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Speaker Bios SPEAKER BIOS Upendra D. Acharya Dr. Upendra D. Acharya holds a S.J.D. (Doctorate of Juridical Science) from the University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison, Wisconsin; an LL. M. from the University of Utah College of Law; an M.C.L. (Master of Comparative Law) from the University of Delhi, India; and an LL.B. from Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal. He has written numerous articles on international law, constitutional law, administrative law, and comparative law as well as presented papers and delivered lectures in national and international conferences in the North and South of America, Asia, Europe, and Middle East. Professor Acharya has represented landmark cases in the Supreme Court of Nepal, including daughters’ right to inherent property, and the Godabary Marble Case that resulted in the enactment of an Environmental Protection Act in Nepal. He also has worked toward eradicating bonded labor systems in far western areas of Nepal. His work in the United States has included serving as legal counsel to a tribal government, in addition to serving as a pro tem judge on the Tribal Appeals Court. Internationally, he has consulted with various NGOs, including ITC/UNCTAD/GATT and OXFAM/Nepal. Professor Acharya’s recent publications include: International Aid and Assistance to Constrain Piracy in Somalia: Ignored Facts and the Political Delivery of Charity, Gujarat Nat’l L. Univ. J. (2012); International Lawlessness, International Politics and Terrorism: A Conundrum of International Law and U.S. Foreign Policy, 40 DENV. J. INT’L L. & POL’Y 144 (2011-2012); ICJ’s Kosovo Decision: Economical Reasoning of Law and Question of Legitimacy of the Court , 12 CHI-KENT J. INT’L & COMP. L. 1 (2012); ICJ and Maintaining International Peace and Security, Antonine University Conference Proceedings, Beirut, Lebanon, 2011; War on Terror or Terror Wars: Problem in Defining Terrorism, 37 DENV. J. INT'L L. & POL'Y 653 (2009); Is Development a Lost Paradise? Trade, Environment and Development: A Triadic Dream of International Law, 45 ALTA. L. REV. 401 (2007); Locus Standi in Administrative Law: A Study Of Nepal and India, JUSTICE: COLLECTION OF RESEARCH ARTICLES ON LAW, JUSTICE AND LEGAL SYSTEM , 2007; Constitutionalism and Democracy in Nepal: What Went Wrong, in CONSTITUTIONALISM AND DEMOCRATIC TRANSITIONS: LESSONS FROM SOUTH AFRICA , 189 (Veronica Federico and Carlo Fusaro eds., 2006). David Akerson University of Denver Lecturer David Akerson is a trial attorney with a broad international law and human rights portfolio ranging from human rights work in apartheid South Africa to prosecuting perpetrators at the Yugoslavia and Rwanda international criminal tribunals. His expertise lies in the core international crimes of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity; practice and procedure of the international tribunals; complex international criminal litigation; and international tribunal and policy. 1 Professor Akerson joined the University of Denver Law faculty in 2006 and currently teaches courses in international criminal law, international criminal procedure, and genocide and war crimes. He also teaches a “Genocide and War Crimes” Practicum in which University of Denver students collaborate with international tribunals and prosecution or defense teams to research, organize and analyze evidence in global genocide cases. Specifically, his practicum students review transcripts of witnesses’ testimony and other evidence in a case after it has concluded, or even as a trial is in progress. They prepare summaries and analyses of testimony, and highlight key names, dates and locations. Students use one or more databases that organize the material with hyperlinks to other relevant facts and actual portions of transcripts to support what they have written. In active cases, the research the students have compiled and stored into the databases is subsequently presented to the courts and/ or prosecution and defense teams and used in the proceedings of the case. Since 2006, students in Professor Akerson’s class have worked on proceedings from the Rwandan genocide, on proceedings for the prosecution of ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor, and on proceedings of the Special Tribunal for Cambodia. Professor Akerson’s recent publications include The Illegality of Fully Autonomous Lethal Drones, in THE LAW OF ARMED CONFLICT AND THE CHANGING TECHNOLOGY OF WAR (forthcoming) and PROSECUTING MASS CRIMES: A COMPENDIUM OF LESSONS LEARNED AND SUGGESTED PRACTICES, a THREE-study of prosecutorial practices at the International Tribunals for Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone, Cambodia and Lebanon. The 300-page study is available on the International Association of Prosecutors website. David Aronofsky Dr. David Aronofsky is an adjunct faculty member and recently retired Legal Counsel at the University of Montana (UM). As UM Legal Counsel, he oversaw all legal work for the University’s several campuses located throughout western Montana. Dr. Aronofsky received his J.D. and B.S. in Education from the University of Texas at Austin; a Ph.D. in Higher Education from Florida State University; and an M.Ed. in Counseling from Southern Methodist University. He teaches International Business & Trade Law; Public International Law; Technology & the Law; Advanced Legislation; and Higher Education Law. Additionally, he participates in UM international law and education projects involving Latin America, China, Taiwan and Europe. Prior to his work at the University of Montana, which began in 1994, Dr. Aronofsky was an attorney at a large Washington, D.C. law firm. His legal specialty areas included education law; most aspects of private and public international law; and commercial and civil rights litigation. As coordinator of his firm’s state government relations practice, Dr. Aronofsly worked with all 50 U.S. state legislatures—and with most U.S. Congressional committees on numerous substantive law matters including international trade and finance. For the past 25 years, Dr. Aronofsky has also continuously lectured in, and consulted with, emerging democracy governments with regards to economic and political law reforms. Countries in which he has consulted and lectured include Chile, Uruguay, Honduras and Panama. In 2001, he received a Fulbright Scholar award to teach U.S. law on a continuing year basis each summer in Uruguay, where several other UM Law School faculty, and Montana’s Supreme Court Chief Justice have joined him as instructors. He continues to teach in Uruguay. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Dr. Aronofsky was a higher education consultant in the Peace Corps and privately in Chile, where he designed the reorganization of two Chilean universities. He also worked on various education and human resources training projects elsewhere throughout Latin America. He speaks and writes Spanish fluently. 2 Ian Bird Ian B. Bird is Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Norican Holding ApS of Copenhagen, Denmark. He based in Golden, Colorado and is responsible for managing the legal affairs of this global equipment supplier. His responsibilities include legal advice to the Board of Directors and all level of management, mergers and acquisitions, selecting and managing outside counsel, as well managing insurance and environment, health safety and intellectual property issues. In September 2008 he was appointed to the Board of Directors and Management Board of Norican Group ApS. Formerly, he was Vice President & General Counsel-International and Corporate Development at Coors Brewing Company. Prior to Coors, Bird was Vice President & General Counsel for CH2M Hill Capital Services, Inc. Previous to that position, he was Vice President-Government Affairs and General Counsel for Waste Management International PLC (London). Bird’s educational background is as follows: BA-History, Michigan State University; JD, University of Denver – Sturm College of Law; and MA-International Studies, University of Denver – Korbel Graduate School of International Studies. Bird is fluent in Spanish and is a member of the ABA, Colorado Bar Association, the Bar Association of the District of Columbia and the Association of Corporate Counsel. He is Chair of the Advisory Board of the Ved Nanda Center for International Law and sits on the boards of The Legal Center for People with Disabilities and Older People and the Center for International Business Education at the University of Colorado-Denver. Claude d´Estrée Professor Claude d’Estrée, M.T.S., J.D., is the Director of the Human Trafficking Clinic (HTC), the Center on Rights Development (CORD), and the Human Rights Degree Program at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, as well as the Buddhist Chaplain at the University of Denver. HTC offers the only two-year, graduate level training program on forced labour, human trafficking, modern slavery, and international labour migration issues in the U.S.. In October, 2007 Professor d’Estrée was elected as the Chief Delegate to the IOM/UNODC “International Forum: Global Inter-Faith Dialog” in Cape Town that preceded the UN.GIFT Vienna Forum in February, 2007. He was then named as the UN.GIFT Special Rapporteur for Inter-Faith Response to Human Trafficking. CORD focuses its attention on advocating the implementation of the ICESCR through education and research. Prof. d’Estrée’s other main area of interests are International Humanitarian Law of Armed Conflict (IHL/LOAC) and torture. He has been teaching a stand-alone IHL/LOAC course for eight years, as well as a special seminar
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