The lecture series on Law, War and Human Security was launched in Fall 2006 as a way of forging links and working together with various schools, departments and centers with an interest in the areas of international law, international relations, humanitarian law, human rights, human security, and gender issues. The Global Legal Studies Center provides administrative support and all lectures are held at the Law School.
Questions? Contact Sumudu Atapattu (saatapattu@wisc.edu)
Lectures Scheduled for Spring 08
"Mercenaries, Private Military and Security Companies and
International Law" by Jose Luis Gomez
del Prado, Chairperson, UN Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries,
with comments by Professor Michael Likosky (Law) and Kate McCoy (Sociology),
Noon-1:15pm, Lubar Commons (7200 Law), with support from the Lectures
Committee.
“Gender and Truth Commissions:
The Peruvian Case,” by Julissa Mantilla Falcon (Peruvian lawyer and
international consultant on gender and transitional justice issues) in the
series Law, War and Human Security,
Noon-1:15pm, Lubar Commons (7200 Law), with comments from Christina Ewig
(Political Science/Gender and Women’s Studies) and Heinz Klug (Law), sponsored
by the TARGET Research Circle, the Global Legal Studies Center, the Human
Rights Initiative at University of Wisconsin-Madison, LACIS and Gender &
Women’s Studies Department.
“International Criminal Justice:
The Return of the Show Trial,” by Professor Nancy Combs, Associate Professor,
William & Mary School of Law, in the series Law, War and Human Security, Noon-1:15pm, Lubar Commons (7200 Law).
Sponsored by the Global
“Genocide in Namibia: Negotiating
the Past between Namibia and Germany," by Professor Reinhart
Kössler, Adjunct
Professor of Sociology, University of Münster and Researcher, Arnold
Bergstraesser Institute, Freiburg, Germany, in the series Law, War and Human Security,
Noon-1:15pm, Lubar Commons (7200 Law), sponsored by the Center for German and
European Studies and co-sponsored by the Human Rights Initiative at University
of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Accountability in
Counterinsurgency: Mission Impossible?” by Sarah
Sewall, Director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard
University, in the series Law, War and
Human Security, Noon-1:15, Lubar Commons, with comments by Professor Art
McCoy (History) tbc and co-sponsored
by the Human Rights Initiative at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Previous lectures in the series
"The Art of Forgetting and
Other Ways of Remembering: A Dialogue on Political Violence and Memory,”
documentary film on Sri Lanka and presentation by Lisa Kois, human rights lawyer,
writer and film maker, co-sponsored by the Global Legal Studies Initiative, the
Transnational Feminism Research Circle, UW Political Science Department and
Center for South Asia.
“Rules of Engagement: Norms, Civilian Casualties, and U.S. Conduct
in Iraq” by Professor Colin Kahl, Political
Science Department, University of Minnesota, co-sponsored by the Global Legal
Studies Initiative, and UW Political Science Department.
“How to Govern Backward People:
International Law and Nation Building in Historical Perspective,” by Professor Anthony Anghie, Professor of Law, SJ Quinney College of Law, University of
Utah, co-sponsored by the Global Legal Studies Initiative, and UW Political
Science Department.
"Law in Denial or Law in
Control?: Reflections on War in the Twilight of an Era,” by Professor
Nathaniel Berman, Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School, sponsored
by Global Legal Studies Center and Political Science Department with support
from the Lectures Committee.
Workshop on “Law in Times of Crisis” by
Professors Oren Gross & Fionnuala Ni Aolain, University of Minnesota Law School, with comments
by Professor Heinz Klug (UW Law School) and Professor Howard Schweber (Political Science Dept), sponsored by Global
Legal Studies Center and Political Science Department.
“Law, War and Human Security” by Professor Stephen Toope, President,
University of British Columbia and former Dean, McGill Faculty of Law, part of
the Canadian Studies Initiative (sponsored by the Division of International
Studies, UW-Madison & Canadian Embassy, Washington DC), co-sponsored by the
Global Legal Studies Center and Department of Political Science.
“Treaties’ End: The Past, Present, and Future of
International Lawmaking in the United States” by Professor Oona Hathaway, Associate
Professor, Yale Law School with comments by Professors Richard Bilder and Heinz
Klug (UW Law School), sponsored by the