Schedule

FRIDAY, February 17, 2012

5:00-6:00 p.m. Dean’s Reception for Presenters and Cornell Law School Faculty
Faculty Lounge

6:00 p.m. Welcoming Remarks: Stewart Schwab, Allan R. Tessler Dean; Professor, Cornell Law School
Mancuso Amphitheater, Rm. G90

6:10 p.m. Keynote Address: Professor Jordan Paust, “International Law, Democracy, and the Arab Spring”
Mancuso Amphitheater, Rm. G90

7:30 p.m. Dinner Reception for Presenters
Roe Room, Statler Hotel

SATURDAY, February 18, 2012

8:00-8:50 a.m. Breakfast
Berger Atrium

9:00-9:50 a.m. Session 1: Hannibal Travis presents “Wargaming the Twitterlutions: Judging the Causes and Consequences of the Arab Spring, and Planning for U.N. Responses”
Mancuso Amphitheater, Rm. G90

9:50-10:00 a.m. Break

10:00-10:40 a.m. Session 2: Shima Baradaran presents “A War on Terror Financing: The Impact of International Law on Money Laundering in the Middle East and Beyond”
Mancuso Amphitheater, Rm. G90

10:40-10:50 a.m. Break

10:50 a.m.-12:10 p.m. Session 3: Panel Discussion entitled, “Women: Visibility, Rights, and a Status in Flux,” featuring:

Erika George, Professor, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah
Hedayat Heikal, Attorney in private practice and Post-Graduate Research Fellow at Harvard Law School
Ann E. Mayer, Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Moderated by Chantal Thomas, Professor, Cornell Law School; Director, Clarke Initiative for Law and Development in the Middle East and North Africa; former Chair, Law Department, American University in Cairo

Mancuso Amphitheater, Rm. G90

12:10-12:20 p.m. Break

12:20-1:10 p.m. Session 4: D.A. Jeremy Telman, presents “Non-State Actors in the Middle East: A Challenge for Rationalist Legal Theory”
Mancuso Amphitheater, Rm. G90

1:10-2:10 p.m. Lunch for Presenters
Faculty Lounge

2:10-3:00 p.m. Session 5: Karima Bennoune presents “Feminists versus Fundamentalists: The Battle for Women’s Rights in the Democratic Spring of 2011”
Mancuso Amphitheater, Rm. G90

3:00-3:10 p.m. Break

3:10-4:00 p.m. Session 6: Dr. Yaël Ronen presents “Human Rights Obligations of Non-State Territorial Entities”
Mancuso Amphitheater, Rm. G90

4:00-4:10 p.m. Break

4:10-5:30 p.m. Session 7: Panel Discussion entitled, “Transitional Rule of Law, Human Rights, and the State/Non-State Dichotomy,” featuring:

Bernard K. Freamon, Professor, Seton Hall University School of Law
Scott MacLeod, Professor, American University in Cairo; Middle East Correspondent for Time Magazine, 1995 to 2010; Managing Editor, Cairo Review of Global Affairs
Moria Paz, Lecturer, Stanford Law School; Teaching Fellow, Stanford Program in International Legal Studies
Moderated by Jens Ohlin, Associate Professor, Cornell Law School

Mancuso Amphitheater, Rm. G90

5:30-5:40 p.m. Closing Remarks
Mancuso Amphitheater, Rm. G90

5:45 p.m. Dinner Reception for Presenters, Attendees, Co-Sponsors, and Organizers
Berger Atrium