THE YALE JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
FIFTH ANNUAL YOUNG SCHOLARS CONFERENCE

The "New" New Haven School: International Law—Past, Present & Future
March 9-10, 2007 • Yale Law School • New Haven, Connecticut

Friday, March 9

8:45 am - 5:00 pm Meeting of the Junior International Law Scholars Roundtable

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Cocktail Party for Roundtable Participants and the YJIL Board

Saturday, March 10

8:00 am - 9:00 am Conference Registration/Continental Breakfast

9:00 am - 9:30 am Welcome and Opening Remarks

9:30 am - 11:00 am Panel I: Historical Perspectives on the New Haven School

Moderator:
• Michael Reisman

Presenters:
• Paul Berman, A Pluralist Approach to International Law
• Christopher Borgen, Whose Public, Whose Order?: Imperium, Region, and Normative Friction

Discussants:
• Sarah Cleveland
• Siegfried Wiessner
• Andrew Willard

11:15 am - 12:45 pm Panel II: Applications of the New Haven School

Moderator:
• Harold Hongju Koh

Presenters:
• Rebecca Bratspies, Crafting a Green Landing for Spaceship Earth: Some Navigational Advice From The New Haven School
• Janet Levit, Bottom-Up Transnational Lawmaking: Reflections on the New Haven School of International Law
• Hari Osofsky, A Law and Geography Perspective on the New Haven School
• Melissa Waters, Normativity in the “New” New Haven School: Assessing the Legitimacy of International Legal Norms Created by the
World’s Judges

12:45 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch

2:15 pm - 3:45 pm Student Panel A/Student Panel B

Moderators:
• Paul Dubinsky
• Noah Novogrodsky
• Beth Van Schaack

Presenters:
• To be determined

4:00 pm -5:30 pm Panel III: Is there a “new” New Haven School?

Moderators:
• Laura Dickinson
• Oona Hathaway

Discussants:
• Robert Ahdieh
• Rosa Brooks
• Ryan Goodman
• Derek Jinks

5:30 pm - 5:45 pm Closing Remarks

7:30 pm - 10:30 pm Banquet at the Union League Café for Conference Participants & the YJIL Board