CWRU Forum Network Program

Deng Xiaoping and the Opening of China

2012-05-13T03:58:01Z

Ezra F. Vogel, Ph.D. -- Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard University

Tuesday April 10, 2012, 4:30-6:00 p.m.

This program is sponsored by the Asian Studies Program, the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities and the Political Science Department at Case Western Reserve University

Perhaps no person in the 20th century affected more people or had a greater long-term impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. Drawing from his latest book, Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, award-winning social scientist Ezra Vogel argues that the economic reforms instituted by the Chinese leader resulted in more people rising out of poverty than in any other period. Presiding over unprecedented economic expansion and engagement with the West, but also the authoritarian crackdown in Tiananmen Square, Deng was single-minded in his drive to modernize his county. Called “a masterful new history of China’s reform era” by the Washington Post, Vogel’s 2011 accounting of the parallel rise of Deng and the world’s second-biggest economy provides the basis of the lecture.

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Ezra F. Vogel is the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard. After graduating from Ohio Wesleyan in 1950 and serving two years in the U.S. Army, he studied sociology in the Department of Social Relations at Harvard, receiving his Ph.D. in 1958. He then went to Japan for two years to study the Japanese language and conduct research interviews with middle-class families. In 1960-1961 he was assistant professor at Yale University and from 1961-1964 a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard, studying Chinese language and history. He remained at Harvard, becoming lecturer in 1964 and, in 1967, professor. He retired from teaching on June 30, 2000.

Vogel succeeded John Fairbank to become the second Director (1972-1977) of Harvard’s East Asian Research Center and Chairman of the Council for East Asian Studies (1977-1980). He was Director of the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at the Center for International Affairs (1980-1987) and, since 1987, Honorary Director. He was Chairman of the undergraduate concentration in East Asian Studies from its inception in 1972 until 1991. He was Director of the Fairbank Center (1995-1999) and the first Director of the Asia Center (1997-1999). Vogel was Chairman of the Harvard Committee to Welcome President Jiang Zemin (1998). He has also served as Co-director of the Asia Foundation Task Force on East Asian Policy Recommendations for the New Administration (2001).

Drawing on his original field work in Japan, he wrote Japan’s New Middle Class (1963). A book based on several years of interviewing and reading materials from China, Canton Under Communism (1969), won the Harvard University Press faculty book of the year award. The Japanese edition of his book Japan as Number One: Lessons for America (1979) is the all-time best-seller in Japan of non-fiction by a Western author. In Comeback (1988), he suggested things America might do to respond to the Japanese challenge. He spent eight months in 1987, at the invitation of the Guangdong Provincial Government, studying the economic and social progress of the province since it took the lead in pioneering economic reform in 1978. The results are reported in One Step Ahead in China: Guangdong Under Reform (1989). His Reischauer Lectures were published in The Four Little Dragons: The Spread of Industrialization in East Asia (1991). His most recent publication is Is Japan Still Number One? (2000). He has visited East Asia every summer since 1958 and has spent a total of over six years in Asia.

Vogel has received honorary degrees from Kwansei Gakuin (Japan), the Monterrey Institute, the Universities of Maryland, Massachusetts (Lowell), Wittenberg, Bowling Green, Albion, Ohio Wesleyan, Chinese University (Hong Kong) and Yamaguchi University (Japan). He received The Japan Foundation Prize in 1996 and the Japan Society Prize in 1998. He has lectured frequently in Asia, in both Chinese and Japanese.

From fall 1993 to fall 1995, Vogel took a two-year leave of absence from Harvard to serve as the National Intelligence Officer for East Asia at the National Intelligence Council in Washington. He directed the American Assembly on China in November 1996 and the Joint Chinese-American Assembly between China and the United States in 1998.

Going Out (zou chuqu) and Arrival In (desembarco): China, Latin America, and Contemporary Globalization

2012-04-07T04:30:27Z

Julia C. Strauss, Ph.D. -- Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political and International Studies at the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies

Monday March 26, 2012, 4:30-6:00 p.m.

This program is made possible by the generosity of Ms. Eloise Briskin and sponsored by the Center for Policy Studies at Case Western Reserve University.

One aspect of the “Rise of China” that is causing anxiety among foreign policy specialists and other people looking for something to be anxious about involves China’s developing relations in what used to be called the third world. As part of China’s “rise,” its state and businesses have become increasingly involved in both commercial and development activities. There is a lot of speculation about whether China is challenging the existing norms of international economics and politics. Dr. Strauss co-edited a special issue of The China Quarterly about China and Africa, and she and colleagues will be publishing an issue about China and Latin America in March. Her talk will focus on how the Chinese think about their engagement in Latin America, and in particular differences in how Chinese actors are engaging with small countries like Peru, as compared to another “rising” state and economy, Brazil.

Dr. Strauss served as editor of The China Quarterly, the premier academic journal about China, from 2002 – 2011. She brings to her currrent work not only deep knowledge of China but close attention to how the relationship works from the other side, from Latin America.

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Julia C. Strauss is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political and International Studies at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). She was also the Editor of The China Quarterly from 2002 to 2011. Her research interests span both sides of the Taiwan Straits and are focused on state building and institution building, governance, the environment, and China-Africa relations. Her publications include the edited volumes China and Africa: Emerging Patterns in Globalization and Development (CUP 2009), The History of the People’s Republic of China (CUP, 2006), and the monograph Strong Institutions in Weak Polities: State Building in Republican China, 1927-1940 (Clarendon, 1998). Articles include “Forestry Reform and the Transformation of State Capacity in fin de siècle China” (Journal of Asian Studies, 68:4), and “Paternalist Terror: The Campaign to Suppress Counter revolutionaries and Regime Consolidation in the People’s Republic of China, 1950-53” (Comparative Studies in Society and History).

The Evolution of Global Climate Change Institutions

2012-04-07T04:25:17Z

Alexander Thompson, Ph.D. -- Associate Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University

Tuesday March 06, 2012, 4:30-6:00 p.m.

This program is made possible by the generosity of Ms. Eloise Briskin and sponsored by the Center for Policy Studies at Case Western Reserve University.

A variety of political and legal institutions have been established over time to manage the issue of climate change at the global level, mostly centered on the UN. These institutions have varied in terms of the nature and depth of obligations they impose on states. The shallow and nonbinding Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992) was followed by the more legalized Kyoto Protocol, which in turn is being replaced by a more decentralized and flexible approach. Professor Thompson will describe these changes and offer an explanation for the design and evolution of climate institutions from the perspective of political and environmental effectiveness. He will also offer policy recommendations based on current problems in the regime and the political realities exposed by ongoing negotiations.

This program is made possible by the generosity of Ms. Eloise Briskin and sponsored by the Center for Policy Studies at Case Western Reserve University.

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Alexander Thompson’s research focuses on international relations, especially in the area of international institutions and cooperation. His book, Channels of Power: The UN Security Council and U.S. Statecraft in Iraq (Cornell University Press, 2009), asks why powerful states often conduct coercive foreign policies through international organizations. Professor Thompson provides an information-based explanation and assesses arguments looking at U.S. policy toward Iraq from 1990 to the current intervention and its aftermath. Channels of Power won the International Studies Association’s Chadwick F. Alger Prize for the best book on international organization and multilateralism and the Best Book Award from ISA-Midwest.

Much of Alexander Thompson’s research addresses issues of institutional delegation and design at the international level, with recent and ongoing projects on the design of the global climate regime, the politics of investment treaty ratification, the domestic politics of legalization in the WTO, the principal-agent dynamics of multilateral weapons inspections, determinants of how international organizations perform, and the enforcement of international law. Professor Thompson also writes and speaks on the question of unilateralism versus multilateralism in U.S. foreign policy.

Social Justice and the Gay Community (audio only)

2012-04-08T05:13:36Z

Anthony Crumbley, Case Western Reserve University graduate student at The Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences

Gladys Haddad, host, Regionally Speaking

Monday February 13, 2012

Regionally Speaking, Western Reserve Studies Symposium, Case Western Reserve University

The gay community expands to all age groups and ethnicities. Anthony Crumbley is a graduate student at Case Western Reserve University’s Mandel School of Social Science and he tries to engage this diverse group, young and old, with open discussions about issues like anti-gay bullying. On top of these support groups and conferences, Crumbley works as a research assistant for Rhonda Williams, the director of CWRU’s Social Justice Institute. Listen this week to hear more about Crumbley’s projects and what he sees in his future after graduation.

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Anthony Crumbley, Case Western Reserve University graduate student of The Mandel School of Applied Social Science with a Master’s Degree in Social Science

Gladys Haddad is Professor of American Studies at Case Western Reserve University and the founder and director of the Western Reserve Studies Symposia, an annual event now in its twentieth year that offers a forum and WEB site for the study of the history and culture of a distinctive northeastern Ohio region. She earned a B.A., Allegheny College, B.F.A., Lake Erie College, M.A. and Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University. She is professor of American Studies emerita at Lake Erie College where she was academic dean and executive assistant to the President.

A historian and regionalist her scholarship is centered in Ohio’s Western Reserve. She has published on the history, literature, and art of the region. She is the author of Ohio’s Western Reserve: A Regional Reader, Anthology of Western Reserve Literature and Laukhuff’s Book Store: Cleveland’s Literary and Artistic Landmark: An Epilogue. She is the editor of Western Reserve Studies: A Journal of Regional History and Culture and Western Reserve Studies Symposia Papers.

She is the Project Archivist, Researcher and Author of the CASE website “Selected Philanthropic Families of Case Western Reserve University.”

Ethical Leadership (audio only)

2012-04-08T03:32:38Z

Shannon French, Ph.D., Director of the Inamori Center for Ethics and Excellence at Case Western Reserve University

Gladys Haddad, host, Regionally Speaking

Monday January 30, 2012

Regionally Speaking, Western Reserve Studies Symposium, Case Western Reserve University

The goal of the Inamori Center for Ethics and Excellence is to promote ethical leadership. Its signature event is the Inamori Ethics Prize, which brings internationally renowned leaders to the Case Western Reserve University campus. The Director of the Inamori Center is Shannon French, who joined CWRU faculty in 2008 after working as the associate chair of the United States Naval Academy’s Department of Leadership, Ethics and Law. This week we learn more about Dr. French and her role at the Inamori Center.

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Shannon French is the director of the Inamori Center for Ethics and Excellence at Case Western Reserve University

She is the Project Archivist, Researcher and Author of the CASE website “Selected Philanthropic Families of Case Western Reserve University.”

Social Justice in the Latino Community (audio only)

2012-04-08T03:50:18Z

Omar Gutierrez, senior at Case Western Reserve University and volunteer at Esperanza

Gladys Haddad, host, Regionally Speaking

Monday December 19, 2011

Regionally Speaking, Western Reserve Studies Symposium, Case Western Reserve University

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Omar Gutierrez, senior at Case Western Reserve University and volunteer at Esperanza

She is the Project Archivist, Researcher and Author of the CASE website “Selected Philanthropic Families of Case Western Reserve University.”

STAND Against Genocide (audio only)

2012-04-08T03:49:45Z

Brittany Rattiliff, undergraduate at Case Western Reserve University and Vice President of STAND

Jun Christopher Iida, undergraduate at Case Western Reserve University and President of STAND

Gladys Haddad, host, Regionally Speaking

Monday December 12, 2011

Regionally Speaking, Western Reserve Studies Symposium, Case Western Reserve University

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Brittany Rattiliff, undergraduate at Case Western Reserve University and Vice President of STAND

Jun Christopher Iida, undergraduate at Case Western Reserve University and President of STAND

She is the Project Archivist, Researcher and Author of the CASE website “Selected Philanthropic Families of Case Western Reserve University.”

Baker v. Carr After 50 Years: Appraising the Reapportionment Revolution – Panel 2: Real Impact of Re-Districting on Elections

2012-03-23T06:20:45Z

Moderator

Jessie Hill, Professor of Law and Director, Center for Social Justice, Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Panelists

	Justin Buchler, Associate Professor of Political Science, Case Western Reserve University
	Mark Salling, Director, Northern Ohio Data and Information Services, Cleveland State University
	Tom Brunell, Professor of Political Science and Senior Associate Dean of Graduate Education University of Texas at Dallas
	John Griffin, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
	Michael Kang, Associate Dean of Faculty and Professor of Law, Emory University

Friday November 4, 2011, 8:45 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

The Law Review Symposium at Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Next year marks the 50th anniversary of Baker v. Carr, the ruling that established the one-person/one-vote principle and led to profound changes in the way legislative districts are drawn at every level of government. U.S. federal courts are regularly embroiled in resolving districting and apportionment disputes, which have profound implications for the distribution of political power and influence throughout the nation as well as for the way public policies are made at the national, state, and local levels. Legal scholars and social scientists will address the many questions that have arisen from Baker v. Carr, including principles of districting, the nature of representation, voting rights, and the capacity of courts to resolve districting and apportionment disputes.

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Jessie Hill is a Professor and Director of the Center for Social Justice at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Ms. Hill’s teaching focuses on constitutional law, federal civil procedure, civil rights, reproductive rights, and law and religion. She is a graduate of Brown University and Harvard Law School. Her scholarship is published or forthcoming in the Michigan Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, and the Texas Law Review, among others. Prior to teaching, Professor Hill worked at the Reproductive Freedom Project of the national ACLU office in New York, litigating challenges to state-law restrictions on reproductive rights, and then practiced First Amendment and civil rights law with Berkman, Gordon, Murray & DeVan in Cleveland. She also served as law clerk to the Honorable Karen Nelson Moore of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Justin Buchler is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of Hiring and Firing Public Officials: Rethinking the Purpose of Elections (Oxford University Press 2011). The book is the culmination of several years of research into the role that competitive elections play in a democracy. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the book argues that competitive elections, by most definitions, indicate democratic dysfunction because a competitive election is not comparable to a competitive market. Instead, tossing a coin is a poor method for making hiring and firing decisions, which is what elections actually are.

Professor Buchler’s other publications address redistricting, campaign finance, and polarization in Congress using a combination of game theory, statistical analysis and democratic theory. Currently, Professor Buchler’s research focuses on how to explain recent trends towards polarization in Congress through spatial modeling.

Mark J. Salling researches and teaches urban geography, statistical and computer methods, and demography. He manages a team of researchers, programmers, geographic information systems (GIS) specialists, and students involved in data dissemination, demographic analysis, and urban and GIS applications. He also serves as the Research Director of The Center for Community Solutions in Cleveland, managing a team of researchers conducting applied social and health issue research projects.

Professor Salling is a Census expert, serving as the State of Ohio’s Liaison to the Census Bureau for its redistricting data programs. He is also the key contact person for the Census Bureau on geographic boundaries in Cuyahoga, Geauga, Medina counties. He serves on the Council of the Ohio Geographically Referenced Information Program (OGRIP), representing higher education. In addition, he is a member of the Core Committee of GISCorps, which matches GIS professionals to volunteer opportunities in underprivileged communities, particularly in developing countries. Professor Salling is certified as a GIS Professional (GISP) by the Geographic Information Systems Certification Institute (GISCI). He has published papers dealing with computer applications in planning, data dissemination, geographic information systems, poverty, residential mobility, environmental equity, redistricting and public participation GIS, and demography. Frequently quoted in local and state media, Professor Salling earned his B.A. and Ph.D. in Geography from Kent State University and his M.A. in Geography from the University of Cincinnati.

Thomas L. Brunell is a professor of Political Science and the Senior Associate Dean of Graduate Education at the University of Texas at Dallas. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine in 1997. His research and teaching focuses on the U.S. Congress, elections, representation, and redistricting. He has published dozens of articles in peer reviewed journals and his book, Redistricting and Representation: Why Competitive Elections are Bad for America, was published in 2008.

Dr. Brunell has served as a consultant and an expert witness in many redistricting and Voting Rights Act related lawsuits. He has testified in state and federal courts around the country regarding these issues.

John D. Griffin specializes in the study of political equality within American political institutions, especially the U.S. Congress. His work has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, and several edited volumes. He recently published a co-authored book titled Minority Report: Evaluating Political Equality in America with the University of Chicago Press. He is currently writing a book with John Aldrich on the failure of representation in the American South, also for University of Chicago Press.

Michael S. Kang teaches Election Law, Business Associations and a seminar on Law and Democratic Governance. His research focuses on issues of election law, voting and race, shareholder voting and political science. Professor Kang’s work has been published by the Yale Law Journal, NewYork University Law Review and Michigan Law Review, among others. Professor Kang also serves as co-editor of the book series Cambridge Studies in Election Law and Democracy and co-authored a chapter for the first book in the series, “Race, Reform, and Regulation of the Electoral Process.” Professor Kang visited Cornell Law School during the 2008 spring semester and Harvard Law School during the 2009 spring semester.

Professor Kang received his BA and JD from the University of Chicago, where he served as technical editor of the University of Chicago Law Review and graduated Order of the Coif. He received an M.A. from the University of Illinois and his Ph.D. in government from Harvard University. After law school, Professor Kang clerked for Judge Michael S. Kanne of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and worked in private practice at Ropes & Gray in Boston before joining the Emory Law faculty in 2004.

Baker v. Carr After 50 Years: Appraising the Reapportionment Revolution – Panel 1: Districting and Apportionment Dispute: The Political Question Doctrine as Applied to Election Disputes, Including Bush v. Gore

2012-03-23T06:22:28Z

Moderator

Jonathan H. Adler, Johan Verheij Professor of Law and Director, Center for Business Law and Regulation, Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Panelists

	Nelson Lund, Patrick Henry Professor of Constitutional Law and the Second Amendment, George Mason University
	Daniel Tokaji, Professor of Law, Ohio State University
	S. Candice Hoke, Associate Professor of Law, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University

Friday November 4, 2011, 8:45 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

The Law Review Symposium at Case Western Reserve University School of Law

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Jonathan H. Adler teaches environmental, administrative, and constitutional law. He is the author or editor of five books, including Business Law and Regulation in the Roberts Court, and over a dozen book chapters. His articles have appeared in such publications as the Harvard Environmental Law Review, Supreme Court Economic Review, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Professor Adler is a contributing editor to National Review Online and a regular contributor to the popular legal blog, “The Volokh Conspiracy.” A 2007 study identified Professor Adler as the most cited legal academic in environmental law under age 40, and his recent article, “Money or Nothing: The Adverse Environmental Consequences of Uncompensated Law Use Controls,” in the Boston College Law Review, was selected as one of the ten best articles in land use and environmental law in 2008.

In 2004, Professor Adler received the Federalist Society’s Paul M. Bator Award for excellence in teaching, scholarship, and commitment to students. In 2007, the Case Western Reserve University Law Alumni Association awarded Professor Adler their annual “Distinguished Teacher Award.” Professor Adler serves on the Board of the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment, the academic advisory board of the Cato Supreme Court Review, and the Environmental Law Reporter and ELI Press Advisory Board of the Environmental Law Institute. He has appeared on numerous radio and television programs, ranging from the PBS “Newshour with Jim Lehrer” and NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” to the Fox News Channel’s “O’Reilly Factor” and “Entertainment Tonight.” He holds a B.A. magna cum laude from Yale University (1991) and a J.D. summa cum laude from George Mason University School of Law (2000).

Nelson Lund is the Patrick Henry Professor of Constitutional Law and the Second Amendment at George Mason University School of Law, where he has served as Vice Dean and as co-editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review. A graduate of St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, he holds advanced degrees in philosophy from the Catholic University of America (M.A. 1978), and in political science from Harvard University (A.M. 1979; Ph.D. 1981). He received his law degree in 1985 from the University of Chicago, where he was executive editor of the University of Chicago Law Review and chapter president of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy.

Professor Lund served as law clerk for the Honorable Patrick E. Higginbotham of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (1985-1986) and for the Honorable Sandra Day O’Connor of the United States Supreme Court (O.T. 1987). In addition to experience in the United States Department of Justice at the Office of the Solicitor General and at the Office of Legal Counsel, Professor Lund served in the White House as Associate Counsel to the President from 1989 to 1992. Professor Lund has written on a variety of subjects including constitutional interpretation; federalism; separation of powers; jurisprudence; federal election law; the Commerce Clause; the Speech or Debate Clause; the Second Amendment; the Uniformity Clause; employment discrimination and civil rights; the legal regulation of medical ethics; and the application of economic analysis to legal institutions and to legal ethics.

Dan Tokaji is a Professor of Law at the Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law. He is an authority on election law and administration, including such topics as voter ID, provisional voting, the Help America Vote Act of 2002, and redistricting. His scholarship addresses questions of political equality, racial justice, and the role of the federal courts in American democracy. Among the publications in which his work has appeared are the Michigan Law Review, Stanford Law & Policy Review, and Yale Law Journal. He is a co-author of the casebook Election Law: Cases and Materials (4th ed. 2008) and co-editor of Election Law Journal.

A graduate of Harvard College and the Yale Law School, Professor Tokaji clerked for the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He has litigated many civil rights and election law cases. He was lead counsel in a case that struck down an Ohio law requiring naturalized citizens to produce a certificate of naturalization when challenged at the polls. He was also an attorney for plaintiffs in cases that kept open the window for simultaneous registration and early voting in Ohio’s 2008 general election, and that challenged punch-card voting systems in Ohio and California after the 2000 election.

Candice Hoke focuses her research at the intersection of software-based technologies and the law. A law professor at Cleveland State University, she teaches Election Law, Regulatory Law, and Employment Law. Her current research focuses on regulatory, security, and operational issues raised by new software-based election technologies. She has also authored several articles on legal and security aspects of internet voting initiatives, and is currently working on a book explaining the risks and alternatives to internet voting. She was a member of the American Bar Association’s Advisory Commission to the Standing Committee on Election Law (2007 -- 2010), a research Team Leader for the California Secretary of State’s scientific study of voting systems (TTBR, 2007), and a member of the Cuyahoga Election Review Panel (2006) that examined the causes and cures for a major election failure.

As Director of the Center for Election Integrity, Professor Hoke served as Project Director of the Public Monitor of Cuyahoga Election Reform (2006-08), authoring reports on election technical security. Under Public Monitor auspices she proposed and led Ohio’s first post-election audit of cast ballots (November 2006). She works closely with policymakers at state and Federal levels, drafting Federal election cyber security legislation and state election reform legislation. She and has testified before Congress, federal agencies, the Ohio legislature and county governments on quality assurance techniques for increasing public trust in election technologies. With national security and computer forensics experts, she co-authored a forensics guide for election officials and their lawyers. Before becoming a law professor, she was a Yale Law Journal editor, a judicial clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and a staff member of the North Carolina Governor’s Office.

Baker v. Carr After 50 Years: Appraising the Reapportionment Revolution – Introduction and Main Speaker: Reapportionment and the Right to Vote: Baker’s Legacy

2012-03-23T06:06:48Z

Introduction

	Associate Dean Raymond Ku, Professor and Co-Director, Center for Law, Technology and the Arts, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
	Jonathan Entin, Professor of Law and Political Science, Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Speaker

Samuel Issacharoff, Bonnie and Richard Reiss Professor of Constitutional Law, New York University School of Law

Friday November 4, 2011, 8:45 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Sponsored by the Law Review Symposium at Case Western Reserve University School of Law

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Raymond Ku is a nationally known expert in the fields of copyright law and Internet Law. Prior to joining our faculty, he was an associate professor and director of the Institute of Law, Science and Technology at Seton Hall University School of Law. Before that he was an associate professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, where he established and directed the Center for Law, Technology and Communications. Professor Ku was also a visiting associate professor at Cornell Law School during the 2002–03 academic year.

He is the lead author of the first casebook devoted exclusively to the study of cyberspace law, Cyberspace Law: Cases & Materials (Aspen 2002). He has published articles in numerous law reviews and journals, including the University of Chicago Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Wisconsin Law Review, and the Stanford and Berkeley Technology Law Journals. Before entering academia, Professor Ku clerked for Timothy K. Lewis, justice on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Pittsburgh. He also has been an associate with the law firms Levine Pierson Sullivan & Koch L.L.P. and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher L.L.P., both in Washington, D.C. Professor Ku holds a J.D. cum laude from New York University School of Law, where he was a Leonard Boudin First Amendment Fellow in the Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program, and an A.B. with honors in political science from Brown University. He is a member of the New York State Bar, the Washington, D.C. Bar and the Copyright Society of the American Bar Association.

Jonathan L. Entin is Professor of Law and Political Science at Case Western Reserve University. He also has served as the law school’s associate dean for academic affairs. The recipient of several teaching awards and a former co-editor of the Journal of Legal Education, Professor Entin has written and lectured widely about First Amendment and other constitutional issues. He has been a Judicial Fellow at the Federal Judicial Center and a visiting professor at the University of Nebraska. Before joining the faculty in 1984, Professor Entin clerked for Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and practiced in Washington with Steptoe & Johnson. He received his A.B. from Brown University and his J.D. from Northwestern University.

Samuel Issacharoff is the Reiss Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law. His research deals with issues in civil procedure (especially complex litigation and class actions), law and economics, constitutional law, particularly with regard to voting rights and electoral systems, and employment law. He is one of the pioneers in the law of the political process and one of the co-authors of the seminal Law of Democracy casebook. His work on procedure includes serving as the Reporter for the Project on Aggregate Litigation of the American Law Institute.

Professor Issacharoff is a 1983 graduate of the Yale Law School. After clerking, he spent the early part of his career as a voting rights lawyer. He then began his teaching career at the University of Texas in 1989, where he held the Joseph D. Jamail Centennial Chair in Law. In 1999, he moved to Columbia Law School, where he was the Harold R. Medina Professor of Procedural Jurisprudence, before joining the New York University faculty in 2005. He is the author of more than 100 books, articles and other academic works. Professor Issacharoff is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The Fall of the Faculty: Governing Universities in the 21st Century

2012-04-07T05:18:29Z

Benjamin Ginsberg, Ph.D. -- David Bernstein Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University

Thursday November 3, 2011, 4:30-6:00 p.m.

War Time: An Idea, Its History, and Its Consequences

2012-03-03T00:14:06Z

Mary L. Dudziak, Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Professor of Law, History and Political Science University of Southern California

Tuesday October 11, 2011, 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Ben C. Green Lecture presented by the Institute for Global Security Law and Policy at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Although the U.S. has been engaged in some form of ongoing overseas armed conflict for more than a century, policy makers and the public continue to view wars as exceptional events that eventually give way to normal peace times. But if war is thought to be exceptional, “wartime” remains a shorthand argument justifying extreme actions like torture and detention without trial. And as the public becomes more disconnected than ever from the wars their nation is fighting, the country is without political restraints on the exercise of war powers.

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Mary L. Dudziak is a Visiting Professor at Duke Law School this fall. Her book War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences will be published next year (Oxford). Professor Dudziak has received several fellowships, including Guggenheim; Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, School of Social Science; American Council of Learned Societies; and others. She has been a Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and the University of Maryland Law School. Professor Dudziak began teaching at the University of Iowa College of Law in 1986. She holds a Ph.D. in American Studies (1992) and a J.D. (1984) from Yale, and an A.B. (1978) from U.C. Berkeley. She created the Legal History Blog, a leading blog in law and the humanities.

The Road to Justice

2012-03-03T09:20:59Z

Fred D. Gray, Gray, Langford, Sapp, McGowan, Gray & Nathanson

Thursday October 6, 2011, 6:00-7:00 p.m.

Frank J. Battisti Memorial Lecture, Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Our nation has made enormous progress toward racial justice since World War II. In this lecture, Fred D. Gray, one of the nation’s preeminent civil rights lawyers, will analyze legal developments in this field. Drawing on his own leading role in many landmark civil rights cases, Mr. Gray will explain the relationship between legal advocacy and political activism while examining the challenges that we continue to face in preserving and extending the gains that we have made. This lecture should be of particular interest to lawyers because of Mr. Gray’s unique perspective as an advocate for civil rights in several landmark Supreme Court cases and in many other lawsuits. Because Mr. Gray is currently in practice, he will also provide timely information useful to lawyers who handle civil rights, human rights, civil liberties, disability rights, labor and employment cases.

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Fred Gray is one of the nation’s preeminent civil rights lawyers. His clients have included Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin Luther King, and the victims of the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment. Among the Supreme Court cases in which he has played a prominent role are Browder v. Gayle, which invalidated the Montgomery bus segregation ordinance; NAACP v. Alabama, a significant freedom of association case; Gomillion v. Lightfoot, the Tuskegee gerrymandering case; and New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, the landmark defamation case. He also has represented freedom riders, sit-in demonstrators, participants in the Selma-Montgomery voting rights march, and plaintiffs in the cases that desegregated all public elementary, secondary schools, colleges, and universities in Alabama.

Mr. Gray was one of the first two African Americans elected to the Alabama legislature after Reconstruction, the first black president of the Alabama State Bar, and president of the National Bar Association. His many honors include the American Bar Association’s Thurgood Marshall Award and the Federal Bar Association’s Sarah T. Hughes Award. He is the author of two books, Bus Ride to Justice and The Tuskegee Syphilis Study. He decided to become a lawyer during his undergraduate years at Alabama State University so that he could destroy everything segregated he could find. Mr. Gray graduated from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 1954 and remains actively engaged in the practice of law.

Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution

2012-02-27T05:08:17Z

Speakers

	Gorge W. Dent, Jr., J.D., Schott-Van Den Eyden Profrssor of Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law
	Mark P. Strasser, J.D., Trustees Professor of Law, Capital University Law School

Thursday September 15, 2011, 4:30 p.m. -- 6 p.m.

Forum planned by the Case Western Reserve University Constitution Day 2011 Undergraduate
and Law Student Committee.

Sponsored by the Office of the President, Office of Government and Community Relations, Center for Policy Studies, and the School of Law.

The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), passed by Congress in 1996, defines marriage as a legal union between one man and one woman. As a result, same-sex couples are barred from receiving federal benefits conferred upon married couples, and no state is required to recognize same-sex marriages granted by another state.

On February 23, 2011, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Obama Administration had determined DOMA to be unconstitutional, and that the Justice Department would no longer provide legal defense for the law. Meanwhile, many states have adopted measures designed to forbid same-sex marriage. This year’s Constitution Day program will examine the issues raised by DOMA, state regulations, civil unions, polygamy, and other constitutional issues related to marriage.

The program includes opposing perspectives from the speakers, questions from a student panel, and Q&A with the audience.

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George W. Dent, J.D. (Columbia), LL.M. (NYU), taught law at NYU, Yeshiva, and NY Law School before joining the CWRU faculty in 1990. He is the Associate Director of the Center for Business Law and Regulation and has written extensively on the subject of same-sex marriage.

Mark P. Strasser, J.D. (Stanford), Ph.D. (Chicago), is recognized nationally and internationally as the author of books, such as Same-Sex Marriage, Civil Unions, and the Rule of Law, and numerous articles on related subjects.

Tibet, America, and the Book of the Dead

2012-01-05T04:43:34Z

Donald Lopez, Ph.D. -- Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at the University of Michigan

Tuesday April 26, 2011, 4:30-6:00 p.m.

Sponored by the Asian Studies program at the Case Western Reserve University

The Tibetan Book of the Dead, edited by W. Y. Evans Wentz, was published in 1927 and became an instant classic, passing through numerous editions, and subsequent versions by other authors. This lecture will tell the story of how a relatively obscure Tibetan work became the most famous Buddhist text in the western world.

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Professor Donald Lopez specializes in late Indian Mahayana Buddhism and in Tibetan Buddhism. His books include A Study of Svatantrika; Elaborations on Emptiness: Uses of Heart Sutra; Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West; The Story of Buddhism; and The Madman’s Middle Way: Reflections on Reality of the Tibetan Monk Gendun Chopel. His edited volumes include Buddhist Hermeneutics; Buddhism in Practice; Religions of Tibet in Practice; Curators of the Buddha: The Study of Buddhism Under Colonialism; Buddhist Scriptures; and Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000 and appointed Distinguished University Professor in 2005.

Energy Security and Climate Change: A Canada-US Common Approach? – Panel Seven: The Canada-United States Institute and Development of the Common Approach

2011-05-31T04:29:29Z

Panelists

	David Crane, Syndicated Journalist; and Co-Chair Henry T. King, Jr. Annual Conference on Canada-United States Relations, Toronto, ON
	Chris Sands, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute; and Co-Chair Henry T. King, Jr. Annual Conference on Canada-United States Relations, Washington, DC

Friday April 16, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Sponsored by the Canada-United States Law Institute at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and The University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law

The Henry T. King, Jr. Annual Conference has served as the premier forum for addressing the issues confronting the Canada-U.S. relationship. For nearly three decades, the annual conference has united members of the respective governments, corporate leaders, legal practitioners, scholars, and the media in one forum to address issues from security and trade, to energy and the environment. Along the way, the event has fostered the development of longstanding professional linkages and personal friendships on each side of the border.

This year’s conference will address the Canada-US energy relationship. It is the only event that will:

Examine the relationship from a bi-national perspective;
Provide a comprehensive review of all sectors;
Examine policy implications at the federal, state, and provincial levels;
Discuss funding initiatives that will assist companies in securing the capital needed to develop these projects.

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David Crane is an award-winning Canadian writer on economic, political and environmental issues. His writings appear in publications across Canada. He is a member of the National Statistics Council, an advisory body to Statistics Canada, the President’s International Advisory Council at the University of Toronto, and the advisory board of the Canada-U.S. Law Institute. He has also served as a board member of the University of Toronto’s Innovations Foundation, a member of the Ontario Science and Technology Council, a member of the original steering committee of the Toronto Vital Signs Project, and as a member of the Challenge Dialogue of the Alberta Energy Research Institute. David Crane also served for five years as a judge for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

He is a graduate of the University of Toronto. David Crane has an Arbor Award from the University of Toronto for his contributions to the university, honourary doctorates from Wilfrid Laurier University and Victoria University (part of the University of Toronto), and an award of recognition from Conestoga College He was awarded the Queen’s Jubilee Medal for his contribution to Canadian life. He was also awarded a Social Work Doctoral Award by the Social Work Doctors’ Colloquium. He is also a member of the Davos Circle, an association of long-term participants in the World Economic Forum. He has written several books, including The Next Canadian Century, The Canadian Dictionary of Business and Economics, and Controlling Interest. He has also been a contributor to a number of other books. He is currently writing a book on how Canada should position itself in the global economy.

Christopher Sands is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, a professorial lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and an adjunct professor in Government at the American University School of Public Affairs. He lectures at the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State and for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He holds a B.A. in political science from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Canadian studies and international economics from Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Sands currently serves as a member of the advisory board of the Canada-United States Law Institute.

Energy Security and Climate Change: A Canada-US Common Approach? – Panel Six: Finding the Money: Securing Capital for Energy Innovation

2011-05-31T04:28:46Z

Moderator

Selma Lussenburg, Chair, Ontario Growth Capital Corporation, Toronto, ON

Panelists

	Michael Barrett, Partner, Bennett Jones LLP, Toronto, ON
	Paul Durbin, Senior Counsel, Miller Canfield, New York, NY

Friday April 16, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Sponsored by the Canada-United States Law Institute at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and The University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law

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Selma Lussenburg serves as Board Chair of the Ontario Capital Growth Corporation. The principal businesses of OCGC are to manage the interest of the Government of Ontario in the $ 205 million Ontario Venture Capital Fund LP, which invests primarily in Ontario-based and Ontario-focused venture capital and growth equity funds that support innovative, high growth companies, and the $250 million Ontario Emerging Technologies Fund which co-invests alongside qualified investors in innovative, high-growth, private, Ontario companies.

Ms. Lussenburg is a director of the Association of Corporate Counsel (Ontario Chapter) and a member of the Advisory Board of the Canada-United States Law Institute and its Executive Committee.

Ms. Lussenburg was Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at OMERS, one of Canada’s largest public pension plans. At OMERS Ms. Lussenburg was responsible for the Legal Division, including the Corporate Secretariat, Board Secretariat, and Compliance as well as the provision of legal services to OMERS business, investment and pension operations. Prior thereto Ms. Lussenburg served as AT&T’s Chief Regional Counsel for Canada and Vice President, Legal Affairs, General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer at AT&T Enterprises Canada Co., supporting AT&T’s Canadian and international operations.

Ms. Lussenburg is a Canadian representative to the Trade Ministers’ NAFTA 2022 Advisory Committee on the Resolution of Private International Commercial Disputes; a Roster Member, Appointed under Agreement on Internal Trade (between the Governments of Canada and the Canadian Provinces) to reduce barriers to the movement of persons, goods, services and investments within Canada; and a Canadian Roster Member, under to the NAFTA Chapter 20 (Arbitral) Dispute Resolution Provisions. Ms. Lussenburg has written and spoken extensively on international trade including trade barriers, NAFTA, establishing business in Canada and other jurisdictions, corporate governance and pension matters.

Ms. Lussenburg holds a “Charter Director” designation from the Directors College, McMaster University (equivalent to ICD.D). Ms. Lussenburg was called to the Ontario Bar in 1982 and qualified as an English solicitor in 1987.

Ms. Lussenburg practiced law with the Toronto law firms of Borden Ladner, Fasken Martineau and the Sydney (Australia) office of Allen, Arthur, Robinson. While in private practice Ms. Lussenburg focused on domestic and international business law and international trade matters.

Ms. Lussenburg’s academic qualifications include a Certificate of Private and Public International Law from the Hague Academy of International Law (the Netherlands), an LLM-Master of International Law from the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia, a graduate level Diploma in International Co-operation and Development from the Institute for International Development and Co-operation, as well as a Bachelor of Law and a Bachelor of Social Science from the University of Ottawa.

Mike Barrett is a corporate lawyer, specializing in private corporate transactions and energy development. In his renewable power development practice, he has been retained by many leading renewable power developers. Mike’s keen understanding of the Canadian renewable power landscape has been helpful to both new and established participants in this sector. He has helped renewable power clients with all phases of energy project development and commercialization.

Paul Durbin is Senior Counsel at Miller Canfield, located in the firm’s Chicago and New York offices. He represents clients in solving issues related to financing, capital projects and new ventures. He has worked on financial transactions throughout his career and has spent the last decade in public and project finance. Mr. Durbin serves as counsel to underwriters, borrowers, developers and governmental entities in the financing of capital projects and infrastructure improvements. In recent years, he has worked with renewable energy companies on expansion projects around the country. He positions companies for new opportunities in green energy and works on the financing and construction of renewable energy projects.

Mr. Durbin has worked on numerous significant financings over the years for public and private borrowers, including for public utilities, cities, counties and villages. He acted as counsel in conduit bond offerings (through the Illinois Finance Authority and other issuers) for commercial, healthcare, and not-for-profit borrowers. He was bond counsel and underwriter’s counsel in increment revenue, general obligation and revenue bonds issuances. He has represented corporate borrowers and financial institutions in the negotiation and documentation of secured and unsecured loans and private placements. He also has represented numerous energy companies in their quest to find suitable sites and obtain the financing they need to build generation and manufacturing facilities in the United States

Energy Security and Climate Change: A Canada-US Common Approach? – Panel Five: Facing the World Together: The Role of Great Lakes States and Provinces in Developing Canada-US Energy

2011-05-31T03:08:24Z

Moderator

Chris Sands, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, & Co-Chair Henry T. King, Jr. Annual Conference on Canada-United States Relations, Washington, DC

Panelists

	Kim Hill, Director, Sustainability and Economic Development Strategies; Director, Automotive Communities Partnership, Center for Automotive Research, Ann Arbor, MI
	Benjamin Teitelbaum, Coordinator, Commision for Environmental Cooperation of North America, Montreal, QC

Friday April 16, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Sponsored by the Canada-United States Law Institute at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and The University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law

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Kim Hill is director of the Automotive Communities Program and Sustainable Transportation and Communities Group within the Center for Automotive Research (CAR). The Automotive communities Program (ACP) is a program aimed at helping government and economic developers in traditional automotive communities across the upper Midwest and Canada understand the ever-changing dynamic of the automotive industry as these organizations work on attraction and retention efforts. Currently, 40 communities participate in the program, along with five of the largest automobile manufacturing companies in the world and numerous tier one suppliers.

Mr. Hill’s work with CAR has focused on economic and business modeling, for the purpose of public analysis. He has authored and c-authored studies, for instance, examining the total annual economic activity of the domestic automotive industry; the economic well-being of the top suppliers in the State of Michigan; and an analysis of the effects state regulations have on automotive capital investment.

Mr. Hill is Car’s lead investigator on economic impact analyses. These analyses estimate employment and economic impacts on the national and state economies that result from automotive company activities. Studies by CAR have previously examined the impact of the entire U.S. motor vehicle assembly sector, the U.S.-based international assembly sector, and Toyota’s U.S.-based operations, and will soon be examining the impact of the entire U.S.-based automotive supplier sector.

Mr. Hill received his B.F.A. degree from the University of Michigan. He ran his own freelance photography business and managed a department for a commercial photographic lab. After many interesting years in the business, he returned to school to earn a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
After graduation, Mr. Hill joined the staff of the City Administrator’s Office with the City of Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he analyzed public policy issues and their potential effect on the city, including a proposed city income tax. Concurrently, with the Center for Environmental Policy, Economics, and Science, he co-authored a study which quantified the economic benefits of enhanced recycling of automobiles at the end of their life cycle.

Mr. Hill then joined the University of Michigan’s Office for the Study of Automotive Transportation, and co-authored many studies which focused on issues affecting the global automotive industry, such as global expansion and capacity impacts, changes in the automotive retail structure, and modeling automotive sales during various states of economic expansion and recession. After leaving the University of Michigan, and before joining CAR he worked as a business consultant, specializing in customer satisfaction studies, for CFI Group, of Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Benjamin Teitelbaum is presently Special Assistant at the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC). The CEC is an International Governmental organization with a special mandate to support the coordination of policies and programs focused on Trade & Environment as part of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

His present mandate is focused in providing support to the Commission on a number of “transportation” related initiatives, including “Greening the Trade & Transportation Corridors in North America”. Previously, Mr. Teitelbaum has assumed a number of responsibilities in both the Quebec and Canadian Governments. His background has therefore been shaped by experiences in both policy and government relations.

Energy Security and Climate Change: A Canada-US Common Approach? – Panel Four: A New Wavelength? Carbon Tax, Cap & Trade, and Market Adaptation

2011-05-31T03:08:11Z

Moderator

Cyndee Todgham Cherniak, Counsel, McMillan LLP, Toronto, ON

Panelists

	Jonathan H. Adler, Professor & Director, Center for Business Law and Regulation, School of Law, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
	Michal C. Moore, Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB

Friday April 15, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m.

Sponsored by the Canada-United States Law Institute at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and The University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law

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Cyndee Todgham Cherniak is counsel in the International Trade Law and the Tax Law Groups in the firm’s Toronto office. Her practice includes: international law, including World Trade Organization (WTO) and Regional Trade Agreements (RTA) analysis, interpretations, and opinions, government relations strategies, and dispute settlement, North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) verifications, value for duty, tariff classification, import and export controls and sanctions, bilateral restraint agreements, bilateral investment treaties, textile references, international protection of intellectual property rights, anti-dumping and countervailing duties, safeguard actions, government procurement, investor-state disputes, the Foreign Extraterritorial Measures Act , border and national security, food and product safety, anti-corruption and anti-bribery, and compliance programs/codes of conduct. Cyndee also has expertise in commodity tax (i.e., goods and services tax (GST), Ontario retail sales tax, Ontario employer health tax, Ontario land transfer tax, excise tax, gasoline and fuel taxes, and customs duties. Cyndee is known as an international lawyer who works closely with other lawyers, in-house counsel, international financial institutions, trade associations, non-governmental organizations and governments.

As a leading lawyer in international trade, Cyndee Todgham Cherniak is frequently contacted by top media organizations to share her views and insights on hot button trade issues. She has been a featured guest on several different radio and television shows such as Midday Markets and Headline on BNN -- Business News Network, Today on China Radio International (CRI), The Rutherford Report on Corus Radio, The Agenda with Steve Paikin and iChannel’s @issue. Cyndee has been featured, quoted and/or has acted as a contributor to several articles in a variety of national newspapers including The Globe and Mail , National Post and The Vancouver Sun, and has been published as an author or contributor in numerous publications and e-zines, such as Law Times, Canadian Lawyer, Lawyers Weekly, Canadian Business, Embassy Magazine, The Hill Times and National Magazine. Cyndee is known for her expertise in the area of free trade agreements, regional trade agreements and preferential trading arrangements (collectively, PTAs).

She is an adjunct professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and teaches a course on NAFTA and bilateral trading arrangements (Spring 2008 and Spring 2007). Cyndee has reviewed over 100 RTAs as a consultant to the Asian Development Bank, has written an extensive report on all aspects of RTAs and has conducted workshops for developing countries on the negotiation of free trade agreements. Cyndee was invited by the House of Commons, International Trade Committee to participate as a witness on the Canada-EFTA Free trade Agreement (March 11, 2008). Cyndee provides advice to domestic and multinational corporations about maximizing opportunities by taking advantage of the benefits under existing RTAs, analyzing market access obstacles or restrictions in foreign jurisdiction and government lobbying to remove or minimize such obstacles in RTA negotiations, RTA compliance, RTA due diligence, drafting agreements to take advantage of RTA benefits. Cyndee also advises companies on structuring transactions and drafting to protect investor rights under bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and Foreign Investment Protection and Promotion Agreements (FIPAs). Further Cyndee advises governments about all aspects of RTA negotiations, including transparency and implementation of RTA rights and obligations and procedural fairness. Cyndee’s expertise at reviewing RTAs, enables her to act as an arbitrator, and provide advice to corporations and governments concerning negotiation matters and post-agreement compliance, interpretation and dispute settlement.

Cyndee was the author of the 2007-2008 & 2008 -- 2009 Niagara Moot problems. The 2007-2008 problem focused on the use of the national security exception in the NAFTA , General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, 1994 and the General Agreement on Trade in Services. The problem also focused on the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, the APHIS fees and a hypothetical issue under the energy provisions of the NAFTA.

Cyndee advises clients on WTO dispute settlement, NAFTA disputes settlement (including bi-national panel reviews and investor-to-state dispute settlement). Cyndee has assisted a respected trade practitioner in advice to Canadian stakeholders in connection with WTO cases including, Canada – Certain Measures Concerning Periodicals , Canada – Certain Measures Concerning the Automobile Industry , Canada – Patent Protection of Pharmaceutical Products , United States – Treating Export Restraints as Subsidies , United States – Preliminary Determinations with Respect to Certain Softwood Lumber from Canada , and United States – Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000 . Cyndee has participated as part of a team, which provided advice to stakeholders or the Government of Canada in respect of Chapter 11 of the NAFTA cases, including Re: Ethyl Corporation, United Postal Services, and Tembec Corp.

Cyndee provides advice on doing business in Canada to companies in emerging markets, such as China, India, Brazil and Mexico. She represented the Government of China, Chinese Associations and/or exporters in the three of the first four anti-dumping and countervailing duty cases against China (outdoor barbeques, carbon steel and stainless steel fasteners and copper pipe fittings) and the first China specific safeguard case initiated by Canada against outdoor barbeques from China. She also participated in the successful representation of a coalition of importers, retailers and distributors in a China-specific safeguard case that was filed but never initiated against residential furniture from China. In addition, she represented the Government of China, Chinese Associations and exporters in the recent global safeguard case against the import of bicycles and bicycle frames.

Cyndee has represented the China Chamber of Commerce for Foodstuffs, Native Produce and Animal By-Products in the anti-dumping cases against garlic from China. Cyndee also represented a major user of grain corn in the anti-dumping and countervailing duty case in Canada against U.S. grain corn. Cyndee represented an importer of bicycles in an expiry review regarding the AD Order against bicycles from China and Chinese Taipei. Cyndee further represented a Canadian domestic steel producer in anti-dumping cases from numerous countries.

Cyndee also provides advice to Canadian companies doing business in China and/or with Chinese companies. She places an emphasis on risk management while assisting clients in pursuing opportunities in China to reduce their exposure to global threats and to protect company assets. She has provided advice to both large and small companies about the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights in China. She assists clients in undertaking due diligence prior to entering into business relationships in China (including business partners, joint ventures, customers, suppliers and acquisitions), and provides advice on intellectual property rights protection, tariff classification and all aspects of customs law, including Canada’s purchaser in Canada rules, royalties, calculation of value for duty and other customs issues. Cyndee has assisted companies in negotiating joint venture agreements, licensing agreements and asset sharing agreements with Chinese counter-parts. She has also counseled clients concerning the Administrative Monetary Penalty System (AMPS).

Jonathan H. Adler is Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Business Law & Regulation at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where he teaches courses in environmental, administrative, and constitutional law.

Professor Adler is the author or editor of four books on environmental policy and over a dozen book chapters. His articles have appeared in publications ranging from the Harvard Environmental Law Review and Supreme Court Economic Review to The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. Professor Adler is a contributing editor to National Review Online and a regular contributor to the popular legal blog, “The Volokh Conspiracy.” A 2007 study identified Professor Adler as the most cited legal academic in environmental law under age 40, and his recent article, “Money or Nothing: The Adverse Environmental Consequences of Uncompensated Law Use Controls,” published in the Boston College Law Review, was selected as one of the ten best articles in land use and environmental law in 2008.

In 2004, Professor Adler received the Paul M. Bator Award, given annually by the Federalist Society for Law and Policy Studies to an academic under 40 for excellence in teaching, scholarship, and commitment to students. In 2007, the Case Western Reserve University Law Alumni Association awarded Professor Adler their annual “Distinguished Teacher Award.” Professor Adler serves on the advisory board of the NFIB Legal Foundation, the academic advisory board of the Cato Supreme Court Review, and the Environmental Law Reporter and ELI Press Advisory Board of the Environmental Law Institute. A regular commentator on environmental and legal issues, he has appeared on numerous radio and television programs, ranging from the PBS “Newshour with Jim Lehrer” and NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” to the Fox News Channel’s “O’Reilly Factor” and “Entertainment Tonight.”

Prior to joining the faculty at Case Western, Professor Adler clerked for the Honorable David B. Sentelle on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. From 1991 to 2000, Professor Adler worked at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market research and advocacy group in Washington, D.C., where he directed CEI’s environmental studies program. He holds a B.A. magna cum laude from Yale University and a J.D. summa cum laude from the George Mason University School of Law.

Michal Moore is Professor of Energy Economics, and holds a Senior Fellowship at the School for Public Policy and the Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy at the University of Calgary.

He is a research fellow at the Cornell Center for a Sustainable Environment and specializes in research on cross-border regulatory issues affecting the energy industry.

He lectures in microeconomics and energy policy at both universities. He formerly served as Chief Economist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado and is a former regulator in the energy industry in California.

A native Californian, he was born in 1947 and maintains a home in rural Mendocino County and in Calgary, Alberta. He holds a current private pilot’s license and is a former SCCA-trained driver. He is an active mountaineer and writes and illustrates children’s stories.”

Energy Security and Climate Change: A Canada-US Common Approach? – Panel Three: From Blackout to Shock & Awe– Renewable Energy and the Shared Canada-US Electricity Grid

2011-05-31T03:07:54Z

Moderator

Dianne Anderson, Executive Director, Great Lakes Energy Institute, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

Panelists

	Gene Ameduri, Managing Director, Great Lakes Wind Energy, Cleveland, OH
	Carol Battershell, Manager, Golden Field Office, U.S. Dept. of Energy, Golden, Colorado
	David B. Raskin, Partner, Steptoe & Johnson, LLP, Washington, DC
	Roger Salliant, Executive Director of the Fowler Center for Sustainable Value , Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

Friday April 15, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m.

Sponsored by the Canada-United States Law Institute at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and The University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law

This year’s conference will address the Canada-US energy relationship. It is the only event that will:

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Dianne D. Anderson, who has held numerous executive and managerial positions at BP since 1983, has been named the first executive director of the Great Lakes Energy Institute at Case Western Reserve University. The vision of the Great Lakes Institute for Energy Innovation is to enable the transition to advanced, sustainable energy generation, storage, distribution and utilization through coordinated research, development and education. The distinctive feature of the institute will be its ability to translate results from the leading edge of Case Western Reserve’s research thrusts in renewable power, energy storage and efficiency to the next generation of energy technologies.

As executive director of the institute, Anderson, whose last position at BP was as president of the company’s West Coast Fuels Marketing (ARCO) division, will provide national and international leadership in the formation of strategic partnerships and alliances with industry, government and other academic institutions as the cornerstone of the institute’s approach. For the previous two years, Anderson, a native Ohioan, has lived in Los Angeles, serving as President of BP’s West Coast Fuels Marketing division. She was responsible for ARCO branded gasoline and unbranded diesel marketing west of the Rockies. The business integrated deeply with refining, supply and trading and the BP am/pm retail businesses.
During her tenure at BP, Anderson has worked in executive positions and lived all over the United States and in Europe, including California, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Texas, as well as in the United Kingdom and Poland.

Prior to her job as president of the West Coast Fuels Marketing, she worked in Houston at North American Gas & Power where she led a marketing team in support of identifying and optimizing customer trends in gas and electricity. Also in this role she managed all natural gas and electric power regulatory affairs for Canada and the U.S.

Anderson graduated magna cum laude in 1983 with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from West Virginia University. She also has completed senior executive development programs at Harvard, Cambridge and Northwestern universities and was a guest faculty member within the Stanford University Program on Customer Focused Innovation. She and her husband Jim, a dentist, make their home in Aurora, Ohio.

Gene Ameduri is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Great Lakes Wind Energy, formed to pursue an offshore wind opportunity in response to the Lake Erie Energy Development Company RFP to develop, build and operate an Initial Project of 20 MW of offshore wind in the waters of Lake Erie and to ultimately build and operate a larger project of 1,000 MW. He is responsible for public outreach, coordination with permitting and government agencies, and operations of Great Lakes Wind Energy as well as for the project company (Freshwater Wind, LLC).

Gene is also Co-Founder and President of Enerlogics Networks Inc., a company formed to provide expertise in all aspects of energy efficiency solutions, renewable energy, energy supply chain, merchant generation and demand response services to energy services suppliers, electric utilities and consumers.

Previously, Gene was co-founder and President of EnergyConnect, Inc., a demand response curtailment service provider that developed an innovative demand response trading and settlement software platform, unique in the wholesale electricity market, to provide large energy users the ability to respond to high wholesale electricity prices, reduce load and receive revenue as if they were a virtual generator. In the 1970’s, Gene co-founded Solar Energy Engineering to develop solar designs and installations. The designs include solar thermal and photovoltaic panels and he jointly holds a patent on a design of a tracking solar thermal panel.

Gene has over thirty-five years of experience in the electric energy and building automation industries, providing strategic vision and setting a corporate plan, as well as developing corporate sales and operations. He has developed integrated demand side management programs for multiple facilities, as well as energy asset management and asset ownership projects including scope development, economic analysis, costing, measurement and verification, funding acquisition and project design, management and commissioning. In addition, he has been responsible for implementing marketing, sales and construction/coordination strategies for the design and development of computerized building automation systems on a local, national and international scale in the office building, shopping center, retail, educational, and telecommunications industries.

Coupled with his electricity, solar, and system integration background, Gene brings an entrepreneurial mindset with strong operational and management development skills. In addition, Gene is a recognized technical expert, with presentations at numerous technical conferences and publication of multiple technical articles for various industry magazines.

Gene has a B.S. in Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Youngstown State University, and is a registered Professional Engineer in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida.

Carol Battershell joined the Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), in 2008 after 25 years in the energy industry with Standard Oil and BP. As Executive Director Field Operations she is responsible for all EERE field operations, including direct leadership of the Golden, Colorado office which has over 400 staff and is responsible for contracts and monitoring of about $7 billion dollars in 2010 of clean energy grants.

Her most recent roles at BP included:

Vice President, Policy and Strategy for BP Alternative Energy where she was instrumental in developing the strategy and business case for an 8 billion dollar investment to launch and grow the new BP Alternative Energy division, and

Vice President, Renewables and Alternative Fuels where she directed BP’s global activities in hydrogen and wind, as well as managed BP’s “green energy” marketing and consulting company.
Additional energy industry positions have included operations and strategy roles in retail fuels marketing, strategy and financial roles in business-to-business fuels marketing, as well a corporate role in environmental policy and a development role as chief of staff to one of BP’s most senior executives. She began her career as a refinery engineer in Ohio.

Carol has a BS in engineering from Purdue University where she specialized in environmental engineering and an MBA from Case Western Reserve University.

She has worked in a variety of locations in the United States, and also spent ten years living and working in Europe.

Dave Raskin is a partner at the Washington office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, where he practices in the electric power industry. He has represented electric clients before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for 30 years in cases involving mergers and acquisitions, generation and transmission projects, industry restructuring, wholesale electric and transmission service pricing, transmission access, wholesale market rules in organized (RTO) markets and elsewhere, contract disputes, fuel procurement practices, antitrust issues, and stranded investment. Mr. Raskin regularly advises clients on compliance matters relating to FERC rules and regulations. He has been lead trial counsel in dozens of FERC proceedings.

Mr. Raskin has also negotiated and helped structure numerous complex bulk power and transmission service transactions and joint projects to construct and operate transmission lines and generating facilities. He regularly advises clients on the regulatory and commercial aspects of transactions involving the sale and delivery of electric power and on issues associated with the restructuring of the electric utility industry. Mr. Raskin has also represented clients in proceedings before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission concerning the licensing and operation of nuclear power plants.

Mr. Raskin recently has been advising clients with respect to investments in major new transmission projects and has been counsel to the developers of several prominent projects involving cutting edge issues. He has provided advice on spinning-off, selling and purchasing transmission assets, and the relationship between different forms of transmission ownership and operation. Mr. Raskin also has worked extensively in negotiating power purchase contracts for utilities that have divested some or all of their generating assets.

Roger Saillant has over 35 years of experience in energy technologies, including fuel cells, which led to senior executive posts where he grew and ran allied businesses up to $5.5 billion in size.

He was named the first Executive Director of the Fowler Center for Sustainable Value in November 2009.

Dr. Saillant served 30 years at the Ford Motor Company and Visteon Corporation, were he began as a research scientist working on one-dimensional conductivity and eventually fuels and lubricants. There he advanced to the following succession of posts: Vice President and General Manager of the Energy Transformation Division; Vice President an d General Manager of the Plastics Division; and General Manufacturing Manager of the Electronics and Fuel Handling Division.

In these executive positions he was responsible for global profit and losses, acquisitions, and services and sales operations. The divisions ranged in size from $3.5 billion to $5.5 billion in sales and employed up to 12,000 people in 19 countries.

This was followed by seven years at Plug Power, a publicly traded fuel cell company, where he served as CEO. At Plug Power he led five rounds of fund-raising from public investors to raise more than $500 million in capital. He was responsible for three acquisitions and government grants of about $10 million annually. Dr. Saillant was recognized as a leader in fuel cells, being accorded the inaugural lifetime achievement award by the United States Fuel Cell Council for his work at the state, national, and global levels.

After Plug Power he was most recently an adjunct professor at Marlboro College where he taught climate change.

Roger Saillant obtained his AB degree from Bowdoin College, his PhD in chemistry from Indiana University, had post-doctoral experience at UCLA in organometallic chemistry, and received an honorary doctor of science degree from SUNY Cobleskill. He has co-authored or authored some 25 papers in refereed journals. He has recently co-authored an environmental thriller, Vapor Trails, which is based on the fictionalized activities of several oil company executives.

Energy Security and Climate Change: A Canada-US Common Approach? – Keynote Luncheon Address II

2011-05-31T03:07:41Z

Introduction

J. Michael Robinson, Counsel, Fasken Martineau

Main Speaker

Carmine Marcello, Executive Vice President, Strategy Hydro One, Inc., Toronto, ON

Friday April 15, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m.

Sponsored by the Canada-United States Law Institute at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and The University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law

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Michael Robinson, a 1964 graduate of University of Toronto Law School, (LLB/JD) has practiced commercial, corporate, securities and banking law in Toronto for 45 years. His emphasis is international private (business) law. Within that field his specialties are international business transactions and international trade and foreign investment law. He represents Canadian and foreign clients in all those fields.

Mr. Robinson taught at Osgoode Hall as an adjunct professor in 1982 and continuously since 2002 in both LLB/JD and LLM degree programmes, and also at University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law as an adjunct since 2005.

Mr. Robinson was very active in the Business Law Section of the International Bar Association, London, for thirty years. He held senior Committee and Council positions there for many of them.

Mr. Robinson advised Canada on the negotiation of the 1989 Canada/US Free Trade Agreement and Mexico respecting the 1992 North American Free Trade Agreement. He continues to advise and publish on international trade and investment dispute settlement law.

Mr. Robinson publishes and lectures widely, in Canada and abroad. His lengthy CV lists his many positions held, expertise recognitions granted, publications, lectures and related professional activities.

Carmine Marcello was appointed to the position of Executive Vice President, Strategy in November 2010. In this role Carmine is responsible for Strategy Development, External & Government Relations including First Nations & Métis Relations, Corporate Communications, Conservation Demand Management, Information Technology, Hydro One Telecom Inc. and the Management and Development of Hydro One Transmission and Distribution assets.

In March 2009 he was appointed to the position of Senior Vice President, Asset Management and was responsible for the life cycle management of Hydro One’s transmission and distribution assets as well as Hydro One Smart Grid initiatives.

Carmine has over 20 years experience in the electric utility industry as a senior executive, strategic planner and advisor on transmission and distribution utility processes. Appointed as Vice President, Corporate Projects in March 2007in a newly created role, Carmine was responsible for the oversight and delivery of corporate enterprise-wide Business Transformation projects. In 2003 as Director of System Investment, Hydro One Networks he was responsible for developing and implementing the investment plans required to ensure that Hydro One’s transmission and distribution systems are capable of reliably supplying the current and future electrical needs of Ontario. From 2005 to 2007, he led the transformation of Hydro One’s Ontario Grid Control Centre through significant improvements in organizational/individual performance standards, strengthening cultural/behavioral values and advancing leadership talent. During his career, Carmine has held a series of senior management roles responsible for planning and maintaining the transmission and distribution businesses. This experience includes all aspects of the electric utility business, specifically; strategic planning, regulatory relations, service quality improvements, operations, and customer service. Carmine joined Ontario Hydro in 1987 in various engineering positions involved in planning, operating and maintaining the wires system.

Carmine is also active in a number of corporate and industry associations. Carmine has advised on several NERC initiatives including Hydro One representation on the North American Transmission Forum and on the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Member Representatives Committee (MRC). He is past Chair of the Canadian Electricity Association’s (CEA) Transmission Council, and holds a position on the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy Advisory Panel and on the Hydro One Brampton Board of Directors and the Finance, Regulatory and Policy Sub-Committee. Carmine is also a member of the Governance Committee at York Central Hospital.

He has a Masters of Business Administration from York University and a Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto.

Energy Security and Climate Change: A Canada-US Common Approach? – Keynote Luncheon Address I

2011-05-31T03:07:27Z

Introduction

James W. Spence, Head, Business Law Group, Dickinson Wright LLP, Toronto, ON

Main Speaker

Al Monaco, President, Gas Pipelines, Green Energy & International Enbridge, Calgary, AB

Friday April 15, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m.

Sponsored by the Canada-United States Law Institute at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and The University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law

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James W. Spence (Jamie) obtained his Bachelor of Laws in 1980 from the University of Windsor and was called to the Bar in Ontario in 1982.

Jamie’s practice focuses on general corporate and commercial matters with emphasis on mergers, acquisitions and secured lending transactions. He regularly advises small, medium and large business enterprises on a variety of legal issues.

Jamie is also experienced in the area of mining law, specifically in the preparation of joint venture agreements, custom milling agreements, leases, transfers, farm-ins, exploration options, purchase and sale of mining interests and other related matters.

Jamie has served as a Director of a number of public and private companies. He has served on a special committee of directors of a Toronto Stock Exchange listed company to evaluate and provide recommendations to stockholders in respect of a takeover bid. He is a past Director and Chair of the Corporate Governance and Audit Committee of Burlington Hydro Electric Inc., the City of Burlington’s electric utility, a past Director and past member of the Audit Committee of AIC Corporate Growth Fund Inc., a past Director of Global Financial Split Corp. and of Lakeside Steel Corporation, a past member of the Advisory Board of the Global Banks Premium Income Trust and International Financial Income and Growth Trust.

Jamie has served as a member, director and past president of the Rotary Club of Burlington and as a past director of the Burlington Minor Lacrosse Association.

Jamie is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Ontario Bar Association, the Canadian Bar Association, the Canadian Institute of Mining, the Prospectors and Developers Association and the National Club of Toronto. Dickinson Wright

Al Monaco has responsibility for Enbridge’s Gas Pipelines, Green Energy and International business unit. This business unit is responsible for the operation and growth of Enbridge’s gas pipelines, including the gas gathering and processing operations in the United States, our Gulf coast offshore assets and our investments in Alliance, Vector and Aux Sable. Al also has responsibility for Green Energy power generation in North America, the energy marketing business and international business development and investment activities.

Prior to assuming this role, Al was Executive Vice President, Major Projects and Green Energy. The Major Projects group designs and constructs all of the Company’s major energy infrastructure projects.

Prior to that, Al was President, Enbridge Gas Distribution, based in Toronto. Al was responsible for the overall leadership and operations of Enbridge Gas Distribution, Canada’s largest natural gas utility with two million residential, commercial and industrial customers in communities including Toronto, Ottawa, Niagara Falls and Barrie.

rior to his that, Al was Senior Vice President, Corporate Planning & Development for Enbridge Inc., responsible for long-term strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions and corporate development.

Since joining Enbridge, Al has also held the positions of Vice President, Financial Services and Treasurer of Enbridge Energy Partners, a publicly listed U.S. Master Limited Partnership. Prior to joining Enbridge in 1995, Al held various management positions with a large oil and gas exploration and production company.

Al earned a Master of Business Administration (Finance) from the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary. He holds a Certified Management Accountant designation and is a member of the Society of Management Accountants of Alberta. Al recently completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard.

Al is a member of the Board of Directors of the York University Foundation (and its Investment Committee), a member of the University of Calgary Investment Committee and a Director of the C.D. Howe Institute.

l and his wife, Laurie, have three sons and reside in Calgary.

Energy Security and Climate Change: A Canada-US Common Approach? – Panel Two: The Bedrock of the Canada-US Energy Relationship: Fostering Job Creation and Energy Security through the Development of Clean Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas

2011-05-31T03:06:58Z

Moderator

Steven Reed, Partner, Steptoe & Johnson, LLP, Washington, DC

Panelists

	John Felmy, Chief Economist,American Petroleum Institute, Washington, DC
	Steve Winberg, Vice President, Research & Development, CONSOL Energy, Pittsburgh, PA
	Danielle Droitsch, Director, U.S. Policy, Pembina Institute, Washington, DC

Friday April 15, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m.

Sponsored by the Canada-United States Law Institute at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and The University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law

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Steven Reed is a partner at the Washington office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, where his primary focus lies in the area of federal energy regulation, particularly for oil and gas pipelines.

For more than 24 years, Mr. Reed has represented an array of major US oil pipeline companies in proceedings before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), state regulatory agencies, and the US courts of appeals. These proceedings have involved such diverse matters as the tariff rates for the Trans Alaska Pipeline System and other Alaska pipelines, many of the leading cases in the development of the FERC’s governing oil pipeline cost-of-service approach, and a number of cases involving issues of pipeline market power. Mr. Reed also participated extensively in the FERC’s major rulemaking initiative for oil pipelines and is the author of the leading article summarizing and commenting on that rulemaking, which appeared in the Energy Law Journal in 1995. He has also spoken frequently at oil pipeline industry conferences on such topics as the history of oil pipeline regulation and the development of the FERC’s cost-of-service regulatory methodology. In addition to his active litigation practice before the FERC and the appellate courts, Mr. Reed regularly provides advice to a variety of clients on issues of FERC policy and procedure regarding oil pipelines. He has also had broad experience in the area of alternative dispute resolution (ADR), including a front-line role in the crafting and implementation of the first formal ADR agreement approved by the FERC.

Mr. Reed has participated in FERC proceedings involving natural gas producers and pipelines since 1982. His experience covers a wide range of gas pipeline regulatory issues, including royalty issues, abandonments and gas pipeline certificates. Mr. Reed has also been involved in advising clients regarding potential conversion of oil pipelines to gas pipelines (and vice versa), including aspects of the certification process for instituting gas pipeline service.

John Felmy is Chief Economist of API. His areas of emphasis are the economic, statistical and policy analysis of the Institute. This includes managing the production of the Institute’s weekly and monthly petroleum statistics.

He has thirty years experience in energy, economic and environmental analysis. He received Bachelors and Masters in Economics from The Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. in Economics from The University of Maryland.

John is a member of several professional associations including the American Economics Association, the National Association for Business Economics and the International Association for Energy Economics.

Steve Winberg is CONSOL Energy’s Vice President for Research & Development, and Coal Conversion & Power Development.

Winberg has over 30 years of experience in the energy industry, ranging from power generation equipment design and installation, to use of innovative fuels and holds two patents related to NOx emissions reduction using coal and natural gas. Winberg has worked on a variety of emerging energy initiatives including carbon capture and sequestration, coal-to-liquids, greenhouse gas reduction technology, fluidized bed combustion, emulsified fuels, fuel cells and coal-water slurry applications.

Winberg has a bachelor’s degree in nuclear science from the State University of New York Maritime College and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Pittsburgh.

Winberg began his career with Foster Wheeler as a start-up engineer on coal-fired utility boilers, spent 14 years in the natural gas industry working on various power development projects and environmental and regulatory issues. He represented the gas industry on EPA’s Acid Rain Advisory Committee and participated in various regulatory rulemaking initiatives involving end-use application of natural gas.

CONSOL Energy is a multi-energy producer of coal, gas and electricity. CONSOL produces both high-Btu coal and gas from reserves located mainly east of the Mississippi River. CONSOL Energy is a major fuel supplier to the electric power industry in the northeast quadrant of the United States. CONSOL. is the largest producer of high-Btu bituminous coal in the United States and the largest natural gas producer in the Appalachian Basin.

Danielle Droitsch is the Director of U.S. Policy at the Pembina Institute. She joined the Institute in 2010 working in Washington D.C. Previously, Danielle served as the Executive Director of WaterMatters, an Alberta-based organization focused on watershed protection. Before that, she directed Bow Riverkeeper, part of the Waterkeeper Alliance.

She has worked for U.S.-based organizations at the national and regional levels on energy, national parks and watershed protection, including the National Parks Conservation Association.

Danielle has authored a number of publications on a range of law and policy issues under both Canadian and United States environmental laws.

Danielle has a degree in law from the University of Tennessee and undergraduate degrees in science and history from James Madison University. Danielle is originally from Arlington, Virginia and came to Canada to be with her husband David Kalbfleisch who is originally from Kitchener-Waterloo.

Energy Security and Climate Change: A Canada-US Common Approach? – Introduction and Panel One: Inextricably Intertwined: Canada and the US as Global Partners in Securing Safe, Reliable, and New Sources of Energy

2011-05-31T03:06:39Z

Introduction

	Hon. James J. Blanchard, Partner, Co-Chair, Government Affairs Practice Group, DLA Piper LLP (US); and Co-Chair, Executive Committee, Canada-United States Law Institute, Washington, DC
	Hon. James S. Peterson, P.C., Counsel, Fasken Martineau; and Co-Chair, Executive Committee, Canada-United States Law Institute, Toronto, ON
	Chris Sands, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute; and Co-Chair Henry T. King, Jr. Annual Conference on Canada-United States Relations, Washington, DC
	Daniel Ujczo, Managing Director, Canada-United States Law Institute, Cleveland, OH

Moderator

David Crane, Syndicated Journalist, & Co-Chair Henry T. King, Jr. Annual Conference on Canada-United States Relations, Toronto, ON

Panelists

	Carl Bauer, Director (Retired), National Energy Technology Laboratory, US Department of Energy, Pittsburgh, PA
	Meera Fickling, Research Analyst, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington,DC

Friday April 15, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m.

Sponsored by the Canada-United States Law Institute at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and The University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law

This year’s conference will address the Canada-US energy relationship. It is the only event that will:

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Jim Blanchard has dedicated his life to public service and law, serving with distinction as governor of the State of Michigan, ambassador to Canada and a member of the United States Congress. Currently, he is co-chair of Government Affairs for the global law firm of DLA Piper and chairman of the Meridian International Center, a leading public diplomacy, non-profit center in Washington D.C.

During his tenure as ambassador (1993-96), Blanchard managed a broad range of trade, environmental and energy issues between the United States and Canada, including spearheading the Open Skies Agreement. In recognition of his outstanding performance as ambassador, Blanchard received the Secretary of State’s Foreign Affairs Award for Public Service, making him one of only a handful of ambassadors to receive this prestigious award.

Blanchard’s eight years as Michigan’s chief executive (1983-91) were notable for his success in turning around Michigan’s finances. When he took office the state faced a $1.7 billion deficit, the threat of bankruptcy, record high unemployment of more than 17 percent and the worst credit rating in America. Working with leaders of business, labor, education and local government, Blanchard made the tough decisions to put Michigan on the right track. The result was seven upgrades in Michigan’s credit rating, 650,000 net new jobs, and a ‘rainy-day fund’ of $422 million. Most noteworthy, Blanchard initiated Michigan’s first Office of the Great Lakes and created the Michigan Education Trust (MET), the nation’s first tuition guarantee program.

Newsweek Magazine credited Blanchard with leading “one of the most dramatic economic turnabouts in the recent history of state government,” and US News and World Report listed him among the best governors in America.

During four terms in Congress (1975-1983) Blanchard distinguished himself by leading the fight to save the Chrysler Corporation.

From 1969 to 1974, Blanchard was an assistant attorney general of Michigan.

Blanchard is on the Board of Directors of the National Archives Foundation and has recently been named to the National Debt Reduction Task Force by the Bipartisan Policy Center. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Chrysler Group and Enbridge.

In 1997, Blanchard authored Behind the Embassy Door—Canada, Clinton and Quebec, a book highlighting his experiences as ambassador.

Jim and Janet Blanchard reside in Beverly Hills, Michigan. Both Jim and his son Jay Blanchard are proud graduates of Michigan State University.

James Peterson has served in the Government of Canada as Minister of International Trade, Secretary of State (International Financial Institutions (1997-2002), and Chair of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance (1993-97). As a former Minister of International Trade (2003-06), he represented Canada at the World Trade Organization’s Doha round of negotiations. He retired from the House of Commons in 2007 after 23 years of service as the Member of Parliament for Willowdale (Toronto).

Before entering public life, he had a distinguished career as both a legal scholar and teacher and as a practitioner of international tax and business law. He was also a consultant for the U.N. Industrial Development Organization. He was appointed head of Negotiation for Ontario in its efforts to reduce barriers to trade, investment and labour mobility, and to enhance economic cooperation with Quebec.

He is the author of numerous articles and studies for Canadian and foreign publications. He received a DCL (1970) from McGill University; an LLM (1967) from Columbia University; a Certificate d’Assistance (1966) from L’Académie de Droit International, The Hague; a Diplôme d’Etudes de Civilization Française (1966) from La Sorbonne; and a BA (1963) and LLB (1964) from University of Western Ontario.

Daniel Ujczo is Managing Director of the Canada-U.S. Law Institute and has been a visiting professor at the School of Law since 2004. After earning his law degree, he was appointed a Senior Judicial Law Clerk for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. He is now a Political, Economic Relations, and Public Affairs Officer for the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada.

His responsibilities have included strategic coordination of Canada-US border cooperation, management, and security between the Consulate-Generals and Consulates of the Government of Canada located throughout the U.S. and Mexico, the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C., and Ottawa. Additionally, Prof. Ujczo is the liaison with U.S. businesses, academic institutions, and non-governmental organizations for Canada-U.S. security and economic relations.

He implements the Canada U.S. Law Institute’s programs in Canada and the U.S., teaches Canada-U.S. Legal Relations and the Homeland Security Lab, and is faculty adviser to both the Journal of International Law and the Canada-U.S. Law Journal. The Case Western Reserve University School of Law Alumni Association named him “Distinguished Recent Graduate” in Fall 2010.

Carl Bauer served as Director of the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) for four Years retiring in January 2010. NETL, a U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratory. Mr. Bauer was responsible for directing and overseeing the implementation of major science and technology development programs at the Lab as well as $1 B of jointly funded RD&D with the Energy Industry.

Mr. Bauer has more than 30 years of executive experience for technical and business management in both the private and public sectors. He is currently President of C.O. Bauer Consulting, Inc.

Mr. Bauer received an advanced degree in nuclear power engineering from the Naval Nuclear Power Postgraduate Program in 1972 and a B.S. in marine engineering/oceanography from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1971. He has taken additional postgraduate courses at the Wharton School of Business and George Washington University in business administration, finance, and management, and has received additional executive management training at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Meera Fickling has been a research analyst at the Peterson Institute for International Economics since 2008 and works with Senior Fellows Gary Clyde Hufbauer and Jeffrey J. Schott.

Her areas of research include climate change and trade issues, particularly in North America. She is co-authoring a book, NAFTA and Climate Change, to be published in spring 2011. She has also co-authored a chapter on “Trade and the Environment” to be published in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook on the World Trade Organization by Oxford University Press.

Her prior work at the Institute includes “North America’s Uphill Battle on Climate Change” (CESifo Forum Vol. 2010/4) and “When Oil Policy Springs a Leak,” (Globe and Mail op-ed, August 4, 2010). She graduated summa cum laude from the College of William and Mary, where she majored in Economics.

Democratic Peace and War in Africa: A Comparison of Risk, Reciprocity and Citizenship in Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire

2012-01-17T08:47:32Z

Lauren M. MacLean, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Political Science at Indiana University

Thursday April 14, 2011, 4:30-6:00 p.m.

This program was made possible by the generosity of Ms. Eloise Briskin and sponored by the Center for Policy Studies at the Case Western Reserve University

Lauren MacLean discusses the divergent paths of democratization in neighboring Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire. Why has Ghana turned over power to the opposition in peaceful, competitive elections while Cote d’Ivoire has been wracked with ethno-regional civil war? Rather than focus on the roles of international mediators and national political elites, she will take us to rural villages in very similar regions on either side of the border for an analysis of everyday politics at the grassroots. Based on eighteen months of survey research and in-depth interviews at the village level, her findings point to the key role of changing informal institutions of reciprocity (that is, the way village residents exchange help with their families, friends and neighbors) in shaping differences in indigenous notions of citizenship and political participation in neighboring Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire.

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Lauren M. MacLean is an assistant professor of political science at Indiana University. MacLean’s research interests focus on the politics of state formation, social welfare and citizenship in Africa and in American Indian/Alaska Native communities in the U.S. She earned her Ph.D. in 2002 from the Department of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley and then completed a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan (2002–2004). She has a book entitled Informal Institutions and Citizenship in Rural Africa: Risk and Reciprocity in Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire (Cambridge University Press) and several articles published and forthcoming in Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Studies in Society and History, the International Journal of Public Administration, the Journal of Modern African Studies, Studies in Comparative International Development and World Development. MacLean is currently co-authoring a book, Field Research in Political Science, with Diana Kapiszewski and Ben Read (under contract with Cambridge University Press) and co-editing a volume, The Politics of Non-State Social Welfare Provision in the Global South, with Melani Cammett.

Creativity, Copyright, and the Universal Library: Romanticism and Writing at Times of Media Revolution

2011-05-23T03:01:17Z

Adrian Johns, Professor of History at the University of Chicago

Tuesday April 12, 2011, 4:00-5:30 p.m.

Sponored by the Edward S. & Melinda Melton Sadar Lecture in Writing in the Disciplines and Organized by the Center for the Study of Writing in conjunction with the Department of English, the Department of History, the School of Law, and the Kelvin Smith Library at Case Western Reserve University

Google’s ambition to produce a massive online ‘library’ of digitized books has provoked passionate reactions from the publishing industry, authors, and other groups. In fact, debates over the purpose and possible impact of ‘universal’ libraries are nothing new, and in the past such debates have had a significant impact on the constitution of the information economy itself. I want to draw attention to a particularly consequential conflict, which raged in the years around 1800. As publishing took on its modern form, and with the advent of new printing technologies, Britain’s parliament proposed that copyright law be used to create a universal deposit library. Tying commercial print to the collection of learning would, in its eyes, lead to the climax of Enlightenment. But the project proved unexpectedly controversial. An alliance of poets, antiquarians, naturalists, and publishers fought bitterly against the scheme, arguing on Romantic grounds that it betrayed the very nature of creativity. By collecting the output of an industrial, proprietary publishing sector, it would immortalize mediocrity and demoralize future generations. The outcome of the contest was a critically important change in copyright itself — one that has survived to play a major role in shaping the Google debate, in our own moment of radical change in media and information.

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Adrian Johns is the author of Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information Age (2010); Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates (2009); and The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (1998), as well as numerous articles on the histories of the book, science, and intellectual property. Educated at Cambridge University, Johns taught at the University of California, San Diego, and Caltech before joining the University of Chicago faculty.

Theology of Our Establishment Clause

2012-04-08T04:28:04Z

Steven H. Shiffrin, Charles Frank Reavis Sr. Professor of Law, Cornell University

Monday April 11, 2011, 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Sponsored by the William A. Brahms Lecture on Law and Religion presented by the Center for Professional Ethics at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Constitutional lawyers cannot ably proceed without a deep understanding of the foundations of the Establishment Clause, its internal tensions, and its relationship to the theory of our constitutional democracy. In his lecture, Prof. Shiffrin will seek to develop that understanding in a rich and accessible way.

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Steven H. Shiffrin began his law school teaching career at UCLA in 1977, receiving tenure in 1981. He has been a visiting professor of law at Boston University, at Seattle University, at the University of Michigan, and Harvard University. He joined the Cornell faculty in 1987. Professor Shiffrin is the author of Dissent, Injustice, and the Meanings of America, Princeton University Press, 1999, and The First Amendment, Democracy, and Romance, Harvard Press, 1990, winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Award. His writings have appeared in many publications, including the Cornell Law Review, the Harvard Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the Northwestern Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, Commonweal, and the New York Times Book Review. He is a coauthor of Constitutional Law, 10th ed., 2006, and The First Amendment, 4th ed., 2006, both of which are widely used casebooks in the field. His newest book, The Religious Left and Church-State Relations, was published by Princeton University Press in the fall of 2009.

Worse than War

2011-06-02T07:33:38Z

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Ph.D. -- Affiliate at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University

Tuesday April 7, 2011, 7:00 -- 8:15 p.m.

Sponsored by theFrederick K. Cox International Law Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Law; Facing History and Ourselves; and the Social Justice Institute at Case Western Reserve University

This program with Dr. Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, whose latest work gets to the heart of the phenomenon of genocide, which has caused more deaths in the modern world than military conflict.

Author of Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity, Goldhagen traveled around the world to interview perpetrators and survivors, those seeking to obscure the truth, and those devoted to uncovering it. He explores the anatomy of genocide—explaining why genocides begin, are sustained, and end; why societies support them; why they happen so frequently; and how the international community should and can successfully stop them.

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Samuel Bagenstos is on leave from his position as Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School to serve as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice. As Principal Deputy AAG, Bagenstos assists in the overall management of the Division and directly supervises the Division’s Appellate and Disability Rights Sections, as well as the disability rights work of the Division’s Special Litigation Section. He served from 1994 to 1997 as a career attorney in the Appellate Section of the Division, where he worked on the full range of civil rights issues.

Since 1999, Bagenstos has been a law professor; he has taught at Harvard, Washington University in St. Louis, UCLA, and the University of Michigan. Since becoming a professor, he has taught constitutional law and civil rights law, written extensively on disability rights and civil rights more generally, and continued to litigate civil rights cases (usually pro bono). During that time, Bagenstos played a key role in defending the constitutionality of the Americans with Disabilities Act and its abrogation of state sovereign immunity. He represented individuals with disabilities in a number of cases in which defendants attacked the statute as unconstitutional, including Tennessee v. Lane and United States v. Georgia — two cases in which the Supreme Court upheld the statute against such attacks. He has argued civil rights cases in the Supreme Court and most of the federal courts of appeals, and as an academic he testified before Congress in favor of the so-called Lily Ledbetter Bill and the ADA Amendments Act.

Bagenstos graduated with Highest Honors and Highest Distinction in 1990 from the University of North Carolina; he received his law degree magna cum laude in 1993 from the Harvard Law School (where he was first in his class). He clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court of the United States.

The Political Impact of International Migration from India

2012-01-05T04:41:21Z

Devesh Kapur, Madan Lal Sobti Associate Professor for the Study of Contemporary India, Director, Center for Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania and Non-Resident fellow at the Center for Global Development, Washington D.C.

Tuesday March 15, 2011, 4:30-6:00 p.m.

Sponored by the Asian Studies program at the Case Western Reserve University

Devesh Kapur is the Madan Lal Sobti Associate Professor for the Study of Contemporary India, Director, Center for Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania and Non-Resident fellow at the Center for Global Development, Washington D.C. discusses the political implications of Indian migration within India and for the wider world.

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Devesh Kapur is the Madan Lal Sobti Associate Professor for the Study of Contemporary India, Director, Center for Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania and Non-Resident fellow at the Center for Global Development, Washington D.C. Prior to joining the University of Pennsylvania he held appointments at the Brookings Institution, Harvard University and University of Texas, Austin. He is the coauthor of The World Bank: Its First Half Century; Give us your Best and Brightest: The Global Hunt for Talent and Its Impact on the Developing World; Public Institutions in India: Performance and Design. His most recent book is Diaspora, Democracy and Development: The Impact of International Migration from India on India (Princeton University Press, 2010). He has a B. Tech and M.S. in chemical engineering and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Princeton University.

Tribulations of Trials: Challenges of High Level International Criminal Trials

2011-05-26T02:29:34Z

Brenda Hollis, The Prosecutor, Special Court for Sierra Leone

Tuesday March 15, 2011, 12:00-1:00 p.m.

Sponored by the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center Lecture in Global Legal Reform at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law

In her lecture, Ms. Hollis discusses many of the challenges facing the practitioner engaged in complex litigation involving high level accused. These challenges include achieving a workable reconciliation of diverse regional, national and international goals of such litigation, carrying out complex investigations in diverse locations and among diverse cultures, identifying potential suspects, determining how to identify, approach, select and protect “insider” witnesses, vulnerable victims and survivors, doctors, local authorities, personnel from international agencies or others who have “overview” evidence, how to deal with traumatized victims and survivors who may speak a different language and may be called upon to travel outside their local communities, even outside their countries, to testify, preparing indictments which are reflective of the crimes committed but also capable of timely judicial resolution. The challenges in such cases also include how to maximize efficiency while ensuring the evidence meets the required burden of proof, the key to which is meeting the challenge of collecting, organizing, maintaining, retrieving and analyzing large amounts of information both for use in trial and to ensure compliance with very broad disclosure rules.

The legal challenges include developing or refining positions on issues of procedural law and of substantive law for crimes such as conscripting or enlisting children under the age of 15 years or using them to participate actively in hostilities and for forms of liability such as joint criminal enterprise or common plan, design or purpose. The lecture will also consider the challenges involved in proving the “linkage” between high level accused and the crimes charged where the accused are often not charged with direct commission of offences and may not have been in the country where the crimes were being committed.

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Brenda Hollis currently serves as The Prosecutor, Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), with overall responsibility for the functioning of the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP), the effective and efficient conclusion of the prosecution of the case against Charles Taylor and the supervision of any appeal which may result, the preparation of the OTP for the closure of the SCSL and the transition into the follow on Residual Court for Sierra Leone, which will have responsibility for all continuing legal obligations of the Court and for maintaining the Court archives. Prior to her appointment as The Prosecutor, Ms. Hollis served as the Principal Trial Attorney in the Taylor case from February 1997 to February 2010. Ms. Hollis was associated with the SCSL/OTP in the capacity of legal advisor in 2002, 2003 and 2006, advising on substantive and procedural legal requirements, suggesting investigative and prosecutorial protocols, preparing indictments, including the amended indictment against Charles Taylor, and preparing that case for trial after Mr. Taylor was transferred to the custody of the SCSL.

Prior to her association with the SCSL, Ms. Hollis worked in several capacities in the Office of the Prosecutor, International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslav (ICTY), serving as an investigative team legal officer, trial attorney, senior trial attorney and appellate attorney for the first appellate cases. Her duties at the ICTY included assisting the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) with internal management issues, final trial preparation for the first ICTR trials and initial trial preparation for the propaganda trial. Ms. Hollis has acted as a consultant on international criminal law matters, assisting groups from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Columbia in the preparation of submissions to the ICC requesting that investigations be opened in those countries. She also participated in training seminars for judges, prosecutors and investigators of the ad hoc Indonesian Human Rights Courts and the Iraqi Higher Criminal Court, and provided technical assistance to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. Ms. Hollis served for over 20 years in the United States Air Force, retiring as a Colonel; prior to her military career, she served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal and Niger, West Africa.

The Mortgage Crisis and the Flawed Response of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

2011-05-19T03:12:54Z

Todd Zywicki, Foundation Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law

Thursday March 3, 2011, 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Sponored by the Dean Lindsey Cowen Lecture in Business Law and Regulation presented by the Center for Business Law and Regulationat the Case Western Reserve University School of Law

This program examines the following issues: What caused the mortgage foreclosure crisis that began in 2007 and continues today? How did state & federal law contribute to the housing bubble and subsequent crash? How effective are the Dodd-Frank legislation and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?

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Todd J. Zywicki is Senior Scholar of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. In 2009, Professor Zywicki was honored as the recipient of the Institute for Humane Studies 2009 Charles G. Koch Outstanding IHS Alum Award. Since 2006 he has served as Co-Editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review. From 2003-2004, Professor Zywicki served as the Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission. He teaches in the area of Bankruptcy, Contracts, Commercial Law, Business Associations, Law & Economics, and Public Choice and the Law. He has also taught at Vanderbilt University Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, Boston College Law School, and Mississippi College School of Law.

Professor Zywicki clerked for Judge Jerry E. Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and worked as an associate at Alston & Bird in Atlanta, Georgia, where he practiced bankruptcy and commercial law. He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia, where he was executive editor of the Virginia Tax Review and John M. Olin Scholar in Law and Economics. Professor Zywicki also received an M.A. in Economics from Clemson University and an A.B. cum Laude with high honors in his major from Dartmouth College.

Professor Zywicki is Senior Fellow of the James Buchanan Center for Political Economy Program on Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, at George Mason University, a Senior Fellow of the Goldwater Institute, and a Fellow of the International Centre for Economic Research in Turin, Italy. During the Fall 2008 Semester Professor Zywicki was the Searle Fellow of the George Mason University School of Law and was a 2008-09 W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow and the Arch W. Shaw National Fellow at the the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University. He has lectured and consulted with government officials around the world. In 2006 Professor Zywicki was a Member of the U.S. Department of Justice Study Group on “Identifying Fraud, Abuse and Errors in the U.S. Bankruptcy System.”

Professor Zywicki is the author of more than 70 articles in leading law reviews and peer-reviewed economics journals. He is one of the Top 50 Most Downloaded Law Authors at the Social Science Research Network, both All Time and during the Past 12 Months. He served as the Editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review from 2001-02. He has testified several times before Congress on issues of consumer bankruptcy law and consumer credit and is a frequent commentator on legal issues in the print and broadcast media. He is a contributor to the popular legal weblog The Volokh Conspiracy and The Atlantic magazine’s The Atlantic Business Channel.

Democracy, Diplomacy and US Interests in Egypt: Sources of the January 25th Revolution

2012-01-18T05:38:21Z

Jason Brownlee, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas

Thursday March 3, 2011, 4:30-6:00 p.m.

Sponored by the Center for Policy Studies at Case Western Reserve University and made possible by
the generosity of Ms. Eloise Briskin

Professor Jason Brownlee of the University of Texas political science department examines the historical events over the past thirty years that led up to the January 25th revolution in Egypt. Professor Brownlee also examines the role the Unites States played in the historical events that led to the January 25th revolution in Egypt.

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Jason Brownlee is an associate professor in the Department of Government at the University of Texas. His research concentrates on Middle East politics and US foreign policy. Prior to arriving at the University of Texas, he was a fellow at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law.

Jason Brownlee’s first book, Authoritarianism in an Age of Democratization, explains the varying fates of autocratic rulers who experimented with multi-party elections. The focus of his current research is US-Egyptian relations.

Collective Memory: How the Present Shapes the Past Told through a Philadelphia Story About George Washington and Slavery

2011-05-18T21:21:51Z

Marc Howard Ross, Ph.D., William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor, Department of Political Science, Bryn Mawr College

Wednesday March 2, 2011, 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Sponored by the Louis C. Greenwood Lecture -- CISCDR Distinguished Interdisciplinary Lecture, presented by the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Conflict & Dispute Resolution at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Collective memory is increasingly discussed as an important feature of large group behavior. Prof. Ross will outline conceptual tools for the analysis of collective memory and how present needs shape what is told and retained about the past: narratives, symbols and rituals, and symbolic landscapes as well as an empirically useful way to understand collective memory and its role in ethnic and racial conflict and conflict mitigation. To illustrate the approach, he will consider the case of race in the United States and especially the phenomenon of slavery in both the north and the south. He will emphasize the role of selective forgetting in the north and how only in recent years has the story of slavery and segregation there been publicly considered.

The specific conflict he will describe and analyze has gone on for the past nine years in Philadelphia concerning George Washington and the nine enslaved Africans who lived in the President’s House in the city from 1790-1797. The house that was torn down in the 1830’s was a block away from Independence Hall—where the national narrative of freedom and liberty is celebrated, and the former slave quarters is almost directly under the present entrance to the Liberty Bell Pavilion where the bell is housed. Unlike the simple story that was told in Independence Hall National Park, we should ask how can this complex braided history of freedom and slavery that not only is found on this site but throughout the country in its first 77 years be told together?

In Philadelphia, there have been contentious debates, strong disagreements and complicated and painful discussions about Washington, slavery in the north, and the nine enslaved individuals—two of whom escaped to freedom. These debates reveal a good deal about what is, and is not, included in collective narratives, how selective narratives are remembered or forgotten, and reinforced or discouraged. The story of this conflict offers a challenge to law and society and shows the power of collective memories unleashing and resolving long-standing, deep cultural conflicts.

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Marc Howard Ross was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and Northwestern University and is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Political Science at Bryn Mawr College where he has taught since 1968. He has done research in Canada, East Africa, France, Northern Ireland, the Middle East, and most recently in Spain, and South Africa. His current work has two major themes (1) the role that cultural performance and memory play in the escalation and deescalation of ethnic conflict and (2) social science theories of conflict and their implications for conflict management He has written or edited eight books including Cultural Contestation in Ethnic Conflict, (Cambridge, 2007), Culture and Belonging in Divided Societies: Contestation and Symbolic Landscapes (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009) The Culture of Conflict and The Management of Conflict (Yale University Press, 1993), and over 75 articles chapters that have appeared in academic journals and books.

Ross is especially concerned with the role that cultural expressions and enactments such as language, parades, music, flags, clothing, museums, memorials, museums and sacred sites play in the definition and expression of collective memories and identities in diverse societies. In his talk, he will ask how these lead to intense contestation at times while at others these symbolic and ritual expressions are more inclusive and redefine membership in the community, group or nation in ways that reduces conflict and differences. From his perspective collective memories are selective and regularly constructed and reconstructed. To examine this process he will look at the recent public conflict in Philadelphia over the construction and design of a memorial to the enslaved Africans who lived in the President’s House from 1790-97, one block away from Independence Hall.

The Selma-Montgomery Voting Rights March

2011-05-18T21:18:51Z

Moderator

Jonathan Entin, Professor of Law and Political Science, Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Speakers

	Diane Phillips-Leatherberry, a long-time civil rights activist in Cleveland
	Daniel Clancy, a long-time law school and university administrator at Case Western Reserve University who was an FBI agent assigned to Selma at the time

Wednesday March 2, 2011, 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Sponored by the Case Western Reserve University School of Law

The Selma-Montgomery Voting Rights March was a landmark of the civil rights movement and a pivotal step in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This program provides the perspectives of two people who were there: Diane Phillips-Leatherberry, a long-time civil rights activist in Cleveland who marched, and Daniel Clancy, a long-time law school and university administrator who was an FBI agent assigned to Selma at the time. The moderator, Professor Jonathan Entin of Case Western Reserve University School of Law, has taught and written extensively about civil rights and constitutional issues.

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Jonathan Entin has taught Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Courts, Public Policy, and Social Change, and a Supreme Court Seminar. Before joining the faculty in 1984, he clerked for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (when she was on the U.S. court of Appeals) and practiced in Washington with Steptoe & Johnson. The recipient of several teaching awards and a former co-editor of the Journal of Legal Education, he is at work on a book about equal protection. Among his recent publications are “An Ohio Dilemma: Race, Equal Protection, and the Unfulfilled Promise of a State Bill of Rights,” Cleveland State Law Review (2004), and “Judicial Selection and Political Culture,” Capital University Law Review (2002).

A Cleveland native, Daniel Clancy, a graduate of St. Edward High School in Lakewood, received his undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. Following his graduation from Western Reserve University’s law school, Clancy served as a special agent for the FBI from 1962-1965. Included in his assignments was the march of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and civil rights activists from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., in the spring of 1965.

Clancy also served as an associate dean at the School of Law, where he had numerous interactions with law student Michael Magness, who is the current president of the Alumni Association of Case Western Reserve University. Clancy most recently served as special assistant to the vice president for university relations.

Clancy and his wife, Carol, have five children and eight grandchildren.

From the Couch to the Web: Developments in the Multichannel Video Programming Distribution Industry and Current Legal Issues

2011-05-18T21:15:56Z

George D. Callard, Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs NBC Universal, Inc.

Wednesday February 17, 2011, 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Distinguished Lecture in Law, Technology, and the Arts presented by the Center for Law, Technology & the Arts, Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Television has evolved from three national networks airing scheduled programming, to 500-channel cable/satellite platforms, to Internet delivery of “unlimited channels” of video content. But it’s the rapid development of the Internet and dissemination of on-line video content that is ushering in the most significant change. And, with such change come numerous legal and practical challenges for traditional video content providers and distributors alike.

In his lecture, Mr. Callard will review the early history of the cable television industry – how it started, how it grew and the legal issues encountered along the way. He will answer the questions: What is cable television? What is a multichannel video programming distributor (MVPD)? What is video programming? And what do these terms mean under federal law and FCC regulations? Mr. Callard will discuss recent cases and how they apply to the developing on-line video distribution business. He will describe how they impact his work as a distribution lawyer, to highlight some of the legal/regulatory and practical issues facing both traditional content providers and distributors.

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George D. Callard is Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs at NBC Universal, Inc. There, he is responsible for multichannel video programming, including negotiation, review and drafting of programming license and retransmission consent agreements for cable, IPTV, broadband and wireless platforms, as well as drafting and negotiation of marketing/advertising agreements, technology and software licensing and development, high technology equipment purchases, customer agreements, and asset purchase agreements with both high growth start-up and mature organizations.

He has significant experience in cable and broadcast FCC matters, regulatory compliance, UCC, and government relations. Previously he was Senior Counsel at AT&T Inc. (2004-07, formerly SBC Communications, Inc.) and at Cinnamon Mueller, LLC (2002-04), Counsel and Assistant Secretary at AT&T Inc. (1995-2001, then known as Ameritech, Inc.), and Associate Counsel for Multimedia Cablevision, Inc. (1992-95). He received his B.A. in Comparative Communist Studies from Union College (1985), his M.A. in International Relations from University of Cincinnati (1988), and his J.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Law (1992).

Awash in Debt: State Liabilities and the Future of the Chinese Economy

2012-01-17T08:49:02Z

Victor Shih, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University

Wednesday February 17, 2011, 4:30-6:00 p.m.

Sponored by the Center for Policy Studies at Case Western Reserve University and made possible by
the generosity of Ms. Eloise Briskin

Although China has some of the world’s lowest level of foreign debt and official government debt, the Chinese government and state owned banks and enterprises actually owe an enormous amount of debt to domestic financial institutions and households. This presentation first catalogs the different segments of debt owed by the Chinese government and related entities and the claimants on this debt. It then discusses some implications for future public policies in China.

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Victor Shih is an associate professor of political science at Northwestern University. He is interested in political economy in developing countries broadly, and how politics affect economic outcomes in China specifically. His book, Factions and Finance in China: Elite Conflict and Inflation (NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008) explores the timely question of how politics affects the large volume of underperforming loans on the books of Chinese banks. His on-going projects investigate the performance of Chinese banks, signaling in elite politics, and elite selection in China. Victor Shih received his Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Divided Loyalties: Professional Standards and Military Duty – Panel Four

2011-05-18T21:07:30Z

Moderator

Michael Benza, Visiting Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University
School of Law

Panelists

	John T. Forristal, Law Office of John T. Forristal
	Cynthia A. Brown, JD, PhD; College of Health and Public Affairs, University of Central Florida

Friday February 11, 2011, 8:45 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Sponsored by An Interdisciplinary Symposium funded in part by the Arthur W. Fiske Memorial Lectureship Fund at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Panel four examines the ethical, legal, and professional obligations of police/correction officers serving in the military.

There has always been some tension between the ethical, legal, and professional obligations of professionals and the requirements of military service. This tension has been increased by the War on Terror. Physicians, mental health professionals, lawyers, and law enforcement/corrections officers serving in the military have been placed in situations in which their professional ethics, obligations, and legal duties may contradict military necessity or directives, or even place the role of professional in direct conflict with the role of military personnel.

As the management of armed conflict, the law of war, and the professionalization of the military has increased, this tension has similarly increased. Military professionals have been asked to bring their expertise, skills, and professional talents to the prosecution of military action not just as military personnel but as doctors, mental health professionals, lawyers, and law enforcement/corrections officers. Doctors and mental health professionals are charged with supervising and controlling interrogations, lawyers are asked to provide legal opinions and advise on the treatment of prisoners, and law enforcement and corrections officers must guard and control prisoners. While performing these duties military necessity can impose conflicting duties and concerns. The need for information, validation, or security may require different loyalties and focus than the professional duty. The need for information about an upcoming attack that could save the lives of comrades may directly contradict the need for care or treatment of a prisoner.

This symposium brings together professionals, ethicists, theorists and practitioners from medicine, mental health care, the law, law enforcement, and the military to explore these complicated and timely issues in an open and frank discussion.

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Michael Benza is a Visiting Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. He received his Bachelor of Arts (1986) and law degrees (1992) from Case Western Reserve University. He also received a Master of Arts degree in Clinical Psychology (1988) from Pepperdine University. He was the 1992 Biskind Fellow from Case School of Law and spent a year working for the Legal Resources Centre, a civil and human rights law firm in South Africa. Upon returning to the States, he spent four years in the Capital Defense Unit at the Office of the Ohio Public Defender. He was assistant counsel at the Cleveland Bar Association working with the Certified Grievance Committee as well as other committees. Professor Benza teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure I, Death Penalty Issues, and the Death Penalty Lab, and coached the Mock Trial team. The Student Bar Association selected Professor Benza as the Professor of the Year in 2007, 2008 and 2009. In 2009 Professor Benza was elected as an alumni member to the Society of Benchers. Professor Benza continues to represent death row inmates in state courts and federal habeas proceedings. He has litigated capital cases in state trial courts, state appellate and post-conviction courts, and federal courts including arguing Smith v. Spisak before the Supreme Court of the United States.

John Forristal is an attorney and a veteran. John graduated with a BA in Economics from Fordham University in New York City and he earned a law degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Forristal has a solo practice and he advocates for veterans before the Veterans Administration and for criminal defendants throughout Northeast Ohio.

Mr. Forristal was a non-commissioned officer (NCO) in the Army and led a Military Intelligence team during Operation Enduring Freedom. He and his team were responsible for obtaining actionable intelligence from High Value Detainee that led to the capture and disruption of terrorist cells throughout the world.

Cynthia A. Brown is an Assistant Professor of Legal Studies in the College of Health and Public Affairs at the University of Central Florida. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Southern Mississippi and her law degree from Mississippi College School of Law. Following law school, she clerked for the Honorable David Bramlette, District Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. Dr. Brown also holds a Master of Science degree in Economic Development and a Doctorate of Philosophy in the Administration of Justice, both earned from the University of Southern Mississippi. She practiced law with offices in Mississippi and Florida before leaving practice to join the Academy in 2006. Dr. Brown teaches Contracts, Courts, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Employment Discrimination Law, Law and the Legal Environment, and Law and Society. She has received national and regional awards for both her teaching and her research.

Since 2001, Dr. Brown has served on the Board of Directors for the National Institute of Ethics, where she also contributes as an instructor and trainer. She frequently works with local, state and federal agencies in the areas of ethics, leadership and diversity. Dr. Brown is regarded as an expert in police ethics and has traveled extensively working with both state and federal law enforcement agencies across the United States.
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Divided Loyalties: Professional Standards and Military Duty – Panel Three

2011-05-18T21:04:57Z

Moderator

Michael Benza, Visiting Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University
School of Law

Panelists

	Peter A. French, PhD, Lincoln Chair in Ethics, Arizona State University (Participating via DVD)
	Shannon E. French, PhD; Inamori Professor in Ethics and Director, Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence, Case Western Reserve University

Friday February 11, 2011, 8:45 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Sponsored by An Interdisciplinary Symposium funded in part by the Arthur W. Fiske Memorial Lectureship Fund at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Panel three examines the ethical, legal, and professional obligations of chaplains/religious advisors serving in the military.

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Dr. Peter A. French is the Lincoln Chair in Ethics, Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at Arizona State University. He was the Cole Chair in Ethics, Director of the Ethics Center, and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at University of South Florida. Before that he was the Lennox Distinguished Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. He has taught at Northern Arizona University; the University of Minnesota; Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, and was Exxon Distinguished Research Professor, Center for the Study of Values, University of Delaware. Dr. French has a B.A. from Gettysburg College, an M.A. from the University of Southern California, and a Ph.D. from the University of Miami. He received a Doctor of Humane Letters honorary degree from Gettysburg College in 2006.

Dr. French is the author of 20 books including The Virtues of Vengeance; Cowboy Metaphysics; Ethics and College Sports; and War and Border Crossings: Ethics When Cultures Clash. His newest book, War and Moral Dissonance, includes a memoir of his experiences teaching ethics to Navy and Marine chaplains returning from or about to be deployed to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is a senior editor of Midwest Studies in Philosophy and was editor of the Journal of Social Philosophy and general editor of the Issues in Contemporary Ethics series. Dr. French has lectured throughout the world and published dozens of articles in major philosophical and legal journals.

Shannon French, PhD, became Director of the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence in 2008. She is the Inamori Professor in Ethics and tenured faculty in the Department of Philosophy. Dr. French was previously on the civilian faculty of the U.S. Naval Academy (1997-2008) and was Associate Chair of the Department of Leadership, Ethics, and Law. She received a B.A. degree from Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas and her Ph.D. from Brown University. Dr. French’s research and scholarly interests include military ethics, leadership ethics, professional ethics, moral psychology, biomedical ethics, and environmental ethics. She has published numerous articles and book chapters. Her 2003 book, The Code of the Warrior: Exploring Warrior Values, Past and Present, includes a forward by Senator John McCain. Dr. French is Associate Editor of the international Journal of Military Ethics and of the Encyclopedia of Global Justice. She has been a featured speaker in Japan, England, Italy, Canada, Norway, France, and Australia, and has participated in the public debate on recent issues in military ethics through articles or interviews in the New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Boston Globe, the Toronto Globe and Mail, the Christian Science Monitor, the Baltimore Sun, and other publications, as well as appearances on NPR (National Public Radio) and affiliates, BBC radio, CBS radio, C-SPAN, PBS and A&E.

Divided Loyalties: Professional Standards and Military Duty – Panel Two

2012-02-27T04:51:27Z

Moderator

Cassandra B. Robertson, Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Panelists

	Deborah Ascheim, MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
	George Annas, Boston University Law School & School of Public Health
	Steven Reisner, PhD, Clinical Psychiatry, New York University Medical School

Friday February 11, 2011, 8:45 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Sponsored by An Interdisciplinary Symposium funded in part by the Arthur W. Fiske Memorial Lectureship Fund at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Panel two examines the ethical, legal, and professional obligations of medical/mental health professionals serving in the military.

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Cassandra Burke Robertson is an associate professor at Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland, Ohio, where she teaches Civil Procedure, Professional Responsibility, and International Civil Litigation. She received a law degree from the University of Texas at Austin, as well as joint master’s degrees in Middle Eastern Studies and Public Affairs. Professor Robertson’s scholarship focuses on organizational theory and institutional choice within a globalizing practice of law.

Deborah D. Ascheim, MD, is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Health Evidence & Policy and Medicine/Cardiovascular Institute at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. She joined the Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) Board in January 2008, and has been doing medical evaluations for the PHR Asylum program since 2005. She is the Clinical Director of Research and Director of the Clinical Research Unit at the International Center for Health Outcomes & Innovation Research (InCHOIR) at Mount Sinai, and is board certified in cardiovascular disease and internal medicine, with a specialization in congestive heart failure. Her work has been published in journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine, Thyroid, Journal of Cardiac Failure, and The Annals of Thoracic Surgery.

Dr. Ascheim graduated from New York University Medical School and completed her internship and residency in Internal Medicine, as well as her fellowship in Cardiovascular Diseases, at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. She completed a post-graduate fellowship at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and remained on faculty as an attending Cardiologist in the Heart Failure Center at Columbia P&S and the Mailman School of Public Health from 1995-2008. Dr. Ascheim completed her undergraduate studies at the Brearley School, graduating cum laude from Wellesley College.

George Annas is Chair of the Department of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights of Boston University School of Public Health, and Professor in the Boston University School of Medicine, and School of Law. He is the cofounder of Global Lawyers and Physicians, a transnational professional association working to promote human rights and health. He has degrees from Harvard College (A.B. economics, ’67), Harvard Law School (J.D. ’70) and Harvard School of Public Health (M.P.H. ’72).

Professor Annas is the author or editor of 18 books, including Worst Case Bioethics: Death, Disaster, and Public Health (2010), Public Health Law (2007), American Bioethics: Crossing Human Rights and Health Law Boundaries (2005), and a play, Shelley’s Brain. Professor Annas wrote a regular feature on “law and bioethics” for the Hastings Center Report (1976 -91), and a regular feature on “Public Health and the Law” in theAmerican Journal of Public Health (1982-92) and since 1991 has written a regular feature for the New England Journal of Medicine (“Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights”). He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the Institute of Medicine, a member of the National Academies’ Human Rights Committee, and co-chair of the American Bar Association’s Committee on Health Rights and Bioethics. Earlier, he was Chair of the Massachusetts Health Facilities Appeals Board, and Chair of the Massachusetts Organ Transplant Task Force.

Steve Reisner, Ph.D. is an international consultant on trauma and its treatment and an activist in the effort to stop torture. He is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the New York University Medical School, and is on the faculty at The Psychoanalytic Institute at NYU. Dr. Reisner is a founding member of the Coalition for an Ethical Psychology, a group dedicated to upholding international standards of human rights in psychological practice and research and supporting psychologists’ who work to combat the effects of political violence and oppression internationally. Dr. Reisner is advisor on psychological ethics for Physicians for Human Rights, which won the Nobel Peace prize in 1999. With PHR and the Coalition, Dr. Reisner has been working to change the policy of the American Psychological Association supporting psychologists’ participation in coercive or abusive military/intelligence interrogations at places like Guantánamo, Bagram, and CIA ‘black sites.’

Dr. Reisner’s publications have appeared in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Studies in Gender and Psychoanalysis, in the Web-Journal, the Scholar and Feminist Online (http://www.barnard.columbia.edu/sfonline/ps/reisner.htm), and elsewhere. He was profiled in Newsweek magazine for his work to stop health professionals from complicity in government-sponsored torture. Because of this work, Dr. Reisner was the recipient of the New York State Psychological Association’s “Beacon” Award. Dr. Reisner is a practicing psychoanalyst and couple’s therapist in New York City.

Divided Loyalties: Professional Standards and Military Duty – Panel One

2011-05-18T20:58:27Z

Moderator

Robert Strassfeld, Director, Institute for Global Security Law and Policy, Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Panelists

	David Frakt, Barry University Law School, Orlando
	Elizabeth Hillman, University of California, Hastings
	Michael A. Newton, Vanderbilt University Law School
	Darrel Vandeveld, Chief Public Defender, Erie County, Pennsylvania; Lt. Col. U.S. Army Reserves, former military prosecutor for Guantanamo Bay detainees

Friday February 11, 2011, 8:45 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Sponsored by An Interdisciplinary Symposium funded in part by the Arthur W. Fiske Memorial Lectureship Fund at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Panel one examines the ethical, legal, and professional obligations of lawyers serving in the military.

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Before joining the faculty in 1988, Robert Strassfeld clerked for Judge Harrison L. Winter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and then practiced for three years at the Washington, D.C. firm, Shea & Gardner. Professor Strassfeld teaches Torts, Federal Courts, Labor Law, and Legal History. He has published articles on theoretical aspects of causation in the George Washington and Fordham law reviews and on law and the Vietnam War in the Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Duke law reviews. He is coauthor of Understanding Labor Law. His current research includes continuing work on the legal history of the Vietnam War and a history of African American lawyers in Cleveland. He received his B.A. in 1976 (Wesleyan University), his M.A. in 1980 (Rochester), and his J.D. in 1984 (Virginia).

David J. R. Frakt is an Associate Professor of Law at the Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law in Orlando, Florida and a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General’s Corps Reserve. He earned his B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of California, Irvine and his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Monroe G. McKay, former Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit. He served on active duty with the U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAG) (1995-2005). He was Director of the Criminal Law Practice Center at Western State University College of Law (May 2005 -- July 2010). From April 2008 to August 2009, Professor Frakt took a military leave of absence from teaching to serve as lead defense counsel with the Office of Military Commissions, representing two detainees at Guantanamo facing war crimes and terrorism charges before the U.S. military commissions.

Professor Frakt has been frequently quoted in the national media and has been a guest on national television and radio. He has published widely, in scholarly and popular periodicals and online. Professor Frakt is a contributor to the ACLU National Security Project’s Torture Report and was featured in the book The Guantanamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison, Outside the Law. Professor Frakt teaching and scholarship areas are criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence, international war crimes and international humanitarian law.

Elizabeth L. Hillman (Ph.D., history, Yale University; J.D., Yale Law School) is Professor of Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, CA. Her work focuses on United States military law and history since the mid-20th century and the impact of gender and sexual norms on military culture. A veteran of the U.S. Air Force, she taught history at the Air Force Academy and at Yale University before joining the faculty at Rutgers University School of Law, Camden in 2000. She now teaches military law, constitutional law, legal history, and trusts & estates, and directs a constitutional literacy outreach program, at Hastings. Professor Hillman is the author of Defending America: Military Culture and the Cold War Court-Martial (Princeton University Press: 2005), co-author of Military Justice Cases and Materials (with Eugene R. Fidell & Dwight H. Sullivan, LexisNexis: 2007), and numerous articles and chapters. Her most recent work concerns sexual violence in the U.S. military and the legal history of American bombing.

Michael Newton came to Vanderbilt after serving in the Department of Law, U.S. Military Academy. He teaches international law and international criminal law. Prof. Newton has published over 60 articles, editorials, and book chapters. He co-authored Enemy of the State: The Trial and Execution of Saddam Hussein, which received the Book of the Year Award from the International Association of Penal Law in 2009. He is Senior Editor of the Terrorism International Case Law Reporter.

Prof. Newton negotiated the Elements of Crimes document for the International Criminal Court and coordinated the interface between the FBI and the ICTY while in Kosovo to do forensics fieldwork to support the Milosevic indictment. From 1999 to 2002, he served in the Office of War Crimes Issues, U.S. Department of State. After helping establish the Iraqi High Tribunal, he taught Iraqi jurists and was International Law Advisor to the Judicial Chambers (2006-07). He also was the U.S. representative on the U.N. Planning Mission for the Sierra Leone Special Court.

Prof. Newton served in uniform for more than 21 years. He earned his J.D. and L.LM. from University of Virginia School of Law, and a second L.LM from the Judge Advocate General’s School, where he was Professor of International and Operational Law (1996-99). A member of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law and the International Bar Association, he is a frequent commentator in the media.

Darrel J. Vandeveld is a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army Reserve, who served tours of active duty in Bosnia, Africa, Iraq and Afghanistan in the years following the 9-11 attacks on the U.S. In 2002, Mr. Vandeveld participated in the rendition of the so-called “Algerian Six” from Bosnia to Guantanamo; in 2008, a federal district court ordered five of the six released, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s seminal decision in Boumediene v. Bush, 553 U.S. 723, which granted Guantanamo detainees (the Algerian Six were the plaintiffs in the case) the right to habeas corpus.

In 2007, the Army called Mr. Vandeveld, an experienced prosecutor in civilian life, to serve as a prosecutor in the Guantanamo Military Commissions. In the course of gathering the evidence against Mohammed Jawad, accused of wounding two U.S. soldiers in a hand grenade attack when he was 15-years old, Mr. Vandeveld – who by this time had been convinced by his opposing counsel, Professor David Frakt, of the moral and legal bankruptcy of the Military Commissions – discovered a confession obtained through torture, two suicide attempts by the accused, abusive interrogations, and the withholding of exculpatory evidence from the defense. These experiences led Mr. Vandeveld to a crisis of conscience. After he announced his resignation, his commander ordered a psychiatric evaluation. Professor Frakt later obtained a dismissal of Jawad’s case, in part because of Mr. Vandeveld’s own testimony. He is now Erie County, Pennsylvania’s chief public defender. Mr. Vandeveld received both his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of California.

Divided Loyalties: Professional Standards and Military Duty – Introduction and Main Speaker

2011-05-17T04:33:22Z

Introduction

Michael Benza, Visiting Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Main Speaker

Professor Jon Hanson, Harvard Law School

Friday February 11, 2011, 8:45 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Sponsored by An Interdisciplinary Symposium funded in part by the Arthur W. Fiske Memorial Lectureship Fund at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law

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Jon Hanson is the Alfred Smart Professor of Law and the Director of The Project on Law and Mind Sciences (www.lawandmind.com) at Harvard Law School. Professor Hanson graduated from Yale Law School in 1990, clerked for Judge José A. Cabranes, spent one year as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Yale Law School, and then joined the faculty at Harvard Law School in 1992. His teaching and scholarship melds social psychology, social cognition, economics, history, and law. His publications include: The Blame Frame: Justifying (Racial) Oppression in America, 41 HARV. C.R.-C.L. L. REV. 413 (2006) (with Kathleen Hanson); The Illusion of Law: The Legitimating Schemas of Modern Policy and Corporate Law, 103 U. MICH. L. REV. 1 (2004) (with Ron Chen); The Situation: An Introduction to the Situational Character, Critical Realism, Power Economics, & Deep Capture, 152 U. PENN. L. REV. 129 (2003) (with David Yosifon); and Taking Behavioralism Seriously: Some Evidence of Market Manipulation, 112 HARV. L. REV. 1420 (1999) (with Doug Kysar). Professor Hanson is currently editing a book, titled Ideology, Psychology, and Law (Oxford University Press) and conducting empirical research examining implicit policy attitudes and motives.

Katyn: Justice Delayed or Justice Denied? Panel Three – Part B

2011-05-17T02:40:51Z

Panel Chair

Michael Scharf, Director, Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Panelists

	Hon. David Crane, Founding Chief Prosecutor; Special Court for Sierra Leone
	Maria Szonert-Binienda, Esq., President, Libra Institute, Inc.
	Hon. Stephen Rapp, U.S. Ambassador-at-large for War Crimes Issues
	William A. Schabas, Director, Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway

Friday February 4, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m.

Sponsored by the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law

The topic of panel three is was Katyn a genocide?

The Katyn massacre of 1940 involved murders at the Katyn forest and in other locations throughout the Soviet Union of over 22,000 Polish officers, prisoners of war, and members of the Polish leading elite, by a single shot to the back of each of their heads. For 50 years, this massacre was subject to a massive cover up. Initially the Soviet Union blamed the Nazis for the murders, saying that the killings took place in 1941 when the territory was in German hands. It was not until 1990 that the Russian government admitted that the executions actually took place in 1940 and were carried out by the Soviet secret police. In 1990, Russian prosecutors launched a criminal investigation into the massacre, but the case was terminated in 2004, its findings were classified as top secret, and it appeared that the tragedy would once again be subject to “historical amnesia.”

The objective of the Katyn Symposium is to bring together leading international experts in jurisprudence, international criminal law, and the Katyn crime, as well as representatives from Poland and Russia, to discuss the events in a neutral setting. A diverse group of highly qualified scholars will present Polish, Russian and third party expert views on the Katyñ murders in four panel sessions, followed by a round-table discussion.

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Michael Scharf directs the Henry T. King, Jr. War Crimes Research Office and the Summer Institute for Global Justice in The Netherlands, and serves as U.S. director of the Canada-U.S. Law Institute. In February 2005, Prof. Scharf and the Public International Law and Policy Group, a Non-Governmental Organization that he co-founded and directs, were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by six governments and the Prosecutor of an International Criminal Tribunal for the work they have done to help in the prosecution of major war criminals, such as Slobodan Milosevic, Charles Taylor, and Saddam Hussein. During the first Bush and Clinton Administrations, Prof. Scharf served in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State, where he held the positions of Attorney-Adviser for Law Enforcement and Intelligence, Attorney-Adviser for U.N. Affairs, and delegate to the U.N. Human Rights Commission. Judicial clerk to Judge Gerald Bard Tjoflat on the Eleventh Circuit Federal Court of Appeals, Prof. Scharf has testified before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Armed Services Committee and is the author of over 70 scholarly articles and 13 books, including three that have won national book of the year honors. Recipient of the Case Western Reserve University School of Law Alumni Association’s 2005 “Distinguished Teacher Award” and Ohio Magazine’s 2007 “Excellence in Education Award,” Prof. Scharf teaches International Law, International Criminal Law, the Law of International Organizations, and the War Crimes Research Lab. During a sabbatical in 2008, he served as Special Assistant to the Prosecutor of the Cambodia Genocide Tribunal. He received his B.A. (1985), Order of the Coif, and his J.D. (1988) from Duke University.

David M. Crane was appointed a professor of practice at Syracuse University College of Law in 2006 after having been a distinguished visiting professor for a year. He was the founding Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (2002-05), appointed by the Secretary General of the U.N., Kofi Annan. With the rank of Undersecretary General, Prof. Crane’s mandate was to prosecute those who bear the greatest responsibility for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other serious violations of international human rights committed during the civil war in Sierra Leone during the 1990s. Among those he indicted was the President of Liberia, Charles Taylor, the first sitting African head of state to be held accountable. Prof. Crane was the first American since Justice Robert Jackson and Telford Taylor at Nuremberg, in 1945, to be Chief Prosecutor of an international war crimes tribunal.

Appointed to the U.S. Senior Executive Service in 1997, Prof. Crane has held numerous key positions, including Senior Inspector General, Department of Defense; Assistant General Counsel of the Defense, Intelligence Agency; and Waldemar A. Solf Professor of International Law at the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s School. Prof. Crane teaches international criminal law, international law, international humanitarian law, and national security law. He is on the faculty of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism, a joint venture with the Maxwell School of Public Citizenship at Syracuse University. Prof. Crane is on the leadership council of the American Bar Association’s International Law Section and is Chairman of its Blue Ribbon Panel on the International Criminal Court’s 2010 Review Session. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Association. In 2006-07, he founded Impunity Watch (www.impunitywatch.net) a law.

Maria Szonert is the Founder and President of Libra Institute, Inc. She is also the President of Kresy-Siberia Foundation, USA. A law graduate of the of the University of Warsaw and Rutgers University, she worked as corporate counsel on privatization and restructuring in Eastern Europe and as a USAID capital markets specialist for Europe and Newly Independent States. Subsequently, she served as Vice President and Corporate Counsel for KeyCorp in Cleveland.

For the past decade she has been publishing extensively, drawing upon her post-graduate journalism training from the University of Warsaw. She collaborates with numerous papers, including a Polish-language cultural weekly Przegląd Polski, focusing on legal, historical and current affairs issues. She is the author of World War II Through Polish Eyes (EEM Columbia University Press 2002) and Null and Void; Poland: Case Study on Comparative Imperialism (University Press of America 2008).

Stephen J. Rapp of Iowa is the Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues. From 2001 to 2009, he served as a U.N.-appointed prosecutor in trials involving the genocide in Rwanda and mass atrocities against civilians in Sierra Leone. He led prosecutions that resulted in the first convictions of leaders of the mass media for incitement to commit genocide, and the first convictions of high-level commanders for acts of gender violence, including rape, sexual slavery and forced marriage as crimes against humanity. Most recently he was responsible for the prosecution of former Liberian President Charles Taylor in a trial before the Special Court for Sierra Leone at the venue of the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

Previously, he was United States Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa from 1993 to 2001. Prior to that, he worked as an attorney in private practice and served as Staff Director of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency and as an elected member of the Iowa Legislature. He received his BA degree from Harvard College in 1971. He attended Columbia and Drake Law Schools and received his JD degree from Drake in 1974.

William A. Schabas holds the chair in human rights law. He is also a Global Legal Scholar at the University of Warwick School of Law, professeur associé at the Université du Québec à Montréal and a visiting fellow at Kellogg College of the University of Oxford. He is a ‘door tenant’ at the chambers of 9 Bedford Row, London. Prof. Schabas holds BA and MA degrees in history from the University of Toronto and LLB, LLM and LLD degrees from the University of Montreal, as well as honorary doctorates in law from Dalhousie and Case Western Reserve universities. Prof. Schabas is the author of 275 articles in academic journals and 21 books about international human rights law, including The International Criminal Court: A Commentary on the Rome Statute (Oxford Univ. Press, 2010) and Genocide in International Law (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2nd ed., 2009). William Schabas was professor of human rights law and criminal law at the Département des sciences juridiques of the Université du Québec à Montréal (1991-2000) and Department Chair (1994-98). He has taught at McGill University, Université de Montréal, Cardozo Law School, LUISS University Rome, Queens University Belfast, Université de Montpellier, Université de Paris X-Nanterre, Université de Paris XI, Université de Paris II Pantheon-Assas, Dalhousie University, Université de Genève and the National University of Rwanda. In 2002, the President of Sierra Leone appointed Professor Schabas to the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, upon the recommendation of Mary Robinson, the U.N. High Commission for Human Rights. Professor Schabas was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2006. He was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2007.

Katyn: Justice Delayed or Justice Denied? Panel Three – Part A

2011-05-17T02:37:31Z

Panel Chair

Michael Scharf, Director, Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Panelists

	Hon. David Crane, Founding Chief Prosecutor; Special Court for Sierra Leone
	Maria Szonert-Binienda, Esq., President, Libra Institute, Inc.
	Hon. Stephen Rapp, U.S. Ambassador-at-large for War Crimes Issues
	William A. Schabas, Director, Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway

Friday February 4, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m.

Sponsored by the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law

The topic of panel three is was Katyn a genocide?

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Katyn: Justice Delayed or Justice Denied? Panel Two – Part B

2011-05-17T02:35:11Z

Panel Chair

Maria Szonert-Binienda, Esq., President, Libra Institute, Inc.

Panelists

	William A. Schabas, Director, Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway
	Prof. Milena Sterio, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
	Alexander Guryanov, PhD, Polish Program Coordinator, Memorial Group, Moscow, Russia
	Prof. Janusz Cisek, Centre for European Studies, Jagiellonian University

Friday February 4, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m.

Sponsored by the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law

The topic of panel two is attempts to litigate the Katyn crime

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Milena Sterio teaches International Law and the International War Crimes seminar. She has published extensively in the areas of international law, international criminal law, and the law of the seas (piracy), and her latest articles will be published by the American University Law Review, the Fordham Journal of International Law, and the Minnesota Journal of International Law. She has lectured on these topics at various law schools in the United States, as well as larger conferences, such as the American Society of International Law Annual Meeting and the AALS Annual Meeting. Prior to becoming a law professor, Milena Sterio was an associate at the international law firm of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, in its New York and Paris offices, where she practiced international litigation and arbitration. She was also an adjunct professor at Cornell Law School, where she taught the International War Crimes seminar.

Milena Sterio holds a J.D., magna cum laude, from Cornell Law School, as well as a French law degree (“maitrise en droit”) from the University of Paris I-Sorbonne. Milena Sterio also holds a master’s degree in private international law (“D.E.A.”) from the University of Paris I-Sorbonne. She obtained her B.A. in French Literature and Political Science from Rutgers University, summa cum laude.

Alexander Guryanov received his Ph.D. in Physics from the State University of Moscow and began his professional career in 1975 working as a scientist in the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Russian Academy of Science. In 1993 Dr. Guryanov joined the Human Rights Center “Memorial” in Moscow. Soon thereafter he became the chief coordinator of the Polish Program within the Memorial Group and worked as a liaison for the Polish Human Rights Commission. In this capacity he authored many scholarly articles on Soviet political repressions directed at the Poles and Polish citizens of other nationalities. He co-edited a major work entitled “Repressions of the Poles and Polish citizens of other nationalities” published by the Memorial in Moscow. He also co-authored 15 volumes of the series entitled “Index of Repressed” published together with the Warsaw office of the “Karta” Center between 1997 and 2007 in Warsaw. Since 2007, Dr. Guryanov has been officially representing the Human Rights Center “Memorial” before the Russian courts in connection with numerous complaints filed by the Memorial with respect to the Russian investigation of the Katyo crime.

Janusz Cisek serves as Professor in the Center of European Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow where he heads the Program on History and Culture of Central Europe. He is also Director of the Museum of the Polish Army in Warsaw. He heads a major project to renovate the ruins of the Warsaw Citadel and relocate the Museum of the Polish Army, the Katyn Museum, there. Dr Cisek also served as expert for the Cultural Commission of the European Council in Strasburg (CD-CULT). He was a member of the Bureau responsible for Group ‘G’ that included Latvia, Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, Georgia, Moldavia, Armenia and Azerbaijan (2001-02). Dr Cisek served as Director of the Josef Pilsudski Institute in New York (1992-2000) where he presented a major international conference “Wilsonian East-Central Europe: Current Perspectives” (1993). Dr Cisek frequently consults on U.S. and Polish historical television and movie productions, including the movie “Battle of Warsaw 1920.” He also directed a documentary “General Pulaski! Tu jestesmy” and wrote scripts for several historical documentaries including “General Anders malo znany”or “Olimpiady Kusego.” He cooperated closely with WNYE “Studio 3″ Television,” Channel 25 in New York, provided advice to TVN Discovery-Historia, NBC Sports Illustrated Specials, TVP-Historia, and other American and European movie production companies. Dr Cisek also authored several scholarly publications including “Polish Refugees and the Polish American Immigration and Relief Committee” published by McFarland & Company in 2006.