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The Geopolitics of Law in Latin America: Transnational Litigation and Investment Arbitration

Large money judgments may depend on qualitative assessments of foreign legal systems as a whole. Both transnational litigation and investor-state arbitration require adjudicators to decide on the fitness of foreign law at certain points. This presentation will critically discuss the evidence available for assessing Latin American legal systems in those contexts.

Lecturer: Jorge Esquirol, Professor of Law, Florida International University Law

Chair: Fernanda Nicola, Professor of Law and Director, Program on International Organizations, Law and Diplomacy

Registration is free but required.
Please go to https://www.wcl.american.edu/secle/registration

International Suite Talks

Intellectual Property & International Trade Resources Talk

 Join Professors Padideh Ala'i and Sean Flynn to learn about the intersection of IP and international trade and guidance available to you here at WCL. Bring your questions about IP and international trade law, courses, careers and things you should be doing to get into a career practicing in this area. Food will be provided but you must RSVP! https://www.jotform.com/pijip/IPandTrade

Some Kind of Justice: The ICTY's Impact in Bosnia and Serbia

In her new book, Some Kind of Justice, Diane Orentlicher
offers a groundbreaking and timely account of how an
international criminal tribunal affects local communities and
the factors that account for its changing impact over time.
Drawing on interdisciplinary research as well as hundreds of interviews with Bosnian and Serbian citizens, the book
illuminates two questions at the heart of contemporary debate on international criminal tribunals: What goals can we plausibly assign to these tribunals, and what factors determine their impact on societies that have seen mass violence?

Please join the Washington College of Law’s War Crimes Research Office and Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law at the book’s launch, featuring:

Diane Orentlicher, Author & Pr ofessor of Law, Washington College of Law

Ivana Cvetkovic Bajrovic, Associate Dir ector for Eur ope,
National Endowment for Democracy

Dapo Akande, Pr ofessor of Public Inter national Law, Univer sity of Oxfor d

Moderated by Tom Gjelten, Religion and Belief Correspondent, National Public Radio

Lunch will be provided during the panel, with a dessert reception to follow from 1:30-2:30 PM.

Please register at https://www.wcl.american.edu/secle/registration

Secretary-General/Professor Jean-Marc Thouvenin on The Role of the Hague Academy of International Law

Join the Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law and the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law for a discussion with Secretary-General Professor Jean-Marc Thouvenin on the role of the Hague Academy of International Law. 

The Hague Academy of International Law Secretary-General Jean-Marc Thouvenin, Paris-Nanterre University professor, is an expert on international law.

The Hague Academy offers renowned summer and other programs in public and private international law. Leading academics, practitioners, diplomats, and others teach lawyers and law students in The Hague Academy’s multi-cultural environment.

The United Nations General Assembly recognizes "the contributions of The Hague Academy to the teaching, study, dissemination and wider appreciation of international law ….”