ILSA Chapter Happenings
Most recently our chapter is becoming involved with the World Trade Center in New Orleans and will hopefully be attending a lecture series they are hosting soon.
Finally, ILS is sending four of its members to ILSA’s International Law Weekend in New York at the end of October, and hoping to put together a team for the Jessup Moot Court Competition.
TEMPLE ILSA CHAPTER
Temple Univ. Beasley School of Law Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA Aana Maguire, President
The ILSA Chapter of Temple University Beasley School of Law has jump started the 2011-2012 school year. Our goals this year are to build on last year’s growth, facilitate relationships be- tween JD and international LL.M. students, and create a cohesive ILS community by hosting a number of social, academic, and career events. With overwhelming faculty and student support, we are proud to announce that Temple ILS has become one of the largest and best-known stu- dent groups on campus. Special thanks to the outgoing President and Vice President, Kristen Klump and Colin Emerele, for putting ILS on track for long-term success.
Temple ILS’s academic agenda promises to be stimulating this fall. On September 27, 2011, Mr. Markham Ball, Rhodes scholar and accomplished international arbitrator, will speak to students about his experience submitting claims against Iran in the U.S.-Iran Claims Tribunal at The Hague. We are privileged to have Mr. Ball in our com- pany this year, particularly because Temple ILS is working to establish a team to participate in the William C. Vis International Commercial Arbitra- tion Moot Court Competition. We are hoping that Mr. Ball’s lecture will arouse interest and support from ILS members who are otherwise unfamiliar
with international arbitration.
In addition to our academic events, Temple ILS is working hard to build a community of JD and in- ternational LL.M. students. Last spring, ILS host- ed biweekly “Worldview Wednesday” (WVW) events, in which international students spoke to JD’s about the operation of legal systems in their home countries. Because of the positive feed- back we received from students about WVW, we decided this year to implement a “JD/LL.M. Partnership Program,” where we pair JD’s with international LL.M.’s to create a network of cultur- ally diverse yet like-minded students. To facilitate these relationships, Temple ILS is implementing “Foreign Film Nights” once per month in the fall and repeating the WVW presentations in the spring. We are very excited about the potential for lasting relationships between our American and international members.
Temple ILS is also seeking to fill a void in the avail- ability of career resources for students desiring jobs or internships in international law. This year we will host career panels composed of practic- ing lawyers in private and public international law and a study abroad panel consisting of students who spent a semester in one of Temple Law’s many international programs. In addition, ILS is supporting Temple’s Office of Graduate and In- ternational Programs as it holds an international resume-building workshop and hosts delegates from the United Nations to speak about careers at the UN.
Although spring semester seems a long time from now, Temple ILS has already begun to plan for our second annual Jus Gentium Internation- al Law Symposium. Last spring, we received a grant from ILSA to launch what has become our signature yearly event. Jus Gentium honors Temple’s scholarly achievements in international law by inviting faculty and published members of the Temple International and Comparative Law Journal to give presentations on their research. Last year, Professor Margaret M. deGuzman told
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