ILSP Recent Events
"Origin of the War Crimes Tribunal," a lecture by David Scheffer, director, Center for International Human Rights, Northwestern University
Feb 07, 2012 - A Hyatt Event sponsored by the Vanderbilt International Law Society
"Will there ever be peace in the Middle East?"
Elliott Abrams, Sr.
Counselor for Middle Eastern Studies
Council on Foreign Relations
October 20, 2011, 4:00p.m.
Bennett-Miller Room
View a slideshow from the event.
Criminal Justice Roundtable on Responses to 9-11, September 23-24, 2011 Co-sponsored with the Criminal Justice Program
Participants in this roundtable included: Diane Marie Amann (Georgia Law School); Norman Abrams (UCLA School of Law); Robert Chesney (University of Texas School of Law); Monica Hakimi (University of Michigan Law School); Peter Marguilies (Roger Williams University School of Law); Deborah Pearlstein (Princeton University); Harvey Rishikof (National War College); Stephen Vladeck (American University College of Law); Matthew Waxman (Columbia Law School); Benjamin Wittes (Brookings Institution), and members of Vanderbilt's criminal justice and international law faculty.
September 1, 2011 "Terrorist Trials in Dutch Courts: A Comparative Conversation" - A talk by Alexander van Dam, Senior Public Prosecutor, The Hague, Team Leader Prosecution Team. Co-sponsored by the International law Society.
April 8, 2011 Spring 2011 International Legal studies Roundtable - "International Organizations in Transition"
February 4, 2011 - "Foreign Sovereign Immunity at Home and Abroad" - conference
February 3, 2011 "Three Images of the Arctic and the Legal and Political Trends They Suggest" - 2011 Jonathan I. Charney lecture by David Caron, President, American Society of International Law.
November 29, 2010 "Cracks in the Intellectual Architecture: Individual and Group Religious Freedom Rights in the European Court of Human Rights"
November 15-16, 2010 "International Action to Prevent Genocide and Mass Atrocities." Working Group meeting, Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris, France
October 22, 2010 "Human Rights Challenges in Trying Grave International Crimes" - A talk by Howard Morrison, Judge on the International Criminal Trial for the Former Yugoslavia.
September 14, 2010 “Guantanamo Bay: Discussion of Current Issues and the Way Forward,” co-sponsored with Criminal Justice Program. The detention center at Guantanamo Bay has spurred a tremendous amount of litigation, with a number of cases ending up in the United States Supreme Court. This panel examined the relevance of international law and treaties to American jurisprudence, the scope of preventive detention, the rights of enemy combatants, the habeas jurisdiction of the federal courts, and other topics.
Major Speakers & Conferences
Conversation with General David Petraeus, Commander, U.S. Central Command - March 8, 2010 – Professor Michael Newton led a discussion with General Petraeus, Commanding General of the United States Central Command, based on questions submitted in advance by students. General Petraeus is the four-star officer responsible for the conflicts in Iraq and the Afghanistan-Pakistan theater of operations as well as other smaller military efforts across the region. Sponsored by the International Legal Studies Program, the event is expected to be nationally televised.
Stephen Hadley, director of the National Security Council under former President George W. Bush, visited Vanderbilt Law School to deliver a talk open to to all law students and faculty. He also was a guest lecturer in Professor Ingrid Wuerth's Foreign Affairs class. January 20, 2009.
"Instability Indicators and Genocide Prevention" 2010 Genocide Prevention Conference. Co-sponsored by the National Intelligence Council; the Directorate of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency; Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State; and Vanderbilt University Law School in cooperation with Global Futures Forum.
"Mounting Tensions and Melting Ice: Exploring the Legal and Policy Future of the Arctic," symposium sponsored by the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law - February 6, 2009