Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute a GLOBAL COMMUNITY of SCHOLARS WHITNEY R

Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute A GLOBAL COMMUNITY OF SCHOLARS WHITNEY R. HARRIS WORLD LAW INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL THE WORK OF THE HARRIS INSTITUTE AT AMBASSADOR AÍDA IVONE GONZÁLEZ MARTÍNEZ Washington University Law is guided by Former Chairperson, U.N. Committee for the an active International Council, consisting Elimination of Discrimination Against Women 2 A GLOBAL COMMUNITY of leading scholars, practitioners, and WHITNEY R. HARRIS OF SCHOLARS jurists from around the world. Former Trial Counsel, International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, attorney, author, and professor Leila Nadya Sadat ELIZABETH ANDERSEN Executive Director & Executive Vice President, PROFESSOR JUNG-GUN KIM 6 LEARNING TO LIVE WITH American Society of International Law Former Dean, Yonsei University College of Law and Graduate School UNEQUAL JUSTICE: THE HONORABLE JOHN B. ANDERSON of Law and Intellectual Property President & CEO, World Federalist Association ASYLUM AND THE LIMITS ANTHONY LEWIS TO CONSISTENCY THE HONORABLE LOUISE ARBOUR Former syndicated columnist, New York Times Former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Stephen H. Legomsky THE HONORABLE PROFESSOR HERBERT H.P. MA THE HONORABLE JORGE ARRATE Former Grand Justice, Taiwan Judicial Yuan Former Cabinet Minister, Chile 8 HARNESSING THE COSTS PROFESSOR SUSAN F. MARTIN OF INTERNATIONAL PROFESSOR M. CHERIF BASSIOUNI Donald G. Herzberg Associate Professor of President Emeritus, International Human Rights International Migration, Georgetown University TAX ARBITRAGE Law Institute, DePaul University College of Law Adam H. Rosenzweig STEVEN CASH NICKERSON PROFESSOR GEORGE A. BERMANN EVP, CFO, and General Counsel, Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law, Walter PDS Technical Services, Inc. 10 EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION, Gelhorn Professor of Law, Columbia University HIS EXCELLENCY, JUDGE HISASHI OWADA TORTURE, AND OTHER THE HONORABLE PROFESSOR RUDOLF BERNHARDT Judge, International Court of Justice NIGHTMARES FROM THE Former President, European Court of Human Rights THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR GEOFFREY PALMER WAR ON TERROR PROFESSOR RAJ BHALA Former Prime Minister, New Zealand Leila Nadya Sadat Raymond F. Rice Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Kansas PROFESSOR ASHA RAMGOBIN Executive Director, Human Rights Development PROFESSOR PAUL P. CRAIG 12 HARRIS INSTITUTE KICKS OFF Initiative, South Africa Professor of English Law, Oxford University LANDMARK PROJECT FOCUSING THE HONORABLE PATRICIA M. WALD PROFESSOR FRANCIS MADING DENG ON CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY Former Judge, U.N. International Criminal Tribunal Research Professor of International Politics, Law for the Former Yugoslavia, and former Chief Judge, and Society, Johns Hopkins University School of U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit 14 TWO MAJOR CONFERENCES Advanced International Studies PROFESSOR RUTH WEDGWOOD ADDRESS GLOBAL DAVID W. DETJEN Edward B. Burling Professor of International Law CLIMATE CHANGE Partner, Alston & Bird LLP and Diplomacy, Johns Hopkins University PROFESSOR THOMAS M. FRANCK PROFESSOR JOSEPH H.H. WEILER 16 HARRIS INSTITUTE EVENTS Murry & Ida Becker Professor of Law, Jean Monnet Professor of Law, Chair and Faculty New York University Director of the Hauser Global Law School Program, 18 JUSTICE GOLDSTONE THE HONORABLE RICHARD J. GOLDSTONE New York University School of Law RECEIVES WORLD PEACE Former Justice, Constitutional Court of South Africa, THROUGH LAW AWARD and former Chief Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda 20 PROFESSOR JOHN HALEY’S GROUNDBREAKING WORK IS RECOGNIZED AT LAW IN WHITNEY R. HARRIS WORLD LAW INSTITUTE MAGAZINE MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL, including the Honorable Louise Arbour, are JAPAN SYMPOSIUM Leila Nadya Sadat, Henry H. Oberschelp Professor active supporters of and participants in of Law and Harris Institute Director international and comparative law programs. 23 THOMAS SCHWEICH Michael Peil, International Programs OF THE U.N. TO SERVE AS Assistant Dean AMBASSADOR-IN-RESIDENCE Linda McClain, Harris Institute Assistant Director 24 LAW SCHOOL PIONEERS Ann Nicholson, Managing Editor COMBINED DEGREE Ryan Rhea, Editor PROGRAM WITH EUROPEAN PARTNER UNIVERSITIES Erin Kawell, Designer/Art Director Scott Hueting, Designer/Production Artist 26 SELECTED INTERNATIONAL Mary Butkus, Anna Harris, Bill Mathews, Washington AND COMPARATIVE LAW University Law Multimedia Department, Photography SCHOLARSHIP Direct Communications to: The Honorable Louise Arbour 31 LAW STUDENTS SHINE IN Linda McClain is the former U.N. High PRESTIGIOUS INTERNATIONAL Harris Institute Assistant Director Commissioner for Human Washington University School of Law Rights, a former Justice of the LAW MOOT COURT COMPETITION Campus Box 1120 Supreme Court of Canada, and One Brookings Drive the former Chief Prosecutor of 34 STUDYING LAW St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 the International Criminal AROUND THE WORLD (314) 935-7988 Tribunals for Rwanda and for [email protected] the Former Yugoslavia. DIRECTOR’S LETTER S OF THIS WRITING, the Harris Institute Cambodia, respectively. Altogether, more than 110 celebrated its eighth year—and what a of our students were studying or working abroad this year it was. We made great strides in year, and we welcomed 104 students from overseas, “deepening” our existing programs as well as 14 visiting scholars. for both faculty and students and Our Summer Institute for Global Justice contin- “widening” our international pro- ues to thrive in the Netherlands, our international grams more generally. In January 2008, Justice public service initiative now has 24 students working r A Richard Goldstone received the World Peace abroad in eight countries, and we have semester Through Law Award at an event marking the exchange programs with 11 universities. We expanded Institute’s rechristening as the “Whitney R. Harris our international moot court program, and our three World Law Institute.” We also convened our first teams (Jessup, Niagara, and Harish) took three cham- International Legal Scholars Workshop, focusing pionships, two first-place oralist awards, and five other upon public international law theory, international individual oralist awards. criminal law, and human rights. The highly successful Looking forward, the Harris Institute is pleased to workshop will become an annual event. The Harris announce four major program initiatives. The first is Institute co-sponsored the First Annual Chautauqua a Climate Change Colloquium in October 2008, International Humanitarian Law Dialogs, bringing bringing together legal scholars, policymakers, and together most of the chief prosecutors of the current Washington University experts to examine climate and prior International Criminal Tribunals for a pub- change law and policy. Second, the Harris Institute lic, as well as private, assessment of international crim- has launched an ambitious two-year project to draft inal law. Distinguished academics, U.N. officials, a comprehensive crimes against humanity conven- journalists, and policymakers gave lectures through- tion. The Steering Committee for the project includes out the academic year, which was topped off with a M. Cherif Bassiouni, Hans Corell, Richard Goldstone, Juan Méndez, William Schabas, Christine Van Den splendid conference on Japanese law in honor of the Harris Institute’s outgoing Wyngaert, and myself. Third, the Harris Institute director, John O. Haley. will hold its second annual International Legal The law school also launched a new Scholars Workshop in 2009. Finally, in February International Ambassadors Program 2008, the law school announced the commencement with a lecture from the Hon. Carla of the Transnational Law Program, a unique, inte- Hills, former U.S. Trade Representative. grated, four-year, dual-degree program with four This year, H.E. Thomas A. Schweich partner law schools in Europe. will become our first Ambassador-in- None of this would have been possible without Residence, as part of a program designed the extraordinary support and leadership of Dean to bring a foreign policy perspective to Kent Syverud, the hard work and enthusiasm the international legal education of our of Michael Peil, assistant dean for international students. Ambassador Schweich served programs and the Harris Institute’s executive director, LEILA NADYA SADAT as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of and the dedication of Linda McClain, the Harris Henry H. Oberschelp Professor State for International Law Enforcement, Institute’s assistant director. Finally, we would be of Law and Director, Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute U.S. Ambassador for Counternarcotics remiss not to mention the ongoing support and and Justice Reform in Afghanistan, and encouragement we receive from Anna and Whitney Chief of Staff of the U.S. Mission to the United Harris. Their generosity has allowed us to blossom Nations. He was recently appointed Special Represen- from a small seed to a wide and deep global commu- tative for Latin America of the United Nations Office nity of students, faculty, jurists, scholars, partnership of Drugs and Crime (UNODC). institutions, and friends. The Harris Institute continued its International Our international programs can be found at Humanitarian Law “Students As Teachers” Train- http://www.law.wustl.edu/international. We look ing Program through the auspices of the St. Louis forward to seeing you at one of our events soon. Chapter of the American Red Cross. This program trains law students to give lectures on humanitarian Sincerely, law to students

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