International Law Weekend 2013

International Law Weekend 2013, will be held from October 24-26, 2013 in New York City.

Please submit your proposals for ILW 2013 by March 15, 2013, to: Call for Proposals

International Law Weekend 2012 – the premier international law event of the fall season, was held on October 25-27, 2012, in New York City.

The overall theme of ILW 2012 was Ideas, Institutions, and Interests – Dynamics of Change in International Law. International Law Weekend was sponsored and organized by the American Branch of the International Law Association (“ABILA”) – which welcomes new members from academia, the practicing bar, and the diplomatic world – and the International Law Students Association (“ILSA”). ILW 2012 was held in conjunction with the 91st annual meeting of the American Branch.

The 2012 meeting explored the mechanisms of change in international law. Panels focused on key regions undergoing particularly dramatic change, for instance in the Middle East or China, and subject matter areas undergoing rapid change, such as tariffs and trade, human rights and humanitarian intervention, immigration, labor, public health, sustainable development and the environment. The program featured dedicated tracks of private international law topics in each program slot.

The meeting was held in Manhattan at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York at 42 West 44th Street on Thursday evening, October 25, and at the Fordham Law School at Lincoln Center on October 26-27, in cooperation with the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice. ILW 2012 attracted an audience of approximately 1400 practitioners, academics, diplomats, members of the governmental and nongovernmental sectors, and foreign policy and law students who are learning about the range of practice and career opportunities.

The co-sponsors for this year's International Law Weekend were:

• American Bar Association, Section of International Law
• American Society of International Law
• American University Washington College of Law
• Amherst College, Department of Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought
• Association of the Bar of the City of NY, Council on Int'l Affairs
• Boston University School of Law
• Brill/Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
• Brooklyn Law School
• Cambridge University Press
• Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
• Case Western Reserve Law School
• Columbia Law School
• Cornell Law School
• Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
• Debevoise and Plimpton LLP
• Editions A.Pedone (Paris)
• The Federalist Society
• Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
• Fordham Law School
• Fox Rothschild LLP
• Freshfields LLP
• Fulbright and Jaworski LLP
• George Washington University Law School
• Georgetown University Law Center
• Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
• Maurice A. Deane School of Law, Hofstra University
• Hughes, Hubbard & Reed LLP
• Human Rights First
• ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law
• International and Non-J.D. Programs, Fordham University School of Law
• International Bar Association
• Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies
• King & Spalding LLP
• Leitner Center for International Law and Justice, Fordham University School of Law
• New York University School of Law
• Oxford University Press
• Pace Law School
• Pennsylvania State University, The Dickinson School Of Law
• Permanent Mission of New Zealand to the United Nations
• Permanent Mission of the Philippines to the United Nations
• Princeton University, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
• Princeton University, Program On Law and Public Affairs
• Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP
• Quinnipiac University School of Law
• Rutgers School of Law - Camden
• Seton Hall University, John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations
• Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
• St. Johns University School of Law
• Taylor and Francis Group
• University of Connecticut School of Law
• University of Maine School of Law
• University of Pennsylvania Law School
• University of Virginia School of Law
• Washington University School of Law
• White and Case LLP
• WilmerHale
• Winston & Strawn LLP

The 2012 ILW Program Committee Members were: Steve Hammond, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, hammond@hugheshubbard.com; Nikolai B. Krylov, Winston & Strawn LLP, nkrylov@winston.com; Vivian Shen, International Law Students Association, vshen@ilsa.org; Mark R. Shulman, Pace Law School, MarkRShulman@gmail.com; Michael Shewchuk, United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, shewchuk@un.org; and Ruth Wedgwood, ABILA, rwedgwood@jhu.edu (Ex officio).