Events Related to International, Foreign and Comparative Legal Studies, Fall 2006
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Monday, September 18
4:30-5:30pm
Human Rights Program Orientation and Open House
Human Rights Program staff, HLS Advocates, Human Rights Journal staff
will introduce themselves and go over the wide array of projects and activities that they organize and sponsor
Hark South
Sponsored by the Human Rights Program
Tuesday, September 19
3:00-5:00pm
Orientation to the East Asian Legal Studies Program
Please join the East Asian Legal Studies Program for an opportunity
to meet our 2006-2007 Visiting Scholars, Research Fellows, Staff, and Faculty
Light refreshments will be served
Open to the Public
Pound Hall, Room 419
Sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies
Thursday, September 21
4:00pm
AHARON BARAK
Former President of the Supreme Court of Israel
On My Judicial Philosophy
Moderated by Dean Elena Kagan
Ames Courtroom
The Gruber Foundation will award Justice Aharon Barak, the "Peter Gruber Foundation Justice Prize". Justice Barak served as Chief Justice of the Israeli Supreme Court from 1995 until September 7, 2006. During his distinguished career he also taught law at and served as Dean of the Faculty of Law of the Hebrew University, and has been a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. Justice Barak acted as Attorney General of the State of Israel from 1975 to 1978 when he was appointed to the Supreme Court. He is the author of several books including, most recently, The Judge in a Democracy.
Harvard ID will be required for admission
Sponsored by the Gruber Foundation, Office of the Dean, and International Legal Studies
Monday, September 25
7:00pm
World of Law Criminal Panel
Pound 107
Sponsored by the Office of Public Interest Advising
Tuesday, September 26
4:00pm
International Legal Studies
presents
MARC GALANTER
John and Rylla Bosshard Professor of Law and South Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and LSE Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science
on
Learning from Lawyer Jokes
Open to the Public
Pound 335
Refreshments will be served
Sponsored by International Legal Studies
Thursday September 28
5:30-7:30pm
Sex, Lies and Silence: The Harm of U.S. Abstinence-Only Policies at Home and Abroad
A panel discussion with
JULIE F. KAY
Legal Momentum Advancing Women's Rights
JODI JACOBSON
Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE)
WILLIAM SMITH
The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS)
NAOMI SEILER
Office of Representative Henry A. Waxman
Moderated by Mindy Jane Roseman
Academic Director, Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School
The panel will focus on abstinence-only programs in the context of the attack on women's rights and sexuality, both in the U.S. and as exported via conditions on U.S. funding, with particular attention given to the human rights implications of abstinence-only policies.
Pound Hall 101
A reception following the event is open to students and other attendees
Sponsored by: Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, Legal Momentum, the Program on International Health and Human Rights at Harvard School of Public Health, HLS for Choice, HLS Advocates for Human Rights, AIDS Tank, and the Student Group for Reproductive Health and Rights at Harvard School of Public Health
Friday September 29
12:15pm
Opportunities in Latin America
with
STEVE REIFENBERG, JASON DYETT & LORENA BARBERIA
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Brown bag lunch and a discussion on study abroad, work and other opportunities for students in Latin America
Pound 332
Drinks and Dessert will be provided
Sponsored by International Legal Studies
Friday, September 29
12:30 - 2:00pm
East Asian Legal Studies Lunchtime Talk
Reforming China's Judiciary: Current Challenges
JIANLI SONG
Judge, Supreme Court of China
Pound Hall, Room 419
Sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies
Tuesday, October 3
12:15pm
The ICC Negotiations as a Reflection of Structural Changes in International Law
PAULA ESCARAMEIA LL.M '86, S.J.D'88
Member of the United Nations International Law Commission and Associate Professor with Aggregation of the Higher Institute for Social and Political Sciences of the Technical University of Lisbon
Lunch will be served
Pound 335
RSVP to jacunningham@law.harvard.edu
Sponsored by International Legal Studies and the Human Rights Program
Wednesday, October 4
Time TBD
World of Law Non-Profit Panel
Pound 107
Sponsored by the Office of Public Interest Advising
Wednesday, October 4
12:00pm
CARLO MONGARDINI
Professor of Political Science and Law, University of Rome, Founder of the Amalfi Conference
speaking on
The New Europe: The Struggle for a Political Constitution
Lunch will be served
Location TBD
Please RSVP to tpotter@law.harvard.edu
Wednesday, October 11
7:00pm
World of Law Government Panel
Pound 107
Sponsored by the Office of Public Interest Advising
Thursday, October 12
1:00-2:30pm
The Khmer Rouge and East Timor Tribunals: Global Justice, Native Peace
RAUL C. PANGALANGAN S.J.D. ’90
Professor of Law, University of the Philippines
HLS Visiting Professor, Spring 2007
Pound Hall, Room 419
Sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies
Friday, October 13
12:30 2:00pm
East Asian Legal Studies Lunchtime Talk
Lawyering in China: Past, Present and Future
JEROME A. COHEN
Founding Director of EALS
Professor of Law, NYU School of Law;
Of Counsel, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Pound Hall, Room 419
Sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies
Tuesday, October 17
12:15pm
INTERNATIONAL LEGAL STUDIES INFORMATION SESSION
with emphasis on JD/LLM program with Cambridge University, the Semester Abroad Program
and
Winter Term and Summer Opportunities
brown bag lunch; drinks and dessert will be provided
Pound Hall 108
Sponsored by International Legal Studies
Tuesday, October 17
4:00pm
The Power of Oil and the State of Democracy and Human Rights in Angola
RAFAEL MARQUES DE MORAIS
Pound 106
Open to the Public
Rafael Marques de Morais is a journalist, public official, and representative of humanitarian organizations whose career has been marked by conflicts with the government of Angola. Himself a victim of the regime, Marques was imprisoned in 1999 for 40 days without charges. In 2000, the National Association of Black Journalists of the United States presented Marques with the Percy Qoboza Award for Outstanding Courage, and in October 2006 Marques will receive the Civil Courage Prize, awarded annually by the trustees of the Northcote Parkinson Fund.
Co-sponsored by Human Rights Program, HLS Advocates for Human Rights, and International Legal Studies
Wednesday, October 18
12:30 - 2:00pm
East Asian Legal Studies Lunchtime Talk
Corporate Rescue in Asia: Developing Effective Insolvency Infrastructures
CHARLES D. BOOTH 84
Associate Professor
Director, institute of Asian-Pacific Business Law
William S. Richardson School of Law
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Pound Hall, Room 419
Sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies
Wednesday, October 18
5:00 p.m
Private Enforcement of Competition Law; Some Remarks on the New Green Paper of the European Commission
DR. ROLF STUERNER
Professor, University of Freiburg, Germany
Pound 332
Questions and answer session and a reception with refreshments will follow the talk
All are welcome
Friday, October 20
2:00pm
Good Intentions Corrupted: The Oil-for-Food Scandal and the Threat to the UN
PAUL VOLCKER
Chairman of the Committee* and former Chairman of the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve System
MARK CALIFANO
Chief Legal Counsel to the Committee* and former criminal prosecutor for the US Department of Justice
RICHARD GOLDSTONE
Member of the Committee*, Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Visiting Professor of Law, HLS, and former Chancellor of University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
JEFFREY MEYER
Senior Counsel to the Committee* and Associate Professor, Quinnipiac University School of Law
moderated by:
WILLIAM ALFORD
Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, Vice Dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies, and the Director of East Asian Legal Studies at HLS
All speakers are affiliated with The Independent Inquiry Committee into the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program*
By March 2003 the Oil-for-Food program had become the largest humanitarian relief operation in U.N. history in an effort to alleviate the threat of starvation in Iraq. Blatant corruption and mismanagement led to the investigation of the entire program. The investigation found extraordinary levels of kickbacks, illegal surcharges and smuggled oil to the benefit of the Iraqi regime. Jeffrey Meyer, Mark Califano and Paul Volcker write extensively on the evidence and lessons learned from the Independent Investigation in their new book Good Intentions Corrupted: The Oil-for-Food Scandal and the Threat to the UN, published in September 2006.
Pound Hall, Room 332, Harvard Law School
Sponsored by International Legal Studies
Wednesday, October 25
4:30-6:00pm
International Justice After the Fall of the Superpower
A Public Lecture
by
SAMANTHA POWER '99
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide,
Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and
Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government
Caspersen Room, Harvard Law School Library
This lecture marks the establishment of the Rita E. Hauser Professorship in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. Professor Ryan Goodman will serve as the inaugural Chair of this professorship.
Sponsored by the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School
Wednesday, November 1
12:30pm
Human Rights Program Brown Bag Lunch Conversation
with
HYO-JE CHO
Visiting Human Rights Fellow, Human Rights Program
Associate Professor of Human Rights and Civil Society Studies, SungKongHoe University Seoul, Korea
North Korea, Nuclear Bombs, and Tension in the Korean Peninsula: Implications for the Human Rights Movement in South Korea
Pound Hall Room 419
Drinks and Dessert will be provided
All Are Welcome
Sponsored by the Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School, East Asian Legal Studies and International Legal Studies, The Kim Koo Forum at the Korea Institute, Harvard University
Friday, November 3
12:30 - 2:00pm
East Asian Legal Studies Lunchtime Talk
Medicines for Corruption in China: Past and Present
SUSAN R. WELD 74
Adjunct Professor, Department of China Studies, Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Former General Counsel of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China
Pound Hall, Room 419
Sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies
Friday, November 3
3:30pm
Information Session on International Summer Funding
Pound 102
Sponsored by OPIA, Human Rights Program and International Legal Studies
Tuesday, November 7
3:30-4:30pm
Khmer Rouge Trials: Individual Criminal Responsibility after 30 Years
PROFESSOR MOTOO NOGUCHI
Visiting Fellow, Genocide Studies Program, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale Schell Center for International Human Rights, Yale Law School
Lewis 202
For more information, email hrp@law.harvard.edu or call 617-495-9362
Co-sponsored by Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, East Asian Legal Studies, and International Legal Studies
Monday, November 13
3:00-4:30pm
European Law Research Center
Reading Group Series on the Histories of International Law
Constructivist Approaches to International law
ANDREW LANG
Lecturer, London School of Economics and Political Sciences
Lewis 202
Readings are available at Neal OConnors Office, Hauser 318
Wednesday, November 15
7:00-9:00pm
World of Law: Public International Panel
CLIVE BALDWIN
Head of International Advocacy, Minority Rights Group
International
CATHERINE NEWCOMBE
Acting Regional Director for Eurasia, Office of Overseas
Prosecutorial Development Assistance and Training, Eurasia Region, United
States Department of Justice
MARK QUARTERMAN
Senior Legal Officer, Office of Legal Affairs, United Nations.
Moderated
by
GINNY GREIMAN
Deputy Director and Chief Legal Counsel, Executive Office of
Economic Development, Department of Business and Technology, Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, and OPIA Attorney Advisor
The World of Law panels introduce students to some of the vast number of public and private legal careers. The panels are hosted by OPIA and/or OCS. Four World of Law panels are specifically public interest oriented. The panels provide an opportunity to hear the kind of work public interest lawyers perform. Before each panel, there is a dinner with panelists for a limited number of students who sign up in advance with OPIA. All are invited to hear from a distinguished panel of attorneys working in Public International legal careers.
Pound 102
Sponsored by Bernard Koteen Office of Public Interest Advising (OPIA)
Thursday, November 16
5:00pm
The Right of Self-Determination: The Untold Story of Population Transfer
CATRIONA DREW, LL.B. Ph.D.
Former Visiting Fellow at the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, Global Crystal Eastman Research Fellow in the Global Visitors Program at New York University School of Law
Pound Hall, Room 419
Open to the Public
Co-Sponsored by: Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, The HLS Legal History Workshop and International Legal Studies
Monday, November 20
5:00-6:00pm
Human Rights in the Mediterranean: North Africa and France
Panelists
ELAINE THOMAS
Associate Professor of Political Studies at Bard College
NEIL HICKS
Director of the Human Rights Defenders program, Human Rights First
FATIMA SADIQI
Visiting Professor of Women's Studies and Islamic Religious Studies, Harvard Divinity School
moderated by
ANTHONY CHASE
Visiting Fellow with Harvard Law School's Human Rights Program, Assistant Professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs at Occidental College
Pound Hall, Room 332
Co-sponsored by: the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School and Harvard Law Student Advocates for Human Rights
Monday, November 27
5:00-6:00pm
The 2006 Edward A. Smith Lecture Series
Featuring
JUSTICE S. SANDILE NGCOBO
Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, and Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia University
Human Rights and Constitutional Adjudication: The Role of the South African Constitutional Court
Harvard Law School, Hauser Hall 102
All are welcome
Sponsored by the Human Rights Program, Havard Law School
For more information, please email hrp@law.harvard.edu or call 617-495-9362
Tuesday, November 28
5:00-6:00pm
The 2006 Edward A. Smith Lecture Series
Featuring
JUSTICE S. SANDILE NGCOBO
Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, and Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Universi
The South African Constitutional Court and the Enforcement of Socio-Economic Rights
A reception will follow
Harvard Law School, Hauser Hall 102
All are welcome
Sponsored by the Human Rights Program, Havard Law School
For more information, please email hrp@law.harvard.edu or call 617-495-9362
December 1-2
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
and
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL
Co-sponsor
Transnational Judicial Dialogue: Strengthening Networks and Mechanisms for Judicial Consultation and Cooperation
with
HON. RICHARD GOLDSTONE
Former Justice, Constitutional Court of South Africa
HON. SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR
Former Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
ELENA KAGAN
Dean, Harvard Law School
and
senior jurists from countries around the world and leading international tribunals
Public Event Schedule
Friday, December 1, 2006, 4:006:00 p.m.
Current Challenges for Jurists and Judiciaries
Hon. Richard Goldstone, Former Justice, Constitutional Court of South Africa
Hon. Navi Pillay, Judge, International Criminal Court
Hon. Adel Omar Sherif, Deputy Chief Justice, Supreme Constitutional
Court of Egypt
Professor Charles Fried, Harvard Law School
Saturday, December 2, 2006, 9:0010:30 a.m.
Perspectives on Judicial Dialogue and Cooperation
Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
Dr. Leandro Despouy, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Independence
of Judges and Lawyers
Hon. Sylvester Mainga, Justice, High Court of Namibia
Hon. Andre Potocki, Judge, Court de Cassation of France; Vice President,
CEPEJ (European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice)
Austin Hall West
Harvard Law School
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Contact jacunningham@law.harvard.edu for more information
Wednesday, December 6
6:30pm
INFORMATIONAL RECEPTION
FOR
CHAYES INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC INTEREST FELLOWSHIP
Please join us for an opportunity to learn about the Chayes International Public Service Fellowship and hear about the experiences of past Chayes Fellows.
Drinks and hors d'oeuvres will be served
Pound 335
Open to 1Ls and others eligible for the Chayes Fellowship
For more information see the Chayes International Public Service Fellowship website
Bring your questions!
Sponsored by International Legal Studies and
the Bernard Koteen Office of Public Interest Advising
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