ILSA Chapter Happenings
mation about career opportunities and pathways in international law; and run social events to en- gage students and encourage a community of international law at the ANU.
To begin the new year, the society held a ‘Get Involved in International Law’ Program to encour- age both students and staff to engage with the society with the support of the International Law Students Association. The program comprised of three events: A Breakfast with esteemed Profes- sor of International Law and Human Rights Hilary Charlesworth, a stall at the 2012 ANU Orientation Week Market Day and a Public Lecture on Syria.
ANU Orientation Week Market Day provided the International Law Society with an opportunity to encourage market-day attendees to sign-up for membership in order to participate in the events and activities the ILS will be hosting in 2012. Through their membership, participants were of- fered the chance to attend Breakfast with Hilary Charlesworth AM along with attendance at a dis- cussion panel on Syria. At the end of Market Day the ILS had signed up close to 250 members.
As our first formal event for 2012, the Execu- tive Committee of the International Law Society hosted a breakfast with the society’s patron, Pro- fessor Hilary Charlesworth. Professor Charles- worth holds a position as a Professor of Inter- national Law and Human Rights in the College of Law and is both Professor and Director of the Centre for International Governance and Justice at the ANU. She was appointed judge ad hoc of the International Court of Justice in 2011 for the Whaling in the Antarctic Case.
The breakfast took place at Vivaldi’s Teatro Res- taurant on University Avenue, Canberra, on Wednesday the 29th of February. The purpose of the event was to provide our newly inducted members with an opportunity to get to know our patron, the executive committee, and each other better in an informal setting. The event provided students with an opportunity to meet and con-
verse with our guest of honor, Professor Charles- worth, after she spoke about careers in Interna- tional Law and prospects for students who are interested and willing to participate in the field. This opportunity was taken up enthusiastically, with attendance close to 70 students.
To encourage student participation and debate in the international arena, the ILS hosted a discus- sion panel of esteemed academics to discuss the crisis in Syria. The event was publicised both through our website and through Facebook and was advertised through the ACT Red Cross. Due to the broad reach of our publicity for the event, the event was attended by members of the ACT Red Cross community along with ANU students and staff members. The event was opened by Dr Marwa Daoudy, Professor of Middle Eastern Politics from Oxford University, who entered the forum via Skype from Princeton University. Dr Daoudy discussed the political situation in Syria today and the intricacies of a situation where there appeared to be no clear answer to end the violence. The forum was then opened to the panel: panellists included Dr Bob Bowker, Profes- sor at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies at the ANU who served as Australia’s ambassador to Syria (accredited to Cairo) from 2005 – 2008, Dr Adriana Di Stefano, Professor in International Humanitarian Law, Kevin Boreham, professor in Human Rights Law at the ANU and student rep- resentative Mallory Wankel who worked for the United Nations with UNHCR prior to her atten- dance at the ANU and spent time living in Syrian capital city, Damascus. ILS Director of Publica- tions Andrew Swanson facilitated conversation between the audience and the panellists: in dis- cussion was the prospect of military intervention and the potential effects of such a response, as well as the interplay of various States both in the region and around the world and what effect it might have in reaching a solution to end the on- going violence.
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