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The Dean Rusk Center plays an active role in the international arena by hosting conferences, colloquia and lectures that bring scholars, practitioners, government officials, business leaders, students and alumni together to discuss relevant international law and policy issues. Rusk Center conferences and lectures seek to increase the understanding of international law and policy decisions, as well as contribute to the solution of challenges of global significance. Our goal is to provide a forum for true legal and policy debate. In addition to promoting the academic value of these programs we also remain concerned with exposing how the legal and policy issues at hand actually play out in a practical sense, and seek to gain insight from participants who are directly affected by changes in these laws and policies. Through the publication of our conferences and lectures we extend these insights to the legal community at large. |
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Back to the Future: Global Perspectives on the Future of IP Law in the Next Decade: March 2, 2012 - This daylong event took place in Dean Rusk Hall on North Campus and explored copyright law, trademark law and patent law, focusing on the perspectives of the European Union and the United States. Panelists included experts from multiple U.S. intellectual property law areas as well as experts on EU design-protection law who discussed the current issues facing intellectual property law and projected its evolution throughout the next decade. This event was sponsored by the law school's Journal of Intellectual Property Law and the Dean Rusk Center for International Law and Policy.
Striking the Right Balance: Energy Security in International Law: Feb. 3, 2012 - The University of Georgia School of Law's Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law hosted a daylong conference on international energy security Friday, Feb. 3 in the Larry Walker Room of Dean Rusk Hall on North Campus. The conference touched on international energy governance issues, regulatory law in the renewable energy sector, nuclear safety law and nuclear waste legal regimes post-Fukushima. Discussing these topics was a mix of policymakers, academics and practitioners representing U.S. and foreign perspectives. Commissioner William C. Ostendorff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission gave the keynote address. The program of the conference is available here.
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- The Future of International Trade: An American Perspective: Friday, February 18, 2011 - The Dean Rusk Center and UGA's Terry College of Business, along with the Business-Law Society, presented a daylong conference exploring issues related to the business aspects of international trade, future challenges for trade, and the future of multilateral trade negotiations. Ambassador Demetrios Marantis, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative, served as the keynote speaker for the event. The conference proceedings have been published as Vol. 7 of the Dean Rusk Center Occasional Papers series.
- 15 Years of TRIPS Implementation: Intellectual Property Protection from a Global Perspective: Friday, January 28, 2011 - The Journal of Intellectual Property Law and the Dean Rusk Center presented a daylong conference that explored the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), an international agreement administered by the World Trade Organization that sets down minimum standards for many forms of intellectual property regulation as applied to nationals of other WTO Members.
- Fallout: The Future of Nuclear Security and Non-Proliferation: Friday, November 12, 2010 - Co-sponsored by the Dean Rusk Center and the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law. This daylong conference evaluated the U.N Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and included in-depth discussions on the future legal framework for nuclear non-proliferation, balancing nuclear energy and security, and emerging nuclear threats.
- American, Danish, and Australian Idols? International Franchising of Television Formats in the Absence of Copyright: Wednesday, April 7, 2010 - Considered an expert in the intellectual property law field, Martin Kretschmer presented his research on the international franchising of television formats such as "American Idol." This was the second of two lectures featuring Kretschmer, who is the professor of information jurisprudence and director of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management at Bournemouth University, U.K. The first lecture took place April 6 (see below).
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Slicing Up the Entertainment Pie: Copyright, Contracts, and Artist Compensation in the EU:
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 - Considered an expert in the intellectual property law field, Martin Kretschmer discussed his groundbreaking work in artist compensation in the European Union as well as the contractual structures that drive creative industries. This was the first of two different lectures featuring Kretschmer, who is the professor of information jurisprudence and director of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management at Bournemouth University, U.K. The second lecture will took place April 7 (see above).
April 2010 Nuclear Security Summit: Expectations and Realities, was a follow-up conference to the two-day, NATO conference held in Vienna, Austria in January-held in Athens, GA and co-sponsored by the Center for International Trade and Security, the symposium focused on the role of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 in providing an umbrella mechanism for further developing a legal framework designed to reduce the risk of nuclear terrorism and strengthen overall nuclear security. The current role of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), as well as proposals to expand and further support the organization's mandate and resources, were also discussed. |
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Photo: (from left to right) the late Professor Gabriel M. Wilner; Diana Wallis, vice president of the European Parliament; and C. Donald Johnson, Director of the Dean Rusk Center. |
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- The International Fight Against Terrorism: A Colloquium on the Prospects for Further Cooperation between the European Union and the United States, was a two-day colloquium held at the Dean Rusk Center in partnership with the Center for European Law, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, on April 13-14, 2007. Speakers from around the globe convened in Athens to address a range of transcendent issues relating to terrorism and security affecting both the EU and the U.S., including common challenges and achievements, data mining, and the conflict between freedom of the individual and governmental measures taken to protect civil society. The conference opened with a keynote address delivered by Jonathan Faull, Director General for Justice, Freedom and Security at the European Commission. This was followed by two panel discussions and an evening dinner with U.S. Congressman from Georgia, Jim Marshall, as the keynote speaker. A third panel was held the following day to conclude the colloquium's activities.
- International Trade under the Rule of Law, a conference held March 23 & 24, 2006, in Dean Rusk Hall, was organized and sponsored by the Dean Rusk Center and designated an American Society of International Law Centennial Regional Meeting. The conference focus was on the dispute settlement system of the World Trade Organization (WTO), with a view toward discussing the need for a superstructure of international law governing trade and economic cooperation between states. From the time the dispute settlement system was established pursuant to the Uruguay Round negotiations, questions concerning the reform of enforcement measures and the system as a whole, the role of Appellate Body decisions in global governance, and the issue of who benefits most from the system have continued to challenge practitioners and scholars alike. This conference was an assembly of distinguished international panelists, comprised of diplomats, academics, legal practitioners, and government officials, who addressed and explored these and other questions relating to international trade under the rule of law.
- The Limits of International Law, a Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law symposium, in conjunction with the School of Law and the Dean Rusk Center, held on October 28 and 29, 2005 in which the internationally prominent authors of the book, The Limits of International Law (Oxford UP, 2005), Jack L. Goldsmith and Eric A. Posner, discussed the relevance of international law with leading scholars in the field.
- U.S.-China Trade: Opportunities and Challenges, a Rusk Center conference with two days of panel discussions, was held April 14 & 15, 2005. Speakers with special expertise on the U.S.-China economic relationship provided unique insights to the conference audience. Panels were composed of business, legal, and policy participants drawn from government, academia, and the private sector. The panel discussions focused on investment and services & market access on day one in Atlanta, Georgia, and on agriculture, textiles, intellectual property, and export controls on day two at the University of Georgia in Athens. The Deputy Secretary of Commerce gave the keynote address in Atlanta.