ILSA Chapter Happenings
the student body to forums, conferences, panels, and opportunities educate them fully on Interna- tional law.
On November 25th, ILSA-INTER will join in sup- port of the International Day of NO MORE VIO- LENCE AGAINST WOMEN. On said date mem- bers and the participating community will wear the color purple to promote awareness.
At the end of a successful fall semester, ILSA- INTER will be hosting a party and celebrating an International Christmas as part of our commit- ment in educating others on International Law. We want to celebrate Christmas in a diverse way like others all around the world who celebrate this special event.
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Future events for the spring semester thus far planned include a week concerning the Right to Health with a focus on the right to health from an international perspective. We will be conducting a health fair on our campus, a conference with experts in the field and a team spirited campaign that will involve our community, professors, staff and students.
ILSA-INTER is proud to say that we have started out this semester successfully. We will continue to do so as we have many events planned, and we look forward to an equally productive Spring Semester.
VANDERBILT ILS
Vanderbilt University Law School Nashville, Tennessee USA James Balser, President
Vanderbilt’s International Law Society (ILS) had another active fall semester and is busily pre- paring for a full calendar of events in the spring. Our schedule for 2014-2015 includes roundtables with Vanderbilt faculty, presentations highlight- ing featured guest speakers, community service and social events. The purpose of ILS is to ex-
pose and educate students on international legal issues that otherwise might be left unexplored. This year, ILS has been especially successful in organizing events that excite the student body while providing more opportunities than ever to become involved with in the international legal realm.
To begin the year, ILS co-sponsored a panel dis- cussion on “Law, Politics, and the South China Sea.” The panelists included Cliff Johnson, As- sistant Legal Advisor for Oceans, International Environmental and Scientific Affairs for the U.S. State Department, and Julian Ku, the Director of International Programs and John DeWitt Gregory Research Scholar at Hofstra University’s Maurice A. Dean School of Law. The discussion, moder- ated by Vanderbilt Law School’s own Professor Ingrid Wuerth, focused on the current legal and political issues affecting the South China Sea. The panelists shed light on the unique difficulties fac- ing a region encircled by China, Vietnam, Cam- bodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and the Philippines.
On September 10, ILS organized and co-hosted “Human Trafficking: Law, Policy, and Litigation,” with John Cotton Richmond, a renowned expert on the topic of Human Trafficking Prosecution. Mr. Richmond currently serves as the Special Litiga- tion Counsel to the Department of Justice’s Hu- man Trafficking Unit but has previously served as an expert on human trafficking for the United Na- tion’s Working Group on Trafficking in Persons and at the European Union’s multilateral meetings on human trafficking. At the event, he presented an overview of the laws that govern the prosecution of domestic human trafficking violations today and shared anecdotes of his own experiences with trafficking prosecution. Human trafficking crimes are widespread, but there are still many myths and misconceptions surrounding both the victims and perpetrators. Mr. Richmond helped dispel some of these rumors while explaining how the prosecution of trafficking crimes must fit
ILSA Quarterly » volume 23 » issue 2 » December 2014
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