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GW LAW BRIEFS: International Update

State Department Meeting

GW Law Professor Susan Karamanian; the U.S. Department of State’s Harold H. Koh, legal adviser; Hal Burman, Office of the Legal Adviser; and Keith Loken, assistant legal adviser, field questions at the opening session of the State Department’s Advisory Committee on Private International Law.

Claire Duggan

Professor Christopher Yukins discussed international government procurement issues.

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World Bank General Counsel Anne-Marie LeRoy delivered a lunchtime lecture on reform of the bank's sanctions regime at the meeting.

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Susan Karamanian

Charnovitz at Carnegie

In September, Professor Steven Charnovitz spoke at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on the future and reform of the World Trade Organization. To listen to audio of the panel or to read a transcript of the event, visit http://carnegieendowment.org.

Claire Duggan

Irish Justice Official Visits

Seán Aylward, the secretary general of the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Ireland, speaks with Professor Peter Raven-Hansen after a lecture in September titled “Anti-Terror: The Irish Experience.”

Sen. Dick Lugar Receives Award

Nick Gingold

Charles Camp, professorial lecturer in law at GW Law; Emily Rae, MPA ’08; and Associate Dean Susan Karamanian (right), president of the Washington Foreign Law Society, presented Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) with the Harry Leroy Jones Award at the Society’s annual gala celebration in October. The award honors individuals of distinguished merit in the international legal community. Past recipients include Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Deputy Treasury Secretary Stuart E. Eizenstat, and Ambassadors Thomas R. Pickering and Jeanne J. Kirkpatrick.

Alumnus Ambassador Returns to Alma Mater

Claire Duggan

Ambassador Clovis Maksoud, BA ’49, MA ’50, JD ’51, is joined by students Jennifer Alvarez, Aditya K. Luthra, Abdullah I. Masud, and Trent Taylor. Ambassador Maksoud regaled a room full of students in October with stories from his time as a diplomat and attorney in D.C. and abroad. A Lebanese national, Ambassador Maksoud was the chief representative of the League of Arab States in India from 1961 to 1966. From 1967 to 1979, he served as the senior editor of Al-Ahram and then chief editor of Al-Nahar Weekly. Dr. Maksoud was appointed as the League of Arab States’ chief representative to the United States and the United Nations on Sept. 1, 1979. He is currently a professor of international relations and director of the Center for the Global South at American University.

Claire Duggan

International & Comparative Law Colloquium

Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Hari M. Osofsky delivered a lecture titled “Diagonal Climate Regulation: Implications for the Obama Administration.”

IP Events

David Kappos, undersecretary of commerce for IP and director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, delivered the third Sidney Katz IP Law Speaker Lecture. From left to right, Associate Dean John M. Whealan, Mr. Kappos, Dean Frederick M. Lawrence, and A. Sidney Katz, JD ’66.

Richard Wilder, associate general counsel for intellectual property policy at Microsoft, spoke to students during an IP benefactor lunch sponsored by the company.

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University of Richmond Law Professor Chris Cotopia presented “The Folly of Early Filing in Patent Law.”

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William Patry, senior copyright counsel at Google, was in Washington in October to attend the Supreme Court oral argument in Reed Elsevier v. Muchnick. Mr. Patry stopped by the Law School to speak to students and faculty about the case and other recent developments in the field

Claire Duggan

University of Virginia Law Professor Zahr Stauffer delivered “In Defense of Embedded Advertising” during an IP Lecture Series luncheon event.

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