The American Branch of the International Law Association and the International Law Students Association have issued a call for panel proposals for International Law Weekend 2013, which will take place October 24-26, 2013, in New York City. The theme is "Internationalization of Law and Legal Practice." Here's the call:International Law Weekend 2013: Call for Panel Proposals
In anticipation of International Law Weekend 2013 – the premier international law event of the fall season, to be held on October 24-26, 2013, in New York City – the sponsors would like to invite you and your colleagues to submit proposals for panels, roundtables, and lectures at International Law Weekend (ILW) 2013. The overall theme of ILW 2013 is Internationalization of Law and Legal Practice.
About ILW
ILW is sponsored and organized by the American Branch of the International Law Association (ABILA) – which welcomes new members from academia, the practicing bar, and the diplomatic world – and the International Law Students Association (ILSA). This annual conference attracts an audience of more than 1,000 practitioners, academics, diplomats, members of the governmental and nongovernmental sectors, and most importantly, foreign policy and law students who are learning about the range of practice and career opportunities.
ILW 2013
ILW 2013 will be held in conjunction with the 92nd annual meeting of the American Branch in Manhattan at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York at 42 West 44th Street on Thursday evening, October 24, and at the Fordham Law School at Lincoln Center on October 25-26, 2013. We expect an audience that will include practitioners, professors, UN diplomats, business leaders, federal and state government officials, NGO leaders, writers, journalists, and interested citizens. This year, we plan to have a broad array of public international law topics, but will also have dedicated tracks of private international law topics in each program slot.
Proposals
The unifying theme for this year’s meeting is to examine how and why an appreciation and knowledge of international law is an increasingly relevant and important professional tool for virtually every lawyer. Panels may explore, for example, how international law principles and instruments are involved in such domestic areas as civil litigation, commercial transactions, trade regulation, family law, criminal prosecution, intellectual property, bankruptcy, and dispute settlement. Others may address international legal developments in such rapidly evolving substantive areas as public health, cyber and telecommunications, human rights, the environment and outer space – especially those under consideration in international organizations. Still others might focus on the specific mechanisms by which international law affects domestic law and legal proceedings such as treaty implementation, application of customary international law, or proof of foreign law.
The ILW Organizing Committee invites proposals to be submitted online on or before Friday, March 15, 2013.
Please provide a title, brief description of the topic, and the names, titles, and affiliations of the chair and likely speakers – but also describe what you think would be the most engaging and exciting format, including ways to enhance participation by the audience. Thus, we encourage suggestions of varied formats, such as debates, roundtables, lectures, and break-out groups, as well as the usual practice of panel presentations. One of the objectives of ILW 2013 is to promote new dialogues among scholars and practicing lawyers; so formats should include presenters with diverse experiences and perspectives.
The 2013 ILW Program Committee Members: Jack Beard, University of Nebraska College of Law, jbeard2@unl.edu; Aaron Fellmeth, Arizona State University, aaron.fellmeth@asu.edu; Steven Hammond, Hughes, Hubbard & Reed LLP, hammond@hugheshubbard.com; Blanca Montejo, United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, montejo@un.org; Vivian Shen, International Law Students Association, vshen@ilsa.org; Nancy Thevenin, Baker & McKenzie LLP, nancy.thevenin@bakermckenzie.com; and David Stewart, ABILA, stewartd@law.georgetown.edu (Ex officio)
