UPCOMING CONFERENCES
March 6th: The Prohibition of
Anti-Personnel Mines and their Destruction
GLAPI presents a discussion
with Christopher Kirkey. Professor Kirkey (Ph.D. Brandeis
University, 1993) who was appointed by the Canadian Department
of Foreign Affairs as Mine Action Scholar-in-Residence in
September of 1999. Professor Kirkey is engaged in a nation-wide
speaking tour of colleges and universities to discuss the
December 1997 Convention on the Prohibition of the use,
stockpiling, production, and transfer of Anti-Personnel
Mines and their destruction. Commonly referred to as the
Ottawa Convention, Kirkey has given over 125 public lectures
on the subject. He has spoken at many venues including Yale,
Colby College, Duke, University of Washington, and DePaul
University. Kirkey's most recent publication, "Washington's
Response to the Ottawa Landmines Process," reviewed
U.S. landmine policy under the Clinton Administration, and
appeared in Canadian-American Public Policy. He is currently
working on a text for Indiana University Press that seeks
to evaluate the origins, negotiation, and implementation
of the Ottawa Convention.
Professor Kirkey is an associate
professor of political science at Bridgewater State College,
MA. He also holds an appointment at the School of International
and Public affairs at Columbia University.
The discussion will be held from
12:00-1:00 in Room 570. Drinks will be provided. Please
RSVP by phone or e-mail to Dominika Mereczynski at dsmereczynski@kentlaw.edu,
(312)906-5275.
March 22nd: Water's Future: All
Bottled Up?
The Global Law and Policy
Initiative will be co-sponsoring this event with the Canadian
Consulate. The event will discuss the legal and political
regimes that govern the extraction, use and sale of the
Great Lakes' water in the U.S. and Canada, as well as how
those regimes differ or conflict and how the conflicts may
be resolved.
There will be a variety of speakers
and discussions as well as a reception. The conference will
begin at 8:15 and run for most of the day. The conference
will be free of charge; however, if you would like to pre-order
a lunch there will be a $10 fee.
For more information please contact
Lydia Lazar at llazar@kentlaw.edu or visit the water conference
web page at
http://www.kentlaw.edu/glpi/glapi/Events/waterconference
You may register for the conference
on-line at http://applications.kentlaw.edu/ilpo/water.asp
March 26th: Internally Displaced
Persons Conference
This conference, co-sponsored
by the Global Law and Policy Initiative and PAX International,
a Washington based NGO, will focus on the issue of Internally
Displaced Persons (IDPs) and whether they should be considered
a special class of persons and thus afforded protection
as refugees under international law. IDPs are people who
have been forcibly uprooted from their homes but have not
crossed international boundaries and so are not considered
refugees.
For more information about this conference
please contact Professor Bartram Brown at bbrown@kentlaw.edu
or visit the IDP web page at http://www.kentlaw.edu/glpi/glapi/Events/idpconference
STUDY ABROAD
For students interested in studying abroad, the International
Law and Policy Development Office is here to help you answer
your questions. Whether you want to participate in a Chicago-Kent
exchange, an ABA approved exchange through a different institution,
or design your own, we can help you work out the details.
You can stop by and look through our study abroad folder,
make an appointment with Assistant Dean Lydia Lazar to talk
about your plans, or send an e-mail to intllm with specific
questions.
Some of the programs that Chicago-Kent is involved with
include:
- Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina
- University of Bern in Bern, Switzerland including the
MILE program with the World Trade Institute.
- Exchange through DAAD, the German Academic Exchange
Service.
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