[Members] Call for International Law Weekend Papers

[Houston Putnam Lowry, Esq.]

International Law Weekend 2007

Towards a New Vision of International Law

Call for Panel Proposals

 

The post-9/11 era has been one of great contestation for international law.
Scholars and practitioners debate basic questions about the content and
nature of public international law and how the political and judicial
branches of the U.S. government should interact with it. At the same time,
quite removed from these controversies, international law continues to
develop and expand.  Trade agreements and arbitral conventions, for example,
play a critical role in facilitating the ever-growing business transactions
across borders, and regional human rights institutions have expanded the
protection of individual rights.

 

This simultaneity of conflict and routine occur against a complex legal,
socio-political, economic, and cultural backdrop.  Literature across
different disciplines has attempted to grapple with the effects of
globalization and the legacy of colonialism.  Traditional accounts of
international governance through sovereign equality have been supplemented
by divergent accounts of the role of nonstate and substate actors.  

 

Amid these uncertainties, International Law Weekend 2007 asks what it means
to move towards a new vision of international law.  How should scholars and
practitioners engage the multiple conceptual and normative perspectives on
international law?  Are these contestations within international law new?
How should academics, practitioners, and policymakers interact?  How are
generational shifts influencing this discourse? What is the role of
interdisciplinary interchange?  And, perhaps most important, what would
progress in international law look like? 

 

The 2007 International Law Weekend will be held October 25 to 27, 2007, at
the House of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.  We invite
proposals for panels to discuss issues related to this theme.  Panel
proposals should be submitted to the conference co-chairs- Peggy McGuinness
(mcguinnessm at missouri.edu), Hari Osofsky (hosofsky at uoregon.edu), Patrick
Reed (pcr at customs.com), Nancy Thevenin (nthevenin at uscib.org)-by June 1,
2007.  Proposals should include a title, one paragraph description of the
panel's focus, and a list of speakers.  We also welcome alternative formats
such as roundtables, audio-visual materials, etc.

 
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