Go On! IntLawGrrls at AALS

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

The Association of American Law Schools will be holding its 2011 annual meeting in San Francisco from January 5-8th. This year's theme is: Core Educational Values: Guideposts for the Pursuit of Excellence in Challenging Times.

If you are attending, be sure to check out IntLawGrrls and IntLawGrrl guests/alumnae in action. As detailed in the annual meeting program, they are:

Wednesday, Jan 5th

► At 2:00 pm, Afra Afsharipour will be speaking at the Law and South Asian Studies Section's panel: Lawyers as Social Change Agents in South Asia.

► Also at 2:00, Michele Bratcher Goodwin will speak on the Biolaw Section's panel: Synthetic Biology Meets the Law, and Penelope Andrews will moderate the Africa Section's panel: U.S. Africa Policy at the Midpoint of President Obama's First Term.

Thursday, Jan. 6th

► At 9:00 am, Stephanie Farrior, Hari M. Osofsky, Christiana Ochoa, Annecoos Wiersema, Leila Nadya Sadat, and Cindy Galway Buys will be participating in the International Law Section's panel: International Law Year in Review.

► At 2:00, Penelope Andrews will be speaking on the Constitutional Law Section's panel: American Constitutionalism in Comparative Perspective.

► At 2:30 pm, Lisa R. Pruitt will take part in a panel on Class, Socio-Economics, and Critical Analysis.

Friday, Jan. 7th

► At 8:30 am, Caroline Bettinger-López and Alexandra Huneeus will present at the
New Voices in Human Rights panel of the Section on International Human Rights.

► At 10:30 am, yours truly, Rebecca M. Bratspies, and Hari M. Osofsky will be participating in the Hot Topics panel: The BP Blowout Oil Spill and Its Implications.

► Also at 10:30, Laurel S. Terry will be speaking on the Education Law Section's panel: Immigration and Higher Education.

► At 4:00, Michelle Oberman will be speaking on the Law, Medicine and Health Care Section's panel: Women's Choices, Women's Voices: Legal Regimes and Women's Health.

Saturday, Jan. 8th is an action-packed IntLawGrrls day:

► At 7:00 in the morning, Laurel S. Terry will be speaking at the AALS Workshop and Continental Breakfast for 2010 and 2011 Section Officers.

► At 8:30 am, yours truly, Rebecca M. Bratspies, will be speaking on the Animal Law Section's panel: Treatment and Impact of Farmed Animals.

► At 1:30 pm, Elizabeth L. Hillman will be speaking on the National Security Section's panel: The Relationship Between Military Justice, Civil/Military Relations and National Security Law.

► Also at 1:30 pm, Jenia Iontcheva Turner will be speaking on the Comparative Law Section's panel: Beyond the State: Comparative Approaches to Group Political Identity in the Age of the Transnational.

► At 3:30 pm, Christiana Ochoa, will be moderating the International Law Section's panel: Was Medellin Wrongly Decided?

► Also at 3:30 pm, Jennifer Kreder will speaker on the Section on Law and Anthropology panel entitled The Role of Cultural Property Across Cultures and Legal Regimes.

As always, I am struck by the wide range of interests that our fearless leader Diane Marie Amann has brought together under the IntLawGrrls umbrella.

FYI: Because the Hilton is embroiled in a labor dispute with UNITE HERE, Local 2 (the hotel's workers have been working without a contract for over a year), registration and most of the AALS events have been moved to other nearby hotels. There may be other last-minute changes, so be sure to go by the locations in the schedule you receive at check-in rather than the brochure that circulated last month. See you in San Francisco.

(credit for 2010 poster of San Francisco by Kevin Dart)

Exciting International Law Events in Minneapolis This Week

If you are in or near the Twin Cities this coming week, there will be lots of exciting international law events to see (in addition to our first winter snow!). The Minnesota of Journal of International Law is hosting International Law Week, which culminates in a very exciting conference on International Economic Law in a Time of Change co-sponsored by ASIL Midwest, the ASIL International Economic Law Interest Group, the University of Minnesota Law School, and the Minnesota Journal of International Law and co-chaired by my former colleague & intlawgrrl Washington and Lee University Professor Susan Franck and my new colleague Professor Greg Shaffer.
The events include:
--Monday, at 12:15 pm, Panel on Practicing International Law
--Tuesday, 1-3 pm, Conference on Foreign-cubed Securities Litigation After Morrison v. National Australia Bank and the Dodd-Frank Act which features NAB Lead Counsel George Conway III and my new colleague Professor Richard Painter in Auerbach Commons
--Wednesday, 11:30 am - 1 pm, Professor Daniel Bodansky of ASU University will present a lecture hosted by the University of Minnesota's Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Science with interdisciplinary commentary from my new colleagues Professor Brad Karkkainen, Professor Katherine Klink (geography), and me at the Mississippi Room of the Coffman Memorial Union
--Wednesday, 7 pm, World Music Karaoke Fundraiser sponsored by the International Negotiation Project
--Thursday-Friday, ASIL/MJIL Conference "International Economic Law in a Time of Change: Reassessing Legal Theory, Doctrine, Methodology and Policy Prescriptions" at the University of Minnesota Law School, which features keynotes by Professor Jose Alvarez of NYU University, Ricardo Ramirez of the World Trade Organization Appellate Body, and IntLawGrrl guest/alumna Professor Beth Simmons of Harvard University. What makes the conference particularly unique is that it engages the intersection of international economic law with a wide range of substantive areas through 14 panels with approximately 60 geographically diverse speakers from academia, practice, and government. I was originally going to list all the female speakers, but the conference organizers have done such a good job of making the presenters both excellent and diverse by every measure, that I'd have to feature about half of the participants in a very long list to do so. If you can't make it in person, you can also view the live feed online.
Please come participate in all the fun and congratulations to all of the organizers of these exciting events.

Climate Change: A View from South Carolina

I just spent the last couple of days participating in a very interesting conference at the University of South Carolina organized by Prof. Cinnamon Carlarne (pictured left), who also has recently published a thoughtful book with Oxford University Press that compares U.S. and European climate change law. She brought together a geographically diverse group which included people from multiple disciplines in academia and from practice to analyze how to make progress on climate change in the current climate. The conference was organized by legal scale (international, national, regional), but each panel was also designed to analyze the issues at its level of governance in interaction with other levels. The conversation additionally included very interesting informal break-out sessions that brought together the speakers and participants to discuss cross-cutting issues of interest.
The conference modeled the kind of dialogue that is needed to move things forward on climate change. It grappled with the deeply intersectional nature of the problem and law’s interaction with it. And to have this dialogue in South Carolina--a state that faces complex issues around both mitigation and adaption in a region that grapples with both at-risk coastlines and strong anti-regulatory sentiments—was particularly compelling. Congratulations Cinnamon!

Dispatch from Oslo

As Beth van Schaack posted earlier today, the University of Oslo is currently hosting The Creation of International Law: An Exploration of Normative Innovation, Contextual Application, and Interpretation in a Time of Flux. This two day conference brings together acclaimed women scholars from around the world to explore challenges relating to the creation and elaboration of international law.
Catharine MacKinnon (left) began the conference with a brilliant keynote address focusing on the trajectory of the crime of rape from its conceptual origin as a crime against an individual into a gender-based crime into an international crime. She gave a brilliant exposition of the reflexive relationship between conceptions of gender in domestic and international law. Organized by Prof. Cecilia Bailliet, an IntLawGrrls guest/alumna, the conference has been a showcase for IntLawGrrl talent.
IntLawGrrls Fiona de Londras, Karima Bennoune and Beth van Schaack presented papers today on varying aspects of international criminal law. On tomorrow's roster are IntLawGrrls Hari M. Osofsky and me, Rebecca Bratspies, both speaking about international environmental law.
The papers from the conference will be published.

The Creation of International Law

Greetings from Oslo, where a number of IntLawGrrls (members, guests, and alumnae) are participating in a conference organized by Cecilia Bailliet and others at the University of Oslo Faculty of Law on The Creation of International Law: An Exploration of Normative Innovation, Contextual Application, and Interpretation in a Time of Flux.

Participants include the following women in international law (IntLawGrrls have a * next to their names):

► Henriette Aasen - University of Bergen
► Montserrat Abad - Carlos III University of Madrid
► Sumudu Atapattu (above left) - University of Wisconsin
► * Karima Bennoune (left) Rutgers School of Law, Newark
► * Rebecca M. Bratspies (right, in black) - CUNY School of Law
► Catherine Brölmann (below, in blue) - University of Amsterdam


►* Doris Buss - Carleton University
► Rosemary Byrne (right, with scarf) - Trinity College Dublin
► Christine Byron - Cardiff Law School (below left, in purple)
►* Hilary Charlesworth (below, in white) - Australian National University

► *Fiona de Londras (below) - University College Dublin
► Katherine Del Mar (below right) - University of Geneva
► Malgosia Fitzmaurice - Queen Mary University of London School of Law
► Anne Hellum - University of Oslo
► Agnieszka Jachec-Neale (below right, in front of window) - School of Oriental and Asian Studies
► Edda Kristjansdottir - Amsterdam Law School
► Catharine MacKinnon - Harvard Law School/U. Michigan Law School
► Claudia Martin - AU Washington College of Law
► *Fionnuala Ni Aoláin - U. Minnesota School of Law
► Phoebe Okawa (right) - Queen Mary University School of Law
► *Hari M. Osofsky - U. Minnesota School of Law
► Inger Johanne Sand - University of Oslo
► Kirsten Sandberg (right, in green) - University of Oslo
► Birgit Schlütter - Norwegian Center for Human Rights
► Hitomi Takemura - NUI Galway & Kyusha International University
► * Beth Van Schaack - Santa Clara University School of Law
► Maria Varaki - PhD candidate, NUI Galway; Irish Centre for Human Rights

Stay tuned for additional postings from the conference.

Go, 'Grrls!

Proud to announce:
► Hari M. Osofsky (right), a charter member of IntLawGrrls, has accepted a tenured offer to join the faculty at the University of Minnesota Law School in Minneapolis. She looks forward to becoming a part of work there in environmental law and related fields.
► IntLawGrrls' international trade expert, Marjorie Florestal (left), likewise is enjoying her newly tenured-law-professor status at University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, California.
► IntLawGrrls guest/alumna Caroline Bettinger-López (right) will begin a tenure-track appointment as Associate Clinical Professor at the University of Miami School of Law on July 1, 2010, and will launch a new Human Rights Clinic there, for which she will serve as Director, at the beginning of next year. The clinic will focus on transnational/international human rights litigation and advocacy, including work before the Inter-American human rights system and the United Nations, and will also support social and economic justice campaigns and human rights advocacy in South Florida.

Heartfelt congratulations, 'Grrls!

Rule of Law, Environmental Clinics, Justice, and Academic Freedom

At Washington and Lee University School of Law’s commencement ceremony last weekend, ABA President Carolyn Lamm made a call for the critical role of lawyers in forwarding justice. Talking about the rule of law, in particular, she said: “it is not just the rule of law that we are called upon to strengthen but the rule of just law.”
Her remarks made me reflect upon the current attacks on U.S. clinical legal education, and especially environmental clinics, by state legislatures in light of my experiences helping to develop clinical legal education in China almost ten years ago. As a Yale-China Legal Education Fellow at Sun Yat-Sen University’s law school, I taught civil rights law and helped the school launch its first legal clinic, which focused on labor law. The Ford Foundation has played a critical role in launching clinical legal education programs around the world, including in both the United States and China.
During my time working with clinical legal education in China, I often heard this Ford Foundation clinical initative described as playing a critical role in developing the rule of law there. Because they provided students with an active learning experience and practical understanding of the law, these clinical experiences helped them to bridge the gap between school and practice. They also provided students with the chance to reflect upon professional responsibility under the guidance of their professors. Whenever I have encountered people who scoff at the notion that I was teaching law in China out of a sense that there is not meaningful law there, I describe a day I spent observing students provide legal advice to injured workers in a manner very much like what takes place in clinics in this country.
From my own experiences of clinical legal education in both countries and the stories of my students and colleagues, I am quite certain that clinics play a critical role in helping our students strengthen the “rule of just law.” As the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT), which I serve on the board of governors of, has articulated in its responses (here and here) to these clinic attacks, clinics play a crucial role in preparing our students to be ethical lawyers and in serving populations (like those injured farm workers in China) who would not otherwise be able to have needed legal assistance. When state legislatures threaten to impede the operation of these clinics, they put at risk our student’s education and law schools’ provision of a needed service to those who are disadvantaged in our society.
Moreover, these attacks are part of a broader, troubling pattern exemplified by the Virginia Attorney General’s recent request that UVA provide information on climate scientist Michael Mann. Law schools and the universities in which they are located need academic freedom in order to provide important knowledge to society and educate the next generation effectively. These attacks are wrong not simply because they are politically motivated—supported by powerful corporations facing suit by clinics or by those who disagree with climate science—but because they make it harder for universities to be places in which people learn through the free flow of ideas. If we create a climate of fear around research already being scrutinized through a peer-review system or around teaching people to provide needed representation to a broad range of clients, we undermine the ability of universities and their law schools to serve society. As our country and the world faces a broad range of vexing problems, such service is more needed than ever.

Women @ ASIL Update

Just in time for the American Society of International Law's annual conference, here's an update to Diane's earlier, comprehensive post, "Women @ ASILquater."
In addition to the IntLawGrrls bloggers and guests/alumnae and other female speakers listed in that post, there are two late-breaking panels that feature IntLawGrrls and other women:
On Thursday, March 25, from 10:45 am ­ 12:00 pm, our own Hope Lewis (pictured right) will moderate a panel entitled “The Humanitarian Crisis in Haiti: International Legal Implications.” The 2010 earthquake in Haiti is estimated to have killed 230,000 people and displaced more than 1 million, triggering a humanitarian crisis of global significance. Only a few weeks later, a massive earthquake hit Chile. This roundtable will address the international and transnational legal implications of such disasters. In particular it will emphasize international legal frameworks for preparedness and risk-reduction and the rights and treatment of internally-displaced persons (including special legal obligations toward women with children, persons with disabilities, and unaccompanied minors). Panelists will also discuss the implications of international trade and development law for long-term recovery after such disasters. Panelists include Janet Lord of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability and Claire Nelson of the Institute of Caribbean Studies.
On Friday, March 26, from 10:45am - 12:00pm, the International Refugee Law Interest Group will sponsor its first panel, entitled "Occupation and Refugee Status: State Responsibility Arising out of War, Intervention, and Prolonged Foreign Territorial Control." This session will address issues relating to the obligations of occupying powers to refugees, such as: Does an occupying power carry primary responsibility for the protection of people whose lives were specifically affected by its actions, for refugees "created" by war or intervention, irrespective of the legitimacy of those acts? Do such obligations extend beyond the time of occupation and what is the relationship between prolonged occupation and refugee status? Panelists include Susan Akram (Boston University) (pictured left) and yours truly, IntLawGrrl Jaya Ramji-Nogales. The discussion will be followed by the Interest Group's business meeting from noon until 12:30 pm.
Also, ASIL Program Committee Co-Chair and IntLawGrrl Hari Osofsky (pictured below right) reminds us not to forget the poster sessions, which include posters from emerging scholars and practitioners doing innovative work (on display during the receptions on Thursday and Friday evening).
Thursday:
► Ulrike Barten, Minorities and the Right to Internal Self-Determination ­ Facing Changes in International Law
► Kathryn Bryk Friedman, All Politics (or International Law) is Local
IntLawGrrl guest/alumnae Anna Spain (pictured below left), Integration Matters: The Emerging Architecture of International Dispute Resolution
► Linda Tashbook, Releasing Captured Documents
Friday:
► Erin Louise Palmer, The Role of International Institutions in Preventing Amnesty for Human Rights Abusers: Lessons from the Chilean Experience
► Suzanne Katzenstein, Still Safe to be King? Domestic Courts, Foreign Sovereign Immunity and Human Rights
► Katerina Novotna, Kosovo ­ Laboratory of the International Community? Role of International Law in the Re-Establishment of the Rule of Law in Kosovo
► Sa Yu, TRIPS Patent Provisions as an International Law of Innovation and Development
► Misa Zgonec-Rozej, Judicial review by the EU and Domestic Courts of the Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Regime: Counter-Terrorism, Due Process and the Search for the Golden Mean
See you next week!

Invitation: Second Annual W&L School of Law Energy, Climate, and Environment Symposium This Friday

Please join us for the second annual symposium of the Washington and Lee University School of Law’s Journal of Energy, Climate, and Environment (JECE) and the Environmental Law Society (ELS) entitled: The Intersection of Renewable Energy Development and Geoengineering. The symposium will take place on Friday, March 19, 2010, from 9 am to 5 pm in Classroom D at Washington and Lee University School of Law. The symposium will model low-carbon conferencing through having over half of the panelists participate remotely, and will be streamed live at http://law.wlu.edu/geoengineering. The event features four panels of leading scholars and policymakers, and a keynote Johnson lunchtime lecture by Professor Jonathan Cannon entitled: Acting in Uncertainty's Shadow: The Challenge of Climate Change Policy. If you plan to attend the lunchtime talk in person, please RSVP to Hari Osofsky, osofskyh@wlu.edu, so that we can reserve a box lunch for you.
In this symposium, leading scholars will grapple with the complexities of attempts to use technological innovation and transfer to address climate change. Renewable energy sources reduce our nation's dependence on foreign oil and nonrenewable energy sources, and in the process, our greenhouse gas emissions, but must be readily available and practical to provide the country with the energy it needs to continue to grow and prosper. Geoengineering is increasingly part of the policy discussion as concerns grow that our efforts at mitigation will be inadequate. However, this emerging field must contend with the potential for unexpected environmental impacts, as well as important legal and moral questions.
The first JECE/ELS symposium addressed climate change and greenhouse gas regulations facing the incoming Obama administration in 2009. We are in the process of finalizing the resulting publication from that symposium, which included a number of leading legal and social science thinkers, and served as the first meeting of a regional group of scholars working on climate change. The 2010 symposium expands on the work of the 2009 interdisciplinary project by exploring the legal, political, and social controversies surrounding the many policy initiatives focusing on the development of alternative energy sources while exploring other ways that science and technology may help in repairing our already-damaged climate. This intersection of law with science and technology poses critical ethical, environmental, national security perspectives.

Agenda

8:00-9:00 am
Symposium Registration

9:00 am-9:10 am
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Hari Osofsky, Associate Professor, Washington and Lee University School of Law

9:05-10:20 am
Panel One: Property, Economics and Clean Energy
Joel Eisen, Professor, University of Richmond School of Law
Alexandra Klass, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota Law School
Michael Vandenbergh, Tarkington Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University Law School, Co-Director, Regulatory Program, and Director, Climate Change Research Network, Vanderbilt University Law School
Moderator: Adam Scales, Associate Professor

10:30-11:45 am
Panel Two: Federalism, Energy, and Technology
Ann Carlson, Shirley Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law and Inaugural Faculty Director of the Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment, UCLA School of Law
Hari Osofsky, Associate Professor, Washington and Lee University School of Law
Erin Ryan, Associate Professor, William & Mary Law School
Moderator: Christopher Bruner, Associate Professor, Washington and Lee University School of Law

12:00–1:00 pm
Lunchtime Keynote Address and Johnson Lecture
Acting in Uncertainty's Shadow: The Challenge of Climate Change Policy
Jonathan Cannon, Blaine T. Phillips Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law, Class of 1941 Research Professor of Law, and Director of Environmental and Land Use Law Program

1:30-2:45 pm
Panel Three: Challenges of Clean Technology Implementation
Marcilynn Burke, Deputy Director, Programs and Policy, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of the Interior
Richard Hildreth, Professor, Dean's Distinguished Faculty Fellow, and Director of the Ocean and Coastal Law Center, University of Oregon School of Law
Ashira Ostrow, Associate Professor, Hofstra University School of Law
Moderator: Laura Henry-Stone, Post-Doctoral Fellow in Environmental Studies, Washington and Lee University

3:00-4:30 pm
Panel Four: Geoengineering and Ethical Challenges of Technology
Deepa Badrinarayana, Assistant Professor, Chapman University School of Law
William C.G. Burns, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Law & Policy, Santa Clara University School of Law
Cinnamon Piñon Carlarne, Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina School of Law
Maria Savasta-Kennedy, Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Externship Program, UNC School of Law
Moderator: Matt Tuchler, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Washington and Lee University

4:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Concluding Reflections
Robert Danforth, Associate Dean, Washington and Lee University School of Law
Hari Osofsky, Associate Professor, Washington and Lee University School of Law

Go On! Upcoming Symposium on Investment Treaty Disputes

(Go On! is an occasional item on symposia and other events of interest) For those of you interested in international economic law, there is an exciting event coming up at Washington and Lee University School of Law that you might want to consider coming down for following ASIL (Lexington, VA is a mere three hours from DC in a beautiful part of rural Virginia). On March 29, 2010, Washington and Lee School of Law will host a Joint Symposium with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to explore the prevention and efficient management of investment treaty disputes. W&L Law Professor Susan Franck, a leading expert in international economic dispute resolution, serves as the conference co‐organizer and has done a tremendous job putting together a very exciting conference. The conference is free and open to the public. Registration is requested no later than March 22, 2010.
The event will bring together academics, governments, practitioners, investors, representatives from international organizations and non-governmental entities from around the world. Professor W. Michael Reisman, the Myres S. McDougal Professor of International Law at Yale University, will deliver the keynote address. Other prominent investment and dispute resolution experts involved include Meg Kinnear, Secretary General of the World Bank’s International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), William K. Slate II, President and CEO of the American Arbitration Association (AAA), and Wolf von Kumberg, Legal Director and Assistant General Counsel at Northrop Grumman Corporation. There will also be representatives from States such as Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Japan, Rwanda, Thailand and the United States.

Women @ ASILquater

As we have each year since our founding (here, here, and here), IntLawGrrls is proud today to highlight women who will speak March 24-27 at the forthcoming annual meeting of the American Society of International Law.
This 104th gathering of the Society, entitled International Law in a Time of Change, kicks off with the Grotius Lecture by Antony Anghie at 4:30 p.m. on March 24, features a keynote address by State Department Legal Adviser Harold Hongju Koh at 5 p.m. March 25, the Manley O. Hudson Medal Lecture by Edith Brown Weiss (right)at 4:15 p.m. March 26, a keynote by Canada's Chief Justice, Beverley McLachlin (below left), at 5:30 March 26, and runs through March 27. All events will take place at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, 1150 22d Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. (Details and registration here.)

Delighted to see from the program that, once again, there's much diversity in topics and presenters. Virtually all panels again have at least 1 woman participating, and that many have more (those few that do not include women do not, alas, receive mention in this list). Kudos to the Program Committee Co-Chairs, IntLawGrrls' own Hari M. Osofsky and our colleagues K. Russell LaMotte and Allen S. Weiner! Particularly proud that so many persons featured are IntLawGrrls or IntLawGrrls guest alumnae -- not only Planning Committee members Rebecca Bratspies, Chimène Keitner, Hope Lewis, and Beth Van Schaack, but also, of course, Lucy Reed (right), who will conclude her 2-year tenure as ASIL President at the meeting, to be succeeded by our colleague David D. Caron.
Without further ado, here's this year's honor roll:

Thursday, March 25, 9-10:30 a.m.
► "Empirical Approaches to International Law": Elizabeth Andersen (ASIL Executive Director), IntLawGrrl Elena Baylis (Pittsburgh), Susan Franck (Washington & Lee), Janet Levit (Tulsa), and panelists; Tonya Putnam (Columbia), moderator.
►"New Thinking on Social and Economic Rights: Honoring Virginia Leary," an IntLawGrrls foremother: IntLawGrrl guest/alumna Gay McDougall (United Nations) (below, far right), Mona Rishmawi (United Nations), and Alicia Ely Yamin (Harvard), panelists; IntLawGrrl guest/alumna Barbara Stark (Hofstra), moderator.
►"International Human Rights Law, Foreign Sovereign Immunity, and National Courts": Rosanne van Alebeek (Amsterdam), Sarah H. Cleveland (Counselor to State Department) (near right), panelists.
►"Getting to Closure: Winding Up the International and Hybrid Criminal Tribunals": Tracey Gurd (Open Society Justice Initiative) and Anne Joyce (State Department), panelists; IntLawGrrl guest/alumna Valerie Oosterveld (Western Ontario), moderator.
►"Risk, Science and Law in the WTO": Tracey Epps (New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade), panelist.
►"New Voices I": Dionysia Avgerinopoulou (Columbia), IntLawGrrl guest/alumna Máiréad Enright (Cork), and Alexandra R. Harrington (McGill), panelists; Edith Brown Weiss (Georgetown), moderator.

Thursday, March 25, 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
►"Providing Global Public Goods Under International Law": Anne van Aaken (St. Gallen, Max Planck Institute), Victoria Henson-Apollonio (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research), Inge Kaul (United Nations), and Sabrina Safrin (Rutgers-Newark), panelists; IntLawGrrl Rebecca Bratspies (CUNY), moderator.
►"Extraterritoriality: Bagram and Beyond": Sabine Nölke (Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs), panelist; IntLawGrrl guest/alumna Chimène Keitner (California-Hastings), moderator.
►"Hot Topics in GATS and Human Rights": Jane Kelsey (Auckland) and Marion Panizzon (World Trade Institute), panelists.
►"Teaching International Law: Lessons from Clinical Education": Lusine Hovhannisian (Public Interest Law Initiative) and Deena Hurwitz (Virginia), panelists.

Thursday, March 25, 12:30-2:30 p.m.
► Women in International Law Interest Group Luncheon: Dinah Shelton (George Washington; Inter-American Commission on Human Rights) (left), speaker.

Thursday, March 25, 1-2:30 p.m.
► "Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Modern Challenges to Use of Force Law": Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker (Pacific McGeorge) and Hina Shamsi (NYU), panelists; IntLawGrrl guest/alumna Mary Ellen O'Connell (Notre Dame), moderator.
► "Evolving Intersections Between Treaty Law and Domestic Law": IntLawGrrl Johanna E. Bond (Washington & Lee) and Mallory Stewart (State Department), panelists.

Friday, March 26, 9-10:30 a.m.
► "International Environmental Justice: Possibilities, Limits and Tensions": Deepa Badrinarayana (Chapman) and Jennifer M. Green (Minnesota), panelists.
► "Corruption and Human Rights": Leslye Obiora (Arizona), panelist.
► "International Law 2.0": Beth Simone Noveck (Office of Science and Technology) and Renee C. Redman (Iran Human Rights Documentation Center), panelists; IntLawGrrl guest/alumna Molly Beutz Land (New York), moderator.
► "New Voices II": Neha Jain (Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law), Kimberley N. Trapp (Cambridge), and IntLawGrrl guest/alumna Julie Veroff (Oxford), panelists.

Friday, March 26, 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
► "Non-State Actors and the Emerging Climate Change Law Regime:" Elizabeth Burleson (South Dakota) and IntLawGrrl Naomi Roht-Arriaza (California-Hastings), panelists; Jaye Dana Ellis (McGill), moderator.
► "Updating the Restatement": Oona Hathaway (Yale) and 9th Circuit Judge Margaret McKeown (left), panelists.
► "Same or Different? Fighting Terrorists in the Bush and Obama Administrations": IntLawGrrl Diane Marie Amann (California-Davis) and Susan Baker Manning (Bingham McCutchen), panelists.

► "The Rising Use of International Law by African Judiciaries": Erika George (Utah), panelist; Angela M. Banks (William & Mary), moderator.
► "Preventing the Next Financial Crisis: Coordination and Competition in Global Finance": Barbara C. Matthews (BCM International Regulatory Analytics), panelist.

Friday, March 26, 12:45-2:15 p.m.
► "Reform and Restructuring at International Financial Institutions": Anne-Marie Leroy (General Counsel, World Bank), panelist.
► "Theoretical Insights at the Margins of International Law: CLS Meets TWAIL": Celina Romany (Puerto Rico Bar Association), panelist; Jeanne M. Woods (Loyola-New Orleans), moderator.
► "Family, Sex, and Reproduction: Emerging Issues in International Law": Joanna N. Erdman (Toronto), Katherine Franke (Columbia), Laura Katzive (Wellspring Advisors), and Kathleen Lahey (Queen's-Ontario); Nancy Northup (Center for Reproductive Rights), moderator.
► "War and Law in Cyberspace": Eliana Davidson (Defense Department) and Robin Geiss (International Committee of the Red Cross), panelists.
► "Implications of the Global Financial Crisis on International Trade and Investment Regimes": Elizabeth Trujillo (Suffolk), panelist.

Friday, March 26, 2:30-4 p.m.
► "Bottom-Up Strategies for Survival and Resistance: Examples from Latin America and Elsewhere": Chantal Thomas (Cornell), panelist; Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol (Florida), moderator.
► "Transnational Legal Dialogue, a Human Rights-Based Hierarchy, and the Creation of Norms": Jutta Brunnée (Toronto), IntLawGrrl guest/alumna Patricia M. Wald (former Judge, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia) (right, and Melissa A. Waters (Washington University), panelists; Erika de Wet (Amsterdam and Pretoria), moderator.

► "Remembering Tom Franck: What He Taught Us about the Recourse to Force": Rosalyn Higgins (former President, International Court of Justice) (far left), moderator.

► "ICSID in the Twenty-First Century: An Interview with Meg Kinnear" (Secretary-General, World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes) (near left).

Friday, March 26, 4:15-5:15 p.m.

► "Hudson Medal Lecture": Medal Winner Edith Brown Weiss (Georgetown).

Friday, March 26, 5:30-6:30 p.m.

► ""Keynote": Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, Supreme Court of Canada

Saturday, March 27, 9-10:30 a.m.

► "The Road Forward from Copenhagen: Climate Change Policy in the 21st Century": Ann Petsonk (Environmental Defense Fund), panelist.

► "The ICC Review Conference and Changing U.S. Policy Towards the Court": Olivia Swaak-Goldman (International Criminal Court), panelist; Leila Nadya Sadat (Washington University), moderator.

► "China and East Asia on the World Stage": Deborah Brautigam (American) and Saadia Pekkanen (University of Washington), panelists; Julia Ya Qin (Wayne State), moderator.

Saturday, March 27, 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

► "Advancing Women's Rights Internationally": Cathy Albisa (National Economic and Social Rights Initiative), Fionnuala D. Ní Aoláin (Minnesota) and Rebecca Cook (Toronto),panelists; Kamari Maxine Clarke (Yale), moderator.

► "Treaty Bodies and Beyond: The Practice and Process of Translating International Norms into Domestic Law": Susan Deller Ross (Georgetown) and Ruth Wedgwood (John Hopkins; Human Rights Council) (right), panelists; Celia Goldman, moderator.

Our Newest IntLawGrrl: Josephine Mason King-Bond

Please join me in congratulating IntLawGrrl Johanna Bond, as well as her husband J.D. King and their sons Eli and Emmet, on the birth of Josephine Mason King-Bond. Josephine was born on December 9, 2009. She weighed 7 lbs., 7 oz. and was 19.5 inches long. Both Johanna and Josephine are doing well--I've even received an email from Johanna since! Pictures coming soon.

Gitmo 'Grrls

(One in a series on Experts at Law)

As mentioned in our recent Read On! Review, a recurrent theme in IntLawGrrl Kristine A. Huskey's new book is, to quote her,

the fact that women are woefully scarce in national security law, my chosen field. I do not mean to convey that I am the only woman in this field, as there are many women writing, speaking about, and practicing nationalsecurity legal issues, specifically relating to Guantánamo ...

She continued:

[E]very one of these women will tell you that they, too, are often the only female speaker on these issues in a conference room or on a panel filled with men. The world can stand to have more women in fields that are traditionally filled by men.

(pp. iv-v) Kristine then proceeded "to name a few" of the Gitmo 'Grrls who jumped to mind. Her list is reproduced here, along with links to these women and some of their works:

► IntLawGrrl Beth Van Schaack, Santa Clara Law. Her IntLawGrrls posts are here; list of other publications is here.

► IntLawGrrl yours truly (thanks, Kristine!), University of California, Davis. My IntLawGrrls posts are here; list of other publications is here.

► Leila Nadya Sadat, Washington University. IntLawGrrls posts about her are here; publications list is here.

► Gitanjali S. Gutierrez, Center for Constitutional Rights, attorney for detainees. IntLawGrrls posts about her are here; her op-ed is here.

► Agnieszka M. Fryszman, partner at Cohen Milstein, attorney for detainees.

► Beth Gilson, attorney for detainees.

► H. Candace Gorman, attorney for detainees, whom the Chicago Tribune recently profiled. She runs 2 Gitmo blogs, here and here.

► Sylvia Royce, attorney for detainees.

► Sarah Havens, Allen & Avery, attorney for detainees.

► Becky Dick, attorney for detainees.

► Hina Shamsi, staff attorney at the National Security Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. Her ACLU blog posts are here.

► Maria LaHood, Center for Constitutional Rights.

► Opinio Juris' Deborah Pearlstein, Princeton University. IntLawGrrls posts about her are here; her OJ posts are here; her publications list is here.

► Karen J. Greenberg, New York University. IntLawGrrls posts about are her here; some publications are listed here; her newest Gitmo book is here.

► Suzanne Spaulding, Bingham Consulting Group and former Executive Director of the National Commission on Terrorism, among many other natsec posts. An op-ed by her is here.

► Kate Martin, Center for National Security Studies. Some of her publications are here.

► Sahar Aziz, formerly an associate at Cohen Milstein, now Senior Policy Advisor at Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

► Barbara Olshansky, attorney for detainees. Her books are here.

► Jennifer Daskal, formerly senior counterterrorism counsel at Human Rights Watch, now a Department of Justice attorney.

Recognition is due to many other women as well, of course. (Readers' nominations welcome!)

There are, for example, all the IntLawGrrls and guests/alumnae who have contributed posts in IntLawGrrls' "Guantánamo" series. In addition to Beth, Kristine, and I, they are Elena Baylis, Ursula Bentele, Fiona de Londras, Monica Hakimi, Lynne Henderson, Elizabeth L. Hillman, Dawn Johnsen, Michelle Leighton, Pamela Merchant, Naomi Norberg, Hari M. Osofsky, Jaya Ramji-Nogales, and Lucy Reed. Not to mention guests/alumnae Mary L. Dudziak, editor of this book, and Mary Ellen O'Connell, interviewed here, both with respect to post-9/11 issues. Or my University of California colleague Laurel E. Fletcher, co-author of this book, an empirical study of the fate of ex-detainees.

And there are also the women who shared a Quonset-like tent with Jen Daskal and me during the December '08 week that, as posted earlier, I spent observing Gitmo military commissions on behalf of the National Institute of Military Justice. (A fuller account of my visit begins at page 9 of this report, which also includes dispatches from Executive Director Michelle Lindo McCluer and other NIMJ'ers) These tentmates were: Jill Heine, Amnesty International; Stacy Sullivan, Human Rights Watch; and Devon Chaffee, Human Rights First. And don't get me started on the many women journalists I met at Gitmo, or on the women JAG lawyers whom I watched provide excellent representation of various detainees as detailed defense counsel.

Bottom line -- memo to media reps, conference organizers, anthology editors, etc.:

There are many, many women now working in the field of national security. We've given you the list; it's your job to get in touch. As we posted when a similar issue arose years ago, the key is not only having women "in" the supposedly nontraditional fields of law. It's also having them recognized as being there.

EPA grants California's Clean Air Act waiver

From the press release issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency:

EPA is granting California’s waiver request enabling the state to enforce its greenhouse gas emissions standards for new motor vehicles, beginning with the current model year. Using the law and science as its guide, EPA has taken this action to tackle air pollution and protect human health.

“This decision puts the law and science first. After review of the scientific findings, and another comprehensive round of public engagement, I have decided this is the appropriate course under the law,” said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson [left]. “This waiver is consistent with the Clean Air Act as it’s been used for the last 40 years and supports the prerogatives of the 13 states and the District of Columbia who have opted to follow California’s lead. More importantly, this decision reinforces the historic agreement on nationwide emissions standards developed by a broad coalition of industry, government and environmental stakeholders earlier this year.”

Although this resolution of the waiver dispute was expected and has a somewhat limited impact as the Obama administration brings federal standards in line with California ones, the dispute itself highlighted complex federalism issues at the heart of the Clean Air Act and efforts to regulate climate change. (Prior IntLawGrrls posts on California and climate change here, here, here, and here.) I have written about the dynamics of the waiver dispute as an example of what I term diagonal regulation (cross-cutting efforts that are simultaneously horizontal and vertical), and am currently working on an article attempting to operationalize the concept of diagonal regulation and explore its implications for the Obama administration through an in-depth analysis of motor vehicles emissions regulation.

(Cross-posted at Teaching Climate Change Law & Policy blog)