Symposium
The 2008 Journal of International Law Symposium, Trade Sanctions in a 21st Century Economy: Are They An Appropriate Or Effective Means Of Altering State Behavior?, will be held on Friday, February 29th, 2008. The Symposium is co-sponsored by the Institute of Law and Economics. The symposium schedule can be viewed here.
The cost for the event is $50, or $25 for public interest attorneys, payable by cash or check. This program has been approved for 3 hours of substantive law credit and 1.5 hours of ethics credit for Pennsylvania lawyers. CLE credit can be arranged for other jurisdictions as well. Please bring a check in the amount of $45, or $25 for public interest attorneys, to the event. The check should be payable to the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania and must be exclusively for the CLE credit. Attorneys from Gold and Silver Sponsors will receive free CLE credits. Attendees can register for the Symposium online here.
If you have any questions regarding the upcoming Symposium
please e-mail our Symposium Editors, Rachel Loftspring at 
and Sunni Yuen at 
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We are proud to host the following distinguished speakers for the 2008 Symposium. The keynote speech will be given by the Honorable Judge Delissa A. Ridgway of the United States Court of International Trade, and the closing statement will be given by Gary Clyde Hufbauer. The full list of speakers and a short biography for each speaker can be found below.
Speakers:
- Judge Delissa A. Ridgway
- Gary Clyde Hufbauer (Peterson Institute)
- Professor Jeffrey Meyer (Quinnipiac University School of Law)
- Professor Robert Ahdieh (Emory Law)
- Robert Clifton Burns (Partner, Powell Goldstein)
- Christopher Le Mon (Associate, Shearman & Sterling)
- Jeffrey Snyder (Partner, Crowell & Moring)
- Nicole Jenkins (Associate, Crowell & Moring)
- Professor Phil Nichols (Wharton School)
- Professor Cristiane Carneiro (University of Pennsylvania)
- Professor Stephen Kobrin (Wharton School)
- Professor Perry Bechky (University of Connecticut School of Law)
- Professor Orde Félix Kittrie (Arizona State University College of Law)
Information for Speakers (PDF)
The 2008 Symposium will be held in Gittis Hall, room G-214, at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. The Law School is located at 3400 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia PA 19104. Directions to the law school can be found on the school's website by clicking here.
This Symposium is made possible by the generosity of the following organizations. We are most grateful to our Gold Sponsors who have contributed $1,000, our Silver Sponsors who have contributed $500, and all our other sponsors for their support. If your organization would like to sponsor our symposium, please address the check to "Penn Law Journal of International Law" and send it to the following address:
Journal of International Law
University of Pennsylvania Law School
3400 Chestnut St
Philadelphia, PA 19104
We will, of course, recognize all our sponsors on the website and other publicity materials.
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