THE AMERICAN BRANCH

of the

INTERNATIONAL LAW ASSOCIATION

presents:

International Law Weekend 2000

"International Law in the 21st Century: The United Nations and Other International Entities"

October 26 - 28, 2000

Held at the House of the Association

of the Bar of the City of New York

42 West 44th St.

New York City

All panels are open to all without charge or registration!*

* Meals require payment and advanced registration.

INTERNATIONAL LAW WEEKEND 2000 IS SPONSORED BY:

The American Branch of the International Law Association

in conjunction with:

Association of the Bar of the City of New York

American Society of International Law

American Foreign Law Association

American Bar Association

International Law and Practice Section

New York State Bar Association

International Law and Practice Section

International Law Students Association

ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law

2000 PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Kelly Dawn Askin – Chair

Jan Perlin – Vice Chair

Maria Vicien Milburn – Vice Chair

 

Jason Abrams - Cynthia Lichtenstein

Padidah Ala’i - Andreas Lowenfeld

David Barnard - Richard Lutringer

Bruce Broomhall - Ved Nanda

Christina Cerna - John Noyes

Jerome Cohen - Mary Margaret Penrose

Rhonda Copelon - Patrick Reed

Charles Curlett - Leila Nadya Sadat

Donald Francis Donovan - Michael Scharf

Valerie Epps - Bahia Tazib-Lie

Richard Falk - David Tolbert

Stefanie Frease - Brian Tittemore

Mark Kantor - Martina Vandenberg

Dorean Koenig - Mark Zaid

Alfred Rubin, President, American Branch of the ILA.

 

INTERNATIONAL LAW WEEKEND/2000

"International Law in the 21st Century: The United Nations and Other International Entities"

The sponsors of International Law Weekend/2000 invite you to participate in an exciting program for practitioners, academics, students, government officials, NGO members, and U.N. diplomats that explores the intricacies of the practice of international law, both public and private.

The three-day conference, featuring some 150 distinguished speakers on 30 panels, will be held from October 26-28, 2000, at the House of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 42 West 44th Street, NYC. Due to the generosity of its sponsors, the program is open to all without charge or advance registration, except for meal functions:

• The Friday luncheon seminars are $18 for those who want a box lunch. Without lunch, admission is free.

• The cost for the Friday evening cocktails and dinner at the Harvard Club is $80 (students: $45).

• The Saturday luncheon cost is $40 (students: $30).

Register for meals (see registration forms printed in the back of this brochure) by Monday, October 23, 2000. Refunds will not be made on registrations canceled after this date.

Conference cassettes will be available of the panels and keynote speeches at a price of $10 per panel. Tapes may be ordered in advance by filling out the form on the last page of this brochure, or purchased at the Conference.

There is no official hotel for the Conference; for your reference the nearest hotels are: Algonquin: (212) 840-6800, Iroquois: (212)840-3080, Paramount: (212)764-5500, Royalton: (212)869-4400, Mansfield: (212) 944-6050. Reservations should be made early since this is traditionally a very busy weekend.

 

 

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2000

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4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

• OPENING SESSION: "The United Nations in the 21st Century: Its Role and Potential Impact"

As the United Nations completes its 55th year, it hosted a Millennium Conference to help determine its future directions and this panel will discuss the goals of the UN in the 21st century and what efforts it intends to make and methods to employ in order to achieve its goals.

Jason Abrams, Chair, Office of Legal Affairs, United Nations
Hans Corell, Under-Secretary-General, the Legal Counsel, Office of Legal Affairs, United Nations
Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Director, UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), United Nations
Professor Thomas Franck, New York University Law School
Robert Rosenstock, Counsellor, UN Mission; Member, International Law Commission (inv)

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

• Complimentary Cocktail Reception Courtesy of the International Law and Practice Section of the American Bar Association.

 

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2000

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8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

• Complimentary Coffee and Bagels

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

• "International Humanitarian Law: Current Events in the Development of the Laws of War"

This panel will look at past and present armed conflicts and will analyze application of the laws of war to these situations, and how International Criminal Tribunals contribute to the development of the law.

Charles Curlett, Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
Professor Theodor Meron, New York University Law School; Counselor on Int’l Law to US Dept. of State
Roy Gutman, Award Winning Journalist, Newsday; co-editor of Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know; author of A Witness to Genocide
Beth Van Schaack, Morrison & Foerster
David Rohde, Award Winning Author of Endgame, on the Srebrenica massacre; Reporter, New York Times

• "The Impact of International Civil Society on the World Bank, IMF and the WTO"

This panel will explore the events that led to the confrontational protest in Seattle last year, and the impact of this on the constitutions of the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and the World Trade Organization.

Professor Padideh Ala’i, Washington College of Law, American University
Professor Daniel Bradlow, Director, International Legal Studies Program, Washington College of Law
Steve Charnowitz, Wilmer Cutler; formerly Director, Global Environment & Trade Study, Yale University
Dr. Sabine Schlemmer-Schulte, Senior Counsel, World Bank; Member, ILA on Accountability of Int’l Organizations

• "The Effect of the Globalization of the Market for Legal Services on Law Firms"

The panelists will discuss how globalization has affected their law firms specifically and legal services generally.

David Barnard, Barnard Consulting
Ed Waitzer, Chairman, Stikeman Elliot
Caird Forbes-Cockell, Managing Partner, Linklaters in the Americas
Thomas R. Smith, Jr., Managing Partner, Brown & Wood LLP

 

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM

• "The Role of Interest Groups in Investment Transactions Involving Int’l Financial Institutions"

The panel will discuss the increasing role of environmental organizations, business groups, human rights activists, labor representatives and other interest groups in individual investment transactions involving multilateral institutions.

Professor Mark Kantor, Georgetown University Law Center
Barry Metzger, Partner, Coudert Brothers
Daniel Seligman, Senior Fellow, Sierra Club Responsible Trade Program
Jon Sohn, International Policy Analyst, Friends of the Earth
Amelia Porges, Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy

• "The Proliferation of Tribunals With International Criminal Jurisdiction"

This panel will discuss the increase of tribunals prosecuting international crimes and will consider the concurrent exercise of universal jurisdiction and its consequences.

Professor Leila Nadya Sadat, Washington University School of Law
Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni, DePaul University School of Law; Chair, Drafting Committee, ICC Statute
Professor Jonathan I. Charney, Vanderbilt University Law School
Cesare Romano, Director, NYU Project on International Courts and Tribunals
Professor Michael P. Scharf, New England School of Law
Professor Edward Wise, Director, Comparative Criminal Law Project, Wayne State University Law School

 

• "Refugees and Internationally Displaced

Persons"

This panel will discuss how the law can best meet the needs of refugees and internally displaced persons.

Professor Ved Nanda, University of Denver College of Law
Professor James A. R. Nafziger, Willamette University
Luke T. Lee, Chair, ILA Committee on Internationally Displaced Persons

• "Teaching the Laws of War: Much Too Important to be Left to Military Academies"

This panel will discuss how teaching the laws of war may be most effectively presented in a law school setting and what the consequences are for having very few civilian law schools that offer this subject.

Professor Valerie Epps, Suffolk University Law School
Professor Ivan Shearer, University of Sydney; Stockton Professor of International Law, U.S. Naval War College Professor Al Rubin, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Professor Theodor Meron, New York University Law School; Counselor on Int’l Law to US Dept. of State

12:45-2:15 – BOX LUNCH SEMINARS

• "Women's Human Rights: Assessing the Impact of UN Initiatives on Discourse and Women's Reality"

This panel will discuss the ICC negotiations on elements of crimes and procedures; issues of race and culture in the U.S. and the shaping of gender/race perspectives for the World Conference on Racism; and lessons of the '+5' reviews of the Vienna, Cairo, Social Summit, and Beijing Conference.

Professor Rhonda Copelon, Director, International Women’s Human Rights Law Clinic, CUNY Law School
Professor Catherine Powell, Director, Human Rights Institute, Columbia Law School
Pamela Spees, Women's Caucus for Gender Justice
Professor Rosalind Petchesky, Political Science Dept., Hunter College, CUNY
Anita Navar, Strategic Analysis for Gender Equity

• "Smart Sanctions and Effective Remedies: Addressing Gross Violations of Human Rights"

This panel will look at various mechanisms available for redressing gross violations of human rights in the twenty-first century, especially in regards to punishment.

Professor Mary Margaret Penrose, Oklahoma University Law School
Professor Madeline Morris, Duke University Law School
Professor Mary Ellen O’Connell, Ohio State University Law School
Professor David Wippman, Cornell Law School
Prof. Susan Tiefenbrun, Thomas Jefferson Law School

• "The Draft Hague Convention on Jurisdiction and Foreign Judgements in Civil and Commercial Matters" The negotiation for a global jurisdiction and judgements convention seems to have reached an impasse, but new ideas are being circulated to revive this discussion.

Professor Andreas Lowenfeld, New York University Law School
Professor Linda Silberman, New York University .Law School
Michael Traynor, Cooley Godward LLP

• Luncheon Meeting of the Executive Committee of the American Branch of the ILA

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

• "The International Global Deficit"

This panel will examine how the United Nations is attempting to respond to the global democratic deficit and what the global community can learn from the European experience with the European Parliament. It will also discuss a proposal for a popularly elected global assembly.

Professor Richard Falk, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
Nitin Desai, U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, Former Prime Minister of Portugal and former member of European Parliament
Professor Andrew Strauss, Widener Univ. School of Law

 

• "International Arbitration: Recent Developments"

This panel will discuss the role and contribution of international organizations of different character, including ICSID, the ICC, and UNCITRAL, to the law and practice of international arbitration.

Donald Francis Donovan, Debevoise and Plimpton, NY
Joseph E. Neuhaus, Sullivan & Cromwell, New York
Lucy Reed, Freshfields, New York
Abby Cohen Smutny, White & Case, Washington DC
Lorraine M. Brennan, United States Council for International Business, New York

• "Genocide in the Past, Present & Future: Legal Developments and Moral Dilemmas"

This panel will examine the development of the law of genocide in the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda and theoretical and legal aspects of the impact of genocide on criminal justice, reconciliation, and healing.

Dr. Kelly Askin, Esq.,
Samantha Powers, Director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard University
Jerry Fowler, Staff Director, Committee on Conscience, US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Professor Payam Akhavan, Leiden University
Pierre Prosper, Legal Adviser, US Department of State

• "Compensatory and Punitive Damage Claims for Government Related Human Rights Violations"

This panel will explore the available options for victims and their families to obtain compensations from governments, both foreign and domestic, and companies that did their bidding in committing wrongful acts.

Mark Zaid, Lobel, Novins & Lamont, Washington, DC
Professor Sean Murphy, George Washington University Law School
Allan Gerson, Director, War to Peace Transitions Project, New America Foundation

 

4:15 PM - 5:45 PM

• "The World Trade Organization and Developing Countries"

This panel will consider institutional issues concerning developing country participation in WTO decision-making, problems of developing country implementation of WTO obligations, and the "trade and labor standards" and "trade and environment" debate.

Patrick C. Reed, Chair, Committee of International Trade, ABCNY; Wasserman, Schneider, Babb & Reed
Prof. Alan C. Swan, University of Miami School of Law
Prof. Frederick M. Abbott, Edward Ball Eminent Scholar in Int’l Law, Florida State Univ. College of Law
Jose Manuel Salazar, Chief Trade Advisor, Organization of American States
Avrind Subramanian, International Monetary Fund

• "The Role and Impact of International Organizations on the Development of International Law"

This panel will consider the past, present, and potential impact int’l organizations (NGOs, Intergovernmental, international law associations, etc.) have on the progressive development of international law, and what role these organizations can and should play in shaping the law.

Bruce Broomhall, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
Widney Brown, Advocacy Director, Women’s Rights Division, Human Rights Watch
Professor Lori Damrosh, Columbia Law School
Bruce Rashkow, Director, General Legal Division, Office of Legal Affairs, United Nations
Neil Kritz, United States Institute of Peace

• "International Arbitration and China"

This panel will consider further reform needed of China’s international arbitration organizations, and the enforcement of foreign and foreign-related (CIETAC) awards in China.

Jerome A. Cohen, Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind; Adjunct Senior Fellow for Asia, Council on Foreign Relations
Professor Randall Peerenboom, UCLA Law School; of Counsel, Yiwen Law Firm

 

• General Meeting of the American Branch of the International Law Association

6:15 PM – 9:30 PM

• Cocktail Reception (Sponsored by the American Society of International Law) and Dinner at the Harvard Club (27 West 44th St.) (Reservation and Prepayment Required). Keynote Speaker: Professor IVAN SHEARER, Challis Professor of International Law, University of Sydney; Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Law, US Naval War College. "A Pope, Two Presidents, and a Prime Minister: East Timor 1493-2000."

 

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2000

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8:30 AM – 9:00 AM

• Complimentary Coffee and Bagels

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM

• "Evolving Dynamics of International Intervention to End Atrocities and Secure Accountability"

This panel will analyze and compare the int’l legal and policy successes and failures of recent intervention initiatives in Kosovo, East Timor, Sierra Leone and Cambodia.

Brian Tittemore, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Organization of American States
Hansjoerg Strohmeyer, Policy Adviser, UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Professor Diane Marie Amann, University of California, Davis, School of Law
Professor Barrie McCullough, Okanagan University College of British Columbia

 

• "European Human Rights Law: The Price of Success"

This panel will explore how the European human rights system has coped with its dramatic increase in cases, with the adoption of addition protocols addressing substantive rights, and with the extension of the Court’s jurisdiction.

Professor John Noyes, California Western School of Law
Professor Karen J. Alter, Dept. of Political Science, Northwestern University
Professor Mark W. Janis, University of Connecticut School of Law
Professor Richard S. Kay, University of Connecticut School of Law
Hans Christian Krüger, Deputy Secretary-General, Council of Europe

• "The International Financial Institutions and the UN: Theory and Practice of Int’l Financial Assistance to Emerging and Transition Economies & States in Crisis"

The international financial institutions (the IMF, the World Bank) and in certain cases the UN are in effect nation building with funds and technical assistance. Since the charters of the Fund and the Bank did not originally envision the kind of restructuring that the organizations are currently engaged in, the panel will address the issues of cooperation between the Bank and the Fund and/or the division roles.

Professor Cynthia Lichtenstein, Boston College of Law
Karen Hudes, The World Bank
Sean Hagen, International Monetary Fund
Professor Ruth Wedgwood, Yale Law School

10:45 AM – 12:15 PM

• "Toward the Pursuit of International Justice"

This panel will examine the various methods of obtaining accountability for serious violations of international law in both general and specific contexts, and discuss the effect lack of accountability has on civil and global society.

Stefanie Frease, Coalition for International Justice; former Research Officer, Office of the Prosecutor, ICTY
Ralph Wilde, Trinity College, Cambridge University
Ivana Nizich, Former Intelligence/Research Officer, Office of the Prosecutor, ICTY
Professor Paul Van Zyl, Columbia University Law School
Rodney Dixon, Barrister, Gray’s Inn, London; former Legal Advisor, Office of the Prosecutor, ICTY
Mercedeh Momeni, Independent Consultant; former Legal Advisor, Chambers, ICTR

• "The European Union: New Frontiers & Challenges"

The EU is negotiating with 12 states for accession; an intergovernmental conference is discussing structural changes to accommodate new Member states; the Monetary Union has been launched and the Euro is on the horizon; plans are being made to add a serious defense component to the Common Foreign and Security Policy. This panel will discuss evolving legal, political and economic issues presented by these developments.

Richard Lutringer, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP
Professor Roger J. Goebel, Fordham Law School; Director, Center on European Union Law
Fraser Cameron, EU Delegation to the US
Professor Hugo Kauffmann, Director, European Union Studies Center, City University
Professor Glenda Rosenthal, Director, European Union Studies, Columbia School of International Affairs

• "The Inter-American Human Rights System"

This panel will analyze the most recent developments of the OAS, particularly in regards to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court on Human Rights.

Christina Cerna, Senior Specialist, International Human Rights, Organization of American States
Diego Rodriguez, Co-Director, Inter-American Human Rights Digest Project, Washington College of Law
Claudia Martin, Co-Director, Inter-American Human Rights Digest Project, Washington College of Law
Professor Douglass Cassel, Director, Center for International Human Rights, Northwestern University School of Law

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

• Luncheon With Keynote Speaker ARTHUR ROVINE, President, American Society of International Law; Baker & McKenzie, discussing "International Law in U.S. Courts" (Registration & Prepayment Required).

2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

• "Towards Achieving Justice: Truth Commissions, Trials and Amnesties"

This panel will analyze the value and efficacy of employing accountability mechanisms such as truth commissions, trials and amnesties for the purpose of reorienting societies towards achieving and maintaining a just social order. Panelists will explore various country contexts and draw conclusions from those comparative experiences.

Professor Jan Perlin, International Human Rights Law Clinic, Washington College of Law, American University
Professor Garth Meintjes, Associate Director, Center for Civil and Human Rights, Notre Dame Law School
Priscilla Hayner, Independent Writer and Consultant; Author of Unspeakable Truths: Confronting State Terror and Atrocity
Professor Ruti Teitel, New York Law School; author or Transitional Justice

• "The Death Penalty in International Law: Moratorium vs. Abolition"

This panel will focus on the current state of capital punishment in the US and in the world community, considering similarities, differences and political realities in restricting vs. prohibiting criminal justice death systems.

Professor Dorean Koenig, T. M. Cooley Law School
Virginia Sloan, Exec. Director, The Constitution Project
Ronald Tabak, Skadden, Arps, Slate, et al.; Co-Chair, ABA Death Penalty Committee
Professor John Quigley, Ohio State Univ. Law School
Enid Harlow, Amnesty International

 

• "Freedom of Religion or Belief &Vulnerable Groups"

The aim of the panel is to situate the right to freedom of religion or belief in the larger context of human rights, particularly in relation to women and religious minorities. It will also address recent developments in the US.

Dr. Bahia Tazib-Lie, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Professor Johan D. van der Vyver, Emory University School of Law
Tad Stahnke, Director of Research, US Commission on International Religious Freedom
J. Paul Martin, Executive Director, Columbia University, Center for the Study of Human Rights
Dr. Jeremy Gunn, Senior Fellow for Religion and Human Rights, Emory University

 

4:00 PM - 5:45 PM

• CLOSING SESSION: "The Convergence and Overlap of Int’l Humanitarian Law, Int’l Criminal Law and Int’l Human Rights Law"

This panel considers the increasing confluence of these three bodies of law and critiques the legal, practical and political implications of merging the bodies and the impact this has on the development of international law, including on UN bodies and domestic courts.

David Tolbert, Senior Legal Officer, Registry, ICTY
Benjamin Ferencz, Former Chief Prosecutor, Einsatzgruppen War Crimes Trial, Nuremberg
Professor Juan Mendez, Director, Center for Civil and Human Rights, Notre Dame Law School
Professor Diane Orentlicher, Princeton University; Washington College of Law, American University
Professor Hurst Hannum, Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Daphna Shraga, Office of Legal Affairs, United Nations (inv)

5:45 PM - 6:30 PM

• Closing Cocktail Reception Sponsored by the International Law and Practice Section of the New York State Bar Association.