Announcement: Arctic Sovereignty: Cold Facts, Hot Issues

             Southwestern Law School presents Symposium on

             "ARCTIC SOVEREIGNTY: COLD FACTS, HOT ISSUES"

                           October 3, 2008
                           Los Angeles, CA


      The Southwestern Journal of International Law will present
      the first comprehensive U.S. law school conference focused
      on important legal issues related to Arctic sovereignty, on
      Friday, October 3, 2008, at the Southwestern Law School
      campus in Los Angeles, CA. With the Arctic ice melting,
      anticipated increases in Arctic shipping, tourism and
      economic activity, Russia's flag-planting at the North Pole
      last summer, and the recent Greenland summit, there has
      been tremendous attention given to the "race to the
      Arctic." For the United States, the legal issues related to
      the Arctic and the Northwest Passage have recently taken on
      increased importance, spurring a renewed interest in
      joining the U.N. Law of the Sea Convention. For Canada,
      climate change and runaway oil prices have vaulted Arctic
      sovereignty to the top of Ottawa's economic, defense, and
      diplomatic concerns. Experts, officials and prominent legal
      scholars from law schools throughout the United States and
      Canada will speak during three different panels. The
      proceedings will be published in the Journal and
      distributed widely.


      AGENDA: "ARCTIC SOVEREIGNTY: COLD FACTS, HOT ISSUES"

      Friday, October 3, 2008

      8:30 - 9:30 a.m.    Registration & Continental Breakfast

      9:30 - 9:45 a.m.    Opening Remarks & Welcome
      Jack Ross, Editor-in-Chief, Southwestern Journal of
      International Law
      Bryant Garth, Dean, Southwestern Law School
      Austen Parrish, Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and
      Professor, Southwestern Law School

      10:00 - 11:30 a.m.  Panel 1: Territory & Security
      Suzanne Lalonde, Professeure agregee, Faculte de droit,
      Universite de Montreal
      Larry A. Mayer, Professor and Director, Center for Coastal
      and Ocean Mapping and Professor, University of New
      Hampshire
      Ted L. McDorman, Professor of Law, University of Victoria
      Faculty of Law
      John Norton Moore, Walter L. Brown Professor of Law,
      University of Virginia School of Law
      Moderator: Robert E. Lutz, Professor, Southwestern Law
      School

      11:45 - 1:15 p.m.   Lunch

      1:30 - 3:00 p.m.    Panel 2: Environment & Natural
      Resources
      Wil C.G. Burns, Senior Fellow, Santa Clara Law School
      Gunther Handl, Eberhard Deutsch Professor of Public
      International Law, Tulane Law School
      Noah D. Hall, Professor of Law, Wayne State University Law
      School
      J. Ashley Roach, Captain, JAGC, U.S. Navy (Ret.), Office of
      the Legal Adviser, U.S. Dept. of State
      Moderator: Vice Dean Austen Parrish, Southwestern Law
      School

      3:15 - 4:45 p.m.    Panel 3: Indigenous Rights & Human
      Rights
      Rebecca M. Bratspies, Associate Professor, CUNY School of
      Law
      Rosemary Cooper, Political Coordinator, Inuit Tapiriit
      Kanatami
      Sarah Krakoff, Professor of Law, Colorado Law School
      Sophie Theriault, Professeure adjointe, Faculte de droit,
      Universite de Ottawa
      Moderator: Angela Riley, Professor, Southwestern Law School

      4:45 - 5:00 p.m.    Closing Remarks


      REGISTRATION/FURTHER INFORMATION:

      The symposium will take place from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in
      the historic Bullocks Wilshire Building on Southwestern's
      campus in Los Angeles. The cost, including lunch, is $75
      for non-Southwestern Alumni seeking 4.5 hours of CLE
      credit; $50 for Southwestern Alumni seeking 4.5 hours of
      CLE credit; and $40 for those not seeking CLE credit.
      Program and registration information is available at:

http://www.swlaw.edu/academics/cocurricular/journaloflaw/ljsymp_arctic

      Map and directions available at:

      http://www.swlaw.edu/directions/directions

      Parking is available on campus for $6.
Posted 9/17/08