International Law Speaker Series
2012-13 Speaker Series: Morality, Humanitarianism, and International Law
Is international law founded on a set of ethical principles? Should the practice of international law be guided by such principles? Political theorists and legal ethicists have debated these questions for centuries. They appear in discussions about just war theory and humanitarian intervention. They infuse debates on human rights and their presumed universal applicability. And, they are at the heart of contemporary discussions on terrorism and torture. This series will examine the role of ethics and morality in international law and consider how these concepts affect the decisions of both individuals and states.
The 2012-2013 International Law Speaker Series is jointly sponsored by the Institute for International, Comparative and Area Studies (IICAS), at UC San Diego, and the International Legal Studies Program at California Western School of Law (CWSL).
International Law Speaker Series 2012-13 Brochure
This series has concluded for the 2012-13 academic year.
Please check back in the fall for 2013-14 series information.
2012-13: Morality, Humanitarianism, and International Law
Co-sponsored by IICAS and California Western School of Law
J.P. Daughton, Stanford University
"Colonies of Humanity? Violence and Humanitarianism in the Modern French Empire"
Monday, May 13, 2013, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
Dino Kritsiotis, University of Nottingham
"Humanitarian Intervention Coming Forward From the Arab Spring"
Wednesday, March 13, 2013, 12:10 PM- 1:15 PM
California Western School of Law, LH 1
Bronwyn Leebaw, UC Riverside
"Justice, Charity, or Alibi? Humanitarianism and Human Rights as Responses to Violent Conflict"
Monday, February 11, 2013, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
Roger P. Alford, University of Notre Dame Law School
"Moral Reasoning in International Law"
Thursday, January 31, 2013, 12:10 PM- 1:15 PM
California Western School of Law, LH 1
Thilo Marauhn, Professor of Public Law, International Law and European Law, Justus Liebig University, Giessen
"Credible Fact-finding as a Means to Strengthen the Protection of Victims of Armed Conflict: the Case of Syria"
Wednesday, October 3, 2012, 12:10 PM - 1:05 PM
California Western School of Law Auditorium
2011-12: From Climate Change to Global Sustainability: The Great Transition
Co-sponsored by IICAS and California Western School of Law
Naomi Oreskes,UC San Diego
“Moving Beyond Doubt: History, Ideology, and Anthropogenic Climate Change”
Thursday, June 7, 2012, 12:10 PM – 1:10 PM.
California Western School of Law, LH2 (Lecture Hall 2)
Richard Finkmoore, California Western School of Law
"Tropical Forests and Global Climate Disruption: The Promise of a New International Effort to Reduce Deforestation"
Thursday, May 17, 2012, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM.
Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107.
Daniel Bodansky, Arizona State University
"The Future of the UN Climate Change Regime: The Road from Durban"
Monday, April 2, 2012, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM.
Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107.
David Hunter, American University Washington College of Law
"International Climate Law in a Post-Kyoto Era"
Thursday, February 23, 2012, 12:10 PM - 1:10 PM.
California Western School of Law, Room LH1.
David Victor, Professor, School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, Director, Laboratory on International Law and Regulation, UC San Diego
"Is America Irrelevant? The Global Effort to Manage Climate Change"
Thursday, January 26, 2012, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
Matthew Pawa, Litigator and President, Pawa Law Group, P.C.
"Global Heating and Legal Action in an Uncertain World"
Wednesday, November 2, 2011, 12:10 PM - 1:10 PM
California Western School of Law, Room 2F
Richard C.J. Sommerville, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
"The Scientific Case for Urgent Action to Avoid Severe Climate Disruption"
Thursday, October 20, 2011, 12:10 PM - 1:10 PM
California Western School of Law, Room LH1
2010-11: Transplanting Law
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Ugo Mattei, Alfred and Hanna Fromm Chair in International and Comparative Law,UC Hastings College of the Law
"Between Plunder and Prestige: Legal Transplants and Comparative Law Ideology"
Monday, Oct. 18, 2010, 12:10 PM - 1:05 PM
California Western School of Law, Room LH1
James M. Cooper Institute Professor of Law and, Assistant Dean for Mission Development California Western School of Law
"This Year's Model: Legal Transplants in the Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis"
Wednesday, December 1, 2010, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 104
Kwai Ng, UC San Diego
"The Globalizers in the Common Law World"
Friday, February 11, 2011, 12:10 PM - 1:05 PM
California Western School of Law, Lecture Hall 1
Raj Bhala, Rice Distinguished Professor of Law, Kansas University School of Law
"Islamic Law (Shari'a): Comparisons, Contrasts, and Transplants"
Monday, March 21, 2011, 12:10 PM-1:05 PM
California Western School of Law, Lecture Hall 1
Brendan O'Leary, Lauder Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
"The Kurdistan Region and the Making of Iraq's Constitution"
Monday, May 16, 2011, 4:00 PM-5:30 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 105
2009-10: Speaking Truth to Power
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Charles Thorpe, Associate Professor of Sociology, UC San Diego
"Capitalism and 'Science as a Vocation'"
Thursday, May 6, 2010, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
Jennifer Green, Associate Professor of Clinical Law University of Minnesota Law School
"Gender Justice: Bringing Human Rights Claims for Sexual Violence in U.S. Courts and International Tribunals"
Tuesday, March 30, 2010, 12:15 PM - 1:05 PM
Lecture Hall 1 (Cal Western)
Richard Somerville, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
"Climate Change: What Do We Know, and What Should We Do?"
Thursday, March 4, 2010, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Robinson Auditorium (UC San Diego)
For Somerville's report on climate change, visit www.copenhagendiagnosis.org.
Interviews with Somerville: The Four Big Questions of Global Warming, Disinformation and Medical Metaphors for Climate Change, Our Global Warming Game of Chicken.
Paul Hoffman, Civil Rights Lawyer and Former Chair of the International Executive Committee of Amnesty International
"Litigating Human Rights Cases Against Corporations: A View From the Frontlines"
Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 12:15 PM - 1:05 PM
Lecture Room 1 (Cal Western)
2008-09: After Outrage: Human Rights Abuses and the Search for Accountability
"International Justice From Outside Pushing In: Using Transnational Prosecutions to Create Domestic Change"
Thursday, October 30, 2008, 12:10 PM
Lecture Room 1 (Cal Western)
Professor Michael Bazyler, Chapman University Law School:
"Civil Accountability in the Aftermath of a Genocide and other Mass Atrocities: Lessons from the Holocaust Restitution Litigation"
Thursday, November 6, 2008, 12:10 PM
Lecture Room 1 (Cal Western)
Professor Elazar Barkan, Columbia University:
"Redress and Human Rights"
Thursday, January 29, 2009, 4:00 PM
Social Sciences Building Room 107 (UC San Diego)
Professor John Torpey, City University of New York Graduate Center:
"The Many Meanings of Reparations"
Thursday, February 26, 2009, 4:00 PM
Social Sciences Building Room 107 (UC San Diego)
Professor Mark A. Drumbl, Washington & Lee University, School of Law:
"Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law"
Thursday, March 12, 2009, 4:00 PM
Social Sciences Building Room 107 (UC San Diego)
2007-08: The Future of International Humanitarian Law
Charles Swift, Emory Law School
"Guantanamo and Other War Crimes"
Monday, September 10, 2007, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM
Gafford Moot Court Room (Cal Western)
Harvey Rishikof, National War College at the National Defense University
"International Humanitarian Law, Foreign Policy, and the Limitations of Power"
Thursday, November 8, 2007, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Social Sciences Building, Room 104 (UCSD)
Co-sponsored by IICAS, California Western School of Law, the American Branch of the International Law Association, and the American Society of International Law.
Gabor Rona, International Legal Director of Human Rights First
"Bull in a China Shop: U.S. Treatment of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in 'War on Terror' "
Thursday, November 15, 2007, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM
Gafford Moot Court Room (Cal Western)
Co-sponsored by IICAS, California Western School of Law, the American Branch of the International Law Association, and the American Society of International Law-West.
Ambassador David Scheffer, Northwestern University Law School
"The End of Exceptionalism in War Crimes "
Thursday, February 21, 2008 from 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
IR/PS Room 3201
Co-sponsored by IICAS, California Western School of Law, the American Branch of the International Law Association, and the American Society of International Law-West.
Professor Laura A. Dickinson, University of Connecticut School of Law
"Outsourcing War and Peace"
Thursday, March 27, 2008 from 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM
Gafford Moot Court Room (Cal Western)
Co-sponsored by IICAS, California Western School of Law, the American Branch of the International Law Association, and the American Society of International Law-West.
Professor Diane Amann, University of California, Davis
"Lacunae in International Humanitarian Law"
Thursday, April 24, 2008 from 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Social Sciences Building, Room 107 (UCSD)
Co-sponsored by IICAS, California Western School of Law, the American Branch of the International Law Association, and the American Society of International Law-West.
2006-07: A More Secure World
Thomas Novotny, University of California, San Francisco
"Global Governance for Public Health: How Can This Work in the 21st Century?"
Thursday, October 26, 2006, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Weaver Center, Institute of the Americas (UCSD)
Andrew Mack, University of British Columbia
"Civil War and the High Level Panel Report"
Thursday, November 30, 2006, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Weaver Center, Institute of the Americas, UCSD
Bruce Zagaris, Esq., from Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, LLP
"Transnational Organized Crime"
Tuesday, January 16, 2007, 12:10 PM
California Western School of Law
Larry D. Johnson, United Nations Office of Legal Counsel
"Nuclear, Radiological, Chemical, and Biological Weapons"
Tuesday, February 27, 2007, 12:10 PM
California Western School of Law
Mary Ellen O'Connell, Notre Dame Law School:
"Preserving the Peace through Force and Belief"
Tuesday, March 6, 2007, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Weaver Center, Institute of the Americas, UCSD
Todd Landman, University of Essex
"Imminence and Proportionality: The U.S. and U. K. Response to Global Terrorism"
Thursday, March 29, 2007, 12:10 PM
California Western School of Law
2005-06: U.S. Immigration
Marc Rosenblum, University of New Orleans
"U.S. Immigration Reform: Can the System be Repaired?"
Tuesday, January 17, 2006, 3:00 PM
Deutz Conference Room, Institute of the Americas (UCSD)
Hosted by IICAS and CCIS.
Joseph Carens, University of Toronto:
"Live-In Domestics, Seasonal Workers, Foreign Students, and Others Hard to Locate on the Map of Democracy"
Wednesday, February 8, 2006, 3:00 PM
Meridian Room, Cafe Ventanas (UCSD)
Hosted by IICAS and CCIS.
David A. Martin, University of Virginia
My and Birthright Citizenship Good Ideas?"
Tuesday, March 7, 2006, 12:10 PM
Gafford Moot Court Room (Cal Western)
2004-05: Human Rights in a New Age of Terror
Lt. Col. Michael Newton, United States Military Academy, West Point
"Mighty Oak or Mere Shadow? The Human Rights Dimension of the War on Terror"
Thursday, November 18, 2004, 12:10 PM
Gafford Moot Court Room (Cal Western)
Bill Schulz, Amnesty International, USA
"Tainted Legacy: 9/11 and the Ruin of Human Rights"
February 3, 2005, 12:10 PM
Jennifer Martinez, Stanford Law School
"Human Rights in the Age of Terror"
Thursday, February 10, 2005, 12:10 PM
Location TBA (Cal Western)
David Scheffer, George Washington University Law School
"The Future of Atrocity Law"
Wednesday, April 6, 2005, 4:00 PM
Deutz Conference Room, Institute of the Americas (UCSD)
Andrew Painter, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
"Refugee Protection in a Post-9/11 World"
Monday, May 2, 2005, 4:30 PM
Deutz Conference Room, Institute of the Americas (UCSD)
2003-04: Human Rights and International Institutions after Iraq
Christine Chinkin , London School of Economics and Political Science
"Women's Rights as Human Rights: Current Challenges and Opportunities"
Thursday, September 25, 2003, 12:00 PM
Gafford Moot Court Room (Cal Western)
Leila Nadya Sadat, Washington University School of Law
"Summer in Rome , Spring in the Hague , Winter in Washington : United States Policy Towards the International Criminal Court "
Thursday, September 25, 2003, 12:00 PM
Gafford Moot Court Room (Cal Western)
Ann Florini, Governance Studies Program at the Brookings Institution
"The Coming Democracy: New Rules for Running A New World"
Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB) Room 107 (UCSD)
David Harvey, CUNY Graduate Center
"The New Imperialism"
Monday, November 3, 2003, 7:30 PM
Robinson Auditorium (UCSD)
William Aceves & Michal Belknap, California Western School of Law; Michael Ramsey, University of San Diego School of Law; Charles Anthony Smith, University of California, San Diego; A Panel Discussion: "Guantanamo: A Legal Limbo?"
Wednesday, January 21, 2004, 2:00 PM
Weaver Center, Institute of the Americas (UCSD)
Co-sponsored by The International Museum of Human Rights and Amnesty International at UCSD.
