“Global Climate Change and Sustainable Development: Challenges and Opportunities for International Law” will be the topic of the 27th Annual Symposium of the Wisconsin International Law Journal, to be held March 6, 2009, in Room 2260 of the Law School (Godfrey & Kahn Hall).

Keynote speaker for the day-long event will be Judge Christopher Weeramantry, former Vice President of the International Court of Justice, whose subject will be "Global Wisdom on Duties to Future Generations."

Speakers include:                

Gabriel Eckstein (Texas Tech University)
David Hunter (Washington College of Law, American University)
Benjamin Richardson (Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada)
Konstantia Koutouki (University of Montreal Faculty of Law)
Dongsheng Zang (University of Washington School of Law)
Luis Martinez (National Resources Defense Council)
Greg Nemet (UW-Madison LaFollette School of Public Affairs/Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies)
Stephanie Tai (University of Wisconsin Law School)
Sumudu Atapattu (University of Wisconsin Law School)
Dan Anderson (UW School of Business)
Tia Nelson (Governor's Task Force on Global Warming in Wisconsin)
Roy Thilly (Wisconsin Public Power/Governor’s Task Force on Global         Warming in Wisconsin)
Steve Vavrus (UW-Madison Center for Climatic Research)

The symposium will begin at 8:15 am and adjourn at 5:30 p.m. CLE credit for Wisconsin attorneys is pending. 

More information is available at http://hosted.law.wisc.edu/wilj/symposium/symposium09.html . 

Sponsors include:
Global Legal Studies Center
Institute for Legal Studies
East Asian Legal Studies Center
Division of International Studies
Global Studies Program
Center for South Asia
Environmental Law Section of the State Bar of Wisconsin
WAGE (Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy)
UW School of Business
Center for European Studies
UW Lectures Committee
Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment
Certificate on Humans and the Global Environment
Public Interest Law Foundation (PILF)
Associated Students of Madison 

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