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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

International Law IN A TIME OF CHANGE

2017 ABILA Mid-West Regional Conference

2017 : ABILA Mid-West Regional Conference

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8:30am - 9:00amCorridor 140

9:00am - 9:15amRoom 165

9:15am - 10:30amRoom 165

10:30am - 10:45amCorridor 140

10:45am - 12:00pmRoom 165

12:00pm - 12:15pmCorridor 140

REGISTRATION

Welcoming Remarks

Dean Bruce Smith, University of Denver Sturm College of Law Professor Ved Nanda, University of Denver Sturm College of Law and Director, The Ved Nanda Center for International & Comparative Law

PANEL 1: The Effectiveness - or Ineffectiveness - of the Inter-American System in the Protection of Human Rights

Moderator and Presenter:Professor Andrew Reid, University of Denver Sturm College of LawU.S. Exceptionalism and the Effectiveness of the “Unenforceable” I-A Commission Rulings

Speakers: Professor Thomas Antkowiak, Director, International Human Rights Clinic, Seattle University School of Law - The Inter-American Court of Human Rights: Innovations and Setbacks from a Victim-Centered PerspectiveEric Jantz, Esq., Staff Attorney, New Mexico Environmental Law Center - The View from the Grassroots: a Community Perspective on the Inter-American CommissionProfessor James Nafziger, Thomas B. Stoel Professor of Law and Director of International Law Programs, Willamette University College of Law, and Vice Chair of the International Law Association - The Inter-American Origins and Orientation of Cultural Heritage Law

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PANEL 2: Priorities for the New Administration in International Environmental Law

Moderator and Presenter:Professor Anastasia Telesetsky, University of Idaho School of Law

Speakers Professor Upendra Acharya, Gonzaga University Law School - Human Security in the 21st Century: What we Can Expect from the New Administration Professor Myanna Dellinger, University of South Dakota - Climate Change Law and Policy under the New Administration Professor Michael Fakhri, University of Oregon - A Renewed International Trade Law for a More Equitable Global Food RegimeProfessor Annecoos Wiersema, University of Denver Sturm College of Law - U.S. Engagement in International Wildlife Law

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5:30pmLaw Forum

INTERNATIONAL LAW LECTURE | Professor David Stewart, Georgetown University Law Center and President, ABILA

The New Restatement (Fourth) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States

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PANEL 3 : Sustainable Development: The Quest Continues

Moderator and Presenter:Professor Ved Nanda, University of Denver Sturm College of Law – The Journey From Millennial Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals

Speakers:Professor Lakshman Guruswamy, University of Colorado Law – Social Aspects of Sustainable Development GoalsJeremy Goldstein, JD’16, International Law Certificate in International Law, University of Denver Sturm College of Law – Indicators for Sustainable Development Goals

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PANEL 4 : Increasing Access to International Arbitration for Medium and Small Businesses

Moderator and Presenter: Todd Wells, Esq., Gleason Wells PC, and Adjunct Professor, University of Denver Sturm College of Law and University of Colorado Law - Improving Access and Easing Challenges for SMBs Wanting to Include IA Clauses for Their Clients

Speakers: Coren Hinkle, Esq., Gleason Wells PC, Adjunct Professor, University of Denver Sturm College of Law – Challenges for Educators and Local Practitioners Entering the Field of International Arbitration Giedre Stasiunaite, JD’16, LLM’16 International Business Transactions, International Law Certificate in International Law and Human Rights, University of Denver Sturm College of Law – Challenges and Barriers to the Practice of International Arbitration

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International Law Lecture | James Anaya, Dean and Charlies Inglis Thompson Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law

The Power of Ideas and the Indigenous Rights Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Human Rights System

Reception

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Upendra Acharya, Professor of Law, Gonzaga University Law SchoolDr. Upendra D. Acharya has written numerous articles on international law, Constitutional law, administrative law, and comparative law as well as presented papers and delivered lectures in national and international conferences in the North and South America, Asia, Europe, and Middle East. Prof. Acharya has represented landmark cases in

the Supreme Court of Nepal and worked toward eradicating bonded labor systems in far western areas of Nepal.

He is a Senior Research Fellow of Center for Teaching and Research of WTO Disputes of the Southwest University of Political Science and Law (SWUPL), Chongqing, China; a member of the American Branch of International Law Association Committee on the Teaching of International Law and its Human Rights Committee; and the national legal expert on Nepal and India for the Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking (OCFT) at the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs.

James Anaya, Dean and Charles Inglis Professor of Law, University of Colorado School of LawJames Anaya has taught and written extensively on international human rights and issues concerning indigenous peoples. Among his numerous publications are his acclaimed book, Indigenous Peoples in International Law (Oxford Univ. Press (1996); 2d ed. (2004)), and his widely used textbook, International Human Rights: Problems

of Law, Policy and Process (Wolters/Kluwer, 6th ed. 2011) (with Hurst Hannum and Dinah Shelton). He served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples from May 2008 to June 2014.

Dean Anaya was appointed by the President of the United Nations General Assembly to facilitate consultations on enhancing means of participation by the indigenous peoples within the United Nations system (2016-), and an appointed member of the Advisory Committee on International Law for U.S. Department of State (2012-).

Thomas Antkowiak, Associate Professor of Law and Director, Latin America Program, Seattle University School of LawProfessor Antkowiak teaches international human rights law and public international law. His research focuses upon the Inter-American human rights system, reparations for rights violations, indigenous rights, and transitional

justice. He has directed the International Human Rights Clinic since 2008 where he and his students have directly represented people around the globe before the Inter-American Commission and Court of Human Rights, the African

Commission and Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights, UN human rights institutions, and foreign jurisdictions. He is co-founder and co-chair of the American International Law Society’s Latin America Interest Group and author of a forthcoming book entitled The American Convention On Human Rights: Essential Rights, Oxford University Press.

Myanna Dellinger, Associate Professor of Law, University of South Dakota School of LawProfessor Dellinger researches and writes extensively on the intersection between international business and environmental law with a particular focus on climate change as well as on public participation in government decision-making. Her writings have been used and cited extensively by, for example, the United Nations Economic

Commission for Europe, the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the OECD. Professor Dellinger is the editor-in-chief of the ContractsProfs Blog, where her blogs often address how to protect the weaker constituents of society as

well as environmental issues that intersect with business aspects. She started and hosts the popular Global Energy and Environmental Law Podcast on iTunes, which currently has approximately 225,000 listeners. Professor Dellinger is the Chair of the International Environmental Law section of the American Branch of the International Law Association and Program Chair of the International Law Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association.

Michael Fakhri, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oregon School of LawProfessor Fakhri teaches in the areas of international economic law, commercial law, law and development, and food and agriculture. He is currently working on questions of how Inuit seal hunting in the Arctic is defining the relationship between international trade law and concepts of sovereignty. He is a faculty member of the

Environmental and Natural Resource Program where he co-leads the Food Resiliency Project. HIs other research interests include Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), trade and development in the Middle East,

public international law, international legal history, legal accounts of imperialism, and law and globalization. He has given talks at

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Harvard Law School, Princeton University, Brown University, Cornell University, London School of Economics, University of Cambridge, the American University of Beirut, and the American University in Cairo. Professor Fakhri received his doctorate from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, LL.M. from Harvard Law School, LL.B. from Queen’s University, and B.Sc in biology from the University of Western Ontario. Prior to pursuing graduate studies, he began his legal career with one of Canada’s leading business law firms, later shifting to a practice in social justice advocacy.

Jeremy GoldsteinJeremy Goldstein earned a J.D. and C.S. in International Law from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law in December 2016, and his Bachelor’s at City University of New York - Baruch College in 2006. He was awarded the Leonard v.B Sutton International legal writing award, and on scholarship from the Nanda Center, attended the

Hague Academy of International Law in the Netherlands in the summer of 2016. Jeremy is exceptionally proud to have worked as a research assistant to the Professor Ved Nanda throughout school, and to work with Sustainable

Development Strategies Group (SDSG) based in Dillon, Colorado. He was an editor and published author for the Denver Journal of International Law and Policy in addition to providing research and legal writing for SDSG and Professor Nanda. Jeremy has also worked overseas in Asia, as an intern at Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business in Yangon, Myanmar in 2014-2015, and for YKVN Law in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam in 2015.

Lakshman Guruswamy, Nicholas Doman Professor of International Environmental Law at the University of Colorado at BoulderProfessor Guruswamy is a recognized expert in International Environmental and Energy Law. He teaches International Environmental Law and Energy Justice at CU where he is also the Director of the Center for Energy & Environment

Security (CEES) of the University of Colorado. This is an interdisciplinary Center that seeks to find practical renewable energy solutions for the energy deficits confronting the globe, and pursues environmental justice for peoples of the

developing world. He is widely published in international energy and environmental law in legal and scientific journals, and his present scholarship is focused on access to energy for the Other Third of the world. Prior to joining the University of Colorado, he taught in Sri Lanka, the UK, and the Universities of Iowa and Arizona. Guruswamy is a frequent speaker at scholarly meetings around the country and the world. He is the author of: International Environmental Law in a Nutshell (4d ed. 2011), and the co-author of: International Environmental Law and World Order (2nd. 1999), Biological Diversity: Converging Strategies (1998), Arms Control and the Environment (2001), and other books. He has also authored numerous scholarly articles published in law reviews as well as peer reviewed journals.

Coren Hinkle, Esq., Shareholder and practitioner, Gleason Wells PC, Adjunct Professor, University of Denver Sturm College of Law Mr. Hinkle acquired his JD from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and his MBA from the University of Denver Daniels College of Business. Mr. Hinkle’s practice is primarily focused on commercial and corporate law

disputes, international arbitration, class action litigation, and mergers and acquisitions, both foreign and domestic. Mr. Hinkle teaches US business law at the Grenoble School of Management in Grenoble France. He also teaches

international arbitration at the University of Denver. His international arbitration course is experiential in nature and prepares the students to participate in the Willem C. Vis Moot competition, the world’s premier international arbitration moot competition held in

Vienna and Hong Kong.

Eric Jantz, Esq., Staff Attorney for the New Mexico Environmental Law CenterThe NMELC is a nonprofit, environmental justice law firm based in Santa Fe. Mr. Jantz began addressing uranium mining’s impacts on Diné (Navajo) citizens when he worked in a legal aid office in the Eastern Agency of the Navajo

Nation. Since he took the helm of the Law Center’s indigenous mining program in 2001, he has become one of the country’s leading public-interest attorneys to work on uranium mining issues at the local, tribal, state, federal and

international levels. Under his leadership, the Law Center has successfully fought uranium mining proposed for a drinking water aquifer that underlies several Diné communities in western New Mexico and for Mount Taylor, one of the most culturally significant sites in the Southwest. He is counsel in an action before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights by a Diné organization challenging the continuing water and natural resource contamination by the government’s failure to properly regulate the extensive uranium mining and milling industry on the lands of the Navajo Nation. The Petition asserts human rights violations of the rights to life, health, cultural and religious integrity, and property, individual and collective.


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James Nafziger, Thomas B. Stoel Professor of Law and Director of International Law Programs, Willamette University College of Law, and Vice Chair of the International Law Association Professor Nafziger is also Honorary Professor of the East China University of Politics and Law, and has been a member of the full-time law faculties at the University of Oregon, Marquette University (as the Boden Visiting Professor), the

National Autonomous University of Mexico (as a Fulbright Lecturer), and the National and Otgontenger Universities in Mongolia (as a Fulbright lecturer). He has also taught extensively at the University of California-Davis, University of

Wisconsin, Trinity College in Dublin, the University of Barcelona, and other institutions. At Willamette, Nafziger has focused his teaching and scholarship in the fields of international law and dispute resolution, conflict of laws, international business transactions, cultural heritage law, sports law, immigration and refugee law, comparative law, and international arbitration and litigation. He initiated and served as a reporter of Oregon’s codification of choice-of-law rules for torts and contracts (the world’s first common law jurisdiction to do so).Professor Nafziger has authored or edited a dozen books, more than 140 published articles and chapters in books, and 100 other writings in.

Ved Nanda, Evans University Professor and Thompson G. Marsh Professor of Law, University of Denver, Sturm College of Law and Director, the Ved Nanda Center for International & Comparative LawProfessor Nanda has taught at the University of Denver since 1965. In addition to his scholarly achievements, he is significantly involved in the global international law community. He is Past President of the World Jurist Association

and now Honorary President, former honorary Vice President of the American Society of International Law and now its counselor, and a member of the advisory council of the United States Institute of Human Rights. He also serves as

an elected member of the American Law Institute and as a council member for the American Bar Association Section of International Law. In 2006 Professor Nanda was honored with a $1 million founding gift from DU alumni Doug and Mary Scrivner to launch the Ved Nanda Center for International and Comparative Law. In February 2004, Professor Nanda was awarded the “Gandhi, King, Ikeda Award for Community Peace Building” from Soka Gakkai International and Morehouse College. In 1990 in Beijing, China, Professor Nanda was presented with the “World Legal Scholar” award by the World Jurist Association. He was also the recipient of the United Nations Association Human Rights Award in 1997. He has received honorary doctorates from Soka University in Tokyo, Japan and from Bundelkhand University, Jhansi, India. He is widely published in law journals and national magazines, has authored or co-authored 22 books in the various fields of international law and over 180 chapters and major law review articles, and has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor and Scholar at a number of universities in the United States and abroad.

Andrew Reid, Esq., Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Denver, Sturm College of LawProfessor Reid teaches courses in Environmental Justice and Ethics, and International & Human Rights Law of Indigeneous Peoples at Denver Law. He also practices trial and appellate law with Steinberg & Springer PC, and as a private practitioner which has resulted in over 40 published decisions setting legal precedent in many

areas of law. His legal activism began with his legal studies at the University of Oklahoma where he organized the legal defenses of prison reform and Native American activists; this led to his position as staff counsel to the Black

Hills Alliance in 1978, a unique coalition of Native American, ranch, environmental, and peace activists in South Dakota, where he successfully challenge the planned wholesale mining of the Black Hills for uranium by a consortium of multinational energy corporations. Reid is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma (BA, BLS, JD) and the University of Denver Sturm College of Law Natural Resources/Environmental Law & Policy/Water Law & Policy LL.M program.

Giedre StasiunaiteGiedre Stasiunaite is a recent graduate from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, where in addition to a J.D., she earned an LL.M in International Business Transactions, the International Law Certificate, and the Interdisciplinary Certificate in International Law and Human Rights in collaboration with Josef Korbel School

of International Studies. During her studies, Mrs. Stasiunaite successfully represented her school in multiple international moots, such as Willem C. Vis International Arbitration Moot, Arbitration Quest at Konrad & Partners in

Vienna, Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot in London, and LL.M International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Washington, D.C. She also coached students who later competed in similar moots.

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David Stewart, Professor of Law at University of Georgetown Law, co-Director of the Global Law Scholars Program, co-Director of the Center on Transnational Business and the Law, and the President of the American Branch of the International Law AssociationProfessor Stewart joined the faculty as Visiting Professor of Law following his retirement from the U. S. Department

of State, where he served as Assistant Legal Adviser for Private International Law. Previously he had been Assistant Legal Adviser for Diplomatic Law and Litigation, for African Affairs, for Human Rights and Refugees, for Law Enforcement

and Intelligence, and for International Claims and Investment Disputes, as well as Special Assistant to the Legal Adviser. He was Adjunct Professor for over 25 years and received Georgetown’s Charles Fahy award for distinguished adjunct faculty teaching in 2003-2004. He co-directs the Global Law Scholars Program, directs the Center on Transnational Business and the Law, and teaches courses in public and private international law, foreign relations law, international immunities, international criminal law and civil litigation.

Professor Stewart is President of the American Branch of the International Law Association, a member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law, and the Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on Private International Law. The American Law Institute selected him to serve as one of the reporters working on the Restatement (Fourth), Foreign Relations Law of the United States. He co-edited the multi-volume Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law for the years 1990-2003. With Professors Luban and O’Sullivan, he co-authored International and Transnational Criminal Law (Aspen 2nd ed., 2014).

Anastasia Telesetsky, Professor of Law at the University of Idaho School of Law, Chair of the International Environmental Law Section of the American Branch of the International Law Association Professor Telesetsky joined the University of Idaho College of Law in 2009, after eight years of practicing as an attorney in California, Washington, and abroad. Her practice focused on public international law and

environmental law. She had the distinction of representing the Government of Ethiopia before the Ethiopia-Eritrea Claims Commission at the Permanent Court of Arbitration. In 2003 and 2004, she was a Bosch Fellow in Germany

where she worked for the German Foreign Ministry on promoting international food security and assisted in drafting guidelines on implementation for the “Right to Food”. As a Fulbright Fellow and a Berkeley Human Rights Center Fellow, she collaborated with communities in the Philippines and Papua New Guinea on developing culturally appropriate legal solutions to environmental protection problems. In addition to bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Anthropology, Professor Telesetsky earned her law degree from the University of California-Berkeley (Boalt Hall) and an LLM in International Law from the University of British Columbia.

Todd Wells, Esq., Founding shareholder, Gleason Wells, PC, Adjunct Professor University of Denver Sturm College of LawMr. Wells holds multiple degrees including a BA in anthropology from the University of Tennessee, a JD from the University of Denver, an MBA from the University of Colorado, and a Master of Laws (LLM) in arbitration and

alternative dispute resolution from the University of Hong Kong. Mr. Wells’ law practice has focused on traditional commercial, corporate, and employment law transactions, and includes experience with international service and

sales agreements, intellectual property registration and transactions, business structures, and other classic business needs between businesses large and small. Mr. Wells teaches intensive experiential-style courses as an adjunct professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law in international commercial arbitration, international investment arbitration and international sales law. Mr. Wells recently joined the University of Colorado law school as an adjunct law professor where he will teach a domestic arbitration class beginning in Fall 2017.

Annecoos Wiersema, Professor of Law at the University of Denver Sturm College of LawProfessor Wiersema holds an S.J.D. from Harvard Law School in International Law and Environmental Law, and an LL.B. (Hons) from The London School of Economics and Political Science. Prof. Wiersema’s research focuses on international environmental law, with emphasis on international wildlife law, species and biodiversity conservation, and forest conservation. Her most recent work addresses debates about markets for endangered species and the

REDD+ program under the international climate change regime. In addition, she writes about the structure of the international environmental legal system, having addressed the role of conferences of the parties in international law-making.

Professor Wiersema is the former Director of the International Legal Studies Program at the Sturm College of Law (2013-2015) and former Ved P. Nanda Chair. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, she was an Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law and worked in the Denver office of Arnold and Porter LLP as a litigation associate. Professor Wiersema was the George W. Foley, Jr. Fellow in Environmental Law at Harvard Law School from 1999-2000 and spent time as a Visiting Scholar at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2001.

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