On August 10

On this day in ...
... 1920 (90 years ago today), in a community outside Paris, the Treaty of Sèvres was signed by representatives of the Allied Powers who'd won World War I and of the Ottoman Empire they'd defeated. By the treaty's terms the Ottoman Empire was abolished. Turkey was to give up rights to Arab Asia and North Africa, while Armenia was to become independent and Kurdistan autonomous, and Greece was to control specified regions. (credit for photo of Greek Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos signing the treaty) "Rejected by the new Turkish nationalist regime, the Treaty of Sèvres was replaced by the Treaty of Lausanne," Switzerland, the 1923 pact discussed in this post.

(Prior August 10 posts are here, here, and here.)

On June 15

On this day in ...
... 1846, U.S. Secretary of State James Buchanan (who would become U.S. President a decade later) and British envoy Richard Pakenham concluded the Oregon Treaty, which established the U.S.-Canada boundary at the 49th parallel. Dispute ensued regarding the pact's treatment of islands off the West Coast. As a result, on this same day in 1859, the killing by an American of a British pig touched off a Pig War on San Juan Island. (map credit) Joint occupation of the island thus followed, until the United States obtained undisputed possession in 1872.

(Prior June 15 posts are here, here, and here.)

Black Women Teaching International Law (II)

I'm already making a start on new posts for the "Black Women Teaching International Law" list! The first highlights Anna Williams Shavers (photo, right), Cline Williams Professor of Citizenship Chair, University of Nebraska College of Law--Lincoln. Her expertise and teaching focus on Immigration Law, International Gender Issues, and Refugee & Asylum Law.

Black Women Teaching International Law (U.S.)

Quick! Name the Black women who teach international, comparative, foreign relations, or immigration/asylum law at U.S. law schools!
A friend asked me this awhile back, but I realize now that it should be an impossible task. There should be far too many to name in a single blogpost.
It’s like asking someone to name the women in international law. We couldn’t possibly provide a comprehensive response to any such request, but IntLawGrrls includes many such voices here. See posts on
--women who are experts on international law;
--women who participated in recent meetings or the leadership of the American Society of International Law;
--or the many regular contributors and guest bloggers on IntLawGrrls.com (see list at right). Still, not enough women in international law.
The field has made some progress in the inclusion of African-American and other Black women since people like the late Professor Goler Teal Butcher, an IntLawGrrls foremother, opened new paths. (See, e.g., Henry J. Richardson, Tribute: African-Americans in International Law: for Professor Goler Teal Butcher, 37 Howard Law Journal 21 (1994) and Hope Lewis, ed., Blacks in U.S. Foreign Policy: A Retrospective (TransAfrica Forum, 1987).
Still, we “have promises to keep,/And miles to go before (we) sleep.”
I will likely inadvertently omit some obvious names, but one must begin somewhere...So, here’s a start. I hope that readers will add names in the comment section or contact me directly with updates so that there can be a “part II” (and, someday, an impossibly long list).
Special thanks to Dr. Jeremy Levitt, who organized a roundtable: “Toward an International Law of Black Women: New Theory, New Praxis” co-sponsored by ASIL and the Florida A & M University College of Law in March. Thanks as well to members of the Association of American Law Schools Minority Law Professors’ List-serv for their suggestions. Of course, this list does not include non-Global Law fields in which these scholars teach, so I've linked to their bio pages for the full story.
Adjoa A. Aiyetoro, (photo, right) Associate Professor of Law, William H. Bowen School of Law, University of Arkansas, Little Rock (International Human Rights Law, Reparations)
Michele Alexandre (photo, left), Associate Professor of Law, University of Mississippi School of Law (International Human Rights Law)
Rachel J. Anderson (photo, left), Associate Professor of Law, William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (International Law, International Human Rights, International Business Transactions), an IntLawGrrls guest/alumna.
Penelope E. Andrews (photo, below right), Professor of Law and incoming Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law (International Human Rights Law (including critical approaches to gender and race/intersectionality)) (Her IntLawGrrls guest posts are here.)
Angela M. Banks (photo, right), Assistant Professor of Law, William & Mary Law School (International Law, Immigration Law, Human Rights Law, Gender and Human Rights)
Taunya Lovell Banks (photo, left), Jacob A. France Professor of Equality Jurisprudence and Francis & Harriet Iglehart Research Professor of Law (Race, Subordination, and Citizenship)
IntLawGrrl Karen E. Bravo (photo right), Associate Professor of Law, Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis (International Law, International Business Transactions, International Trade Law, Illicit International Markets) (Her posts are here.)
Eleanor M. Brown (photo right), Associate Professor, George Washington University School of Law (U.S. Immigration and Global Development Policy)
Margaret A. Burnham (photo, below center), Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law (International Criminal Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, International Human Rights Law)

Danielle Conway (formerly Conway-Jones) (photo, left), Professor of Law, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii (International Intellectual Property Law, Comparative Intellectual Property)
Lisa A. Crooms (photo, left), Professor of Law, Howard University Law School (International Human Rights, Human Rights and Gender, Human Rights in the U.S.)
Marcella David (Photo, right), Professor of Law, Associate Dean for International and Comparative Law, University of Iowa College of Law (Public International Law, U.S. Foreign Relations Law, International Organizations, Human Rights)
Marsha A. Echols (photo, right), Professor of Law, Howard University Law School (International Law, International Business Transactions, International Sales, International Economic Law)
IntLawGrrl Marjorie Florestal (photo, left), Associate Professor of Law, Pacific McGeorge School of Law (European Union Law, International Trade and Development) (See IntLawGrrls posts here.)
Erika R. George (photo, right), Professor of Law, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah (Internaitonal Human Rights Law, International Environmental Law)
Ruth Gordon (photo, right), Professor of Law, Villanova Law School (International Law, International Trade and Investment, International Environmental Law
Linda S. Greene (photo, left), Evjue-Bascom Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Law (Sports Law (comparative and international), former member, U.S. Olympics Committee)
Tanya Kateri Hernandez (photo, right), Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law (Comparative Law (civil rights, race relations, and inheritance law), Latin American Studies, Latinos and the Law)
Lolita K. Buckner Inniss (photo, right), Professor of Law, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University (Comparative Racism & the Law--U.S./Canada, Immigration Law)
Sylvia Kang'ara (photo, right) , Professor of Law, University of Washington School of Law (International Law, Comparative Private Law)
Deana E. Lewis (photo, left), Adjunct Professor of Law, Florida A & M University College of Law (International Law and the Human Rights of Women)
Hope Lewis (photo, left), Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law (International Law, International Human Rights and the Global Economy, Transnational Dimensions of Race, Gender, and Culture) (See my IntLawGrrls posts here.)
Judge Gabrielle Kirk McDonald (photo above, top), President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (1997-1999) (has taught at several law schools, including St. Mary’s University, the University of Texas and Texas Southern University’s Thurgood Marshall School of Law).
Gay J. McDougall (photo, left), Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Washington College of Law, American University (2006-2008), UN Independent Expert on Minority Issues (International Human Rights Law, Comparative Race Relations, U.S. Foreign Relations Law) (see IntLawGrrls posts here.)
Michelle McKinley (photo, right), Assistant Professor of Law, University of Oregon School of Law (Public International Law, Immigration Law, Refugee & Asylum Law)
Odeana R. Neal (photo, below center), Professor of Law, University of Baltimore School of Law (Law and Human Rights)

Camille A. Nelson, Professor of Law, Hofstra Law School (Comparative Criminal Law, Transnational Law)
Leslye Obiora (photo, left), Professor of Law, James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona (Public International Law, International Human Rights Law)
Catherine Powell (photo, right), Associate Professor of Law, Fordham Law School (on leave at U.S. Department of State) (International Law, Human Rights, Comparative Constitutional Law
Chantal Thomas (photo, left), Professor of Law, Cornell Law School (International Law and Developing Countries, International Trade Law, Globalization and the Law)
Adrien Katherine Wing (photo, right), Bessie Dutton Murray Professor, College of Law, University of Iowa (International Human Rights Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, U.S. Foreign Relations)
Jeanne M. Woods (photo, left), Henry F. Bonura Distinguished Professor, Loyola University School of Law, New Orleans (Public International Law, International Trade Law, International Human Rights Law) More than I thought, fewer than I hoped for, but what an inspiring enterprise researching this post has been!

US ♥ international law

Well, sort of.
Consider this excerpt from the brief just filed by the United States in a Guantánamo detainee's habeas corpus case:

Petitioner cites the panel majority’s statement that the 'premise that the war powers granted by the [Authorization for Use of Military Force (2001)] and other statutes are limited by the international laws of war * * * is mistaken.' The Government agrees that this broad statement does not properly reflect the state of the law. The Government interprets the detention authority permitted under the AUMF, as informed by the laws of war. That interpretation is consistent with the Supreme Court’s decision in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (2006), and with longstanding Supreme Court precedent that statutes should be construed as consistent with applicable international law.

Pp. 1-2 (citations switched to hyperlinks).
So said the United States' response to the petition for rehearing of the ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (courthouse above right) in Al Bihani v. Obama (2010). (Prior IntLawGrrls post) Indeed, in the body of its argument (pp. 6-9), the government repeated and expanded upon its nod to international law. In so doing, it cited case law familiar to those of us who labor in this field. For example:
► Murray v. Schooner Charming Betsy (1804), a precedent from the Court of Chief Justice John Marshall, was cited for the proposition that "an act of Congress ought never to be construed to violate the law of nations, if any other possible construction remains."
► United States v. Yunis (D.C. Cir. 1991), a judgment (by a panel included then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, along with then-Chief Judge/now IntLawGrrls guest/alumna Patricia M. Wald and the opinion's author, Abner Mikva) arising out of a 1985 cross-border, terrorism-linked hijacking. Yunis was cited for the proposition that "courts will not blind themselves to potential violations of international law where legislative intent is ambiguous."
Notably, the U.S. position in this brief stands at odds with that taken in the Military Commissions Act of 2006; in section 5(a), Congress forbade anyone to "invoke the Geneva Conventions or any protocols thereto in any habeas corpus or other civil action ... as a source of rights in any court of the United States or its States or territories."
At both junctures of its Al-Bihani brief, however, United States argued that international law offers no reason to grant the detainee's petition for rehearing. Here's page 2:

[N]one of this changes the outcome ... The panel majority specifically addressed and properly rejected petitioner’s argument under international law. That unanimous ruling is correct and does not warrant rehearing or rehearing en banc.

What the government giveth ....

Rejecting the Comfort of the Familiar

I love this time of year. It's not only about the Great Awakening Springtime inevitably brings-- although I love that too! This is graduation season. It's a time when the students we have nurtured, prodded, exasperated and overwhelmed finally take what they've learned and set out on their own path. Last week, I was asked to keynote at a very special ceremony meant to honor and support students who were taking their first tentative steps in the international arena.
The ceremony took place at my home institution, The University of the Pacific, and was held to honor candidates for some of the most prestigious international fellowships--like the Fulbright and Rhodes.

I was asked to share my own experience of having completed a Fulbright and to reflect on how that experience impacted my career. After I got over the shock of recognizing I was one of "those" people -- one with a career long enough to reflect back on -- I began to consider what I would say. How did I get here? How did we get here? What possess those of us enthralled with international law to forge ahead in a world so vastly different from what we are used to?

I told those students that a successful internationalist must reject three things: the comfortable, the predictable and the familiar. There is nothing particularly comfortable or familiar about plopping yourself into a culture you hardly understand and attempting to make a worthy contribution. And when we undertake to do so, nothing is preordained; nothing is predictable. Every aspiring internationalist should have that experience. We should feel what it is like to barely speak the language, to not understand the inside jokes, to feel excluded and lonely and a stranger. We should experience getting lost and finding our way. We should feel the dawning sense of our connectedness despite language and other cultural barriers. There is something about following that path that breeds a certain openness to whatever may happen. Too many of us in the United States lack that openness.

A few weeks ago, Arizona adopted a draconian law targeting those who are different (we've posted about that here). Essentially, their difference is seen as proof of their criminality. They don't speak our language, so they must be illegal. Their hair and skin are different, so they must be aliens. The students at the Pacific ceremony will soon enough experience that sense of being foreign and alien. They are headed to such diverse countries as India and Fiji, and most of them will not blend in. But they of course will not be made into criminals by virtue of that difference.

I am so proud of these students. They are rejecting what is comfortable, predictable and familiar in favor of forging new paths to understanding. They will learn much, and they will hopefully bring back with them an increased sense of tolerance and empathy. We sorely need them.

On April 28

On this day in ...
... 1838, the namesake of a Dutch research consortium familiar to international lawyers all over -- Tobias Michael Carel Asser (left) -- was born in Amsterdam into a family of jurists. He himself became a lawyer, then began teaching law, and eventually devoted himself to international law as a professor at what became the University of Amsterdam. His belief that interstate dialogue would serve global peace led him to spearhead a number of landmark private and public international law conferences at The Hague. Asser also served as a governmental legal adviser and diplomat, inter alia as the Dutch delegate to the Hague Peace Conferences of 1899 and 1907 (prior posts here and here), and he was an inaugural member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration. On account of these contributions, Asser shared the 1911 Nobel Peace Prize; he died in 1913 at The Hague. In 1965, the law faculties of universities in Amsterdam, Groningen, Leiden, Nijmegen, Rotterdam, Tilburg, and Utrecht founded the Hague-based T.M.C. Asser Instituut in his name.


(Prior April 28 posts are here, here, and here)

Asia on our mind

"The Asian Century?"
So asked participants at yesterday's same-named conference (prior post) organized by our colleague Anupam Chander and sponsored by the Law Review at my home institution, the University of California, Davis, School of Law (Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall).
The answers were myriad, and themselves provoked questions. Indeed, participants on the panel that I had the privilege to moderate questioned the title's very premise:

'Where is Asia? When is Asia?'

Teemu Ruskola queried. To this Keith Aoki added, in effect,

'What is Asia?'

The last "American Century" and the "British Century" that preceded it were different from this notion of an "Asian Century," Keith said. Those others concerned a nation-state; this concerns a continent.

I wonder.

It is persons in the West who put forward this notional Asian Century. Who treat "Asia" as a single entity rather than a mass of entities, as an it rather than a them. Who, at times, see its rising economic power, its rising population, its politics, as potential threats.

Is it possible that those earlier centuries, named as they were with state-centric particularity, were constructs of their subject namesakes? Possible that the objects of those other centuries aggregated threats much like some of us now do "Asia"?

From the perspective of those object persons, might the 1800s and 1900s have been, simply, back-to-back Western Centuries?

Even when pondering with particularity, did the object persons of the 20th view it not as the American, but perhaps as the Russo-American, Century?

Was the British Century a construct of Britain? Might objects of that 19th Century -- persons, say, colonized in Portugal-controlled Africa -- have seen it instead as the European Century? Or perhaps as the Colonial Century, as a time defined less by geographic map and more by method of governance?

Perhaps this 21st Century aggregation says less about "Asia" than it does about our mindset -- about how some in the West seem already resigned to an object status.

That resignation may prove premature.

The final panelist, Tom Ginsburg, reminded that other such prognostications have fallen flat; for instance, past predictions that Japan, Egypt, even Sri Lanka or Burma, would win dominance. Tom's own prediction: Asia will not aggregate into a supranational entity. Some of the many countries in that part of the world indeed may attain power. But they will wield it, Tom ventured, in ways that reinforce the old, the 17th Century, model of independent, noninterference-prizing nation-states.

In store in the 2000s may be not so much an Asian Century as -- to borrow Tom's coinage -- an Eastphalian Era.

(Cross-posted at California-Davis Faculty blog)

On February 17

On this day in ...
... 1834, Spain and the United States signed a treaty in which the former paid the latter 12 million reals "for settlement of all claims" respecting territory. In the United States the pact was called the Van Ness Convention in recognition of the U.S. negotiator, "Cornelius P. Van Ness, envoy extraordinary," and father of a future mayor of San Francisco. Treaty ratifications would be exchanged at Madrid in August of the same year.

(Prior February 17 posts are here, here, and here.)

On February 16

On this day in ...
... 1933, in Geneva, Switzerland, the foreign ministers of Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia signed the Pacte d'organisation de la Petite Entente, aimed at strengthening economic and political ties among the 3 Central European countries. The treatymakers pledged to act consistently with international instruments, chief among them the Covenant of the League of Nations.

(Prior February 16 posts are here, here, and here)

On January 30

On this day in ...
... 1018, 15 years of war between Henry II, the Holy Roman Emperor, and a Polish Great Duke known as Bolesław I the Brave ended by signature of the treaty, the Peace of Bautzen, at Schloß Ortenburg (left) atop the Saxony city for which the treaty is named. As with many accords of the day, peace depended on a division of disputed lands and the claiming as wife of the daughter of another noble family -- in this case Oda von Meißen, who'd become Queen of Poland.

(Prior January 30 posts are here and here.)

On January 21

On this day in ...
... 1720 (290 years ago today), Sweden and Prussia signed the Treaty of Stockholm, in which Sweden promised to cede southern Pommern, part of a province also known as Pomerania, which had been part of northern Germany until 715, in exchange for Prussia's payment of 1 million Swedish riksdaler.

(Prior January 21 posts are here and here.)

On January 5

On this day in ...
... 1809, at what is now Çanakkale, Turkey, delegates from Britain and the Ottoman Empire signed Treaty of Peace, Commerce, and Secret Alliance commonly known as the Treaty of the Dardanelles, named after the Turkish strait depicted at right. Ratifications would be exchanged in July of the same year. The pact provided inter alia for an end to hostilities between the 2 powers, restoration of seized property, establishment of diplomatic and trade relations, and a British promise to support the Ottomans in the event of an attack by France. A point of treaty-drafting interest:

[T]he treaty is of particular interest because of its language. Normally, treaties are drawn in the language of the parties negotiating them. Because the Ottomans had a limited knowledge of English, however, they insisted that the treaty be drawn in Turkish and French, with which they were much more comfortable. This was a matter of some discussion in the foreign office, but the Ottoman position prevailed.

(Prior January 5 posts are here and here.)

Write On! International tribunals

(Write On! is an occasional item about notable calls for papers.) A bilingual, peer-reviewed journal based in the Netherlands, The Hague Justice Journal – Journal judicaire de La Haye, is seeking contributions for its 4th year of publication, on the subject of "The Relationships between the International Courts and Tribunals: Conflict and Co-operation." The call states:

The Hague is the home of numerous international courts and tribunals, including the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, as well as the ad hoc International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the newly founded Special Tribunal for Lebanon. The Special Court for Sierra Leone and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda also make use of facilities available in The Hague. How have these institutions co-operated? Have there perhaps been conflicts of competence? What are the consequences for the development of international (criminal) law of conflict or co-operation between the different courts and tribunals?

Articles of up to 10,000 words, as well as essays and casenotes of up to 3,500 words, may be e-mailed to editors@haguejusticeportal.net. Details 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!