Sir Geoffrey Palmer Student Forum
On Wednesday, September 29 , 2010 from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Room 225 Sir Geoffrey Palmer conducted a student forum. During this informal presentation moderated by Professor Jonathan Carlson, Sir Geoffrey Palmer reflected on, and answered questions concerning, his remarkable and wide-ranging career and the roles and responsibilities of lawyers in international law. His accomplishments include, among other things, earning law degrees from Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand) and the University of Chicago; holding full-time law faculty positions at the University of Iowa and Victoria University of Wellington; election to the New Zealand Parliament as a member of the Labour Party; service in New Zealand as Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Minister of the Environment, and Prime Minister; founding the law firm of Palmer and Chen; representing New Zealand on the International Whaling Commission; and serving as president of the New Zealand Law Commission.
Podcast of Student Forum [.mpg]
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The John F. Murray Distinguished Lecture
The 2010 John F. Murray Distinguished Lecture was presented by Ms. Lucy Reed, Immediate Past President of the American Society of International Law and a Partner in the law firm of Freshfields, Bruckhaus and Derringer, New York on April 16. The title of the lecture was “Enforcing International Law Through Claims Commissions and Victim Compensation.” Recent years have seen the creation of several international courts, tribunals and commissions focused (more or less) on providing compensation or reparations to victims. Civil institutions include the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, the UN Compensation Commission (post-first Gulf War), the Claims Resolution for Dormant Swiss Bank Accounts in Switzerland (the first of several "Holocaust tribunals"), the Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo Real Property Commissions, and the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission (the first civil tribunal deciding claims of humanitarian law violations). The unprecedented victims' claims process for the International Criminal Court is being used for the first time in the Lubanga trial. Lucy Reed, who has been involved in several of these institutions as advocate, director or arbitrator, addressed how these tribunals can and do contribute to enforcement of international law.
Podcast of 2010 Murray Lecture by Lucy Reed [.mov]
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