Write On! "National Security Law Advice"

(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 seeking papers to fill out the panel discussion, entitled "National Security Law Advice to the New Administration," that it will sponsors at AALS' January 2009 annual meeting in San Diego, California.
Section Chair and Syracuse Law Professor William C. Banks invites a variety of essay- and article-length treatments of the subject of advice. For instance, an author might:
► Focus on a discrete ongoing problem, such as detention and trial of accused terrorists or reform of surveillance laws;
► Offer theoretical or historical perspectives;
► Develop recommendations concerning humanitarian intervention or measures to ensure human security; or
► Engage in a memorandum-style set of recommendations across a range of national security law problems.
The author of the selected paper will join already-confirmed panelists -- Pacific McGeorge Law Dean Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, Yale Law Dean Harold Hongju Koh, and Creighton Law Professor and Section Chair-Elect Michael J. Kelly -- in a discussion to take place from 8:30-10:15 a.m. on Thursday, January 8, 2009. The selected paper also will be published, in short form in the National Security Law Report, the periodical of the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Law and National Security, and in full length, subject to the journal's final approval, in the Journal of National Security Law & Policy.
Submissions should include a cover letter confirming willingness to join the panel (with home-institution funding), a c.v., and either an abstract-with-outline or a draft article. E-mail submissions to Banks at wcbanks@law.syr.edu (with documents attached in Word, WordPerfect, or PDF) no later than August 15, 2008.

More new (Int)Law Deans

Delighted to announce that 2 more persons whose scholarship examines international/comparative/transnational law have been appointed law deans.
Appointment of my colleague Kevin R. Johnson (right) as the incoming Dean of the University of California, Davis, School of Law (Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall) became official yesterday, by vote of the university's regents. Expert in immigration and refugee law (he's a cofounder of ImmigrationProf Blog), critical race theory, and civil rights law, Kevin, our Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and the Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies, will be the 1st Latino to head a UC law school. His book How Did You Get to Be Mexican? A White/Brown Man's Search for Identity (1999) was nominated for a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award.
Earlier this month Makau Mutua (below left), with whom I've been proud to serve on the Executive Committee and Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, was named Dean of the University at Buffalo Law School, where he's been interim dean this past semester. SUNY Distinguished Professor and Floyd H. and Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar, Makau is director of the Buffalo Human Rights Center, having previously served as Associate Director of the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School. Expert in international human rights, international business transactions, and international law, his most recent book is Kenya’s Quest for Democracy: Taming Leviathan (2008). While on sabbatical in his native Kenya, Makau was appointed to chair that country's Task Force on the Establishment of a Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission.
Kevin and Makau join swelling ranks of (Int)Law Deans: those we've mentioned, like Janet Koven Levit (Tulsa), Nora V. Demleitner (Hofstra), and David Wippmann (Minnesota), and others whom we've not yet had a chance to mention, like Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker (Pacific McGeorge), Hiram Chodosh (Utah), Harold Hongju Koh (Yale), and T. Alexander Aleinikoff (Georgetown).
Have we forgotten anyone?