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UN Across America program
Current UN Ambassadors to hold a town hall meeting on "Food Security and Humanitarian Intervention" on March 24 at law school
March 16,
2009 -- Washington University School of Law will host a delegation of ten senior diplomats from the United Nations for a public town hall meeting on "Food Security and Humanitarian Intervention" on Tuesday, March 24, from 9-11 a.m. in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall. The ambassadors will give brief presentations and then take questions from the audience.
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Refining foreign policy
Former ambassador for counternarcotics and justice reform in Afghanistan available to discuss foreign policy priorities for the new president
Dec. 4,
2008 -- "Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan need to be top foreign policy priorities for President Barack Obama," says Thomas Schweich, former ambassador for counternarcotics and justice reform in Afghanistan and visiting professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. Schweich, the Special Representative for Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, is available to discuss foreign policy issues facing the next president.
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International Climate Change conference Oct. 30
Leading experts will discuss U.S. and China's role in the post-Kyoto agreement
Oct. 13,
2008 -- Distinguished environmental law and policy scholars and scientists from around the country will gather at Washington University in St. Louis to discuss "International Climate Change: Post-Kyoto Challenges," from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Oct. 30 in Anheuser-Busch and Seigle Halls. "The international community is aiming to complete negotiations by the end of 2009 on a new climate change agreement to take effect when the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012," says Maxine Lipeles, J.D., director of the Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic and senior lecturer in law. "This conference will address the critical question of what roles the world's two largest emitters - the U.S. and China - will play under the new agreement." The conference, hosted by Washington University School of Law's Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute, is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
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Supreme Court Guantanamo decision
International law expert comments on status of Guantanamo Bay detainees
June 18,
2008 --
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The Supreme Court's recent ruling giving the Guantanamo Bay detainees the right of habeas corpus "underscores the commitment of the United States to be governed by the rule of law even during times of national stress, and is a courageous response to the overreaching policies of the executive branch, buttressed by a compliant Republican Congress, that have caused world-wide criticism of U.S. interrogation and detention policies," says Leila N. Sadat, expert on international law and professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. Sadat, the director of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute, is the author of the leading treatise on the international criminal court, "The International Criminal Court and the Transformation of International Law: Justice for the New Millennium," and is closely following the status of the detainees at Guantanamo.
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Blue-ribbon steering committee drafting international treaty
Harris World Law Institute kicks off landmark Crimes Against Humanity Project
April 25,
2008 -- The Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute of Washington University School of Law announced a two-year project to study the international law regarding crimes against humanity and to draft a multilateral treaty condemning and prohibiting such crimes. Leila Sadat, J.D., the Henry H. Oberschelp Professor of Law and director of the Harris Institute, recently convened the first meeting of the project's steering committee.
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Repairing the U.S. asylum system
Leading immigration law expert examines dramatic inconsistencies; cautions against drastic responses
Feb. 27,
2008 --
A recent academic study confirmed empirically what many immigration experts had already suspected: The chance of winning an asylum case often hinges as much on the luck of the draw as on the merits of the case. Some adjudicators grant asylum liberally while others grant it only rarely, and the disparities are dramatic. The Stanford Law Review asked Stephen Legomsky, J.D., D.Phil., leading immigration and asylum law expert and John S. Lehmann University Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, to write an article analyzing the policy implications of this study. Legomsky offers a controversial conclusion: "There are times when we simply have to learn to live with unequal justice because the alternatives are worse."
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Taking international legal education to the next level
Washington University School of Law launches unique Transnational Law Program
Feb. 19,
2008 -- Washington University School of Law is launching a Transnational Law Program, a first-of-its-kind offering for students in both the United States and Europe. Beginning in fall 2008, a new four-year combined degree program will be offered in association with four prestigious European universities. "There is a growing need for lawyers who understand both American and European law, can identify legal issues and know reliable sources in the U.S. and throughout Europe," says Kent D. Syverud, J.D., law dean and the Ethan A.H. Shepley University Professor. "Many American law schools are expanding their international curricula study-abroad programs. Washington University Law and Utrecht University are now taking international legal education to the next level."
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Judgment at Nuremberg 60 Years Later
WUSTL conference examines legacy of Nazi war trials Sept. 29-Oct. 1
Sept. 22,
2006 -- The Nuremberg trials of major Nazi war criminals spawned the idea of international human rights, but have the principles endured? Leading scholars from Washington University in St. Louis will join former Nuremberg prosecutors and distinguished experts on international criminal justice to examine the legacy of the war trials and their impact on international law, the judicial system and world peace. The conference, "Judgment at Nuremberg," marks the 60th anniversary of the Nuremberg trials and will take place Sept. 29-Oct. 1 on the Washington University campus.
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Access to Justice
WUSTL law school speaker series focuses on public interest
Sept. 19,
2006 -- A lead counsel in the Guantanamo Bay detainees U.S. Supreme Court case, an expert on pornography in feminism and law, and a Nobel Peace Prize nominee for his work in international criminal justice are part of the fall lineup for the School of Law's ninth annual Public Interest Law & Policy Speakers Series.
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Judgment at Nuremberg 60 Years Later
Nazi war criminal trials spawned international human rights, but have the principles endured?
Sept. 7,
2006 --
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The Nuremberg trials and the atrocities they revealed shocked the world 60 years ago and continue to resonate with increasing relevance. Yet, the Nuremberg principles have been implemented neither perfectly nor completely, according to a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis. Scholars from Washington University join other distinguished experts on international criminal justice, and the trials' three surviving U.S. prosecutors, to examine the legacy of Nuremberg and its impact on international law, the judicial system, and world peace. More...
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