v. 13 no. 1 2021 Case Global The Frederick K. Cox Center

Celebrating 30 Years: The Cox Center marks three decades of dedication to international law

Ranked #16 in the country for international law by U.S. News & World Report About the Center 5 Since its founding in 1991, CWRU’s Frederick K. Cox International Law Center has trained the next generation of international lawyers while making an impact locally, nationally and around the world. The Cox Center serves as the hub of the law school’s international law program, which includes the Canada-US 4 Law Institute, the Institute for Global Security Law & Policy, the Henry T. King Jr. War Crimes Research Office, the Yemen Accountability Project, the 9 Immigration Law Clinic, and the Journal of International Law.

The Cox Center Team Michael P. Scharf Co-Dean, School of Law

Stephen J. Petras Jr. Director, Frederick K. Cox International Law Center

Juscelino Colares Co-Director, Frederick K. Cox International THE ACADEMY AND INTERNATIONAL LAW: Law Center Avidan Cover Director, Institute for Global Security Law A Catalyst for Change and Innovation and Policy Shannon French Director, Inamori International Center for Join Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland Ethics and Excellence this fall for a two-day, in-person event to explore how academia Richard Gordon SEPTEMBER 24-25 Director, Financial Integrity Institute, has influenced war crimes prosecutions, peace negotiations, and and Associate Director, Frederick K. Cox the pursuit of human rights since the Second World War. CLEVELAND, OHIO 16 22 International Law Center James Johnson This conference celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Registration is free, but Director, Henry King War Crimes Research Office endowment of our Frederick K. Cox International Law Center and there is a $100 charge for Inside this Issue Ted Parran the 25th anniversary of the Public International Law & Policy alumni seeking CLE credit Managing Director, Canada-U.S. Law Institute or $200 for non-alumni Group’s founding. Jonathan Gordon International accolades for Global impact 4 10 Director, SJD Program seeking CLE. Co-Dean Scharf See where Case Western Reserve School Featured speakers include: of Law alumni are making an impact in Jack Turner See the full schedule 5 Student-led initiative documents international law Director, Foreign Graduate LLM Program atrocities in Yemen and sign up for your Su He Three decades of progress 13  Director, Joint Program in International Going global—at home free tickets today: 6 Notable milestones of the Frederick K. Commercial Law and Dispute Resolution case.edu/law/our-school/ How students gained hands-on Cox International Law Center’s first international law experiences amid 30 years Elizabeth Woyczynski events-lectures the pandemic Administrative Director, Office of Foreign 16 CWRU takes top honors Graduate Legal Studies CWRU faculty connect with human rights 8 in international moot court competitions Michael Benza, Carol Fox, Kathryn Mercer, experts in Thailand Douglas Pilawa, Elizabeth Safier, and 17 Making an impact on immigration Denakpon Tchobo Judge Silva Fernandez de Dr. Mark Ellis, Executive 8 Law faculty, students push for Jessup, ICC, and Vis International Moot Court Gurmendi, President of the Director of the International accountability for violence by police 18 News of our International Law Faculty Team Coaches Assembly of State Parties of the Bar Association International Criminal Court 9 Alumni spotlight 22 Diplomatic tendencies Eric Siler John Sopko, Inspector General Director of Academic Centers for Afghanistan Case Global x 3 The Yemen Accountability CWRU’s Project is part of the Global Accountability Network, international International accolades alongside the Syrian Accountability Project and the law program Venezuelan Accountability for Co-Dean Scharf Project. It is also affiliated with earns top When the fledgling International Criminal Court Mock Trial the Public International Law Competition foundered a decade ago, Case Western Reserve & Policy Group, a Nobel Peace rankings University School of Law Co-Dean Michael Scharf jumped into Prize-nominated NGO that action, co-founding the International Criminal Court Moot Court assists in international war In a year of tumult, one thing remained Competition in The Hague, along with Leiden University School crimes prosecutions. YAP is steady: Case Western Reserve of Law Professor and Grotius Center Director Carsten Stahn. University’s international law program supported by a three-year grant earned top ratings from national Since then, the competition has thrived—growing to include from alumnus Timothy Geisse publications. participants from 95 universities from 50 countries and earning (LAW ’84) and the John F. and sponsorship from the International Bar Association (IBA). Mary A. Geisse Foundation. Among the reasons for highlighting our program: the Frederick K. Cox In recognition of his “extraordinary work” with the competition, International Law Center’s $4 million the IBA presented Scharf with a leadership award, recognizing his creativity, energy, and endowment—one of the largest in expertise in writing the ICC Moot Court Problems and Bench Memos. Mark Ellis, executive the nation; our adaptability amid the director of the IBA, said the association wouldn’t have entered into the new partnership, which pandemic to support our students (see includes naming rights for the competition, if not for Scharf’s leadership as chair of the Board p. 6); and an analysis of our academic of Advisors. strongholds, including concentrations, clinics, externships, journals, moot court The award comes just months after Scharf was voted president-elect of the American branch success and more. of the International Law Association, the international non-governmental organization involved in developing and restating international law.

Scharf has three decades of leadership in the American branch, which is among the oldest and largest of the association’s 63 branches. He served nearly 10 years as its vice president Student-led initiative and member of its board of directors, twice chaired International Law Weekend—its annual three-day conference in that brings together 2,000 academics, practitioners and international#16 law program, students—and organized three regional meetings at Case Western Reserve. U.S. News & World Report DOCUMENTS ATROCITIES Scharf will serve as president-elect until 2022, when he will succeed Professor Leila Sadat of Washington University in St. Louis as president for up to a pair of two-year terms. Three years ago, a group of Case Western prosecutions at the Special Court for Sierra in Yemen Reserve University School of Law students Leone and director of the CWRU War Crimes came together to launch the Yemen Research Office. and individuals accountable for the atrocities Accountability Project (YAP) to document that have been committed in Yemen since spots from the8 prior year and map war crimes and crimes against “When we launched the project, we were the conflict began. Conference takes on Scharf’s humanity in the Yemeni Civil War. hoping for a handful of volunteers,” said Johnson. “Instead, dozens of law students The first white paper, a 59-page report, “Grotian Moments” concept Last fall, the team’s extensive work began came on board despite the workloads and explores how civilian victims of the war in to come to fruition with the release of YAP’s pressures of school. These students are Yemen can seek justice for the grave crimes Building upon School of Law Co-Dean Michael first white paper, “Aiding and Abetting: volunteering their time because they see this perpetrated against them. The second, a Scharf’s concept of “Grotian Moments”—paradigm Holding States, Corporations, and Individuals as an opportunity to make a difference.” 51-page document, examines evidence shifts and tipping points in international law— Accountable for War Crimes in Yemen.” from 2015 to 2018 that illustrates patterns rating,A+ National Jurist’s the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg, Germany, Six months later, the group published its By the time Johnson finished recruiting, of widespread attacks on civilian objects PreLaw magazine convened a workshop this spring, titled “Grotian second, “Starvation: Building the Case for more than 70 law students joined the effort indispensable to survival, such as food Moments in International Law.” Prosecuting Starvation Crimes in Yemen.” to help bring justice and accountability production and water supply, and outlines to a conflict that has cost more than avenues for bringing charges against Scharf, whose two books on the topic were published The YAP is the first comprehensive effort 100,000 lives. Over the next two years, YAP perpetrators of these crimes. by Cambridge University Press, presented a paper on “Grotian to document atrocities in the country’s civil volunteers worked to build a database of Moments: The Concept.” Twenty-two international law experts from war and lay the foundation for successful potential war crimes in Yemen’s civil war, Johnson estimates the entire project will be years4 in a row of 101 schools across the globe then presented papers on the application of the Grotian Moment prosecutions of the responsible parties. The analyze data, and deliver meaningful reports complete in another three years, and hopes given this honor concept to a variety of areas; the papers will be published in a book by Brill. student-run project is supervised by Adjunct to international organizations and NGOs in a the students’ work will prove invaluable to Professor James Johnson, the former chief of worldwide effort to hold states, corporations international prosecutors.

4 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Case Global x 5 At the same time, many students were able to intern for international law placements in-person or remotely in 2020 and 2021, including at:

• International Law Institute, African Centre for Legal Excellence, Kampala, Uganda* GOING GLOBAL—AT HOME • U.S. Court of International Trade, New York, New York* Altogether, the centers’ directors developed • Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Washington, D.C.* How students gained hands-on international 27 impactful projects—more than enough • Human Rights Watch, New York and Washington, D.C.* to cover every student who had lost an • Immigrant Defenders Law Center Cross Border, San Diego, California* international internship. The projects include law experiences amid the pandemic working with: • Cambodian Center for Human Rights, Phnom Penh, Cambodia* • Scharf on a Public International Law & • International Foundation for Art Research, New York* In ranking Case Western Reserve University Undaunted by the pandemic, the leaders Research Office (directed by Adjunct Policy Group project analyzing the shift • International Bar Association, London* in security council power to the General School of Law’s International Law Program of Case Western Reserve’s international Professor James Johnson) the Institute for • Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Office of Co-Prosecutors, Assembly; among the top 10 in the nation, PreLaw law program worked together to create Global Security Law and Policy (directed by Phnom Penh, Cambodia* magazine recognized the law school’s funded an alternative arrangement for students Associate Dean Avidan Cover) the Canada- • Petras to develop the first compendium • Department of Defense, Office of Military Commissions, Washington, D.C. internships as its secret to placing so many of who lost their summer placements. Such US Law Institute (directed by Petras) and analyzing all the Canadian and U.S. laws its graduates in the field of international law. students were invited to work remotely for the Public International Law & Policy Group that apply to the Great Lakes; • American Red Cross, Office of General Counsel & International Humanitarian the summer as research fellows for one (directed by Dean Michael Scharf). Students Law, Washington, D.C. • Johnson to create dossiers for potential Every summer, 30 or so Case Western of the law school’s Case Global centers, availing themselves of this option were prosecution of Yemen War Crimes; and • Coast Guard JAG Office of Maritime and International Law, Washington, D.C. Reserve law students undertake institutes and affiliated organizations, provided $1,500 stipends and could earn international law internships around the including the Cox Center (co-directed by three credits under the umbrella of the law • Cover on a report examining nations’ • U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Chief Counsel, Washington, D.C. globe, and with its $4 million endowment, the Professors Juscelino Colares and Steve school’s externship program. responses to the coronavirus pandemic • ICPO-INTERPOL, Lyon, France* law school’s Frederick K. Cox International Petras) the Henry King War Crimes and assessing their compliance with and • The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) The Hague* Law Center provides stipends to cover the respect for human rights. students’ travel and living expenses. In *Remote internships addition, the law school grants academic credit for these placements.

In early 2020, law students obtained a record number of foreign placements. Then, the coronavirus hit. Many law firms, government agencies, international organizations and NGOs either moved to remote internship experiences or canceled internships for the summer of 2020 altogether.

Dennis Schwartz spent the summer In 2020, Kathryn Meyer interned with interning at International Law the Office of the Co-Prosecutors, Institute - African Centre for Legal Extraordinary Chambers in the Excellence. Courts of Cambodia; this year, she was with the American Red Cross.

Sydney Bell interned at INTERPOL in Brooke Behrmann interned in summer summer 2021. 2021 at International Law Institute - African Centre for Legal Excellence.

6 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Case Global x 7 ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT CWRU faculty connect with John Sopko, Inspector General for Afghanistan human rights experts in Thailand 1977 graduate John F. Sopko was sworn in The pandemic-induced proliferation of as Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Zoom meetings spurred a new international Reconstruction on July 2, 2012. Almost connection: Case Western Reserve a decade later, he continues to serve in University School of Law faculty members the position, overseeing the largest aid recently met virtually with a team of Thai program since the Marshall Plan. This year, human rights experts, through a discussion the U.S. withdrew most of its troops from organized by the U.S. Department of State Afghanistan, but the aid continues—and, International Visitor Leadership Program with it, the mismanagement that Sopko and and the Cleveland Council on World Affairs. his team continue to combat.

Using simultaneous translation, the “We have spent more money in Afghanistan conversation centered on best practices to on reconstruction than we did on the entire protect the human rights of marginalized Marshall Plan to rebuild all of Europe after communities and indigenous people WWII—over $136 billion,” Sopko said. “My in Thailand, including issues of mass job—and the job of my nearly 200 auditors, investigators, analysts and engineers—is detention, mistreatment and expulsion from Faculty in the law school met with Thai human rights experts—along with interpreters—for a to protect that money from fraud, waste national parks. live discussion on Zoom. and abuse and ultimately improve the way “Hearing about the Thai lawyers’ dedicated challenges was incredibly illuminating and Security Law & Policy. “We look forward our government does development work in Special Inspector General Sopko (right) tours a training facility for Afghan Air Force pilots at efforts to surmount discriminatory humbling,” said Avidan Cover, associate to a sustained dialogue and potential Afghanistan and elsewhere around the globe.” Kabul International Airport. government practices as well as rule of law dean and director of the Institute for Global partnership on these issues.” Prior to his appointment to the Inspector General position by President Barack Obama, Sopko served as a federal prosecutor, counsel to several congressional committees, and a partner at a large Washington, D.C., law firm.

Law faculty, students “But this is the most interesting job I have ever had,” he said. “I’m not stationed in push for accountability Afghanistan, but I try to travel there at least four times a year for anywhere from a week to two weeks visiting my staff, meeting Sopko meets with U.S. Army Sopko receives a briefing Sopko greets President Ashraf for violence by police with our government officials as well as the General Austin S. Miller, the on biometric ID systems Ghani at the Presidential president of Afghanistan and other Afghan current commander of U.S. and while visiting a unit of Palace in Kabul. As racial justice and anti-police-brutality with Physicians for Human Rights, filed government, business and civil society NATO Resolute Support Mission Afghan security forces in protests took place in cities across the a joint submission to the United Nations’ representatives.” forces in Afghanistan. northern Afghanistan. United States in summer 2020, reports Special Rapporteurs on Health and showed attacks by federal and local police Peaceful Assembly and Association. The In the nine years since he was appointed more than $1.4 billion in savings to the U.S. all the good it’ll do. We’ve also learned that on medics—using mace, pepper balls, project was led by Professor Avidan Cover inspector general, Sopko and his team have taxpayer just from their audits. to be effective, reconstruction efforts must flash grenades, tear gas, rubber bullets and assisted by a group of student Cox uncovered a great deal of fraud. “Our criminal be based on a deep understanding of the and bean bag rounds, as well as physically Center fellows. investigators have conducted nearly 1,100 Sopko said the most important lesson traditions of the host nation.” pushing, grabbing and shoving individuals. investigations, made 129 arrests and secured he’s learned from Afghanistan is that Their extensive submission 147 guilty pleas and convictions,” Sopko “oversight—the ability of American oversight Sopko praised CWRU School of Law’s Such actions, a group of Case Western documents how law enforcement said. “Their work has resulted in $1.6 billion officials to follow the money—is mission expansive national security law offerings Reserve University School of Law students both targeted and indiscriminately in criminal fines, restitutions, forfeitures, critical, particularly in a country with a deep and encourages students to pursue jobs in and faculty said, impinged on the rights attacked medics. These actions, civil settlements, and other savings and history of corruption.” the field. to health and peaceful assembly under the submission contends, violate recoveries for the government.” international law. international treaties to which the Known for his blunt talk, Sopko said that: “If “It is a tremendous area to work in,” he United States is a party, opening the In addition, his team has issued more we keep sending American taxpayer dollars said, “and covers the gamut from foreign This spring, the law school’s Institute for door for international accountability and than 600 audits and other reports, made to Afghanistan, without strong oversight, economic development, weapons exports, Global Security Law and Policy, together pressure for reforms. more than 1,000 recommendations to then we may as well just light that money money laundering and human rights issues.” U.S. government agencies, and identified on fire on the streets of downtown Kabul for

8 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Case Global x 9 3 Immigration Law

3 Austin Fragomen (’68) Rachel Berman-Vaporis (’14) Seth Garfinkle (‘17) Global impact founder of Fragomen, the world’s Attorney-Adviser, Board Attorney Advisor, Executive largest immigration firm (New of Immigration Appeals Office for Immigration Review, York) (Washington, D.C.) Denver Immigration Court See where Case Western Reserve School of Law Lisa Scott (‘86) Malea Hetrick (’17) Kate Masetta-Alvarez (’18) founder of Scott Global Migration Attorney Advisor, Executive DOJ Immigration Law Appeals alumni are shaping international law Law Group (Chicago) Office for Immigration Review, Attorney (Washington, D.C.) Cleveland Immigration Court Joseph Edlow (’07) Amelia Wester (‘19) Case Western Reserve University School of Law has dozens of law alumni occupying prominent positions in General Counsel of U.S. Aliza Corinne Lopes-Baker (‘17) Associate Immigration Attorney government agencies, international organizations, NGOs, corporations and law firms around the world. Citizenship and Immigration Attorney Advisor, Executive at Blake Immigration Law Services (Washington, D.C.) Office for Immigration Review, (Alexandria, Virginia) Here’s a peek into the current roles of some of our esteemed graduates who are eager to mentor our Cleveland Immigration Court students and help launch their international law careers.

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5 John Sopko (’77) 4 Kristina Aiad-Toss (‘21) Inspector General of Afghanistan Attorney-Adviser, DHS U.S. Reconstruction (Washington, D.C.) Customs and Border Protection, Office of Rules and Regulations Kevin Nealer (’78) Principal of Snowcroft Group (Washington, D.C.) (Washington, D.C.) Jazmine Edwards (‘21) Attorney-Adviser, DHS U.S. Admiral Janet Donovan (’83) former head of the Navy Reserve Customs and Border Protection, JAG Corps (Washington, D.C.) Office of Rules and Regulations (Washington, D.C.) Robert Altneu (’91) Director of the U.S. Customs Amanda Makhoul (‘21) Office of Rules & Regulations Attorney-Adviser, DHS U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Ted Fowles (’00) Office of Rules and Regulations Government/International Human Rights Law Coast Guard Chief Trial Judge (Washington, D.C.) Organizations (Washington, D.C.) Swithin Monyantwali (’92) Margaux Day (’09) Rick Batson (’02) Executive Director and Co- Policy Director, Accountability Commanding Officer of Coast 5 Stephen Petras (‘79) Ruth Mary Hackler (’05) Founder of the International Counsel (Washington, D.C.) Guard Legal Service Command in Chairman of the Board of Prosecuting Attorney, Cambodia Law Institute - Africa Center for Norfolk Directors of the Council of the Genocide Tribunal (Phnom Penh, Niki Dasarathi (’09) Legal Excellence (Uganda and Senior Advisor, American Great Lakes Region Cambodia) South Africa) Keith Petty (‘02) Bar Association Rule of Law Major in Army JAG, Legal Liaison Anne Simon (‘83) Ahran Kang McCloskey (’06) Chris Rassi (’03) Initiative (Washington, D.C.) Officer for U.S. Army Europe at Senior Advisor, Consular Affairs, Attorney Adviser, Office of the Director of the Office of Kimberly Brown (’12) the US Embassy in Berlin U.S. Department of State Legal Adviser, U.S. Department Secretary-General, International of State (Washington, D.C.) Senior Governance Adviser, Katharine Quaglieri (’11) 1 Mohamed Chambas (’84) Federation of the Red Cross Twitter’s governance framework Attorney-Adviser, DHS U.S. head of the U.N. Africa Bureau Chelan Bliss (’07) (, Switzerland) for global content moderation, Customs and Border Protection (New York) Senior Foreign Service Officer, 2 Andres Perez (’04) former Associate Director of (Washington, D.C.) U.S. Department of State Ambassador Capricia Marshall Attorney Advisor at UN High the Carter Center’s Rule of Law (Washington, D.C.) Phil Hadji (’12) (’90) Commissioner for Human Program (Atlanta) Assistant General Counsel, former Chief of Protocol, Ra’id Alsaedi (‘09) Rights (Geneva, Switzerland) Rachel Wolbers (’12) Department of Navy U.S. Department of State Chief of Staff of the Prime Zach Lampell (’08) Public Policy Manager, Facebook (Washington, D.C.) (Washington, D.C.) Minister of Iraq, formerly Legal Adviser, International Oversight Board (Washington, Inspector General of the Iraqi Ted Parran (’13) Francois Philippe Champagne Center for Not-for-Profit Law D.C.) Army and Chief Investigative Assistant Chief Counsel with (’94) (Washington, D.C.) the Department of Homeland former Canadian Foreign Judge of the Iraqi High Tribunal (Baghdad) Kathleen Gibson (’08) Security (Cleveland) Minister, currently Minister of Legal Adviser, Danish Refugee Innovation, Science and Industry Nate Quick (’09) Council in Israel (West Bank) Hyder Syed (’13) (Ottawa, Ontario) Prosecutor, Kosovo Tribunal Assistant General Counsel, (The Hague) INTERPOL (Lyon, France)

10 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Case Global x 11 6 International Law Judges

7 Kathleen O’Malley (’82) Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7 Federal Circuit (Washington, D.C.) Jennifer Peyton (’98) Immigration Court Judge (Chicago) Jennifer Riedthaler Williams (’01) Three Decades Immigration Court Judge (Cleveland) Duncan Gaswaga (’13) Judge of the Uganda High Court International Crimes Chamber (Kampala) of Progress NOTABLE MILESTONES OF THE FREDERICK K. COX International INTERNATIONAL LAW CENTER’S FIRST 30 YEARS International Law Professors (full-time) Business and Trade Law Chip Carter (’98) The Frederick K. Cox International Law Center marks its 30th anniversary University of Pittsburgh School Ritchie Thomas (‘64) Thomas Au (’13) of Law this year. In honor of the occasion, we’re taking a look back at some of the International Trade Counsel, Assistant General Counsel, Ken Davis (’74) remarkable accomplishments of our past three decades. Squire Patton Boggs Office of the U.S. Trade Wisconsin Law School (Washington, D.C.) Representative (Washington, Amos Guiora (’74) D.C.) 6 Rick Newcomb (’73) University of Utah School of Law 8 9 Partner and head of DLA Piper Zach Walker (’13) Greg McNeal (’06) Charles Norchi (’86) International Practice Section International Trade Counsel Pepperdine Law School University of Maine School of (Washington, D.C.) at Picard Kentz & Rowe Law (Washington, D.C.) Bryan Mercurio (’00) Craig Chapman (’80) University of Hong Kong Faculty 9 Jack Turner (’02) Partner and Chair of Sidley Tyler Kimberly (’15) of Law Case Western Reserve Austin’s Global Capital Markets Judicial Clerk, U.S. Court of University School of Law 2001 group (New York) International Trade (New York 8 Katy Mercer (’83) City) Case Western Reserve Rafael Dean Brown (’02) Bruce J. Klatsky, chair Laura Quatella (’82) University School of Law Qatar University College of Law and CEO of Phillips Van General Counsel of Lenovo Gabrielle Feuer (’16) Heusen Corp. and a Group (New York and Beijing) Assistant General Counsel, Mary-Beth Moylan (’94) member of the Board of TransDigm Group Inc. University of the Pacific 1991 Michele Gon (‘85) Directors of Human Rights McGeorge School of Law A multimillion-dollar gift Partner and International (Cleveland) Watch, provides a special from the Gund Foundation Business Law specialist at Han endowment to the law Brandan Saslow (’16) endows the Cox school for a human rights Kun Law Offices (Shanghai). Litigation Attorney, Office of International Law Center. lecture series and an Chief Counsel, Department of That same year, CWRU William Hayes (‘88) annual fellowship for two Commerce (Washington, D.C.) launches its LLM program Senior Lawyer and Head of Study abroad opens doors to students to Human Rights for lawyers from outside Legal & Business Affairs, Teresa Azzam (‘19) employment overseas Watch. R&D and Innovation, British International Arbitration the United States, which Broadcasting Corp. (London) Associate, Squire Patton Boggs CWRU School of Law has semester abroad programs with now enrolls more than 130 (Dubai) foreign students a year. Ashlee Lee (’07) 17 law schools on five continents and three concurrent International Trade Counsel for Douglas Pilawa (‘19) degree programs with universities in London, Paris and 2002 Coca-Cola Co. (Atlanta) International Dispute , where our students receive both a foreign LLM and The Cox Center’s War Crimes Research Office Resolution Associate at Squire our JD degree in just three years at no extra cost. and War Crimes Research Lab are established, Heather Doherty (’09) Patton Boggs (Cleveland) now directed by James Johnson, former chief International Trade Compliance After earning his concurrent degree at University of Paris, of prosecutions of the Special Court for Sierra Counsel, Nidek Motor Corp. Garo Yaghsezian (‘19) Garo Yaghsezian (‘19) secured a position at the Paris office Leone. To date, the office has provided over (Washington, D.C.) Associate, Kramer, Levin, of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel. Jessica Turner (‘19) 250 research memos to international tribunals, Naftalis & Frankel (Paris) Luke Tillman (’11) obtained a job at Avonhurst Legal Services in London after piracy courts, INTERPOL and the U.S. military Customs and International earning her concurrent degree at Middlesex University in Samantha Power, then U.S. commissions. Trade Lawyer at Steptoe and the United Kingdom. And Teresa Azzam (‘20) got a job as an Permanent Representative to Johnson (Washington, D.C.) international arbitration counsel in Squire Patton Boggs’ Frederick K. Cox, Executive the United Nations, chats with Dubai office after earning her concurrent degree at Comillas Director of the Gund the Editor in Chief of the Journal University in Madrid. Foundation and members of International Law after of the Gund family. delivering the Klatsky Lecture.

12 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Case Global x 13 Three Decades of Progress

2005 Cox Center War Crimes Research

program, in association with the

Public International Law and Policy

Case Western Reserve 2009 2014 Journal of International Law Group, is nominated for the Nobel

Volume 46 Fall 2013 Issues 1 & 2 CWRU launches fundraising CWRU debuts first Peace Prize by the chief prosecutor

Journal of International Law Case Western Reserve 2018 deterring the use of child pirates End Game! An International Conference on Shelly L. Whitman Children and Marine Piracy initiative resulting in an Combating Maritime Piracy concurrent degree program Mark A. Drumbl Child Pirates: Rehabilitation, Reintegration, and Accountability of the Special Court for Sierra

Milena Sterio Juvenile Pirates: “Lost Boys” or Violent Criminals? FOREWORD endowment for internship Students and faculty create the Yemen new ideas for combating pirate financing Michael P. Scharf & Foreword: End Game! An International Conference on Combating with Comilas University and plunder Matthew E. Carlton Maritime Piracy Leone for its work, which led to the Yaron Gottlieb Combating Maritime Piracy: Inter-Disciplinary Cooperation and keynote lecture Information Sharing support in honor of the late Accountability Project. Funded by a grant from Hugh R. Williamson New Thinking in the Fight Against Marine Piracy: Financing and Lt. Gen. Roméo Perspectives on the Growing Trend of Child Piracy in Madrid, through which Plunder Pre-Empting Piracy Before Prevention Becomes Necessary Dallaire successful prosecution of Liberian roundtable on legal/operational issues in assessing current trends and efforts to the John F. and Mary A. Geisse Foundation, combating and apprehending pirates combat piracy Henry King (1918-2009), a students can spend their 3L Jon Huggins & Somali Piracy—Are We at the End Game? Michael J. Kelly The Pre-History of Piracy as a Crime & Its Definitional Odyssey President Charles Taylor. Liza Kane-Hartnett Ved P. Nanda & Moving from Crisis Management to a Sustainable Solution for Somali Mark Sloan Operational Responses to Piracy—A First Principles Approach Jonathan Bellish Piracy: Selected Initiatives and the Role of International Law CWRU professor and former 70 students working under the supervision of Simon Barker International Maritime Piracy: An Old Profession That Is Capable of Captain J. Ashley Global Conventions on Maritime Crimes Involving Piratical Acts year abroad and graduate New Tricks, but Change Is Possible Roach Laurie R. Blank Rules of Engagement and Legal Frameworks for Multinational

Hon. Rosemelle Assessing Current Trends and Efforts to Combat Piracy: Counter-Piracy Operations Mutoka A Case Study on Kenya Nuremberg prosecutor. Professor James Johnson produce whitepapers, talking foreign policy Sandra L. Hodgkinson Current Trends in Global Piracy: Can Somalia’s Successes Help Combat with both a foreign LLM and Vol. 46 Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea and Elsewhere? Radio Broadcast Hosted Talking Foreign Policy: A Roundtable on Piracy Nos. 1 & 2 Sulakshna Beekarry Assessing Current Trends and Efforts to Combat Piracy by Michael P. Scharf Paul R. Williams & Maritime Piracy: A Sustainable Global Solution a conflict narrative, a crime-based matrix, draft Pages Lowry Pressly our JD degree in just three notes 1–462 Garret Bowman Why Now Is the Time to Resolve the Dokdo/Takeshima Dispute Fall indictments and analytical dossiers to lay the

2013 years. Subsequently, CWRU has added concurrent degree groundwork for eventual prosecutions (see p. 5). 2021 programs with Middlesex 2011 The Appeals Chamber of 2003 University in London and the International Criminal University of Paris. The Institute for National CWRU Jessup Team wins the Court cites the Amicus Security Law and Policy Baxter Award for best brief in Brief written by Dean is established. Case the worldwide competition. Scharf and colleagues in Western Reserve Journal The Cox Center develops a the Ntaganda case. of International Law Human Rights Documentary (established in 1968) Film Series, which brings moves to a double issue in filmmakers to lead symposium format. discussions of the films.

2007 CWRU approves semester- 2012 2015 long foreign internships Our Canada-U.S. Law Institute at international tribunals. CWRU becomes the only 2004 celebrates its 40th anniversary. 2019 That same year, CWRU law school with its own Cox Center creates the talk radio show when it Cox Center submits its International Humanitarian adds three specialized LLM degree programs. debuts “Talking Foreign 2013 first Amicus Brief to the Award for Advancing Policy” radio program, U.S. Supreme Court, in Global Justice; UN Under- hosted by Michael Scharf, CWRU launches first a case concerning the Secretary General for Legal on WCPN, Cleveland’s NPR international law interpretation of the Affairs Hans Corell is the station. massive open online Hague Child Abduction inaugural recipient. 2008 course (MOOC) on Convention. The Coursera. To date, over International Criminal CWRU wins the World 135,000 students from Court cites a report Championship of the Jessup 139 countries have on crimes against the International Law Moot taken the “Introduction Rohingya people written Court competition. to International Criminal by several CWRU law Law” free MOOC. CWRU professors and alumni. creates Maritime Piracy Prosecution Project, providing 2016 assistance to tribunals in Kenya, Mauritious Immigration Law Clinic is established. Under 2020 the law school’s new capstone requirement, and the Seychelles. Cox Center hosts the 10th 3L students earn a semester of credit CWRU launches its annual American Society of externing at any international institution. SJD program, which International Law Midyear The Cox Center launches annual Trade now enrolls 60 foreign Meeting. students a year. Law Conference, organized by Co-Director Juscelino Colares. The new Master of Arts in Financial Integrity degree launches.

14 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Case Global x 15 Making an impact on immigration

Leader of Immigration Law Clinic—whose parents came to the U.S. decades ago—helps students score major victory

On June 1, 2021, United States President Joseph R. Biden Jr. issued a proclamation declaring June National Immigrant Heritage Month, encouraging reflection on the stories of “courageous families who ventured here—be it centuries ago, or just this year—from every part of the world to seek new possibilities and help to forge our nation.”

One family to make such a journey was that of Aleksandar Cuic, adjunct professor of law and director of the Immigration Clinic at the Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center since 2017. Originally from Serbia (the former Yugoslavia), Cuic’s parents immigrated to the United States in 1970, first settling in New Jersey and then in Cleveland as they found jobs in slaughterhouses and factories to give their three children better opportunities. Eventually, they opened their own CWRU TAKES TOP HONORS business. in international moot court competitions The youngest of his siblings, Cuic describes his journey to a career in immigration law as serendipitous—the result of degrees in Russian Jessup Competition Ripped from the headlines, this year’s ICC “We are absolutely thrilled with how the Vis language and international business, an MBA and a JD paired with Year after year, CWRU excels in the Jessup Moot Court problem concerned charges of team performed this year,” said the team’s well-timed career opportunities. International Law Moot Court Competition. “viral homicide” involving the escape of a co-coaches Katy Mercer and Douglas Pilawa. It has won regionals nine times in the past deadly artificially created virus, which was “The competition gets harder each year and Now, he’s working with clients as a partner at Brown Immigration two decades and, in 2008, CWRU won the kept secret and resulted in hundreds of the Case Western team continues to improve Law in Cleveland—while also shaping the next generation of World Championship—the last U.S. team to thousands of deaths. to meet that challenge.” immigration lawyers at the School of Law. For nearly a decade, Cuic do so. This year, CWRU won best oralist and and his students in the law school’s Immigration Law Clinic have “Cleveland is the ideal place for an immigration clinic since we have brief awards, was the top-ranked U.S. team, “To be ranked among the top teams CWRU’s Secret to Success? been on the frontlines of the battle for human rights in America’s one of the nation’s regional immigration courts and a continuing flow and was ranked third in the world out of over on this world stage was an incredible CWRU is one of the only law schools that immigration courts. of new immigrants from all over the world,” said Cuic. 600 participating law schools in the global accomplishment for CWRU School of Law,” selects 1Ls to participate alongside upper- competition. the team’s coach, Professor Michael Benza, class students in its three international law This spring, they scored a major victory. The clinic affords law students the opportunity to represent clients said. “We are so proud of all this team moot court teams. before the Department of Justice Immigration Courts, U.S. Citizenship ICC Moot Court Competition accomplished.” A client from Trinidad & Tobago had been ordered removed by an and Immigration Services Field Offices, and asylum officers. CWRU’s ICC Moot Court team has also “Rather than distracting from the rigors of immigration judge in Detroit; the client, rendered homeless due to Vis International Arbitration Moot proven to be a perennial winner. After first year, we find the moot court experience serious issues with sexual abuse, had failed to appear for a hearing. “Our students are having an impact on their client’s lives and they are making it to the semifinals of the Americas For the third time in four years, CWRU makes the 1Ls better students in the The CWRU team of then-third-year law students—Charlee Thomas, developing a marketable skill in gaining employment in the field,” said Regional Competition three of the past four took home a best oralist award at the classroom,” said Dean Michael Scharf, who Courtney Koski, Mrinali Sethi and Emma Wilson—got her case Cuic. Armed with that experience, Cuic’s students have gone on to years, the team made it to the final round Vis International Arbitration Moot Court serves as coach of the Jessup team. “And reopened and the venue changed to Cleveland. After the students careers in immigration law at private law firms, non profits, and in the this year, coming in second overall. That competition hosted in Vienna, Austria. The they have a track record of excelling in filed briefs and argued at the deportation hearing, the immigration government. earned CWRU its first berth in the Global award is given to the top 40 students out of the international competitions as 1Ls and court granted their client’s application for permanent residency. The Rounds, organized by the International Bar more than 1,000 who competed, representing improving as 2Ls and 3Ls.” government waived appeal, ending her eight-year court battle. For Cuic, the power of immigration is woven into his life story—and Association and Leiden University in The 380 universities. As a warm-up, the team that of all Americans. “Immigration is part of our country’s fabric, and Hague. There, the team advanced all the competed in the Swiss Chambers Arbitration In addition, Scharf said, “They get great Ranked sixth in the nation in practical training by PreLaw magazine we wouldn’t be what we are today if it weren’t for the immigration way to the quarterfinals, and won a Best Institution pre-moot, where a CWRU team mentoring: The international law teams are in 2021, CWRU has nine clinics. Under the law school’s capstone of our past,” Cuic said. “Even if your family has been in the U.S. for Brief Award. member placed third as an individual oralist coached by some of our most committed program, every third-year student either undertakes a semester-long generations, your story was shaped by immigration, too. The cliche of out of a field of more than 100 competitors. full-time and adjunct professors.” clinic or externship to gain hands-on experience. America being a melting pot really is true.”

16 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Case Global x 17 students and foreign legal professionals. Before joining the School of Law in 2019, she practiced OUR INTERNATIONAL LAW FACULTY immigration law in private practice. Cox Center co-director completes Avidan Y. Cover new book on trade deals At Case Western Reserve University School of Law, 33 individuals teach courses related to Professor of Law; Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; Director, Institute for Global Security A new book by Juscelino Colares, the Schott-van den Eynden Professor of international law. Few law schools in the country have as many faculty members with expertise in Law and Policy (teaches International Law and International Human Rights Law) Business Law and co-director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law the field or offer as many specialized courses in the area. Learn more about them. Avidan Cover previously Center, and Mustafa Durmus (LAW ’16, ’19) now an assistant professor at served as senior counsel in Turkey’s Muş Alparslan University, will be released later this year. Human Rights First’s U.S. Michael Scharf Juscelino Filgueiras Colares past 15 years. He has worked in more than 40 Law & Security Program. Restructuring Trade Agreements: The Legal and Transactional Reworking Co-Dean, Case Western Reserve University Schott-van den Eynden Professor of Business countries and has represented clients— This past year, Cover and his of Bad Trade Deals (Wolters Kluwer) uses the European Union-Turkey including 12 sovereign nations and numerous students submitted School of Law; Joseph C. Hostetler — Law and Professor of Political Science; Co- trade relationship as a primary case study to provide a practical foreign investors—in some 100 international complaints to the United BakerHostetler Professor of Law (teaches Director, Frederick K. Cox International Law framework for identifying trade agreements that are ripe for renegotiation—and how Fundamentals of International Law and the Center (teaches Civil Procedure, Conflict of Laws, commercial and investment treaty arbitrations. Nations Special Procedures such renegotiations might take place. Journal of International Law seminar, and Trade Law, and Regulatory Law courses) concerning United States local police coaches the Jessup Moot Court team) Before joining the CWRU Danielle Asaad departments mistreatment of medics at Formerly Attorney Adviser faculty, Juscelino Colares Adjunct Professor of Law (teaches International anti-police brutality protests (see p. 8) and the for United Nations Affairs at clerked for the Hon. Business Transactions) Chinese government’s arbitrary arrests and the U.S. Department of State, Jean-Louis Debré, chief A partner in the Global detention of Uyghur citizens. Gabriele Gagliani Richard Gordon Michael Scharf served as justice of France’s Corporate Practice of Squire Adjunct Professor of Law (teaches International Professor of Law, Associate Director of the head of the International Constitutional Court Patton Boggs law firm, Aleksandar Cuic Intellectual Property Law) Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, Law Program at Case (2008-09 term) and practiced Danielle Asaad represents Adjunct Professor of Law and Director of A lecturer at Bocconi Founding Director of the Financial Integrity Western Reserve University at Dewey Ballantine, LLP in private equity sponsors and the Immigration Clinic (teaches Immigration University in Milan, Gabriele Institute (teaches International Tax Law, School of Law for a dozen Washington, D.C., where he litigated trade cases corporate clients in connection Law Clinic and Immigration Law II: Asylum & Gagliani has held visiting numerous courses in the Master of Arts in years before becoming dean in 2013. He is the before federal agencies, federal courts, and with acquisitions, minority Refugee Law) positions at the University of Financial Integrity program) co-founder and managing director of the Public NAFTA panels. Colares has served as chair of investments, divestitures, Aleksandar Cuic is a partner Poitiers in France, the British Prior to joining CWRU’s International Law & Policy Group, the author of the University Faculty Senate and associate joint ventures, financings, restructurings and at Robert Brown LLC, where Institute of International and faculty in 2005, Richard 20 books, and is ranked as among the most dean for Global Legal Studies. A native of Brazil other international business matters. he oversees the firm’s Comparative Law in the Gordon practiced cited international law professors in the United and naturalized citizen of the United States, litigation practice group. United Kingdom, and at international tax law in States, according to the Sisk study. In 2020, he Colares has been appointed by the Office of the Michael Benza During his legal career, he Senghor University in Alexandria, Egypt. He is Washington, D.C., and later was selected as president-elect of the American United States Trade Representative (USTR) to Senior Lecturer in Law, Associate Director of has represented individuals the chair of the European Intellectual Property served as deputy director of Branch of the International Law Association. serve on the U.S. Roster of North American Free the Institute for Financial Integrity (teaches across the United States in Teachers’ Network Working Group on Teaching the Harvard International Trade Agreement (Chapter Nineteen) Panelists International Death Penalty Seminar and more than 40 immigration IP and International Economic Law. Tax Program. After leaving Steve Petras since 2013. This spring, USTR appointed him to coaches the ICC Moot Court team) courts and Homeland Security offices. He is a Harvard, Gordon joined the staff of the Director, Frederick K. Cox International Law the first U.S. Roster of United States-Mexico- An expert in criminal law who frequent speaker at continuing legal education Jonathan Gordon International Monetary Fund, where he spent 14 Center; U.S. Director, Canada-United States Canada Trade Agreement Panelists. For the last has argued before the U.S. seminars, bar associations and community/ Professor of Law; Director, Foreign Graduate years as senior counsel, senior financial expert Law Institute (teaches International Business six years, Colares has organized a series of Trade Supreme Court, Michael religious groups. He has been selected yearly Legal Studies SJD Program (teaches the First- and senior economist. Following the attacks of Transactions) Law Fall Updates, a practitioner-oriented Benza coaches our ICC Moot for The Best Lawyers in America as well as Year and Advanced SJD Seminars, Professional Sept. 11, 2001, Gordon co-led the IMF and World Steve Petras practiced gathering of leading trade lawyers, federal Court team, whose members Super Lawyers Rising Star in the area of Responsibility, and several courses in the joint Bank’s involvement in anti-money laundering international business judges, and trade agency officials. Winner of the won the best speaker award immigration law. program with SWUPL) and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/ transactions as a partner in 2018 Faculty Research Award, Colares is the in the national competition in Jonathan Gordon, a graduate CFT). He serves as a consultant on AML/CFT to the Business Practice Group author of more than 35 articles and book 2015 and 2016, won the best Shannon E. French of Columbia Law School, a number of countries. of BakerHostetler LLP prior chapters, and a book, titled Restructuring Trade brief award in 2017, and reached the semifinals in Inamori Professor in Ethics, Associate Professor joined the CWRU School of to retiring at the end of 2018. Agreements (Wolters Kluwer 2021; see sidebar). 2018 and the finals in 2021. In 2021, the team of Philosophy, Professor of Law, and Director of Law faculty after serving as Brian Gran He has served as president advanced to the International Rounds, where the Inamori International Center for Ethics and a trial attorney with the U.S. Professor of Sociology, Applied Social Sciences, of the Greater Cleveland Stephen Anway they made it to the quarterfinals and received a Excellence (teaches War and Morality) Equal Employment and Law (teaches International Children’s Rights) International Lawyers Group, chair of the Adjunct Professor of Law (teaches International best brief award (see p. 16). Benza teaches Shannon French, PhD, taught Opportunity Commission. As Research by Brian Gran, PhD, International Section of the Cleveland Arbitration) courses in our Master of Arts in Financial at the U.S. Naval Academy at director of the law school’s JD, concentrates on human Metropolitan Bar Association, chair of the Board Stephen Anway is a partner Integrity program and at Southwest University of Annapolis before joining SJD Program, Gordon teaches the First-Year and rights. He is the author of of the Cleveland Council on World Affairs, vice and global co-chair of the Politics and Law in Chongqing, China, as part of CWRU’s faculty in 2008. She Advanced SJD Seminar classes as well as the book Sociology of chair of the World Affairs Councils of America, world-ranked International the law school’s joint LLM Degree program. is a tenured member of the Professional Responsibility. He also serves as Children’s Rights and and president of the Cleveland World Trade Dispute Resolution Practice university’s Department of co-chair of the Legal Writing Institute’s Global co-directs the International Association, and is now chair of the Board of Group at Squire Patton Jaclyn Celebrezze Philosophy with a secondary Legal Writing Skills Committee. Gordon has Survey of Human Rights. Directors of the Council of the Great Lakes Boggs, which was named Instructor and International LLM Program appointment in the law presented at numerous national and With support of the National Region and a director of the Cleveland Council on International Arbitration Fellow (teaches U.S. Legal Writing and Foreign school. French’s primary expertise is in the area international conferences and has taught Science Foundation, Swiss NSF, and Fulbright World Affairs. Group of the Year by Law360 Graduate Seminar to LLM students) of military ethics, and her acclaimed book, The several courses to LLM students in Chongqing, Commission, he is completing a study of in 2020. In that role, he leads a team of more Jaclyn Celebrezze teaches Code of the Warrior, features a forward by the China, as part of the law school’s partnership independent children’s rights institutions. Gran than 140 lawyers across 25 offices in North U.S. Legal Writing and late Sen. John McCain. with Southwest University of Politics and Law. is on leave as a Jefferson Science Fellow of the America, the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East Foreign Graduate Seminar in National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Asia Pacific. Anway acts as lead counsel and the LLM program. She also and Medicine, appointed to the U.S. State as an arbitrator, and he has represented the regularly teaches in the Department. winning party in many of the largest Summer Language and Law international arbitrations in the world over the Institute for incoming LLM Continued on page 20

18 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Case Global x 19 News of our International Law Faculty Continued from page 19

Sharona Hoffman Kenneth F. Ledford co-coach of the law school’s Vis International Gregory P. Noone Canada-United States law and policy issues, Steven G. Stransky Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law, Professor of Associate Professor of History and Law (teaches Arbitration Moot Court team and teaches in the Adjunct Professor of Law (teaches International including “The Arctic Ice Melt: Emerging Adjunct Professor of Law (teaches Foreign Bioethics, Co-Director of the Law-Medicine European Legal History and European Union Law) joint LLM Program in China. Humanitarian Law) Resources, Emerging Issues,” and “Cruising the Affairs and National Security Law) Center (teaches Health Care and Human Rights) Kenneth Ledford, PhD, JD, Gregory P. Noone, PhD, JD, is Great Lakes: A Report on the United States and Steven Stransky joined Sharona Hoffman, SJD, LLM, writes about private James Moroney the director of the Fairmont Canadian Regulations for the Commercial Cruise CWRU School of Law in 2018. JD, has published over 60 practitioners and judges in Adjunct Professor of Law (teaches Counter- State University National Industry on the Great Lakes.” He is a partner and vice chair articles and has lectured Prussia during the German Terrorism Law) Security and Intelligence of the Data Privacy and nationally and internationally Second Empire and Weimar James Moroney joined the Program and a professor of Cassandra Burke Robertson Cybersecurity Practice Group on civil rights and health law Republic, exploring the CWRU faculty in 2017. He is political science and law. John Deaver Drinko—Baker & Hostetler at Thompson Hine LLP. Prior topics. She has also published contours and limits of the now engaged in the private Noone is a retired United Professor of Law and Director of the Center to joining Thompson Hine, two books—Aging with a rule of law. He serves as practice of law, in the areas States Navy captain and has for Professional Ethics (teaches Transnational Stransky served for more Plan: How a Little Thought chair of Case Western Reserve’s Department of of white collar criminal served as the commanding officer of the Navy Litigation) than 10 years in the federal government, Today Can Vastly Improve Your Tomorrow History, and as parliamentarian of the Council of defense and taxpayer JAG International and Operational Law reserve Prior to joining the CWRU including at the U.S. State Department and the (Praeger, 2015) and Electronic Health Records the American Historical Association. He also representation. Moroney unit, as the commanding officer of the DIILS faculty in 2007, Cassandra U.S. Department of Homeland Security. In and Medical Big Data: Law and Policy (Cambridge continues to serve on the Board of Editors of the recently retired after a reserve unit, as well as the director of the Burke Robertson clerked for addition, Stransky served on the President’s University Press, 2016). She is an elected member Law and History Review, published by 30-year career as an assistant U.S. Attorney Department of Defense’s Periodic Review the Texas Supreme Court and National Security Council, where he provided of the prestigious American Law Institute. Cambridge University Press. (AUSA) in the Northern District of Ohio. During Secretariat. Noone is the co-author of the widely served as assistant solicitor legal and policy advice to White House officials that career, he served as a counterterrorism used textbook International Law and Armed general in the Office of the on developing and coordinating policies and James Johnson Cathy Lesser Mansfield prosecutor, chief of the National Security Unit Conflict (Aspen / Wolters Kluwer Publishing, 2nd Texas Attorney General. Her programs with respect to homeland security, Adjunct Professor of Law, Director of the Henry Senior Instructor in Law; Executive Director, for the Northern District of Ohio, and as national edition, 2019). Since 2020, he has been executive scholarship on citizenship, counterterrorism, and cybersecurity. King War Crimes Research Office (teaches Master of Arts in Financial Integrity Program security coordinator for all 94 U.S. Attorney’s director of the Public International Law & Policy due process, and transnational litigation has International Law Research Lab, Human Rights, (teaches consumer, payments, and commercial Offices at the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys Group, a Nobel Peace Prize-nominated NGO. appeared in numerous journals, including the Jack Turner II National Security Law, and International law courses, as well as Holocaust and the Law) at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, Columbia Law Review, NYU Law Review, and Assistant Professor of Law; Director, Foreign Criminal Law) Cathy Lesser Mansfield is a D.C. As an AUSA, he prosecuted a wide variety of Douglas Pilawa Vanderbilt Law Review. She has recently been Graduate Legal Studies LLM Program (teaches James C. Johnson serves as frequent lecturer on the white collar cases—including frauds in the areas Adjunct Professor of Law (teaches International reappointed as one of Ohio’s representatives to Contract Law and Scholarly Legal Writing to LLM the chief prosecutor of the Holocaust and is a of securities, financial institutions, corporations, Arbitration) the Uniform Law Commission. students) Residual Special Court for Distinguished Fellow in money laundering, and taxes—in addition to After several years working Jack Turner has taught U.S. Sierra Leone, appointed to Holocaust and the Law at national security cases. in global supply chain and Rumu Sarkar Scholarly Legal Writing and the position by the UN Chicago-Kent College of Law. marketing and sales at a Adjunct Professor of Law (teaches International U.S. Contract Law to foreign Secretary-General in 2019. She is the composer and Dale A. Nance Fortune 500 company, Development Law) lawyers in the LLM program Prior to that, he served as librettist of The Sparks Fly Albert J. Weatherhead III and Richard W. Douglas Pilawa obtained his Rumu Sarkar, PhD, JD, LLM, for the past eight years. He chief of prosecutions for the Upward, a Holocaust-themed opera, and the Weatherhead Professor of Law (teaches Conflict JD from Case Western is general counsel to also teaches research and Special Court for Sierra Leone, supervising founder and executive director of The Sparks Fly of Laws, Law of Archeological Artifacts) Reserve University School of Millennium Partners, an writing to our first-year SJD multiple trial teams, including the team that Upward Foundation, a nonprofit organization In the wake of the Law and his Master 2 in international development students working on their prosecuted former Liberian President Charles dedicated to educating people about the publication of Dale Nance’s Droit européen et international des affaires from consulting group located in doctoral theses. Turner directs the Summer Taylor. Students under his supervision prepare Holocaust, genocide and tolerance. monograph, The Burdens of Université Paris-Dauphine. He is an associate in Charlottesville, Virginia. She Language and Law Institute for incoming LLM research memoranda for international criminal Proof: Discriminatory Power, the International Dispute Resolution practice has served as senior legal students and foreign legal professionals. He tribunals and organizations. Johnson also Stacy Cozart Martin Weight of Evidence, and group at Squire Patton Boggs, doing both advisor to CALIBRE Systems, also regularly teaches in China through our organizes the annual International Humanitarian Adjunct Professor of Law Tenacity of Belief (Cambridge international commercial arbitration and a defense consulting group based in Alexandria, partnership with one of China’s top universities. Dialog Conference in Chautauqua, New York, (teaches Immigration Law) University Press, 2016) he international investment arbitration. Having Virginia; general counsel for the 2005 Defense which is co-sponsored by the Cox Center. Stacy Cozart Martin has has applied his theory to twice won Best Speaker awards as a student at Base Closure and Realignment Commission; Andrew A. Zashin focused her practice on unsolved problems in private international law. the Vis Competition in Vienna, Pilawa serves as general counsel for the Overseas Basing Adjunct Professor of Law (teaches Family Law Raymond Ku business and family-based Most recently, he published “Choice of Law for co-coach of the Vis International Arbitration Commission; assistant general counsel for and International Family Law) Professor of Law, Director of the Center for immigration since 2000. Ohio Burdens of Proof,” 46 North Carolina Journal of Moot Court team. administrative affairs for the Overseas Private Andrew Zashin is co- Cyberspace Law & Policy (teaches Cyberlaw) Super Lawyers magazine International Law 235 (2021). Investment Corp.; and staff attorney with the managing partner of the Raymond Ku has served as has named her a “Rising Ted Parran III Office of the General Counsel of the U.S. Agency Ohio firm Zashin & Rich, associate dean for academic Star” annually from 2006 to Craig Nard Adjunct Professor of Law, Managing Director for International Development. where he practices family affairs and co-director of 2013 and she has a “Superb Galen J. Roush Professor of Law, Director of of the Canada-United States Law Institute and international family law. CWRU’s Center for Law, 10.0” rating from Avvo. She served as president the Spangenberg Center for Law, Technology (supervises the Canada-United States Law Maya Simek Zashin has published several Technology and the Arts. of the Ohio Chapter of the American Immigration & the Arts (teaches International Intellectual Journal) Lecturer in Law, Director of the Human law journal articles, lectured Before joining our faculty, Ku Lawyers Association from 2015 to 2017. Property Law) Ted Parran serves as an Trafficking Clinic (teaches the Human Trafficking widely and earned numerous clerked for the Hon. Timothy An expert in international assistant chief counsel with Clinic) awards. Ranked the top family law attorney in K. Lewis, United States Court Kathryn Mercer intellectual property law, in the Department of Maya Simek, JD, MSSA, Cleveland, rated as a Super Lawyer, and of Appeals for the Third Circuit and practiced Professor of Law (teaches Alternative Dispute 2017, Craig Nard was a Homeland Security, where he LISW-S, is a clinical law consistently making the list of Top 100 Lawyers constitutional, intellectual property, and antitrust Resolution, Mediation Representation, and VIS visiting lecturer at the practices international, professor and director of in Ohio, Worth Magazine has named Zashin one law with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, and First International Arbitration Practicum) University of Strasbourg criminal and administrative Case Western Reserve’s of the Top 100 Lawyers in America. During the Amendment/media and intellectual property law Kathryn Mercer, PhD, MSSA, Centre d’Etudes law. He has worked in U.S. Human Trafficking Clinic, past 18 years at CWRU, Zashin has taught every with Levine Pierson Sullivan & Koch LLP, both in JD, is a frequent lecturer at Internationales de la and international corporate supported by a grant from family law offering. He has practiced at every Washington, D.C. He has taught at Cornell Law international conferences, Propriete Intellectuale. He investigations and compliance, for the the Ohio Attorney General’s level of court in Ohio as well as in federal courts, School, Seton Hall University School of Law, and has taught in China at recently served as a senior lecturer at the World International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Office. She also serves as the including the Supreme Court of the United Thomas Jefferson School of Law, and St. Thomas our various partner schools. Intellectual Property Organization’s Master of (appeals chambers) and as an assistant legal director at Equality Ohio, where she States. He recently participated with the Cox University School of Law. Ku is the lead author of Her recent lectures have Laws program in Torino, Italy. prosecutor for the State of Ohio. He has also developed and is now supervising a state-wide Center on an Amicus Brief filed with the U.S. the first casebook devoted exclusively to the focused on “Immigration and authored legal scholarship on comparative legal clinic for the LGBTQ community. Supreme Court. study of cyberspace law. Child Welfare.” She is

20 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law Case Global x 21 Diplomatic tendencies George Kamanda is a man on a mission: to improve the lives of individuals in his home country, Sierra Leone.

If past and present performance are reliable indicators of future success, Kamanda, a 3L, is well on his way to making a major impact. That’s how many Kamanda’s start at Case Western Reserve participants attended University School of Law was nowhere near the beginning of his educational journey: By Case Western the time he arrived on campus, he’d earned Reserve University a bachelor’s degree in political science and international relations at Saint Joseph’s School of Law’s 39 University, a certificate in international online events in human rights from the University of 2020–21. Pennsylvania Law School and an associate degree in international relations and affairs from Delaware County Community College in 7,That’s about THREE 237 TIMES the number who attended in-person events in years past. Philadelphia. Among our recent international law events (available for free Ohio CLE credit): But he came to Case Western Reserve based on the reputation of its international law • Climate Change and The Arctic: Profound • From Cleveland to Chief of Protocol: Lessons program and faculty, including Co-Dean Disruption, Uncertain Impact on Diplomacy, Protocol, and Soft Power Michael Scharf, whose publications on • Prosecuting Starvation Crimes in Yemen’s • A State-Provincial Approach to Harmful Algal international law and human rights inspired Kamanda and helped shape his interest in Civil War Blooms in the Great Lakes Basin: Possibilities diplomacy. “I read all of Dean Scharf’s books • Awash in Blood: The Blackwater Pardons and Pitfalls before coming to Case Western Reserve,” he • Should the United States back Mauritian said. • The United States and Canada: Outlook for Bilateral Relations in 2021 sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelagos? Like Scharf, Kamanda is a published author. • Fifth Trade Law Fall Update • Nazi Laws: From Democracy to Dictatorship His third book, Citizenship Reimagined: The to Genocide Case for Responsible Whole Citizenry in Sierra • 2020 American Society of International Law Leone (Palmetto Publishing, 2020) is already having a significant impact there. studies from . He is Midyear Meeting* • Corruption: A Threat to the Rule of Law and builds on the work of The Necessity Firm, a With his drive, determination, and all that he expected to receive his degree in November. Sustainable Peace in Afghanistan nonprofit organization he founded thanks in • Planting the Seeds of Violence: How U.S. has accomplished so far, I have no doubt that But he’ll return to Case Western Reserve this • The Syria Conflict’s Impact on International no small part to a summer fellowship with the George will play an increasingly important fall and anticipates graduating with the class Involvement in El Salvador Led to Today’s Frederick K. Cox International Law Center. The role in Sierra Leone and perhaps the greater of 2022. Migration Crisis Law: An Online Roundtable Discussion nonprofit’s goal is to eradicate apathy in civics West Africa region in the coming years.” and governance in Sierra Leone and empower In the audience is likely to be his mother, a And more are on the way in 2021–22—both in person and broadcast online. its citizens, especially a younger generation, At the law school, Kamanda has been active single parent who immigrated to the United to become more engaged on nation-building in leadership roles, including two terms as a States to create greater opportunities for matters, regardless of political and tribal student senator. This summer, he interned her family. Earlier this year, when honored Visit case.edu/law/our-school/events-lectures to see past and upcoming lectures. affiliations. “My firm is an incubator for the with Human Rights Watch. Kamanda with the Outstanding Alumni Award from vision I have for my country,” Kamanda said. also received a fellowship from FASPE, Delaware Community College, Kamanda gave the prestigious global ethical leadership a touching keynote address that credited his “George Kamanda came to our law school organization. mother with keeping him motivated. Or, as *Articles generated from the ASIL Midyear Meeting were published in Volume 53 to gain the skills necessary to help lead his his LinkedIn page simply states: “I’m: For God of the Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law (2021). Established in struggling country, Sierra Leone, into a better Last year, Kamanda paused his law studies | For Country | For Mom.” 1968, the Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law is one of the oldest future,” said Scharf. “The NGO he founded to pursue a master’s degree in diplomatic and most prestigious international law journals in the world.

22 x Case Western Reserve University School of Law WHAT MAKES US STAND OUT $4 million: Size of our international law program endowment case.edu/law/cox A+: Ranking of our International Law Program (National Jurist) 16: Ranking of our International Law Program (U.S. News & World Report) 1: Jessup Moot Court World Championship 1: Nobel Peace Prize Nomination of our program

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