Newsletter - January 2010
Upcoming Events
The Tenth Workshop on International Law, a
yearly event organized by the OAS Department of
International Law, will take place on 2-5 February
2010. This year it will be held at the
headquarters of the Inter-American Institute of Human
Rights in San Jose, Costa Rica. The objective of the
event is to bring together a group of professors of
international law from the entire region to foster
discussion of current issues in the field and matters
related to the teaching of international law in
universities throughout the Hemisphere.
The Workshops are held as part of the Inter-American
Program for the Development of International Law (AG/RES.
2503 (XXXIX-O/09), and the Department of
International Law has been responsible for
implementing them since 1997.
A total of 24 distinguished professors and
specialists from different countries and universities
of the region and Europe, as well as OAS General
Secretariat personnel will be attending the event.
Noteworthy among these are Prof. Antonio Remiro
Brotóns (Autonomous University of Madrid), Mary Ellen
O’Connell (University of Notre Dame), Winston
Anderson (University of the West Indies, Barbados),
as well as other prominent authorities in the field
of international law.
Some of the topics to be addressed during the event
are democracy in the Inter-American System, current
developments in private international law, the
teaching of international law, current issues in
human rights, new developments in the jurisprudence
of the International Court of Justice, among others.
This is the first time the Workshops will be offering
simultaneous interpretation, which will make it
possible for professors from the Caribbean to
participate.
It is expected that participants in the Workshop will
adopt strategies for introducing certain topics
related to the Inter-American System into the
curricula of their respective educational
institutions, and also to articulate specific
proposals for teaching international law in the
region.
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