Call for Questions/ Topics: Roundtable on International Law in the Face of New Threats to Peace and Security

Kristen Boon of Seton Hall Law School (and occasional Opinio Juris guest-blogger) has sent in the following call for questions/ topics for a roundtable at International Law Weekend entitled Overlapping Threats / Overlapping Jurisdictions: International Law in the Face of New Threats to Peace and Security. She writes:

Climate change, swine flu, the global financial crisis, and drug trafficking pose significant new threats to international stability. Do they constitute threats to peace and security as a matter of international law, and if so, which organizations will ultimately exercise jurisdiction over these growing challenges of globalization? Do existing global bodies – the UN Security Council, World Health Organization, the World Bank – have the power to respond decisively and effectively? If so, why? Will the private sector, or regional, economically driven entities, such as the G20, emerge as the dominant decision makers?

Please join us to explore these questions, and more, in a roundtable discussion at the 2009 International Law Weekend on Friday Oct. 23 at 2:15pm at Fordham Law School with Amb. Christian Wenaweser (Amb. of Leichtenstein to the UN), Prof. Benedict Kingsbury (NYU Law), Prof. Stephen Marks (Harvard School of Public Health), and Mr. Vikram Raghavan (World Bank).

What do you want to know?

Please email questions in advance to: Prof. Kristen Boon: boonkris@shu.edu.