position that IntLawGrrl Christiana Ochoa held a while back). In her guest post below, Erin recaps the Section's "new voices" programs during AALS' 2010 annual meeting, discusses Section plans, and welcomes suggestions for the coming year.
Erin dedicates her post to Coretta Scott King (1927-2006), about whom we IntLawGrrls have frequently posted. She was, of course, the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (prior posts) -- and she was also a civil rights and human rights activist in her own right. Today the United States observes Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. It is, as Erin writes, a holiday that Coretta Scott King

named in honor of her husband, but which is really a testament to her own lifelong commitment to making the world a better place through service to others and to holding up ideals of equality and human dignity, whether in the context of literacy, poverty eradication, or the rights of minorities of all kinds in the United States and abroad. She took on each new challenge with grace and intelligence and continued throughout her life to push for greater rights for all.

(source for 1984 Charles Tasnadi/AP photo of her leading a picket of South African embassy in Washington, D.C.) Today we are honored to include Coretta Scott King in our list of foremothers just below the "visiting from..." map at right.

Heartfelt welcome!

AALS human rights section news

(My thanks to IntLawGrrls for the opportunity to contribute this guest post)

As the new Chair of the Section on International Human Rights of the Association of American Law Schools, I want to welcome everyone to the section and invite you to become active members.
We had a terrific session earlier this month at the AALS annual meeting, on which IntLawGrrls posted here and here.
Featured at our section's session were 8 “new voices” in human rights.
► In the first part, presenters spoke on specific current issues in international human rights law. Jena Martin Amerson (West Virginia) (left) examined the role of transnational corporations as bystanders under international law in order to move towards a better working theory of corporate accountability. Angela B. Cornell (Cornell) (left) approached the human rights responsibilities of corporations from a different angle, suggesting that private international agreements might provide opportunities to encourage corporate entities to take more responsibility toward the individuals and communities in which they operate. Benedetta Faedi Duramy (Golden Gate) (left) spoke about the ways in which women are victims of violence can become perpetrators of violence, exploring the reasons why women commit violence, based on her research in Haiti; and Jonathan Todres (Georgia State) emphasized the importance of listening to and working directly with children who are the victims of human rights abuses so that we can better understand the challenges they face.
► In the second part of the session, we focused on implementation issues. David Baluarte (American) spoke about state implementation of regional human rights bodies, with particular emphasis on the Inter-American system. IntLawGrrls alumna Alexandra Huneeus (Wisconsin) (near right) followed David's presentation up by looking more closely at which institutions within the domestic government are responsible for implementing orders from the Inter-American Court; Alexandra further made recommendations to encourage greater enforcement of regional court orders. Austen Parrish (Southwestern) argued that globalization and territorial governance can be consistent in the field of human rights. And IntLawGrrls alumna Caroline Bettinger-López (above, far right) described a collaborative effort among several human rights clinical faculty using lessons of critical theory to offer a proposed shift in human rights lawyering and advocacy; that is, a shift from identifying the immediate circumstances of human rights violations to articulating the structural realities that serve as the framework for those violations, and incorporating victims’/clients’ voices and goals into the advocacy.
The Executive Committee of the Section comprises William V. Dunlap (Quinnipiac), Michèle Alexandre (Mississippi) (near left), Stuart Ford (John Marshall), immediate past Chair Sarah Paoletti (Penn) (far left) and me. Right now we are working on:
► Setting the communications platform which we hope to develop as a list-serv for faculty members interested in human rights law; and
► Establishing a mentoring project to help new faculty members who are just starting to teach in this area.
Watch for announcements about these projects, as well as plans for the 2012 annual meeting, to be held in January in Washington, D.C.
Most of all, we welcome suggestions, comments or any other expressions of interest. So please contact one of us to share your thoughts.

Write On! Human rights at AALS

(Write On! is an occasional item about notable calls for papers.)

The Section on International Human Rights of the Association of American Law Schools invites abstracts and proposals for papers to be presented at the Section's "New Voices in Human Rights" program during the AALS annual meeting January 5-8, 2011, in San Francisco, California.
Eligible are faculty members of AALS member and fee-paid law schools who have never before submitted a paper in an area of international human rights law and practice for the first time at an AALS conference. Non-U.S., visiting and adjunct faculty members, graduate students, and fellows are not eligible.
Submissions should be e-mailed, in Word or pdf format, to Section Chair Sarah H. Paoletti (left) at paoletti@law.upenn.edu. Deadline is very soon: September 16, 2010.

Work On! "Rethinking Equality"

(IntLawGrrls is pleased to welcome back alumna Lisa R. Pruitt, who contributes this Work On! guest post)

The Section on Women in Legal Education of the Association of American Law Schools, for which I have the honor of serving as Chair this year, is now seeking proposals for presentations, papers, and posters for the Mid-Year Meeting Workshop we're organizing. Entitled "Women Rethinking Equality," it will be held in June 2011 in Washington, D.C.

We aim to appeal to a full range of teachers and scholars in all subject areas, by creating opportunities for a rich dialogue about the meaning, contours, implications, and status of equality for women, with particular attention to women and gender in the setting of legal education. Conference sessions will focus on substantive law and scholarship, teaching concerns, and professional development issues. All faculty members and professional staff of AALS member and fee-paid law schools — and particularly all women — are welcome to take part, regardless of whether their scholarship focuses on gender. (Foreign, visiting and adjunct faculty members, graduate students, and fellows are not eligible.)

While the workshop will feature several plenary panels about a range of issues implicated by the topic of gender equality, we also plan to include posters and 2 types of concurrent sessions. The calls for each vary, as follows:

Theme-related session
Concurrent sessions will feature presentations on each of the following equality-related themes:
► Gender and International Human Rights
► From Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice
► Gender and Economic Inequality
► Gender and Criminal Law
► Gender and Corporate, Securities, Tax, Bankruptcy and Commercial Law
► Gender and the Justice System
► Theorizing Gender
► Gender and Family Law
► Gender and Employment
We expect to select 3 or 4 presentations for each of these topical sessions. Each presentation will be about 15 minutes, followed by questions from the moderator and the audience.
Interested faculty should submit a brief written description (no more than 1,000 words) of the proposed presentation, along with her or his résumé. The proposal should indicate clearly in which of the 9 categories the author believes the presentation belongs. Please e-mail these materials to 11wwcfp@aals.org by July 31, 2010. We will notify selected speakers by October 1, 2010.

Works in progress
Women write in all fields of law, yet women at all stages of their careers who write in male-dominated fields may have fewer opportunities to present and receive feedback on their work. The same is true of junior women scholars across all academic specialties. Additionally, female and male scholars in gender and feminist jurisprudence often find their work marginalized within traditional academic disciplines and institutions. This call for papers invites scholars from these categories to present their works in progress and to receive comments in small group sessions with assigned commentators. Because the goal is to give these scholars more exposure, no subject matter preferences govern this call. Full drafts or nearly completed drafts are encouraged, although these drafts may be rough.
Interested faculty should submit a précis of the paper she or he would like to present, along with her or his résumé. The précis should be no more than 2,500 words. Please e-mail these materials to 11wwcfp@aals.org by July 31, 2010. We will notify selected authors by October 1, 2010.

Posters

Posters are intended to provide authors, who must attend the workshop session, an opportunity to present in clear and succinct fashion the thesis and conclusion of their research or to describe teaching innovations. We invite:

► Submissions by women scholars regarding current projects on any topic or recently completed projects (including, for example, book projects published within the past 2 years), and

► Submissions by all scholars, regardless of gender, which focus on current or very recent projects regarding issues of gender or sex.

Interested faculty should submit an abstract for the proposed poster, along with her or his résumé, to 11wwcfp@aals.org by December 15, 2010. We will notify those selected to present posters by January 31, 2011.

Details
For further information, please contact a member of the Planning Committee: Chair Kathryn Abrams (California-Berkeley), krabrams@law.berkeley.edu, or members Serena Mayeri (Pennsylvania), smayeri@law.upenn.edu, Elizabeth Nowicki (Tulane), enowicki@tulane.edu, Angela Onwuachi-Willig (Iowa), angela-onwuachi@uiowa.edu, Stephanie M. Wildman (Santa Clara), swildman@scu.edu, or yours truly at lrpruitt@ucdavis.edu.

Work On! "Teaching gender"

(IntLawGrrls is pleased to welcome back alumna Lisa R. Pruitt, who contributes this Work On! guest post)

The Section on Women in Legal Education of the Association of American Law Schools, for which I have the honor of serving as Chair this year, is seeking panelists to share methods of teaching gender in “core courses” -- legal writing, torts, contracts, corporations, federal income tax, civil procedure, contracts, or criminal law, among others not traditionally understood to include gender -- at the AALS 2011 Annual Meeting to be held January 4 to 8 in San Francisco. The panel will also include a paper presentation by the winner of "Teaching Gender as a Core Value" competition.

In keeping with the overall meeting theme of "Core Values," our Section will focus on teaching gender issues as a "core value." This program will include a variety of perspectives and will explore ways gender issues can be successfully incorporated into law school teaching.

To be considered as a panelist, please submit a note of interest no later than next Wednesday, March 31, 2010, to Professor Danne Johnson, Oklahoma City University School of Law, at djohnson@okcu.edu. In addition to your c.v., please include a 2-paragraph description what you would discuss on the panel; that is, of the course that you teach and the methods that you use to teach gender.

Further details here.

Write On! New gender studies voices

(IntLawGrrls is pleased to welcome back alumna Lisa R. Pruitt, who contributes this Write On! guest post)

This year I have the honor of serving as Chair of the Section on Women in Legal Education of the Association of American Law Schools. In that capacity, I'm pleased to announce that our Section will hold a program during AALS' next Annual Meeting, to be held January 4-8, 2011, in San Francisco, during which papers will be presented by the winners of our New Voices in Gender Studies competition.
Submissions should be of scholarship relating to:

► Women in legal education;

► Any aspect of women’s relationship to the law; or

► Gender, sexuality and the law.

There's a maximum 30,000 word limit (inclusive of footnotes) for the submission. Since this is a paper presentation opportunity, and not one for publication, submitted papers can be committed for publication prior to their submission, but cannot be actually in print prior to their submission. Each professor may submit only one paper for consideration.

Papers will be reviewed anonymously. The manuscript should be accompanied by a cover letter with the author’s name and contact information. The manuscript itself, including title page and footnotes, must not contain any references that identify the author or the author’s school. The submitting author is responsible for taking any steps necessary to redact self-identifying text or footnotes.
Please submit your papers electronically to Professor Linda Jellum, Mercer University School of Law, at jellum_l@law.mercer.edu, no later than Monday, August 16, 2010. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by October 1, 2010. Call for Paper participants will be responsible for paying their annual meeting registration fee and travel expenses.
Full-time faculty members of AALS member and fee-paid law schools, who have been teaching for seven or fewer years as of August 16, 2010, are eligible to submit papers. Foreign, visiting (and not full-time on a different faculty) and adjunct faculty members, graduate students, and fellows are not eligible to submit.
If you've any questions about this call for papers, please contact Professor Nancy Levit, Curators’ and Edward D. Ellison Professor of Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, levitn@umkc.edu.

The Gap in Comprehensive Immigration Reform

I'll be speaking this afternoon at the Association of American Law Schools annual conference in the Immigration Law and Administrative Law sections' co-sponsored session entitled Adjudication in Immigration Law: Concerns and Realities. My talk focuses on the severe flaws in the immigration adjudication system, a topic on which I've written and blogged before. For those who will be in attendance and are averse to ruined punchlines, read no more! But for those who won't be joining us in NOLA, here's a sneak preview:
Immigration scholars have decried the state of immigration adjudication for years, noting the serious deviations from minimal due process standards. My recent co-authored study, Refugee Roulette, highlights the extreme disparities in decision-making in the asylum system that result from these systemic problems. The dire lack of resources allocated to the system is a central problem; the adjudication process screams for more immigration judges, more clerks and clerical support for those judges, and more professional development programs for judges on the bench. As enforcement of immigration laws becomes more stringent, the problem gets worse: from 1998 to 2008, the number of matters received by immigration courts increased by 24% while the number of immigration judges increased by 6%.
Enter comprehensive immigration reform. With a Democratic President and a Democratic majority in both houses, this would seem a prime opportunity to improve the immigration adjudication system. What does the CIR ASAP bill introduced by Rep. Luis Gutierrez in December, likely the more immigrant-friendly and less politically viable of the comprehensive immigration reform proposals, have to say about the state of the immigration courts? In line with the enforcement emphasis of the past decade, the bill contains generous increases in border patrol personnel, support, and equipment, including 5000 new border patrol officers by 2014, 1200 agriculture specialists (!) by 2014, $1 billion each year through 2014 to improve border ports, and even body armor, GPS, night vision equipment, and power boats for border enforcement. In striking contrast, the bill does not even mention funding for immigration courts.
While the CIR ASAP bill contains many provisions beneficial to immigrants, I query the value of improved laws if the adjudication process remains severely dysfunctional. I'm hopeful but not optimistic that the Schumer/Graham comprehensive immigration reform expected early this year will include increased funding for immigration courts. The same goes for the likelihood that the Obama Administration will promote intelligent enforcement of immigration laws, including increased prosecutorial discretion. Without a functional adjudication process, it will be hard to meet even the most basic standards of fairness in the immigration arena.

IntLaw @ AALS @ NOLA

By this morning the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools will be in full swing. Readers in New Orleans for the session can see details on all that's offered regarding international law and global affairs by checking out our prior post here.

IntLaw(Grrls) @ AALS

To head off the complaint of some last year respecting AALS programming of interest to specialists in international, comparative, and transnational law -- a complaint undercut in this 11-month-old post -- it's our pleasure to offer a list of all such events on the program of the 2010, annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, to be held January 6-10 in New Orleans.
The list is complete as possible (note that some meal sessions require advance ticket purchases). The list reflects the exercise of 2 prerogatives: sessions sponsored by the Section on International Law, of which yours truly is Chair this year, are featured in pink, and all IntLawGrrls and guests/alumnae are featured by hypertext and photo.
Here goes:

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

2 sessions as part of the all-day American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy Annual Meeting:

1:30-3:15 p.m.

► Maintaining or Restoring the Rule of Law after September 11, 2001
3:30-5:15 p.m.

► Building the Rule of Law after Military Interventions

Thursday, January 7, 2010

9 a.m.-5 p.m.

► Meeting the Needs of Children During Times of Crisis: Hurricane Katrina and Beyond. Speakers: Kristi L. Bowman (Michigan State), Abigail English (Center for Adolescent Health & the Law, N.C.), Gerard F. Glynn (Barry), David R. Katner (Tulane), Charles Ogletree (Harvard), Anna W. Shavers (Nebraska). Moderator: Joan M. Shaughnessy (Washington and Lee).

9 a.m.-12 noon

► Re-Examining Customary International Law and the Federal Courts. Speakers: Curtis A. Bradley (Duke), Bradford R. Clark (George Washington), Sarah H. Cleveland (Columbia), Carlos M. Vázquez (Georgetown), Ingrid B. Wuerth (Vanderbilt). Moderator: Anthony J. Bellia Jr. (Notre Dame).
12:15-1:45 p.m.

► AALS Committee on International Cooperation Luncheon. Speaker: José Miguel Insulza (Secretary General, Organization of American States).

2-5 p.m.

► Teaching Law to Students from Other Countries. Speakers: Cary A. Bricker (Pacific McGeorge), Juliana V. Campagna (John Marshall), Leah M. Christensen (Thomas Jefferson), John Haberstroh (Northwestern), Elizabeth L. Inglehart (Northwestern), Brian K. Landsberg (Pacific McGeorge), Deborah B. McGregor (Indiana-Indianapolis), Mark E. Wojcik (John Marshall).

2-3:30 p.m.

► Roundtable Discussion on Comparative Scholarship. Speakers: Daniel D. Bradlow (American), Joan M. Heminway (Tennessee), John C. Knechtle (Florida Coastal), Ronald J. Krotoszynski Jr. (Alabama), Clive Walker (Leeds, England), Russell L. Weaver (Louisville). Moderator: Linda D. Jellum (Mercer).

3:30-5 p.m.

► International Cooperation to Create Opportunities for Students. Speakers: Adam Kolker (Georgetown), Bert Lazerow (San Diego), Sophie Robin Olivier (Paris X-Nanterre), Juan Enrique Vargas (Diego Portales, Chile), Hariolf Wenzler (Bucerius, Germany). Moderator: Claudio Grossman (American).

Friday, January 8, 2010

7-8:30 a.m.

► Joint Breakfast of Sections on Africa, Comparative Law, Graduate Programs for Foreign Lawyers, International Human Rights, International Law, International Legal Exchange, and North American Cooperation.

► Section on Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples Breakfast

► Section on National Security Law Breakfast: Dealing with a Resurgent Iran: Options & Strategies. Speaker: Afsheen John Radsan (William Mitchell).
8:30-10:15 a.m.

► Food Security, the Financial Crisis, and International Regulation: Perspectives from Africa. Speakers: Waheeda Amien (Cape Town, South Africa), Daniel D. Bradlow (American), Erika George (Utah), Carmen G. Gonzalez (Seattle), IntLawGrrl guest/alumna Lisa R. Pruitt (California-Davis) (below right). Moderator: IntLawGrrl guestalumna Penelope Andrews (Valparaiso)(above left).

► Working on the Wild Side: Wildlife and Animal Law. Speakers: Taimie L. Bryant (UCLA), David S. Favre (Michigan State), Katherine Anne Meyer (Meyer Glitzenstein & Crystal, Washington, D.C.). Moderator: Rebecca J. Huss (Valparaiso).

► Tribal Nation Economics and Legal Infrastructure. Speakers: Helaman S. Hancock (Coeur D’Alene Tribe), Robert J. Miller (Lewis and Clark), Judith V. Royster (Tulsa). Moderator: Angelique A. EagleWoman (Idaho).

► Is Halakha Jewish Law?

10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

► Reforming the Institutional Structure of Financial Regulation. Speakers & Commentators: Jose M. Gabilondo (Florida International), Anna Gelpern (American), Erik F. Gerding (New Mexico), Jeffrey N. Gordon (Columbia), Julie A. Hill (Houston), Daniel Schwarcz (Minnesota).

► Hard Sell: Job Search Strategies for Non U.S. LL.M. Graduates and for J.D. Graduates Wanting to Practice International Law in Local/Regional Job Markets. Speakers: Charles D. Cramton (Cornell), Valeria Elliott (Denver), Timothy M. Henderson (Holland & Hart, Denver), Clara Solomon (New York University). Moderator: Cynthia Adams, Indiana-Indianapolis).

► Barbarians at the Gate (or Within?): New Developments in the Detention and Prosecution of Terrorist Suspects. Speakers: Baher Azmy (Seton Hall), Erwin Chemerinsky (California-Irvine), Robert M. Chesney (Texas), David D. Cole (Georgetown), IntLawGrrl guest/alumna Mary Ellen O’Connell (Notre Dame) (left), Stephen I. Vladeck (American). Moderator: Michael J. Kelly (Creighton).
► The Transformative Effect of International Initiatives on Lawyer Practice and Regulation: A Case Study Focusing on FATF and Its 2008 Lawyer Guidance. Speakers: James Thuo Gathii (Albany), Thomas D. Morgan (George Washington), Ellen S. Podgor (Stetson), Kevin L. Shepherd (Venable LL.P., Baltimore), Colin Tyre (Arnot Manderson Advocates, Scotland). Moderator: IntLawGrrl guest/alumna Laurel Terry (Pennsylvania State) (right).

2:15-4 p.m.

► Transformative Scholarship - Presidential Program I. Speakers: Dana Berliner (Institute for Justice, Virginia), Richard A. Epstein (Chicago), Neal K. Katyal (Deputy U.S. Solicitor General), Charles Swift (Swift & McDonald, Seattle), Catharine A. MacKinnon (Michigan), Maria T. Vullo (Paul, Weiss LLP). Moderator: Robert C. Post (Yale).

4-5:45 p.m.

► Empiricism and Transformations in International Law - Joint Program of Sections on International Law and Law and the Social Sciences. Speakers: Susan D. Franck (Washington and Lee; topic: international economic law), John Hagan (Northwestern; topic: genocide/international criminal law; Susan Block Lieb (Fordham; topic: international bankruptcy law), Gregory Shaffer (Minnesota; topic: World Trade Organization dispute settlement). Co-moderators: this IntLawGrrl, Diane Marie Amann (California-Davis; Chair, Section on International Law) and Katherine Barnes (Arizona; Chair, Section on Law and the Social Sciences).
► Food, Law and Values. Speakers: Bret C. Birdsong (Nevada-Las Vegas), Donna M. Byrne (William Mitchell), James Ming Chen (Louisville), Marne Coit (Coit Consulting, Arkansas), Neil D. Hamilton (Drake), Gregg W. Kettles (Mississippi), Guadalupe T. Luna (Northern Illinois), Margaret E. Sova McCabe (Franklin Pierce), Susan Schneider (Arkansas-Fayetteville), Stephanie Tai (Wisconsin), Thomas Wilson (Alabama A&M).
► Adjudication in Immigration Law: Concerns and Realities. Speakers: Mathilde Cohen (Columbia), Jill E. Family (Widener), Michael C. McGoings (Immigration Judge), IntLawGrrl Jaya Ramji-Nogales (Temple) (left). Moderator: Lenni Beth Benson (New York Law).
► Habeas Corpus in War and Peace in the 18th and 19th Centuries. Speakers: Paul Finkelman (Albany), Eric M. Freedman (Hofstra), William E. Nelson (New York University). Commentator: Robert J. Cottrol (George Washington). Moderator: John P. Reid (New York University).

► The New Anti Poverty Advocacy: Constructs, Strategies, and Tactics. Speakers: Bernadette D'Souza (Southeast Louisiana Legal Services Corp.), Ron Lospennato (Southern Poverty Law Center), Jennifer J. Rosenbaum (New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice), Saket Soni (New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice). Moderator and Discussant: William P. Quigley (Loyola-New Orleans).

► Remedies in Times of Economic Crisis and Financial Scandal. Speakers: John C. Coffee Jr.(Columbia), Lisa M. Fairfax (George Washington), Jack B. Jacobs (Justice, Supreme Court of Delaware), Andrew Kull (Boston University), Russell L. Weaver (Louisville). Moderator: Caprice L. Roberts (West Virginia).

Saturday January 9, 2010

7-8:30 a.m.

► How to Publish International Law Textbooks and Other International Law Teaching Materials: American Society of International Law Teaching International Law Interest Group Breakfast, cosponsored by Section on International Law

► University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law Breakfast for International Law Faculties

8:30-10:15 a.m.

► Climate Change and Legal Education: It’s Getting Hot in Here. Speakers: Maxine Burkett (Hawaii), Michael B. Gerrard (Columbia), Maxine I. Lipeles (Washington University), John C. Nagle (Notre Dame). Moderator: Douglas A. Kysar (Yale).

► New Voices in Human Rights Panel of the Section on Human Rights, chaired by IntLawGrrl Christiana Ochoa (below right). Speakers: Thomas M. Antkowiak (Seattle), Samuel P. Baumgartner (Akron), Robert C. Blitt (Tennessee), Jernej Letnar Cernic (European University Institute), Caroline Davidson (Willamette), IntLawGrrl Connie De La Vega (U. San Francisco) (above left), Gregory S. Gordon (North Dakota), Sital Kalantry (Cornell), Lillian Aponte Miranda (Florida International), David Pimentel (Florida Coastal).

► Beyond Theory, Beneath the State: Islamic Legal Counseling, Mediation and Arbitration. Speakers: Michael Jay Broyde (Emory University), Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo (Shariah Capital Inc., Connecticut), Talal Y. Eid (Islamic Institute of Boston), Anver Emon (Toronto). Moderator: Sadiq Reza (New York Law).

► A New Look at Old Age: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Law and Aging. Speakers: A.K. Dayton (William Mitchell), Rebecca Dresser (Washington University), Leslie P. Francis (Utah), Nina A. Kohn (Syracuse), Fusako Seki (Yokohama National University, Japan).
►The Future of OSHA Reform. Speakers: Susan Bisom-Rapp (Thomas Jefferson), Jarod S. Gonzalez (Texas Tech), John Howard (Centers for Disease Control), Jayesh Rathod (American). Moderator: Paul M. Secunda (Marquette).

10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

► Hot Topic Program: The Transformation of U.S. Interrogation Policy
Speakers: this IntLawGrrl, Diane Marie Amann (California-Davis) (below right), Julian G. Ku (Hofstra), Sanford Levinson (Texas), Nathan A. Sales (George Mason). Moderator: Michael William Lewis (Ohio Northern).
►Climate Change and Adaptation in a Federal System. Speakers: Vicki Arroyo (Georgetown), Robin K. Craig (Florida State), Daniel A. Farber (California-Berkeley), Victor B. Flatt (North Carolina). Moderator: Alejandro E. Camacho (Notre Dame).

►The Future of Summary Judgment (Iqbal Case). Speakers: Edward J. Brunet (Lewis and Clark), Stephen B. Burbank (Pennsylvania), Linda S. Mullenix (Texas), Adam N. Steinman (Cincinnati), Suja A. Thomas (Illinois). Moderator: Ronald G. Aronovsky (Southwestern).
1:30-3:15 p.m.

►Transforming National Security Law: Comparative Perspectives. Speakers: Robert M. Chesney (Texas), Jacques de Lisle (Pennsylvania), Russell A. Miller (Washington & Lee), Kim Lane Scheppele (Pennsylvania), Thomas Kwasi Tieku (Toronto). Moderator: Michael J. Kelly (Creighton).

►Law and Anthropology: The Intersection of Law, Culture and Religion. Speakers: Rebecca R. French (Buffalo), Frank S. Ravitch (Michigan State), Melissa L. Tatum (Arizona). Moderator: Elizabeth A. Kronk, University of Montana).

► Black Leadership in the Wake of the Obama Election. Speakers: Randall L. Kennedy (Harvard), Heinz J. Klug (Wisconsin), Sylvia Lazos (Nevada-Las Vegas), Terry Smith (DePaul). Moderator: Guy Uriel E. Charles, Duke).
►LL.M.s and J.D.s Together: Synergies and Problems. Speakers: Kevin L. Cole (San Diego), Dorsey D. Ellis Jr. (Washington University), Diane L. Fahey (New York Law), Jennifer Kowal (Loyola), G. Ray Warner (St. John’s). Moderator: Michael B. Lang (Chapman).
3:30-5:15 p.m.

► Law, Economics and Catastrophes. Speakers: Michelle E. Boardman (George Mason), Katherine M. Porter (Iowa). Moderator: Margaret Friedlander Brinig (Notre Dame).

► Analysis of the Legal Education Systems Among NAFTA Countries Section on North American Cooperation. Speakers: Bruce P. Elman (Windsor, Canada), Luis Fernando Pérez Hurtado (Monterrey, Mexico), Mark E. Wojcik (John Marshall). Moderator: Josè Roble Flores Fernandez (Monterrey, Mexico).

► Biolaw: Biology Invading and Transforming The Law. Speakers: June Rose Carbone (Missouri-Kansas City), James Ming Chen (Louisville), Oliver R. Goodenough (Vermont), Michele Goodwin (Minnesota), Christopher M. Holman (Missouri-Kansas City), Jonathan Kahn (Hamline), Eileen M. Kane (Pennsylvania State), Radhika Rao (California-Hastings), Andrew W. Torrance (Kansas).
► Open Program on Globalization and Corporate Social Accountability
► Open Program on South Asia
6:30-7:30 p.m.
► AALS Reception for Legal Educators From Law Schools Outside the United States

Sunday, January 10, 2010

9-10:45 a.m.

► Cross-Currents in International Law, Human Rights Law and National Security Law
Section on Co-Sponsored by the Sections on International Law, International Human Rights Law, and National Security Law. Paper Presenters: IntLawGrrls guest/alumna Cindy Galway Buys (Southern Illinois, left; paper: “The Untold Story of Nottebohm and the U.S.-Latin American Detention Program and Its Lessons for Today”), Eugene Kontorovich (Northwestern; paper: “‘A Guantánamo on the Sea’: The Difficulties of Fighting and Prosecuting Pirates and Terrorists”), Michael P. Malloy (Pacific McGeorge; paper: “Caught in the Cross-Currents: International Economic Sanctions in Contemporary Practice”), Milena Sterio (Cleveland-Marshall; paper: “The Modern-Day Right to Intervene Under International Law”). Moderator: this IntLawGrrl, Diane Marie Amann (California-Davis; Chair, Section on International Law). Discussants: Erika George (Utah), IntLawGrrl Stephanie Farrior (Vermont) (right), Linda A. Malone (William and Mary), Peter S. Margulies (Roger Williams), William B.T. Mock Jr. (John Marshall), IntLawGrrl Hari M. Osofsky (Washington and Lee) (right), IntLawGrrl Jaya Ramji-Nogales (Temple), Gregory C. Shaffer (Minnesota), John Cary Sims (Pacific McGeorge), and Scott Sullivan (Louisiana State).

► Originalism and Admiralty Law
Speakers: Robert Force (Tulane), Andrew Kent (Fordham), Garrick B. Pursley (Texas). Moderator: Joseph W. Dellapenna (Villanova).

9 a.m.-12 noon
► The Financial Collapse and Recovery Effort: What Does It Mean For Corporate Governance? Speakers: Stephen M. Bainbridge (UCLA), Alan L. Beller (Cleary, Gottlieb LLP), Jeffrey N. Gordon (Columbia), Renee M. Jones (Boston College), Hillary A. Sale (Washington University), Teresa Tritch (New York Times Magazine). Moderator: Lisa M. Fairfax (George Washington).

► The Role of Law Schools and Law School Leadership in a Changing World. Speakers: Michael Coper (Australian National University), Claudio Grossman (American), Aalt Willem Heringa (Maastricht, the Netherlands), Chuma C. Himonga (Cape Town, South Africa), Carl C. Monk (Washburn), Elizabeth R. Parker (Pacific McGeorge), Mónica Pinto (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina), Cheng Han Tan (National University of Singapore), Francis SL Wang (Kenneth Wang School of Law, China). Moderator: Louis F. Del Duca (Pennsylvania State).

► The Freedom of Religion and Belief Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights: Legal, Moral, Political and Religious Perspectives
Speakers: Zachary R. Calo (Valparaiso), Peter G. Danchin (Maryland), W. Cole Durham Jr. (Brigham Young), Carolyn Evans (Melbourne, Australia), Malcolm Evans (Bristol, England), Gerhard Robbers (Trier, Germany). Moderator: Brett Gilbert Scharffs (Brigham Young).

See you there!

Write On! National security @ AALS

(Write On! is an occasional item about notable calls for papers.) The Section on National Security Law of the Association of American Law Schools is calling for papers for AALS' 2010 Annual Meeting this January in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The papers will be presented at the Section's session entitled "Barbarians at the Gate (or Within?): New Developments in the Detention and Prosecution of Terrorist Suspects," to be held from 10:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. on Friday, January 8, 2010.
The Section's call begins:

After waging the Global War on Terror for almost a decade, the United States has detained and/or prosecuted numerous foreign and domestic terrorist suspects in varied venues and under disjointed trial processes, depending upon the national status or foreign allegiance of the individual suspect, circumstances of capture, or applicability of the Geneva Conventions. The Obama Administration appears committed to bring order to the delivery of justice for those who find themselves detained and to regularize their treatment.

To aid the panel's exploration of these issus, the Section (on whose Executive Committee yours truly is proud to serve) seeks papers on any related subject. At least one panel member will be selected from the call. Submissions from junior scholars, minorities, and women are particularly encouraged. The selected paper will be published in the Journal of National Security Law & Policy, the Section’s peer-reviewed journal.

Deadline for submission of papers and/or abstracts of at least 750 words (in PDF or Word format, sent to Professor Mary-Rose Papandrea, Boston College, at maryrose.papandrea@bc.edu) is Friday, September 25, 2009. Any questions about the call itself should be directed to Section Chair, Professor Michael J. Kelly of Creighton University, at MichaelKelly@creighton.edu.

(For other AALS calls for papers, check out our Write On! series)

Write On! New human rights voices @ AALS

(Write On! is an occasional item about notable calls for papers.) The Section on on International Human Rights of the Association of American Law Schools is calling for papers for AALS' 2010 Annual Meeting this January in New Orleans, Louisiana.
As it has in years past, the Section will sponsor a call-for-papers session entitled "New Voices in Human Rights"; it's scheduled for 8:30 to 10:15 a.m. on Saturday, January 9, 2010.
All faculty members whose research focuses on human rights are invited to submit abstract proposals of presentations they would like to make at the AALS annual meeting session. Deadline for submissions -- to be e-mailed in Word or PDF format to IntLawGrrl Christiana Ochoa, Section Chair, at cochoa@indiana.edu -- is September 25, 2009.

(For other AALS calls for papers, check out our Write On! series)

Write On! Intersection of national security, human rights & international law @ AALS

(Write On! is an occasional item about notable calls for papers.) Here's a chance to take part in a program -- at AALS' 2010 Annual Meeting this January in New Orleans, Louisiana -- that will examine a particularly vibrant intersection of law. It's a cooperative effort by 3 sections of the Association of American Law Schools: the Section on National Security Law, chaired by our colleague Michael J. Kelly; the Section on International Human Rights, for which IntLawGrrl Christiana Ochoa serves as Chair; and the Section on International Law, for which yours truly has that honor this year.
We three sections are calling for papers to be presented at a cosponsored program, entitled "Cross-Currents in International Law, Human Rights Law and National Security Law," to be held from 9 to 10:45 a.m. on Sunday, January 10, 2010.
Here's the key information from our call for papers:

Recent years have seen unprecedented interactions among three areas of law: Human Rights Law, International Law, and National Security Law. A Selection Committee comprising one officer of each section welcomes abstract submissions from all scholars, with preference given to authors who belong to at least one of these AALS sections. The Committee also will give preference to papers that highlight the cross-section among two or more of these fields, and will endeavor to have a cross-section of such cross-currents represented at the session.

(Note that you do not need to claim status as a "junior" scholar in order to respond.)

Deadline for submission of abstracts no longer than 5 doublespaced pages -- e-mailed in Word or PDF format to Professor Kelly at MichaelKelly@creighton.edu -- is Friday, September 18, 2009.

Please join us!

(For other AALS calls for papers, check out our Write On! series)

Write On! Global finance @ AALS

(Write On! is an occasional item about notable calls for papers.) The Section on Financial Institutions and Consumer Financial Services of the Association of American Law Schools is calling for papers for AALS' 2010 Annual Meeting this January in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Sought are papers to be presented at the Section's session entitled "Reforming the Institutional Structure of Financial Regulation," to be held from 10:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. on Friday, January 8, 2010. The call, available in full here, states in part:

As the international community struggles to manage the current global financial and economic crisis, policymakers around the globe have proclaimed their commitment to domestic and international regulatory reform. There is widespread agreement that the current framework for financial regulation is ill-suited for promoting efficient financial markets or for preventing crises. In April of 2009, the G-20 countries expressly committed to strengthening their domestic financial regulatory regimes. In the US, the Obama Administration has stated that it intends to adopt significant reforms in the near- and medium-term. ... This program will evaluate the reform agendas articulated by the official sector in the US and abroad in light of the broader discussion about financial regulation among commentators, industry, and academics. ...

The Section invites pertinent manuscripts, particularly from junior faculty members, for possible presentation at the session. Deadline for submission -- to program chair Adam Feibelman, University of North Carolina, adam.feibelman@unc.edu -- is August 24, 2009.

(For other AALS calls for papers, check out our Write On! series)