CICL Symposium

Expanding Critical Spaces in International Law

March 23, 2012

9:30 am-4 pm plus evening reception

Presented by:
Whittier Law School, Center for International and Comparative Law, along with Whittier Law Review and International Law Society

Registration required. Click Here to Register
Cost: Free to students and faculty, $50 for community members and alumni

Schedule

9:15-10:15 am: Registration and Light Breakfast

10:15-10:30 am: Welcome Remarks

  • Penelope E. Bryan, Dean and Vice President, Whittier Law School

10:30-11:45 am: Panel: Regimes of State Security

  • Mark Fathi Massoud, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law and Institute for Health and Social Policy, McGill University
  • Sudha Setty, Professor of Law, Western New England University School of Law
  • Manoj Mate, Assistant Professor of Law, Whittier Law School
  • Moderator: Seval Yildirim, Associate Professor of Law and Director, Center for International and Comparative Law, Whittier Law School

12:00-1:00 pm: Lunch

1:00- 2:15: Keynote Address: Wanted Dead and Alive: Universality of Modern Law and the Enduring Colonial Exception

  • Tayaab Mahmud, Professor of Law and Director, Center for Global Justice, Seattle University School of Law

2:15-2:30 pm:Break

2:30- 4:00 pm: Panel: Comparative Law, Identity and Governance

  • Ernesto Hernández, Professor of Law, Chapman University School of Law
  • Deepa Badrinarayana, Associate Professor of Law, Chapman University School of Law
  • Timothy Webster, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Whittier Law School
  • Moderator: Manoj Mate, Assistant Professor of Law, Whittier Law School

4-5:30 pm: Cocktail Reception with live Middle Eastern music featuring John Bilezikjian on the oud

Directions & Parking

3333 Harbor Boulevard
Costa Mesa, CA 92626

Whittier Law School is located at the corner of Harbor Boulevard and Sunflower Street. From the 405, take the Harbor Blvd exit and head north. Continue on Harbor Blvd. until you reach Sunflower Street. Make a u-turn at Sunflower Street (you will be heading south on Harbor Blvd). The administration building will be the first right. Visitor parking is available in front.

Details

Continental breakfast and lunch will be served.
Complimentary parking.
Attorneys earn up to 4 credits of MCLE*

*Whittier Law School, provider # 2076, is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider and as such, certifies that this activity has been approved for MCLE credit in the amount of 4 hours General MCLE credit.