Go On! Crimes against humanity experts meet

(Go On! is an occasional item on symposia of interest) Dozens of international criminal law experts will gather in St. Louis, Missouri, next week for a meeting on the Crimes Against Humanity Initiative about which we posted a while back. Spearheading the 2-year project aimed at drafting a multilateral treaty codifying the proscription against crimes against humanity is our colleague Leila Nadya Sadat, Henry H. Oberschelp Professor of Law and Director of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at Washington University School of Law, which is sponsoring the experts' meeting along with the American Branch of the International Law Association and the American Society of International Law.
As is detailed in the agenda, crimes-against-humanity topics that will be examined include:
► Legal, social, and historical context;
► Legal issues;
► New conceptual paradigms; and
► Enforcement issues.
Participants include Sadat, of course, as well as the following IntLawGrrls and IntLawGrrl guests/alumnae: yours truly, Kelly Askin, Valerie Oosterveld, Diane Orentlicher, and Naomi Roht-Arriaza. Among the many other experts taking part in the closed roundtable discussion include: M. Cherif Bassiouni, chief drafter of the draft treaty; former international prosecutors Richard Goldstone (ICTY), David Crane (Special Court for Sierra Leone), and Whitney R. Harris (Nuremberg); Clint Williamson and David Scheffer, current and former U.S. Ambassadors at Large for War Crimes Issues; ASIL Executive Director Elizabeth Andersen; and Africa Legal Aid Executive Director Evelyn Ankumah. The complete list is here.

On the Job! Whitney Harris World Law Institute

(On the Job! pays occasional notice to interesting intlaw job notices) From Washington University School of Law -- courtesy of our colleague, Professor Leila Nadya Sadat, who serves as Director of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at the school -- comes news that the Institute is accepting applications for the position of Executive Director and Cash Nickerson Fellow.
Duties that the ED/Fellow will perform, under the supervision of the Faculty Director, will include:
►responsibility for all aspects of the Institute’s operation, including budget analysis and preparation, fundraising and grantwriting, and publicity;
►development of programming and a strategic plan; and
►considerable work on the Institute’s Crimes Against Humanity Initiative (about which IntLawGrrls posted here). Work on this project will include legal research, writing, and fundraising; assisting with 3 international conferences; a publication; and the drafting and promulgation of a model treaty.
The ideal candidate will possess:
►a J.D. degree;
►international experience -- preferably, prior work in human rights, in international criminal law or at the United Nations;
►fundraising experience; and
► an ability to converse in one or more languages other than English.
To apply for this position (initially to be for a term of 2 years), submit a cover letter, c.v., references, and a writing sample to Sharon Strathman, by post at Dean’s Office, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, One Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1120 Saint Louis, Missouri 63130-4438, or by email at strathms@wustl.edu. Deadline is December 1, 2008.

An ILSA 1st: President Leila Nadya Sadat

Delighted to announce that by unanimous agreement the International Law Students Association's selected our colleague, Leila Nadya Sadat (left), as its new President. She becomes the 1st woman to head ILSA, the Chicago-based international organization best known for running the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.
Leila is the Henry H. Oberschelp Professor of Law at the Washington University School of Law and Director of the Whitney R. Harris Institute of Global Legal Studies, both in St. Louis, Missouri. She specializes in international criminal law and human rights. She served as a delegate to the 1998 diplomatic conference at which the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court was adopted, and also as a member of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Thanks for the tip are due our colleague Mark E. Wojcik of The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, who's just launched the latest addition to the blogosphere, International Law Prof Blog (along with the new Netherlands-based ECHR Blog, profiled here). Joining Mark are Cindy Galway Buys, law professor at Southern Illinois University, and Michael A. Peil, Assistant Dean at Wash. U. Welcome!
And to Leila, heartfelt congratulations!