Wednesday, May 26, 2004

5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Ocean Ballroom Foyer
Lower Lobby Level
Registration

6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Lagoon Lawn
Outdoor Hotel Venue
Opening Reception

Thursday, May 27, 2004
Theme: Transnational Challenges for Tomorrow's Lawyers

7:30 - 8:15 a.m.
Ocean Ballroom Foyer
Lower Lobby Level
Continental Breakfast

8:15 - 8:30 a.m.
Ocean Ballroom
Lower Lobby Level
Welcome
Carl C. Monk, AALS Executive Director, Washington, D.C., USA
Gerald Torres, AALS President, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA

Introduction
Stephen Parker, Monash University, Victoria, Australia, and Chair, Planning
Committee for 2004 Conference on Legal Education for a Transnational Law Practice

8:30 - 9:45 a.m.
Business Transactions

  • Catherine Kessedjian, Université Panthéon-Assas Paris II, Paris, France
  • Gerald A. Sumida, Esq., Carlsmith Ball LLP, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (former General Counsel, Asian Development Bank)
  • Commentator: William S. Dodge, University of California, Hastings College of Law, San Francisco, California, USA

This session will consider the transnational challenges facing lawyers whose practice deals with business transactions — whether they be international transactions, domestic transactions or a mixture — and the ways in which law schools may equip their graduates to handle those challenges.

9:45 - 10:00 a.m.
Ocean Ballroom Foyer
Lower Lobby Level
Refreshment Break

10:00 - 11:15 a.m.
Ocean Ballroom
Lower Lobby Level
Non-Governmental Organizations

  • John B. Kaburise, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana
  • Frank Rafael La Rue, Presidential Commissioner of Human Rights of Guatemala
  • Commentator: Ratna Kapur, Centre for Feminist Legal Research, New Delhi, India

This session will consider the transnational challenges facing lawyers whose practice relates to non-governmental organizations. Although not confined to human rights issues, one focus will be on the role of international human rights norms and organizations in offering new ways to promote access to justice, equal opportunity and human dignity.

11:15 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Malolo Room
Lobby Level
AALS Luncheon

1:15 - 2:45 p.m.
Ocean Ballroom
Lower Lobby Level
Government Organizations

  • Ambassador Hans Corell, Former Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and the Legal Counsel of the United Nations, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Stockholm, SWEDEN
  • Valeriy Musin, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • Commentator: Dr. Mojtaba Kazazi, United Nations Compensation
  • Commission, Geneva, Switzerland

This session will consider the transnational challenges facing lawyers whose practice relates to governmental organizations. Topics might include the United Nations, international courts and tribunals, and regional groupings of sovereign states.

2:45 - 3:00 p.m.
Ocean Ballroom Foyer
Lower Lobby Level
Refreshment Break

3:00 - 4:15 p.m.
Small Group Discussions

4:15 - 5:45 p.m.
Ocean Ballroom
Lower Lobby Level
Have We Identified the Challenges?

In addition to brief reports from small groups, this session will discuss whether or not we have identified the challenges that the transnational lawyer will face.

6:15 p.m.
The Bishop Museum
Reception at The Bishop Museum

Sponsored by University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law
(Buses Board at 6:15 p.m.)

Friday, May 28, 2004
Theme: Transnational Curriculum for Tomorrow's Lawyers

8:15 - 9:00 a.m.
Ocean Ballroom Foyer
Lower Lobby Level
Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Ocean Ballroom
Lower Lobby Level
Is There A Curricular Core for the Transnational Lawyer?

  • Daniel R. Fung, Q.C., S.C., Des Voeux Chambers, Hong Kong
  • Chuma Himonga, Department of Private Law, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa
  • Craig Scott, Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, Canada

This session will build upon yesterday's sessions by considering what changes to the core law degree curriculum might best prepare tomorrow's transnational lawyer. In particular it will consider whether an understanding of comparative law is a necessary part of that preparation and whether the insights of other disciplines should formally be incorporated into the law degree. The session will also consider methods of incorporation, including whether comparative and interdisciplinary approaches should be woven into the curriculum generally, taught as separate courses or a combination of both.

10:30 - 10:45 a.m.
Ocean Ballroom Foyer
Lower Lobby Level
Refreshment Break

10:45 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Concurrent Sessions: Curricular Approaches

  • Business Law
  • Civil Obligations
  • Civil Procedure
  • Constitutional Law
  • Criminal Law
  • Dispute Resolution
  • Domestic Relations
  • Environmental
  • Human Rights
  • International Law

These sessions will carry forward the discussion in the previous session by focusing on specific areas of law. Participants will consider how tomorrow's transnational lawyer will make use of these areas and how law schools should teach them.

Free Afternoon

Saturday, May 29, 2004
Theme: Meeting The Challenges

8:15 - 9:00 a.m.
Ocean Ballroom Foyer
Lower Lobby Level
Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Ocean Ballroom
Lower Lobby Level
Special Methods and Tools for Educating the Transnational
Lawyer

Clinical/Experiential

  • Elliott S. Milstein, American University, Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C., USA

Exchange

  • Monica Pinto, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Global Classroom/Technologies

  • Markus Baumanns, Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, Germany

This session will draw upon yesterday's discussions of curriculum issues and will focus on teaching methods and approaches. Are traditional classroom methods sufficient to train the transnational lawyer and to instill the necessary understanding of international affairs? Speakers will deal with three specific departures from traditional teaching methods (clinical, student and faculty exchanges, and the use of the internet and telecommunication). After the brief opening presentations, discussion will range broadly across these and other methods and tools.

10:30 - 10:45 a.m.
Ocean Ballroom Foyer
Lower Lobby Level
Refreshment Break

10:45 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Small Group Discussions

12:00 noon - 1:45 p.m.
Malolo Room
Lobby Level
AALS Luncheon

2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Ocean Ballroom
Lower Lobby Level
Where Next? Organizing for the Future

Facilitators:

  • Stephen Parker, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
  • Norman Dorsen, New York University, New York, New York, USA

This session will explore some possible outcomes of this Conference, including an international association of some kind that will carry forward the ideas developed at the Conference.

3:30 - 3:45 p.m.
Ocean Ballroom Foyer
Lower Lobby Level
Refreshment Break

3:45 - 5:00 p.m.
Ocean Ballroom
Lower Lobby Level
Where Next? Curricular Approaches to Educate Lawyers for Transnational Challenges

Moderators:

  • Stephen Parker, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
  • Kent D. Syverud, Vanderbilt University Law School, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

This final session draws together the threads of earlier discussions about curriculum and teaching methods. Any organization or association resulting from the conference will wish to consider these ideas as the foundation of its programs and activities.

6:30 p.m.
Lagoon Lawn
Outdoor Hotel Venue
Closing Dinner

  • John Sexton, President, New York University, New York, New York, USA