Fall 2022 has been a very exciting time for the International and Comparative Law program at GW Law. Our program has resumed its role in convening critical discussions in the field of international law, hosting numerous events, lectures, and activities. Our faculty also traveled widely this semester, sharing their knowledge and energy in ongoing initiatives of international and regional scope. Our alums, faculty, students, and staff continue to shape and identify solutions and strategies to the most crucial international issues. We strive to continue providing our students innovative education and key tools to address global challenges in these endemic and transformational times. Many of you have participated in our activities this semester and for that I am grateful. I share my best wishes for the end of this year, with the hopes that 2023 brings you wellness, health, peace, and extraordinary things. I thank you for your continued collaboration with our International and Comparative Law Program.
Rosa Celorio
Burnett Family Associate Dean of International and Comparative Legal Studies and Distinguished Professorial Lecturer in International and Comparative Law and Policy
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GW LAW CONTRIBUTIONS TO INTERNATIONAL LAW |
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GW Law Review’s Symposium on U.S. Foreign Relations Law |
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On October 7, 2022, The George Washington Law Review symposium “The Law of U.S. Foreign Relations” was held in conjunction with the upcoming publication of a treatise of that name by Sean D. Murphy, Manatt/Ahn Professor of International Law, and Edward Swaine, Charles Kennedy Poe Research Professor. Harold Hongju Koh of Yale Law School delivered the keynote address, “The 21st Century National Security Constitution.” Ashley S. Deeks, University of Virginia School of Law, moderated the first panel on “Structural Aspects of U.S. Foreign Relations Law” with Jean Galbraith, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School; Jide Nzelibe, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law; and Michael Ramsey, University of San Diego School of Law, serving as panelists. The second panel was moderated by Carlos M. Vázquez, Georgetown University Law Center, and explored “Judging U.S. Foreign Relations Law.” The panelists were Curtis A. Bradley, University of Chicago Law School; Maggie Gardner, Cornell Law School; and Ingrid Wuerth, Vanderbilt Law School. The symposium concluded with a Fireside Chat, moderated by Professors Murphy and Swaine. This quickfire Q&A session featured Laura A. Dickinson, GW Law; Darin Johnson, Howard University School of Law; Paul Stephan, University of Virginia School of Law; David Stewart, Georgetown University Law Center; and Margaret Taylor, United States Agency for International Development, as the panelists. The International and Comparative Law Program’s Brand-Manatt Lecture by the Honorable John B. Bellinger III was given on the same day. Mr. Bellinger’s lecture was titled “International and National Security Law Challenges for the Biden Administration.”
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John B. Bellinger III Delivers 2022 Brand-Manatt Lecture |
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On October 7, 2022, the International and Comparative Law Program hosted the Honorable John B. Bellinger III, who delivered this year’s Brand-Manatt Lecture titled “International and National Security Law Challenges for the Biden Administration.” Mr. Bellinger is currently a partner at Arnold & Porter, where he leads the firm’s Global Law and Public Policy practice; prior to joining the firm in 2009, he held several senior presidential appointments in the U.S. government. Mr. Bellinger’s wide-ranging lecture highlighted critical areas where international and national security law are playing an important role in U.S. foreign policy, notably in marshaling the global response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Mr. Bellinger, however, urged that the Biden Administration more forcefully call Russia to account for its violations of international law, seeing this as an under-exploited aspect of the administration’s policy. Mr. Bellinger also expressed concern that there was not yet a legal analysis from the Biden administration explaining that China is committing genocide in its treatment of its Uyghur population. He addressed the challenges arising from China’s conduct in the South China Sea; the return to power of the Taliban in Afghanistan; efforts to resume a nuclear deal with Iran; the use of force against (and detention of) terrorists; the provision of immunity to foreign officials; and the loss of bipartisan consensus on the value of Senate consent to ratification of treaties. The full news story on the lecture can be found here.
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Dean Rosa Celorio Serves as Leading Advisor to CEDAW Committee on Indigenous Women |
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On October 26, 2022, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women adopted its First General Recommendation on Indigenous Women and Girls, formally known as General Recommendation No. 39, calling for urgent action to respect, protect, and fulfill their human rights. It was the result of a two-year preparation and deliberation process involving many indigenous women and girls from around the world. The ICL program’s Dean Rosa Celorio served as a Senior Advisor to the Committee during this process. Of her experience, Dean Celorio says, “I was incredibly honored and humbled to be a part of this process. This is a landmark moment in the field of international human rights law. Now we have to work hard to make sure this General Recommendation is implemented and truly becomes a reality.” You can find the official U.N. Press Release here.
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GW Law Hosts Director General for Legal Service of European Commission |
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On September 19, 2022, a delegation led by Daniel Calleja Y. Crespo, Director-General for Legal Service of the European Commission, visited GW Law. Donna Attanasio, Assistant Dean for Energy Law, coordinated GW Law’s hosting of the delegation, which was organized by the GW Environmental and Energy Management Institute (EMMI). Director-General Calleja gave a presentation titled “Facing the Perfect Storm: What is the EU Strategy Addressing the Current Geopolitical, Energy and Climate Challenges?” This was followed by a lively discussion, moderated by Dean Rosa Celorio. “GW was delighted to host Director-General Calleja and the delegation from the European Commission,” said Dean Attanasio. “University-wide collaborations, such as the one between EEMI and the law school, provide GW Law students with global and cross-disciplinary enhancements to their classroom studies. We at GW Law are very fortunate to have colleagues in so many other disciplines across campus who are as committed to understanding and addressing the energy, climate, and environmental challenges the world faces as we are. These include colleagues in engineering, international affairs, public policy, business, public health, medicine, and media.” The full news story on the discussion can be found here.
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Professor Sean Murphy Completes Tenure at ILC, Lectures in Tanzania |
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During summer 2022, Sean D. Murphy, Manatt/Ahn Professor of International Law, completed his tenure on the International Law Commission (ILC), where he served as Special Rapporteur for Crimes Against Humanity. Professor Murphy has served for 10 years on the ILC, having been elected twice by the U.N. General Assembly. Jillian Timko, who graduated from GW Law in early May 2022, served as Professor Murphy’s assistant in Geneva, conducting research and writing for Professor Murphy on a variety of topics, including: protection of the environment in armed conflict; peremptory norms of general international law (jus cogens); immunity of state officials from foreign criminal jurisdiction; and sea-level rise in relation to international law.
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In August 2022, Professor Murphy taught in Arusha, Tanzania, at a week-long seminar on international law relating to the continental shelf, convened by the African Institute on International Law and the University of the Faroe Islands. |
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Professor Paul Berman Lectures in Italy and the Netherlands |
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On September 28, 2022, Paul Berman, Walter S. Cox Professor of Law, delivered the Public International Law Annual Lecture at Utrecht University. In his lecture, “Understanding Global Legal Pluralism: From Local to Global, From Descriptive to Normative,” Professor Berman discussed the main themes of the scholarly work that touches on global legal pluralism, and he encouraged students and practitioners in different areas of law to use this as a theoretical framework to help them to understand the descriptive and normative issues that come up. More information about this lecture can be found here. Professor Berman also gave lectures this semester in Rome at LUISS, in Amsterdam at the University of Amsterdam, and in Tilburg at the University of Tilburg.
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Professor Karen Brown Lectures in France |
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Karen Brown, Theodore Rinehart Professor of Business Law, delivered addresses at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne Tax Law Conference in Paris, France, and the Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3’s Tax Law Conference in Lyon, France. Organized by the two universities and the French Public Finance Department, the conference was designed to bring together law students and professors for comprehensive lectures on topics related to repairing international tax law reform. Professor Brown’s lectures focused on developing country viewpoints and concerns at the initial stages of the policymaking process. The full news story can be found here.
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Professor Steve Charnovitz Discusses International Trade Policy |
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On July 28, 2022, Steve Charnovitz, Associate Professor of Law, spoke on the podcast Torres Talks Trade in an episode about work-centered international trade policy. The episode discusses how U.S. international economic engagement could be improved both for U.S. workers and workers in other countries. This podcast episode can be accessed here.
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Professor Robert Cottrol Speaks at Conference in Brazil |
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On November 3, 2022, Robert Cottrol, Harold Paul Green Research Professor of Law, participated in an international conference on affirmative action held at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) in Porto Alegre. He had a chance to address the conference, saying a few things about affirmative action in the United States and offering a bit of a contrast with affirmative action in Brazil. A video of his remarks can be found here.
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Professor Robin Juni Lectures and Leads Workshops at Ukrainian Law Schools |
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Robin Juni, Associate Professor of Fundamentals of Lawyering, recently presented virtual programs to colleagues and students at two Ukrainian law schools, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University in Chernivtsi and Vasyl’ Stus Donetsk National University in Vinnytsia. The programs were developed as a result of two summer 2022 workshops in which Professor Juni participated, sponsored by the Global Legal Skills Conference Committee and the USAID Justice for All Program.
The workshops focused on ways to help Ukrainian law schools through collaboration and networking. First, Professor Juni presented a lecture in English on air pollution and climate change, which described the regulatory and technical approaches for air pollution control in the United States. She discussed strategies to control greenhouse gases and explained both how Ukraine might consider similar regulatory approaches and how these mechanisms impact the ability of the United States to meet commitments under the Paris Agreement. Students at both universities were extremely engaged and asked many questions.
Second, Professor Juni had the extraordinary help of 10 GW Law students to present an exercise focused on legal English and speaking and listening as a lawyer. She wrote the exercise to focus on a Ukrainian immigration situation, and the GW Law students helped their Ukrainian counterparts learn to better express legal concepts in English through small group interaction and discussion. After the exercise, one of the Ukrainian law professors wrote an email of appreciation, saying that the experience was “really amazing!! . . . our students are delighted and convey their gratitude. It was somewhat difficult for them, because English is not their native language, but it is a useful and necessary experience in a globalized world.”
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GW Law Professors Participate in ASIL’s Dalton Roundtable |
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On October 26, 2022, the American Society of International Law hosted its inaugural Robert E. Dalton Roundtable on International Law in Government Practice. Sean D. Murphy, Manatt/Ahn Professor of International Law, offered remarks on the importance of Robert Dalton’s work in this field and his experience working with him in the Office of the Legal Advisor. Edward Swaine, Charles Kennedy Poe Research Professor, moderated the panel discussion, which was meant to give students and new professionals an idea of what it’s like to practice international law in government settings. The panelists were each attorney-advisers at the U.S. Department of State. One of our esteemed adjunct professors, Trent Buatte, JD ’13, was among the venerable panelists. The other panelists were Sharla Draemel, Katie King, Dorothy Patton, and Shubha Sastry. |
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Women in International Law Speaker Series |
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On September 27, 2022, the International and Comparative Law Program hosted its inaugural Women in International Law Speaker Series. The first speaker was Nasim Fussell, LLM ’11, a Partner at Holland & Knight and a globally known expert in the field of international trade law. Associate Dean Rosa Celorio led the fireside chat discussion with Ms. Fussell. Dean Celorio noted that “the goal of this series is to showcase the amazing work women are doing in international law, in positions in which they are shaping and making critical decisions to advance this field. The International and Comparative Law Program wants to promote that more women should join the field of international law and provide a space in which there can be a discussion of what careers look like in this area. This kind of speaker series also promotes equality, inclusion, and diversity in all areas of international law and its practice. The series will offer a platform to women experts and practitioners in the field of international law to inspire, motivate, and continue to influence legal developments, despite existing challenges.”
Ms. Fussell centered her remarks on her professional experiences and numerous trade and public policy roles, including serving as Chief International Trade Counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance and, currently, as a Partner in Holland & Knight’s Washington, D.C. office. She offered many words of wisdom and advice to GW Law students, including the importance of mentoring, networking, concentrations, and LLM degrees in international law.
The event was co-sponsored by the American Society of International Law, the Washington Foreign Law Society, the GW International Law Society, and the GW Law Association of Women. The full news story can be found here.
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Visiting Scholar Lecture Series |
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The International and Comparative Law Program invited three of GW’s visiting scholars to present their research before students, faculty, and members of the public. On October 3, 2022, Allison Anthony, BA, LLB, LLM, LLD, a senior lecturer in public procurement law at the University of South Africa and a Deputy Director of the African Procurement Law Unit at Stellenbosch University, gave a presentation titled “HUBZones as a Means of Preference in Government Contracts: A Comparative Perspective.” On November 3, 2022, Cássio Cassagrande, Professor of Constitutional Law at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, gave a presentation titled “The Influence of FDR’s New Deal Policies in the Making of Brazilian Labor Legislation.” On November 14, 2022, co-sponsored with the National Security, Cybersecurity, and Foreign Relations Law Program, Aïcha Ghmouch, a doctoral student at the University of Paris-Saclay in France visiting GW as a Fulbright Scholar, gave a presentation titled “The Rising Presidential Influence on Environmental Policies: Historical and Comparative Aspects from U.S. and French Experiences.” It is such a pleasure to have each of these prestigious scholars doing research at GW Law. |
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GW LAW RESUMES GW-OXFORD SUMMER PROGRAM |
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GW Law is thrilled to announce the return of the GW-Oxford International Human Rights Law Summer Program for 2023 thanks to the wonderful leadership of Professor Ralph Steinhardt. The 2023 program will be running from July 4-July 28 at New College, Oxford. There will be great new courses on topics such as climate justice and human rights in the digital realm, and the return of old favorites on topics such as war, peace, and human rights and gender, sexuality, and international human rights law. All courses will be taught by an internationally acclaimed and diverse faculty. More information about the program and the application process can be found here.
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ICL Program Launches Two New Courses |
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The International and Comparative Law Program introduced two new courses that will be taught in spring 2023. The first course, International Women’s Rights Lawyering Practicum, will provide a practical introduction to human rights lawyering, focusing on litigation concerning women’s rights issues before regional and international courts and bodies. The course will be taught by Barbara Jimenez, Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean at Equality Now; Alyssa Johnson, Associate Attorney at Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP; and Shayda Vance, Associate Attorney at Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP. The second course, International Arbitration in Latin America, will introduce students to the fundamental principles of international commercial and investment arbitration, with a particular focus on Latin America and selected Latin American jurisdictions. The course will be taught by Clovis Trevino, Special Counsel at Covington & Burling LLP. |
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Catalina Milos Sotomayor Defends Dissertation on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights |
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Catalina Milos Sotomayor defended her SJD dissertation on September 28, 2022, titled “Rethinking Equal Access to Economic and Social Rights in the Regulatory State: A Comparative Law Analysis of the Education and Health Sectors in Chile and Ontario.” Her dissertation defense committee was led by Professor Francesca Bignami and included Professor Mariana Prado from University of Toronto, Associate Dean and Professor Katie Young from Boston College Law School, and Associate Dean Rosa Celorio. Following her successful defense, Ms. Sotomayor participated in a panel discussion with her defense committee members to discuss “New Directions in Law and Development.” The panel discussed what kind of law and legal projects deserve attention and resources in the global south at this moment when global events have put a lot of pressure on developing countries. The panelists discussed different approaches to institutional reform in developing nations and the interplay between human rights and law and development. |
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Mohammed Saleh Alsuhayman Defends Dissertation on International Law and Cross-Border Hydrocarbon Development |
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On November 9, 2022, Mohammed Saleh Alsuhayman successfully defended his SJD dissertation “International Legal Frameworks on Cross-Border Hydrocarbon Development.” His dissertation defense committee was led by Professor Steve Charnovitz and included Adjunct Professor Benjamin Nussdorf; Renée Martin-Nagle, who is Special Counsel at Eckert Seamans; and Associate Dean Rosa Celorio. |
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FACULTY AND ALUMNI PUBLICATIONS |
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Kiran Gore Publishes Two New Books on International Arbitration |
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Kiran Gore, Professorial Lecturer in Law, is publishing two new books on international arbitration. Professor Gore is a co-author of The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties in Investor-State Disputes: History, Evolution, and Future with Esmé Shirlow; it was published this year by Kluwer. Her book International Investment Law and Investor-State Disputes in Central Asia: Emerging Issues with co-authors Elijah Putilin, Kabir A.N. Duggal, and Crina Baltag will be published by Kluwer in early 2023.
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Jason Zubata Publishes Article on Right to Asylum |
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Jason Zubata, JD ’22, had an article “Securing a Durable Right to Asylum: Comparing Access to Protection Under the European and Inter-American Systems” selected for publication as a “Current Development” in volume 37 of the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal. He says of this article, “As the issue of internationally displaced persons continues to grow more prominent, I hope this article will help shed light on the continued need for a durable right to asylum.”
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Nayomi Goonesekere Publishes Article on Reforming Security Council Veto Power |
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Nayomi Goonesekere, LLM ’19, published an article, “Veto Power Reform in the Face of the Commission of Mass Atrocities,” in September in the Berkeley Journal of International Law. The article discusses the challenges that the Security Council veto power creates in allowing the United Nations to be effective in cases of mass atrocities and proposes various options for reform. The article can be read in full here.
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Ryan Migeed Publishes Article on International Trade |
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Ryan Migeed, JD ’22, has had an article titled “Trade-Based Solutions for Revitalizing Post-Conflict Economies” selected for publication in the next volume of the Michigan Journal of International Law. The article discusses how “some types of trade are better than others for reviving the economies of countries emerging from internal or international armed conflicts. The goal of this paper is to illuminate the international trade and funding instruments best suited to improve the long-term growth of export industries in post-conflict transition countries.”
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FACULTY AND DEAN ACTIVITIES |
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Leah Calabro
Visiting Associate Professor and Fellow
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In November, Professor Leah Calabro spoke as a guest lecturer at The College of New Jersey in Dr. Lindsay Warren’s Genocide and Human Rights class. Her lecture gave the students an overview of international criminal law and the role it plays in the protection of human rights and genocide prevention. Professor Calabro’s article “Finding Justice for the Yazidi Women Victims of ISIS: Analyzing the Viability of Using the Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal as a Model” was accepted to be presented at the Junior International Law Scholars Association annual meeting in January 2023. |
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Rosa Celorio
Burnett Family Associate Dean for International and Comparative Legal Studies and Distinguished Professorial Lecturer in International and Comparative Law and Policy
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Associate Dean Celorio published Women and International Human Rights in Modern Times: A Contemporary Casebook in January 2022 (Edward Elgar Publishing), which was also launched at GW Law on April 5, 2022. Dean Celorio has also been nominated to the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law (with the election to occur during the upcoming ASIL annual meeting in the Spring of 2023). She continues serving in several international law-related roles, including as Chair of the Next Generation Initiative and Membership Committee of the American Society of International Law; as Senior Advisor to the CEDAW Committee in the drafting of its new General Recommendation on Indigenous Women and Girls; and as the International Human Rights Dispute Resolution Authority in Belize reporting before the Caribbean Court of Justice on compliance with the rights of the Maya indigenous peoples. Dean Celorio participated as a speaker in Advancing Women’s Rights Through Public Infrastructure Procurement, organized by the Department of Public, Constitutional, and International Law of the University of South Africa on August 31, 2022; Thematic Meeting: United Nations CEDAW Committee General Recommendation 39 on Indigenous Women and Girls, organized by United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples Unit on November 9, 2022; in the Seminar Structural Gender Inequalities in EU and Human Rights Law, organized by Utrecht University and the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights on November 11; and the Colloquium: The Global Movement for Comprehensive Anti-Discrimination Law, December 6, 2022, organized by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. She also continued to work on the seventh edition of International Human Rights: Problems of Law, Policy, and Practice (Aspen Publishing) (with co-authors Professors S. James Anaya, Dinah L. Shelton, and Hurst Hannum), and the article “The Istanbul Convention through the Lens of the Americas and Africa in Commentary to the Istanbul Convention” (Professors Sara De Vido and Micaella Frulli, editors) (forthcoming 2023, Edward Elgar Publishing).
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Renée Lettow Lerner
Donald Philip Rothschild Research Professor
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Professor Renée Lerner led a training session for judges from Argentina via Zoom that the ICL program organized on September 29, 2022 at the request of the Judiciary Council of the City of Buenos Aires. The Judiciary Council requested training for about 40 criminal law judges as Argentina transitions to an adversarial system. Argentine provinces have recently begun to use juries, and Professor Lerner focused on juror selection, including voir dire, and the conduct of jury trials, including jury instructions. On October 24, 2022, she met with a delegation of the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security at GW Law to discuss procedures for receiving information from cooperating witnesses in criminal cases. The members of the delegation are interested in ideas on this topic to suggest possible changes to the Dutch Code of Criminal Procedure. The photograph shows Professor Lerner with the delegation. |
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Sean D. Murphy
Manatt/Ahn Professor of International Law
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Professor Murphy has been appointed by the President of the World Bank to serve as the Chairman of a Court of Arbitration to resolve a dispute between the Government of India and Pakistan. More information about his appointment can be found here. In September 2022, Professor Murphy delivered a keynote address at Case Western University Law School on “International Law and the ‘New Cold War’: Liberal Democracy versus Authoritarianism?” In October 2022, Professor Murphy spoke at the International Law Association American Branch annual conference at Fordham Law School as part of a panel on “Reimagining the System of World Organization: Are the UN’s Principal Organs Performing Their Tasks?” In November, Professor Murphy taught at a workshop in Paris on “Third Party Settlement of Boundary and Sovereignty Disputes” held by the International Boundaries Research Unit of Durham University and co-sponsored by the law firm Foley Hoag. That same month, he spoke at a conference at the University of Lisbon Faculty of Law on “Preparing for Sea Level Rise.” Professor Sean D. Murphy’s article “Now You See Them, Now You Don’t: Court-Appointed Experts, Wartime Reparations, and the DRC v. Uganda Case” was accepted for publication in volume 13 of the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies (forthcoming 2023; Parkhomenko).
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(from left to right: Prof. Eirik Bjorge, Ms Mirjam Bierling, Prof. Murphy, Namira Ngeg, and Mr. Eran Sthoeger) |
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FEATURED EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES |
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Global Implications of the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis |
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On September 8, 2022, the International and Comparative Law Program hosted a panel discussion titled “Global Implications of the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis.” The panel of experts included Alice Farmer, a Senior Protection Officer at UNHCR; Bill Frelick, Director of the Refugee and Migrant Rights Division at Human Rights Watch; Licha Nyiendo, Chief Legal Officer at Human Rights First; and Olena Mykhalchenko, an international gender specialist and LLM alum of GW Law. Associate Dean Rosa Celorio moderated the discussion and Professor Leah Calabro provided commentary. The panelists discussed the global impact and ramifications of the ongoing Ukrainian refugee crisis that is taking place as a result of Russia’s war on Ukraine. This event was co-sponsored by the American Society of International Law, the Washington Foreign Law Society, and GW’s International Law Society. |
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Training Argentinian Judges |
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On September 29, 2022, the International and Comparative Law (ICL) Program hosted a day-long legal training for criminal judges from the city of Buenos Aires. The ICL Program collaborated with the Judiciary Council of the City of Buenos Aires to curate this training. Argentina is experimenting with a transition from an inquisitorial system to an adversarial system in some of its criminal courts at the moment, and the Judiciary Council approached GW Law to host a training for criminal judges from the city of Buenos Aires on different aspects of the U.S. criminal justice system. Several GW Law professors participated in this day-long training to make it a success. Associate Dean Rosa Celorio opened the training and offered welcome remarks. The morning consisted of four different sessions: Professor Laird Kirkpatrick offered a session on evidence, Professor Renee Lerner offered a session on comparative criminal procedure, Professor Robert Cottrol offered a session on U.S. criminal law and its historical aspects, and Professor Ilan Friedmann-Grunstein offered a session on U.S. criminal procedure. In the afternoon, Professor Leah Calabro offered a session on international criminal law, and Professors Alberto Benitez and Paulina Vera offered a session on immigration and criminal law. Assistant Dean Shehernaz Joshi ended the day telling the judges about GW’s graduate program opportunities. Approximately 30 to 40 judges actively participated in this training throughout the day and engaged in conversations with each of the professors on the various topics of their sessions. |
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Inns of Court Amity Visit |
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On Wednesday, September 14, 2022, the International and Comparative Law Program hosted the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn and the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple as part of their Amity Visit organized by the American Inns of Court. Several judges and attorneys from the U.K. Inns and several judges and attorneys from the United States were in attendance for a luncheon with the faculty, where Dean Dayna Matthew; Judge Joanna Korner CMG KC, a judge on the International Criminal Court; and Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn, a U.S. District Court Judge for the Northern District of Texas, all gave remarks. The luncheon was followed by a comparative advocacy event organized by the Inns that was open to students and faculty. This mock trial event was designed to highlight the unique and interesting divergence between the U.S. and U.K. trial systems, and several students were given the opportunity to participate as jurors. Thank you to GW Law's Intellectual Property Law program for working with us on this event! |
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Careers in International Law Panel |
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On November 10, 2022, the International and Comparative Law Program hosted a panel focused on careers in international law. Associate Dean Rosa Celorio moderated the discussion among the panelists, who all represented various career paths in international law. The panelists in attendance were Nathaniel Bolin, Partner at DLA Piper; Trent Buatte, Attorney-Adviser for Political-Military Affairs, Office of the Legal Adviser at U.S. Department of State; Leah Calabro, Visiting Associate Professor and Fellow at GW Law; Kiran Gore, Independent Arbitrator and Counsel at Law Offices of Kiran N. Gore PLLC; and Leila Hanafi, International Development Lawyer at the World Bank Group. Each of these panelists is also a professorial lecturer at the law school, and they teach on a variety of topics connected to international law and our international LLM and MSL students. |
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IACHR and GW Law Organize Yearly Seminar for CARICOM Countries |
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On November 8, 2022, the International and Comparative Law (ICL) Program hosted the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights’ eleventh annual Seminar for CARICOM Countries, titled “Inter-American Human Rights System: Human Rights Protection for Survivors of Gender-Based Violence and Amid Post-Pandemic Challenges.” There were several presentations throughout the morning on related subjects given by experts in the field. Dean Rosa Celorio gave a presentation on international human rights and the importance of ratification of instruments. Commission President Julissa Mantilla, who is also the Rapporteur on the Rights of Women and Memory, Truth, and Justice, attended the seminar in person to speak on the causes and consequences of gender-based violence and discrimination. A number of high-level officials from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights participated in the seminar, including Commissioners Margarette May Macaulay, Roberta Clarke, and Carlos Bernal Pulido, as well as the current Executive Secretary of the IACHR Tania Reneaum and the Assistant Executive Secretary Maria Claudia Pulido. This hybrid event had representatives from most of the 15 CARICOM countries in attendance. The ICL Program recognizes the contributions of Professor Emeritus Dinah Shelton to the creation and offering of this seminar over the years. |
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GW Law Hosts State Department Meeting on Public International Law |
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On December 12, 2022, the International and Comparative Law Program hosted the U.S. State Department Advisory Committee Meeting on Public International Law. The discussions were focused on the future of the international rules-based order considering developments in Ukraine, a potential special tribunal on the crime of aggression in Ukraine, and current developments in space law. |
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GW Law Students Attend Washington Foreign Law Society Gala |
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The Washington Foreign Law Society hosted its annual gala in September for the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic began. Four students, Christina Revilla Chacon, 3L; Holden Fitzgerald, 3L; Juna Hicka, LLM; and Sandra Ramirez, LLM, volunteered at the gala and attended the dinner and reception with Professor Leah Calabro. The United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai was this year’s honoree and recipient of the Harry LeRoy Jones Award. |
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INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW PROGRAM: CONTACT INFORMATION |
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The International and Comparative Law (ICL) Program currently offers the following degrees and concentrations:
- JD Concentration in International and Comparative Law
- JD Concentration in International Business Law
- LLM in International and Comparative Law
- LLM Concentration in International Human Rights
- LLM Concentration in International Arbitration
For more information on these degrees, concentrations, and other activities and work of the ICL program, you can contact Associate Dean Rosa Celorio at Rcelorio@law.gwu.edu.
Thank you for your continued interest and collaboration!
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ICL PROGRAM EXPANDS SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE |
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The International and Comparative Law Program has expanded its social media presence over the past few months to keep students, faculty, and alumni more engaged and involved in the program. We are sharing our events and program-related news across all our social media accounts. The links to each of our accounts can be found below. Please follow us!
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