Lectures and Conferences

CONFERENCES 1998-2007

- To Prevent and to Punish (September 2007)
- Lessons from the Saddam Trial (October 2006)
- Torture and the War on Terror (October 2005)
- Rebuilding Nation Building (April 2005) 
- Terrorism on Trial (October 2004)
- Legal Foundations for Peace and Prosperity in the Middle East (1998)
- The Future of International Intellectual Property: International Relations in
     Information Products (March 2004)
- Sexual Assaults of International Consequence: A Symposium on the
     Suppression of International Crimes Against Women (October 2003)
- The Role of Justice in Building Peace (March 2003)
- International Arbitrage of Controversial Medical Technologies (2002-03)
- Comparative Employment and Labor Law (2001)
- International Intellectual Property and Technology (2000)
- International Economic Law (1999)
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DEBATE: "WILL SADDAM HUSSEIN RECEIVE A FAIR TRIAL?"

CURTIS DOEBBLER,  International Human Rights Lawyer v. MICHAEL SCHARF, Professor and Cox Center Director
Moderator-Assoc Dean HIRAM CHODOSH

C-SPAN broadcast January 2005
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OTHER SPEAKERS HAVE INCLUDED:

M. CHERIF BASSIOUNI
Professor, DePaul University College of Law, Formerly Chairman, U.N. Commission to Investigate International Humanitarian Law Violations in the former Yugoslavia; Chairman, Drafting Committee, Diplomatic Conference on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court

PROFESSOR ARTHUR CAPLAN
Chair, Department of Medical Ethics and Director, Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania, Chair, Advisory Committee to the U.N. on Human Cloning, and President, American Association of Bioethics

AMBASSADOR PERLA CARVALHO-SOTO
Advisor for Disarmament Affairs, Mexico

AMBASSADOR HANS CORELL
Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs & Legal Counsel to the U.N. 1994¡V2004

DAVID CRANE
Chief Prosecutor, Special Court for Sierra Leone

COMMISSIONER SARAH CHRISTIE
Commission for Conciliation, Mediation, and Arbitration, South Africa

MARK ELLIS
Executive Director, International Bar Association, London, England

PROFESSOR DAVID FIDLER, INDIANA UNIVERSITY
International legal consultant to the World Bank Group (foreign investment in Palestine), the World Health Organization, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (global public health issues), and the U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Science Board (bioterrorism)

JUSTICE RICHARD J. GOLDSTONE
Constitutional Court of South Africa, Chairman, International Commission on Kosovo, former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda

ROY GUTMAN
Diplomatic Correspondent at Newsweek, Pulitzer Prize winner for reporting on war crimes in Bosnia, and Director of the Law of War Project at American University

AMBASSADOR THOMAS GRAHAM
President, Lawyers Alliance for World Security; Former Special Representative of the President for Arms Control, Non-Proliferation, and General Counsel of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

SEAN HAGAN
Assistant General Counsel, International Monetary Fund

GENERAL CHARLES HORNER, USAF RET.
Former Commander of U.S. Air Forces in the Persian Gulf War, and Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Space Command

DEAN HAROLD HONGJU KOH
Yale Law School; former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S. Department of State, Clinton Administration

NEIL KRITZ
Director, Rule of Law Program, U.S. Institute of Peace

AMBASSADOR PEGGY MASON
Former Canadian Ambassador for Arms Control and Disarmament Affairs

MAJOR GENERAL (RET.) WILLIAM NASH
Former Commander, NATO forces in Bosnia; U.N. Regional Administrator for Kosovo

ARYEH NEIER
President, Open Society Institute and the George Soros Foundations; founder and former Executive Director, Human Rights Watch, and former National Director, American Civil Liberties Union

SAMANTHA POWER
Founder and former Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in non-fiction for "A Problem from Hell: America in the Age of Genocide"

NICHOLAS ROSTOW
Chief Legal Counsel to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, formerly Chief Legal Counsel to the National Security Council

JUSTICE ALBERT SACHS
Constitutional Court of South Africa

PROFESSOR LEILA NADYA SADAT
Washington University School of Law, and Commissioner for the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom

PROFESSOR WILLIAM SCHABAS
Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, and Member of the Truth Commission for Sierra Leone

AMBASSADOR DAVID SCHEFFER
Senior Fellow, U.S. Institute of Peace; former U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues

PROFESSOR SHIMON SHETREET
Hebrew University; Former member of the Landau Commission on the Israeli Court System and the Israeli Parliament, and Israeli Minister of Religious Affairs

HONORABLE ABRAHAM SOFAER
George P. Shultz Distinguished Scholar & Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University; Former Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State

JUSTICE VLADLEN VERESCHCHETIN
International Court of Justice