Tuesday, April 8

Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights: The Future of Human Rights
9:00 a.m. - 4:35 p.m.
Hart Auditorium

This is the third annual Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights. It is sponsored by the Human Rights Institute at Georgetown Law and the Center for American Progress.  Keynote speakers are Madeleine Albright and Luis Moreno-Ocampo.

Faculty Research Workshop: Gregg Bloche (Georgetown Law)

The Emergent Logic of Health Law

12:00 p.m. - 1:20 p.m.

Hotung, Room 2001

Inauguration of the Center on National Security and the Law

9:15 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Gewirz Student Center – 12th Floor

Georgetown University Law Center Dean T. Alexander Aleinikoff is pleased to announce the appointment of Georgetown Law Professor Neal Katyal as the Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of National Security Law. He will be formally installed in a ceremony at the Law Center on April 10, in conjunction with the inauguration of the Center on National Security and the Law.

Faculty Research Workshop: Jennifer Gordon, Fordham University

Transnational Labor Citizenship

12:00 p.m. - 1:20 p.m.

Hotung, Room 2001

International Human Rights Colloquium: Balakrishnan Rajagopal, MIT

The Limits of Legalizing Social Rights

12:00 p.m. - 1:20 p.m.

Hotung, Faculty Dining Room

First Annual Sports and Entertainment Law Symposium and Launch of GEMALaw

3:00 – 6:00 p.m.

Hart Auditorium

The panelists will discuss the approaches and challenges of contract negotiations in the sports and entertainment industry and the process of urban planning regarding sports and entertainment facilities, such as the new Washington Nationals Stadium.

The Louis B. Sohn Award Ceremony:  Professor Edith Brown Weiss

Bottom-Up Accountability:  Listening to the Poor

12:00 p.m.

Gewirz Student Center - 12th Floor

The Center for International Environmental Law will present the Louis B. Sohn Award in International Environmental Law to Professor Brown Weiss.  The international award was established to honor an individual's contribution to the field of international environmental law. Please RSVP to specialevents@law.georgetown.edu

Joint Seminar in Law and Philosophy:  Gopal Sreenivasan, Duke University

A Hybrid Theory of Claim-Rights

4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Hotung, Room 5020

Georgetown Law Panel:  40 years After In re Gault

4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Gewirz Student Center - 12th Floor

This event is being held to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the landmark case In re Gault. The panelists will discuss the role of counsel for accused juveniles, with an emphasis on the Constitutional and ethical obligations of the child's attorney, and the obstacles to zealous and effective advocacy for indigent defendants in the District of Columbia.

Faculty Research Workshop:  Kerri Rittich, University of Toronto

12:00 p.m. - 1:20 p.m.

Hotung, Room 2001

Georgetown Law Panel:  The Intersection of Immigration and Gang Reduction Policy

1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

McDonough Hall, Room 203

This event is sponsored by Georgetown Human Rights Action, which will present findings from its new report, "No Place Home: Gangs, Migration, and the Search for Safety." The report is based on research conducted by Georgetown Law students during a fact-finding mission to Guatemala last August, as well as research conducted in the Washington, D.C., area.

Faculty Research Workshop:  Fernanda Nicola, American University

12:00 p.m. - 1:20 p.m.

Hotung, Room 2001

Symposium on the Future of the Global Law Firm

8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Gewirz Student Center - 12th Floor

Hotung, Faculty Dining Room

This symposium will bring together scholars from a range of disciplines, legal practitioners, regulators, and consultants and experts on professional service firms to discuss a variety of forces that are likely to shape the global market for law firm services in the years to come.

International Human Rights Colloquium:  Peter Spiro, Temple University Law School

An International Law of Citizenship

12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

McDonough, Faculty Lounge, 5th Floor

Professor Spiro will present his paper, “An International Law of Citizenship.”

Joint Seminar in Law and Philosophy:  Christopher Morris, University of Maryland

Natural Rights and Political legitimacy

4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Georgetown University Main Campus, New North 204

Professor Morris will speak on the implications of the existence of pre-legal rights for the just powers of states and political institutions.

Faculty Research Workshop:  Bradley Wendell, Cornell University

12:00 p.m. - 1:20 p.m.

Hotung, Room 2001

Faculty Research Workshop:  Eric Feldman, University of Pennsylvania

12:00 p.m. - 1:20 p.m.

Hotung, Room 2001

International Human Rights Colloquium:  Phillip Alston, New York University Law School

12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Hotung, Faculty Dining Room

Professor Alston will present his paper, "National Commissions of Inquiry as a Response to Unlawful Killings: Cure or Cover-Up?"  

Emerging Privacy Issues between the US and the EU - Bridging the Transatlantic Gap

3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Gewirz, 12th Floor

The United States and the European Union are confronting many common privacy challenges -- promoting trust and confidence for Internet commerce, developing safeguards for behavioral targeting and search histories, security breach notification and identity theft. There are also areas -- identification requirements, border control, and passenger record transfers -- where national security requirements appear to conflict with privacy laws. Members of the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice, and Human Affairs will be at Georgetown University Law Center to discuss current efforts to address these challenges.

Joint Seminar in Law and Philosophy:  Margaret Gilbert, University of Connecticut

Giving Claim Rights Their Due

4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Hotung, Room 5020

Faculty Research Workshop:  Justice Richard Goldstone, Visiting Professor

The Efficacy of Economic Sanctions to Deter Human Rights Violations

12:00 p.m. - 1:20 p.m.

McDonough, Faculty Lounge, 5th Floor

4th Annual Symposium:  The Story Behind Combined Reporting (CLE)

8:15 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Hart Auditorium

This special one-day Symposium will take a close look at the state of combined reporting in the United States today. Faculty members will offer an overview of the group reporting schemes in use across the country and will examine the evolution of the unitary business principle that underlies combined reporting. They will explore the policy considerations that states assess in choosing whether to adopt combined reporting and the conflicting policy goals of different jurisdictions. Additionally, we will examine single vs. aggregate taxpayer theory, analyze procedural issues raised by combined reporting, hear from states currently considering combined reporting, explore the ultimate goal of uniformity and, finally, weigh all the pros and cons of combined reporting.

Thursday & Friday, May 15-16

Advanced State and Local Tax Institute 2008 (CLE)

May 15:  7:30 a.m. - 7 p.m.

May 16:  7:45 a.m. - 4:45 p.m.

Hilton Washington

Now in its 31st year, this Institute is bringing together the finest from the SALT industry, both as faculty and attendees. This annual Institute has gained a nationwide reputation as one of the best SALT conferences in the country. Sessions include the annual debate on recent cases between Paul Frankel and Professor Richard Pomp, ethical issues facing today’s SALT practitioners and an up-to-date analysis of state tax developments on a regional basis.

Women's Property & Inheritance Rights in Kenya:  Women's Voices and International Human Rights Law

3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Hotung, Room 2000

The International Women's Human Rights Clinic students will present their findings from a fact gathering visit to Kenya in April, 2008.  The students will discuss land, property, and inheritance rights of women in Kenya, and proposed legislative reform.

The Williams Act 40 Years On Conference (CLE)

May 21:  8:45 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

May 22: 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Hart Auditorium

In cooperation with the Securities & Exchange Commission, Georgetown Law has planned a day and a half of lively presentations and discussion about the current state of both U.S. and global regulation of corporate takeovers and M&A activity. The speakers and panelists will include senior SEC officials, academics, financial journalists, regulators, practitioners, bankers, and judges, including Delaware Vice- Chancellors Leo Strine and Steve Lamb.

Annual Faculty Technology Retreat

11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

IST will discuss new courseware systems, new technology services available to faculty members, new research and collaboration web sites using Microsoft SharePoint, privacy issues, advantages and disadvantages of Microsoft Vista, Apple Leopard,  and the new versions of Microsoft Office. At least one of the sessions will take place in Classroom 200, where we recently replaced the failing audiovisual components with affordable state-of-the-art components to communicate a Law Center audience with remote speakers and lecturers via videoconferencing services.

Intensive Session in Trial Advocacy Skills 2008 (CLE)

Hart Auditorium

This 7-day intensive trial skills program, which stresses “learning by doing,” is co-sponsored by the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA), the leading trial advocacy training organization in the world. The program closes with two days of “real” trials held at the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

October 30

Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror
3:45-5:15
Hart Auditorium

Please join the Human Rights Institute for a discussion and debate celebrating the publication of "Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror," by Georgetown Law professor David Cole and Jules Lobel.  Professor Cole will provide remarks on the book, after which Neal Katyal, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, and Lead Counsel, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, and Bradford Berenson, Partner, Sidley Austin LLP, and former Associate White House Counsel for President George W. Bush, will respond.  A reception and book signing will follow.  All are welcome. 

October 16 - 19

Seminar series by Judge Thomas Buergenthal, Georgetown Law's First Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Visiting Professor in Human Rights
9:30  - 11;00 a.m.
McDonough Hall, Room 437

October 12

Immigrant Rights and International Human Rights Conference
9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
McDonough Hall, Room 200

October 10

Gruber Justice Prize Symposium
Courts at Risk, Rights in Peril: Where Have All the Courageous Gone? A Symposium with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Recipients of the 2007 Gruber Justice Prize
4:00 p.m.
Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor

October 4

Corporate Compliance: The Role of Company Counsel
9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Hart Auditorium

September 29

Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Division
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Hart Auditorium

September 26

September 26

Global Antitrust Enforcement Symposium
8:45 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Hart Auditorium

September 24

Supreme Court Institute Annual Press Briefing
9:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor

J.H. Reichman, Bunyan S. Womble Professor of Law, Duke University Law School
Treating Clinical Trials as a Public Good: The Most Logical Reform
3:30 p.m., McDonough Faculty Lounge

Olufunmilayo Arewa, Assistant Professor, Case School of Law and
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Georgia School of Law
Copyright, Borrowing, and Unfair Use
3:30 p.m., McDonough Faculty Lounge

Brett Frischmann, Assistant Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago
Intellectual Infrastructure and Intellectual Property
3:30 p.m., McDonough Faculty Lounge