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From the DirectorT he past year has been one of growth

and change for the Center for In-ternational Legal Education. The

most obvious change is in personnel withthe departure of Elizabeth (Bessy)Bennellick. After three years of stellar ser-vice, Bessy moved to the Institute forShipboard Education, where she nowworks with Semester at Sea. She continuesto work with the Center in helping arrangeour summer Law at Sea Program. Perhapsindicating how valuable Bessy was, she hasbeen replaced by three persons. Gina Clarkhas come to the Center from theUniversity’s Office of International Ser-vices. Sara Werner has joined us as Assistantto the Director, taking care of the dailyneeds of students and providing valuableorganizational skills to the office. MarkWalter has become Assistant Director, fo-cusing primarily on our cooperativeprograms with foreign law faculties, as wellas teaching a course on Comparative Com-mercial Law as an Adjunct Professor. Thesechanges indicate the growth of Center pro-grams as well as efforts to better servestudents seeking skills in international andcomparative law.

The second indicator of growth is incooperative programs. Articles below cata-logue the State Department-fundedexchanges with the law faculties at the Uni-versity of Belgrade, Donetsk NationalUniversity, the University of Pristina, andthe International Relations Institute at TaraShevchenko Kyiv University. The Donetskand Belgrade programs have had a signifi-cant impact on students, faculty, and othersat the School of Law, and we believe weare serving our partner institutions well indeveloping curricula that will promote therule of law in transition societies. The ad-dition this year of projects in Kiev andPristina provide further opportunity todevelop Center outreach and build onstrong relationships. The Center has es-tablished a strong track record in working

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with transition law faculties, and we ap-preciate the level of confidence shown inour programs by the Department of Stateas well as our partner law faculties. A strongalliance with the University’s Center forRussian and East European Studies hasgiven us the interdisciplinary focus andadministrative strength to carry out pro-ductive programs.

The LL.M. Program for Foreign LawGraduates continues to grow in quality,even with the intentional limit on quan-tity provided by a fifteen student cap foreach class. The Class of 2002 was by farthe strongest yet, with two summa cumlaude graduates and one magna cum laudegraduate. Fulbright, Muskie, and RonBrown Fellows bring special skills and in-tellectual stimulation to the class, and thesupport of the Alcoa Foundation andFranklin West, Inc. continues to help schol-ars who otherwise would be unable to joina U.S. LL.M. program. Valuable intern-ships offered by major law firms andcorporate legal departments have addedpractical training to the academic experi-ence of each LL.M student.

On the J.D. front, the Certificate Pro-gram in International and ComparativeLaw continues to grow. The second yearof our Law at Sea program again saw agrand tour of European legal institutions,with next year’s program offering similaropportunities in the Pacific region. In-creased study abroad during the academicyear, either in our formal exchange withBucerius Law School in Hamburg, Ger-many, or at other law schools chosen bythe students, has broadened legal educa-tion opportunities for many.

Programs open to community remain astrength of the Center. The 2002 McLeanLecture on World Law by Judge FaustoPocar of the International Criminal Tribu-nal for the Former Yugoslavia continuedthe tradition of excellence in that series,just as the U.N. Sales Convention sympo-

CILE staff: Gina Clark, Secretary;SaraWerner, Assistant to the Director;Mark Walter, Assistant Director;Ronald A. Brand, Director

sium set for February 7, 2003 buildson Pitt’s pre-eminent position in CISGscholarship.

We remain excited about what the Cen-ter can offer the School of Law, its studentsand alumni, and the community in gen-eral. We hope you will join in thisexcitement as you share the developmentsrecorded on these pages, and we invite youto contact us with expressions of interestin any of our programs.

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CILENotes 2002University of Pittsburgh School of LawDavid J. Herring, Dean

Center for International Legal EducationRonald A. Brand, DirectorMark Walter, Assistant DirectorSara Werner, Assistant to the DirectorGina Clark, Secretary

Please direct all correspondence to:Center for International Legal EducationSchool of LawUniversity of Pittsburgh318 Law School3900 Forbes AvenuePittsburgh, PA 15260Phone: 412-648-7023Fax: 412-648-2648E-mail: cile@law.pitt.eduWeb Site: http://www.law.pitt.edu/cile

Harry FlechtnerSALES, LEASES AND ELECTRONIC COMMERCE:PROBLEMS AND MATERIALS ON NATIONAL

AND INTERNATIONAL TRANSACTIONS (2d ed.,West Group 2000) (with John E. Murray,Jr.) (accompanied by TEACHER’S MANUAL)

SALES, LEASES AND ELECTRONIC COMMERCE:PROBLEMS AND MATERIALS ON NATIONALAND INTERNATIONAL TRANSACTIONS (WestPublishing Co. 1994) (with John E.Murray, Jr.) (accompanied by TEACHER’SMANUAL)

Remedies under the CISG and Limits to theirUniform Character, Chapter 2 of THE IN-TERNATIONAL SALE OF GOODSREVISITED (Peter Sarcevic and PaulVolken, eds.; Kluwer, 2001) (with JohanErauw)

Recovering Attorneys’ Fees as Damages underthe U.N. Sales Convention (CISG): The Roleof Case Law in the New International Com-mercial Practice, with Comments on ZapataHermanos v. Hearthside Baking, 22 NORTH-WESTERN J. INT’L L. & BUS. (forthcoming,2002); draft posted on Web at http://www.cisg.law.pace.edu/cisg/biblio/flechtner4.html#iv.

BOOKS AND ARTICLES PUBLISHED BYFACULTY AND ALUMNI ON THE U.N.SALES CONVENTION

The U.N. Sales Convention (CISG) andMCC-Marble Ceramic Center Inc. v.Ceramica Nuova D’Agostino, S.p.A.: TheEleventh Circuit Weighs in on Interpretation,Subjective Intent, Procedural Limits to theConvention’s Scope, and the Parol EvidenceRule, 19 JOURNAL OF LAW & COMMERCE259 (1999)

The Several Texts of the CISG in a Decen-tralized System: Observations on theUniformity Principle in Article 7(1) of theU.N. Sales Convention, 17 JOURNAL OF LAW& COMMERCE 187 (1998)

Another CISG Case in the U.S. Courts: Pit-falls for the Practitioner and the Potential forRegionalized Interpretations, 15 JOURNAL OFLAW & COMMERCE 127 (1995)

More U.S. Decisions on the U.N. Sales Con-vention: Scope, Parol Evidence, “Validity” andReduction of Price under Article 50, 14 153-76 (1995)

Arbitration and Contract Formation in In-ternational Trade: First Interpretations of theU.N. Sales Convention, 12 JOURNAL OF LAW& COMMERCE 239-260 (1993) (with R.

Professors Harry Flechtner,Ronald A. Brand, and Vivian Curran

On Friday, February 7, 2003, many of theworld’s most respected international commer-cial law scholars will gather at the School ofLaw for a conference on the United NationsConvention on Contracts for the InternationalSale of Goods. The Pittsburgh conference anda resulting book will expand upon exciting re-cent work of the United Nations Commissionon International Trade Law (UNCITRAL).UNCITRAL has commissioned five SalesConvention scholars to develop a digest of allcases interpreting the Sales Convention. Eachof these Digest authors will present his researchat the conference, followed by commentary byother scholars. Pitt Law Professor Harry Flechtner is one ofthe five UNCITRAL Digest authors. The oth-ers are Professor Franco Ferrari (University ofBologna, Italy), who will also teach a Pitt Lawcourse in the Spring 2003 term on UniformSales Law and Forum Shopping, UlrichMagnus (University of Hamburg, Germany),Peter Winship (Southern Methodist Univer-

sity, Dallas, Texas), and Claude Witz (Univer-sity of the Saarland, Germany). Commentators will include Pitt Law Profes-sor Ronald A. Brand, Joseph Lookofsky(University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Mariadel Pilar Perales Viscasillas (Universidad CarlosIII, Madrid, Spain), Alejandro Garro (Colum-bia University, New York), John E. Murray, Jr.(Duquesne University, Pittsburgh), MichaelBridge (University College, London, UnitedKingdom), Johan Erauw (Faculeteit deRechtsgeleedheid, Belgium), Henry Gabriel(Loyala University, New Orleans), Filip DeLy(Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Nether-lands), Paul Volken (University of Fribourg,Switzerland) and Peter Sarcevic (University ofZagreb, Croatia). The luncheon keynote ad-dress will be given by Pitt Chancellor MarkNordenberg. Through its Journal of Law and Commerceand the scholarship of its faculty, students, andalumni, the School of Law has become a ma-jor source of Sales Convention scholarship.

This has included important symposia on theSales Convention in 1987 and 1997, both pub-lished in the Journal. Information on theupcoming conference and the availability ofCLE credit is available on the Center website atwww.law.pitt.edu/cile.

SALES CONVENTION SYMPOSIUMSCHEDULED FOR FEBRUARY 7, 2003

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Brand), reprinted in 6 INTERNATIONALQUARTERLY 1 (1994)

Remedies Under the International Sale ofGoods Convention: The Perspective FromArticle 2 of the U.C.C., 8 JOURNAL OF LAW& COMMERCE 53-108 (1988) (contribu-tion to symposium issue on the UnitedNations Convention on Contracts for theInternational Sale of Goods)

Editor and Transcriber, Transcript of a Work-shop on the Sales Convention: Leading CISGScholars Discuss Contract Formation, Valid-ity, Excuse for Hardship, Avoidance,Nachfrist, Interpretation, Parol Evidence,Analogical Application, and Much More, 18JOURNAL OF LAW & COMMERCE 191 (1999)

“Introduction,” 17 JOURNAL OF LAW &COMMERCE Issue 2 (1998) (SymposiumIssue on the United Nations Conventionon Contracts for the International Sale ofGoods)

Vivian CurranCOMPARATIVE LAW: AN INTRODUCTION (ed-ited book; Carolina Academic Press, 2002)

Romantic Common Law, Enlightened CivilLaw: Legal Uniformity and the Homogeni-zation of the European Union, 7 COLUMBIAJOURNAL OF EUROPEAN LAW 63 (2001)

Interpretive Decisions Applying CISG: Trans-lation of Claude Witz’s The First Decision ofFrance’s Court of Cassation Applying theU.N. Convention on Contracts for the Inter-national Sale of Goods, 16 JOURNAL OF LAW& COMMERCE 345 (1997)

Humanity’s Gain: Remarks on Similarity,Difference and the Vienna Convention (con-tribution by invitation in KARL HEINZNEUMAYER, EMPTIO-VENDITIO INTERNATIONES (1997)

The Interpretive Challenge to Uniformity, aBook Review of CLAUDE WITZ, LESPREMIÈRES APPLICATIONS JURISPRUDENTIELLESDU DROIT UNIFORME DE LA VENTEINTERNATIONALE [translation: THE FIRSTCASE LAW APPLICATIONS OF THE U.N. CON-VENTION ON CONTRACTS FOR THEINTERNATIONAL SALE OF GOODS], 15 JOUR-NAL OF LAW & COMMERCE 175 (1995)

Cour d’Appel de Grenoble: Ytong c. Lasaosa,le 16 Juin, 1993, 14 JOURNAL OF LAW &COMMERCE 209 (1995)

Chambre de Commerce Internationale:Sentence Rendue Dans l’Affaire no 7153 en1992, 14 JOURNAL OF LAW & COMMERCE217 (1995)

Oberlandsgericht, Frankfurt am Main,September 17, 1991, 12 JOURNAL OF LAW& COMMERCE 277 (1993)

Landgericht, Baden-Baden, August 14,1991, 12 JOURNAL OF LAW & COMMERCE277 (1993)

Editorial analysis of Articles 40 and 46 ofthe U.N. Convention on Contracts for theInternational Sale of Goods (“CISG”) incomprehensive CISG Internet database(1997)

Ronald A. BrandProfessional Responsibility in a TransnationalTransactions Practice, 17 JOURNAL OF LAW& COMMERCE 302 (1998)

Arbitration and Contract Formation in In-ternational Trade: First Interpretations of theU.N. Sales Convention, 12 JOURNAL OF LAW& COMMERCE 239 (1993) (With HarryFlechtner), reprinted in 6 INTERNATIONALQUARTERLY 1 (1994)

Nonconvention Issues in the Preparation ofTransnational Sales Contracts, 8 JOURNAL OFLAW & COMMERCE 145 (1988)

Alumni publications:Alex Osuna, Dictamen Relativo a la QuejaPromovida por Dulces Luisi, S.A. de C.V.,en Contra de Seoul International Co. Ltd.,Sequilia Confectionery, 19 JOURNAL OF LAW& COMMERCE 265 (2000)

Danielle Alexis Thompson, Translation ofOberlandesgericht Karlsruhe Decision of 25-06-1997 including Commentary—BuyerBeware: Germany Interpretation of the CISGHas Lead to Results Unfavorable to Buyers,19 JOURNAL OF LAW & COMMERCE 245(2000)

Ericson P. Kimbel, Nachfrist Notice andAvoidance Under the CISG, 18 JOURNAL OFLAW & COMMERCE 301 (1999)

Paul J. Powers, Defining the Undefinable:Good Faith and the United Nations Con-vention on Contracts for the InternationalSale of Goods, 18 JOURNAL OF LAW & COM-MERCE 333 (1999)

Frank N. Fisanich, Application of the U.S.Sales Convention in Chinese InternationalCommercial Arbitration: Implications forInternational Uniformity, 10 AMERICANREVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION101 (1999)

Jennifer M. Bund, Force Majeure Clauses:Drafting Advice for the CISG Practitioner,17 JOURNAL OF LAW & COMMERCE 381(1998)

V. Susanne Cook, CISG: From the Perspec-tive of the Practitioner, 17 JOURNAL OF LAW& COMMERCE 343 (1998)

Victoria M. Genys, Blazing a Trail in the“New Frontier” of the CISG: HelenKaminsky Pty. Ltd. v. Marketing AustralianProducts, Inc., 18 JOURNAL OF LAW & COM-MERCE 415 (1998)

Andrew Kennedy, Recent Developments:Nonconforming Goods Under the CISG—What’s a Buyer to Do? 16 DICKINSON JOUR-NAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 319 (1998)

Scott D. Slater, Overcome by Hardship: TheInapplicability of the UNIDROIT Principles’Hardship Provisions to CISG, 12 FLORIDAJOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 231(1998)

V. Susanne Cook, The U.N. Convention onContracts for the International Sale of Goods:A Mandate to Abandon Legal Ethnocentric-ity, 16 JOURNAL OF LAW & COMMERCE 257(1997)

John Fitzgerald, CISG, Specific Perfor-mance, and the Civil Law of Louisiana andQuebec, 16 JOURNAL OF LAW & COMMERCE291 (1997)

Amy Kirby, Punitive Damages in ContractActions: The Tension Between the UnitedNations Convention on Contracts for the In-ternational Sale of Goods and U.S. Law, 16JOURNAL OF LAW & COMMERCE 215 (1997)

Todd Weitzmann, Validity and Excuse inthe U.N. Sales Convention, 16 JOURNAL OFLAW & COMMERCE 265 (1997)

Joanne M. Darkey, A U.S. Court’s Interpre-tation of Damage Provisions Under the U.N.Convention on Contracts for the Interna-tional Sale of Goods: A Preliminary StepTowards an International Jurisprudence ofCISG or a Missed Opportunity? 15 JOUR-NAL OF LAW & COMMERCE 139 (1995)

James J. Callaghan, U.N. Convention onContracts for the International Sale of Goods:Examining the Gap-Filling Role of CISG inTwo French Decisions, 14 JOURNAL OF LAW& COMMERCE 183 (1995)

Joseph J. Schwerha IV, Warranties AgainstInfringement in the Sale of Goods: A Com-parison of U.C.C. § 2-312(3) and Article42 of the U.N. Convention on Contracts forthe International Sale of Goods, 15 MICHI-GAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 441(1995)

Joseph J. Schwerha IV, The Buyer’s War-ranty—When the Buyer of Goods Must Holdthe Seller Harmless, 46 PENNSYLVANIA BARASS’N Q. 38 (1995)

Paul Amato, U.N. Convention on Contractsfor the International Sale of Goods—TheOpen Price Term and Uniform Application:An Early Interpretation by the HungarianCourts, 13 JOURNAL OF LAW & COMMERCE1 (1993)

V. Susanne Cook, The Need for UniformInterpretation of the 1980 United NationsConvention on Contracts for the Interna-tional Sale of Goods, 50 UNIVERSITY OFPITTSBURGH LAW REVIEW 197 (1988)

Please note: This list of publications byalumni may be incomplete. We invite any-one with knowledge of additional suchpublications to contact us with the infor-mation, and apologize for any omissionsfrom the list.

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EXPANSION OF COOPERATIVE PROGRAMSCONFIRMS CILE STRENGTHWith the continued success of two ex-

isting cooperation programs between PittLaw and overseas law faculties (Universityof Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and Donetsk Na-

tional University, Ukraine) and two brandnew relationships set to begin this fall, wehave a lot to talk about. The programshave been developed in partnership with

Pitt’s Center for Russian and East Euro-pean Studies (REES) and are funded pri-marily by grants from the United StatesDepartment of State.

New Department of State Grants FosterNew Relationships with Kiev and Pristina

The team of the Center for Interna-tional Legal Education and the Center forRussian and East European Studies at theUniversity of Pittsburgh has built on re-markable success in developing programsfor law schools in transition countries withthe recent award of two new PartnershipProgram grants totaling over $750,000.One new project will see the Universityof Pittsburgh School of Law working withthe International Relations Institute ofTara Shevchenko Kiev University,Ukraine, to establish partnerships thatbuild the curriculum in international com-mercial law. A second grant, in final stagesof negotiation as CILE Notes went to press,would establish similar cooperation withthe law faculty at the University of Pristina,Kosovo.

These partnerships add to the existingpartnerships with Donetsk National Univer-sity (DNU) and the University of Belgrade toprovide a network of law faculties that canbenefit from integrated cooperation. MarkWalter, CILE Assistant Director, will overseethe grant activities, and spend part of eachyear in Kiev and Prishtina working with thelaw faculties there to establish new courses,determine the needs for training of existingfaculty, and develop library and other re-sources at each institution. Cooperativeefforts will also include presentations in eachpartner law faculty of Pitt’s highly successfulEnglish for Lawyers Program by ProfessorsTeresa Brostoff and Ann Sinsheimer, as wellas concentrated courses in appropriate sub-jects by other members of the Pitt LawSchool faculty.

Pitt Law’s history of State Departmentfunded cooperation began in 1987 with anexchange grant with the University ofAugsburg, Germany, celebrating the bicen-tennial of the U.S. Constitution. This wasfollowed in 1992 with a second grant, in-volving the Universities of Augsburg andBrussels, celebrating developments in theEuropean Community. The success of theSchool of Law in competitions for suchgrants both affirms and expands on thestrong international and comparative lawfaculty and programs at Pitt, as well as theunique relationship with other parts of theUniversity that are possible through coop-eration with the Center for Russian andEast European Studies as well as the entireUniversity Center for International Studies.

Pitt Provides “Summer School” inDonetsk and IBT Course in Belgrade

Nearly 50 students at the Faculty ofEconomics and Law of Donetsk NationalUniversity in Ukraine benefited from athree week summer school program taughtby Pitt Law professors in late April andearly May of 2002. The program was partof an effort to develop the DNU law cur-riculum through cooperative efforts of thetwo law faculties that are funded by a spe-cial grant from the U.S. Department ofState. Professor Ronald Brand taught a 15-hour, one-week course in InternationalBusiness Transactions as the first compo-nent of the program. Following Brand,Professors Teresa Brostoff and AnnSinsheimer taught their English for Law-yers course. Finally, Professor AnthonyProfessor Brand works with DNU European Law Moot Court Team

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All Roads Lead to ViennaPitt Law sponsored a contingent of

three two-member teams and their coachesto the 2002 Willem C. Vis InternationalArbitration Moot in Vienna, Austria. Theteams were from Pitt; Donetsk, Ukraine;and Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Gathering at thecompetition has become one of the mostproductive manifestations of the coopera-tive programs developed by the Center forInternational Legal Education.

The Vis Competition, in its ninth year,hosted 108 teams from 36 countries,representing every continent. The compe-tition problem each year combines the

substantive law of the U.N. Sales Conven-tion with the law of internationalarbitration. Students become expert inboth areas of the law and experience therigors of presenting a case before seasonedarbitrators.

The three teams met early in Vienna forintensive practice sessions before the for-mal competition. This not only preparedthe students for the competition, but alsoallowed for informal discussion thatstrengthened the partnerships among thelaw faculties. The group developed a deepbond during the week of competition and

Infanti presented his course in Interna-tional Taxation. In addition to teachingand bowling with Dean Volkov, DaniilFedorchuck (LL.M. Class of 2001),Mariya Nizhnik (LL.M. Class of 2003),and other faculty and students fromDonetsk, Professors Brand, Brostoff,Infanti, and Sinsheimer helped to pave theway for new programs and future partner-ships between the two universities.

The Donetsk program was followed bya similar one-week International BusinessTransactions course taught by ProfessorBrand at the University of Belgrade LawFaculty in June. Like the Donetsk pro-gram, cooperation with the University ofBelgrade is funded by a grant from theState Department.

all will, of course, remember the trip withfondness.

New State Department grants for coop-eration with law faculties from Kiev andPrishtina will bring to five the number ofteams coordinated by Pitt Law at the 2003Vis competition.Team members for 2002: Pittsburgh—Jennifer Miller and Glenys Spence Belgrade—Nevena Ruzic and Bojan Djuric Donetsk—Alexandra Gorak and Alexander Skulskiy

Professors Brand and Lilic with the BelgradeInternational Business Transactions class, June 2002

Professor Flechtner, Glenys Spence,Jennifer Miller, and Professor Brandat the Vienna Rathaus for theVis Moot Court final banquet

The Donetsk Team, Alexander Skulskiy,Alexandrs Gorak with their coach, ProfessorTatiana Kyselova

From Belgrage, one of the VIS competitors,Nevena Ruzic and coach, Mirna Kosanovic

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Ukraine’s transition into a more openand international society has brought withit some very interesting needs. One suchneed is programs to teach Ukrainian law-yers and law students how to manage aprivate practice. Though the same needhas existed to some degree in the UnitedStates, practitioners in the U.S. have de-cades of practice management experienceand resources to call upon. This contrastswith the situation in Ukraine, where law-yers have struggled since independence tenyears ago to find the right mix of skills spe-cific to running a law firm.

Based in part on experience gained froma 2001 trip to Pittsburgh, Donetsk Profes-sor Yuriy Moiseev has developed his lawfaculty’s first Law Practice Managementcourse. In June of 2002, CILE AssistantDirector Mark Walter participated in aseminar organized by Moiseev in Donetsk

Walter and Moiseev Team Up for Law PracticeManagement Seminar in Donetsk

Professors Nikolai Udod and Yuriy Moiseev(foreground) of the DNU Practical TrainingInstitute, with other participants in the LawOffice Management program enjoy an outingat Slavyanagorsk

to help Ukrainian lawyers develop the skillsneeded in private practice.

Preparation for the seminar consistedprimarily of an analysis of the managementneeds of attorneys in Ukraine and EasternEurope. Moiseev and Walter used informalmeetings with local practitioners to deter-mine which U.S. methods of managementand management education might fit wellwith Ukrainian needs. The results werepresented at a seminar, with Walter pre-senting an overview of U.S. practicemanagement methods and education, andMoiseev presenting a revised outline of hismanagement course. These presentationswere followed by nearly two hours of dis-cussion by academics and practitioners.

The success of this initial seminar hasbred plans for a larger symposium as well asa book on the topic of practice manage-ment for Eastern European lawyers.

Institutionsin Transition

Though Slavyanagorsk (pictured, aboveleft) remained vaguely operational as anOrthodox Monastery during anti-religiousSoviet times, many of its buildings wereused as Sanatoria (rest homes) for agingand ill industrial laborers. Today, thoughthe monastery thrives, some of the build-ings remain in use as hospices for laborunion members.

For now, in these years of transitionfrom Communism to market economy,security for laborers is low. Nonetheless,the future looks bright. That the SovietUnion is history does not mean thatUkraine can no longer give a high priorityto worker security. The trend for the fu-ture may be pre-paid legal insurance, aconcept that has become popular inAmerican labor unions. Pitt Law facultyand staff, and other local experts, will pro-vide advice to Ukrainian labor unions inthis effort.

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English for Lawyers is an intensivecourse that introduces non-native English-speaking attorneys and law students toAmerican law and legal terminology. Thiscourse attracts international lawyers fromaround the globe to the University of Pitts-burgh for three weeks each July. Thesestudents are preparing to enter AmericanLL.M. programs or will return to theirhome countries to continue with their in-ternational law practices. This past year,the course was also taught in Serbia, Ice-land, and Ukraine.

In May 2001, we took English for Law-yers abroad for the first time to theUniversity of Belgrade Law Faculty inSerbia under a grant from the UnitedStates Department of State. The studentsin the class were assistant professors, upperlevel and graduate law students, and law-yers from the Yugoslav Committee onHuman Rights. The course focused on theAmerican legal system, common law rea-soning, and American legal English. Therewas lively interchange on many legal top-ics throughout the five-day course. It wasa fascinating time to experience Belgrade asthe debate on whether to send SlobodanMilosevic to the Hague tribunal was in fullforce, and the country was taking greatstrides to solidify its fledgling democracy.We were inspired by the sense of renewaland hope present in the law faculty andthroughout the population in Belgrade.

In March 2002, we traveled as FulbrightDistinguished Scholars to present the En-glish for Lawyers course in Reykjavik,Iceland at the University of Iceland LawFaculty. The students in the course werefaculty members, upper level students,lawyers, and judges. The students were allquite fluent in English, and the course fo-cused on the American legal system andcommon law, in addition to acquisitionand use of legal vocabulary. As we sharedour knowledge of American law, welearned much about Icelandic law and cul-ture from the talented and knowledgeablestudents in the course. This coursewas a true sharing of law and culture.

English for Lawyers Goes GlobalBy Professors Teresa Brostoff and Ann Sinsheimer

Professors Brostoff and Sinsheimer in front of the Iceland Art Museum

Professors Brostoff and Sinsheimer with Dean Vacheslav Volkov and faculty atDonetsk National University

Professors Sinsheimer and Brostoff with Professor Stefan Lilic, students,and faculty at the University of Belgrade

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First Person

Our final international presentation ofEnglish for Lawyers for 2002 was in Mayat the Law Faculty of Donetsk NationalUniversity, Ukraine, again funded by agrant from the United States Departmentof State. The students in this course werelaw students, assistant professors, and En-glish language teachers from the lawfaculty. The course generated great inter-est and energy from all of the participants.The students successfully took on the de-mands of the English for Lawyers coursewhile also completing their other lawschool assignments and duties. We fo-cused on helping the students acquireAmerican legal English by discussing theUnited States legal system, case analysis,and common law reasoning. The studentsactively participated in class discussionsand activities. We were also privileged tolearn about the Ukrainian legal system andits developments in the ten years sinceindependence. Our hosts generouslyshared glimpses of the wonderfully richUkrainian culture.

English for Lawyers has been very wellreceived by all of the host institutions, andwe are grateful for the opportunity to haveshared our knowledge with so many inter-esting and talented students. We haveformed lasting bonds of friendship andscholarship with students and faculty fromeach institution and hope to continue tak-ing English for Lawyers to other interestedlaw faculties. To further these types ofcultural exchanges, the Fulbright Commis-sion has named us as Senior Specialists forfive-year terms. Under the Senior Special-ist program, each of us is eligible for grantsto fund short-term teaching projects inother countries as the host institutionsrequest them. Through this program,we plan to continue our cultural exchangein the 2003 academic year and the yearsto come.

The area studies centers of the UniversityCenter for International Studies offer For-eign Language and Area Studies fellowships(FLAS) to students in various departmentsaround the University of Pittsburgh who areinterested in focusing on a foreign languagein addition to their chosen academic cur-riculum. The students of the School of Laware well represented by FLAS awardees forthe 2002-2003 academic year. JeffreyHartwig (’04) received a FLAS from theCenter for West European Studies to study

Law Students Focus onForeign Language Study

Italian; Scott Jablonski (’03) received aFLAS from the Center for Latin AmericanStudies to study Portuguese; the Center forRussian and Eastern European Studiesgranted a FLAS to Zakhaar Shusterman(’05) to learn Ukrainian; and the AsianStudies Program awarded FLAS Fellowshipsto Paul Clermont (’04) to study Japaneseand Kim Luu (’03) to study Chinese.

Speaking Spanish and Practicing Law

As a summer associate for Duane Mor-ris LLP, I was able to work on someexciting matters involving internationallaw and cross-cultural issues. Duane Mor-ris is a Philadelphia-based law firm withapproximately 500 attorneys, with eigh-teen offices nationwide and one office inLondon, England. Because I have a back-ground in the Spanish language, many ofmy assignments this summer involved le-gal research in Spanish and interactionwith Spanish-speaking clients. I foundthat my coursework and involvement withthe Center for International Legal Educa-tion as well as my previous position asresearch assistant to Professor Brand hadreally prepared me for working in such anenvironment.

I spent most of my time in Philadelphia,where, in addition to encountering a widerange of domestic legal issues, I worked onan assignment involving European Union

law and an assignment involving cross-bor-der jurisdiction issues. In the firm’s Miamioffice, where I worked for one week, I wasinvolved with matters concerning a clientfrom Central America. I also did researchregarding international arbitration for aSouth American client.

One of the highlights of my summerexperience was a trip to Puerto Rico. Itraveled there to assist attorneys with pend-ing litigation and general client matters.During the course of my stay in PuertoRico, I helped attorneys work closely withthe client, I attended a hearing in theUnited States District Court for theDistrict of Puerto Rico and I served as atranslator of important documents andlegal research pertaining to the client. Thelevel of client interaction I had wasincredible, and the language and culturalexperience I had was exciting to saythe least.

My ability to speak Spanish and do legalresearch in a language other than English,together with my academic background ininternational law and affairs, definitelygave me an advantage this summer. I wasable to take on a greater variety of assign-ments, travel, and interact with clientsfrom different cultural and linguistic back-grounds. More importantly, I experiencedthe value and reward of having some back-ground in international law, as I witnessedfirsthand the unique demands that an at-torney must face in serving clients in aglobal context.

by Scott JablonskiEnglish for Lawyers continued

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On March 7-9, 2002, the University ofPittsburgh School of Law hosted theNiagara International Law Moot CourtCompetition. Ten teams from schools inthe Eastern United States and Canada par-ticipated in the events, with the Universityof Toronto defeating American Universityin the final round to take home the honors.Other teams taking part included the Uni-versity of Buffalo, Case Western ReserveUniversity, Cornell University, LoyolaUniversity of Chicago, the University ofPittsburgh, Queen’s University, Washing-ton College of Law, University of WesternOntario, and University of Windsor. Pitt’steam was comprised of Brian M. Kile,

Niagara Competition Held at University of PittsburghMatin Momen, Robert P. Paulson, andNga (Jenny) Wong.

The Niagara International Law MootCourt Competition is sponsored by theCanada-United States Law Institute atCase Western Reserve University. The In-stitute was founded more than twentyyears ago with the University of WesternOntario in recognition of the common tra-ditions and social and economic ties thatexist between Canadians and Americansliving in the Great Lakes Region. Origina-tors of the Niagara competition sought tobring together law students from bothsides of the border in a moot involving aninternational law problem affecting bothCanada and the United States.

The 2002 problem involved export con-trol issues and the shipment of goodsproduced in the U.S. from Canada toLibya. Final round judges were JohnEllicott, senior counsel at Covington &Burling in Washington, D.C., practicingin the fields of U.S. export trade and for-eign transaction control regulations;Colleen Swords, Deputy Legal Advisor andDirector General of the Canadian Bureauof Legal Affairs at the Canadian Depart-ment of Foreign Affairs and InternationalTrade in Ottawa; and Mark Walter, whowrote the problem and is now AssistantDirector of the Center for InternationalLegal Education.

Professor Henry King Named Fellow Honoris CausaHenry T. King, Jr., Professor of Law at

Case Western Reserve University School ofLaw, was named a “Fellow honoris causa” ofthe Center for International Legal Educa-tion at the final banquet for the NiagaraInternational Law Moot Court Competi-tion in Pittsburgh on March 9, 2002. Thecertificate presented to Professor Kingstated that the honor was “in recognition ofyour life-long commitment to peaceful re-lations through the rule of law, includingyour role on the prosecution team at theNuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, your re-sponsibility for the study and developmentof positive North American relationshipsthrough the peaceful settlement of disputes,your inspirational service to hundreds ofstudents through the development and con-tinuation of the Niagara InternationalMoot Court program, and your role as ateacher who leads by example.”

From his time on the Nuremberg pros-ecution team, Professor King became theleading authority on the life of AlbertSpeer, one of the defendants at Nuremberg.A former Chairman of the American BarAssociation’s Section of International Lawand Practice, King has served on the ABA’sspecial task force on war crimes in theformer Yugoslavia and as the U.S. Chair-man of a joint working group, organized bythe American, Canadian, and Mexican barassociations, on the settlement of interna-tional disputes.

Professor Henry T. King, Jr., honored as Fellow honoris causaof the Center for International Legal Education

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The 2002 voyage of the University ofPittsburgh’s Law at Sea visited Greece,Spain, Ireland, Norway, Russia, Poland,Belgium, Italy, and Croatia between June15 and August 19. Sue Brooks andMuhammed Mims from the University ofPittsburgh joined students from sevenother law schools for a rigorous academicprogram in which each student takes 7credits of law school courses during thevoyage. Professor George Pike, Director ofthe Barco Law Library, taught the requiredCultures of Law & Justice course that fo-cused on the countries and legal systems

Law at Sea Completes Second Successful Voyagevisited during the voyage. Elective coursesincluded Professor Deborah Brake’scomparative course on Issues of Sex Dis-crimination Law and two European Lawcourses (Contract Law in Europe and Se-lected Topics of European Union Law),taught jointly by Professors Marc de Vosand Hubert Bocken of the University ofGhent. Pike and Brake also each taught acourse to the undergraduates on thevoyage.

In addition to the classes which metdaily while the ship was at sea, studentsparticipated in a variety of visits to legal in-

stitutions at the various ports of call. Thelaw school for the voyage was the WorldRenaissance, a 12,000 ton ship equippedwith classrooms, a library, a student union,a dining room, two swimming pools, andfitness facilities.

The 2003 voyage of Law at Seawill change itineraries, sailing to PacificRim Countries, including Russia, Korea,China, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Japan.Complete information and applicationprocedures are available on the CILE Website and at http://www.semesteratsea.com.

Enrollment in the International andComparative Law Certificate Program atthe Law School has increased rapidly sinceits inception in 2000. The eight studentsqualifying for the certificate in the Class of2001 grew to 18 in 2002 and to 39 mem-bers of the Class of 2003. 40 members ofthe Class of 2004 are now registered tocomplete the certificate.

The International and ComparativeLaw Certificate Program provides J.D. stu-dents interested in international andcomparative legal issues with a foundationfor careers and further study. Studentsenroll in the certificate program at the be-ginning of their second year. Each studentis required to complete courses in PublicInternational Law, International BusinessTransactions, and Comparative Legal Cul-tures. In addition, they must complete atleast nine elective credits and satisfy a legalwriting requirement. Electives may be sat-isfied from the many appropriate coursesin the School of Law as well as fromcourses in other departments within theUniversity. Students studying overseasduring the summer or regular academicyear may also apply those credits towardthe certificate requirements.

Internationaland ComparativeLaw CertificateProgram GrowsRapidly

The University of Pittsburgh Journal ofLaw and Commerce, The Center for Inter-national Legal Education, and TheEuropean Union Center presented asymposium on “New Possibilities forCooperation with the European Union:Community Competence for Mattersof Judicial Cooperation on March 21,2002.” Michael Wilderspin, Directorate-General Competition (formerly at Justiceand Home Affairs) European Commis-sion, Brussels, spoke on “The Transfer ofCompetence for Judicial Cooperationfrom Member States to Community Insti-

Judicial Cooperation is Focus ofSpecial Program on European Law

tutions.” Charles Kotuby (J.D. Universityof Pittsburgh; LL.M. University ofDurham, Research Fellow, Max PlanckInstitute for Foreign and Private Interna-tional Law, Hamburg), spoke on“Potential External Competence for Judi-cial Cooperation at the Hague Conferenceon Private International Law.” ProfessorRonald Brand talked on “Implications forthe Negotiation of a Hague Conventionon Jurisdiction and the Enforcement ofJudgments.” The papers from the sympo-sium will be published in the Journal ofLaw and Commerce.

Charles Kotuby, Michael Wilderspin, and Professor Brandat “New Possibilities for Cooperation with the European Union” symposium

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Each year the CILE brings distin-guished scholars and practitioners to theSchool of Law to enhance the regular cur-riculum in areas of international andcomparative law. The past year was no ex-ception. In addition to those visitsreported elsewhere in this issue of CILENotes, visits by Kurt Riechenberg andStevan Lilic provided special opportunitiesfor students.

Kurt Riechenberg, Chief of Staff toPresident Judge Gil Carlos RodriguezIglesias at the European Court of Justice,visited the School of Law through coopera-tion with Pitt’s European Union Center.On February 22, 2002, he provided a lec-ture on “The European Union in 2002,”giving highlights of legal developments inseveral important areas. He also spoke tothe course on European Union Law, and tostudents at the University’s Honors Col-lege. Riechenberg taught at the School of

Riechenberg and Lilic Continue Traditionof Outstanding Visitors

Law in 1993 and 1996-97, and was a pro-fessor on the Law at Sea voyage in summer2001.

Professor Stevan Lilic of the Universityof Belgrade also made his second visit toteach at the School of Law. Lilic is a pro-fessor of Administrative Law at BelgradeUniversity, where he is also Editor-in-Chief of the bilingual (Serbian-English)journal, Human Rights, and a member ofthe Serbian National Assembly. His visitto Pitt during the spring 2002 term wassponsored by a Fulbright Fellowship. Hetaught two courses: Constitutional andLegal Reforms After Dictatorships: TheCase of Serbia, and Legal Repression andHuman Rights Under Milosevic. Suchcourses add special diversity to the existingcurriculum, providing students withinsights into legal issues in other parts ofthe world.

On May 25, 2002, the LL.M. class of2002 joined the J.D. students in the Sol-diers and Sailors Auditorium forgraduation ceremonies. This year’s LL.M.class included two summa cum laude

Congratulations to the LL.M. class of 2002!graduates, Felix Mehler from Germanyand Evelyn Kamau from Kenya, andone magna cum laude graduate, MilenaMilutinovic from Yugoslavia. After gradu-ation, students participated in internships

at corporations and law firms includingWestinghouse Electric Company, Cohen& Grigsby, Deloitte & Touche, Alcoa,Buchanan Ingersoll, Heinz, and TheCenter for Constitutional Rights.

Professor Stevan Lilic, University of Belgrade

LL.M. Class of 2002

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Through the support of the Center forInternational Legal Education and thegenerosity of Rotary International, I spentthe 2001-2002 academic year at the Uni-versity of Newcastle upon Tyne, NewcastleLaw School, in England, where I earnedmy LL.M. in International Legal Studies.

My classes ranged from WTO law toEC law and from corporate internationallaw to public international law. As the onlyAmerican in the law school, I was oftenasked questions regarding U.S. politics andforeign policy, especially in light of the cur-rent war on terrorism. It was thisinteraction with other students that led meto my dissertation topic, which is the ap-plication of the Third Geneva Conventionto the Taliban and al Qaeda detainees inGuantanamo Bay. In addition to all of thecoursework, I traveled throughout the area

First Personwith the Rotary as an ambassador of good-will. I visited different clubs and gavespeeches on Pittsburgh and my experience.It was great to be able to share perspectiveson world events with all of the peoplethat I met. In addition to experiencingEngland, I was able to travel throughoutEurope whenever I had any free time, andI was able to enjoy quite a few holidaytrips.

Spending a year abroad is an excitingexperience—one I would recommend toanyone interested in pursuing a career ininternational law. Any attorney interestedin working abroad must completely com-prehend the people and cultures of acertain country before he or she is able toeffectively be of service. I believe thatspending time in another country is an in-tegral component of every internationallawyer’s education.

2003 LL.M. Class Covers the World for Pitt Law

Students prepare for the LL.M. year at the English for Lawyers Program in July 2002

Earning an LL.M. and DiscussingTerrorism in England

by Jeff Konscol

Bo-Ru Chen (Taiwan) received herLL.B. degree from the Chinese CultureUniversity in Taipei, Taiwan. She hasworked as a legal affairs assistant for Wu,Hsu & Chen in Taipei, specializing in tointellectual property law. Ms. Chen par-ticipated in the Legal Services Association

The eighth LL.M. class at the School ofLaw continues a tradition of diversity andstrong academic credentials. This year’sclass includes two Muskie Fellows, a RonBrown Fellow, a Fulbright Fellow, and rep-resentatives selected by the law faculties atMoi University in Eldoret, Kenya, and theUniversity of Belgrade, all bringingexperiences that add to the student envi-ronment at the School of Law. Many ofthe students arrived in July to attend thethree-week English for Lawyers course, inwhich they develop their language skills,become familiar with the U.S. legal educa-tion system, and visit legal institutions inthe Pittsburgh region. This year’s after-noon sessions included visits with FederalCircuit Judge Joseph Weis and DistrictJudge Robert Cindrich at the federalcourts, a local law firm, offices at the City-County Building (where they met withMayor Tom Murphy), and the county jail.The members of the Class of 2003 are:

at her University and provided pro bonolegal services to people in Taipei.

Yuliya Chernyshova (Ukraine) gradu-ated from the Law Faculty at the KyivNational Taras Shevchenko University inKyiv, Ukraine. She worked as a law clerk

at the Closed Joint Stock Company prac-ticing in the areas of foreign investmentand corporate law. She is the recipient ofa Muskie Fellowship.

Eva Col Debella (Brazil) studied law atthe Unified Learning Center of Maranhao

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in Sao Luis, Brazil. In addition to workingin the Office of the Attorney General, shehas published a paper called Rights of FreeLegal Assistance to People in Need of Fi-nancial Aid, which received a prize and waspresented at a public forum. Ms. ColDebella also worked in the bidding depart-ment at the State Court of Maranhao, andas a Legal Assistant to the President Judgeat the State Court. Her husband, DavidCol Debella, is with her in Pittsburgh.

Pablo Gil de Montes (Peru) receivedhis General Studies and Law degrees fromthe Universidad de Lima in Peru. Heworked as a paralegal in the legal depart-ment of Banco Latino and as DeputyDirector at Enaip Sardegna in Peru, wherehe was responsible for the development ofa project that was financed by the ItalianGovernment and the European Union.His wife Andrea will be attending theJoseph M. Katz Graduate School of Busi-ness at the University of Pittsburgh.

Lilia Factor (Israel) earned her LL.B.degree from Haifa University in Israel andreceived her B.A. degree from BloomsburgUniversity in Pennsylvania. She worked asa lawyer in Israel for the last five yearsspecializing in labor and real estate law.She now lives in Pittsburgh with her hus-band, Michael, and her two children,Adam and Dina.

Rodoljub Jovanovic (Yugoslavia)practiced law for over 15 years in theformer Yugoslavia. He received his law de-gree from the University of Belgrade andwas a self-employed lawyer mainly focus-ing on commercial and corporate law.Most recently, he completed an internshipat Vitol SA, Inc., an oil company in Hous-ton, Texas. He lives in Pittsburgh with hiswife, Renee.

Ivana Krstic (Serbia) graduated fromThe Faculty of Law at the University ofBelgrade with a Bachelor of Laws Degree.She has worked as a Teaching Assistant inHuman Rights Law at the University ofBelgrade and was a Research Fellow at theInstitute of International Politics and Eco-nomics. She is the recipient of an LL.M.fellowship from the Department of Statelinkage grant between the Universities ofPittsburgh and Belgrade.

Celine Moguen (France) earned herbachelor’s and master’s degrees in PrivateLaw from the Sorbonne in Paris, France.

She also studied at the Institute of LegalStudies in Paris. She has worked as an at-torney at SCP Pinson Segers Daveau andat the Marlene Uzan Law Firm in Franceand was most recently a Legal Assistant atKoerner Law Offices in New Orleans, LA.

Vincent Kiplangat Mutai (Kenya) re-ceived his Diploma of Law from KenyaSchool of Law in Nairobi and his Bachelorof Law degree from Moi University inEldoret.He has worked as a research assis-tant at Mulwa & Mulwa Advocates inNairobi and as an intern at the UnitedNations Environmental Program. Heplans to teach at Moi University uponcompletion of the LL.M. program and alsowill pursue his Ph.D. degree. Mr. Mutaiwas awarded an Alcoa Fellowship and aFranklin West Fellowship.

Mariya Nizhnik (Ukraine) receivedher law degree from the Donetsk NationalUniversity (DNU) Economics and LawFaculty. She is currently the Assistant tothe Chair of the Commercial Law Depart-ment at DNU and is working toward apostgraduate degree. In addition, she hasworked as a Research Assistant to a profes-sor in the International Law Departmentat DNU. After completing the LL.M. pro-gram, she plans to return to Donetsk tocontinue teaching.

Xie Qiang (China) graduated fromTongji University in Shanghai, China withhis LL.B. degree. He has worked as a legalassistant at G.T. Law Office, where he con-centrated on business law, environmentallaw, and international trade law. He alsoworked as an intern at the Regional Re-source Centre for Asia and Pacific, wherehe participated in a study called “TheRoles of Policies and Regulations in theImprovement of Water Pollution in TaihuLake Basin, China.”

Olena Rodionenko (Ukraine) receivedher Diploma in Law from Kyiv NationalTaras Shevchenko University. In addition,she has received a Diploma as a Teacher ofEnglish and French from Kyiv State Lin-guistic University. Ms. Rodionenko hasworked at the South African Embassy inKyiv as a Consular Clerk and Administra-tive Secretary. She is the recipient of theMuskie Fellowship.

Ganna Ryzhova (Ukraine) attendedKyiv National Taras Shevchenko Univer-sity, where she received her bachelor’s

degree in Law. She has worked as an attor-ney, specializing in energy legislation, atthe Hunton & Williams law firm in Kyiv,as well as for a cable and satellite televisioncompany. Ms. Ryzhova is a Muskie Fellow.She plans to return to Kyiv to continue herwork in the energy sector.

Patricia Serracin (Panama) receivedhere law degree from the University ofPanama. She has worked at MSD/USAAID doing research with the Criminal Tri-bunal in the Panamanian Supreme Court.She did pro bono work at the White andStarek law firm in Charleston, West Vir-ginia, and has worked as a legal assistant atvarious law firms in Panama. Ms. Serracinis the recipient of a CILE Fellowship.

Jurgen Strobach (Peru) graduatedfrom Pontifical Catholic University of Peruwith a bachelor’s degree and a law degree.He worked for Echeandia, Manini, Padron& Associates in Lima, Peru and has workedat other law firms as well as at the Minis-try of Foreign Affairs of Peru. He wrote anarticle entitled “ New Regulation of CreditDocuments in Peruvian Law,” which waspublished in La Mondea, a magazine editedby the National Reserve Bank of Peru. Hiswife, Paola, accompanies him to Pitts-burgh. He is the recipient of a CILEFellowship.

Omorou Toure (Mali) is a FulbrightScholar who has studied law at the Lycee ofGao. He previously received a scholarshipfrom the Ministry of National Educationof Mali to study in Ukraine, where heearned a Master of Law degree from KyivState University. He has taught at the Uni-versity of Mail Management Institute andthe University of Mali. After completingthe LL.M. program, Mr. Toure will teachat the Department of Legal and EconomicSciences at the University of Mali. Mr.Toure has been awarded a Fulbright Fel-lowship and a Franklin West Fellowship.

Tanja Unguran (Serbia) received herlaw degree from the University ofBelgrade. She also studied at the Alterna-tive Academic Educational Network. Shehas worked at the American Bar Associa-tion/Central and East European LawInitiative as a legal assistant and at the Sec-ond Municipal Court in Belgrade as acourt trainee. She plans to return to Serbiato specialize in corporate law. Ms.Unguran is the recipient of a Ron BrownFellowship.

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Jennifer Miller (’02) and GlenysSpence (’03) represented the School ofLaw at the Willem C. Vis InternationalArbitration Moot in Vienna, Austria,March 20-29, 2002.

Brian Kile (’02), Matin Momen (’02),Robert P. Paulson (’02), and Nga (Jenny)Wong (’02) represented the School of Lawat the Niagara International Moot CourtCompetition in Pittsburgh, PA, March 7-9, 2002.

Kristen Schneck (’03) and Kia-Jacquelyn Omotalade (’03) representedthe School of Law at the Sixth Annual In-ter-American Human Rights Moot CourtCompetition in Washington, D.C. in May2001.

Paul Clermont (’04) has been awardeda Foreign Language Area Studies Scholar-ship through the Asian Studies Program.The scholarship covers tuition and stipendfor the 2002-2003 academic year, duringwhich he will be studying Japanese in ad-dition to his law courses.

Debra Lefing (’04) will attend the Lon-don Law Program sponsored by PaceUniversity School of Law in the Spring of2003. She was awarded a CILE Scholar-ship.

Jeffrey Hartwig (’04) was awarded aForeign Language Area Studies Scholar-ship from the Center for West EuropeanStudies. The scholarship covers tuitionand stipend for the 2002-2003 academicyear, during which he will be studying Ital-ian in addition to his law courses.

Scott Jablonski (’03) received a ForeignLanguage Area Studies Scholarshipthrough the University of Pittsburgh’sCenter for Latin American Studies. Thescholarship covers tuition and stipend forthe 2002-2003 academic year, duringwhich he will be studying Portuguese inaddition to his law courses.

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Kim Luu (03) was granted a ForeignLanguage Area Studies Scholarship fromThe Asian Studies Program. She will bestuding Chinese for the 2002-2003 aca-demic year in addition to her Law Courses.

Zak Shusterman (’05) received a For-eign Language Area Studies Scholarshipthrough the University of Pittsburgh’sCenter for Russian and Eastern EuropeanStudies. The scholarship covers tuitionand stipend for the 2002-2003 academicyear, during which he will be studyingUkranian in addition to his law courses.

Steven Brkich (’03), Laura Manifold(’03), and Cathy Wittmeyer (’03) tookpart in the tuition exchange between theUniversity of Pittsburgh and Bucerius LawSchool in Hamburg, Germany. This pro-gram is a one-term program of studyoffered in the fall term (September–De-cember) to exchange students from partner

universities. The program is designed pri-marily for law students wishing to broadentheir understanding of the forces shapinginternational business law.

Ryan Hopkins (’04) will be attendingthe University of New Castle’s LL.M. pro-gram in International Trade.

The following students studiedor worked abroad during the sum-mer in 2002:

Gianni Amato (’04) studied at theUniversidad de Costa Rica.

Sue Brooks (’04) attended Pitt’s Law atSea program.

Brian Carnish (’04) studied law in En-gland at the University of Oxford. Hereceived a CILE Scholarship.

One year studying law at theUniversidad Católica Andrés Bello inVenezuela would have been more thanenough to fulfill my expectations for a yearof law school abroad, but when I arrived inCaracas in August 2001, little did I knowwhat the year had in store for me.

Studying International Law, the Ven-ezuelan Constitution, and other subjectsin the civil law system, not to mention liv-ing life in another culture and language,was plenty on my plate. To top it off, Iwas also fortunate enough to obtain an in-ternship with an international partner atBaker & McKenzie, Caracas, in the Ad-ministrative Law Department. Aside fromlearning about the Civil Law system in theclassroom, I was getting hands-on experi-

ence in an international firm, workingwith attorneys knowledgeable in variousfields of law.

All of this was challenging enough, butthe rising political tension in the countryover discontent with President HugoChavez and his government also began toaffect everyday life. Civil unrest and politi-cal turmoil became the norm. Gettingaround in the city was sometimes nearlyimpossible due to protests, and more thanonce the country came to a halt because ofnational strikes. Finally, in April, afterthree days of strikes and protest marches,rumors that had been accumulating wererealized when the president was over-thrown in a coup d’etat. After muchconfusion, the ousted Chavez returned topower in less than three days.

The activities left the country inshambles, with deep social and politicaldivisions. However, Venezuelans continueon with life and ignore daily rumors ofgovernment corruption and more civilunrest. A U.S. State Department TravelWarning and ABA rule required my quickdeparture from the country, but I tookwith me invaluable lessons about govern-ment, politics, the law, and life in general(not to mention an interesting law reviewarticle topic). Though my year was cutshort, I was able to salvage my credits. Theeducation, both in the law and in life, wasfar beyond anything I had imagined.

Learning about Life,the Law, and a Coup d’Etat in Venezuela

by Michelle Saylor

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Arthur Ford (’03) took part in the 2002International Student Symposium onNegotiation and Conflict Resolution inthe Netherlands. He received a CILEScholarship.

Joseph Gulino (’03) interned with theU.S. department of State at the AmericanConsulate General in Naples, Italy. Josephreceived a scholarship from the Center forInternational Legal Education and theEuropean Union Center to fund thisprogram.

Naomi Jackson (’04) worked for thegovernment of the United Kingdom anddealt with maritime law issues of the UK.

Laura Manifold (’03) studied law at theUniversity of Munich in Germany. Shereceived a CILE Scholarship.

Sameer Patel (’03) studied Chinese lawin China in a program sponsored by theDuquesne Law School. He received aCILE scholarship.

Kristen Schneck (’03) studied at theCentral European University in Budapest,Hungary. She also spent two weeks study-ing International Arbitration at the ICC inParis, France.

David Slavick (’04) studied law of East-ern Europe in Prague through a programhosted by the University of San FranciscoSchool of Law. He was awarded a CILEScholarship.

Andrew Weber (’03) worked at Rightsand Humanity, an international humanrights organization in Ipswich, England.He was working on a project for the WorldHealth Organization relating to theConvention on Elimination of all formsof Discrimination Against Women(CEDAW). He was granted a CILEscholarship.

Cathy Wittmeyer (’04) worked for theDanzer Group in Reutlingen, Germany.She worked to establish a framework forenvironmental compliance and interna-tional certification among the Danzeroperations in Europe (East and West), andprepared an update on the state of timber-products eco-labelling.

Jaime Favela Ayala’s (LL.M. ’99) articleentitled, ¿Le Gustaria Hacer Un Negocio EnEstados Unidos? was published in the April2002 issue of EL MUNDO DEL ABOGADO.

Rodrigo Bulnes (LL.M. ’00) is now inpractice in a firm with his father and twofriends. He is engaged to be married inOctober of 2002.

Linda Dhondt (LL.M. ’97) is workingfor the Belgian Ministry of Justice at theDistrict Attorney’s Office of the Court ofAppeal of Ghent in Belgium. She wasmarried to Steven Kielemoes on June 21,2002.

Charles Kotuby (J.D. ’01) is a ResearchFellow at the Max Planck Institute for For-eign and Private International Law inHamburg, Germany, after which he willreturn to Pittsburgh as a Clerk for theHonorable Joseph Weis of the Third Cir-cuit U.S. Court of Appeals.

John Kropf (J.D. ’99) has left his posi-tion as USAID Country Director inTurkmenistan to return to duties in theOffice of the Legal Adviser at the U.S.Department of State.

David Meiler (LL.M. ’01) is teachingInternational Business Negotiations atIBMEC, a law and business school in Riode Janeiro.

Milena Milutinovic (LL.M. ’02) is afull-time Teaching Assistant at the Univer-sity of Belgrade Faculty of Law.

Georgia Post (LL.M. ’99) has begun anMBA program at the University ofHohenheim, specializing in internationalsourcing.

Amit Rai (LL.M. ’96) recently joinedGodfrey Phillips India Ltd, an affiliate ofthe Phillip Morris Company.

Mark Sipper (J.D. ’89) and Natalya(Stepanova) Sipper (LL.M. ’99) becamethe proud parents of a daughter, CarolineElizabeth, on June 9, 2002.

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Joel Syquia (LL.M. ’98) was recentlyhired by the Secretary of Budget and Man-agement in the Phillippines as ProjectManager for the Phillippine Government’sElectronic Procurement System. He hasalso initiated a Technical Support Groupfor the Government Procurement PolicyBoard and is the Legislative Advisor forUSAID-AGILE.

Professor Ronald Brand moderated apanel dealing with informational tortson December 19, 2001, at a PublicRoundtable on Consumer Aspects of theHague Convention on Jurisdiction andForeign Judgments at the Federal TradeCommission in Washington, D.C. OnJanuary 4, 2002, he gave a presentation onComparative Forum Non Conveniens andthe Hague Convention on Jurisdiction andJudgments for the Conflict of Laws Sec-tion at the Association of American LawSchools Annual Meeting in New Orleans.On February 1, 2002, Professor Brandspoke on “Sovereignty: The State, the In-dividual, and the International LegalSystem in the Twenty-First Century” at theHastings College of Law in San Franciscofor the Hastings International and Com-parative Law Review symposium on “TheChanging Face of Sovereignty in the 21stCentury.” On March 21, he spoke on“Implications of EU Competence for Judi-cial Cooperation for the Negotiation of aHague Convention on Jurisdiction and theEnforcement of Judgments” at the PittLaw School symposium on “New Possibili-ties for Cooperation with the EuropeanUnion: Community Competence for Mat-ters of Judicial Cooperation.” Papers fromthe symposium will be published in theJOURNAL OF LAW AND COMMERCE.

Professor Brand was in Vienna in lateMarch for the Vis International Arbitra-tion Moot, working with the Pitt team aswell as with teams from Donetsk National

Professor Curran addressed the plenary

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University and the University of Belgrade.In late April, Professor Brand taught a 15-hour course on International BusinessTransactions to a group of 48 students atthe Donetsk National University Facultyof Law in Donetsk, Ukraine. While there,he had meetings regarding the develop-ment of new courses for the Donetskcurriculum and further cooperation be-tween their faculty and the School of Law.On April 29, Professor Brand met withmembers of the faculty of the Institute forInternational Relations at TarasShevchenko University in Kyiv, Ukraine,to discuss future cooperative projects. OnMay 8, Professor Brand participated in apanel discussion of the Hague Jurisdictionand Judgments Project at the Spring Meet-ing of the ABA Section of InternationalLaw and Practice in New York. During theweek of June 17, he taught a 15-hour In-ternational Business Transactions Courseat the University of Belgrade Faculty ofLaw, and met with faculty members to de-velop the cooperative relationship withthat faculty that is sponsored by the De-partment of State.

Professor Brand has published the fol-lowing articles in the past year: ForumSelection and Forum Rejection in US Courts:One Rationale for a Global Choice of CourtConvention, in REFORM AND DEVELOPMENT

OF PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW:FESTSCHRIFT FOR SIR PETER NORTH (JamesJ. Fawcett, ed. 2002); Concepts, Consensusand the Status Quo Zone: Getting to “Yes” ona Hague Jurisdiction and Judgments Con-vention, in TRILATERAL PERSPECTIVES

ON INTERNATIONAL LAW (C. Charmody,ed. 2002); Current Problems, CommonGround, and First Principles: Restructuringthe Preliminary Draft Convention Text, in AGLOBAL LAW OF JURISDICTION AND JUDG-MENTS: LESSONS FROM THE HAGUE

CONVENTION (John J. Barcelo III andKevin M. Clermont, eds. 2002); Jurisdic-tional Common Ground: In Search of aGlobal Convention, LAW AND JUSTICE IN AMULTI-STATE WORLD: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF

ARTHUR T. VON MEHREN (James A.R.Nafziger and Simeon C. Symeonides, eds.2002); Comparative Forum Non Conve-niens and the Hague Judgments Convention,37 TEXAS INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL

467-498 (2002); Where to from Here? Pros-pects for a Hague Convention on Jurisdictionand the Enforcement of Judgments, 16 IN-TERNATIONAL ARBITRATION REPORT 38-45

(Issue 10, October 2001); Uni-State Law-yers and Multinational Practice: Dealingwith International, Transnational and For-eign Law, 34 VANDERBILT JOURNAL OF

TRANSNATIONAL LAW 1135-1168 (2001).

Professor Douglas Branson was chosento be the convocation speaker for Semesterat Sea. He delivered the graduation ad-dress for those 16 students whose Semesterat Sea credits finished their bachelor’s de-gree requirements. In May, he gave publiclectures on “Global Convergence in Cor-porate Governance” to audiences at theUniversity of Melbourne and at DeakinUniversity, both in Australia.

Professor Branson’s article, The VeryUncertain Prospect of ‘Global’ Convergencein Corporate Governance, is appearing inthe CORNELL INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL.His essay, Corporate Governance Reformand the New Corporate Social Responsibility,is appearing in the UNIVERSITY OF PITTS-BURGH LAW REVIEW. His article, The RuleThat Is Not a Rule —The Business JudgmentRule, will appear in the VALPARAISO LAW

REVIEW.Professor Branson spoke at McGeorge

Law School of the University of the Pacificin Sacramento, California, on “The SocialResponsibility of Multinational Corpora-tions” in February 2002. His remarks willalso appear as an article in theTRANSNATIONAL LAWYER. In February, Pro-fessor Branson also served as the first daykeynote speaker at the Second AnnualCorporate Governance symposium hostedby the Chinese University of Hong Kongwhere he spoke on “Global Convergencein Corporate Governance—An East AsianPerspective.” While in Hong Kong, heappeared on a panel with the Chairman ofthe Hong Kong SEC and the CFO ofMitsubishi Corp. In April 2002, ProfessorBranson attended a conference at Colum-bia University on transnational mergersand acquisitions where he commented onseveral papers. Later that month he wasthe keynote speaker and co-convener of aconference on the “New Corporate SocialResponsibility” in April. His paper, Corpo-rate Social Responsibility Redux, will appearin the TULANE LAW REVIEW.

Professor Teresa Brostoff taught En-glish for Lawyers at the University ofIceland in Reykjavic in February and atDonetsk National University, Ukraine in

May. She taught a three-week English forLawyers program in Pittsburgh in July.

Professor Vivian Curran authoredComparative Law: An Introduction (Caro-lina Academic Press, 2002), Formalism andAnti-Formalism in French and German Ju-dicial Methodology, in The Darker Legacy ofEuropean Law: Perceptions on Europe andPerspectives on a European Order in LegalScholarship During the Era of Fascism andNational Socialism and its Remnants (Hart,2002), Inheritance Law (co-authored withWilliam F. Fratcher), Introduction to theLaw of the United States (Kluwer, 2002).Professor Curran’s most recent articles in-clude: Fear of Formalism: Indications fromthe Fascist Period in France and Germany ofJudicial Methodology’s Impact on SubstantiveLaw, CORNELL INTERNATIONAL LAW JOUR-NAL; Competing Frameworks for AssessingContemporary Holocaust-Era Claims,FORDHAM INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL;Romantic Common Law, Enlightened CivilLaw: Legal Uniformity and the Homogeni-zation of the European Union, COLUMBIA

JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN LAW; and Rethink-ing Hermann Kantorowicz: Free Law,American Legal Realism and the Legacy ofAnti-Formalism, in Rethinking the Mastersof Comparative Law (Annelids Riles, ed.,Hart, 2001).

Professor Flechtner enjoys dessert in Vienna

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session of the Common Core project, Uni-versity of Trento, in Trento, Italy, on July 4,2002 with a talk entitled “The CommonCore of European Private Law: Some Re-marks from an American ComparativeLaw Perspective.” On May 30, 2002, Pro-fessor Curran spoke at Touro Law Schoolabout “The Role of Judicial Methods andLegal Scholarship in the Third Reich andVichy France.” She lectured on “Politiciz-ing the Crime Against Humanity: TheExample of France” at the 13th Interna-tional Conference of Europeanists held bythe Council of European Studies in Chi-cago on March 16, 2002. ProfessorCurran spoke about “Of Law andMemory: Lessons of Vichy France forContemporary Holocaust ReparationsLitigation” at Fordham University Schoolof Law’s symposium on “Holocaust Resti-tution: Reconciling Moral Imperativeswith Legal Initiatives and Diplomacy” onNovember 1, 2001.

Professor Harry Flechtner’s article Re-covering Attorneys’ Fees as Damages underthe U.N. Sales Convention: A Case Study onthe New International Commercial Practiceand the Role of Foreign Case Law in CISGJurisprudence, will be published by theNORTHWESTERN JOURNAL OF INTERNA-TIONAL LAW AND BUSINESS. His article,Comparing the General Good Faith Provi-sions of the Principles of European ContractLaw and the UCC: Appearance and Reality,will be published as part of a symposiumissue of the PACE INTERNATIONAL LAW

REVIEW.Professor Flechtner also co-authored a

chapter, “Remedies under the CISG andLimits to their Uniform Character,” in TheInternational Sale of Goods Revisited (Pe-ter Sarcevic and Paul Volken, eds., Kluwer,2001) (with Johan Erauw). His two mostrecent articles include: Recovering Attorneys’Fees as Damages under the U.N. Sales Con-vention (CISG): The Role of Case Law in theNew International Commercial Practice,with Comments on Zapata Hermanos v.Hearthside Baking, NORTHWESTERN J. INT’LL. & BUS. (forthcoming, 2002) and Com-paring the General Good Faith Provisions ofthe PECL and the UCC: Appearance andReality, PACE INT’L L. REV.

Professor Flechtner was in Vienna fromMarch 20-29, accompanying (as coach)the Pitt team at the oral arguments for theninth Vis International Commercial Arbi-

tration Moot. While in Vienna, he at-tended an all-day “Experts’ meeting” at theVienna U.N. offices to discuss, with offi-cials of UNCITRAL and with six otheracademic “experts” from Germany, theNetherlands, Denmark, Belgium and theU.S., a project in which he is participating—a comprehensive case digest of interna-tional decisions applying the U.N.Convention on Contracts for the Interna-tional Sale of Goods.

Professor Anthony Infanti representedthe Committee on U.S. Affairs of Foreign-ers and Tax Treaties in a panel discussion ofcurrent developments in internationaltaxation at the May meeting of the ABASection of Taxation in Washington, D.C.He was asked to serve as co-chair for a taskforce that is being established by the Com-mittee on U.S. Affairs of Foreigners andTax Treaties to explore e-commerce issuesin international taxation. Professor Infantispoke to the Allegheny Tax Society in April2002 on structuring investments by for-eign persons in the United States. In May,Infanti taught a course on InternationalTaxation to a group of 48 students at theDonetsk National University Faculty ofLaw in Donetsk, Ukraine. In July, he pub-lished a short piece entitled The ProposedDomestic Reverse Hybrid Entity Regulations:Can the Treasury Department OverrideTreaties? in the TAX MANAGEMENT INTER-NATIONAL JOURNAL. An essay entitledCurtailing Tax Treaty Overrides: A Call toAction will be appearing in the next issue ofthe UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH LAW RE-VIEW. In August, an abbreviated version ofthis essay was published in TAX NOTES IN-TERNATIONAL. Infanti’s article, SpontaneousTax Coordination: On Adopting a Compara-tive Approach to Reforming the U.S.International Tax Regime, has beenaccepted for publication in October2002 by the VANDERBILT JOURNAL OF

TRANSNATIONAL LAW.

John Parry presented a paper on terror-ism and collective responsibility at theThird Global Conference: Perspectives onEvil and Human Wickedness in Prague lastMarch. His article, Judicial Restraints onIllegal State Violence: Israel and the UnitedStates, was published by the VANDERBILT

JOURNAL OF TRANSNATIONAL LAW. The LostHistory of International Extradition Litiga-tion will appear in the Fall 2002 issue of the

VIRGINIA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW.Professor Parry also collaborated withProfessor Welsh White on an essay, Interro-gating Suspected Terrorists: Should Torture bean Option? which was published by theUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH LAW REVIEW.

Professor Ann Sinsheimer taught En-glish for Lawyers at the University ofIceland in Reykjavic in February and againat Donetsk National University, Ukraine,in May. She taught a three-week Englishfor Lawyers program in Pittsburgh in July.

Professor Stella Smetanka spent twoweeks in June 2001 at the Donetsk Na-tional University Economics and LawFaculty, Ukraine, where, besides learningabout the Ukraine’s rich culture and sam-pling its delicious food, she presented asession on interactive teaching techniquesin law school clinics to faculty andstudents.

The Officers of theInternational Law Society2002—2003

President: Jeffrey Hartwig

Vice President: Sue Brooks

Treasurer: Amy Eckhardt

Secretary: Beverly Dunlap

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It was on Friday, July 26, shortly after 1:00 in the afternoon, in themidst of Slobodan Milosevic’s war crimes trial. I was sitting in the galley ofthe ICTY—the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia—along with fourteen other participants from the Summer 2002 Semester at Seavoyage.

Milosevic smirked after the witness, his former Security Chief RadeMarkovic, responded to the prosecutor that he had received government fundsin cash. Initially, the prosecutor had attempted a compound question, askingwhen Marcovic had learned about the cash payment for the transport ofcorpses out of Kosovo and into Serbia. Milosevic, acting as his own attorney,had objected to the presumption that the payment was made in cash. The restof us in the courtroom, stunned by the idea of taking people from a mass gravein refrigerated trucks to another country, really had not concerned ourselveswith the word “cash.”

For more than thirty minutes we had sat in this closely guardedcourtroom, with security guards constantly rotating shifts, listening to thebarter of testimony in exchange for well-asked questions that told this grue-some story. “Cash” seemed so insignificant. We were more interested inwhether there would be an admission that the Milosevic government providedfunds for the transport. After confirming that the government payment wasmade in cash, the witness admitted that the payment was authorized undeni-ably by the government to move those corpses. And we, in the galley, lookedquietly at each other and then back at Milosevic, who had finished the smirkand didn’t seem at all disturbed. Was he planning to deny the payment inlater testimony? Having confirmed testimony that it was in cash, maybe hewanted to demonstrate that there was no documentary proof of the paymentor that it was made without his knowledge.

An hour later, with the court day finished, every one of us puzzledover it in the yard in front of the court building. There was no Socraticdemand from a professor, no hornbook, no precedent case that we compared.There was just this horrifying story, a calm witness, a smirking defendant,judges from all over the world, and fifteen of us now knowing that THIS waswhy we had to be there in person...to see why all the separate countries needthis thing called international law.

The 2003 voyage of theUniversity of Pittsburgh’s Law atSea program will sail the PacificRim from June 17 through August21, 2003. Travel will be aboardthe SS Universe Explorer.

This is an exciting and challengingacademic legal studies program inwhich students are able to earn 7credits of law school courses. Allstudents will take a core coursecalled Law and Culture, focusingon the cultures and legal systemsof the countries to be visitedduring the voyage. In addition,each student will be able to taketwo of three elective coursesspecifically tailored to the voyage.

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BEYOND THE DIGEST:Cases, Analysis and Unresolved Issues in the U.N. Sales Convention

February 7, 2003 at the University of Pittsburgh School of LawThe new UNCITRAL Digest of cases interpreting the U.N. Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods promises tobe an important source of information in promoting uniformity of application of the Convention. This program will allow the authorsof the Digest to go beyond review of existing cases, providing critical comments on decisions of record and opinions on issues not yetresolved.

8:00-8:30 Registration8:30-8:45 Welcome8:45-9:00 Introduction – Franco Ferrari9:00-10:00 Part I – Franco Ferrari Commentators: Joseph Lookofsky, Michael Bridge10:30-11:30 Part II – Peter Winship Commentators: Maria del Pilar Perales Viscasillas, Johan Erauw11:30-12:30 Part III – Ulrich Magnus Commentators: Henry Gabriel, Alejandro Garro12:45-2:15 Luncheon2:30-3:30 Part IV – Harry Flechtner Commentators: Paul Volken, Ronald Brand3:45-4:45 Part V – Claude Witz

(presented by John E. Murray, Jr.) Commentators: Filip De Ly, Peter Sarcevic4:45-5:15 Concluding Comments

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Speakers will include: Franco Ferrari, Joseph Lookofsky,Michael Bridge, Peter Winship, Maria del Pilar Perales Viscasillas,Johan Erauw, Ulrich Magnus, Henry Gabriel, Alejandro Garro,Harry Flechtner, Paul Volken, Ronald Brand, Claude Witz, JohnE. Murray Jr., Filip De Ly, and Peter Sarcevic

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