The Robert H. Jackson International and Comparative Programs Committee of Albany Law School and James Thuo Gathii, Governor George E. Pataki Professor of International Commercial Law, presented TWAIL III, The Third World and International Law Conference, from April 19-21 at Albany Law School.

This conference brought together a diverse group of scholars, practitioners and others engaged in Third World international legal scholarship and practice. TWAIL I was held in 1997 at Harvard Law School; TWAIL II at the Osgoode Hall School in 2001.

Presentations on April 20:

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

Keynote: Makau Wa Mutua, Floyd H. and Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar and SUNY Distinguished Professor, State University of New York at Buffalo

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

Moderator: Prof. Peter Halewood, Albany Law School

Maxwell Chibundu, University of Maryland School of Law “Cosmopolitanism, Liberal Internationalism, the Third World and International Law”

Gustavo Gozzi, Dipartimento di Politica, Instituzioni, Storia, University of Bologna (Italy) “History of International Law and Western Civilization”

Mekondjo Kaapanda, University of Cambridge “Civilized Negroes: Pan-African Petitions to the League of Nations”

Ileana Porras, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University “Liberal Cosmopolitanism or Cosmopolitan Liberalism? Reflections from International Law”

S E S S I O N 1 : War, Sovereignty and Territoriality - Download HERE or Play It Now!

Moderator: Prof. Christian Sundquist, Albany Law School

Emmanuel Bagenda, Harvard Law School “A Deconstructive View of Third World Sovereignty”

Michelle Burgis, Regulatory Institutions Network, Australian National University “The Promise of Solid Ground: Arab States, Territorial Disputes and the Discourse of International Law”

Ernesto Hernández-López, Chapman University School of Law “Migration and Reinterpreted Sovereignty in U.S. Immigration Law and Mexican Foreign Relations Law: Inspiration from Third World Transnational National Identities”

Usha Natarajan, Regulatory Institutions Network, Australian National University “Debating the Legality of the Iraq War: What does TWAIL Contribute?”

S E S S I O N 2 : International Regimes and Institutions: Emancipation or Emasculation? - Download HERE or Play It Now!

Moderator: Prof. Hope Lewis, Northeastern University School of Law

Kindiki Kithure, Department of Public Law, University of Nairobi, (Kenya)“International Law on Trial: The Darfur Crisis and the Responsibility to Protect Civilians”

Jackson Maogoto, The University of Newcastle(Australia) “The ‘Good Governance’ Crusade in the Third World: A Rich, Complex Narrative—Magic Wand or Smoke Screen”

Vijayashri Sripati, Osgoode Hall Law School (Canada) “Faking or Crafting Genuine Constitutionalism? The UN and Afghanistan’s Constitutionmaking Process”

Daniel Wanjau Muriu, University of Melbourne School of Law (Australia) “The Imperial-Emancipatory Paradox ofInternational Human Rights: How Useful is the Right to Health in Sub-Saharan Africa?”

Angela Banks, William and Mary College of Law “Social Movements and Human Rights Compliance”

1:30-2:00 – Gym - Download HERE or Play It Now!

Dianne Otto, Director, International Human Rights Law Program of the Institute for International Law and the Humanities, University of Melbourne School of Law (Australia) “The Gastronomics of TWAIL’s Feminist Flavourings: Some Lunch-time Offerings”

2:30-4:00 pm - Third World International Legal Feminisms

Moderator: Prof. Nancy Ota, Albany Law School - Download HERE or Play It Now!

Sylvia Kang’ara, University of Washington, Seattle “Navigating Cultural Waters, Surviving Legal Deserts—African Women Jurists in the 20th Century”

Danne L. Johnson, Oklahoma City University School of Law “Standing on Sinking Sand: Bridging the Gap Between the Status of U.S. Women and Third World Women Through the Erosion of the Status of U.S. Women”

Erika George, The SJ Quinney College of Law, University of Utah “Virgin Territory—Virginity Testing as HIV/AIDS Prevention: Human Rights Universalism and Cultural Relativism Revisited”

Vasuki Nesiah, The International Center for Transitional Justice "Topic To be determined"

Penelope Andrews, City University of New York Law School “The South African Constitution and Gender Equality: A Bit on the Side?”

S E S S I O N 2 : Law and Globalization at the Margins - Download HERE or Play It Now!

Moderator: Prof. Ruth Okediji, University of Minnesota Law School Roberto Aponte Toro, University of Puerto Rico Law School “Government Procurement and the Third Worldness and Foreingness of the Puerto Rican Monster Inside Out”

Aginam Obijiofor, University of Carlton (Canada) “Predatory Globalization: The WTO, GATS and Migration of Third World Health Professionals to the West”

Sergio Lattore, Cornell Law School “Land Rights for Internally Displaced Campesinos in Colombia”

Bibhas Vaze, Barrister, Conroy & Co., Vancouver, BC (Canada) “The Legal Missionary: Reflections on the Rule of Law and the First World’s Legalization of the Third World

4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. - The Jurisprudence of Alejandro Álvarez (1868-1960) - Download Here or Play It Now!

Moderator: Prof. Antony Anghie, The SJ Quinney College of Law, University of Utah

Jorge Esquirol, Florida International University Law School “Alejandro Álvarez: A Question of Identity”

Katharina Zobel, Max Planck Institute (Germany) “Alejandro Álvarez as a Judge at the International Court of Justice: Was he a Protagonist of the Newly Independent States and their Aspirations?”

Carl Landauer, Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Charles Schwab “Alejandro Álvarez, the Monroe Doctrine and the Art of Triangulation”

Liliana Obregon Tarazona, Directora, Área de Derecho Internacional Facultad de Derecho Universidad de los Andes, (Colombia) “Noted for Dissent: The International Life of Alejandro Álvarez”

Arnulf Becker Lorca, Harvard Law School “Alejandro Álvarez Situated: Subaltern Modernities and Modernisms That Subvert”