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The college has reserved a limited number of rooms for attendees to use as lodging onsite. The rooms are en-suite and have their own shower and toilet, some of which have recently been refurbished. There are also tea and coffee making facilities in each room. To reserve your room, please request the all-inclusive rate (includes room on both Friday and Saturday nights) on the below registration form and return to Mary Jordan Mullinax at mullinam@staff.abanet.org. You can also fax the form to her attention at (202) 662-1673.

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

3:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Registration and check-in to College Rooms at Porter’s Lodge, Oriel College

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Literary Walking Tour of Historic Oxford (Meet at Porter’s Lodge, Oriel College) Limited to 25 participants

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Opening Reception: “The Oxbridge Tradition of Legal Scholarship” at Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street

Welcome:
Professor Ved Nanda

Moderator:
Adam Farlow, Esq.

Speaker:
Professor Sir David Yardley, Oxford

8:00pm – 10:00 pm

Free time for individual dinner arrangements

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

Programs will be held in the Lecture Theatre

7:30 am – 8:30 am

Breakfast at Oriel College

9:00 am - 10:30 am

New Developments in Public International Law: Authors’ Forum

Moderator:
Professor Peter Winship

Panelists:
Professor Malcolm D. Evans, OBE, Professor of Public International Law and Dean of Social Sciences and Law, University of Bristol

Professor Christopher Greenwood, London School of Economics and Barrister at Essex Chambers (invited)

Professor Ved P. Nanda

Professor Ian Brownlie, former Chichele Professor of Public International Law, Oxford, and Distinguished Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, and Barrister at Blackstone Chambers (invited)
~~ Tea and Coffee Break ~~

 

10:50 am - 12:15 pm

War Crimes Tribunals

Moderator:  
Larry D. Johnson, Esq., UN Assistant Secretary-General for Legal Affairs

Panelists: 
Chris M. Engels, Esq., Director, Criminal Defense Section, Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Rupert Skilbeck, Esq., Principal Defender, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia

William H. Wiley, Esq. International Law Advisor, Iraqi High Tribunal

12:15 pm – 2:15 pm

Free time for lunch and enjoying Oxford

2:15 pm - 3:40 pm

Torture

Moderator:
Bart Legum, Esq., Debevoise & Plimpton; Co-Chair ABA Section of International Law Fall Meeting, Autumn 2007

Speaker:
Professor Sir Nigel Rodley

Commentator:
Professor Jonathan Black-Branch, Professor of International Law, University of Buckingham; Senior Law Fellow, Greyfriars Hall, Oxford; and Barrister

~~ Tea and Coffee Break ~~

 

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Tensions between Sovereignty and Humanity:  Lessons from the Courtroom

Moderator: 
Dr. Isabella D. Bunn

Panelists:
Ms. Shaheed Fatima, Esq., Barrister at Blackstone Chambers

Professor Jonathan Black-Branch

Ms. Fiona Darroch, Esq., Barrister at Hailsham Chambers

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Reception at Magdalen College Gardens
Sponsored by Hart Publishing, Oxford

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Dinner Banquet at Oriel College

Moderator:
Jeffrey Golden, Esq., Allen & Overy, LLP, London, and Chairman, Section of International Law, American Bar Association

Speaker:
Ambassador Hans Corell, former UN Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and Legal Counsel

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30

Program will be held in the Lecture Theatre

7:30 am – 8:30 am

Breakfast at Oriel College

9:00 am – 10:30 am

Questions of International Justice

Moderator:
Professor Robert Lutz

Speaker:
Professor Sir Elihu Lauterpacht, The Lauterpacht Institute for International Law, University of Cambridge

10:30 am – 11:00 am

Concluding Remarks and Adjournment

Module Agenda

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