2006 Symposium, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Humanitarian Intervention After 9/11

University of Wisconsin Law School, Room 2260

Symposium Website:  http://global.wisc.edu/humanitarianism/symposium/index.html

 

Approved for 5.5 hours of general Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credits

 

 

Schedule

 Friday, March 31, 2006

 Morning Program

8:30-9:00          Registration, Room 2260

8:30-9:00Registration, Room 2260

9:00-9:10         Welcome and Introductions

                        Scott Straus, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies, University  of Wisconsin-Madison

9:10-10:30       Panel I:  Dilemmas of Intervention

                        Helen Kinsella, Moderator

                        Fernando Tesón, Tobias Simon Eminent Scholar and Professor of Law, Florida State University

                                    "The Vexing Problem of Authority in Humanitarian Intervention"

                        Benjamin Valentino, Assistant Professor of Government, Dartmouth College

 

                                    "Dilemmas of Humanitarian Intervention"

 

10:30-10:45     Morning Break, Law   School Atrium

 

10:45-12:00     Panel II: Attitudes toward Intervention - The United States and Europe

                        Sharon Hutchinson, Moderator

                        Jon Pevehouse, Tim Hildebrandt, Courtney Hillebrecht, and Peter Holm, Department of Political Science

 

                                    "Domestic Politics and Humanitarian Intervention"

 

                        Michel Feher, publisher and author of Powerless by Design: The Age of the International Community (Duke)

 

                                    "Constancy in Context: Doctors without Borders and 'Humanitarian Interventions'"

 

12:00-1:00       Break for Lunch

 

 

 

Afternoon Program

 

1:00-2:00         Keynote Address

                        Scott Straus, Moderator

                        Gareth Evans, former Australian Foreign Minister and current President of the International Crisis Group (ICG) 

 

                                    "From Humanitarian Intervention to Responsibility to Protect"

 

2:00-2:15         Afternoon Break, Law   School Atrium

 

2:15-3:45        Panel III: The Future of Humanitarian Intervention - R2P and Beyond 

 

                        Aili Tripp, Moderator

 

                        Thomas Weiss, Professor of Political Science and Director at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, Graduate Center

                         The City University of New York    

 

                                    "R2P after 9/11 and after the World Summit : A Balance Sheet." 

    

                        Jeremy Levitt, Professor of Law at Florida International University College of Law

                                    "Pro-Democratic Intervention in Africa "                     

                        Jerry Fowler, Staff director of the Committee on Conscience, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

 

                                    Title TBA

 

3:45-4:00         Afternoon Break

 

4:00-4:45         Panel IV: Closing Remarks 

                       

                        Mara Loveman, Moderator

 

                        Heinz Klug, Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School  

                     

                        Helen Kinsella, Assistant Professor of Political Science at UW-Madison

 

                        Scott Straus, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

 

 

Registration:  There is no registration fee, and the symposium is open to students, faculty and staff as well as to the public. 

For Attorneys:  This symposium has been approved for 5.5 units of general Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit.

Contact:  Kristen Fricchione, WILJ Symposium Editor, at uwsymp@gmail.com for registration information and any other questions.