Friday, October 29, 2010

ASIL International Organizations Interest Group Works-in-Progress Workshop (Reminder)

Blogging will be light the rest of the day as I am attending the Works-in-Progress Workshop of the American Society of International Law's International Organizations Interest Group at the headquarters of the Organization of American States in Washington, DC. Here's the final program:

Welcome

Jean Michel Arrighi, Secretary for Legal Affairs, Organization of American States

Jacob Katz Cogan (Univ. of Cincinnati – Law), Co-Chair, ASIL International Organizations Interest Group

Session 1: “The International Responsibility of the WTO”

Author: Noemi Gal-Or (Kwantlen Polytechnic Univ. – Politics and Law)

Commentator: Steve Charnovitz (George Washington Univ. – Law)

Session 2: “Regional Arrangements as an Expression of Diversity in the International System”

Author: Richard Burchill (Univ. of Hull – Law)

Commentator: Christoph Mikulaschek (International Peace Institute)

Session 3: “Beyond the Monopoly of States: Civil Society and the Governance of International Institutions”

Author: David Gartner (Arizona State Univ. – Law)

Commentator: Lesley Wexler (Univ. of Illinois – Law)

Session 4: “Actor, Forum, Resource: Legal and Political Aspects of International Organizations”

Author: Ian Hurd (Northwestern Univ. – Political Science)

Commentator: Jacob Katz Cogan (Univ. of Cincinnati – Law)

Session 5: “Relational Contract Theory and UN Peacekeeping”

Authors: Ian Johnstone (Tufts Univ. – Fletcher School) & Garth Schofield (Permanent Court of Arbitration)

Commentator: Kristen E. Boon (Seton Hall Univ. – Law)

Session 6: “Regime Collisions and the Role of the Law of Responsibility”

Author: Kristen E. Boon (Seton Hall Univ. – Law)

Commentator: Ian Johnstone (Tufts Univ. – Fletcher School)

Session 7: Young Scholars Panel

Authors: Megan Donaldson (New York Univ. – Law), “The Politics of Transparency: The World Bank Access to Information Policy”

Guy Fiti Sinclair (New York Univ. – Law), “Of Living Trees and Constitutional Moments: Social Imaginaries and the Expansion of International Organizations”

Commentators: Björn Arp (Universidad de Alcalá – Law)
Jason Dominguez (Texas Southern Univ. – Law)