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Managing North American Security:
Where Do We Go From Here?
A WORKSHOP OF THE
NORTH AMERICAN CONSORTIUM ON LEGAL EDUCATION
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL
10 - 12 NOVEMBER 2011
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Managing North American Security:
Where Do We Go From Here?
A WORKSHOP OF THE
NORTH AMERICAN CONSORTIUM ON LEGAL EDUCATION
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL
2000 H STREET, N.W.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
10 - 12 NOVEMBER 2011
Housing for NACLE faculty and students will be arranged at the One Washington
Circle Hotel, which bills itself as “An Inspired Washington DC Foggy Bottom
Hotel.” The hotel is a convenient walk to GWU School of Law, where the
Workshop will convene. NACLE faculty members must register on the NACLE
website (www.nacle.org) to assure complimentary hotel accommodations. NonNACLE faculty should contact the hotel directly. For more information on One
Washington Circle Hotel, see http://www.thecirclehotel.com
THURSDAY, November 10
Arrivals
7:30 p.m.
Welcome Reception
[Location to be provided]
FRIDAY, November 11
GWU LAW SCHOOL - JACOB BURNS MOOT COURTROOM AND KELLY LOUNGE
8:00 a.m.
Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:45 a.m.
Welcoming Remarks
Professor Stephen Zamora
Associate Dean Susan Karamanian
9.00 a.m.
Opening Plenary Session:
Professor Jeffrey Rosen, GWU Law School and Legal Affairs Editor
of The New Republic
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10:00 a.m. – Plenary session
Transnational Organized Crime and Terrorism from a Regional
Perspective
Moderator: José Antonio Caballero (CIDE) – jose.caballero@cide.edu
Presenters: José Antonio Caballero (CIDE),
Vanda Felbab-Brown (Brookings Institute)
Eric Olson (Woodrow Wilson Institute)
Juan Salgado (CIDE)
Participants in this session will discuss how transnational organized crime and
terrorism affect regional security and efforts to confront them. The focus will be
on identifying the problems that our three countries face in this area. Topics may
include the national security dimensions of:
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Due process, human rights and migration
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Transnational organized crime
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Trafficking in firearms, persons and drugs
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Collaboration between state agencies, and areas where collaboration
is not working
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Merida Initiative
As a starting point, the session may begin by addressing the current debate in
Mexico over the Bill to reform the National Security Act, including questions
regarding the role of Armed Forces in facing organized crime as well as the
proposed regulation's impact on due process and human rights. One anticipated
outcome of the session is the establishment of a research network on issues
related to transnational organized crime and terrorism from a regional
perspective.
11:00 a.m.
Break
11:15 a.m.
Concurrent Workshop Sessions
Concurrent workshop sessions are designed to maximize the exchange of ideas.
For this reason, presenters are referred to as “discussants,” to encourage
interplay between the leader of the discussion and other NACLE participants. IF
YOU ARE WORKING IN ANY OF THE FOLLOWING AREAS, AND WISH TO
PARTICIPATE ACTIVELY IN ONE OF THESE SESSIONS, PLEASE CONTACT
THE CONVENOR DIRECTLY
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Concurrent Workshop Sessions (continued)
Cybersecurity and Privacy
Convenor: Dawn Nunziato (GWU) - dnunziato@law.gwu.edu
Cybersecurity issues to be discussed may include
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identifying the risks of cyber disruptions of critical infrastructure, including but not
limited to digital infrastructure;
ideas for how to implement a comprehensive cross-border approach to
strengthen the resilience of our shared digital infrastructure, including enhancing
the security of our integrated communications networks;
Existing initiatives in the Canada, the United States and Mexico to deal with
threats to cybersecurity; and
Implications of cybersecurity initiatives for privacy and due process.
Human Rights, National Security and Immigration Status:
and Conflict
Convergence
Convenor: Constance Macintosh (Dalhousie) - Constance.MacIntosh@Dal.Ca
The focus for this session is the relevance or role of human rights in enabling security in
the context of migration and border issues. This focus will be explored from a variety of
perspectives. These will likely include how human rights protections align with and
diverge from state security interests, and how exclusion practices that are intended to
promote security may undermine it. These perspectives will likely draw upon examples
such as the situation of trans-migrant workers in Mexico, persons without any legal
status or identity papers, and persons who are flagged as raising security concerns.
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Concurrent Workshop Sessions (continued)
International Trade and North American Security
Convenors: Ricardo Ramirez (UNAM) – ricardoramirez@gmail.com; and Tony
VanDuzer (Ottawa) – Vanduzer@uottawa.ca
This session will feature a panel on the report of the Beyond the Border Working Group
on enhanced border cooperation between Canada and the United States. The report will
set out strategies to enhance Canada/US cooperation with the goals of improving
security in both countries while facilitating the cross-border movement of goods and
people.
Speaker: Deborah Myers, Director of Canadian Affairs, US Department of Homeland
Security
Commentators: Professors Armand de Mestral (McGill) and Gabriel Cavazos-Villanueva
(ITESM) will address the merits of the plan and the feasibility of extending it to the
United States-Mexico Border.
12:30 p.m.
Luncheon
Speaker: Prominent U.S. government official (invited)
2:00 p.m.
NACLE Student Essay Competition
Presentations of award-winning papers by NACLE students, with
commentary from NACLE faculty on each paper
5:00 p.m.
Adjourn
7:30 p.m.
Dinner – [Location to be determined]
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SATURDAY, November 12
For NACLE Student Participants
9 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
GWU students will accompany you on a tour of several sites in the Capital.
Please meet at 8:45 a.m. in the lobby of the [Hotel]. You will rejoin the
workshop for lunch at the law faculty.
9:00 a.m.
Plenary session:
“How Can We Make North America Secure?”
Professor Robert Pastor, Director of the Center for North American
Studies, American University; author of The North American Idea
(Oxford UP, 2011)
Commentator: Laura Spitz, Miller Thomson/UBC
10.00 a.m. Transnational Pedagogy and Research: Best Practices
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Virtual NACLE
Report on initiatives taken, including NAFTA in Trilateral Perspective
North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation (CEC) project
10:45 a.m. Coffee Break
11:00 a.m.
Concurrent Workshops –Transnational Curriculum Development and
Research
NACLE professors will work on specific projects to provide cross-border
education opportunities in the classroom
Roundtable on Collaborative Cross-border Teaching and Learning Activities
Small group discussions to develop ideas for cross-border teaching initiatives,
with an emphasis on developing specific projects to promote student interaction
among NACLE members.
Environmental Law
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A group of environmental law professors from NACLE law schools held a
workshop in Montreal, at the headquarters of the North American Commission on
Environmental Cooperation (CEC – www.cec.org), to develop a multi-year project
that will engage NACLE professors and students in an objective, critical
assessment of the citizen submission process employed by the CEC pursuant to
the environmental side agreement to NAFTA. The citizen submission process
permits individuals or groups to seek a review by the CEC of complaints
concerning lack of enforcement of environmental laws in Canada, Mexico or the
United States. Interested NACLE professors or students will discuss the CEC
project. Lee Paddock (GWU – lpaddock@law.gwu.edu) and Tracy Hester
(Houston – tdheste2@uh.edu) are the co-chairs of the project. Other interested
faculty participating in the session include Stephen Charnovitz (GWU), Jamie
Benidickson (Ottawa), Heather McLeod-Kilmurray (Ottawa), Will Amos
(Ottawa), Julio Cruz (Monterrey Tec) and Armand de Mestral (McGill).
12:30 p.m.
Lunch
General discussion: Issues and Challenges in promoting NACLE Student
Exchanges
1:30 p.m -3.00 pm NACLE Annual Business Meeting
(NACLE Faculty and Administrative Representatives and other interested faculty
and students)
Free time to explore Washington
7:00 p.m.
Dinner [location to be determined]
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