May 16 – 22, 2010 → Technology & Justice Seminar in Washington, DC for judges from Latin America
June 5 – 13, 2010 → Intellectual Property Law Seminar in Washington, DC for judges from Mexico
September 26 – October 1, 2010 → Sixth Sir Richard May Seminar on International Law & International Courts in The Hague, Netherlands for state and federal judges from the United States
October, 2010 → Intellectual Property Law Seminar in Washington, DC for judges from Argentina and Chile
November, 2010 → Two-day Alternative Dispute Resolution Seminar in Washington, DC for judges from China
Announcing the Sixth Sir Richard May Seminar on International Law & International Courts
The International Judicial Academy is pleased to announce the Sixth Sir Richard May Seminar on International Law & International Courts, to be held in late September, 2010 in The Hague, Netherlands. The Seminar in named on honor of the late Sir Richard May, the first British representative on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and a member of the Academy’s first Board of International Advisors. This Seminar is being conducted by the Academy with financial support from the Foundation to Promote Open Society. The specific dates of the seminar are Sunday, September 26 – Friday, October 1, 2010.
The IJA will make available to selected participants a scholarship of $1500. This scholarship will cover part of the tuition, long distance airfare, and some of the hotel expense for the seminar. The one-week Seminar, open to state and federal judges from the United States, will consist of presentations from distinguished international jurists and judges as well as site visits to some of the international courts and dispute resolution tribunals located in The Hague. The seminar is limited to 20 judges.
Egyptian Justice Becomes IJA Vice-President
Hon. Adel Omar Sherif, Deputy Chief Justice of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt, has been selected as Vice-President of the International Judicial Academy for Education and Judicial Cooperation – Eastern Hemisphere. His appointment was approved by the Board of the Directors of the International Judicial Academy at its annual meeting in January, 2010. He joins Judge Ricardo Li Rosi of Argentina as an Academy Vice-President.
As a Vice-President of the Academy, Justice Sherif will be responsible for assisting the Academy with the development of judicial and other educational programs in the geographical areas of the Middle East, Europe, Africa, India, Southeast Asia and Australia. He will assist the Academy with identifying potential funding sources for programs, planning and conducting programs in those areas, and securing faculty and participants for such programs. The Academy plans to pursue programs on international environmental law, an area of special interest to Justice Sherif and the Academy.
Academy Selects Randy Liu as Director of China Programs
The International Judicial Academy has announced the appointment of Mr. Randy Liu as Director of China Programs for the Academy, effective January 1, 2010. Mr. Liu will be responsible for developing opportunities for Academy programs for Chinese judges and other legal professionals both in China and the United States, as well as in other countries. He will assist the Academy with planning and conducting programs for Chinese judges and other legal professionals, and will also help with the selection of participants for these programs.
Mr. Liu is President of Laurel International Corporation, a Maryland corporation that plans, arranges, and conducts U.S. – China exchange programs and Chinese visitor programs to the United States. The total number of educational programs in which Mr. Liu is involved each year ranges from 40 to 50. He has planned and conducted hundreds of exchange programs for Chinese professionals and students and arranged for hundreds of visits by Chinese professionals to the United States.
Judge Fernandez Promoted to IJA Assistant Vice-President
The International Judicial Academy has announced the promotion of Judge Javier Fernandez of Argentina to the newly created position of Assistant Vice-President for Latin American Programs. Judge Fernandez will continue to serve as the Academy's Director of the Argentina Office. In his new duties, Judge Fernandez will assist Academy Vice-President Ricardo Li Rosi in developing and conducting programs in Latin America. The Academy already regularly conducts programs in Argentina and Chile and will begin conducting programs in Mexico and Peru this year.
IJA Elects New Members to the Board of Directors
At its annual meeting in January, 2010, the Board of Directors of the International Judicial Academy elected two new members who will replace outgoing Directors Professor Jon Gould and Judge Mary A. Gooden Terrell. The new members of the Board of Directors are the Hon. Nancy V. Alquist, Associate Judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maryland, and the Hon. Leslie M. Alden, Circuit Court Judge for the 19th Circuit of Virginia. Judge Alquist has participated in several IJA seminars, most recently as a speaker at an insurance seminar held Buenos Aires last June. Judge Alden is the current President of the International Association of Women Judges.
Addition to IJM Editorial Staff
Carolyn A. Dubay was recently selected as Associate Editor of the International Judicial Monitor. She was Editorial Assistant and Reporter for the Monitor during the summer and fall of 2009. From 2008 – 2009, Ms. Dubay was a senior research associate at the Federal Judicial Center. She served as a Supreme Court Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States for the 2007 – 2008 term. Formerly, she worked for the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, where she was an attorney in the Article III Judges Division of the Office of Judges Program. As an attorney at AO, Ms. Dubay provided counsel for administrative concerns of Article III judges and program support to the Judicial Conference of the United States Committee on International Judicial Resources. Ms. Dubay holds a B.A. in history from Duke University and a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law. After finishing law school in 1995, Ms. Dubay was an associate at Jones Day in New York, from 1995-1996. In 1996, she left private practice and served as a law clerk to the Hon. Joanna Seybert of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York for two years.
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