2011 Wisconsin Division Statewide Conference in La Crosse on the United Nations and International Law

When:  Saturday, April 16, 2011
10am to 4pm

Where: Viterbo University, La Crosse

Keynote Speaker:  Professor David J. Scheffer
"Challenges of International Law at the U.N."

Students may attend free!  Please register using contacts below.

Professor Scheffer is on the faculty at Northwestern University Law School, where he is Director of the Center for International Human Rights.  He was the U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues from 1997-2001, and led the U.S. delegation in the U.N. talks establishing the International Criminal Court.  During his ambassadorship, he negotiated and coordinated U.S. support for the establishment of international hybrid criminal tribunals.  Dr. Scheffer headed the Clinton Administration's Atrocities Prevention Inter-Agency Working Group from 1999-2001.

Dr. Wolfgang Schmidt, was the longtime chair of the Wisconsin Governor's Commission on the United Nations until Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker recently cancelled the commission.  Over the lunch hour, he will lead a discussion on possibilities for maintaining the work of the Commission in some way within a new format.

After lunch, attendees will have the opportunity to participate in discussions on the following topics:

• The International Criminal Court
• UN Security Council and Nation Creation
• The UN Security Council's Responsibility to Proect (R2P) in Lybia
• International Law and Nuclear Arms

For more information and to download the registration form, please write to UNAWisconsin@tds.net or phone 608-441-1994.