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Fall 2005 Events September | October | November | December UofA International
Law Society - Annual General Meeting This annual meeting with feature talks from students who have participated in international experiences this past summer. Talks will be by: Tachelle Cote, Andrew Buddle, and Randeep Purewall. So, come and find out how you can also spend the summer volunteering in Africa, or learning in Asia! These options are at your fingertips, come and find out how to access them! Discussion:
Rights on the Run Faculty Advisor Joanna Harrington will be discussing the extradition of the London Transport bombers in relation to the terrorist attacks on the London tube and buses this summer. Prof.
Joanna Harrington: Expert Witness to the Standing Senate
Committee on Human Rights UAILS Faculty Advisor Prof. Joanna Harrington appears today before the Standing Committee on Human Rights in Ottawa as an expert witness on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and its implementation in Canada. The Committee is considering whether Canada Should have a Children's Commissioner, among other issues. For further details, please visit www.parl.gc.ca. You can also tune into the webcast. Red
Cross International Humanitarian Law Conference McGill University and the Canadian Red
Cross will be hosting this conference to discuss the conclusions
of the recent International Committee of the Red Cross
(ICRC) study on customary international humanitarian law.
The study's objective is to promote compliance with international
humanitarian law, resulting better protection to victims
of war. This conference will bring together prominent professors
from Canadian, American and European academic spheres,
criminal law experts, and representatives from the Canadian
Government, NGOs and lawyers with experience in international
tribunals. Michael Ignatieff, professor of Human Rights
and Director of the Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy,
at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government,
will deliver the keynote address at the opening of this
year's conference. For more information, please visit www.redcross.ca.
Also note that students from the University of Alberta
will be traveling to this conference at the end of September
with the possibility of funding. For more information,
please contact Alex Yiu. Fair
Trade Coffee-House Come and enjoy a cup of Fair Trade coffee on us! In an effort to promote fair trade, information will be available for students wishing to learn more. Come and find out what it's all about and learn how you can make a difference! Mission
Against Terror Bernadette Dwyer (Ireland) & Roberto Ruiz Rebo (Cuba), co-directors of the acclaimed documentary "Mission Against Terror", are touring Canada from September 19-October 7, 2005, stopping in Edmonton on October 4th. "Mission Against Terror" will be shown at 7:30pm and examines the history of US based terrorist violence against Cuba over the past 45 years - affecting thousands of people. The documentary outlines the case of the Cuban Five who tried to prevent further attacks by observing terrorist groups in Florida. They were unjustly arrested, tried and convicted in Miami on charges of conspiracy to commit espionage and, in one case, conspiracy to commit murder. Recently, a working group of the UN Human Rights found the confinement and trial of the Five amounted to "arbitrary detention". Last month, in a historic decision, the US Court of Appeal overturned the convictions and ordered a re-trial. The Five remain confined in their seventh year in maximum-security prisons. "There is no rhetoric in the documentary. It's something that is very direct. We are telling the facts: there's no fiction," said Roberto Ruiz. The co-directors and film will travel to 12 Canadian cities. The Edmonton showing takes place at 7:45pm at Newman Hall, St. Joseph's College at the University of Alberta. A discussion of the legal and social issues involved will follow the film. The filmmakers/directors can be available on October 4th from 12:00 (noon) to 4pm for pre-scheduled interviews or discussions. For more information, please contact the local organizers: Virginia Daniel: njt@agauche.ca (780) 488-0942. Discussion:
Int'l Tax Treaties Professor Kim Brooks will be visiting Edmonton from the Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia to discuss tax treaties with developing nations. Discussion:
Three Ways to Make a Constitution Duke University Professor Donald Horowitz will be visiting Edmonton to deliver the McDonald Constitutional Lecture on "Three ways to make a Constitution". Professor Horowitz has served on a number of national and international bodies on the design of institutions to ameliorate ethnic conflict. Don't miss this great opportunity! Discovering
Graduate Studies in Int'l Law UAILS Faculty Advisor Joanna Harrington is hosting an information session on doing graduate studies in international law. These days, most international lawyers go on to do an LLM. Find out more about your options and what is involved. Please bring any and all of your questions! Annual
Canadian Council on International Law Conference The Canadian Council on International
Law (CCIL) holds an annual conference in Ottawa, bringing
together some 400 international lawyers and students, at
which major themes of current international concern are
examined. This year, the Conference will address the theme
of Fragmentation: Diversification and Expansion of International
Law. Topics will include: a roundtable addressing the very
current issue of United Nations Reform, and panel discussions
on Security and Human Rights, Canada's Sovereignty over
the Arctic, the Overlapping of Jurisdiction of Courts and
Tribunals, and more. For more information on the program,
please visit www.ccil-ccdi.ca.
Students from the University of Alberta attended this conference
for the first time last year and
were able to enjoy touring the National Capital Region,
with a special stop at the Supreme Court of Canada, during
the conference. We are planning on receiving funding again
this year so if you are interested, please contact Alex
Yiu.
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