Speaker: Lech Garlicki
Former Judge of the European Court of Human Rights and Visiting Professor of Law, Washington University in Saint Louis
Professor Garlicki’s talk will be entitled Courts and Abusive Constitutionalism. It will explore the targeting of courts as part of a phenomenon known as “abusive constitutionalism”: when a democratically-elected regime exploits a nation’s legal and constitutional framework to consolidate power and weaken checks and balances. Professor Garlicki will focus on recent examples involving regimes in Hungary and his native Poland, and will reflect on how these countries’ experiences can serve as a cautionary tale for the United States.
Professor Garlicki served as a judge on the European Court of Human Rights from 2002 to 2012, and prior to that as a judge on the Constitutional Court of Poland. Currently serving as a Visiting Professor of Law at Washington University in Saint Louis, he has also taught courses at Yale, New York University, the University of Chicago, the University of Toronto, the University of Paris I (Sorbonne), and the University of Hong Kong. We are delighted to announce that Professor Garlicki will be joining Lewis & Clark Law as an adjunct professor starting in Fall 2024, teaching Comparative Law.
To reserve a lunch from Dang’s Thai Kitchen for this event, please RSVP here by February 1st. Vegan and meat lunch options will be provided.
A leading voice in Civil Procedure, Simona Grossi, Theodore A. Bruinsma Fellow Professor of Law at the Loyola Law School of Loyola Marymount University, is the 2022-23 International Law Distinguished Visitor with her lecture, “Substantive Due Process After Dobbs v. Jackson: A Principled Approach to Protect our Constitutional Rights Against the Current Challenges.”
Professor Grossi’s Lecture will discuss her cutting-edge paper, THE U.S. CONSTITUTION IS NOT A CODE: UNRAVELING THE IDEA AND THE MEANING OF SUBSTANTIVE DUE PROCESS, that was recently selected by the National Civil Justice Institute for presentation at a Southern Methodist University Symposium. Professor Grossi has granted us special permission to share an early release of the paper prior to its publication. The paper is attached as “Related Content” to this event listing.
Lunch with Tulinabo Mushingi, US Ambassador to Angola and São Tomé y Principe and former ambassador to Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, & Burkina Faso, together with Ambassador Niels Marquardt (retired), Lewis & Clark College Diplomat in Residence. Ambassadors Mushingi and Marquardt will talk about international career options, including at the State Department and foreign service, as well as other ways to work abroad. They are also happy to share some of the challenges they have faced and the fun they have had as America’s top diplomat in nine different African nations.
Join Professor George Foster as he discusses careers in international law with three Lewis & Clark Law School Graduates.
The 2021 Distinguished International Law Visitor is Philippe Sands, Professor of Laws and Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals, University College London, University of London. He will speak about the flight of Nazis from Germany to Argentina, as well as the origins of the legal concepts of genocide and crimes against humanity.
Attorneys Matthew Cohen and Jun Jin from the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Office of the General Counsel will provide an overview of operational and legal challenges involved in delivering humanitarian and development assistance abroad, and will also offer their perspectives on careers in international development.
Trade and investment disputes frequently concern environmental issues. Because both the WTO dispute settlement process and investment arbitration produce decisions that are binding, they can effectively make determinations about environmental issues. Drawing on my experience in both trade and investment disputes dealing with environmental issues, I will explore some of the advantages and disadvantages of the treatment of environmental issues in these dispute settlement processes. Also, the processes are under current criticism and questions arise whether reforms to them will have a positive or negative effect on the way environmental issues are dealt with. Finally, on the basis of my own experience I will look at other types of dispute settlement mechanisms that also deal with environmental matters, specifically negotiation and conciliation.
Prof. John H. Knox of Wake Forest University School of Law will speak on the intersection of human rights and climate change at Lewis & Clark Law School. Climate change has been called the greatest threat to human rights in the twenty-first century. The rapidly warming climate is already contributing to floods in India, droughts in southern Africa, and typhoons in the Philippines, and is threatening to displace communities from the Arctic to the South Pacific. How can a human rights perspective help to combat its worst effects? The title of his talk is “The Implications of Human Rights Law for Addressing Climate Change.”
Join us for an afternoon discussing the intersection between animals and trade. The Symposium aims to address the animal related issues embedded in U.S. and international trade regulations, with emphasis on CITES, the TPP, and horse related issues.
The Role of Lawyers in NATO
Please join the International Law Program in welcoming Professor George Bermann of Columbia Law School. Professor Bermann, who is one of the world’s leading experts in international arbitration and European Union law, will give a presentation on the topic of The Investor-State Arbitration Regime and European Union Law: On a Collision Course?
The Third Annual Younger Comparativists Committee Conference will be held on April 4-5, 2014, at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon. The conference will begin with an evening reception on Friday, April 4th, and continue with all-day concurrent panels on Saturday, April 5th.
For more information, please click here. Registration is closed at this time.
Attorney Ali Schneider, of Catholic Charities, will discuss current immigration programs designed to help people who have been victims of human trafficking, domestic violence, crime, torture and persecution. Food: Thai PK
Join visiting scholar Charles Anthony Smith in Room 105 of Miller Hall
on the College of Arts and Sciences campus for a scholarly look at
international human trafficking.
Geoffrey Orme-Evans, Environment and Climate Change Specialist at Humane Society International, will be joining us to speak about his work on climate change and agriculture. An LC Law alum, he leads HSI’s efforts to humanely address animal agriculture’s contribution to environmental degradation and climate change. Questions? Contact us at siel@lclark.edu.