UM Law School Professor Bernard H. Oxman Speaks at International Law Weekend Conference
UM Law School Professor Bernard H. Oxman was a panelist in "International Law Weekend 2007: Toward a New Vision of International Law," a conference held in New York on October 25-27, 2007. International Law Weekend 2007 was organized by the American Branch of the International Law Association as a forum for practitioners, academics, students, government officials, NGO members and U.N. diplomats to explore the rapid evolution of public and private international law and the resulting consequences for the global legal environment. Topics included global climate change, intellectual property, forms and methods of transnational dispute resolution, non-proliferation, human rights protections and counter-terrorism.
On Friday, October 26th, 2007, Professor Oxman participated on a panel titled "The Northwest Passage and Global Warming: Canadian Internal Waters or Sovereign Melt-Down of an International Strait?" The panel addressed the issue of Canada's potentially melting sovereignty over the North West Passage due to global warming and the U.S. claim that, in any event, it is an international strait. A 1988 bilateral agreement on "Arctic Cooperation" in the Passage specifically reserves the competing claims of the parties, and no international court has ruled on the matter.
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posted 29-October-2007
