January 30, 2006

 

 

Mr. James Carter, Esq.

President

The American Society of International Law
2223 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington DC 20008
Fax +1 202-797-7133

 

Ms. Charlotte Ku

Executive Director/Executive Vice President

The American Society of International Law

2223 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington DC 20008
Fax +1 202-797-7133

 

Dear Jim and Charlotte:

 

Further to my phone conversation with Jim of early December 2005, please find attached a draft resolution on International Law that all the co-signators below (who are more than three members of the American Society of International Law (“the Society”)) are submitting by this letter to the President and Executive Director for adoption by the Society at its March 29, 2006 annual business meeting, pursuant to procedures identified at Article IX of the Constitution and regulations of the Society as posted at www.asil.org.

 

We are aware of point 4.b at page 32 of the “Report of the Ad Hoc Committee to Review the Organization and Activities of the American Society of International Law” of Spring 1983 (Prof. Alfred P. Rubin, Chairman).  We are also aware of the note dated March 24, 2005 entitled “ASIL Consideration of Taking Positions on International Law Issues” by Rick Kirgis and the 1966 policy statement of the Executive Council on the adoption of resolutions.

 

The attached draft resolution on international law is in compliance with that policy statement.

 

Thank you for your attention to this submission.  Please let me know if you need further information.

 

Warmest personal regards,

 

Benjamin G. Davis

Associate Professor of Law

University of Toledo College of Law (for identification purposes)

Current Society Member: Yes

Years of Membership:  Since 2005

 

Attachment:  Draft ASIL Resolution of January 27, 2006

 

By e-mail, registered return receipt requested and telefax

 

ASIL Member Co-signators (organizations for identification purposes only)

 

Carl Q. Christol

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, 
University of Southern California

Current ASIL Member: Yes

ASIL Member Since:  for over 56 years

 

Anthony D’Amato

Leighton Professor of Law

Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois

Current ASIL Member: Yes and Patron of the Society

ASIL Member Since:  for 40 years

 

Peter W. Schroth

Current ASIL Member: Yes

ASIL Member Since:  Since 1969

 

Jordan  Paust

Mike and Theresa Baker College Professor of Law

University of Houston Law Center

Houston, Texas

Current ASIL Member: Yes

ASIL Member Since:  Believe since 1970

 

Dr. Johannes Van Aggelen

Geneva, Switzerland

Current ASIL Member: Yes

ASIL Member Since:  Since 1972 with a break from 1976-1980

 

Armand de Mestral

Professor of Law

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Current ASIL Member: Yes

ASIL Member Since:  Since 1976 (perhaps earlier)

 

Leo Lovelace

Adjunct Professor of Social Science and History

Chapman University College and Chapman University

Lecturing Professor

Department of Political Science

University of California at Riverside

Riverside, California

Current ASIL Member: Yes

ASIL Member Since:  Since 1981

 

 

 

 

Karen Halverson Cross

Professor of Law

The John Marshall Law School

Chicago, Illinois

Current ASIL Member: Yes

ASIL Member Since:  for about 10 years

 

Itzchak E. Kornfeld, Esquire

General Counsel

OAsys Environmental Solutions, LLC

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Visiting Professor

Drexel University

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Current ASIL Member: Yes

ASIL Member Since:  for about 10 years

 

Sharon O’Brien

Associate Professor

Department of Political Science

University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

Current ASIL Member: Yes

ASIL Member Since:  for 10+ years

 

Jamie Mayerfield

Associate Professor Political Science

Adjunct Associate Professor of Law, societies & Justice

Seattle Campus Advisor, Human Rights Minor

University of Washington

Seattle, Washington

“Torture, ill-treatment, and secret incommunicado detention are emphatically prohibited by international law.  The American Society of International Law must take a public stand against these barbaric practices.”

Current ASIL Member: Yes

ASIL Member Since:  Since 2001

 

Katherine Newell Bierman (in her personal capacity)

Counterterrorism Counsel, U.S. Program

Human Rights Watch

Washington, D.C.

Current ASIL Member: Yes

ASIL Member Since:  2001-2004, 2005-present

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maivan Clech Lam

Professor of International Law

Associate Director

Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

The Graduate Center

The City University of New York

New York, New York

Current ASIL Member: Yes

ASIL Member Since:  Not Available

 

Benjamin Davis

Associate Professor of Law

University of Toledo College of Law

Toledo, Ohio

Current ASIL Member: Yes

ASIL Member Since:  Since 2005

 

John Lunstroth, LLM, MPH (cand)

History of Public Health & Medicine: Ethics, Policy & Society

School of Public Health

Columbia University

New York,  New York

Current ASIL Member: Yes

ASIL Member Since:  About a month

 

Meredith Kosky Lewis

Victoria University of Wellington Law School

Wellington, New Zealand

Current ASIL Member: Yes

ASIL Member Since:  Since 2006

 

Non-ASIL Member Co-signators (organizations for identification purposes only)

 

Alphonso J. Alvarez-Calderon Yrigoyen

Estudio Alvarez Calderon Abogados

Lima, Peru

 

Ewen Allison

 

Mary-Ann Greifeneder Allison, MA Philosophy

 

Amy Bartholomew

Associate Professor

Department of Law

Carleton University

Ottawa, Canada

 

Charlene A Cassel

Toledo, Ohio

 

 

Carol Chomsky

Professor of Law

University of Minnesota Law School

Minneapolis, Minnesota

 

Edward J. Costello

Private Dispute Resolution

Santa Monica, California

 

Christina A. Davis, Ph.D

Fort Worth, Texas

 

Dr. Pol de Vos

Coordinator of “Stop United States of Aggression”

(www.stopUSA.be)

 

Donna L Diekoff

Toledo, Ohio

 

Thomas Martin Doyle, Jr., J.D.

Children in Placement Connecticut Inc. (Court Appointed Special Advocate/Guardian Ad Litem, Connecticut Superior Court, Juvenile Matters)B.A. (Labor Studies), Antioch Univ., 1988; J.D. University of Connecticut School of Law 1994; Veteran, United States Marine Corps

 

Gregory M. Duhl

Visiting Assistant Professor of Law

Southern Illinois University

School of Law

Carbondale, Illinois

 

Charles B. Gittings, Jr.

Program to Enforce the Geneva Conventions

Fort Bragg, California

 

William O. Hennessey

Professor of Law

Franklin Pierce Law Center

Concord, New Hampshire

 

Craig L. Jackson

Professor of Law

Texas Southern University

Thurgood Marshall School of Law

Houston, Texas

 

Mary Maxwell, Ph.D.

President, Australian Institute of International Affairs, SA Branch

Director, Maternal Brain Pty Ltd

Adelaide, Australia

 

 

 

 

Srividhya Ragavan

Associate Professor of Law

University of Oklahoma Law Center

Andrew M. Coats Hall

Norman, Oklahoma

 

Heiko Recktenwald

Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany

 

Joseph Roberts

Seattle, Washington

 

Natsu Taylor Saito

Professor of Law

Georgia State University College of Law

Atlanta, Georgia

 

Elizabeth Thornburg

Professor of Law

SMU Dedman School of Law

Dallax, Texas

 

Paul L. Tractenberg

Board of Governors Distinguished Service
Professor and Alfred C. Clapp Service 
Professor of Law

Rutgers School of Law – Newark

Newark, New Jersey

 

Jennifer Van Bergen

Jennifer Van Bergen, a journalist and legal commentator, is the author of THE TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY: THE BUSH PLAN FOR AMERICA (Common Courage Press, 2004) and a guest columnist on Findlaw.com.  She writes frequently for various publications on civil liberties, human rights, and international law.

 

Christiane Wilke

Assistant Professor

Department of law

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

 

William J. Woodward, Jr.

Professor of Law

James Beasley School of Law

Temple University

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania