Conference: Humanitarian Law & Terrorism

Later this week, on January 23rd and 24th, the Vanderbilt International Legal Studies Program will host its Winter 2009 Roundtable. The topic is "Humanitarian Law & Terrorism." Here are the papers and commentators:

• Mark Osiel (Univ. of Iowa - Law & T.M.C. Asser Institute), Reciprocity in Humanitarian Law: Acceptance and Repudiation
• Comment: Laurence R. Helfer (Vanderbilt Univ. - Law)
• John Cerone (New England Law Boston), Detention Authority in Transnational, Non-Interstate Armed Conflict
• Comment: Elies van Sliedregt (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - Law)
• Laura Dickinson (Arizona State Univ. - Law), Outsourcing War and Peace: Uniformed Military Lawyers, Organizational Culture, and the Impact of Privatization
• Comment: Greg McNeal (Penn State Univ. - Law)
• Michael Newton (Vanderbilt Univ. - Law), Exceptional Leadership: Protocol I and a World United Against Terror
• Comment: Charles Garraway (British Red Cross)
• Linda Malone (College of William and Mary - Law), The Responsibility to Protect in the Context of Instigated Environmental Emergencies
• Comment: Michael Scharf (Case Western Reserve Univ. - Law)
• Mark Drumbl (Washington & Lee Univ. – Law), The Agency and Innocence of Child Soldiers
• Comment: Michael Newton (Vanderbilt Univ. - Law)
• Laura Olson (American Society of International Law), Practical Challenges of Implementing the Complementarity between International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law - Demonstrated by the Procedural Regulation of Internment in Non-international Armed Conflict
• Comment: Roger Alford (Pepperdine Univ. - Law)
• Michael Scharf (Case Western Reserve Univ. - Law) & Paul Williams (American Univ. - Law & School of International Service), International Law in Crisis
• Comment: Vijay Padmanabhan (Cardozo Law School)