Speakers

Nathaniel A. Berman

Professor of Law
Brooklyn Law School

Professor Berman was a Visiting Professor at Brooklyn Law School in 2001-02, before joining the faculty full-time. He currently teaches public international law, European Union law, international trade law, and human rights at the Brooklyn Law School. He was a member of the faculty at Northeastern University School of Law for the past ten years. His background also includes teaching at Amherst College in its Department of Political Science, and he was a staff attorney with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. He also held the Harvard Sheldon Fellowship, researching and studying philosophy and literary theory in Paris, and he was a Law Clerk to Judge Hugh Bownes of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

Professor Berman’s scholarship has focused on the relationship between nationalism, colonialism, and international law. He has written on international legal responses to conflicts ranging from Upper Silesia and Morocco in the 1920s to Bosnia and Jerusalem in the 1990s. More recently, he has turned to writing on the history and current dilemmas of the law of war. Professor Berman’s work is broadly interdisciplinary, drawing on literary theory, cultural history, and post-colonial studies.

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Ryan Goodman

J. Sinclair Armstrong Assistant Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law
Harvard Law School
Harvard University

Ryan Goodman is the J. Sinclair Armstrong Assistant Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law at Harvard Law School. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School and a Ph.D. in sociology from Yale University. After law school, he clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Professor Goodman has worked at the U.S. Department of State, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and nongovernmental organizations in India, South Africa, Switzerland, Thailand, and the United States.

His publications include International Human Rights in Context (Oxford University Press, 3d ed., forthcoming 2005) (with Henry Steiner & Philip Alston); “Humanitarian Intervention and Pretexts for War,” 99 American Journal of International Law (forthcoming 2005); “International Law, U.S. War Powers, and the Global War on Terrorism,” 118 Harvard Law Review (forthcoming 2005) (with Derek Jinks); “How to Influence States: Socialization and International Human Rights Law,” 54 Duke Law Journal (forthcoming 2004) (with Derek Jinks); “Toward an Institutional Theory of Sovereignty,” 55 Stanford Law Review 1749 (2003) (with Derek Jinks); “Measuring the Effects of Human Rights Treaties,” 13 European Journal of International Law 171 (2003) (with Derek Jinks); “Human Rights Treaties, Invalid Reservations, and State Consent,” 96 American Journal of International Law 531 (2002).

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Juliette Kayyem

Acting Executive Director for Research
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University

Juliette N. Kayyem serves as the Acting Executive Director for Research at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Since 2001, Ms. Kayyem has been a resident scholar at the Belfer Center, serving both as Executive Director of the Kennedy School's Executive Session on Domestic Preparedness, a terrorism and homeland security research program, and as co-Director of Harvard's Long-Term Legal Strategy for Combating Terrorism. She also teaches courses on law and national security.

Previously, she served as former House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt's appointee to the National Commission on Terrorism, a congressionally-mandated review of how the government could better prepare for the growing terrorist threat. Chaired by L. Paul Bremer, that Commissions recommendations in the year 2000 urged the nation to recognize and adapt to the growing tide of terrorist activity against the United States. Before that, she served as a legal adviser to then Attorney General Janet Reno, where she worked on a variety of national security and terrorism cases. In that capacity, she oversaw the governments review of its classification procedures regarding secret evidence. Ms. Kayyem began her legal career as a trial lawyer, litigating cases throughout the United States on behalf of the Justice Department. She has also worked in death penalty appeals cases on behalf of Alabama death row inmates and, before going to law school, as a journalist in South Africa,

Ms. Kayyem writes on counterterrorism, law, homeland security, civil liberties and the need to protect our democratic norms in times of war. She is co-editor of First to Arrive: State and Local Response to Terrorism (MIT Press, 2003), as well as the author of numerous journal, magazine and newspaper articles. She testifies frequently before Congress and serves on the board of advisers to a number of governmental and private institutions. In 2002, she was named a "hero for our times" by the Boston Phoenix.

Ms. Kayyem is also a national security analyst for NBC News.

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Henry J. Steiner

Jeremiah Smith Jr. Professor of Law
Director Human Rights Program
Harvard Law School
Harvard University

Henry Steiner, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Director of the Law School's Human Rights Program, is a distinguished scholar, author and international authority on the topics of human rights and international law. In addition to serving as director of the Harvard Law School's Human Rights Program, he is also its founder.

Over the past 15 years, he has both participated in and served as organizer or co-organizer of dozens of roundtable discussions and interdisciplinary panels focusing on human rights issues and has participated in numerous human rights conferences, seminars and symposia in both the United States and abroad.

His summer teaching has brought him to Stanford Law School, the University of Houston Law School in Cuernavaca, Mexico, the Institute on International and Comparative Law, Paris, and Sao Paulo Law Faculty. He has also served as a visiting professor at Yale Law School and the Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas no Ensino de Direito in Rio de Janeiro.

Outside of his university teaching, Professor Steiner has lectured extensively on human rights topics in Australia, Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Egypt, Finland, India, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Kuwait, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Nigeria, Palestinian territories, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, and United States. In the course of investigating specific human rights problems, he has also traveled to most of above-noted countries as well as to Chile, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, El Salvador, Honduras, Hungary, Nicaragua, Poland, Russia and Uganda.

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Annette Demers

Reference Librarian,
Foreign, International and Comparative Law
Harvard Law School Library

Annette Demers works at the Harvard Law School Library as a Reference Librarian for International, Foreign and Comparative Law. She obtained her Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Windsor, Canada and a Master of Library and Information Science degree from the University of Western Ontario. Ms. Demers' interest in international law began in her undergraduate law training at Carleton University, Ottawa and continued throughout law school. She also had the opportunity to attend the Hague Academy of International Law in the summer of 1995. She has worked previously at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Library of Parliament (Canada).

In the fall of 2002, Ms. Demers worked to assist the Coalition for an International Criminal Court in exploring their options for digitizing their documentation collection. This year, she is the editor of the Foreign, Comparative and International Law SIS Newsletter.

Her current areas of interest include the International Criminal Court, international criminal law, universal jurisdiction and its application to the war on terror, and war crimes against women.

Paul Deschner

Application Developer,
Harvard Law School Library IT

Paul Deschner works in the Library’s IT department developing web-enabled database applications. He has undergraduate degrees in Philosophy (SMU) and English and Finno-Ugric Studies (Universität Göttingen, Germany) and an M.A. in English (Tufts).

Among the projects he has been involved with at the Library is the Nuremberg Trials Project, a multi-year initiative to make web-accessible the Library’s archive of evidentiary documents and trial transcripts relating to the thirteen trials conducted at Nuremberg after WWII. Mr. Deschner designed and implemented the production web-site’s interface and many of its back-end technologies and processes.

Noah Weisbord

Doctoral Student,
Harvard Law School

Noah Weisbord, BSc, BSW, LLB, BCL, MSW, LLM (degree waived), SJD Candidate, was a law clerk to Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo at the International Criminal Court. He has completed two Masters dissertations and commented extensively on ethical dilemmas underlying gacaca, Rwanda's community-based genocide trials. Mr. Weisbord was also a researcher at the Defense Ethics Program of the Canadian Department of National Defense.

Mr. Weisbord is currently a doctoral student at Harvard Law School studying the crime of aggression.