Symposium
The 2009 Journal of International Law Symposium, will be held on Friday, February 13th, 2009.
This year's symposium will be on The Human Market: International Commoditization and Allocation of the Human Body.
We are proud to host the following distinguished speakers for the 2009 Symposium.
- Dr. Mary Simmerling, Weill Cornell Medical College
- Jayne Huckerby, Research Director at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, NYU Law School
- Agnieszka Fryszman, Partner at Cohen, Milstein, Sellers & Toll LLC
- Grace Chung Becker, former Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice
- Professor James Stacey Taylor at the College of New Jersey
- Father John Paris, Walsh Professor of Bioethics at Boston College
- Dr. Rosamond Rhodes, Associate Program Director & Professor of Bioethics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine
- Professor David Orentlicher, Co-Director of the Center for Law and Health at Indiana University School of Law
- Professor Jonathan Klick, University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Professor Michele Goodwin, University of Minnesota Law School and School of Medicine
The keynote speech will be given by Dr. Arthur Caplan, the esteemed director of the Bioethics Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
The 2009 Symposium will be held at the Levy Conference 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.
The symposium schedule can be viewed here. If you have any questions regarding the upcoming Symposium please e-mail our Symposium Editors, Jiamie Chen or and Lauren Flicker.
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.