Talks Address Int'l Law and Policy Issues Facing Next President

Talks Address Int'l Law and Policy Issues Facing Next President
SPEAKER SERIES EXAMINES INTERNATIONAL LAW AND POLICY ISSUES
FACING THE NEXT PRESIDENT
 
Press Contact: Sonia von Gutfeld, 212-854-1453, [email protected]
Public Affairs Office, 212-854-2650
 
September 3, 2008 (NEW YORK) – In the two months leading up to the election, Columbia Law School’s Center on Global Legal Problems will host a speaker series titled “International Law and Policy Issues Facing the Next President.” Legal experts will discuss such topics as terrorism, global warming, international trade and the pre-emptive use of force.
 
September 10
“Can We Combat International Terrorism Consistently with International Law, the US Constitution, and American Values?”

Speaker: Professor Philip Bobbitt, Columbia Law School
 
September 18
“What Kind Of International Agreement Is Possible and Desirable To Deal With The Challenge Of Global Warming?”

Speaker: Professor Nicholas Robinson, Pace Law School
 
October 7
“What Policies on International Trade Negotiations, Foreign Investment, and Global Financial Imbalances?”
Speaker: Honorable Stuart Eizenstat, Covington & Burling
 
October 29
“When Should the United States Use Armed Force in Preemptive Self-Defense or Intervene Militarily in Other Countries?”
Speaker: Professor Michael Doyle, Columbia Law School

All lectures take place from 12:05 – 1:00 p.m. at Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Hall Room 107, located at 435 West 116th Street (bet. Broadway and Amsterdam Ave.), New York, NY. 

Journalists, please contact Sonia von Gutfeld at 212-854-1453 or [email protected] if you would like attend.

Presiding over the lecture series is Richard N. Gardner, Professor of Law and International Organization at Columbia Law School.
 
Speaker Biographies:
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Philip Bobbitt is the Herbert Wechsler Professor of Jurisprudence at Columbia Law School. Bobbitt has served as legal counsel to the Senate Iran-Contra Committee, and Director for Intelligence, Senior Director for Critical Infrastructure and Senior Director for Strategic Planning at the National Security Council. Bobbitt is a Life Member of the American Law Institute, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Pacific Council on International Policy, the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law. He has published seven books, most recently Terror and Consent (Knopf, 2008). Bobbitt also serves as a Senior Fellow at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas. 

Nicholas Robinson is the Gilbert and Sarah Kerlin Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law and co-director of the Center for Environmental Legal Studies at Pace Law School. Robinson has developed environmental law since 1969, when he was named to the Legal Advisory Committee of the President’s Council on Environmental Quality. He currently is legal advisor and chairman of the Commission on Environmental Law of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, engaged in drafting treaties and counseling different nations on the preparation of their environmental laws.

Stuart Eizenstat heads the international practice at Covington & Burling, here his work focuses on resolving international trade problems and business disputes with the US and foreign governments, and international business transactions and regulations on behalf of US companies and others around the world. During a decade and a half of public service in three US administrations, Ambassador Eizenstat has held a number of key senior positions, including chief White House domestic policy adviser to President Jimmy Carter (1977-1981); U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs, and Deputy Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton Administration (1993-2001).

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Michael Doyle is the Harold Brown Professor of International and Public Affairs, of Law, and of Political Science at Columbia University. His principal areas of publishing and teaching are international relations theory, international security and international organizations. His most recent publication is Striking First: Preemption and Prevention in International Conflict (Princeton University Press, 2008), from his Tanner Lectures delivered at Princeton University. Doyle served as Assistant Secretary-General and Special Adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan from 2001 to 2003 and this year was elected chairman of the board of the United Nations Democracy Fund.

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Richard Gardner is the Professor of Law and International Organization at Columbia Law School, whose faculty he joined in 1957. He served in the State Department as Deputy Assistant Security of State for International Organization Affairs (1961-65), as U.S. Ambassador to Italy (1977-81) and as U.S. Ambassador to Spain (1993-97). President Clinton appointed him as a delegate to the U.N. General Assembly in 2000 and as a member of the Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations from 1998-2001. He currently serves as a member of the State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy. His most recent publication is Mission Italy: On the Front Lines of the Cold War (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005). Gardner also serves as Senior Counsel to the international law firm of Morgan Lewis and as a member of the International Advisory Board of Banco Santander.

The Center on Global Legal Problems addresses globalization's legal dimensions through diverse interdisciplinary research and scholarship. The Center, founded in 2003, supports collaborative research with professional disciplines outside of law and with professional schools of business, journalism, public health, and international and public affairs. It hosts periodic conferences and speaker series and supports associations with other Columbia University centers and programs as well as joint programs with international organizations such as the United Nations. The Center’s executive director is Professor José E. Alvarez.

Columbia Law School, founded in 1858, stands at the forefront of legal education and of the law in a global society. Columbia Law School joins traditional strengths in international and comparative law, constitutional law, administrative law, business law and human rights law with pioneering work in the areas of intellectual property, digital technology, sexuality and gender, and criminal law.