California International Law Center
“Darfur Today”:
Wednesday, March 11, from 12 noon-1p.m. in the Moot Courtroom, Dr. Mohammed Ahmed Abdallah, Darfuri physician and human rights laureate, will speak on his experiences in Darfur, a conflict-ridden region of Sudan, and his hopes for peace and reconciliation. More info is available at http://www.law.ucdavis.edu/academics-clinicals/cilc/darfur.html. As you’ll see at that link, Dr. Mohammed Ahmed’s visit is the cornerstone of a unique partnership between our law school’s California International Law Center at King Hall (CILC), and the D.C.-based Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights, whose Human Rights Director, Monika Kalra Varma, is a King Hall alumna. Many thanks to cosponsoring student organizations – Black Law Students Association, Christian Legal Society, International Law Society, Jewish Law Students Association, Middle Eastern & South Asian Law Students Association, and Muslim Law Students Association. And sorry for conflicts between this and other events. This is our guest’s only public appearance in California, and it was the only time he could do it during his U.S. visit.
“Guantánamo Justice: Habeas Challenges & the Military Commission Trial of Salim Hamdan”:
A week from this Monday, March 16, from 12 noon-1p.m. in the Moot Courtroom, Harry H. Schneider, Jr., of Perkins Coie LLP, Seattle, and Bay Area attorney Mike Trinh will discuss the case of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, onetime driver for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, and habeas challenges posed by post-9/11 detainees. Schneider helped represent Hamdan in litigation that ended in the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006), and then at trial before a military commission at Guantánamo. Trinh drafted a brief in Hamdan and represents other persons held at Guantánamo. Moderator: Professor Diane Marie Amann, CILC Director. Thanks to our cosponsor, American Constitution. The Facebook link for that event is http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=134163200572.
“Overhauling International Dispute Resolution”:
Finally, a CILC Affiliate, our law school’s Journal of International Law & Policy, is sponsoring its annual daylong symposium a week from Friday, March 13, in the Moot Courtroom. As you’ll see at http://jilp.law.ucdavis.edu/Symposium.htm there’s a great lineup of speakers on “Overhauling International Dispute Resolution: Challenges & Potential Solutions to International Dispute Resolution in the 21st Century.” Thanks to Professors Andrea K. Bjorklund and Afra Afsharipour, both CILC Faculty Councilmembers, for their hard work as faculty advisors!
Inaugural Celebration of the California International Law Center at King Hall, UC Davis School of Law
Featuring Dr. Clayborne Carson on “Global Vision & Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.”
12 noon-1 p.m.; Wednesday, February 4, 2009; Wilkins Moot Courtroom
Introductions:
Dean Kevin R. Johnson
Professor Diane Marie Amann, CILC Director
Professor of History and founding Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute at Stanford University, and the editor of the King papers, Dr. Carson will talk from an international perspective about our namesake, who in 1964 became the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize, and who later invoked international law to explain his opposition to the Vietnam War.
Event Cosponsors:
Black Law Students Association and the International Law Society
Commission of Inquiry Workshop
January 16-17, 2009; University of California, Davis
CILC cosponsored a two-day roundtable to design recommendations for a commission to examine U.S. detention policies and practices after September 11, 2001. King Hall students Barbara Borkowski, Neta Borshansky, Monica L. Feltz, Agatha Panday, and Shuyan Phua served as rapporteurs, and CILC Director Diane Marie Amann gave opening remarks.
Other cosponsors:
Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas, University of California, Davis
College of Letters & Sciences at the University of California, Davis
International Justice Network, New York
National Litigation Project, at Yale Law School
