WINTER/SPRING 2008 VOL. 3 ISSUE 1 Rusk Center to host former Secretaries of State Portrait by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Timothy Portrait by Clockwise from left: Henry Kissinger, James Baker, Warren Christopher, Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell In 1990, Dean Rusk took part in the Rusk was instrumental to the success of a forum for debate on international legal 8th Annual Report of the Secretaries of these early conferences, both through and policy issues,” explains Center Director State held here in Athens, Ga. Eighteen his participation as a former secretary and former Ambassador C. Donald years later, as part of the commemoration of state in the first nine Annual Reports Johnson.“ At the Center, we seek to gain of the Rusk Center’s 30th Anniversary, and through his support of the work of insight from participants who have been a highly distinguished group of former SCIS. Honoring this tradition, the Dean directly involved in the shaping of law and secretaries of state will convene once Rusk Center and SCIS will host the former policy. I can think of no better way to do again in Athens during late March for a secretaries of state – a group that will that than by working with longtime friends round table discussion on U.S. foreign include Henry Kissinger, James Baker III, of Dean Rusk at the Southern Center for policy moderated by Terence Smith of the Warren Christopher, Madeleine Albright International Studies to bring this group television program The Newshour with and Colin Powell – for “The Report of the of distinguished former secretaries of Jim Lehrer. Secretaries of State: Bipartisan Advice for state to Athens for an exciting roundtable The Annual Report of the Secretaries the Next Administration” on March 27 at the discussion on foreign policy.” of State began in 1983 and developed Classic Center in Athens. For more information about the into a series of conferences produced “The Report of the Secretaries of State upcoming conference, please visit: by the Southern Center for International is precisely the type of conference that fits www.uga.edu/ruskcenter/announcements. Studies (SCIS) located in Atlanta. Dean into the Rusk Center’s mission of providing html Co-chair of Iraq Study Group delivers foreign policy talk On March 27, 2007, before a packed house at the UGA Chapel, Lee H. Hamilton, president and director of the Woodrow Wilson Center, former Congressman, vice- chair of the 9/11 commission, and co-chair of the Iraq Study Group, delivered a timely lecture, titled “A Balanced View of American Power,” as the 2007 Sibley lecturer. In his talk, Hamilton addressed what he sees as the major foreign policy challenge facing the United States today, which is found in a seeming contradiction – the world’s most powerful nation is unable to bend the world to its will. Lee Hamilton at the UGA Chapel Hamilton described how we have gone from talks of transforming delivering the 2007 Sibley Lecture as part of the commemoration of the the world with American power in the years directly Dean Rusk Center’s 30th anniversary –continued on page 4 www.uga.edu/ruskcenter Announcements Study Abroad & Global Internship Programs • China program expands to add additional course – Based on feedback from student surveys and on the success of the first two years of the program, the Rusk Center has expanded the 2008 Georgia Law Summer Program in China by adding a fourth credit and five days to the existing three-week itinerary. The new course, International Intellectual Illustration Nash Hogan by Property Law, will be taught by Professor Graduate Legal Studies Paul Heald, Allen Post Professor of Law at the University of Georgia. For more Class of 2008 is welcomed for new LL.M. – This year’s LL.M. class, comprised of students information, please visit: www.uga.edu/ from Belgium, Russia, France, Serbia, Kenya, Guyana, Uganda, Philippines, Venezuela and Korea, is the first to take part in the newly restructured LL.M. program, which offers ruskcenter/china/ students the option of following an All-Courses track or an LL.M. Essay track. For more • Brussels Seminar receives highly information, please visit: www.uga.edu/ruskcenter/llm.html favorable report from ABA inspector – In its 35th consecutive year of operation the Brussels Seminar was expanded Spring 2008 Colloquium Series Speakers to offer students four hours of ABA- approved credit. The ABA inspector’s Since 2006, the International Law report to the Accreditation Committee Colloquium has brought leading and Council stated the following: “This international law scholars to the Rusk is an outstanding foreign summer law Center and the University of Georgia to program that the University of Georgia present substantial works-in-progress February 22 – Ingrid Wuerth (Professor School of Law should be proud to have before UGA students and faculty. of Law, Vanderbilt University): “An among its repertoire of offerings; it For further information on the Originalism for Foreign Affairs?” clearly enhances the reputation of the colloquium, please contact Daniel Bodansky University of Georgia School of Law ([email protected]). February 29 – Tonya Putnam (Assistant both in the U.S. and abroad.” For more This program is made possible Professor of Political Science, Columbia information, please visit: www.uga.edu/ through the Kirbo Trust Endowed Faculty University): “Beyond Presumption?: ruskcenter/brussels.html Enhancement Fund. Explaining Variation in U.S. Extraterritorial Jurisdiction over Civil Claims” • Global Internship Program makes its February 1 - Gregory Shaffer (Wing-Tat mark at Georgia Law and beyond – Lee Chair of International Law, Loyola March 21 – Paul Schiff Berman (Jesse Entering into its sixth year of operation, University): “A Structural Theory of WTO Root Professor of Law, University of and in response to the growing Dispute Settlement: Why Institutional Connecticut): “Global Legal Pluralism” enthusiasm of first and second year law Choice Lies at the Center of the GMO Case” March 28 – Frédéric Mégret (Canada students, the program now offers more February 8 - Beth Simmons (Clarence Research Chair in the Law of Human than 45 venues in 25 countries around Dillon Professor of International Affairs and Rights and Legal Pluralism, University of the world. Students have the opportunity Director of the Weatherhead Center for McGill): “Civil Disobedience in Defense to work in a broad range of settings – International Affairs, Harvard University): of International Law: What Should from the more traditional, such as France, “Theories of Commitment” International Law Have to Say?” Chile and Canada, to the more exotic, such as Papua New Guinea and Mongolia. February 15 - Nadia Bernaz (Lecturer, April 4 – David Caron (C. William For more information, please visit: Irish Centre for Human Rights, National Maxeimer Distinguished Professor of Law, www.uga.edu/ruskcenter/externships University of Ireland at Galway): University of California at Berkeley): “Why “Caribbean Court of Justice: Reflections on International Courts and Tribunals Look a Truly Hybrid Court” and Act as They Do” 2 Winter/Spring 2008 Dean Rusk Center www.uga.edu/ruskcenter Director’s Note This year marks the 30th Anniversary of Parliament – as the Willson the Dean Rusk Center. In 1977, under the Center-Dean Rusk Center Annual guidance of Dean Rusk himself, the Center Lecturer, and as part of an EU-U.S. began working to expand international colloquium focusing on the 2007 law offerings and programs at Georgia EU regulation on the law applicable …our aim is to continue to Law. Today – 30 years later – we continue to non-contractual obligations (see “provide relevant programs and to offer students, faculty members and page 6). other participants unique international On the global front, we have events that illuminate issues of law opportunities through a variety of continued to grow our International international importance. programs and public events. Outreach and Education programs in In March of 2007, we had the distinct an effort to provide additional, valuable ” pleasure of presenting Lee Hamilton as the international law opportunities at Georgia 102nd John A. Sibley Lecturer. Hamilton’s Law. Our study abroad programs have lecture, in commemoration of the Rusk expanded with the inclusion of an ABA- Center’s 30th Anniversary and sponsored approved, credit-bearing option in the by the Charles Loridans Foundation of Brussels Seminar on the Law and Institutions Atlanta, focused on the need for the United of the European Union, which celebrated States to take a more modest and balanced its 35th anniversary this year, and with view of American power (see cover). It was the addition of a fourth course/credit a special privilege for me, personally, to to the Georgia Law Summer Program in introduce Hamilton, who is not only a friend China (see page 8). Our Global Internship of mine but also someone who knew Dean Program continues to expose Georgia Law Rusk well, since he was first elected to students to the practice of international Congress in the 1960s. There really could and transnational law through summer have been no better way to commemorate internships in foreign governmental the Rusk Center’s anniversary than by agencies, academic centers, law firms, C. Donald Johnson having someone of Hamilton’s stature and corporations and NGOs. This past summer, well-documented bipartisanship share 22 students worked in 12 different his perspectives on the important topic of countries. They were often involved in key today’s U.S. foreign