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Cleveland Magazine feature profiled Case School of Law War Crimes Research Lab students

An April 2004 Cleveland Magazine feature story, details how Case School of Law War Crimes Research Lab students prepared legal memos to aid the Special Court for Sierra Leone prosecute former Liberian president Charles Taylor. Visit the magazine's website to read the full story: http://www.clevelandmagazine.com


Current Controversies in Cybercrime
Jonathan Clough, Senior Lecturer
Monash University, Australia

Case International Law Program Ranked 16th
Case International Law Program Ranked 16th
U.S. News & World Report 2008 Specialty Area Rankings

NSA Wiretapping Controversy
February 9, 2006

NSA Wiretapping Controversy
Mock Congressional Hearing
Prof Ruth Wedgwood, Johns Hopkins University, Wash DC
Prof David Cole, Georgetown

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Greater Cleveland International Lawyers Group--Lunch Meeting

"UN War Crimes Tribunals: What Works and What Doesn't?"
2008
"UN War Crimes Tribunals: What Works and What Doesn't?"
Larry D. Johnson, Assistant Secretary General for Legal Affairs, United Nations

2007
"Assisting and Advising the Trial of Saddam Hussein: An International Legal Perspective"
Eric H. Blinderman, Chief Legal Counsel & Associate Deputy
to the Regime Crimes Liaison Office, U.S. Department of Justice
(on special leave from Proskauer Rose LLP, New York)

2006
"Ghostwriting the Iraqi Constitution"
Paul Williams, Rebecca Grazier Professor of Law & International Relations
American University Washington College of Law

2005
"From Nuremberg to The Hague: Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the
Founding of the Nuremberg Tribunal"
Prof Leila Sadat, Washington University and
former Nuremberg prosecutor Prof Henry King, Case School of Law

2004
“Iraq, Terrorism, & International Justice: An Insider's Perspective"
Nicholas Rostow, General Counsel, US Mission to the UN

2003
"Sovereign Insolvency"
Sean Hagan, Deputy General Counsel, International Monetary Fund

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Global Security Law and Policy

"The Bomber Generals & the New Laws of War: Terror, Romance, & American Air Power"
"Pakistan: Competing Identities within a New State"
Michael Fisher, Robert S. Danforth Professor of History
Oberlin College
Wednesday, November 14, 2007

"Prosecuting Terror in an Age of Cynicism: Military Commissions, Guantanamo Bay, and the Law"
"Prosecuting Terror in an Age of Cynicism: Military Commissions, Guantanamo Bay, and the Law"
Captain Keith A. Petty
U.S. Army JAG Corps
March 24, 3008

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Frederick K. Cox International Law Center Symposium

"World Conference on Combating Terrorist Financing"

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National Security

"Torture: A History of the Present"
"Torture: A History of the Present"
April 14, 2008
Jameel Jaffer, Director
National Security Project, American Civil Liberties Union

"Secrecy and National Security"
October 30, 2007
Award-Winning Journalist Professor Ted Gup
Case Western Reserve University

Ambassador Perla Carvalho-Soto
Advisor for Disarmament Affairs
Mexico
(Mexican Perspectives)

Professor Alexander Domrin
Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law
Moscow
(U.S.-Russian Security)

Ambassador Thomas Graham
President of LAWS
Washington, D.C.
(The Canadian Report)

General Charles Horner
(USAF-Ret.), Commander of U.S. Air
Forces in the Persian Gulf War
(Post -Cold War World)

Professor Barry Kelman
DePaul University
(Deterring Chemical and Biological Weapons)

Ambassador Peggy Mason
former Canadian Ambassador for Arms
Control and Disarmament Affairs
(The NATO Alliance)

Dr. Jack Mendelsohn
Professor of Political Science,
U.S. Naval Academy
(Nuclear Weapons in the Cold War)

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Int'l Human Rights Film Series

The Devil Came on Horseback
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
a film by Rory Kennedy
Feb. 21, 2008
hosted by Prof. Timothy Casey, Case Western Reserve University School of Law

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Canada-United States Law Institute Annual Conference

The World's Longest Undefended Border: Gateway or Checkpoint?
The Post-9/11 "Safe and Secure" Canada-U.S. Border in the Era of Global Supply Chains
April 17-19, 2008 * Moot Courtroom

2007 - Comparative Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship in Canada and the United States

2006 - Comparative Aspects of Innovation in Canada and the United States

2005 - Understanding Each Other Across the Largest Undefended Border in History

2004 - Multiple Actors in Canada-US Relations

2003 - Security and the Economy in the North American Context

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War Crimes Research Symposium

"To Prevent and to Punish"
2007-2008 "To Prevent and to Punish"
2006-2007 "Lessons from the Saddam Trial"
2005-2006 "Torture and the War on Terror"
2004-2005 "Terrorism on Trial"
2003-2004 "Sexual Assaults of International Consequence"
2002-2003 "The Role of Justice in Building Peace"

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Frederick K. Cox Int'l Law Center Lecture in Global Legal Reform

Luis Moreno-Ocampo
Prosecutor, International Criminal Court
October 16, 2007 * 4:30-5:30 PM * Moot Courtroom

2006-2007
Judge Thomas Buergenthal
International Court of Justice

2005-2006
Philippe Kirsch, President
International Criminal Court

2004-2005
Ambassador Hans Corell
Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs
& Legal Counsel to the U.N. 1994 - 2004

2003-2004
"Accountability for State Crimes"
Aryeh Neier, President
Open Society Institute & George Soros Foundation

2002-2003
"Cloning & Human Dignity"
Bartha-Maria Knoppers
Professor of Law & Senior Researcher
Universite de Montreal

2001-2002
"Prosecuting Rape as a War Crime"
Justice Richard J. Goldstone
Constitutional Court of South Africa,
Chairman, International Commission Kosovo

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Klatsky Seminar in Human Rights

"Before Victims Become Victims: Preventing Genocide & Mass Murder”
January 15, 2008 * 4:30-5:30 PM * Moot Courtroom
W. Michael Reisman
Yale Law School

2006-2007
Kenneth Roth
Human Rights Watch

2005-2006
Eli Rosenbaum, Director
Department of Justice Office of Special Investigations

2004-2005
David M. Crane, Chief Prosecutor
Special Court for Sierra Leone
(African Dictatorships)

2003-2004
Samantha Power, Pulizter Prize Winner
Harvard University
(Genocide)

2002-2003
Honorable Albert L. Sachs, Justice
Constitutional Court of South Africa
(S. Africa's Constitutional Democracy)

2001-2002
Harold Hongju Koh, Dean
Yale Law School
(Globalization & Human Rights)

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Roe Green Foundation Conference presented by the Institute for Global Security Law & Policy

"Sacred Violence: Religion & Terrorism"
The Roe Green Foundation Conference
presented by the Institute for Global Security Law and Policy
March 30, 2007 * daylong
"Sacred Violence: Religion & Terrorism"

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Niagara International Moot Court

March 9-11, 2006
Case School of Law hosts 30th Annual Competition

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International Intellectual Property

2006-2007
Law, Technology & the Arts Symposium
presented by the Center for Law, Technology & the Arts
cosponsored by the Cox Center
"WIPO Copyright Treaties 10 Years Later"

2003-2004
"The Future of International Intellectual Property:
International Relations in Information Products"
co-sponsored by the Center for Law, Technology & the Arts

1999-2000
Graham Dutfield
Consultant Oxford University
(Indigenous Knowledge)

Professor Rosemary Coombe
University of Toronto
(Biodiversity)

Professor Peter Jaszi
American University
(Data Collection)

Professor Keith Maskus
University of Colorado
College of Economics
(Economic Development)

Professor David Post
Temple University
(Cyberspace)

Professor Kal Raustiala
UCLA
(Compliance)

Professor Jerome Reichman
Vanderbilt University
(TRIPS)

Eric Smith, President
International Intellectual Property Alliance
(Noncompliance)

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Student International Law Society

November 2006
"Collapse of the Doha Rounds"
Rajesh Aggarwal, International Trade Centre

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Annual Cox Center Debate

2004-2005
"Will Saddam Hussein Get a Fair Trial?"
A Debate on the Fairness of the Iraqi Special Tribunal
between Professor Michael Scharf
& Hussein's lawyer Dr. Curtis Doebbler

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International Arbitrage
of Controversial Medical Technologies

Arthur Caplan, Ph.D.
Professor & Director, Center for Bioethics
University of Pennsylvania
(Human Cloning)

George J. Annas, JD, MPH
Professor & Chair, Health Law Department
Boston University School of Public Health
(Human Cloning Treaty)

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International Crimes Against Women

Peggy Kuo
Office of the Prosecutor
International Criminal Tribunal
(Women & War Crimes)

Martina Vandenberg
Europe Researcher, Women's Rights Division
Human Rights Watch
(Trafficking in Prostitution)

Patricia Viseur Sellers
Office of the Prosecutor
International Criminal Tribunal
(Gender Crimes)

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Legal Foundations for Peace
& Prosperity in the Middle East

Professor George Bisharat
Hastings College of Law
(Human Rights and Peace)

Professor David Fidler
Indiana University
(Foreign Investment)

Professor John Quigley
Ohio State University
(Palestinian Rights)

Professor Shimon Shetreet
Hebrew University
(Peace Process)

Professor Adrien Wing
Iowa University
(Constitutionalism)

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Comparative Employment & Labor Law

Commissioner Sarah Christie
Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration
(South African Dispute Resolution)

Professor Richard A. Epstein
University of Chicago Law School
(New Zealand Reform)

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Human Rights

2003-2004
"Human Rights & Extraction Industries in Africa"
Ian Gary, Catholic Relief Services

"Middle East Peace"
Lt. Col. Amos Guiora, Israeli Defense Forces

"Human Rights & Non-Governmental Organizations"
Holly Bartling, Columbia University
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Justice Vladlen Vereschchetin
International Court of Justice
(Current Challenges for the World Court)

Professor Michael C. Davis
Chinese University of Hong Kong
(Chinese Federalism)

Professor Peter Schuck
Yale University
(Immigration at Turn of Century)

Professor Nora Demleitner
St. Mary's University
(Trafficking in Prostitution)

Justice Albert Sachs
Constitutional Court, South Africa
(Constitutionalism)

Professor Tibor Varady
Central European University
(Law and Ethnicity)

Harold Koh
Professor of International Law
Yale Law School
(Human Rights Strategies)

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International Economic Law

Matthew Fisher
IMF Policy Development & Review Department
(Sovereign Debt)

Richard Gordon
IMF Senior Counsel
(Kenyan Government)

Sean Hagan
IMF Assistant General Counsel
(Asian Financial Crisis)