American Society of International Law. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting back issues from January 1999:
Introduction
Jan 01, 1999; ... The Program of the Society's 1999 Annual Meeting set out the Meeting's purposes in the following terms: Although international lawyers come in all political stripes, in the United States the discipline has generally shared an internationalist intellectual and political vision, a ...
An address by the UN Deputy Secretary-General
Jan 01, 1999; ... I must say it is quite unnerving to see so many international lawyers gathered in one place. If a stray asteroid were to destroy this building in the next five minutes, I fear that the community of international lawyers would be much the poorer. The question is, would anybody notice? ...
Markets, democracy, and ethnic conflict
Jan 01, 1999; ... by Amy L. Chua* Because my area of research is somewhat untraditional, I thought I would begin by saying a few words about the kind of work I do, and how it relates to the general theme of this year's Annual Meeting. As I'm sure you all know, over the last decade or so, Western lawyers ...
Organized violence and the future of international law: A practitioner's view of the emerging issues
Jan 01, 1999; ... by Charles J. Dunlap, Jr. I would like to thank the American Society of International Law for allowing me this opportunity to discuss some emerging issues of international law as it relates to the organized violence we know as war. I should say that my assignment is greatly facilitated ...
International law and the development encounter: Violence and resistance at the margins
Jan 01, 1999; ... by Balakrishnan Rajagopal* My lecture concerns a special type of violence. I refer to the violence of an idea that has had an enormous hold on our collective imaginations since the end of World War 11, and which has transformed into a discourse by systematically ordering the management, ...
Global designs: The aesthetics of international legal practice
Jan 01, 1999; ... by Annelise Riles* International lawyers know a great deal about matters of form. We are specialists in protocol and rules of procedure; we delight in the glamour of international ceremonies; and our status as experts depends in part on their ability to draft language that adheres to ...
The Cold War and the rule of law
Jan 01, 1999; ... The panel was convened at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, March 27, by its Chair, Mark Janis, University of Connecticut School of Law, Storrs, CT, who introduced the panelists: Abram Chayes, Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, MA; Matthew Craven, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of ...
The creation story of peoples
Jan 01, 1999; ... The panel was convened at 12:15 p.m., Saturday, March 27, by its Chair, Alison Dundes Renteln,* who introduced the panelists: W. Ofuatey Kodjoe, City University of New York Graduate Center; Brad R. Roth, Wayne State University; and Chris Tennant, Harvard University. For this panel, the ...
Crisis action: A simulated exercise of governmental lawyers' roles in international crisis
Jan 01, 1999; ... The panel was convened at 3:15 p.m., Thursday, March 25, by its Chair, Antonia Chayes, . who introduced the panelists: James Terry, Court of Land Appeals; Mark Rosen, U.S. Navy; Elizabeth R. Rindskopf, Bryan Cave, LLP; David A. Koplow, U.S. Department of Defense; Yiannis Z. Drossos, Athens Law ...
The future of the international criminal court
Jan 01, 1999; ... The panel was convened at 10:30 a.m., Friday, March 26, by its Chair, Jos6 E. Alvarez, University of Michigan Law School, who introduced the panelists: Mahnoush H. Arsanjani, United Nations; George Fletcher, Columbia University School of Law; Mona Rishmawi, International Commission of Jurists; ...
International criminal court: Views from Rome
Jan 01, 1999; ... The panel was convened at 1:30 p.m., Thursday, March 25, by its Chair, M. Cherif Bassiouni, DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, IL, who introduced the panelists: John Q. Barrett, St. John's University School of Law, Jamaica, NY; Rhonda Copelon, City University of New York at Queens, New ...
Restitution for historic wrongs: World War II's last chapter
Jan 01, 1999; ... The panel was convened at 3:15 p.m., Thursday, March 26, 1999, by its Chair, Detlev Vagts, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., who introduced the panelists: Benjamin Ferencz, retired; Burt Neuborne, New York University Law School, New York, N.Y.; Thomas E. Starnes, Andrews & Kurth, ...
Terrorism and international responses
Jan 01, 1999; ... The panel was convened at 12:15 p.m., Saturday, March 27, by its Chair, Jianming Shen,* who introduced the panelists: Julie Mertus, Ohio Northern University; Muthu-Cumaraswamy Sornarajah, National University of Singapore; Paul C. Szasz, New York University School of Law, and Michael Scharf, New ...
Women's rights internationally: Mainstreaming versus backsliding
Jan 01, 1999; ... The panel was convened at 1:30 p.m., Thursday, March 25, by its Chair, Marcia Wiss,* who introduced the panelists: Regan Ralph, Human Rights Watch; Mayra Buvinic, InterAmerican Development Bank; Barbara Stark, University of Tennessee College of Law; and Kit Cosby, National Spiritual Assembly of ...
Rising tides: The many-faceted benefits of global trade liberalization
Jan 01, 1999; ... by Judith H. Bello* Few, if any, legal developments have had such sweeping effects as the rise throughout the twentieth century-particularly since World War II-of laws, agreements and institutions governing international economics and trade. This paper describes how ...
International economic law: Jurisprudence and contours
Jan 01, 1999; ... by John H. Jackson* My subject is a vast one, but after a few preliminary contextual remarks, I will discuss it in three short parts. In Part I, I will describe what I call the "landscape and logic" of the subject, briefly outlining some ofthe contours and also the logical assumptions ...
Law and governance in a global economy
Jan 01, 1999; ... A dynamic and expanding international economy leads to an increasing interdependence of national economies at the same time that states intervene in their own economies to control the process of economic growth .... Whatever the motivation, this interventionism leads to a clash between the ...
Globalization and investment flows
Jan 01, 1999; ... The panel was convened at 1:30 p.m., Thursday, March 25, by its Chair, Thomas J. Schoenbaum,* who introduced the panelists: Cynthia Crawford Lichtenstein, Boston College School ofLaw; Sol Picciotto, Lancaster University; Sean Hagan, International Monetary Fund; and Toshitaka Morikawa, Yokohama ...
Human rights, democracy and free markets: Is it a package?
Jan 01, 1999; ... The panel was convened at 3:15 p.m., Thursday, March 25, by its Chair, Gloria Sandrino,* who introduced the panelists: Celestine I. Nyamu, Harvard University Law School, Roberto P. Aponte-Toro, University of Puerto Rico School of Law, and Makau Mutua, Harvard University Law School ....
Hunger and free trade
Jan 01, 1999; ... The panel was convened at 2 p.m., Friday, March 26, by its Chair, Maxwell 0. Chibundu, University of Maryland School of Law, Baltimore, who introduced the panelists: David Beckmann, Bread for the World; Robert Howse, Professor, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Peter Matlon, UN Development ...
Legal responses to the global AIDS crisis
Jan 01, 1999; ... The working group was convened at 2 p.m., Friday, March 26, by its Chair, Paula R. Rhodes, University of Denver, who introduced the panelists: Mark E. Wojcik, John Marshall Law School of Chicago; R. Douglas Elliott, Partner, Elliot, Kim, Toronto, Canada; and Lois A. Gochnauer, Senior Adviser on ...
Pacific chaos and the debtor nation, 1990s style
Jan 01, 1999; ... The panel was convened at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, March 27, by its Chair, Chantal Thomas, who introduced the panelists, Robert A. Blecker, American University, and Robert Wai, Osgoode Hall Law School, and the commentator, Spencer Weber Waller, Brooklyn Law School. COMPARING THE ...
Race, riots and money: The role of the Bretton Woods Institutions in the Indonesian financial crisis
Jan 01, 1999; ... The panel was convened at 10:30 a.m., Friday, March 26, by its Chair, Daniel D. Bradlow, who introduced the panelists: Amy Chua, Duke University School of Law; Oscar de Bruyn Kops, World Bank; J. Soedradjad Djiwandono, University of Indonesia; Adam Schwarz, journalist and consultant; and Anoop ...
Social and labor issues and the agendas of the IMF, World Bank, WTO and OECD
Jan 01, 1999; ... The panel was convened at 10:30 a.m, Saturday, March 27, by its Chair, Virginia Leary, who introduced the panelists: Jerome Levinson, Washington College of Law, American University; Alan Ruby, World Bank; James Salzman, Washington College of Law, American University; and Robert Howse, University ...
UN fiscal crisis brought on by U.S. arrears
Jan 01, 1999; ... The panel was convened at 1:30 p.m., Thursday, March 25, by its Chair, John Knox,* who introduced the panelists: John Crook, U.S. Department of State; Bruce Rashkow, UN Office of Legal Affairs; and Allan Gerson, Council on Foreign Relations. SUMMARY OF REMARKS BY JOHN KNOX ...
The University of Iowa Center for International Finance and Development: Using cyberspace to promote social justice
Jan 01, 1999; ... This year the organizers of the Annual Meeting decided to take a critical look at the socalled liberal cosmopolitan tradition, which embraces a progressive commitment to global peace, the rule of law in international affairs, multilateralism, free trade and liberalism. My talk will address this ...
A virtual theory of global politics, mimetic war and the spectral state
Jan 01, 1999; ... by James Der Derian* Globes make my head spin. By the time I locate the place, they've changed the boundaries. -Marshall McLuhan, War and Peace in the Global Village Some might invoke globalization and the attendant death of sovereignty as the first step toward more ...
Of the male persuasion: The power of liberal internationalism for women
Jan 01, 1999; ... The theme of the 1999 Annual Meeting is "Reviewing the Internationalist Legacy," which is intended as an invitation to reflect on the vision of international life that American international lawyers have generally shared over the course of this century. This enduring vision, according to the ...
Challenging power--Civil society at the gates of the WTO: The view from Geneva
Jan 01, 1999; ... by Virginia A. Leary* In May 1998, normally somnolent Geneva was awakened by a riot. Cars were overturned and burned, shop windows were broken, traffic was blocked, 300 people were arrested, sidewalks were painted with slogans. The occasion of the riot was the second Ministerial Meeting ...
The role of power in international law
Jan 01, 1999; ... I am grateful to David Kennedy and his associates for giving me a good reason to reflect on the role of power in international law. Power is seductive-and not only to politicians. Henry Kissinger, when secretary of state, once remarked that he found power to be the great aphrodisiac,1 but he ...
The gender of international law
Jan 01, 1999; ... The panel was convened at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, March 27, by its Chair, Kerry Rittich, who introduced the panelists: Hilary Charlesworth, Australian National University; Brenda Cossman, University of Toronto; Leslye Obiora, University of Arizona; and Celina Romany, City University of New York ....
Human rights as politics
Jan 01, 1999; ... The human rights movement can be seen in a variety of guises. It can be seen as a movement for international justice, or as a cultural project for "civilizing" "savage" cultures. In this talk, I discuss a part of the movement as a crusade for a political project. Perhaps the most influential ...
Immigration and national identity: Membership, difference and the (trans)national imagination
Jan 01, 1999; ... The panel was convened at 2 p.m., Friday, March 26, by its Chair, Gil M. Gott, who introduced the panelists: Kevin R. Johnson, University of California, Davis, School of Law; Susan Musarat-Akram, Boston University School of Law; and Leti Volpp, Washington College of Law, American University ....
International environmental law: Globalitarian temptations?
Jan 01, 1999; ... The panel was convened at 12:15 p.m., Saturday, March 27, by its chair, Stepan Wood, who introduced the panelists: Alex Geisinger, Valparaiso University School of Law; Gregory Shaffer, University of Wisconsin Law School; and Joel Trachtman, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. SUMMARY ...
Liberalizing markets and sexuality
Jan 01, 1999; ... The panel was convened at 3:15 p.m., Thursday, March 25, by its Chair, Aeyal M. Gross,* Tel-Aviv University, Faculty of Law, who introduced the panelists: Yishai Blank, Harvard University Law School; and Kristen L. Walker, Columbia University School of Law. Dan Danielsen, Foley, Hoag & ...
Mapping intersections of critical race theory, postcolonial studies and international law
Jan 01, 1999; ... The panel was convened at 3:15 p.m., Thursday, March 25, by its Chair, Elizabeth M. Iglesias, who introduced the panelists: Ediberto Roman, St. Thomas university School of Law; and Natsu Taylor Saito, Georgia State University College of Law. REMARKS BY ELIZABETH M. IGLESIAS* ...
Political corruption in market democracies
Jan 01, 1999; ... The panel was convened at 2 p.m., Saturday, March 27, by its Chair, Joel R. Paul,* who introduced the panelists: Helen E. Hartnell, Golden Gate University School of Law; John K.M. Ohnesorge, Harvard Law School; and Claire Moore Dickerson, St. John's University School of Law. Despite the ...
The power of law: The promises and prospects of legal reform worldwide
Jan 01, 1999; ... The panel was convened at 10-30 a.m., Thursday, March 25, by its Chair, Adrien K. Wing, University of Iowa College of Law, who introduced the panelists: Carlos Rodrigo de la Barra Cousino, Diego Portales University Law School; Alexander N. Domrin, Russian Foundation for Legal Reform; Timothy L ....
Rethinking the enforcement of human rights
Jan 01, 1999; ... The working group was convened at 2 p.m., Saturday, March 27, by its Chair, Marcella David, Professor, University of Iowa College of Law, Iowa City, IA, who introduced the panelists: Ibrahim Gassama, Associate Professor, University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene, OR; Leila Hilal, Master of Laws ...
U.S. State and local trade sanctions: Can Massachusetts "free Burma"?
Jan 01, 1999; ... The panel was convened at 2 p.m., Saturday, March 27, by its Chair, Abby Cohen Smutney, White & Case, Washington, DC, who introduced the panelists: Peter J. Spiro, Associate Professor, Hofstra University School of Law, Hempstead, NY; Robert Stumberg, Georgetown University, Washington, DC; ...
Superpower attitudes toward indigenous peoples and group rights
Jan 01, 1999; ... by S. James Anaya* Much has been said about the historical complicity of international law-or dominant thinking about international law-in the oppression of minority and indigenous peoples and their cultures. So it is perhaps with some irony that groups that are identified as indigenous ...
Culture: Anthropology's old vice or international law's new virtue?
Jan 01, 1999; ... CULTURE: ANTHROPOLOGY'S OLD VICE OR INTERNATIONAL LAW'S NEW VITRUE? As an anthropologist new to the field of international law and one who has been asked to address the theme of "culture," I find myself in an ambivalent position. As I have elaborated elsewhere,' anthropologists have ...
The legal culture and the culture culture
Jan 01, 1999; ... by Thomas M. Franck* In this lecture, I will argue that the relation between international law and culture should be understood as interactions between two radically different cultures: the legal culture and the culture culture. This interaction may be revitalized, but it ...
The legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons and the logic of nuclear deterrence: A legal-sociological analysis
Jan 01, 1999; ... by Kazuko Hirose Kawaguchi* THE MEANING OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW IN RELATION TO THE INTERNATIONALIST LEGACY Traditionally, sociologists and scholars in the field of international law have not engaged in dialogue regarding the issue of nuclear weapons, specifically ...
Human rights and sexuality: First steps toward articulating a rights framework for claims to sexual rights and freedoms
Jan 01, 1999; ... by Alice M. Miller INTRODUCTION This paper is part of a larger activist project exploring the ways in which formal human rights claims can contribute to the lively global discussion on sexuality and rights. Through this paper and other presentations, I hope to reach activists and ...
The globalization of law: ADR as "soft" technology
Jan 01, 1999; ... As historians might tell us, law and globalization are not new phenomena. The spread of empire has often had law as its handmaiden. Examples abound-Roman law, Islamic law, the common and civil laws of European nations. But since the empires of classical times and the colonial period that ...
The academic as cosmopolite: Legal visions of international governance in the twentieth century
Jan 01, 1999; ... The panel was convened at 1:30 p.m., Thursday, March 25, by its Chair, Martti Koskenniemi,* who introduced the panelists: Outi Korhonen, Harvard Law School; Edward Morgan, University of Toronto; Annalisa Ciampi, University of Florence; Bardo Fassbender, University of Berlin; and Michael Byers, ...
Is the Americans with Disabilities Act exportable? Disability rights in international perspective
Jan 01, 1999; ... The panel was convened at 12:15 p.m., Saturday, March 27, by its Chair, Stanley S. Herr, who introduced the panelists: Akiko Ito, UN Programme on Disability; Mark C. Weber, DePaul University College of Law; and Andrew J. Imparato, National Council on Disability. THE INTERNATIONAL ...
The civilian/military culture and the impact on international law
Jan 01, 1999; ... The panel was convened at 2 p.m., Saturday, March 27, by its Chair, Mike Noone, Professor, Catholic University School of Law, Washington, DC, who introduced the panelists: Deborah Avant, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations, George Washington University, ...
Cultural rights and normativity
Jan 01, 1999; ... The panel was convened at 2 p.m., Saturday, March 27, by its Chair, Thomas Skouteris, European Law Research Center, Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, MA, who introduced the panelists: Gayl Anglin, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; Peter Halewood, Associate Professor, ...
The culture of cyberspace
Jan 01, 1999; ... The panel was convened at 2 p.m., Saturday, March 27, by its Chair, Paul Schiff Berman, University of Connecticut School of Law, who introduced the panelists: Joseph J. Beard, St. John's University School of Law, New York, N.Y.; James Boyle, Washington College of Law, American University, ...
International human rights and comparative law
Jan 01, 1999; ... The working group was convened at 1:30 p.m., Thursday, March 25, by its Chair, Rafael X. Zahralddin-Aravena,* who introduced the panelists: Francisco Forrest Martin, Rights International (Mr. Martin also facilitated the discussion); Mark Tushnet, Georgetown University; Stephan J. Schnably, ...
Beyond the neoliberal agenda? Human rights activism and Muslim cosmopolitans
Jan 01, 1999; ... by David M. Mednicoff* Is there ground for cooperation and collaboration between international human rights activists and contemporary Muslim intellectuals? Drawing on data from a larger study of social mobilization of intellectual opposition groups in Morocco and Tunisia,1 I conclude ...
New approaches to comparative law
Jan 01, 1999; ... The panel was convened at 2 p.m., Friday, March 26, by its Chair, Marie-Claire Belleau, Universit6 Laval, Quebec, Canada, who introduced the panelists: Larry C. Becker, University of Tulsa College of Law, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Jorge Esquirol, Northeastern University School of Law, Boston, MA; Anne ...
The rule of law and the authority of culture
Jan 01, 1999; ... The panel was convened at 10:30 a.m., Friday, March 26, by its Chair, Richard B. Bilder, who introduced the panelists: Adeno Addis, Tulane University Law School; Milner S. Ball, Universiy of Georgia School of Law; and Hope Lewis, Northeastern University School of Law. REMARKS BY RICHARD ...
Sociology of ASIL
Jan 01, 1999; ... The panel was convened at 10:30 a.m., Friday, March 26, by its Chair, Bryant Garth, American Bar Foundation, who introduced the panelists: Robert O. Keohane, Duke University, Durham, NC; Oscar Schachter, Past President, ASIL, Professor, Columbia University School of Law, New York, NY; Anne-Marie ...
The grass under the global elephant
Jan 01, 1999; ... The panel was convened at 3:15 p.m., Thursday, March 25, by its Chair, Shirley Scott,* who introduced the panelists: Alicia Abreu, Temple University School of Law; Anna Gelpern, U.S. Department of the Treasury; and Pharis Harvey, International Labor Rights Fund. The panel discussed the ...
Cautionary tales
Jan 01, 1999; ... As one of the founders of a small nongovernmental organization (NGO) called the Network of East-West Women, I was preoccupied in the early 1990s with keeping a little list of the difficulties facing the often isolated and beleaguered East and Central European feminist colleagues who made up half ...