ILSA Chapter Happenings
was supervised and coached directly by two or three Executive Committee members. Each par- ticipant received close supervision for at least 30 hours. Most of the supervisors were former Jes- sup competitors. Two members from each group formed a pair to write and plead two claims. The scoring procedure was the one used by judges in the Jessup competition. As a result, one-third of the members performed exceptionally well, with a minimum score of 75 in both writing and oral pleading.
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For the upcoming term, the current Executive Committee has planned at least three programs. First, the Chapter is organizing a law review jour- nal to allow members with writing skills to pub- lish articles related to international legal issues. Second, we look forward to a study trip related to climate change in March 2015 with an on-site visit to a local coastal/forest community to study their role in climate change mitigation and adaptation. Finally, we will arrange a huge conference on in- ternational environmental law in May.
There will be a new recruitment of the Executive Committee in December 2014 and members in January 2015. The new Executive Committee will decide and organize more activities for the Chap- ter in accordance with the purpose of enhancing our international law learning environment.
FLETCHER ILS
Fletcher School of Law and DIplomacy Medford, Massachusets USA
Ameya Naik, President
The International Law Society at Fletcher has been revived this semester after a two-year hia- tus and has designed its activities to analyze the international law aspects of current events. Our aim is to serve as a forum to engage with the role of international law in the practice of international
relations careers. In our quest to host speakers and attract audiences from across disciplines, we are supported by collaborations with other aca- demic groups within The Fletcher School and the wider Boston area.
On September 29th, the ILS hosted a Panel Dis- cussion on “Rule of Law and Transitional Justice Challenges in Post-Conflict States”. Professor Louis Aucoin (formerly Deputy Special Repre- sentative of the Secretary General for the United Nations Mission in Liberia, former acting Minis- ter of Justice for East Timor under UNTAET) and Fletcher alumna Samantha Lakin explored how issues of conflict resolution, peace talks, recon- ciliation, mass atrocities and post-conflict recon- struction affect the design of the rule of law and transitional justice initiatives by drawing upon their own experiences working on the forefront of these challenges in Rwanda and Liberia among other regions.
On 17th November, the ILS and the Harvard Law & International Development Society (LIDS), hosted a lecture on “The International Health Regulations as a Global Governance Framework”, by Professor Gian-Luca Burci, Legal Counsel of the World Health Organisation. Tracing the his- tory of the international legal regime pertaining to human health, the talk highlighted the unique nature of the WHO regulations and their track re- cord of engendering compliance and scrutinized the performance of the regime in the ongoing Ebola crisis.
On 19th November, along with the Humanitarian Action Society, the ILS will co-host Dr. Antonio Tavares, a retired Colonel of the Army from the Republic of Cape Verde and author of a number of books and articles on humanitarian intervention, for a round table discussion titled “Africa: Interna- tional Law and Humanitarian Challenges.”
On 24th November, in conjunction with Fletch- er’s Institute for Business in the Global Context (IBGC), the ILS will be hosting a panel discussion
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