International and Comparative Law

On November 14, AUWCL hosted a panel discussion on the regulatory aspects of the US-China trade war, featuring experts from the U.S. law schools and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). The panel discussed issues that have confronted the US- China relations, including trade negotiations, foreign investments, market access, the national security exception, and the competition of technology.

On Saturday, Nov. 30, the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio published an interview with Dean Emeritus and Professor Claudio Grossman R. Geraldson Scholar for International Humanitarian Law, member of the UN International Law Commission, and associate member of the Institut de Droit International about the situation in Chile.

On November 14, 2019, the Pre-Trial Chamber III of the International Criminal Court authorized the Prosecutor to open an investigation into crimes committed against the Rohingya community in Myanmar. The ICC’s decision relies heavily on, and cites to, the factual findings and legal analysis conducted by the Public International Law & Policy Group (PILPG), led by AUWCL Professor Paul Williams, with top-notch pro bono contributions from Dentons and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, summarized in the report titled Documenting Atrocity Crimes Against the Rohingya in Myanmar’s Rakhine State.

The 2019 Biannual Symposium on Salient Issues in International Commercial Arbitration, organized by the Center on International Commercial Arbitration, offered a forum for debate and discussion about the question of how should the dialogue between the seemingly opposed poles of globally valid and circulating arbitral awards be articulated with the growing wish for national autarchy and self-sufficientness prevailing among many businessmen and politicians.

On November 5, 2019, the American University Washington College of Law hosted the XV edition of the “Symposium on International Trade: Seeking Answers to a Changing Trading System,” in partnership with the ABCI Institute and with support of the Brazilian Embassy in Washington, DC.

AUWCL Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law Claudio Grossman served as Agent for Chile for the final stretch of the proceedings. So it is natural that also Prof. Claudio Grossman wrote the main chapter of the book about “The Chilean Legal Strategy.” The book takes stock of both sides’ legal arguments in this case and the development of the procedure.