Treaties, Enforcement, and U.S. Sovereignty
An International Symposium
Stanford Law School, February 21 and 22, 2003
We invite both academics and legal practitioners to submit papers
of approximately thirty pages in length to our annual Symposium Issue.
Those whose work is accepted will be expected to present at the live
Symposium and will be published in Volume 55 of the Stanford Law Review.
Two student notes will also be selected for prizes and publication.
The Symposium topic will synthesize perspectives from various areas of
law--including criminal, human and civil rights, intellectual property,
securities, and trade law--on U.S. involvement in an international
community increasingly characterized by a proliferation of treaties. On the
one hand, the Symposium will examine domestic constraints on treaties,
looking at Constitutional obligations related to ratification as well as
the possibility that the Constitution may create substantive limitations on
the content of treaties and treaty provisions that can be signed; this line
of investigation will also cover the political resistance to restricting
U.S. sovereignty and the rhetoric surrounding such a stance. On the other
hand, the Symposium will consider the international response to U.S.
violations of treaties like NAFTA and the U.S. reluctance to participate in
organizations such as the International Criminal Court.
Several normative and pragmatic questions will frame the Symposium. One
concerns the philosophical justifications for entering into treaties,
especially in the context of globalization, and for either adhering to them
or asserting exceptions to their enforcement. The other asks how effective
treaties are in practice, whether there are areas in which they do not
represent an appropriate method of regulating, and if alternatives to a
regime of treaties exist. What should emerge from the Symposium is a way of
thinking about treaties in the U.S. context across substantive fields of law.
Please send submissions to the Symposium Editor, Stanford Law Review, Crown
Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA 94305-8610 or upload them
via the web at http://law.stanford.edu/lawreview. Any questions should be
addressed to Bernadette Meyler at symposium@slr.stanford.edu or (650)725-8308.
Deadline: November 1, 2002.
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