Vanderbilt International Law Roundtable Jan. 28-29

Larry Helfer and Allison Danner are hosting an International Law Roundtable this weekend, January 28-29, at Vanderbilt Law School in Nashville. Here’s the schedule:

Friday January 28, 2005

8:30-9:40 am Paper author: David Luban (Georgetown)

Paper title: Liberalism and the Unpleasant Question of Torture

Commentator: David Sloss (St. Louis)

9: 45-10:55 am Paper author: Rosa Brooks (Virginia)

Paper title: Failed States, or the State as Failure?

Commentator: Allison Danner

11:15-12:25 pm Paper author: Judith Kelley (Duke)

Paper title: The Role of Material and Non-Material Factors in State Behavior: Article 98 Agreements as a Quasi-Experiment

Commentator: Madeline Morris (Duke)

1:30-2:40 pm Paper author: William Aceves (Cal Western)

Paper title: Predicting Chaos? Strategic Planning in International Human Rights

Commentator: Greg Fox (Wayne State)

3:00-4:10 pm Paper author: Leila Sadat (Washington University)

Paper title: Exile, Amnesty and International Law

Commentator: David Wippman (Cornell)

Saturday January 29, 2004

8:30-9:40 am Paper author: Beth Simmons (Harvard)

Paper title: Theorizing Treaty Commitments

Commentator: Larry Helfer (Vanderbilt)

9: 45-10:55 am Paper author: Allison Danner (Vanderbilt)

Paper title: Prosecuting War and Terrorism: Lessons from the Tokyo Tribunal

Commentator: Bill Bradford (Indiana)

11:15-12:25 pm Paper author: Laura Dickinson (Connecticut)

Paper title: Privatizing the International: International Law and the Problem of Accountability in an Era of Governmental Contracts

Commentator: Mark Drumbl (Washington & Lee)