University of Pittsburgh School of Law Volume 19, Fall 2014

CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL LEGAL EDUCATION

From the Director students, and we invite you to consider In December of 2013, we welcomed their stories, in their words, which are Brian Fraile ( JD ’13) to the CILE By Professor Ronald A. Brand included in this issue of CILE Notes. staff as assistant director. Brian worked Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg On the back cover, you will note that with CILE extensively as a student, University Professor we also look forward to providing an including in Vis Moot training in online version of our LLM program Istanbul, Turkey, and Abu Dhabi, UAE, As we enter CILE’s 20th year, beginning in fall 2015. We already have and spent fall 2013 teaching at Moi we welcome another stellar group of completed much of the work for the University School of Law as part of our LLM, SJD, and JD students to our pro- online courses and are excited about partnership there. While a recent grad, he grams and look forward to celebrating the this natural extension of CILE into the brings a wealth of experience and skills completion of those 20 years in the fall of broader realm of legal education. that have already provided significant 2015. We also pause to look back, not only benefits to our students. on the past year, but on the longer term success of a number of CILE programs. The feature article that follows reviews The Vis Moot as a Platform and 15 years of CILE use of the Vis Inter- national Commercial Arbitration Moot a Process for CILE Expansion of as a platform for international legal International Legal Education education and development. We hope you will take the time to read it and A 1999 Center for International ing DNU professors and students for the reflect with us on the many countries, law Legal Education (CILE) partnership Vis International Commercial Arbitra- schools, and students who have shared with the University of Pittsburgh Center tion Moot. The 21st Vis Moot, held in that experience with us; and to consider for Russian and East European Studies Vienna, Austria, in April 2014, brought how the progress of that platform might (REES) resulted in a U.S. State Depart- together student teams from nearly 300 be brought to bear on even more benefi- ment grant-funded process that has law schools from more than 70 countries cial developments in the future. developed into a unique CILE program to present written and oral arguments in Beyond the Vis Moot experience, we of legal education. Fifteen years later, a a commercial dispute that involved the share updates on our partnerships around process that began in Donetsk, Ukraine, application of the UN Convention on the globe, with special emphasis on what has touched law students, professors, Contracts for the International Sale of the past year has brought in our coopera- judges, and practicing lawyers in nearly Goods (CISG) and the law of interna- tion with Moi University School of Law 20 countries, and continues to grow. tional arbitration. in Eldoret, Kenya. All of these projects The relationship created in 1999 with At the 2014 Vis Moot, CILE hosted have brought opportunities for our Ukraine’s Donetsk National University students and faculty from 17 Vis teams INSIDE (DNU) Faculty of Law included train- who engaged in friendly practice arguments prior to the Vis Moot Platform for Legal moot and gathered for a Education...... 1 Pitt Consortium dinner during the competition. CILE Continues to Expand Global Partnerships...... 6 That dinner brought together teams from Student Experiences...... 10 Bahrain, Croatia, Egypt, Programs & Activities...... 14 Iraq, Jordan, Kosovo, LLM Class of 2015...... 19 Oman, the Palestin- ian Territories, Qatar, Student Activities...... 21 Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Alumni News...... 22 Tunisia, Ukraine, the Professor Brand and students from Al Iraquiya and Bilgi Universities United Arab Emirates, Faculty Activities...... 24 pose in front of the Hagia Sofia in Istanbul, Turkey, October 2013 continued on page 2

www.law.pitt.edu/cile PITT LAW’S GLOBAL IMPACT THE VIS MOOT PLATFORM FOR LEGAL EDUCATION THE VIS MOOT PLATFORM FOR LEGAL EDUCATION University in Al-Ain, United Arab Emir- ates (2010); the University of Qatar, in The Vis Moot as a Platform and a Process for CILE Expansion of International Legal Education Doha (2011); and the Universities of continued from page 1 Baghdad and Jordan (2012). When critical mass was reached, and Pittsburgh. All of those teams had, CLDP and CILE partnered with in some way, benefitted from the CILE the Bahrain Chamber of Dispute process of using the Vis Moot as a plat- Resolution (BCDR) to hold the first form for international legal education. As Middle East Vis Pre-Moot in 2011. Dr. Stefan Kröll, a director of the Moot Originally scheduled for Manama, and professor at Bucerius Law School in Bahrain, the event was moved to Vienna Hamburg, Germany, stated at this year’s because of the events of the Arab Spring. Vis Moot opening ceremonies in the Subsequent Middle East Pre-Moots have Vienna Konzerthaus, professors Ronald been held in Muscat, Oman; Abu Dhabi, Brand and Harry Flechtner, working UAE; and Doha, Qatar. The Pre-Moots through CILE, have “brought more have drawn together law schools from the teams to the moot than anyone else… Gulf Region to prepare their Vis Moot teaching worldwide and supporting teams for the competition in Vienna, as teams worldwide” to advance the “moot well as to cooperate in curriculum devel- spirit.” opment and outreach to the practicing bar. CILE and Pitt Law were uniquely In 2014, the Pre-Moot included teams positioned when this process began from Kabul University in Afghanistan, in 1999 to use the Vis Moot as a legal the University of Alexandria in Egypt, education platform. Professor Flechtner Al-Iraqiya University in Iraq, Kuwait is the leading U.S. scholar on the United University, the University of Qatar, Nations Convention on Contracts for Members of the Pitt Consortium enjoy a break from the Vis Moot at the Prater in Vienna, Austria, Dar-Al-Hekma University in Saudi April 2012 the International Sale of Goods (CISG), Arabia, and the Faculty of Legal, having now edited the third and fourth Political, and Social Sciences of Tunis, 2 CISG. Pitt Law and CILE have hosted Belgrade. Professors Milena Djordjevic 3 editions of Uniform Law for International important international conferences on and Vladimir Pavic have coached some Tunisia. These teams were joined in Mais Abousy (CLDP - left), Professor Brand, Janet Checkley ( JD ’14 - fourth from right), Sales under the 1980 United Nations the CISG since 1987. And, the CILE of the most successful Vis Moot teams. Vienna by teams from Birzeit University Convention, originally authored by Pro- in the Palestine Territories, the University and Krysta Smith ( JD ’14 - third from right) with students from Al Iraquiya University at Studies series, published by Oxford The students from those teams are now the Vis Moot in Vienna, Austria, April 2014 fessor John Honnold. Pitt Law’s Journal University Press, has included impor- regularly the first graduates recruited by of Jordan, and UAE University. of Law and Commerce has regularly been tant volumes on the CISG. the major law firms in Belgrade. What Notably, in 2014, Vis Moot teams one of the premier sources of scholarship When CILE included the Vis is most impressive is that the University from Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Professor Brand will once again work Convention on the Recognition and and case law translations dealing with the Moot as part of the original grant of Belgrade has become the home of a Palestinian Territories participated in with CLDP in training sessions held Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards. activities with DNU, it resulted in one highly regarded arbitration conference the Vis competition. CLDP and CILE at the University of Jordan in Amman, One element of CILE’s work with of the first Ukrainian teams in the and Vis pre-moot, which each year draws supported formation of the Afghan Jordan, in October 2014 and February transition country faculty and students cile notes 2014 competition in 2001. When additional to Belgrade accomplished international and Iraqi teams, with Pitt Law LLM 2015. Mais Abousy, an attorney-advisor on the Vis Moot is, from Professor U.S. State Department grants funded scholars and arbitrators, as well as teams graduate, Moien Odeh (LLM, ’13) orga- at CLDP who has taken on the CLDP Brand’s perspective, the most important. University of Pittsburgh School of Law cooperation with the University of from more than 50 schools, who are on nizing and coaching the team from Birzeit responsibilities in the Middle East and Since 2007, Pitt Law students who have Center for International Legal Education Belgrade, Serbia; Kyiv National Taras their way to Vienna. University. overseen its growth to inclusion of the competed in the Vis Moot during the Shevchenko University, Ukraine; and The process CILE began with State The Vis Moot platform, and the four annual Pre-Moots, has asked CILE second year of their JD studies, have Ronald A. Brand, Director the University of Pristina, Kosovo; Department support in Ukraine, Serbia, process developed by CILE to use that and Professor Brand to help add a new traveled and worked with him to train Brian Fraile, Assistant Director CILE created Vis Moot teams at and Kosovo has now been extended in platform as a foundation for multiple dimension to the program. Following the Middle East teams during their 3L years. Gina Huggins, Program Administrator each of these schools as well. From cooperation with the Commercial Law legal education purposes, has added to initial fall training session for student While the Vis Moot is an incredible Austin Lebo, Administrative Assistant two Pitt Consortium teams in 2001, Development Program (CLDP) of the the education of hundreds of students teams, a two-day program will be held learning experience, and takes students in more than 20 countries, resulted in for Jordanian lawyers, law professors, far beyond what their non-moot coun- Please direct all correspondence to: to three in 2002, to 17 in 2014, U.S. Department of Commerce. After CILE has continued to establish a trip through the Gulf Region with curricular changes in transition country and judges, at which they will be terparts experience in legal education, University of Pittsburgh law schools, created a cadre of talented introduced to the Vis Moot process. the opportunity to teach international School of Law Vis Moot teams and work with CLDP staff in 2005, Professor Brand law faculties to make the teams self- recommended using the Vis Moot to and well-trained arbitration lawyers This will prepare themto be Pre-Moot commercial law, international arbitration, Center for International Legal Education throughout the Balkans and the Middle arbitrators in February and train them and legal writing and oral advocacy skills 318 Barco Law Building sustaining, resulting in long-term develop commercial law and arbitration programs, long-term relationships, and expertise throughout the Middle East. East, created new partnerships in legal to better use international arbitration in to students in other cultures takes these 3900 Forbes Avenue education, and—most recently—begun practice. Through this process, Jordanian Pitt Law students even further in their Pittsburgh, PA 15260 long-term benefits. This resulted in a CLDP contract with Perhaps the best example of how CILE to train a team from the Univer- to influence the way judges in transition judges should better understand and professional development. Phone: 412-648-7023 countries perceive international arbitra- trust the international arbitration awards Fax: 412-648-2648 the Vis Moot has provided a platform sity of Bahrain for the 2008 Vis Moot. for growth and development at a single This was followed with Sultan Qaboos tion awards and the treaty obligation to that they may be obligated to recognize E-mail: [email protected] recognize and enforce them. and enforce under the United Nations Web Site: law.pitt.edu/cile law school is found at the University of University in Oman (2009); UAE continued on page 4 THE VIS MOOT PLATFORM FOR LEGAL EDUCATION THE VIS MOOT PLATFORMINTERNATIONAL FOR LEGAL CRIMINAL EDUCATION LAW

The Vis Moot as a Platform and a Process for CILE Expansion of International Legal Education Director General of Scholarships for continued from page 3 the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education, suggested to Professor Brand in spring 2014 that the Ministry send former Iraqi This process continues as well in Vis Moot students to Pitt Law for LLM 2014–15, with Janet Checkley ( JD ’14) and SJD degrees, they also discussed scheduled to travel with Professor Brand having those students return to teach to Amman, Jordan. The process will come international arbitration in Iraqi law full circle when, also in October 2014, schools. Professor Brand realized that Robert Gyenes (Class of 2015) and this process required a special course in Summer institute students with Judge ___ at the Constitutional Mary Kate Shawley (Class of 2015) will international arbitration. Thus, in fall Court of Croatia] join Katerina Ossenova ( JD ’08), who 2014, the International Commercial is now an attorney-advisor at CLDP, Arbitration course at Pitt Law includes to help train students from law schools three categories of students. 1) Pitt JD throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina in students who have not participated in Sarajevo. the Vis Moot will use the course to Pitt Law students also have benefit- compete for a position on the 2015 Summer institute students with Jasna Omejac, President of the Constitutional Court of Croatia ted from two courses that have resulted Vis Moot team. Professors Brand and from CILE’s use of the Vis Moot as a Flechtner will participate in preparing the Finally, foreign LLM students (including the impact of Pitt Law on international platform for legal education. In 2010, Katerina Ossenova (JD ’08) and Kate Drabecki ( JD ’08) with students from the 2008 Bahrain students, using the 2015 Moot problem as the Iraqi students) who have participated commercial law and arbitration. Each Pitt Law partnered with the University Vis Moot team a core element of the course, with every in the Vis Moot while studying in their year at the opening ceremonies of the of Zagreb in Croatia and Touro Law student preparing written memoranda home countries will both help train other Vis Moot, Professor Flechtner performs Center in New York to create the Institute and engaging in oral argument. 2) Pitt JD students and use the course to prepare his CISG Song, Mootie Blues, and a in International Commercial Law and Pitt Law students who have had this experience in CILE’s cooperation with special new song written especially for the Dispute Resolution, a four-week summer CLDP include: current moot. The more than 2,500 study program that takes place in Zagreb students, professors, and arbitrators Bahrain 2007–08: Richard Kyle ( JD ’11), and Amelia and Zadar, Croatia. Students may earn assembled at that event are both enter- Kate Drabecki ( JD ’08) and Katerina Mathias ( JD ’11) both U.S. and European law school credit tained and educated by Flechtner’s 4 Ossenova ( JD ’08) in the four-week program that begins 5 Istanbul 2011–12: songs. You can be too, at www.cisgsong. with a week of basic international busi- Oman 2008–09: Kaitlin (Young) Dewberry ( JD ’12), info, where you may not only listen to ness transactions, follows with a week of Elizabeth Hinkle ( JD ’09), Esther Kimberly (Stains) Karr ( JD ’12), and Professor Flechtner, but also consider the international commercial law and a week Mosimann ( JD ’09), and Katerina Sarah (Miley) Mueller ( JD ’12) many enlightening footnotes to the CISG of international arbitration, and ends Ossenova ( JD ’08) Istanbul/Abu Dhabi: 2012–13: Song. As with the Institute in Croatia, with a week of hands-on simulation of UAE 2009–10: Amelia Brett ( JD ’13), Eryn Correa Professor Flechtner’s musical approach an international commercial arbitration Marc Coda ( JD ’10), Rick Grubb ( JD ( JD ’13), and Brian Fraile ( JD ’13) demonstrates that great learning can be in which students present both written ’10), and Kerry Ann Stare ( JD ’10) combined with an enjoyable experience. Doha 2013–14: and oral submissions on behalf of their Professor Brand sometimes is asked Qatar 2010–11: Janet Checkley ( JD ’14) and Krysta clients. The program is, effectively, a Vis why his work does not involve more in Kristine (Long) Carpenter ( JD ’11), Smith ( JD ’14) Moot “boot camp,” and many students the area of international human rights. have gone on from the institute to be Brand’s response to this question is, members of their law school Vis Moot “Oh, but this is human rights. No legal teams. Students have attended from system can provide basic needs without throughout the United States, as well as a functioning economic system, and from other countries, including Australia, having lawyers who can help establish Bosnia, Brazil, Croatia, Guatemala, Italy, the framework for commercial exchange Kosovo, Oman, and Russia. The institute and for dispute resolution is fundamental. has presented a very special opportunity Dr. Hadi Saleh Alhashim (left), from the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education, and Professor Brand agree Thus, this process is at the very core of to engage in rigorous legal education in to a student exchange in front of Mais Abousy, of the U.S. Dept. of Commerce Commercial human rights.” “Moreover,” says Brand, a location as pleasant and as beautiful as Law Development Program “when you see intense discussions about the Dalmatian coast of Croatia, proving non-threatening legal issues among one of CILE’s basic principles: that great students who have participated in the Vis a course syllabus, reading materials, and students from Belgrade and students thinking, with great people, in a great Moot will also take part in the course. They lesson plans in order to return to their from Pristina, and among students from location, produces great results. will not only deepen their understanding home countries to teach international Kyiv and students from Donetsk, and The second course that has resulted of international arbitration law, but also commercial arbitration. when you see brilliant young women from from CILE’s Vis Moot focus is in its will help train other JD students for the While all of this has extended the a law school in Saudi Arabia holding first offering during the fall of 2014. moot and engage in training of Vis Moot influence of CILE throughout the their own with Vis Moot teams from the Ali Hayder, Brian Fraile ( JD ’13), and Rafal Jasim discuss the Vis Moot Problem at Bilgi University, When Ms. Abousy from CLDP, and teams in other countries, both on location world, one person has managed to reach best law schools in the world, that is Istanbul, Turkey, October 2012 Dr. Salah Hadi Saleh Alhashim, the and through online communication. 3) farther than any other in demonstrating human rights.” CILE CONTINUES TO EXPANDINTERNATIONAL GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPSCRIMINAL LAW CILE CONTINUES TO EXPAND GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS

with us here at MUSOL, helping us to students in any given class, and consid- their marks immediately after the develop materials for the two courses. ering the economic situation of not only grading via e-mail. Marlene worked on Torts, and Shelley the University but our students as well, For me, the potential in the tabs CILE Extends Cooperative Relationships in Iraq, Italy, on Contracts. They also developed a we have had the perennial problem of lies in not only encouraging faculty and Kenya protocol that could be used to create lack of reading and teaching resources. to develop and enhance their course other courses in future. We fine-tuned As a result, it has been extremely diffi- materials, but also, and more impor- CILE has continued to expand its saw the delivery of 600 computer tablets In early summer 2014, CILE also and added to the materials in prepara- cult to require students to do any sort of tantly, in allowing students to engage network of partnerships with foreign for use in Moi’s first-year curriculum. formalized its pre-existing cooperation tion for the teaching that commenced thorough reading beforehand, making it more actively in the learning process. institutions and governments. Dur- Those events are cataloged further below. with the University of Verona Faculty of in the 2013 fall term. hard—unethical even—to call students As I have always told my students, ing the 2013–14 academic year, CILE The February 2014 agreement Law. This agreement forms the founda- Once we had the tabs, we issued to account in terms of preparing for learning law is ultimately a self- signed memoranda of understanding with the Iraqi Ministry of Higher tion for continuation of the successful them to first-year students. With class. directed enterprise calling on students with Moi University School of Law, the Education and Cultural Develop- 2014 Verona Summer School in Interna- respect to Torts, I loaded the materials With the tabs, and despite the few to engage not only their cognitive Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education ment (MHECD) builds on CILE’s tional Commercial Contracts, which was onto the Moi University e-learning teething issues we experienced, I noticed skills, but also their analytical skills. and Cultural Development, and the work through the Commercial Law formerly held in Ravenna, Italy, in coop- portal known as MUSOMI. I required a vast improvement in the level and This enhances their problem-solving University of Verona. Development Program (CLDP), eration with the University of Bologna. the students to register and access all quality of classroom discussion—espe- skills because it requires them to The December 2013 Moi-Pitt more fully described in the preceding The summer school, organized by Verona our learning materials for the course cially on the cases. Previously, I relied research, dig deep into legal problems, agreement builds on nearly 15 years of article on the CILE Vis Moot platform Professor Marco Torsello, is for practicing including the outline, assignments heavily on dictating notes to students and consider different permutations of cooperation. This past year saw Brian for international legal education. The lawyers and offers Pennsylvania lawyers and cases. We did a demonstration in in class, which not only was passive but possible solutions. This is not possible Fraile ( JD ’13) travel to Kenya to teach agreement was signed during the Fourth the opportunity to earn two years of class on registration for and use of the also uninspiring. With the tabs, all I did without the necessary resources such Legal Research and Writing to the Annual Middle East Vis Pre-Moot in continuing legal education (CLE) platform. The materials were arranged was prepare short topical slides, lead as legal texts. In a developing country first-year law students in Kenya during Doha, Qatar, and sets the foundation for credit in a single week—in a wonderful thematically and allowed us to proceed my class through them, and then had a such as ours, the significance of this the 2013 fall term, and Emily Kinkead MHECD sponsorship of Iraqi students location. sequentially from one topic to another. deeper engagement with the materials latest collaborative initiative with Pitt spend a summer internship at the Legal in Pitt Law’s LLM program. At the end of each topic, I issued a test that they had read before class. really cannot be overstated. Aid Centre of Eldoret (LACE). It also or assignment that I graded. Large class numbers have always I should mention also that the tabs I found the tabs to be a very conve- made grading assignments a night- were an important factor during the nient method of delivery. It goes with- marish tedium. They also meant that accreditation process for the school last Expanding the Pitt-Moi Partnership: out saying that with more than 400 I could only issue a limited number of year. In Kenya, any university planning 6 assignments at any given to offer a law degree must be accred- 7 Assisting Moi Students and Providing a Platform time. In MUSOL, it is a ited by the Council of Legal Educa- requirement that our stu- tion. One of the biggest challenges for Research on Legal Education dents sit for at least two we faced previously was how to match continuous assessment the large number of students with the At Moi University School of Law in so that two first-year courses—Torts the tablets will continue to be used tests (CATs) in a course, library space and reading materials. Eldoret, Kenya, located 300 kilometers and Contracts—might involve material in first-year law courses, and also will constituting 30 percent of We explained to the council that the north of Nairobi, the library is limited loaded onto the tablets, allowing students be used to facilitate path-breaking the grade for that course. tabs would allow us to partly address and students cannot afford to purchase to prepare before class. The tablets were research in legal education by Pitt Law’s With the tabs, I posted this challenge by pre-loading text books that would allow them to read purchased at a special rate from Surtab, a Professor Kevin Ashley. up to four assignments books on the tabs and even by facilitat- material before class. In 2013–14, CILE Haitian manufacturer established by Pitt with very many questions. ing online access to legal databases. In assisted in the delivery of 600 computer Law LLM grad, Ulla Bak (LLM ’05), This meant that I was able granting us accreditation, the council tablets to Moi University School of Law, and her husband, JP Bak. In 2014–15, to thoroughly test the noted that the tabs would help us students’ understanding address the question of library space of the course and how and availability of books even as we effective the teaching had continued with our library’s construc- been in the entire term. tion and expansion. No Books? No Problem!: Teaching with Tablets in Kenya I saved time and energy, not to mention the paper By Maurice Oduor, (LLM ’04) that would have been “The tablet has been a great Last year, the Moi University involving the use of technology in legal tracts, that would then be uploaded used for the questions and deal to me. I study more with it School of Law (MUSOL) embarked education. The tablet computers were on the tabs for use by students. The answers. As for grading, as it is portable and I carry on a unique model of pedagogy in the sourced from SURTAB, a tech company materials had to be created in a spe- I had a much easier time it everywhere. It has saved because I was able to do training of future lawyers for Kenya. based in Haiti. cific format compatible with, and me from buying handouts.” With the help of our long-time col- The project was conceived by Profes- readable from, the tab. Pitt, through this online. MUSOMI –Khateeb El-fakii, First Year Class laborating partner, the University of sor Ronald Brand and then considered CILE, sponsored two JD students, allows me as the instruc- Representative Pittsburgh School of Law, we acquired and approved by the MUSOL Board. It Shelley Ostrowski (Class of 2015) tor to access and grade more than 600 palm-sized tablet involved the development of materials and Marlene Van Es (Class of 2015), my course assignments computers as part of a pilot project for two selected courses, Torts and Con- who spent part of their summer 2013 Moi University first-year students receive their Surtab Tablets online. Students receive CILE CONTINUES TO EXPAND GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS CILE CONTINUES TO EXPANDINTERNATIONAL GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPSCRIMINAL LAW

Researching the Development of Legal Argumentation they had absorbed everything I had intelligent students and staff I met International Law attempted to teach them, all despite during my time in Kenya. Having Society 2014–15 Skills with Tablets in Kenya my quick-paced lectures and complete moved on from this experience to take lack of conversational Swahili. My the position of CILE assistant direc- Co-presidents: Law school students in the U.S and comprises nine lessons (e.g, Introduction lessons will be deployed in the 2015 impression of their understanding was tor, I only hope that I can eventually Andrew Coyne

abroad could benefit if online argument to Planning a Legal Argument in Sup- spring term via the Moi Law School’s only reinforced when I spent my final make it back to Eldoret to reunite with Matthew McCullough diagramming can successfully help port of a Claim, Supporting Arguments Moodle-based e-learning platform, week in Kenya grading the 500 hand- the friends I made while in Africa Vice President: Jacqueline Jones them learn the skills of written legal Pro and Con with Legal Rules and MUSOMI, to 480 Moi students in written essays that they completed and continue to reinforce the strong Treasurer: argumentation. When Professor Ronald Citations, Applying Precedential Rule to three sections of the Torts course taught during their final exam. partnership between Pitt Law and Christopher Shook Brand appealed to Pitt Law faculty for Facts with Argument by Analogy). The by Professor Maurice Odour. The large Looking back now, I fondly Moi University. Secretary: Jessica Garcia online educational content to be deliv- lessons focus on making arguments in a number of students should allow objec- remember the many impressive and ered via the tablet computers at Moi hypothetical scenario involving the duty tive assessment of whether and how well University School of Law, Professor to aid developed by Pitt Law Professors students learn with the argument dia- Kevin Ashley and his team of LRDC Teresa Brostoff and Ann Sinsheimer. gramming approach. (This work is sup- researchers, including Intelligent The lessons lead students to apply legal ported by NSF award 1122504, “DIP: Intentions, Insights, and Inspiration in Kenya Systems Program Graduate Student rules and cases involving Pennsylvania Teaching Writing and Argumentation Researcher Mohammad Falakmasir, tort law, a pedagogically useful exercise with AI-Supported Diagramming and By Emily Kinkead (Class of 2016) developed a learning module to teach for Kenyan law students because Kenya Peer Review). legal argumentation skills. The module is also a common law jurisdiction. The Traveling to Kenya was never my PLWHA and their families intention. When I was an undergrad, to also serve victims of sexual, I never did a study abroad and it gender, and domestic was my greatest regret, despite four violence. One Last International Experience—As Part of the otherwise wonderful years bursting I was graciously awarded with activities. I knew I wanted to both a Nordenberg Fellow- Pitt-Moi Partnership spend the first summer of law school ship and the Judge Genevieve Blatt Nationality Room By Brian Fraile ( JD ’13) remedying my lament. Like most students, however, my mind was Scholarship, so I packed my occupied with dreams of interning bags and headed off to Kenya. 8 When I enrolled at Pitt Law, I had winding down, I still hadn’t quite put After several connections, and a four 9 the vague notion that I wanted to my wanderlust behind me. Little did I hour bumpy bus ride from Nairobi, in Europe or Australia, spending I would live in Eldoret for the weekends taking trains to every two months, basically alone. study the fields of law that governed know, there was one last experience that I was warmly welcomed to the small Emily Kinkead with colleagues at LACE in Eldoret, Kenya international commerce, but I had no would present itself to me before I had to town of Eldoret by Dean Henry country I could, or lounging on It is, however, important that idea what that meant, or the myriad move on with my career and life outside Lugulu and Senior Lecturer Maurice the beach and snorkeling. Oh, the I mention my Botswanan possibilities that the school could law school. Oduor (LLM ’04). The faculty and possibilities. Then the question came housemate who liked to blare What I found more striking than provide to enhance my learning out- Professor Brand, through CILE’s staff at Moi were incredibly helpful in that crashed me back into reality: Mariah Carey at 9 a.m. and sing along at the differences were the similarities. side the classroom. During my three partnership with Moi University School getting me settled in and accustomed “What do you want to do with your the top of his lungs. Being otherwise on my There is court backlog, but the people years of law school, I was fortunate of Law in Eldoret, Kenya, presented to the East African lifestyle. law degree and how does an internship own, though, I threw myself into Kenya— were resilient in their pursuit of to take countless trips sponsored by me with the unique opportunity to take Despite the friendliness of everyone abroad help you achieve those goals?” new things, new food, new people, and justice. There is corruption and bias, CILE to distant places such as Abu a visiting lectureship at Moi for the fall I met, I was intimidated about what Well, gee, I hadn’t really considered traveling every place I could. but there also is hope for reform. There Dhabi, Brussels, Croatia, and Vienna. term after my graduation. Having spent a it would be like to teach Legal that. I just wanted to go abroad. I was able to observe so many differ- is victim-blaming, but there is outrage As my third year of law school was summer slaving away with bar exam prep, Analysis and Writing to three classes And that was how I was ences between the Kenyan judicial system at such tactics. There is theft, assault, I did not hesitate that totaled almost 500 first-year law introduced to the Legal Aid Centre and the system in the United States. In rape, and murder. Children are abused to accept this one students. My apprehensions couldn’t of Eldoret (LACE) in Eldoret, Kenya. Kenya, no one specializes in law because and neglected. But there are people last opportunity to have been more unwarranted. The LACE is a pro bono law office that while there are more than 40 million dedicating their lives to make sure not see a new corner students I had were some of the most was born out of the recognition by a people living in Kenya, there are only only that people are brought to justice, of the world and friendly and attentive students I had hospital and its partners that it was about 10,000 attorneys and only about but that those people are treated fairly meet an incred- ever met. Despite being in their first not enough to treat people living 6,000 of those are actively practicing. by the justice system. ible group of new semester out of secondary school, with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) for just Kenya, in using the British system, has My time at LACE exposed me friends. everyone in my classes was ready and their medical ailments. PLWHA also no jury trials. The courts have no preset to the best and worst of Kenya. Our Less than a willing to take on the ambitious course suffered a significant stigma in society schedule so all plaintiffs and defendants countries are so different and yet so week after finish- plan that I had laid out for them. that could lead to the denial of their must arrive at 9 a.m., when court begins immeasurably similar. I gained insights ing my bar exams, As the semester flew by, I was property rights, inheritance, child on their court date, and wait until their and inspiration regarding problems and having taken shocked to see how easily and excitedly support, or even their basic human case is called. This could be all day. Kenya in the United States by observing a brief moment to the students followed along with the rights. PLWHA had substantial has a separate, religious court for Muslim Kenyan solutions. My life is forever relax, I boarded a same materials that I and my first-year concerns that could only be resolved citizens that decides civil matters like altered because of the people I met plane to Kenya to classmates at Pitt had struggled with through legal avenues. LACE is, divorce or child support. The magistrates and the experiences I had there. I never of these courts rarely have any legal intended to go to Kenya, but you know Brian Fraile ( JD ’13) with students and faculty members with the Surtab embark on a three years earlier. When the semester thus, based out of Moi University Tablets in front of Moi University Law School, Eldoret, Kenya, November 2013 new adventure. came to a close, I was confident that Teaching and Referral Hospital background. Case files are almost exclu- what they say about intentions. and has since expanded its services from sively handwritten. PITT LAW’S GLOBAL IMPACT INTERNATIONALSTUDENT CRIMINAL EXPERIENCES LAW STUDENT EXPERIENCES

memos on Kosovo administrative law For me, courses such as Legisla- Fraile, Gina Huggins, and Professor procedures for creditors and debtors. It tion and Regulation and an ad hoc Ronald Brand. In living in a new part was exciting to know that my analysis knowledge of comparative law were of the world, meeting diverse people, Big Law in a Small Country would help influence new legal regimes extremely valuable in understanding the and working on engaging issues, this By Robert Gyenes (Class of 2015) on property law and enforcement pro- context of our program’s endeavors in summer greatly advanced my personal cedure, with the potential to support Kosovo. The cross-functional projects and professional goals. I left Kosovo Before arriving at Pitt Law, what I As the only foreign intern in the last Croatia is such a small market, and U.S. Embassy personnel or even senior challenged me to understand not only invigorated, but cautiously optimistic. thought I could do with a law degree few years, I didn’t know what to expect. given the Austrian firm’s overall reputa- diplomatic staff. the nuances of political economy, but also I know there remains a lot of work was quite limited. If I go to Pittsburgh, But as I arrived, I was nothing less than tion within Europe, many high-profile The Kosovo legal system presented innovative practices seen only at the cut- to do amidst uncertainty about the I’ll have to work in Pittsburgh, right? astonished at how well developed their legal issues came through this office. a stimulating blend of civil law and ting edge of international business law. country’s future. To that end, I highly Well, now I stand corrected—this internship program was. I was paired Many of the clients were foreign cor- common law approaches, as experts I am grateful to have been a part of encourage fellow students who find summer’s internship showed me how with mentors who quickly involved me porations, some with long-standing and development organizations from the “critical mass” of Pitt Law’s legacy in themselves curious about international naïve that thought was. in a great variety of projects. My entire footprints in the country. After a while, the United States, Germany, and other Kosovo and the Balkans. My internship law to make use of the many resources I am first and foremost grateful summer was filled with interesting it seemed that every big news story in European nations vied to make the experience in Pristina was overwhelm- presented by CILE and to pursue an to CILE and the LLM program and substantive work. I researched and Croatia somehow involved the work of greatest impact. ingly positive and made possible thanks internship abroad—particularly in connections of Pitt Law, without drafted non-compete clauses, distribution Wolf Theiss, and that made every proj- to the dedication and support of Brian Kosovo. which this summer would have never agreements, and even spent a few days ect seem more important. It also opened happened. I met Iva Grgić (LLM ’14) finding a way to register a rejected trade- my eyes to what globalization, the EU, at a CILE event more than a year ago, mark under EU law. Because Croatia has and international law mean in practice. and we quickly became friends. It only been in the EU for one year, the legal In such a small country, it’s easier to see A Summer at the Mexican Film Institute turned out we had mutual interests: I landscape in the nation is changing, and the interaction between corporations was looking for a way to work in the many of my projects involved utilization and governments across borders. This By Nicholas Tomsho (Class of 2016) Balkans and, as a Croatian law student, of the new EU regulations by foreign- summer I felt like a business class was Iva had already worked for a few firms owned businesses. added to my legal education. This summer, I received a Norden- My primary internship duty was from a government fund, researched in Zagreb. She graciously passed along One surprising aspect was how the My internship was extremely berg Summer Fellowship from CILE the review of international licensing conflicts of law between Mexico my name, and soon I was interviewing work was simultaneously so familiar and valuable in allowing me to strengthen to work as a legal intern with the Insti- agreements to distribute the Institute’s and clients’ home countries, and with a number of Croatian firms. so different. I learned about mergers and my legal experience in the Balkans tuto Mexicano de Cinematografia (the coproduced films outside of Mexico. participated in contract negotiation 10 This summer, I was a legal intern acquisitions and intellectual property in while gaining skills and experience Mexican Film Institute, or IMCINE) These contracts were primarily between with Anglophone clients. I attended 11 for Wolf Theiss Rechtsanwälte GmbH the United States at Pitt, but working on which are directly transferrable to a in Mexico City. The institute is a federal the institute and various television a screening of a then-unreleased in their Zagreb office. The firm itself such projects under EU and civil law was U.S. firm. I was able to work on high governmental organization charged networks and online streaming services. documentary in the final stages is Austrian-based with about 350 something entirely new. This internship profile mergers and acquisitions and with fostering Mexico’s national Generally, the review included due of postproduction and a public attorneys in a dozen offices across gave me the hands-on experience—and I other corporate work which I would film industry by providing assistance diligence, such as proofreading and issue- exhibition of 2014 short films. I am Central and Eastern Europe. The have to say confidence—to do legal work only be able to do at a select number to Mexican filmmakers in funding, spotting, as well as some translation work currently working with Stephanie Zagreb office has about 30 attorneys, on matters which I would have never of firms back home. This summer has production, postproduction, promo- and original drafting to include liability- Dangel, executive director of Pitt many of whom must switch between come across in law school. been both unexpected and eye-opening; tion, and legal support. My position limiting clauses or suggested alternative Law’s Innovation Practice Institute, English, Croatian, and German several Another interesting aspect was I am grateful to Pitt Law’s LLMs and was with the Department of Interna- terms. to interest the Three Rivers Film times a day. the role this small office played in CILE for allowing me to broaden my tional Events and Programs, which Most of the contracts were in Festival in IMCINE productions to the Croatian legal landscape. Because legal prospects in ways I never thought primarily facilitates the screening English, for distribution in the United be screened this year. imaginable. and promotion of Mexican films at States, although a significant num- While the working environment international film festivals and their ber were in Spanish. Nearly all office was informal, I was able to keep up- distribution in foreign markets. interactions were in Spanish which to-date with contract negotiation This internship was not arranged proved difficult, especially toward processes and to see which of my In Kosovo: The Cutting Edge of Contract Law through an existing internship abroad the beginning of my stay. I often suggestions and edits were kept in program. I reached out to IMCINE had difficulty understanding spoken the subsequent drafts that were sent By Christopher Shook (Class of 2016) by e-mail and phone with the help instructions, but gradually became more to clients. Ask any expat to describe interna- Enforcement Program with Checchi and in Kosovo. of CILE staff and was offered the accustomed to functioning full-time in During my off time, I enjoyed tional development, and chances are Company Consulting. When researching The program sought to assist the position. This did not include any assis- Spanish. This internship would have been exploring Mexico City and took they will mention just how rewarding international internships, it became clear newborn nation in its continuing tance with housing or transportation. impossible to conduct without an already several weekend day trips to archaeo- the work is. In a way, this phrase recalls that Pitt Law’s strong ties to Pristina, recovery and to advance commercial I arranged to stay with a host family via advanced background in the Spanish logical sites in the surrounding area. a certain irony: that the one who goes Kosovo, would provide the best chance legal reforms. Our team was respon- homestaybooking.com and purchased language. After my internship was over, I flew to to aid earns the dearest of lessons, while to make a meaningful contribution. In sible for such issues as improving the a MetroBus account card once in the I also drafted an agreement for inter- Cancun and spent the final weekend those who are to receive give generously. working alongside Pitt Law alumni Zana enforcement of judicial judgments, city for transportation. national film sales agents to receive grants visiting the Chichén Itzá and Tulum Thanks to the University of Pitts- Berisha (LLM ’10) and Diella Rugova and developing the framework of archaeological zones. burgh’s Nordenberg Fellowship, this (LLM ’13) at the Contract Law Enforce- contract and commercial law. In my summer I had the opportunity to intern ment Program, I gained exposure to the favorite project during the internship, at the USAID Kosovo Contract Law fascinating intricacies of the legal climate I was tasked with crafting a series of PITTSTUDENTS LAW’S EXPERIENCES GLOBAL IMPACT STUDENT EXPERIENCES

Getting to Court in Ethiopia From My Desk to the African Leaders’ Summit By Ruth Guyasa (Class of 2016) By Janet Checkley, ( JD ’14)

is by motion, and several attorneys seated wearing their My experience working as an but once the ball was rolling, there was I was lucky enough to be a part of it is usually not gowns and waiting for their cases to be intern at the Solidarity Center in no stopping it. After putting together all of this activity from its very begin- granted. For this called. Washington, D.C., not only stretched our findings and recommendations, and ning, right up through the U.S.-Africa reason, attorneys The judge looked to be in his mid- and challenged me in ways I could not presenting them to various members of Leaders Summit. I started out simply cannot be fully 20s, and was surrounded by piles of have anticipated, but culminated in a Congress, we realized we were joining the sitting at a desk doing research and prepared and folders, looking very uncomfortable. In set of experiences and opportunities conversation at a critical moment: on the writing up my findings; soon, I was have to think and Ethiopia, judges are appointed straight I had never imagined would come eve of the historic U.S.-African Leaders asked to facilitate and conduct meet- respond on the out of college (law school is just a bach- my way. Summit, and at a time when many impor- ings with members of Congress on spot since most elor’s degree) without any experience. On my second day as an intern, tant players in the implementation of Capitol Hill about AGOA and its evidence is pro- Unlike the judges, most of the attorneys I was handed my scope of work: a AGOA (including USAID, USTR, and implications for workers; and finally, Ruth Guyasa at Lake Langano, in Ethiopia duced during trial. are quite experienced. The result is a fair broad research assignment about the the Department of Labor) were consider- I found myself aiding in the creation For this and other reasons, clients degree of animosity or misunderstand- African Growth and Opportunity ing how to improve and enhance AGOA. of the joint recommendations with the My summer internship at Demissie often prefer arbitration. Our case was ing in the attorney-judge relationship. Act (AGOA). I was tasked with, first, Finally, one last element fell into place AFL-CIO, helping to facilitate and Management Consultants, a law firm assigned first to arbitration, but that was We listened as several other cases identifying the major strengths and that made the Solidarity Center’s voice in coordinate the visit of almost 40 trade in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, was an expe- not productive either. The ad hoc arbitra- were called, the parties appeared, the weaknesses of the legislation; then, the conversation all the more critical: in union leaders from all over Africa for rience in overcoming the difficulties tion resulted in significant expense for judge evaluated the dossier, and the drilling down into the labor provi- April, Swaziland became the first coun- participation in the summit. I was of a developing country. While I had arbitrators who had many other things to parties were given another date to sions contained within the eligibility try to face losing its AGOA eligibility even afforded the opportunity to cre- expected a smooth and relatively easy do. After two years, the case was referred appear. Nothing seemed to get done, criteria in the law, and examining their on the basis of ongoing and sustained ate and chair a panel of international entry into Ethiopian legal practice, the to the federal high court. and the frustration was apparent in effectiveness; and finally, producing a egregious labor rights violations. Because labor activists for a CSO Summit reality was quite different. While my Our first appearance in court was set the courtroom. At almost one o’clock, set of recommendations for changes of this event, the labor issue suddenly held in conjunction with the official Amharic language skills are good, and for a Tuesday early morning, and we were our case had not been called, and the to the language for the implementa- took center stage in the debate around White House events. What started Amharic is the working language of told to be there no later than 7:30 am. judge was ready for lunch. We were tion of the law in regard to the labor how to improve AGOA. The Solidarity as a somewhat vague research assign- the courts in Ethiopia, I was not fully Traffic in Addis Ababa at that time of told to reconvene in an hour. When we provisions, which the Solidarity Cen- Center’s input became vital and sought ment about a trade law I had never prepared to be handed the Ethiopian 12 the day (or any time of the day for that returned to the courthouse in an hour, ter would put forward to Congress in after. The activity of 13 Code of Civil Procedure, Civil Code, matter) is horrible. I lived about six miles we were told there was no electricity anticipation of the law’s impending the organization cul- and Commercial Code on the first day from the courthouse and it took me over and we had to come back the next day. reauthorization. This was an area minated in three major and be able to work easily with them. an hour to get there. The area around the This was really frustrating considering that the Solidarity Center had never products: 1) an official The current codes are over 50 years old, courthouse is a construction site, and it that it was still daylight and there were meaningfully engaged in before, and set of recommenda- with the Civil Procedure Code based was raining. There was mud and puddles several windows in the courtroom. I would be helping the organization tions, coproduced by on English common law and every- of water everywhere. There was no park- Even then, in a country where electric- blaze a trail into some new territory the AFL-CIO and the thing else (substantive law) based on ing lot for attorneys at the courthouse so ity is lost almost every day pretty much, and build its capacity in trade policy Solidarity Center, pub- French law. we parked far away and walked. It would everyone has a generator and it is hard analysis and advocacy. lished and distributed I spent the first few weeks in the have been okay if there were sidewalks, to believe a courthouse did not have Although I had a good deal of widely in the run-up office just familiarizing myself with but there were none. one. knowledge and experience in worker to the U.S.-African the codes. Luckily, there was also an When we finally reached the court- When we returned to the court- rights and labor law when I began my Leaders Summit; 2) an intern from Addis Ababa University house, we saw a building that was very house the next day, luckily those of us internship, I had only limited knowl- official side panel titled who helped me with Amharic legal run down and just plain dangerous. Right who were supposed to be before the edge of trade law. Thus, feeling slightly Promoting Decent terms. We were assigned our first next to it there is a nice new building judge on Tuesday were given priority. panicked and unprepared, I spent the Work, held during the case together, and worked along with guarded by the federal police, and I was However, the judge did not even know next week giving myself a minor crash summit and created the senior partners on a multinational told it is to become the new courthouse. what the case was about. He opened course in trade law and policy and the through a partnership trade dispute. The case had been going Even though it has been completed for the dossier, asked the attorneys what global context in which I would have with the Depart- on for more than three years, with several years, they still have not moved the case was about, and rescheduled to frame my research. Upon launch- ment of Labor: the literally little to no discovery having the courts to the new building. oral argument for another day in Sep- ing into the substantive research Bureau of Democracy, Janet Checkley ( JD ’14) with Liberian Delegates to U.S.-African Leaders Summit been done. Inside the building, more than one tember. about AGOA, it became clear that the Human Rights, and Since Ethiopia is technically a civil hundred people were chaotically scat- As frustrating as that experience Solidarity Center, as an international Labor; and the Bureau law country, discovery is completely tered in front of different doors. The was, the internship was a great experi- labor advocate with partner organi- of International Labor Affairs; and 3) even heard of, thus followed one of the different from what we are used to in senior attorney walked up to a window ence. I enjoyed working next to the zations operating on the ground in a joint statement between the most unpredictable and unlikely paths the United States. Getting evidence is and asked which courtroom we were to senior attorneys drafting contracts and AGOA-beneficiary countries, had AFL-CIO and the International Trade imaginable. It was an absolute joy to a lot harder. Attorneys are completely be in, and was told to wait in line to find writing complaints and answers. The a unique and powerful voice to add Union Confederation-Africa (ITUC- be a part of, and the entire undertaking prohibited from communicating with out. This took another 15 minutes or office atmosphere was great. It was very to the conversation around AGOA’s Africa), describing their partnership in by the Solidarity Center was an effort their adversaries and cannot ask for so. Our courtroom was a medium-sized laid back and welcoming, which makes reauthorization. regard to development and progress in to which I was proud to contribute at the production of documents. The courtroom, with bench seats filled with going to work every day even more None of us anticipated the snow- Africa and particularly with respect to every step along the way. only method to obtain such material people. In the front two rows, there were enjoyable. ball effect of the work we were doing, improving AGOA. STUDENTS EXPERIENCES INTERNATIONALPROGRAMS CRIMINAL & ACTIVITIES LAW

A Semester with the Department of State and the Vis Moot By Krysta Smith ( JD ’14)

I spent my last semester at Pitt of 2013, I attended the Online Dispute I had the opportunity to have a hands- Law as an extern in Washington, D.C., Resolution Working Group Session in on role in the education of the students through Pitt Law’s Semester in D.C. New York as a member of the CILE by presenting various presentations on Program. For four months, I worked observer delegation. The opportunity to oral argument and the Vis Moot more in the Office of Private International attend two different Working Group generally. I quickly realized that our role Law, which is part of the Office of the Meetings, gave me insight into how was much larger than we had imagined. Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of different groups of people work and The students were so willing to learn and State. My externship was an extremely how the various stages in the process of absorb any information we had to share. educational and beneficial experience international negotiations are completed. It was such a humbling and rewarding that thoroughly complemented my In addition to my externship in experience. These students have so much legal education. I conducted extensive Washington, D.C., I also had hands-on potential and are so bright; I honestly research on international commercial experience working with teams in the believe they will change the world. mediation, online dispute resolution, Pitt Law Consortium for the 21st Annual In April, my work with the students recognition and enforcement of foreign Willem C. Vis International Commercial continued during the Vis Moot in judgments, and various other private Arbitration Moot (the Vis Moot). With Vienna, Austria. Janet and I organized international law subjects. I had the my colleague, Janet Checkley, we advised and facilitated the Pitt Law Consortium opportunity to attend public meetings three teams who were participating in the Practice Rounds held at the offices of and conference calls with experts in the Vis Moot throughout the school year. In Baker & McKenzie. During the moot, Nicole Aandahl ( JD ’01) addresses Pitt Law Students on international career opportunities. field from around the country. the fall, we corresponded directly with the I had the responsibility and privilege I also participated in the UNCIT- teams from Iraq, Egypt, and Palestine, to attend countless arguments by our nuclear export controls and nonprolifera- was the only female executive. While in at the Environmental Law Institute in RAL Arbitration and Conciliation assisting them in formulating arguments teams, and to provide support and feedback tion, regional nuclear proliferation export aviation, Martin-Nagle was quite active Washington, D.C., while also honing Working Group Meeting at the United and drafting their memoranda. to assist their learning process through- control policies, and technology security. in industry groups, serving as chair of the journalistic skills as a free-lance writer Nations in New York, where the Trans- My most rewarding experience came out the Vis Moot. I can truly say that, At the time of her talk, Aandahl served ABA Forum on Air and Space Law, legal with OOSKAnews, a global water pub- 14 parency Convention was completed. in the spring of this year, when I attended through CILE, I received more than as deputy chief administrative officer and counsel to the Aero Club of Washington, lication. With OOSKAnews, Martin- 15 This was my second UNCITRAL the Fourth Willem C. Vis Middle East I ever could have hoped for from my assistant corporate secretary at EADS board member and secretary of Women Nagle has been the official chronicler of Working Group experience. In May Pre-Moot as an adviser. Once in Qatar, legal education. North America. Prior to that appoint- in Aviation, and advisory board member water conferences sponsored by the gov- ment, Aandahl served as chief of staff to of the International Aviation Women’s ernments of Germany and Abu Dhabi, the CEO. Aandahl began her career with Association. Since 2011, Martin-Nagle and also has been conducting interviews EADS North America in the Trade and has been pursuing independent, pro bono with global water VIPs for publication by PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES Export Department as a licensing and research and writing as a visiting scholar the Singapore Public Utilities Board. compliance officer and later as acting director of compliance. In early 2014, Aandahl joined Hilton Worldwide as Stephen Aandahl and Martin-Nagle Headline their assistant corporate secretary. On October 15, Renee Martin-Nagle Zimmerman Pitt Law International Women of ( JD ’84), now with the Environmental Law Institute at George Washington Discusses Distinction Series University, shared her journey from a single-parent law student to the aerospace Challenges World Two Pitt Law alumnae returned to the control, and nonproliferation law and industry, and back to legal education. For Bank Faces with School of Law during the fall of 2013 to policy in both government and industry. 25 years Martin-Nagle served as U.S. speak with students about their paths to Before joining the U.S. defense industry, general counsel for European aircraft Fighting Corruption international careers in law in CILE pro- Aandahl worked for the U.S. Depart- manufacturers. During the first four years, grams cosponsored by the International ments of Defense and Energy. She served she was the sole in-house lawyer and Law Society and Pitt Law Women’s On September 24, 2013, Stephen in the Office of the Secretary of Defense corporate secretary for both Aerospatiale Association. On September 30, Nicole Zimmerman, director of operations for Policy (OSD/P) as assistant for non- Helicopter Corporation and Aerospa- (Breland) Aandahl ( JD ’01) reviewed her for the World Bank Integrity Vice proliferation and counter-proliferation tiale General Aviation, before moving career in nuclear energy and aerospace Presidency, spoke at the School of Law policy. Prior to joining OSD/P, Aandahl to Airbus Americas in 1990. She retired industries and government. Aandahl, on challenges facing the World Bank served as a foreign affairs specialist in from Airbus Americas in 2011 as general who is now deputy chief administrative in fighting corruption. The event was the Office of Export Control Policy and counsel, chief compliance officer, head of officer and assistant corporate secretary organized by the Dick Thornburgh Cooperation at the National Nuclear environmental affairs, corporate secretary, for EADS North America, has built an Forum for Law and Public Policy and Security Administration, U.S. Depart- and a member of the board of directors. extensive career in national security, export Renee Martin-Nagle ( JD ’84) lectures on environmental law issues. cosponsored by CILE. ment of Energy, where she specialized in For 23 of her 25 years in aviation, she PROGRAMS & ACTIVITIES INTERNATIONALPROGRAMS CRIMINAL & ACTIVITIES LAW

Nuala Mole Teaches Special Course and Lectures on Stone Returns as Assistant Director of National Intelligence European Human Rights for 21st McLean Lecture On March 31, 2013, CILE hosted Guantanamo Bay naval base and Nuala Mole, a human rights lawyer voting rights, and extra- “National Security and Intelligence in the 21st Annual McLean Lecture on provides leadership for ODNI and IC and advocate who founded the AIRE territoriality and military the 21st Century.” Stone oversees the World Law, with Corin R. Stone ( JD information sharing initiatives. Centre, a human rights and advocacy operations. On October 17, formulation and implementation of ’98), the assistant director of national Before joining ODNI, Stone was organization in 1993, taught a special she lectured to the public on intelligence community policy and strat- intelligence for policy and strategy in an attorney adviser in the Office of the intensive course in European Human “European Human Rights egy on the full range of intelligence issues. the Office of the Director of National Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department Rights in October 2013. Her course for Commercial Lawyers.” She also is the ODNI lead for the Intelligence (ODNI), speaking on of State. She served in Iraq, first as covered the new institutional framework Mole has conducted training closure and disposition of detainees at the an associate general counsel in the for human rights in Europe; the Euro- for the Council of Europe, Coalition Provisional Authority and pean Convention on Human Rights in the European Commis- then as the first legal adviser to U.S. the Western Balkans; European human sion, and the AIRE Centre Ambassador John Negroponte and the rights for commercial lawyers; and hot for judges, public officials, new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. While at topics in European human rights litiga- lawyers, and NGOs in 40 of the State Department, she also worked tion. The last category included recent the 47 Member States of the as an attorney adviser for the Bureau cases on immigration and asylum, extra- Council of Europe. Nuala Mole delivers a lecture on “European Human Rights for of Oceans and International Environ- dition, extraordinary rendition, prisoner Commercial Lawyers” at Pitt’s School of Law, October 2013 mental and Scientific Affairs, as the special assistant to Legal Adviser Rist Returns from William H. Taft IV, and in the State Rule of Law Series Highlights Pitt Law Department’s Legal Office, where ASIL to Speak LLM Presentations of Home Country she handled international claims and investment disputes and repre- on International Legal Issues sented the U.S. government before the Careers Iran-United States Claims Tribunal 16 On February 4, 2014, and March 4, understanding of the sentiments of the in The Hague. The McLean Lecture 17 On October 24, 2013, D. Wes Rist 2014, members of the 2014 LLM class Ukrainian populace during ongoing was cosponsored by Global Solutions ( JD ’05), former assistant director of continued the tradition of educating developments. Pittsburgh and Sherrard, German, the law school community about rule of On March 4, a second set of LLM Todd Pappasergi and Dan Giavonelli from Global Solutions Pittsburgh with Corin Stone and Kelly P.C. CILE, and now director of education Professor Brand and research for the American Society of law challenges in their home countries. students presented issues from Tunisia, International Law, returned to Pitt Law This year’s series covered recent issues in Palestine, and Kenya. Jihene Ferchichi to speak with students about how to Ukraine, Tunisia, Palestine, and Kenya. (LLM ’14) discussed the newly ratified prepare for a career in international law. On February 4, Taras Shablii (LLM Constitution of Tunisia, Khalil Alwazir Rist discussed résumé building, network- ’14) and Zvenyslava Opeida, SJD (LLM ’14) presented issues regarding ing, internships, and study abroad oppor- candidate, both Ukrainian nationals, the Arab-Israeli Conflict Negotia- tunities with the students. discussed recent developments regard- tions and how they relate to Palestine’s ing the Euromaidan movement and bid for independence, and Nicholas the concerns facing the then-sitting Wambua Ngumbi (LLM ’14) discussed Professor government and the Ukrainian people. the International Criminal Court trials Hamoudi on The presentation provided a fresh per- of Kenya’s president, Uhuru Kenyatta, “Negotiating in spective on the civil unrest and a better and deputy president, William Ruto. Civil Conflict” CILE and Global Solutions Pittsburgh

On January 23, 2014 Professor Host High School Moot Court Haider Ala Hamoudi spoke at the School of Law on his recently published book, The Fifth Annual High School proceeding. The competition gives high “Negotiating in Civil Conflict.” Profes- Moot International Criminal Court school students an introduction to the sor Hamoudi argues in his book that (ICC) Competition was held at the School work of the ICC and exposes them to the terms of the Iraqi Constitution are of Law on April 11 and 12, 2014. how important international human sufficiently capacious to be interpreted in Cosponsored by CILE and Global rights issues are dealt with within the a variety of ways, allowing the document Solutions Pittsburgh, the event drew 28 international criminal justice context. to appeal to the country’s three main students from four schools to present The problem for the competition sects despite their deep disagreements. arguments before the ICC in a mock was written by Pitt Law 2L, Robert Pitt Law’s 2014 Jessup Moot court team, from left to right: Khalil Alwazir, Scott Fellmeth, Matthew McCullough, and Denise Attar, C. with Iva Grgic, team coach Gyenes. PROGRAMS & ACTIVITIES LLM CLASS OF 2015 Conflicts in a Conflict is Fifth Volume of the CILE Studies Series Published by Oxford University Press

On May 28, 2014, Oxford University Chair in International Law at the ing the Israeli courts in private and Press released the fifth volume in the Faculty of Law of the Hebrew civil disputes involving the Occupied CILE Studies series. Conflicts in a Conflict: University of Jerusalem, provides an Palestinian Territories of the West Bank A Conflict of Laws Case Study on Israel and in-depth look at conflict of laws issues and the Gaza Strip, since 1967 until the the Palestinian Territories, by Professor in conflict territories. The book outlines present day. Michael Karayanni, the Bruce W. Wayne and analyzes the legal doctrines instruct- Professor Curran is Made Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques

On June 3, 2014, Pitt Law Professor and education. It was bestowed on teach foreign languages in a legal context. Vivian Curran was made a Chevalier Curran by the Consul General of France. Curran’s class, teaching French in a dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques Instrumental in promoting the teach- legal context, was the first of (Order of Academic Palms) by the ing of law courses in foreignlanguages, its kind in the country. Cultural government of France. The award, origi- Curran instituted the Languages for Law- exchange is a key component of nally founded by Napoleon Bonaparte yers program at Pitt Law, a course system Curran’s instruction and a criti- in 1808, recognizes distinguished aca- designed to facilitate communication cal element for an increasingly demics and figures in French culture between lawyers and foreign clients and to globalized world. For the past eight Class of 2015 enjoys a stop at Ohiopyle before classes start years, Curran has worked with a group of French and American judges at the Ali Hayder Al Dabbagh (Iraq) earned is a member of the Chartered Institute Artem Hrytsak (Ukraine) received Collège de France on the international- a bachelor of laws from Baghdad Uni- of Arbitrators. Anozia is the recipient of his bachelor of laws with honors from 18 ization of law. versity School of Law in 2014. He com- an H.J Heinz Fellowship awarded by the National University Yaroslav the Wise 19 In addition to her many English- peted in the Willem C. Vis Commercial Global Studies Center (GSC). Law Academy of Ukraine in 2013. He language publications, Curran publishes Arbitration Moot Court and the Middle worked as a legal intern for Transpar- Jose Carlos Ariet Cheni (Cuba/Spain) frequently in French law journals—work East Pre-Moot for two years with the ency International, the Anti-Monopoly received his bachelor of laws from the Uni- that was recognized with her election University of Baghdad and went on Committee of Ukraine, and the Noerr versidad de Las Palmas in Gran Canaria, in 2013 to the Société Française de to serve the Iraqi Ministry of Higher International Law Firm. Hrytsak has Spain, in 2008. After becoming a member Législation Comparée (French Society of Education as a coach for the Vis Moot. Al published a variety of papers dealing with of Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Comparative Legislation). She was also Dabbagh has also completed an intern- corporate law and anti-trust issues in Madrid, he represented clients in decorated in 2007 with one of the highest ship with Al Tamimi & Co. in Baghdad. Ukraine and has served as a representa- complex civil litigation involving corporate honors in the Republic of Austria for He is the recipient of a full scholarship tive of Ukraine at the World Forum for claims and financial claims with the law her work as the United States appointee from the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Democracy. He is the recipient of CILE firm of Ulises Morales & Abogados in to the Austrian General Settlement Education & Scientific Research. scholarship and a Franklin West housing Madrid, Spain. Fund Committee for Nazi-era property scholarship. Ammar Almuraee (Saudi Arabia) compensation. Maria Cintia Benitez Nunez (Argen- Professor Vivian Curran received his bachelor’s degree in law from Anastasia Konina (Russia) graduated tina) received her bachelor of laws from Um Al-Qura University in Makkah, magna cum laude for both a bachelor of Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saudi Arabia. He worked as a trainee laws and master of laws from Moscow in 2007 with orientation in Notarial Professor Curran Offers Unique International Arbitration lawyer in Saudi Arabia and then relo- State Institute of International Relations. Law and obtained a specialty degree cated to Pittsburgh in order to improve She published “Application of the EU in the Practice of Notarial Law from Seminar in French his English language skills. Almuraee is Competition Legislation to the Merg- Colegio de Escribanos de la Ciudad de the recipient of a fully funded scholarship ers and Acquisitions of Companies” in Buenos Aires in 2012. She worked for Professor Vivian Curren has for three ings. The course is given in French, with paper. Students in the course have done from the government of the Kingdom of the Moscow Journal of Legal Science. four years as notarial assistant in several years offered her International Arbitra- attention to students’ varying linguistic an outstanding job, each year progressing Saudi Arabia. She has worked as a senior legal counsel tion Seminar with all instruction in the levels. Through texts written by French from among more than 80 initial teams lawyer-notary firms drafting contracts. and as head of the foreign subsidiaries French language. The course has a dual legal writers, the course also is an introduc- to be one of 16 semi-finalist teams. In Nnenna Anozia (Nigeria) received her She also worked as a technical notarial division of Norilsk Nickel, a mining and goal: to teach international commercial tion to the civil-law system that prevails many years, Pitt Law has provided the bachelor of laws from the University of assistant at the Argentine Consulate in metallurgical company. Konina is the arbitration while also improving the throughout continental Europe. Students only non-Canadian North American Benin in 2009 and her post-graduate Los Angeles, California, during 2009–10. recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship. French language abilities of students. are given the opportunity to participate team in the competition. The seminar diploma in law from the Nigerian Law She also worked as head of clerk assistants Professor Curran has developed a in a moot court run by Sciences Po in also has helped students to find summer School in 2011. She has worked at for the lawyer-notary Diego B. Walsh for Fjolla Krasniqi (Kosovo) received her French-English glossary of arbitration Paris, and to write a memorandum for internships and permanent positions at various law firms in Lagos, Nigeria, and two years. bachelor of laws from the University of terms to assist students in their read- the moot instead of a traditional seminar major international law firms. continued on page 20 LLMPITT CLASSLAW’S OFGLOBAL 2015 IMPACT INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW STUDENT ACTIVITIES Pristina Faculty of Law in 2013. She Studies (UCIS) and a Franklin West Natalia Valencia Mejia (Colombia) served as a legal assistant for the Kosovo housing scholarship. received her bachelor of laws from Fun- Chamber of Commerce where she worked Dinda Nurasih Saragih (Indonesia) dacion Universidad del Norte Law School closely with the Permanent Tribunal of received her bachelor of laws from the in Baranquilla, Colombia, in 2008. She Arbitration. Krasniqi is the recipient of a University of Indonesia Faculty of Law in received a specialization in commercial fellowship from World Learning as a part 2010. She has served as a junior analyst law from the same institution in 2009. of the Kosovo Transitional Leadership and researcher for the Special Advisor to Valencia Mejia has served as an external Program. the Minister of State-Owned Enterprises legal advisor to a variety of public and private organizations. She is the recipi- Volodymyr Rog (Ukraine) received his for the Republic of Indonesia. Saragih is ent of a tuition scholarship from the bachelor of laws from National Univer- the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship. University Center for International sity of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in 2010 Catherine Tonui (Kenya) received her Studies (UCIS). and an LLM from Central European bachelor of laws from Moi University University in 2011. He was a partici- in Eldoret, Kenya, in 2009, and received Dao Xiang (China) received his bachelor pant in the Willem C. Vis Commercial a postgraduate diploma in law in 2010 of laws with a minor in international Arbitration Moot Court in 2013 and from Kenya Law School in Nairobi. From politics from Renmin University of 2014 and has worked as an associate at the 2010 to 2014, she worked for Honda China in 2014. He has worked as a legal law firm of Spenser & Kauffman. Rog is East Africa Ltd. in Nairobi. She is the intern at Global Law Office, assisting on the recipient of a tuition scholarship from recipient of a CILE scholarship. topics including investment disputes and the University Center for International real estate transactions.

The LLM Class of 2014 Bandar Al Rasheed receives his SJD degree at the May 2014 commencement ceremonies.

Elina Aleynikova ( JD ’14) studied Andrew Coyne (Class of 2015), Danielle Evans (Class of 2016) received SAVE THE DATE abroad during the spring semester of Robert Gyenes (Class of 2015), Michael an Alcoa Fellowship to study abroad 2014 at University of Cergy-Pontoise in Micsky (Class of 2015), and Catie at Pitt’s 2014 Summer Institute of 20 Paris, France. Shawley (Class of 2015) participated in International Commercial Law & 21 the 2014 Willem C. Vis International Dispute Resolution in Zagreb and Zadar, Plan to join us in Pittsburgh on Khalil Alwazir (LLM ’14), Scott Commercial Arbitration Moot Compe- Croatia. Fellmeth (Class of 2015), Mat- tition in Vienna, Austria. September 11, 2015 for a thew McCullough (Class of 2015), and Denise Attar (Class of 2015) participated in the 2014 Philip C. Jessup special celebration of the International Law Moot Court Competition in Washington, D.C. Iva 20th anniversary of CILE Grgic (LLM ’14) served as coach. Kevin Betancourt (Class of 2015) received an Alcoa Fellowship to partici- pate in the Duquesne University summer program in Cologne, Germany. While in Germany, Betancourt completed an internship with Openhoff & Partners in Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship Recipients 2014–15 Cologne. Andrew Coyne (Class of 2015) – Hindi (summer FLAS) (Global Studies Center) Morgan Bonekovic (Class of 2016) received an Alcoa Fellowship to study Casey Martinez (Class of 2015) – Portuguese (Center for Latin American Studies) abroad at Pitt’s 2014 Summer Institute of International Commercial Law & Dispute Resolution in Zagreb and Zadar, Nordenberg Summer Internship Fellowship Recipients Croatia. Ruth Guyasa (Class of 2016) – Demissie Management Consultancy Services Pvt. Ltd., Ethiopia Andrew Coyne (Class of 2015) received Emily Kinkead (Class of 2016) – Legal Aid Centre of Eldoret (LACE), Kenya a summer 2014 Foreign Language Area Christopher Shook (Class of 2016) – USAID Kosovo Contract Law Enforcement Program, Kosovo Studies Fellowship from the University of Pittsburgh Global Studies Center to Professors Brand (left) and Flechtner (right) with 2014 Vis team members Robert Gyenes, Catie Nicholas Tomsho (Class of 2015) – Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografia (IMCINE), Mexico study Hindi. Coyne also completed the Shawley, Andrew Coyne, and Michael Micsky (all Class of 2015) Pitt Program in India during summer 2014. continued on page 22 STUDENT ACTIVITIES INTERNATIONAL CRIMINALALUMNI NEWS LAW

Ryan Ewing (Class of 2016) received an Emily Kinkead (Class of 2016) received Lauren Sowko (Class of 2016) received of the American Society of International stitutionalism,” at the American Society Switzerland, with the Office of the Alcoa Fellowship to study abroad at Pitt’s a Nordenberg Fellowship to do a 2014 an Alcoa Fellowship to study abroad Law’s New Professionals Group, and, of Comparative Law’s Younger Compara- High Commissioner for Human Rights 2014 Summer Institute of International summer internship at the Legal Aid at Pitt’s 2014 Summer Institute of Inter- most importantly, mother to her new tivists’ Committee conference at Trinity (OHCHR). Commercial Law & Dispute Resolution Centre of Eldoret in Eldoret, Kenya. national Commercial Law & Dispute second son, Eamon. College, Dublin, on November 15, 2014. Megan Crouch ( JD ’13) is continuing to in Zagreb and Zadar, Croatia. Resolution in Zagreb and Zadar, Croatia. Casey Martinez (Class of 2015) received William Fisher ( JD ’10) is working as Marie Brown ( JD ’12) moved to Hous- work at the Center for Health and Gender Noret Flood (Class of 2016) received an a 2014–15 Foreign Language Area Stud- Christopher Shook (Class of 2016) in-house counsel for Abeinsa EPC, a ton, Texas, in September 2013, where she Equity (CHANGE). Alcoa Fellowship to study abroad at the ies Fellowship from the University of received a Nordenberg Fellowship to do U.S. subsidiary of a Spanish multinational is working as an attorney advisor for the Mahmoud Elsaman (LLM ’13) earned Pitt’s 2014 Summer Institute of Inter- Pittsburgh Center for Latin American a 2014 summer internship at the USAID renewable energy technology and con- Department of Justice Executive Office his second master’s degree in private law national Commercial Law & Dispute Studies to study Portuguese. struction company, Abengoa. His team for Immigration Review at the Houston Kosovo Contract Law Enforcement from Ain-Shams University in Cairo, Resolution in Zagreb and Zadar, Croatia. Program with Checchi and Company currently has projects in the United States, Immigration Court. Drew Roberts (Class of 2015) studied Egypt. He then spent three months (Feb- Consulting in Pristina, Kosovo. Mexico, and Chile. Ruth Guyasa (Class of 2016) received abroad during the 2013–14 academic Iryna Dasevich (LLM ’12) interned at an ruary–May 2014) at the Federal Judicial a Nordenberg Fellowship to do a year at Queens University in Belfast, Nicholas Tomsho (Class of 2015) Patrick Yingling ( JD ’11) had his article, immigration law firm in Pittsburgh after Center in Washington, D.C., doing a 2014 summer internship at Demissie Northern Ireland. received a Nordenberg Fellowship to do a “Learning Disabilities and the ADA: graduation. She then accepted a position fellowship supporting foreign judges. Management Consultancy Services in Licensing Exam Accommodations in with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigra- 2014 summer internship at the Instituto Moien Odeh (LLM ’13) began Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Michael Roberts (Class of 2016) the Wake of the ADA Amendments Act tion Services in Vermont in March 2013. Mexicano de Cinematografia in Mexico volunteering with the Association for the received an Alcoa Fellowship to study of 2008,” [59 Clev. St. L.Rev. 291, 293 City, Mexico. Abeer Hashayka (LLM ’12) began work Promotion of International Humanitarian Robert Gyenes (Class of 2015) com- abroad at Pitt’s 2014 Summer Institute (2011)], cited in the recent decision of at Save the Children International in Law in 2014. pleted a 2014 summer internship at Wolf of International Commercial Law & Kelsey Ward (Class of 2016) received an the Federal District Court of Massachu- 2014. She has been a judge at the Jessup Theiss in Zagreb, Croatia. Dispute Resolution in Zagreb and Zadar, Alcoa Fellowship to study abroad at Pitt’s setts, in Williams v. Kennedy, 2014 WL National Rounds in Palestine for the past Croatia. 2014 Summer Institute of International 3881224 (Aug. 6, 2014). Yingling has been Delaney James (Class of 2016) received two years. She now has a fellowship with Commercial Law & Dispute Resolution invited to present a paper, “The Constitu- an Alcoa Fellowship to study abroad at Alison Sacriponte (Class of 2015) stud- the UN at their headquarters in Geneva, Pitt’s 2014 Summer Institute of Inter- ied abroad during the 2013–14 academic in Zagreb and Zadar, Croatia. tion of Conventions/Conventional Con- national Commercial Law & Dispute year at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Joshua Yawney (Class of 2015) studied Resolution in Zagreb and Zadar, Croatia. Barcelona, Spain. abroad during the 2013–14 academic year Jacqueline Jones (Class of 2016) Jade Salyards (Class of 2016) received at University of Edinburgh School of received an Alcoa Fellowship to study an Alcoa Fellowship to study abroad Law in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. 22 23 abroad at Pitt’s 2014 Summer Institute at Pitt’s 2014 Summer Institute of Inter- Faculty International and Comparative Law Publications of International Commercial Law & national Commercial Law & Dispute Dispute Resolution in Zagreb and Zadar, Resolution in Zagreb and Zadar, Croatia. Books: Education,” 75 Augsburger Rechtsstudien: Gerechtigkeitsfragen in Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft, 40 Jahre Juristische Facultät Augs- Croatia. Ronald A. Brand, Transaction Planning Using Rules on Jurisdic- burg 11 (Arnd Koch & Matthias Rossi, eds. 2013) tion and the Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments (Pocket- books of the Hague Academy of International Law 2014) Ronald A. Brand, “Transaction Planning Using Rules on Juris- diction and the Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments,” Ronald A. Brand, Series Editor: Michael Karayanni, Conflicts ALUMNI NEWS 358 Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law in a Conflict: A Conflict of Laws Case Study on Israel and the 9-261 (2013) Palestinian Territories, 5 CILE Studies (Oxford University Renee Martin-Nagle ( JD ’84) founded HQ) as the company’s assistant corporate General Counsel of the U.S. Department Press, 2014) Ronald A. Brand, “Challenges to Forum Non Conveniens,” 45 NYU Journal of International Law and Politics 1003 (2013) A Ripple Effect PLC in 2014, which won secretary. of Agriculture in Washington, D.C., in Haider Ala Hamoudi, Negotiating in Civil Conflict: Constitu- a competitive, FAA-funded contract to June 2014. tional Construction and Imperfect Bargaining in Iraq (University Ronald A. Brand, “Special Report: Kosovo After the ICJ Opin- do a sustainability analysis of small U.S. Daniil Fedorchuk (LLM ’01) joined the Lisl Brunner ( JD ’08) has moved from of Chicago Press, 2013) ion,” University of Pittsburgh Law Review 591 (2013) airports. She is also serving as cochair of law firm of Gide Loyrette Nouel in Kyiv, her position at the Inter-American Com- the International Environmental Law Ukraine, on January 08, 2014. Articles and Chapters: Ronald A. Brand, “Federal Judicial Center International Liti- mission on Human Rights to work for Committee of the ABA Section of Inter- gation Guide: Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judg- Victor Mosoti (LLM ’01) is now at the the Global Network Initiative as facilita- Jessie Allen, “Theater of International Justice” 3 Creighton national Law and is corporate secretary ments,” 74 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 491 (2013) World Bank in Washington, D.C. tor for the Telecommunications Industry International & Comparative Law Journal 121 (2012) and a member of the executive committee Dialogue, a group of international telcos Ronald A. Brand, “The Evolving Private International Law/ for Omega Institute and the Chesapeake Mariya Nizhnik (LLM ’03) has moved Elena A. Baylis, “Function and Dysfunction in Post-Conflict that addresses freedom of expression and Substantive Law Overlap in the European Union,” Festschrift Legal Alliance. She will begin lecturing, from the Kyiv, Ukraine, firm of Vasil Kisil Justice Networks and Communities,” 47 Vanderbilt Journal of privacy in the context of the UN Guiding für Ulrich Magnus 371-383 (Peter Mankowski and Wolfgang advising students, and pursuing a PhD at & Partners with several colleagues to start Transnational Law 625 (2014) Principles on Business and Human Rights. University of Strathclyde in January 2015. a new law firm named Aequo. Wurmnest, eds. 2014) She also co-taught a year-long human Deborah Brake, “Retaliation in an EEO World,” 89 Indiana Vivian Curran, “Extraterritoriality, Universal Jurisdiction, and Anthony Dubois-Martin (LLM ’98) Michelle Beckers ( JD ’03) is working rights fact-finding practicum course at Law Journal 115 (2014) is currently working as a pharma market in-house for a tech company as managing Georgetown Law, which involved taking the Challenge of Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co.,” 28 Mary- Ronald A. Brand, “Shaping the Rule of Law Through Legal sales manager for Astra Zeller France in counsel for all international-related mat- a group of students to the Dominican land Journal of International Law 76 (2013) Lyon, France. ters. Republic to research and write a report on statelessness and the rights of children of Nicole (Breland) Aandahl ( JD ’01) Lauren Becker ( JD ’08) began her new Haitian descent. Brunner is now cochair is now at Hilton Worldwide (Hilton position as an attorney in the Office of continued on page 24 ALUMNIPITT LAW’S NEWS GLOBAL IMPACT INTERNATIONALFACULTY CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES LAW

Faculty International and Comparative Law Publications Vandekerckhove, team leader for On March 12, 2014, The Washing- taught the general international busi- continued from page 23 Civil and Commerical Matters in ton, D.C., office of Hogan Lovells US ness transactions section of the Institute the Civil Justice Unit of the Euro- LLP, used Federal Judicial Center Judi- in International Commercial Law & Islamic Bank,” 5 William and Mary Business Law Review Vivian Curran and David L. Sloss, “Reviving Human Rights pean Commission; and Charles T. cial Guide authored by Brand, “Recogni- Dispute Resolution in Zagreb, Croatia. (2013) Litigation After Kiobel” 107 American Journal of Interna- Kotuby Jr., (JD ’01), now a partner tion and Enforcement of Foreign Judg- The institute (co-sponsored by CILE, tional Law 858 (2013) Haider Ala Hamoudi, “Decolonizing the Centralist Mind: with Jones Day in Washington, D.C. ments,” as the focus of an in-house CLE the University of Zagreb, and Touro Vivian Curran, “Extraterritoriality, Universal Jurisdiction, Legal Pluralism and the Rule of Law,” The International Rule of On November 16–23, 2013, Brand program for approximately 85 lawyers. Law Center) is a four-week course and the Challenge of Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co.” Movement – A Crisis of Legitimacy and the Way Forward, Chapter attended a Session of UNCITRAL On March 10–14, 2014, Brand taught in Zagreb and Zadar, which 28 Maryland Journal of International Law 76 (2014) 4 (David Marshall, ed. 2014) Working Group III, in Vienna, Austria, taught an introduction to American culminates in skills training with where negotiations continued on the law course to the students in the LLM students presenting written and oral Vivian Curran, “From Nuremberg to Freetown: Historical Charles Jalloh, “Reviving Human Rights Legislation After development of a legal framework for program at the University of Ghent, submissions on behalf of hypothetical Antecedents of the Special Court for Sierra Leone,” in The Kiobel,” 107 American Journal of International Law 858 (2013) global online dispute resolution (ODR). Belgium. While in Belgium, Brand also clients in an international commercial Sierra Leone Special Court and Its Legacy: The Impact for Africa Charles Jalloh, “The Special Tribunal for Lebanon: A Defense CILE has been an invited expert presented the Foreign Chair Lecture at arbitration. and International Criminal Law (Charles Chernor Jalloh,ed., Perspective,” 47 Vanderbilt Journal Transnational Law (2014) observer for the ODR project in Work- the University of Ghent Faculty of Law Cambridge Univ. Press, 2013) Professor Douglas Branson gave Charles Jalloh, “Reflections on the Indictment of Sitting Heads ing Group III since its inception in 2010. on “Protecting Consumers in Online presentations on his book, Three Tastes Harry Flechtner, “Uniformity and Politics: Interpreting and of State and Government and Its Consequences for Peace and Brand participated in the Hague Transactions: Why EU Consumer of Nuoc Man: The Brown Water Navy Filling Gaps in the CISG,” Festschrift für Ulrich Magnus 193 Stability and Reconciliation in Africa,” 19 African Yearbook of Conference on Private International Protection Rules Should be Replaced and Visits to Vietnam (2012), to, among (Peter Mankowski and Wolfgang Wurmnest, eds. 2014) International Law (2013) Law Working Group on Judgments at with Rules from ‘the Titanic of Worst others, the Rotary Club of Pittsburgh, Haider Ala Ha moudi, “The Impossible Highly Desired The Hague, Netherlands, on February Decisions’ by the U.S. Supreme Court.” 24–28, 2014. Brand was a member of the Brand spoke on “Kosovo Accession to the Pittsburgh Golf Club, and various U.S. Delegation to the Working Group, International Organizations: Private bookstores (Elliott Bay Books, Powell’s along with John Kim, the assistant International Law,” at the workshop Books, and Worldwide Books). legal adviser for Private International Kosovo as a Member of the International Professor Vivian Curran received the FACULTY ACTIVITIES Law at the Department of State, and Community – Accession to Interna- Chevalier Dans I’Ordre des Palmes Paul Herrup of the Office of Foreign tional Organizations, at the University Academiques (The Order of Academic Litigation of the Department of Justice. of Graz, Austria, on March 21, 2014. Palms) from the Consul General of 24 On March 2–6, 2014, Brand traveled The workshop was co-sponsored by the France, Oliver Serot Almeras. The 25 Professor Kevin Ashley presented also served as a discussant for a panel Jones Day office in Washington, D.C. to Doha, Qatar, where he provided University of Graz and the University Order des Palmes Académiques, origi- an invited paper titled “Applying about international courts. On October 7–11, 2013, Brand three days of training in oral argument of Pristina Faculties of Law. Partici- nally instituted in 1808 by Napoleon Argument Extraction to Improve traveled to Istanbul, Turkey, to train stu- skills for Vis International Commercial pants included the deputy prime min- Bonaparte, is one of the highest French Professor Ronald Brand spoke on Legal Information Retrieval” at the dents from Al-Iraqia University School Arbitration Moot teams from Afghani- ister, minister of justice, and president government honors bestowed upon “Making U.S. Law on Judgments Rec- weeklong conference on Frontiers and of Law, Baghdad, Iraq, in preparation stan, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi of the Constitutional Court of Kosovo. academics and cultural figures. ognition: A Three-Dimensional Chess Connections between Argumentation for participation in the 2014 Vis Inter- Arabia, and Tunisia. Brand was assisted On April 3–18, 2014, Brand and Game” at a symposium on transnational Stephanie Dangel, executive direc- Theory and Natural Language Pro- national Commercial Arbitration Moot in the training program by Pitt Law Professor Harry Flechtner accompa- forum shopping at Pepperdine Univer- tor of Pitt Law’s Innovation Practice cessing, held in July 2014 in the Centro competition. The training sessions were 3L students Janet Checkley and Krysta nied the Pitt Law Vis International sity School of Law in Malibu, California, Institute, spoke at the May 16, 2014 Residenziale Universitario di Berti- funded by the Commercial Law Devel- Smith. The three days of training Commercial Arbitration Moot team on September 19, 2013. His presenta- International Women in Film & Tele- noro, Italy, a hilltop fortress dating opment Program (CLDP) of the U.S. were followed by the Fourth Annual to Vienna for the 2013 Vis Competi- tion was part of a panel on “Responsible vision Summit in Pittsburgh. The Sum- back to more than 1,000 years. Also in Department of Commerce and Middle East Vis Pre-Moot. The week tion. The Pitt team consisted of Robert Enforcement of Foreign Judgments,” mit brought together entertainment July 2014, Ashley spoke on “Toward continued with distance support for the of activities was co-sponsored by the Gyenes, Michael Micsky, Andrew which also included John Bellinger, professionals from around the world, Integrating Computational Models Iraqia University Vis Team provided by U.S. Department of State Commercial Coyne, and Mary Kate Shawley. The former legal advisor to the Secretary of including Twilight Director Catherine and Legal Texts (or will IBM Debater Pitt Law 3L students Janet Checkley Law Development Program, the Bah- team participated in the University State, and Professors Linda Silberman Hardwick and CNN Anchor Martin beat us to it?)” at the Thirteenth Inter- and Krysta Smith. On October 25, 2013, rain Chamber for Dispute Resolution, of Belgrade Pre-Moot and in practice of New York University and Steve Bur- Savidge. Dangel addressed the legal national Conference on Substantive Brand moderated a panel on “Private Qatar University, and Pitt Law’s Center arguments at the University of Zagreb. bank of the University of Pennsylvania. challenges confronting filmmakers. Technology in the Law School and International Law: The Year in Review” for International Legal Education. Prior to the Belgrade Pre-Moot, Pitt Brand spoke on “Contract Drafting Law Practice (Subtech 2014) at the at the International Law Weekend On March 11, 2014, Brand lectured Law’s Center for International Legal Professor Harry Flechtner spoke Lessons From Rules on Jurisdiction and University of Vienna Law School. hosted by the American Branch of the at the Institute for European Studies Education co-sponsored the annual on “Recent Scholarship on the U.N. Choice of Forum in Europe” at the 2013 International Law Association. The (IES) in Brussels, Belgium, on “The Rec- Belgrade Arbitration Conference. Convention on Contracts for the Professor Elena Baylis presented her International Law Weekend-Midwest, panelists included Professor Louise ognition of Foreign Judgments in the On June 3–6, 2014, Brand lectured International Sale of Goods (CISG)” paper, “What Internationals Know: held at Washington University School Ellen Teitz, first secretary of the Hague U.S. and Europe and the Hague Con- on “Contract Drafting Using Rules of as a panelist at the NYU School of Improving the Effectiveness of Post- of Law in St. Louis, Missouri, on conference on Private International ference Judgments Project.” The IES is Jurisdiction” in the International Com- Law on September 26, 2013. He Conflict Justice,” at the Midwest Septmeber 20, 2013. Also on the panel Law; John J. Kim, assistant legal adviser located in the Vrije Universiteit Brussel mercial Contracts Summer School in joined panelists Professor Clay Gil- Political Science Association Confer- was Pitt Law grad Charles T. Kotuby Jr., for Private International Law at the (Flemish Free University of Brussels) Verona, Italy. The program was jointly lette of NYU Law School, Professor ence in Chicago on April 3, 2014. She ( JD ’01), who is now an partner at the U.S. Department of State; Karen and is a leading think tank and instruc- sponsored by the University of Verona Ulrich Magnus of the University of tional home for a number of programs. and CILE. On July 7–10, 2014, Brand FACULTY ACTIVITIES FACULTY ACTIVITIES

Hamburg Law Faculty and the Max August 28, 2013. presented a paper at a workshop at the Transatlantic Relationship,” was their people to believe, withdrawal from erty Program, located at the Munich Planck Insititute, Professor Marco one of the largest Shi’a seminars in the part of the Center’s Conversations on the treaty that has so far been endorsed Intellectual Property Law Center and Professor Haider Ala Hamoudi was Torsello of the University of Verona, Western world, the Al-Mahdi Insti- Europe series. Other panelists were by 122 countries (including 34 Afri- the Max Planck Institute for Innovation interviewed on the Craig Fahle Show Professor Stefan Vogenauer of Oxford tute, located in Birmingham, England. Pia Bungarten, Friedrich Ebert Foun- can states) would not affect the ICC’s and Competition in Munich, Germany. on WDET in Detroit, Michigan, on University, and Professor Stephen Walt The workshop was about the nature of dation Representative to the United pending crimes against humanity pros- Madison is a member of the September 4, 2013, regarding legal of the University of Virginia in discuss- legal responsibility under Islamic law States and Canada; Annegret Bendiek, ecutions of President Uhuru Kenyatta Scientific Advisory Committee for developments in the Arab world fol- ing the approaches and philosophy of and state law. Hamoudi’s paper con- German Institute for International and Vice President William Ruto. On the Second Thematic Conference on lowing the Arab Spring. On September their commentaries on the CISG. The trasted different conceptions of matu- and Security Affairs; Anthony Glees, September 26, 2013, Jalloh spoke on Knowledge Commons organized by 6, 2013, Hamoudi spoke on the legal- program was moderated by Professor rity with Islamic and state paradigms. professor of politics and director of the two separate panels on the relationship the International Association for the ity in the constitution making efforts Franco Ferrari, founder and director On June 2, 2014, Hamoudi spoke Centre for Security and Intelligence between the United Nations Security Study of Commons. The committee’s following the Arab Spring at a Wayne of the NYU Center for Transnational on a panel at Harvard Law School with Studies, University of Buckingham; Council and the International Criminal work was completed during the spring State Law School program on “The Litigation, Arbitration and Commer- Professors Robert Gleave (University and Ami Pedahzur, professor of govern- Court and on the future of international of 2014, with a conference to take place Future of Arab Reform Movements.” cial Law, which sponsored the event. of Exeter, UK) and Kecia Ali (Boston ment at the University of Texas-Austin. criminal law in Africa at an interdis- at New York University in September Also speaking at the event were Pro- On April 8, 2014, Flechtner University) as part of the Harvard On March 13, 2014, Harris spoke ciplinary conference convened by the 2014. fessor Tarek Masoud of the John F. spoke to faculty and students at the Institute of Global Law and Policy at the Universite de Bourgogne’s University of Pennsylvania Law School. Kennedy School of Government of Professor Jasmine Gonzales Rose University of Zagreb (Croatia) on conference on Heterodox Approaches School of Law in Dijon, France, about On November 21, 2014, Jalloh Harvard University and Professor Mark spoke at the International Women in “Observations on the Civil Law Mind to Islamic Law and Policy. The confer- his 2012 book, Failed Evidence: Why spoke on the first-ever interactive panel Tessler of the University of Michigan. Film & Television Summit that took (By Someone Who Doesn’t Know ence brought together established and Law Enforcement Resists Science, to 75 among the 122 member states of the In September, Hamoudi presented a place in Pittsburgh on May 16–18, 2014. What He’s Talking About).” The talk emerging scholars from the fields of law, fourth and fifth year students, in a spe- International Criminal Court (ICC). draft paper at an International Rule The summit brought together enter- focused on what Flechtner identified as history, political science, anthropology, cial session hosted by the school. The special segment was requested by the “Civil Law Homeward Trend”—a of Law workshop sponsored by the tainment professionals from around economics, and other social sciences to Professor Tony Infanti presented his the African Union and titled “Indict- tendency by civilian judges and com- Human Rights Program of Harvard the world, including Twilight Director share critical and comparative method- report (co-written with Bernard Moens ment of Sitting Heads of State and mentators to project domestic civil-law Law School. The paper was published Catherine Hardwick and CNN Anchor ologies and approaches to Islamic law of PwC) in March 2014 on qualifica- Government and its Consequences on doctrines into the United Nations in The International Rule of Movement Martin Savidge. Gonzales Rose partici- and jurisprudence. tion of taxable entities and treaty pro- Peace and Stability and Reconciliation.” Convention on Contracts for the – A Crisis of Legitimacy and the Way pated in a panel following the screening tection at the Joint Meeting of the U.S. Thirty-six countries participated. Other International Sale of Goods (CISG). Forward, edited by David Marshall and Professor David Harris discussed the of Gideon’s Army, an award-winning and Canadian Branches of the Inter- panelists were Ambassador Rolf Einar 26 On May 9–10, 2014, Flechtner published by Harvard University Press. use of predictive policing in the United documentary about three courageous 27 national Fiscal Association in Toronto, Fife (Norway); Djeneba Diarra, African spoke at a conference on “The CISG On January 23, 2014, Hamoudi States with Deutsche Welle Germany’s public defenders working to ensure Canada. On March 18, 2014, Infanti Union Commission acting legal coun- and Domestic Contract Law: Har- spoke at Pitt Law about his book, international broadcaster on October 2, justice in the South. served as commenter for a presenta- sel; Honorable Githu Muigai, attorney mony, Cross-Inspiration or Discord,” Negotiating in Civil Conflict: Consti- 2013. Predictive policing aims to help tion by Professor David Paternotte of general of Kenya; and Professor Cherif held at the University of Copenhagen, tutional Construction and Imperfect police anticipate crimes by using data the Free University of Brussels, titled Bassiouni, chairman of the Drafting sponsored by the Copenhagen Centre Bargaining in Iraq, recently published on crime patterns and using algorithms “Same-Sex Marriage: From Europe to Committee of the 1998 diplomatic for Commercial Law. Flechtner mod- with the University of Chicago Press. that turn the data into blueprints for the Global Arena.” The presentation conference which established the ICC. erated a session on “Buyer’s Inspection: On March 5, 2014, Hamoudi spoke at deploying officers, patrols, and other was sponsored by the Gender, Sexual- The moderator was the first president Domestic Impact in CISG Practice.” the NYU School of Law on constitu- assets. Harris said that without safe- ity, and Women’s Studies Program, the of the assembly, H.R.H. Prince Zeid He presented the lead paper, titled tion making in Iraq, at a panel entitled guards, predictive policing could lead to European Union, and Pitt’s European Ra’ad al Hussein ( Jordan’s ambassador “CISG Article 79: Getting Scafomed,” “The Struggle for Iraq’s Future.” Ham- racial profiling. On October 28, Harris Union Center of Excellence/European to the United Nations). for the session on “Liability Exemptions oudi was appointed the 2014 Kraemer was interviewed by Germany’s ARD Studies Center. In May 2014, Infanti and Hardship.” Participants in the con- Scholar in Residence of Islamic Studies Television on the use of video and Professor Sheila I. Vélez Martínez was co-U.S. national reporter for the ference included leading commercial at William and Mary School of Law body worn video cameras by police in was a guest columnist in Jamaica’s The International Fiscal Association’s 2014 law academics and practitioners from for a period in mid-March 2014. He the United States. A federal judge in Gleaner on August 13, 2013, comment- Congress in Mumbai, India. throughout Scandinavia, including gave several public presentations on New York has ordered the city’s police ing on the murder of a transexual teen. Islamic law in the greater Williamsburg department to conduct pilot studies of former and a current justice(s) of the Professor Charles Jalloh waas inter- Professor Michael Madison presented community as well as at the law school. the use of body worn video cameras and Swedish Supreme Court. Flechtner’s viewed on the Africa 54 program a paper titled “Managing Commons” at Hamoudi was the keynote speaker Harris has written the only law review paper will be published in a forthcom- hosted by Vincent Makori for Voice of the IP Governance by Private Collective at the annual banquet of the Council article on the use of these devices ing book of the conference proceedings. America TV in Washington, D.C., on Entities Conference at the Center for of American Islamic Relations, Pitts- by police. His interview will become September 6, 2013. He discussed the Innovation and Information Law at the Professor David Garrow was featured burgh chapter, on March 29, 2014. He part of a documentary on American implications of Kenya’s parliamentary University of Copenhagen, Denmark, in an hour-long Australian Broadcast- discussed the challenges and oppor- police and their use of technology. vote urging the government to withdraw on March 6–7, 2014. From June 30 to ing Company Radio National program, tunities facing Muslims in the United On February 18, 2014, Harris par- from the treaty that established the July 10, 2014, Madison taught Philo- The Beloved Community: Martin States in the post-9/11 era and the ticipated in a virtual panel at the Uni- International Criminal Court (ICC). sophical Foundations of Intellectual Luther King and the March on Wash- ways in which Muslim Americans can versity of Pittsburgh’s European Union Professor Harry Flechtner lectures to faculty and He explained that, contrary to what Property at the George Washington ington, which aired nationally in Aus- increase their visibility as a respected Center of Excellence. The discussion, students at the Universty of Zagreb (Croatia). Kenyan politicians have been leading University Summer Intellectual Prop- tralia on August 24, 2013, and again on minority group. On April 4, Hamoudi “Spy Games: Technology & Trust in

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