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Conference on United Nations Reform ruler

For Immediate Release
February 6, 2007

Contact:
Kara Tershel
Elissa Free
(202) 662-9500

Media Advisory

WHAT:

Conference on United Nations Reform

 

WHEN:

Friday, February 9, 2007, 9:00 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.

WHERE:

Georgetown University Law Center
McDonough Hall – Room 203
600 New Jersey Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001

SCHEDULE:

9:00 – 9:05 a.m.
Welcome

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Dean, Georgetown University Law Center

9:05 – 9:10 a.m.
Introduction

Itzchak E. Kornfeld, Chair, United Nations Interest Group, American Society of International Law; General Counsel, Oasis Solutions, LLC; Georgetown Law LL.M. student, Class of 2007

9:10 – 9:30 a.m.
Keynote Address

D. Moyo, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of South Africa

9:30 – 10:45 a.m.
Panel 1

Ben Berkman, Fellow, Georgetown Law and Johns Hopkins Center for Law and the Public’s Health
Solutions to Pandemics

Susan Deller Ross, Professor and Director of the International Women’s Human Rights Clinic, Georgetown Law
Women’s Human Rights in Africa

Noah B. Novogrodsky, Professor and Director of the International Human Rights Program, University of Toronto; Visiting Professor, Georgetown Law
The AIDS Epidemic in Africa: An Agenda for Change

10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Panel 2

Khalid Koser, Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings Institution
Internal Displacement: United Nations Reform

Bryan K. Mignone, Science and Technology Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings Institution
Science and Policy of Global Climate Change

Itzchak E. Kornfeld, Chair, United Nations Interest Group, American Society of International Law; General Counsel, Oasis Solutions, LLC; Georgetown Law LL.M. student, Class of 2007
The Right to Water: Reforming the Status Quo

12:00 – 12:15 p.m.
Remarks
Peter N.R.O. Ogego, former Kenyan High Commissioner to Canada

12:15 – 12:45 p.m.
Luncheon Remarks

Lee Feinstein, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Why Reform the United Nations?

 

NOTE:

This event is co-sponsored by Georgetown Law Continuing Legal Education (CLE) and the American Society of International Law.

A Web cast will be available at https://www.law.georgetown.edu/webcast/.

Media interested in attending should contact Kara Tershel at kat5@law.georgetown.edu.