Democracy and the Rule of Law in a Changing World Order An International Symposium Event Date: March 7-10, 2000

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Tuesday, March 7, 2000
	Welcome: James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress Introduction: Norman Dorsen, Chair and Founding Faculty Director, Global Law School Program, New York University School of Law Rubens Medina, Law Librarian of Congress
	Session 1 Transnational Justice and National Sovereignty Moderator: Anne-Marie Slaughter, Professor, Harvard Law School Commentator: Hisashi Owada, President, The Japan Institute of International Affairs, Tokyo, Japan and Global Law Faculty, New York University School of Law Presentations by: Philip Allott, Professor, Trinity College, Cambridge, England and Global Law Faculty, New York University School of Law Sandra Day O’Connor, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court Bruno Simma, Professor, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany, and University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
	Session 2 Roles of Women: Norms and Culture Moderator: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court Commentator: Eva Cantarella, Professor of Roman Law, University of Milan, Italy and Global Law Faculty, New York University School of Law Presentations by: Kenneth Karst, Professor, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, CA Ellen Gracie Northfleet, Judge, Fourth Regional Federal Tribunal da 4a Regiao, Porto Alegre, Brazil Azizah Y. al-Hibri, Professor of Law, T.C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA
	Plenary Session A Democracy, Legitimacy, and the Rule of Law Moderator: Anthony Kennedy, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court Panelists Thomas Franck, Professor and Director, Center for International Studies, New York University School of Law, and President, American Society of International Law Daniel Fung, Senior Counsel, Des Voeux Chambers, Hong Kong Rosalyn Higgins, Judge, International Court of Justice, The Hague
Wednesday, March 8, 2000
	Session 3 Political Status and Democracy in Multi-ethnic and Multi-racial States Moderator: Stanley N. Katz, Professor in Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University Commentator: Ann Elizabeth Mayer, Associate Professor of Legal Studies, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Presentations by: Jaydeva Uyangoda, Senior Lecturer in Political Science, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka Kogila Moodley, Professor, Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Nadezhda Mihailova, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria
	Session 4 Natural Resources and the Environment: Individual versus Community Interests Moderator: Koichiro Fujikura, Professor, Tezukayama University, Faculty of Law and Policy, Nara, Japan and Global Law Faculty, New York University School of Law Commentator: Sidney Draggan, Senior Science and Science Policy Advisor, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Presentations by: Yuri Kostenko, Member, Parliament (Verkhovna Rada) of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine Richard Stewart, Professor, New York University School of Law Antonio Azuela, Attorney General for Environmental Protection, Federal Government of Mexico
	Plenary Session B Can we use law to hold the past to account? Moderator: Prosser Gifford, Director, Office of Scholarly Programs, Library of Congress Panelists Shlomo Avineri, Professor, Department of Political Science, Hebrew University, Jerusalem Alex Boraine, Director, Project on Transitional Justice, New York University School of Law, and Vice-Chairman, South Africa Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Cape, South Africa Luis Moreno Ocampo, Attorney, Moreno Ocampo Abogados, Buenos Aires, Argentina; former prosecutor of Military Junta Trial; and Professor at Buenos Aires University Law School
Thursday, March 9, 2000
	Session 5 Religion, Culture, and Governance Moderator: Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, The University of Chicago Commentator: Stephen Holmes, Professor, Princeton University, Department of Politics, Princeton, NJ and Professor, New York University School of Law Presentations by: Inder Kumar Gujral, Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) and Former Prime Minister of India, New Delhi, India Nur Vergin, Professor, Istanbul University, Faculty of Political Science, Turkey Alexander N. Domrin, Senior Research Fellow, Comparative Constitutional Law and Parliamentary Division, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law, Moscow, Russia and Global Law Faculty, New York University School of Law
Friday, March 10, 2000
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