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ISSUE NO. 7 Lex lata, lex ferenda The Harris Institute Launches a New Blog

INSIDE: The Harris Institute has launched a new blog featuring commentary on issues of foreign affairs and international and 13th Assembly of State Parties comparative law. The blog will serve as a to the Rome Statute resource to Washington University, St. Louis, and the larger regional, national and global communities. Crimes Against Humanity Initiative Gains Momentum Blog contributors are primarily Washington University School of Law Upcoming Lectures and faculty, students, alumni and staff. We International Criminal Court to testimony Conference also welcome postings and comments from concerning police violence at the UN our entire readership. Entries will be Committee Against Torture, stemming moderated by Harris Institute Director, from the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri. Students Participate in Global Professor Leila Nadya Sadat, and Harris Public Interest Work Institute Fellow, Madaline George. You can visit the blog at law.wustl.edu/ harris/lexlata/ where you can subscribe by Alumni Spotlight: Imad Khan Inaugural postings highlight issues email or RSS feed or add it to “favorites” ranging from the cases before the in your web browser. Recap of Speakers from Fall 2014 Save the Date 8th Annual International April 2-3, 2015 Humanitarian Law Dialogs Global Perspectives on Colorism

The Harris Institute is hosting a major conference on colorism on April 2-3, 2015. Colorism is the practice of discrimination based on skin tone and is prevalent throughout the world. Co-sponsored by the Gephardt Institute for Public Service and the Office of the Provost, this conference will address the global reach — in economic, social, and psychological terms — of colorism. Speakers will also explore how skin color can be a source of scorn, shame, admiration and envy.

The range of panels at the conference include The Globalization of Skin Tone Keynote addresses include Humankind Preference; Human Rights Protections for Against Itself by Carlos Moore and TV “Color” under International Law; Shade- News Influence, Racial Stereotypes and Skin ism Among Blacks, Bi-Racial and Multi- Tone Judgments by Sharon Bramlett- Racial Americans in the ; the Solomon. The conference will conclude Effects of Color on Native Americans, with the screening of the film Shade-ism Latin Americans and Immigrants of Color; and Q&A with the film’s producer. and Understanding Color Distinctions in Asia. For registration & additional information, visit: law.wustl.edu/harris/colorism. the Harris Institute e-Newsletter Page Fall2 2012

SPRING EVENTS 13th Annual Assembly of State Parties to the Rome Statute

FEBRUARY 6, 2015 The 13th Assembly of State Parties to International Dispute the Rome Statute took place from Resolution Workshop: December 8-17 at the United Nations in Protecting Your Client in the New York City. ICC members welcomed Global Economy the new President of the ASP, ’s Justice Minister Sidiki Kaba; approved the Court’s budget and the election of FEBRUARY 9, 2015 six new judges; and discussed issues ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda and Special Advisers No Fire Zone: In the Killing including cooperation with the Court. Fields of Sri Lanka prominent authors. Sadat spoke at the Callum Macrae, The Prosecutor’s new policy on Sexual panel discussion for the new book On the Documentary Filmmaker and Gender Based Crimes was the Proposed Crimes Against Humanity subject of numerous side events and Convention (edited by Morten Bergsmo comments by and SONG FEBRUARY 17, 2015 states and Tianying), William C. Jones Lecture: observers from for which Chinese Corporate Capitalism civil society. Harris she wrote a Institute Director chapter and in the 21st Century Leila Sadat spoke discussed Curtis J. Milhaupt, Columbia at two side events the six year Law School —the first of which progress of was related to the the Crimes HI Fellow Madaline George FEBRUARY 20, 2015 Prosecutor’s new Against policy. Humanity LGBT Rights in International Initiative. & Comparative Law: Progress The later event was a triple book launch and Contestation and included remarks from 16 Larry R. Helfer, Duke Law School Crimes Against Humanity Initiative Gains Momentum MARCH 3, 2015 The Harris Institute’s Crimes Against International Justice: Humanity Initiative marked several Beginning of the End, or End important milestones recently. of the Beginning? Following the historic Experts Meeting Prosecutor Serge in Geneva, Switzerland hosted by the Brammertz, ICTY Institute, the International Law Commission (ILC) voted on July 18,

2014 to add the drafting of a treaty on APRIL 1, 2015 crimes against humanity to its active Special Rapporteur Sean Murphy

International Human Rights agenda. The ILC also named Professor Sean Murphy, a participant at the the United Nations’ Sixth Committee, Law in Action: Lessons from Geneva Conference, as the Special where several States expressed their the Field Rapporteur. support for the work of the ILC on this Stephanie Farrior, Vermont topic, including Australia, Croatia, the Law School On August 12, 2014, the American Bar Czech Republic, Israel, , Korea, Association adopted Resolution 300 , and the United APRIL 2-3, 2015 urging the United States to adopt States. Moreover, both and the deferral legislation penalizing crimes Czech Republic made specific references Global Perspectives on against humanity. Signs of progress to the Crimes Against Humanity Colorism Conference were also seen at the recent meeting of Initiative. the Harris Institute e-Newsletter Page 3

GLOBAL FOOTPRINT Providing Students the Opportunities to Work and Study Abroad

Fast Facts for a Washington University and the Harris Institute continue to provide students with Globalized Experience at opportunities to work and study abroad. Washington University This past summer, three students were School of Law selected for the 2014 Dagen Legomsky Fellowship program. Isaac Amon worked 158 International Students at the International Criminal Tribunal for Jim Ransdell and colleagues at Legal Aid, the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Denu, Ghana in 2014-2015 while Ashlin Mosby worked at Africa, and The Netherlands. Through this 33 Countries Represented in the Centro de program, students engaged in intensive the Current Student Body Estudios de las professional development and worked on a Americas in range of legal issues, including criminal Santiago, Chile. defense, environmental protection, 14 International Hague Fellow paralegal training, refugee law, the Exchange Partners Sydney Tonsfeldt promotion of civil justice reform, and Isaac Amon with Amal Alamuddin attended an dispute resolution. intensive three- 5 International Full week course at The Hague Academy of The Harris Institute Degree Programs International Law before continuing her also congratulates studies at the Sorbonne in . Eleanor Gourley for Alumni in 24 Countries her semester More than twenty students participated in internship in the the Global Public Interest Law Fellowship Office of the program. Placements included those at Prosecutor at the

non-governmental organizations, legal aid International In the J.D. Class of 2017 organizations and courts in Chile, China, Criminal Court in Eleanor Gourley at the ICC The Hague. Ghana, Korea, Rwanda, Somalia, South 31 Languages Spoken Alumni Spotlight: Imad Khan 10 Countries Represented

26 (10%) International Imad Khan, JD ’11, Imad has also represented and advised Students is an associate at clients in commercial arbitrations under White and Case in the rules of the International Chamber of the firm's Commerce (ICC) and the International International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR). Arbitration and Litigation Groups. While a student at Washington University School of Law, Imad served as the Cash Imad has represented clients in Nickerson Fellow at the Harris Institute,

international treaty arbitrations, working on the French and English text of international commercial arbitrations and the Proposed International Convention on federal district court. In particular, he the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes represents clients in investor-State disputes Against Humanity and its commentary, before the International Centre for the Forging a Convention for Crimes Against Settlement of Investment Disputes Humanity (Cambridge, 2011). He was also (ICSID) at the World Bank, as well as a member of the award winning Philip C. under the rules of the United Nations Jessup International Law Moot Court Commission on International Trade Law Team and now serves as an adjunct (UNCITRAL). professor at Washington University teaching Investor-State Arbitration. the Harris Institute e-Newsletter Page 4 Recap of the Harris Institute Speaker Series: Fall 2014

The Harris Institute Speaker Series brought The Harris Institute collaborated with the

several speakers to campus last Fall. Access to Justice, Public Interest Law and

Bertrand du Marais, Université de Paris Policy Speakers Series to host the lecture

Ouest Nanterre La Défense, spoke on Legal and reception on Fires, Fuel and the Fate of Globalization and 3 Billion: The State of the Energy Efficiency: Towards Impoverished by Gautam Yadama, Standardization or Washington University Brown School of Jurisdiversity? while Social Work, and Mark Katzman, a local St. Gonçalo Matias, Louis Photographer. Catholic University of Portugal, gave a lecture on The Constitutional Implications of the Professor Gonçalo Matias Financial Crisis in Europe. Karen Hall, U.S. Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement, also met with students to talk Professor Karen Tokarz with Gautam Yadama about career paths at the State Department. 8th Annual International Humanitarian Law Dialogs

The New World (Dis)order: IHL in an Uncertain World

The Harris Institute co-sponsored the 8th 1981 Gambia Tribunal, one of the first WHITNEY R. HARRIS Annual International Humanitarian attempts at hybrid-justice. Other highlights WORLD LAW INSTITUTE Dialogs at the Chautauqua Institution in include the granting of the New York from August 24-26, 2014. Joshua Heintz Humanitarian Award to the Practitioners, leading scholars and students newly elected High Commissioner for WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY met with international prosecutors over the Human Rights H.R.H. Prince Zeid Ra’ad SCHOOL OF LAW three days to discuss concerns related to Zeid Al-Hussein, and keynote addresses by accountability and the rule of law Ms. Zainab Hawa Bangura, Special stemming from current conflicts that have Representative on Sexual Violence in One Brookings Drive caused thousands of deaths and forced Conflict, and then ICC-ASP President Campus Box 1120 millions from their homes. Ambassador Tiina Intelmann. St. Louis, MO 63130 Highlights include an interview with ICC Interactive porch sessions spanned a range Phone: 314.935.3379 Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, SCSL of topics from non-State Actors and IHL, Fax: 314.935.7961 Former Prosecutor Desmond de Silva and to Islamic Extremism, Cyber Warfare and [email protected] former ICTR Prosecutor Hassan B. LOAC. For more information, visit the IHL Jallow—all of whom were involved in the Dialogs website. Stay Connected!

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