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The Indiana International and Comparative Law Review (IICLR) will host its annual symposium on February 12, beginning at 3 p.m.

This year’s topic “Is 2015 the Beginning of the End for the ICC and Guantanamo Bay, or a Turning Point for the Law and Practice of International Criminal Law?” will be examined through remarks by keynote speaker Professor Bartram Brown, Professor of Law and Co-director of the Program in International and Comparative Law at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law.  Discussion will continue through two panels.  The first panel examines “The Rome Statute: Opportunities and Challenges in Enforcement” and features IU McKinney Law professor Yvonne Dutton, as well as Professor Stuart Ford, Assistant Professor, John Marshall Law School, and practitioner Avril Rua Pitt.  The second panel will discuss “International Criminal Law and its Influence, If Any, on the U.S. Military Commissions at Guantanamo Bay and other Domestic Tribunals?” and features Assistant Professor of Law Chris Jenks, Director of the Criminal Justice Clinic at SMU Dedman School of Law; Professor Shahram Dana, John Marshall Law School, and practitioner Richard Kammen of Kammen & Moudy.

The event carries with it 3.0 hours of Indiana CLE, pending approval.

"We are excited about the Symposium this year because a majority of our speakers are from the Midwest with deep connections to Indiana, Indianapolis, and IU McKinney,” said Paul Babcock, Editor in Chief of the IICLR.  “We hope to highlight the important international and comparative legal research and legal practice being done by McKinney scholars, and the role the International & Comparative Law Review plays in publishing that work. The post-Symposium reception also celebrates the hard work our current law review members, as well as those of the past twenty-five years have put into each volume. This event will set the stage for the next twenty-five years with the changing nature of the legal profession and the increasing importance of international legal work.”
IICLR is a student-edited law Journal devoted to the study and analysis of current international legal issues and events. The event will be held in the Wynne Courtroom at Inlow Hall. Registration begins at 2 p.m.
Immediately following the program, the review will host a dinner, beginning with a cocktail reception at 6:30 p.m. in the atrium. Tickets for the dinner may be purchased from the school (see the web site for more details).

For more information, visit the IU McKinney website: http://mckinneylaw.iu.edu/events/current.cfm?eid=288