CONFERENCES 1998-2012
- Presidential Power and Foreign Affairs (September 2012)
- International Law in Crisis (September 2011)
- Lawfare! (September 2010)
- After Guantanamo: The Way Forward (September 2009)
- The International Criminal Court and the Crime of Aggression (September 2008)
- To Prevent and to Punish (September 2007)
- Lessons from the Saddam Trial (October 2006)
- Torture and the War on Terror (October 2005)
- Rebuilding Nation Building (April 2005)
- Terrorism on Trial (October 2004)
- The Future of International Intellectual Property: International Relations in
Information Products (March 2004)
- Sexual Assaults of International Consequence: A Symposium on the
Suppression of International Crimes Against Women (October 2003)
- The Role of Justice in Building Peace (March 2003)
- International Arbitrage of Controversial Medical Technologies (2002-03)
- Comparative Employment and Labor Law (2001)
- International Intellectual Property and Technology (2000)
- International Economic Law (1999)
- Legal Foundations for Peace and Prosperity in the Middle East (1998)
SPEAKERS HAVE INCLUDED:
JUDGE THOMAS BUERGENTHAL
International Court of Justice
HANS CORELL
U.N. Under-Secretary General for Legal Affairs
STEPHANIE FARRIOR
Chief Counsel, Amnesty International
JONATHAN FRIED
Canada’s Ambassador to Japan; former Executive Director for Canada, Ireland, and the Caribbean, International Monetary Fund
HON. WILLIAM GRAHAM
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs; former Minister of National Defense, Canada
RT. HON. HERB GRAY
Former Deputy Prime Minister; former Member of Parliament, Canada; former co-Chair, International Joint Commission
SEAN HAGAN
General Counsel, International Monetary Fund
BRENDA HOLLIS
Prosecutor, Special Court for Sierra Leone
GENERAL CHARLES HORNER
Former commander, U.S. Air Forces in the Persian Gulf War; Commander in Chief, U.S. Space Command
GENERAL JOHN HUTSON
Former Judge Advocate General, U.S. Navy
LARRY JOHNSON
Deputy Legal Adviser of the United Nations
HON. RA’ID JUHI HAMADI AL-SAEDI
Chief Investigative Judge, Iraqi High Tribunal
HON. MICHAEL KERGIN
Former Ambassador of Canada to the U.S.
PHILIPPE KIRSCH
President, International Criminal Court
HON. DENNIS KUCINICH
U.S. Representative (Ohio-10)
JUAN MENDEZ
President, International Center for Transitional Justice and Special Advisor to the U.N. Secretary General on Prevention of Genocide
LUIS MORENO-OCAMPO
Prosecutor, International Criminal Courts
MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM NASH
Former commander, NATO Forces in Bosnia; U.N. regional administrator for Kosovo
ARYEH NEIER
President, Open Society Institute and the George Soros Foundations; founder and former executive director, Human Rights Watch; and former national director, American Civil Liberties Union
HON. JAMES PETERSON
Counsel, Fasken Martineau; former Minister of International Trade; former Member of Parliament, Canada; co-Chair, Canada-United States Law Institute Executive Committee
ROBERT PETIT
International Prosecutor, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
NAVANETHEM PILLAY
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights
STEPHEN J. RAPP
Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues, U.S. Department of State
Former Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone
PETER ROBINSON
Defense Counsel to Radovan Karadzic before the Yugoslavia Tribunal
NICHOLAS ROSTOW
Chief Legal Counsel, U.S. Mission to the U.N., former chief legal counsel, National Security Council
PROF. WILLIAM SCHABAS
Director, Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland; member, Truth Commission for Sierra Leone
AMBASSADOR DAVID SCHEFFER
Former U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues
PROF. SHIMON SHETREET
Hebrew University; former member, Landau Commission on the Israeli Court System and the Israeli Parliament; and Israeli Minister of Religious Affairs
HON. ABRAHAM SOFAER
George P. Shultz Distinguished Scholar & Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University; former legal adviser, U.S. Department of State
AMBASSADOR SAMIR SUMAIDAIE
Iraqi Ambassador to the U.S.
HON. GEORGE VOINOVICH
United States Senator (Ohio)
PROF. MATTHEW WAXMAN
Columbia Law School, former Deputy Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs
AMBASSADOR CHRISTIAN WENAWESER
President, International Criminal Court Assembly of State Parties
ELIZABETH WILMSHURST
Head of International Law, Chatham House, former Deputy Legal Adviser, UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office
HON. MICHAEL WILSON
Former Ambassador of Canada to the U.S.
PROF. PAUL WILLIAMS
Executive Director, Public International Law and Policy Group
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DEBATE: "WILL SADDAM HUSSEIN RECEIVE A FAIR TRIAL?"
CURTIS DOEBBLER, International Human Rights Lawyer v. MICHAEL SCHARF, Professor and Cox Center Director
Moderator-Assoc Dean HIRAM CHODOSH
C-SPAN broadcast January 2005
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