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the Harris Institute e-Newsletter SPRING 2015 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 United States; 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, Senegal’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, Japan, Korea, Association adopted Resolution 300 Trinidad and Tobago, and the United APRIL 2-3, 2015 urging the United States to adopt States. Moreover, both France 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 Paris. 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 Ghana, Korea, Rwanda, Somalia, South The Hague. 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