Creation of International Law: Exploring the International Law Components of Peace
Draft Program (as of 3/13/14)
Approved for 16.0 hours of CLE credit for WI Attorneys
Program
Day 1: Friday, April 4, 2014 (Room 2260, UW Law School)
8:30 Breakfast and Registration
9:00 Welcome
Kenny Ho & Justin Regan
WILJ Symposium editors, UW Law School, USA
9:05 Remarks by Associate Dean Heinz Klug
Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development &
Director, Global Legal Studies Center, UW Law School, USA
9:10 Remarks by Dean Margaret Raymond
Fred W. & Vi Miller Dean and Professor of Law, UW Law School, USA
9:15-10:00 Keynote Address 1
“Justice, Reconciliation and the Masculinist Way: What Role for Women in
Truth Commissions?
Penny Andrews
President and Dean, Albany Law School, USA
10:00-12:00 Panel 1: Negative Peace - The Role of the UN Security Council, the Prohibition
of the Use of Force, Humanitarian Intervention & Counter-Terrorism
Chair: Helen Kinsella
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, UW-Madison
“Towards a Right to Peace?: The Individual Dimension of the Prohibition of the Use
of Force”
Katja Ziegler
Sir Robert Jennings Professor of International Law, School of Law, University of
Leicester, U.K.
“Use of Force and the ‘Humanitarian’ Face of Intervention in the 21st Century”
Rohini Sen
Research Associate, Jindal Global law School, India
“Uniting for Peace: Expanding Beyond the Dependency on the Security Council to
Resolve Conflicts”
Troy Lavers
Senior Lecturer, School of Law, University of Leicester, U.K.
“State Failure, Sovereign Equality and Non-Intervention: Assessing Claimed Rights to
Intervene in Failed States”
Hannah Woolaver
Lecturer in Public International law, University of Cape Town, South Africa
12:00-1:15 Lunch for speakers, chairs, WILJ members, and invited guests
Served in Room 2211 Law
1:15-2:45 Panel 2: Post Conflict Positive Peace - Building from a Gender Perspective
Chair: Aili Tripp
Professor of Political Science and Gender & Women’s Studies, UW-Madison
“Women and Children and Elephants: Robust Peacekeeping and Protection
Narratives”
Gina Heathcote
Center for Gender Studies, School of Law, SOAS, University of London, UK
"Women and Post-conflict State-building: The Stories Indicators Tell"
Doris Buss
Associate Professor, Department of Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University,
Canada
“Creation of International Law by the United Nations: Human Rights Implementation
through UN Peace Operations”
Sylvia Maus
PhD Candidate, University of Dresden, Germany
“A Peace of Her”
Karima Bennoune
Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law, California, USA
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00- 4:30 Panel 3 – Positive Peace
Chair: Cecilia Bailliet
Professor, Department of Public & International Law, University of Oslo, Norway
“Positive Peace in Theory and Practice”
Tuba Turan
PhD Candidate, University of Essex, UK
“The Relationship between Human Security Discourse and International Law: A
Potential Framework for the Promotion of a Comprehensive Vision of Peace?”
Shireen Daft
PhD Candidate, Macquarie Law School, Sydney, Australia
"The Right to Health and International Humanitarian Law: Parallel Application for the
Prevention of Armed Conflict"
Amrei Muller
Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Public & International Law, University of Oslo,
Norway
4:30-4:45 Break
4:45-5:30 Panel 4 - Reflections on the Right to Peace and Teaching
Chair: Penny Andrews
President and Dean, Albany Law School, USA
“Peace: Hybrid Human Rights or Political Aspiration?
Rosa Freedman
School of Law, University of Birmingham, UK
“Teaching International Law of Peace”
Cecilia Bailiet
Professor, Department of Public & International Law, University of Oslo, Norway
7:00pm Dinner (location tba)
Day 2: Saturday, April 5, 2014 (Room 3250, UW Law School)
8:30 Breakfast
9:00-9:45 Keynote address 2
"Negotiating a Feminist Convention: The European Convention on Preventing and
Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence"
Christine Chinkin
Professor of International Law, London School of Economics, University of London,
UK.
9:45-11:15 Panel 5 - The Role of Dispute Resolution Regimes in relation to Peace
Chair: Rosemary Rayfuse
Professor of International Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
“The Inter American Court of Human Rights and Peace”
Alexandra Huneeus
Assistant Professor of Law and Legal Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
“The Contribution of International Law and State of Law in Peru”
Elizabeth Salmon
Professor of International Law, Pontifical Catholic University, Peru
“Inheriting Reparations"
Edda Kristjansdottir
PhD Candidate, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30-1:00 Panel 6: Regulation of Arms, Disarmament, Economic Development, and
Investment
Chair: Christine Chinkin
Professor of International Law, London School of Economics, University of London, UK
“Developing Effective Public International Law Approaches – Towards Conceptualizing a
Steering of Business Activities”
Myriam Senn
University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
“Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Humanization from International Humanitarian Law”
Hitomi Takemura
Associate Professor, Aichi Prefectural University, Japan
“An Analysis of the United Nations’ New Arms Trade Treaty: The Challenges of
Enforcing International Military Use-Technology Export Control Regimes”
Cindy Whang
Assistant Professor, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan
"Post-conflict Reconstruction: An Exercise in Constitutionalization"
Lisa Markdikian
PhD Candidate, School of Law, University of Bristol, UK
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30 Panel 7: Protection of the Environment, Access to Resources and Peace
Chair: Alexandra Huneeus
Assistant Professor of Law and Legal Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
“Environmentally Sustainable Development and Peace: What Role for International Law?”
Christina Voigt
Professor, Department of Public & International Law, University of Oslo, Norway
“Redefining Progress to Substantive Equality – A Case Study on the Elimination of
Inequalities in Access to Water and Sanitation”
Inga Winkler
German Institute for Human Rights, Berlin, Germany
“Climate Change, Access to Resources and conflict: Implications for International Peace
and Security”
Sumudu Atapattu
Associate Director, Global Legal Studies Center, UW Law School, USA
3:30-4:00 Video Message from Hilary Charlesworth
Professor and ARC Laureate Fellow, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific and ANU
College of Law, Australia
6:30 Dinner (venue tba)
