[IntLawProfessors] Request for recommendations of bright young women international law students

[Donald Anton]

Greetings colleagues,

I am writing as a member of the organizing committee of this year's joint American Society of International Law/International Law Association meeting, which will take place in D.C. from April 7-12, 2013.  One event I am helping put together (with Timo Koivurova) is a panel sponsored by the International Environmental Law Interest Group.  The panel is coming together nicely and is reflected in the following description:

The Making of International Environmental Law: A Conversation with Two Pioneers

Over 40 years ago modern International Environmental Law (IEL) burst on the scene at the 1972 U.N. Conference on Human Development.  Its development was rapid and it has been one of the most fecund normative areas of all international law.  But what about those early days when its future was less certain?  How did those "present at the creation" of IEL deploy the intellectual acumen necessary to permanently entrench the subject on the international agenda?  How is it that those early days had such bold visions for nature's rights, planetary trusts, international environmental courts, a world habeas ecologicus, and so on?  And, what has happened to these important ideas?

This year, the ASIL International Environmental Law Interest Group invites you to join Nicholas Robison and Edith Brown Weiss, for first-hand accounts form two individuals who were there at the beginning and instrumental in launching IEL on its way. The session will be led by bright young students of international environmental law who will quiz Professors Robinson and Brown Weiss about where IEL has been and where it is headed.

The format we have in mind is to allow young scholars of IEL to run the show (i.e. to both moderate and interrogate).  Of course, this requires that we come up with some very good, very committed, and very hard working students.  They will need to put in a significant amount of preparation up front in order to start and sustain the conversation and then bring in the audience.  We have two good men, but have not yet been able to locate two good women.

Accordingly, we'd be grateful to receive any recommendations you might have.  One thing to note is that there is no funding to pay any travel or accommodation for these students, but it is a great opportunity and will provide exposure and resume fodder.  Thanks in advance.

Kind regards,
Don
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Donald K. Anton
Professor of Law
Chair, ANU Press Board (Law)
Sub-Dean, LLB and JD Programs (Exchanges)
    The Australian National University College of Law

Email: don.anton at anu.edu.au<mailto:don.anton at anu.edu.au>
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