ASIL Annual Meeting 2023 | ASIL | 29 March 2023 | Washington Hilton, 1919 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20009, USA

This annual meeting committee seeks to elicit a more nuanced assessment of the role of international law in the world today, and the often incremental way in which it interacts, effects change, and succeeds – or fails – as a tool to address real-world global problems. We invite topics across a broad spectrum of sectors as well as across practice areas, academia, and civil society. We encourage submissions that address niche and overlooked aspects of international law, together with the core areas implicated by today's pressing crises, in order to explore the full range of challenges facing international law and society today, including those identified in the "Cross-Cutting Topics" included below.

Sessions that are selected will be assigned to a substantive track:
• International Human Rights, Humanitarian Law, and Criminal Justice
• Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Dispute Resolution
• International Trade, Investment, and Finance
• International Organizations, Global Governance, and Global Health
• Security, Foreign Relations, and Use of Force
• Environment, Sea, Space, and Sustainable Development
Within these tracks, topics may address any subject in line with the theme, including but not limited to one of the following Cross-Cutting Topics:
• Regional Approaches to International Law
• Interdisciplinarity and International Law
• The Compliance Challenge
• Decentering, Decolonizing, and Addressing Race, Gender, and Sexuality in International Law
• War, Peace and Anti-impunity
• Multilateralism in International Law

2023 Speakers

Tendayi Achiume
Law Professor, UCLA Law

Julian Aguon
Principal/Attorney, Blue Ocean Law

Zubaida Akbar
Program Officer, Freedom Now

Payam Akhavan
Senior Fellow, Massey College, University of Toronto

Olabisi Akinkugbe
Assistant Professor and the Viscount Bennett Professor of Law at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University

Padideh Ala'i
Professor of Law, AUWCL

Shahrukh Alam
Independent Research Professional. National Law School, Supreme Court of India

Arif Ali
Co-chair, Dechert LLP

Basma Alloush
External Relations Officer, UNHCR

Diane Marie Amann
Dean Rusk International Law Center, University of Georgia School of Law

Catherine Amirfar
Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Antony Anghie
Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore and University of Utah

Evelyn Aswad
Professor, University of Oklahoma College of Law

Freya Baetens
Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, Univeristy of Oxford

Cecilia Bailliet
Professor, University of Oslo, Norway

Asli Bali
Professor of Law, Yale Law School

Crina Baltag
Associate Professor in International Arbitration, Stockholm University

Jon Bateman
Senior Fellow in the Technology and International Affairs Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Simon Batifort
Partner, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP

John Bellinger
Partner and Co-Chair, Global Law & Public Policy, Arnold & Porter, LLP

Karima Bennoune
Professor, University of Michigan Law School

Ayelet Berman
Lead, Global Health Law & Governance Program and Senior Research Fellow, National University of Singapore

Laurel Besco
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Mississauga

Veronika Bílková
Senior Researcher in the IIR Center for International Law, Charles University, Prague

Daria K. Bolkan
Associate Professor, HSE University

Laurence Boisson de Chazournes
Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Geneva

Laura Bourgeois
Strategic Litigation and Advocacy Officer, Sherpa

Curtis Bradley
Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School

Ingrid Brunk
Chair of International Law, Vanderbilt University Law School

Gian Luca Burci
Adjunct Professor of International Law, Graduate Institute Geneva

Kateryna Busol
Senior Lecturer, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

Camila Bustos
Incoming Assistant Professor, The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University

Oscar Cabrera
Director of the Healthy Families Initiative, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown Law

Alejandra Cardenas Ceron
Director of Global Legal Strategies, Center for Reproductive Rights

Arturo J. Carrillo
Civil and Human Rights Law Clinic and GW Internet Freedom Project, George Washington University Law

Andrew Carswell
Senior Advisor, IHL and Protection of Civilians Policy, Global Affairs Canada

Joshua Castellino
Co-Executive Director, Minority Rights Group International

James Cavallaro
Visiting Lecturer, Yale

Manuel José Cepeda Espinosa
Member, High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom

Kathleen Claussen
Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

Sarah Cleveland
Professor, Columbia University Law School

Nicholas P. S. Cole
Senior Research Fellow, Pembroke College, University of Oxford

Jorge Contesse
Professor, Rutgers Law School

Rebecca Cook
Professor, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law

Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger
Professor, University of Cambridge

Patricia Crifo
Professor, Ecole Polytechnique, France

Vivasvat Dadwal
Associate, King & Spalding LLP

Federica D'Alessandra
Deputy Director, Institute Ethics Law and Armed Conflict, University of Oxford

Mazen Darwish
Director, FIDH Secretary General

Lisa Davis
Professor, CUNY Law School

Tess Davis
Executive Director, The Antiquities Coalition

Shelley M. Deane
University of Notre Dame, Ireland

Diane Desierto
Professor of Law and Global Affairs, Human Rights LLM Faculty Director, Notre Dame Law School

Timothy Dickinson
Senior Counsel in the Litigation Practice, Paul Hastings LLP

Christian Djeffal
Assistant Professor for Law, Science and Technology, Technical University of Munich

William S. Dodge
Professor, UC Davis School of Law

Jenny Domino
Human Rights and Tech Policy, Elections and Civic Space Lead, Oversight Board

Mark Durkan
Former Deputy First Minister and a Negotiator, SDLP Negotiator for the Good Friday Agreement

Melissa Durkee
Associate Dean, The University of Georgia School of Law

Yvonne Dutton
Professor, Indiana University – Robert H. McKinney School of Law

Christie J. Edwards
Head of Policy, Programmes, and Legal, Geneva Call

David Eichert
International Law Scholar, London School of Economics

Karim Medhat Ennarah
The Century Foundation

Javier S. Eskauriatza
Assistant Professor in Criminal Law, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Nottingham

Liz Evenson
International Justice Director, Human Rights Watch

Maria Fanou
Queen Mary University of London

Paolo D. Farah
President and Director, Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development

Catalina Fernández Carter
Head of the Department of the Universal Human Rights System, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile

Martin Flaherty
Leitner Family Professor of Law and Founding Co-Director of the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice, Fordham University

Claudia Flores
Clinical Professor of Law, Yale Law School

Agnieszka Fryszman
Chair of the Human Rights Practice, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC

Andrea Gacki
Director, U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control

Felice Gaer
Former Member, United Nations Committee against Torture

George Galindo
Faculty of Law, University of Brasilia

Victoria Gama
Senior Human Rights Analyst, Verisk Maplecroft

Hannah Garry
Clinical Professor, University of Southern California, Gould School of Law

James Gathii
Professor of Law and the Wing-Tat Lee Chair in International Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law

Anna Gelpern
Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and International Finance, Georgetown Law

Erika George
Samuel D. Thurman Professor of Law, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law/Tanner Humanities

Remy Gerbay
Partner, Hughes Hubbard & Reed

Patty Gerstenblith
Distinguished Research Professor, Center for Art, Museum & Cultural Heritage Law, DePaul College of Law

Alain Germeaux
Head of Legal Department, Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs

Jenny Gesley
Foreign Law Specialist, Law Library of Congress

Chiara Giorgetti
Professor of Law, Richmond Law School

Juan Manuel Gómez-Robledo Verduzco
Deputy Permanent Representative, United Nations for Mexico

Felipe González
UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants, United Nations Human Rights

Yanilda María González
Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Michele Bratcher Goodwin
Chancellor's Chair, UC Irvine

Gregory Gordon
Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Nikhil Gore
Partner, Covington & Burling LLP

Mariam Gotsiridze
Principal Research Fellow, Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy

Christopher Greenwood
Iran-US Claims Tribunal

Horacio Grigera Naon
Director of the Center on International Commercial Arbitration, American University Washington College of Law

Nino Guruli
Senior Case and Policy Officer, Oversight Board

Brooke Guven
Managing Director and Head of ESG and Sustainability, Cerberus Capital Management

Angela Ha
Associate, Volterra Fietta

Brody Hale
Attorney, The Law Office of Brody Hale

Rebecca Hamilton
Professor of Law, American University, Washington College of Law

Oona Hathaway
Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law, Yale Law School

Mohamed Helal
Associate Professor of Law at the Michael E. Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University Moritz College of Law

Gleider Hernández
Professor of Public International Law, Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven)

Steven Hill
Executive Secretary, International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law

Ata Hindi
Research Fellow in International Law, Institute of Law, Birzeit University

Ivana Hrdličková
Judge, Judicial Academy, Czech Republic, former Special Tribunal for Lebanon

Monica Iyer
Clinical Fellow/Senior Lecturing Fellow, Duke Law School

Justin Jacinto
Partner, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP

Maryam Jamshidi
Associate Professor Of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law

Darin Johnson
Associate Professor of Law & Director, Masters of Law (LL.M.) Program, Howard Law School

Hayley Jones
Director, McCabe Centre for Law & Cancer

Ben Juratowitch
Barrister, Essex Court Chambers

Benjamin Salas Kantor
Researcher, Columbia Law School

Chimene Keitner
Alfred & Hanna Fromm Chair in International and Comparative Law, University of California College of the Law San Francisco

Martin Kimani
Permanent Mission of Kenya to the UN

Benedict Kingsbury
Vice Dean and Director of the Institute for International Law and Justice, NYU School of Law

Asad Kiyani
Assistant Professor, University of Victoria Faculty of Law

Harold Hongju Koh
Sterling Professor of International Law, Yale Law School

Florian Kriener
Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law

Nico Krisch
Professor of International Law, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Viviana Krsticevic
Executive Director, Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL)

Julian Ku
Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University

Aradhana Kumar-Capoor
Director and General Counsel of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, MIGA, World Bank Group

Chamu Kuppuswamy
Senior Lecturer, University of Hertfordshire

Richard Kurin
Distinguished Scholar and Ambassador-at-Large, Smithsonian Institution

Nicolas Lamp
Associate Professor, Queen's University, Faculty of Law

Karin Landgren
Executive Director, Security Council Report

Kim Lane Scheppele
Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University

Rena Lee
Ambassador for Oceans and Law of the Sea Issues and Special, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore

Emma Lindsay
Partner in the International Arbitration and Public International Law Teams, Withersworldwide LLP

Yan Liu
Deputy General Counsel, IMF

Rachel Lopez
Associate Professor of Law, Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law

Asaf Lubin
Associate Professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law

Jelena Madir
General Counsel, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance

Lauri Mälksoo
Professor of International Law, University of Tartu

Inu Manak
Fellow for Trade Policy, Council on Foreign Relations

Béatrice Maillé
Legal Adviser and Minister-Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations

Catherine Marchi-Uhel
Head, IIIM (Syria)

Viren Mascarenhas
Partner, MilBank

Benoit Mayer
Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Ofilio Mayorga
Partner, Foley Hoag

Makane Mbenge
Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Geneva

Luke McDonagh
Senior Lecturer, London School of Economics

Brian McGarry
Assistant Professor of Public International Law, Leiden University

Benn McGrady
Technical Officer (Legal), Public Health Law and Policies, Health Promotion, World Health Organization

Donald McRae
Emeritus Professor Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa

Ladan Mehranvar
Senior Legal Researcher, Columbia Center on Sustainable Development

Margherita Melillo
Associate, Health and Human Rights Initiative, O'Neill Institute, Georgetown University

Morten Michelsen
Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi
Lecturer in International Law and Security, University of Manchester

Enrico Milano
Legal Advisor, Permanent Mission of Italy to the United Nations

Marko Milanovic
Professor of Public International Law, University of Reading

Saira Mohamed
Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law

Anton Moiseienko
Lecturer, Australian National University College of Law

Joanna Mossop
Associate Dean (Research), Law Faculty, Victoria University of Wellington

Angela Mudukuti
Zimbabwean Human Rights Lawyer, Specialised in International Criminal Law, International Criminal Lawyer and Consultant

Nader Nadery
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford university and T.M.C. Asser Institute

Matjaz Nahtigal
Associate Professor of Law, University of Ljubljana

Timothy Nelson
Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Dr. Joshua Joseph Niyo
Visiting Researcher, University of California, Los Angeles

Rachel Yeboah Nketiah
Assistant Research Fellow at Centre for Climate Change and Gender Studies, University of Energy and Natural Resources

Ohiocheoya Omiunu
Reader in International Economic Law, University of Kent

Valerie Oosterveld
Acting Director, Western University Faculty of Law

Catherine O’Rourke
Professor of Global Law, Durham Law School

Kish Parella
Professor, Washington and Lee University School of Law

Christophe Paulussen
Senior Researcher, T.M.C. Asser Institute

Tafadzwa Pasipanodya
Partner, Foley Hoag LLP

Cymie Payne
Chair, International Union for the Conservation of Nature - Ocean Law Group and Rutgers University

Nicola Peart
Senior Associate, Three Crowns LLP

Avinash Persaaud
Founder and Chairman of Intelligence Capital, Gresham College

Alexandra Phelan
Senior Scholar, Center for Health Security

Mónica Pinto
Assistant Professor of Human Rights Law, University of Buenos Aires Law School

Mark Pollack
Professor of Political Science, Temple University

Nicole Ann Ponce
Research Fellow, Normandy Chair for Peace

Alka Pradhan
Human Rights Counsel, Guantanamo Bay Military Commissions, U.S. Department of Defense

Ruth Pritchard-Kelly
Senior Advisor, Regulatory & Space Policy, OneWeb

Francisco-José Quintana
PhD candidate & Gates Cambridge Scholar, University of Cambridge

Nithin Ramakrishnan
Third World Network

Ricardo Ramirez Hernandez
Chair of International Trade Law, UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTONOMA DE MEXICO

Pilar Ramon-Pardo
Regional Advisor, Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization

Peter Rankin
Life Sciences Expert Economist, Charles River Associates

Luciana Ricart
Partner, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP

Amaia Rivas
Partner, Pinsent Masons SLP

Anthea Roberts
Professor at the School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University

Tracy Roosevelt
Associate, Foley Hoag LLP

Mindy Roseman
Director of International Law, Yale Law School

Indira Rosenthal
PhD Candidate Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania

Len Rubenstein
Chair, Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition

Helene Ruiz Fabri
Professor, Director, Max Plank Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law

Susana SáCouto
Director, War Crimes Research Office, American University Washington College of Law

George Sadek
Global Legal Research Directorate, Law Library of Congress

Renu Sagreiya
Digital Library Specialist at New Jersey Environmental Digital Library, Rutgers University School of Communication & Information

Tim Sahay
Senior Policy Manager, Green New Deal Network

Michal Saliternik
Assistant Professor, Netanya Academic College

Isabel San Martin
Associate | International Arbitration, LALIVE

Jayshree Satpute
Human Rights Lawyer

Michael P. Scharf
Co-Dean, Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Patricia Viseur Sellers
Special Advisor for Gender, Office of the Prosecutor, ICC

Lakmini Seneviratne
Operational Legal Coordinator, International Committee of the Red Cross

Omar Shakir
Israel and Palestine Director, Human Rights Watch

Sivan Shlomo Agon
Law Professor, Bar-Ilan University

S. Mona Sinha
Global Executive Director, Equality Now

Lucía Solano
Coordinator, ASIL Women in International Law Mentoring Program

Steven Solomon
Principal Legal Officer, World Health Organization

Anna Spain Bradley
Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, UCLA

Nicola Strain
Doctoral Research Fellow, PluriCourts, University of Oslo

Keshet Starr
CEO, Organization for the Resolution of Agunot (ORA)

Milena Sterio
Assistant Professor, Cleveland State University College of Law

Martin Svec

Sylvie Tabet
General Counsel and Director, Global Affairs Canada, Trade Law Bureau

Maria Antonia Tigre
Global Climate Litigation fellow, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School

Joel P. Trachtman
Professor of International Law, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

Jennifer Trahan
Clinical Professor, NYU Center for Global Affairs

Gillian Triggs
Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees

Amanda Tuninetti
Associate, Covington & Burling LLP

Peter Tzeng
Attorney, Foley Hoag LLP

Ntina Tzouvala
Associate Professor, Australian National University, College of Law

Melissa Upreti
Member, UN Working Group on discrimination against women and girls, Special Procedures,

Antonia Urrejola
Minister of Foreign Affairs for Foreign Affairs, Chile

Eva van der Marel
Associate Professor of Law, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Beth Van Schaack
Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice, U.S. Department of State

Amaka Vanni
Lecturer in Law, University of Leeds, UK

Roxana Vatanparast
Legal Scholar and Lawyer, Stanford Law School

David Vaughn
Chief of Party, USAID/Ukraine Justice for All Activity

Stephen Vaughn
Partner in the International Trade Team, King & Spalding

Mariëlle Vavier
Deputy Mayor, The Hague Municipality

Melissa Verpile
Director, Democratic Renewal and Human Rights Campaign, Parliamentarians for Global Action

Andrés Villegas
Partner, Sygna Partner Paris

Oleh Vretsona
Partner, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher

Michael Waibel
Professor of International Law, University of Vienna

Chadia Wannous
Health Global Coordinator, World Organization for Animal Health

Philippa Webb
Professor of Public International Law, King’s College London

Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh
Associate Professor of Sustainability Law, University of Amsterdam

Paul Williams
Co-founder, Public International Law and Policy Group

Diane Wood
Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Samuel Wordsworth KC
Barrister, Essex Court Chambers

Alicia Yamin
Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School

Yueming Yan
Assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Zaydoon Zaid
American Foundation for Cultural Research

Sam Zarifi
Executive Director, Physicians for Human Rights

Kangle Zhang
Post-doc Researcher, Peking University Law School

Andreas Zimmermann
Professor of International and European Law, University of Potsdam

2023 Sponsors and Partners

PRESENTING SPONSORS:
• American University Washington College of Law
• Arnold and Porter
• Curtis
• King and Spalding
• Debevoise and Plimpton
• The Hague
• UCI Law

SPONSORS:
• Cambridge University Press
• The Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
• Chalfetz Lindsey LLP
• Disruption Books
• Edward Elgar Publishers
• Embassy of the Principality of Liechtenstein
• Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania
• Geneva Call
• George Washington University Law School
• Institute of International Education-Fullbright Scholar Program
• Japanese Society of Law
• Library of Congress
• SLT Medical
• Springer Nature
• 3 Verulam Buildings Barristers
• University of Oxford Faculty of History
• University of Pittsburgh School of Law