Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio moderated a session entitled “Victims and International Criminal Tribunals” at International Humanitarian Law Dialogs, a conference which takes place annually at Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York, and which bring together academics and practitioners in the field of international criminal law.  Professor Sterio had organized this session in her capacity as editor of the Intlawgrrls blog, which had sponsored this session.  Intlawgrrls is an academic blog dedicated to discussions of international law and policy and open to female contributors only.  Professor Sterio is a member of the Advisory Board of International Law Dialogs, and has also helped to organize this year’s conference in general.

Professor Sterio published a blog post on this year’s female voices at International Humanitarian Law Dialogs on Intlawgrrls; the post is available here.

In addition, Professor Sterio’s remarks from last year’s International Humanitarian Law Dialogs were published in the “Proceedings of the Eleventh International Humanitarian Law Dialogs,” a conference volume published by the American Society of International Law.  Professor Sterio had delivered the “Year in Review” lecture at last year’s Dialogs.

On August 14, Professor David Forte was interviewed by Molly Smith on the program, “From the Median,” on WHK radio discussing what has been called the modern day genocide of Down syndrome children. The interview can be accessed here:

http://fromthemedian.org/2018/08/13/down-syndrome-from-termination-to-extermination/

Case Western Reserve Law Review has just published Professor David Forte’s article, “Righting a Wrong: Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, and the Espionage Act Prosecutions.”

Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio presented at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) Annual Meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on August 11th.  Professor Sterio spoke on a panel entitled “Faculty Development Deans: Meeting Challenges and Supporting Faculty Members.”

Heidi Gorovitz Robertson, the Steven W. Percy Distinguished Professor of Law, and Professor of Environmental Studies, attended the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Annual Institute in Victoria, British Columbia, July 18-21, 2018.  At the Annual Institute, Professor Robertson participated in the Natural Resources Law Teachers’ Workshop.  She commented on the papers of her colleagues, and presented her own work-in-progress, Cities Seethe: A Case Study in Local Efforts to Influence Pipeline Routing Decisions.

Public Discourse, the on-line journal of the Witherspoon Institute, has just published David Forte’s article on Down syndrome children: From Termination to Extermination.  It can be found here.