Presentations on April 21:

9 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. -Download HEREor Play It Now!

Keynote: David Kennedy, Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

9:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. - Law and Development - Download HERE or Play It Now!

Moderator: Associate Dean Robert Wai, Osgoode Hall Law School

Keith Aoki, University of Oregon School of Law “Common Heritage Treatment in the International Plant Genetic Resources Regime Complex”

Ruth Gordon, Villanova University School of Law “Climate Justice and the Incoherence of Sustainable Development”

Marjorie Florestal, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law “On the Origin of Fear in the World Trade System”

Ibironke Odumosu, University of British Columbia Faculty of Law “Re-Constructing the International Law on Foreign Investment: The Third World and ICSID in the 21st Century”

Kerry Rittich, University of Toronto Law School “Global Labor Policy as Global Social Policy: Implications for the Path of Development”

Chantal Thomas, University of Minnesota Law School “Development and Finance: Balance of Payments Crises and International Economic Ordering”

11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. - Resistance and Legitimation - Download HERE or Play It Now!

Moderator: Balakrishnan Rajagopal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nathaniel Berman, Brooklyn Law School “Disciplining Resistance, or, the Law of Revolution”

Obiora Okafor, Osgoode Hall Law School (Canada) “TWAILing the Bakassi Case: Colonial Logic,Self-Determination, and the Future of International Law”

Anthony Farley, Boston College Law School “Fanon Today”“

Siba Grovogui, John Hopkins University "Law and Empire”“

Hari Osofsky, University of Oregon Law School "Climate Change, Sovereighty, and Environmental Injustice as a ‘Third World’ International Legal Strategy?”

Lunch - Download HERE

Bhupinder Chimni, Professor of International Law, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (India)

“Toward a TWAIL Theory of Interpretation:Some Notes”