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Two-day session to focus on ‘The Future of Public and Private International Law’
Over 40 of the USA’s top law students will convene on Friday for the second seminar of the Salzburg Cutler Fellows Program being held in Washington, D.C.
The two-day session, entitled, ‘The Future of Public and Private International Law’, is being attended by students from nine of the top US law schools and will take place at the United States Institute of Peace.
The session will be chaired by Salzburg Global Fellow William Burke-White, Deputy Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School.
Participants will present their own research and scholarship on leading edge topics, refine their concepts based on constructive criticism from international experts, and build global networks with fellow peers and practitioners.
The program will begin with a lecture from Salzburg Global Fellow James Bacchus, Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Governance for Sustainability, and Chair of the Global Practice, Greenberg Traurig.
After morning breakout sessions take place, this will be then followed with a keynote address from another Salzburg Global Fellow: Leonard McCarthy, Vice President for Integrity at The World Bank.
Over the course of the two days, faculty and panel discussions will take place on topics involving contemporary challenges to international human rights, and media and the law.
Saturday’s panel discussion on media and the law will feature Adam Liptak, the New York Times’ Supreme Court correspondent, and Salzburg Global Fellow Will Dobson, Politics and Foreign Affairs Editor at Slate.
This year’s session follows on from last year’s inaugural event which featured Justice Richard Goldstone delivering the luncheon keynote address.
Justice Goldstone, a member of the Salzburg Global Seminar Board of Director, served on the Transvaal Supreme Court and the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa.
He shared several stories about his own private and public law career and discussed his work as chief prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals.
The Salzburg Cutler Fellows Program is named in honor of Lloyd N. Cutler, who served the Salzburg Global Seminar for more than two decades as Board Chair, faculty leader and mentor.
It annually brings together 45 students nominated by their law schools with leading judges and practitioners for interactive exploration of public and private international law.
Participating law schools at this year’s seminar include: Columbia Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, Harvard Law School, Duke University School of Law, Stanford Law School, University of Chicago Law School, University of Pennsylvania Law School; University of Virginia School of Law, and Yale Law School.
The Salzburg Cutler Fellows Program aims to encourage the careers of exceptional young lawyers – men and women who will shape the future course of international law and legal institutions.