International Symposium

March 7-9, 2000 from 9 am-6:30 pm

Yuri Kostenko is scheduled to be a presenter on the Environmental panel.   Four Supreme Court Justices will also be participating, either as paper presenters, moderators, or commentators.  Thanks, Natalie Gawdiak

The Library of Congress and NYU School of Law  are co-sponsoring an International Symposium: DEMOCRACY AND THE RULE OF LAW IN A CHANGING WORLD ORDER in early March. Free and open to the public.  Judges (incl. US Supreme Ct. justices), legislators, scholars, and experts in various fields from 21 countries will participate in 7 panels:

1. transnational justice and national sovereignty
2. corporate power, national sovereignty, and the rule of law in a global economy
3. natural resources and the environment: individual vs. community interests
4. political status and democracy in multi-ethnic and multi-racial states
5. the state and human rights
6. roles of women: norms and cultures
7. religion, culture and governance.

Two plenary sessions will analyze

• democracy, legitimacy and the rule of law and
• Can we use law to hold the past to account?

At the Library of Congress (March 7-9, 2000); from 9 am-6:30 pm; at NYU School of Law in Manhattan (Mar. 10, 2000) from 9 am-5 pm.

For full schedule of panels, participants, biographies, and abstracts, see the Lib. of Congress website:

http://lcweb.loc.gov/bicentennial/programs_symposium.html.

For information on the Washington program, call (202) 707-5067; for information on the New York program, call (212) 998-6849. 

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