Day One

Friday, February 2, 2007

Legitimacy, Legal Development & Change

We will be joined via videoconferencing by our Indonesian university partners for the February 2-3, 2007 morning sessions only, due to the time difference. All times are U.S. East Coast regular time (GMT -5). The symposium will take place in the Law School auditorium.

08:00-08:20

Coffee Plus Registration for CLE Participants

08:20-08:30

Welcome

08:30-10:45

Rule of Law, Civil Affairs Doctrine & Stability Operations Panel

Col. David Gordon, Peacekeeping & Stability Operations Institute, United States Army War College, Carlisle, PA
Maj. Gen. Nilendra Kumar, Judge Advocate General, Indian Army, New Delhi
Prof. Baryalai Hakimi, University of Kabul Faculty of Law & Political Science, Afghanistan
Prof. (Lt. Col.) Kevin Govern, Law Department, United States Military Academy at West Point, NY
Col. Daniel L. Rubini, JAG, U.S. Army (retired)

Legal Development Roundtable (Interagency Perspective)

Inge Fryklund, Chief of Party, USAID West Bank-Gaza Office of Transition Inititives Project & former USAID Rule of Law Advisor, United States Embassy Kabul/forward deployed legal and development advisor for Provincial Reconstruction Teams, Jalalabad, Afghanistan

10:45-10:55

Coffee Break

10:55-12:25

Society, Religion & Secular Law ( Southeast Asia Plus) Panel

Julia Suryakusuma, Indonesian columnist & social commentator, Jakarta, Indonesia
Maggie Gallagher, nationally syndicated columnist & President of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, New York, NY
Prof. Robin Wilson, Washington & Lee Law School (visiting), Lexington, VA
Dr. Michael Kessler, Georgetown University, Washington, DC

12:25-13:55

Lunch Break

13:55-15:30

Asian Economic Law Development & China Panel

Prof. Chen Zhidong, Fudan University Law School, Shanghai, PRC
Prof. Zhang Xuezhong, East China University of Politics & Law, Shanghai, PRC
Prof. John Ohnesorge, University of Wisconsin School of Law, Madison
Darminto Hartono, Diponegoro University Faculty of Law, Semarang, Indonesia

15:30-16:15

Legal Development Roundtable (Evaluation & Measurement)

Dr. Edgardo Buscaglia, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA & Columbia University Law School, New York, NY

16:15-16:35

Coffee Break

16:35-18:15

(Eastern) European Law Reform, the State & Its Citizens Panel

Prof. Angelika Nussberger, Institut fuer Ostrecht, University of Cologne, Germany
Dr. Michael Kubiciel, University of Regensburg Faculty of Law, Germany
Prof. Peter Haas, Samuel Rosenthal Center for Judaic Studies, Case Western University, Cleveland, OH
Dr. Patrick Mason, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, IN
Prof. David Linnan, University of South Carolina Law School, Columbia, SC

End of Day One

Day Two

Saturday, February 3, 2007

Legitimacy, Legal Development & Change

We will be joined via videoconferencing by our Indonesian university partners for the February 2-3, 2007 morning sessions only, due to the time difference. All times are U.S. East Coast regular time (GMT -5). The symposium will take place in the Law School auditorium.

08:00-08:15

Coffee

08:15-10:30

One or Many Views?: Differing Faces of Islamic Practice & Law Panel

Prof. Hasan al-Shafei’i, Cairo University Faculty of Dar ul Ulum, Eygpt
Siti Ruhaini Dzuhayatin, State Islamic University Sunan Kalijaga Sharia Law Department, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Prof. Abdul Qader Nael, University of Kabul Faculty of Sharia Law, Afghanistan
Dr. Robin Bush, Deputy Country Representative, Asia Foundation, Jakarta, Indonesia

Roundtable on Approaches to Sharia Law Reform

Prof. Tim Lindsey, Asian Law Centre & Centre for the Study of Contemporary Islam, University of Melbourne, Australia

10:30-10:45

Coffee Break

10:45-12:30

Conflicted Societies & Legal Development Panel

Justice Albie Sachs, South African Constitutional Court, Johannesburg
Prof. Harkristuti Harkrisnowo, University of Indonesia & Ministry of Justice (Directorate for Human Rights), Jakarta, Indonesia
Prof. (Col.) Cindy Jebb, Department of Social Studies, United States Military Academy at West Point, NY
Dean Marsudi Triatmodjo, Gadjah Mada University Faculty of Law, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

12:30-14:00

Lunch Break

14:00-16:15

Japan & the Rights-based Society Concept in Asia Panel

Prof. Veronica Taylor, Asian Law Center, University of Washington Law School, Seattle
Prof. John Haley, Whitney R. Harris Institute for Global Legal Studies, Washington University Law School, Saint Louis, MO
Prof. Eric Feldman, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia
Prof. Kent Anderson, The Australian National University, ANU College of Law and ANU College of Asia-Pacific, Canberra

Roundtable on Asian Public Law & Politics Cross-Over

Prof. Andrew Harding, University of Victoria Faculty of Law & Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, Victoria, British Columbia

16:15-17:45

Russian Law Reform, East or West? Panel

Prof. Eugene Huskey, Stetson University, Deland, FL
Dr. Alexei Trochev, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
Prof. Joel Samuels, University of South Carolina Law School, Columbia, SC

17:45-18:00

Closing

End of Day Two