SIEGFRIED WIESSNER
CURRICULUM VITAE
STATUS:
Professor of Law; Founder & Director,
LL.M. / J.S.D. Program in Intercultural Human Rights
St. Thomas University School of Law
www.stu.edu/humanrights
Editor-in-Chief, Studies in Intercultural Human Rights
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
2013 Law Professor of the Year (Lawyers to the Rescue)
Chair, 2008-2012, International Law Association (ILA)
Committee on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Member, Executive Council, 2007-2010
The American Society of International Law (ASIL)
Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow
European University Institute, Florence, Fall 2009
OFFICE:
St. Thomas University School of Law
16401 N.W. 37th Avenue
Miami Gardens, Florida 33054, U.S.A.
Tel.: (305) 623-2305; Fax: (305) 474-2413
E-Mail: swiessner@stu.edu
DEGREES:
Doctor of Law (Dr. iur.), 1989 (University of Tübingen)
Master of Laws (LL.M.), 1983 (Yale)
Second State Examination in Law, 1981 (BadenWürttemberg, Germany)
First State Examination in Law, 1977 (BadenWürttemberg)
Certificate in Modern English Law, 1975
(British Institute of Int’l and Comparative Law)
Certificat d'Etudes Françaises, 1974 (Geneva University)
PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS:
Director, Workshop on New Haven School of Jurisprudence for
Romanian Law and Economics Faculties, at University of Siena,
Italy, June 3-8, 2013
Lecturer, Academy of European Law, European University Institute, Florence,
Italy, Summer 2011
Visiting Professor of Law, City University of Hong Kong, October 2009
and November 2010
Guest Professor, University of Prishtina Summer Institute, Kosovo 2009
Lecturer, Institute of International Public Law and International Relations,
Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2003
Lecturer, UN/UNITAR International Law Fellowship Program,
The Hague, 1997, 1998, 2000; Regional Program, Tehran, 1999
Visiting Professor of Law, University of Tübingen Faculty of Law, 1992
Associate Dean, St. Thomas University School of Law, 1990-91
Associate Professor of Law, St. Thomas University School of Law,
1985-90
Associate, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D.C., 1984-85
Research Assistant, Professor Eugene V. Rostow, Yale Law School, 1983
Teaching Associate & Assistant, University of Tübingen Faculty of Law,
1977-82
LANGUAGES:
English, French, German, Spanish
BOOKS:
HANDBOOK ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING, PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE LAW. A SPRING SCHOOL FROM THE
NEW HAVEN PERSPECTIVE (Editor, with Wilhelm Kirch and Roza Pati, Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart,
New York, 2014), 145 pp.
LOOKING TO THE FUTURE: ESSAYS ON INTERNATIONAL LAW IN HONOR OF W. MICHAEL REISMAN
(Editor, with Mahnoush Arsanjani, Jacob Katz Cogan & Robert D. Sloane, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers,
2011), 1100 pp.
INTERNATIONAL LAW IN CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE (Casebook, Foundation Press 2004), with W.
Michael Reisman, Mahnoush Arsanjani and Gayl Westerman, 1584 pp.
UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, M/OP/ENI/DGSR, EVALUATION OF THE
RULE OF LAW PROGRAM IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE AND THE NEW INDEPENDENT STATES: THE
AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION/CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPEAN LAW INITIATIVE (ABA/CEELI) - FINAL
REPORT, Jan. 28, 1999, with Richard N. Blue, Silvy Chernev and Robyn L. Goodkind, 39 pp., with
appendices
DIE FUNKTION DER STAATSANGEHÖRIGKEIT [The Function of Nationality] (Tübingen University Press,
1989), 414 pp.
LAGER UND MENSCHLICHE WÜRDE [Camps and Human Dignity] (Editor, with Claudius Hennig, Tübingen:
AS-Verlag, 1982), 117 pp.
BOOK CHAPTERS:
The Cultural Dimension of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, in INTERNATIONAL LAW FOR COMMON
GOODS: NORMATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN RIGHTS, CULTURE AND NATURE. Essays in Honor of
Francesco Francioni (forthcoming, Hart Publishing, Oxford UK, 2014)
Doctors of the Social Order: Introduction to New Haven Methodology, in HANDBOOK ON HUMAN
TRAFFICKING, PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE LAW 8-17 (Wilhelm Kirch et al. eds., Georg Thieme Verlag,
Stuttgart, New York, 2014)
Culture and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, in THE CULTURAL DIMENSION OF HUMAN RIGHTS.
Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law 117-156 (Ana Filipa Vrdoljak ed., Oxford
University Press, 2013)
The State and Indigenous Peoples: The Historic Significance of ILA Resolution No. 5/2012, in DER STAAT
IM RECHT. FESTSCHRIFT FÜR ECKART KLEIN ZUM 70. GEBURTSTAG 1357-1368 (M. Breuer et al. eds,
Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 2013)
Indigenous Self-Determination, Culture and Land: A Reassessment in Light of the 2007 UN Declaration
on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, in INDIGENOUS RIGHTS IN THE AGE OF THE UN DECLARATION, ch.
1, at 31-63 (Elvira Pulitano ed., 2012, Cambridge University Press)
Introduction to LOOKING TO THE FUTURE: ESSAYS ON INTERNATIONAL LAW IN HONOR OF W. MICHAEL
REISMAN xiii-xxiii (with Mahnoush Arsanjani, Jacob Katz Cogan & Robert D. Sloane, 2011)
Michael Reisman, Human Dignity, and the Law, in LOOKING TO THE FUTURE: ESSAYS ON
INTERNATIONAL LAW IN HONOR OF W. MICHAEL REISMAN 21-29 (2011)
Founding myths, international law and voting rights in the District of Columbia, in MAKING
TRANSNATIONAL LAW WORK IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF DETLEV VAGTS 174197 (Pieter H. F. Bekker, Rudolf Dolzer & Michael Waibel eds., Cambridge University Press, 2010)
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Selected Issues, in THE DIVERSITY
OF INTERNATIONAL LAW. ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF PROFESSOR KALLIOPI K. KOUFA 343-361 (Aristotle
Constantinides & Nikos Zaikos eds., Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 2009)
Demographic Change and the Protection of Minorities, in GLOBALER DEMOGRAPHISCHER WANDEL UND
SCHUTZ DER MENSCHENRECHTE 155-185 (Eckart Klein ed., Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag 2005)
Ethnic Groups, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GENOCIDE AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY 304-306 (Dinah
Shelton ed., Macmillan Reference USA 2005)
Legitimacy and Accountability of NGOs: A Policy-Oriented Perspective, in FROM GOVERNMENT TO
GOVERNANCE - 2003 HAGUE JOINT CONFERENCE ON CONTEMPORARY ISSUES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
95-101 (W.P. Heere ed., T.M.C. Asser Press 2004)
Policy-Oriented Jurisprudence and Human Rights Abuses in Internal Conflict: Toward a World Public
Order of Human Dignity, in THE METHODS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 47-77 (Anne-Marie Slaughter &
Steven R. Ratner eds., 2004), with Andrew R. Willard (No. 36, ASIL Studies in Transnational Legal
Policy)
Rights and Status of Indigenous Peoples: A Global Comparative and International Legal Perspective,
reprinted in INTERNATIONAL LAW AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES 257-328 (S. James Anaya ed., 2003)
Exploring the Edge: The Personal Reach of a Transnational Agreement to Arbitrate, in “IN EINEM
VEREINTEN EUROPA DEM FRIEDEN DER WELT ZU DIENEN...” LIBER AMICORUM THOMAS OPPERMANN
453-473 (2001)
Professor Myres S. McDougal: A Tender Farewell, in MYRES SMITH MCDOUGAL: APPRECIATIONS OF AN
EXTRAORDINARY MAN 119-121 (Yale Law School, 1999)
Faces of Vulnerability: Protecting Individuals in Organic and Non-Organic Groups, in THE LIVING LAW
OF NATIONS 217-226 (Gudmundur Alfredsson & Peter Macalister-Smith eds., 1996)
Law and Minimum World Public Order, with Myres S. McDougal, in MYRES S. MCDOUGAL &
FLORENTINO P. FELICIANO, THE INTERNATIONAL LAW OF WAR xix-lxxxii (New Haven Press 1994)
Human Activities in Outer Space: A Framework for Decision-Making, in SPACE LAW: VIEWS OF THE
FUTURE 7-20 (Int'l Inst. of Air and Space Law, State University of Leyden ed., 1988), reprinted in THE
SPIRIT OF AMERICAN LAW 514-521(George S. Grossman ed., 2000)
ARTICLES:
The Powers of the President, 1 LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 103-130 (2013)
The St. Thomas Law Review: Its Ratio Essendi, 25 ST. THOMAS LAW REVIEW 271-273 (2013)
Re-Enchanting the World: Indigenous Peoples’ Rights as Essential Parts of a Holistic Human Rights
Regime, 15 UCLA J. INT’L L. & FOREIGN AFF. 239-288 (2010 [2012])
The Cultural Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Achievements and Continuing Challenges, 22 EUR. J. INT’L L.
121-140 (2011), available at http://ejil.oxfordjournals.org/content/22/1/121.full.pdf+html
Indigenous Sovereignty, Culture, and International Human Rights Law, 110 SOUTH ATLANTIC Q. 403-427
(2011, with Lorie M. Graham)
The New Haven School of Jurisprudence: A Universal Toolkit for Understanding and Shaping the Law, 18
ASIA PACIFIC L. REV. 45-61 (2010), available at
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2011130
Law as a Means to a Public Order of Human Dignity: The Jurisprudence of Michael Reisman, 34 YALE J.
INT’L L. 525-532 (2009), available at http://www.yale.edu/yjil/files_PDFs/vol34/Conference.pdf
The Cuban Embargo and Human Rights: Introductory Remarks, 4 INTERCULTURAL HUM. RTS. L. REV. 57 (2009)
Indigenous Sovereignty: A Reassessment in Light of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples, 41 VANDERBILT J. TRANSNAT’L L. 1141-1176 (2008), available at
http://law.vanderbilt.edu/publications/journal-of-transnational-law/archives/volume-41-number4/index.aspx
The New Haven School: A Brief Introduction, 32 YALE J. INT’L L. 575-582 (2007), with W. Michael
Reisman and Andrew R. Willard, available at
http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1996&context=fss_papers
The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Towards Re-Empowerment, THIRD WORLD
RESURGENCE, Issue No. 206, at 15-17 (October 2007), with S. James Anaya; reprinted in UN
DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES 45-52 (Tebtebba Foundation 2007), also
published, as Re-Empowerment of Indigenous Peoples, at 3(2) ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER 44-46
(July-December 2007)
The Articles on State Responsibility and Contemporary International Law, 34 THESAURUS ACROASIUM
247-276 (2006)
The Movement Toward Federalism in Italy: A Policy-Oriented Perspective, 15 ST. THOMAS L. REV. 301319 (2002)
Policy-Oriented Jurisprudence, 44 GERMAN Y.B. INT’L L. 96-112 (2001), with Andrew R. Willard
Indigenous Peoples, 10 Y.B. INT’L ENVTL. L. 193-216 (2000); 11 Y.B. INT’L ENVTL. L. 155-163 (2001); 12
Y.B. INT’L ENVTL. L. 198-208 (2002); 13 Y.B. INT’L ENVTL. L. 249-257 (2004)
Defending Indigenous Peoples’ Heritage: An Introduction, 14 ST. THOMAS L. REV. 271-274 (2001)
Joining Control to Authority: The Hardened “Indigenous Norm,” 25 YALE J. INT’L L. 301-305 (2000)
The 2000 Revision of the United Nations Draft Principles and Guidelines on the Protection of the Heritage of
Indigenous People, 13 ST. THOMAS L. REV. 383-390 (2000), with Marie Battiste
Rights and Status of Indigenous Peoples: A Global Comparative and International Legal Perspective, 12
HARV. HUM. RTS. J. 57-128 (1999)
Policy-Oriented Jurisprudence and Human Rights Abuses in Internal Conflict: Toward a World Public Order
of Human Dignity, 93 AM. J. INT’L L. 316-334 (1999), with Andrew R. Willard
¡Esa India! LatCrit Theory and the Place of Indigenous Peoples within Latina/o Communities, 53 U. MIAMI L.
REV. 831-854 (1999)
Professor Myres S. McDougal: A Tender Farewell, 11 ST. THOMAS L. REV. 203-206 (1999)
Marathon Oil Co. v. Ruhrgas AG: Amicus Curiae Brief by Professors of International Arbitration, 9 WORLD
ARB. & MEDIATION REP. 137-143 (1998)
International Law in the 21st Century: Decisionmaking in Institutionalized and Non-Institutionalized Settings,
26 THESAURUS ACROASIUM 129-153 (1997)
The Proposed American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 6 INT'L J. CULT. PROP. 356-375
(1997)
American Indian Treaties and Modern International Law, 7 ST. THOMAS L. REV. 567-602 (1995); also
published in SOVEREIGNTY SYMPOSIUM VIII (1995)
La Violencia y el Derecho en el Nuevo Orden Mundial, 3 REVISTA DE DERECHO. UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE
LA SSMA. CONCEPCIÓN [Chile] 71-84 (1994)
Federalism: An Architecture for Freedom, 1 NEW EUROPE L. REV. 129-142 (1993)
Law and Peace In A Changing World, 22 CUMBERLAND L. REV. 681-710 (1992), with Myres S. McDougal
Blessed Be the Ties that Bind: The Nexus Between Nationality and Territory, 56 MISS. L.J. 447-533 (1988)
The Public Order of the Geostationary Orbit: Blueprints for the Future, 9 YALE J. WORLD PUB. ORDER 217274 (1983[1985])
Die Schiedsfähigkeit internationaler Antitrust-Streitigkeiten, 10 RECHT DER INTERNATIONALEN WIRTSCHAFT
757-765 (1985), with Dieter G. Lange
Barriers to Telecom Trade: A Caveat, 2 TELEMATICS No. 1, 1-10 (1985)
Communications in the Earth-Space Arena: Translating Equity into Hertz and Degrees from the Greenwich
Meridian, 52 ITU TELECOMM'N J. 304-309 (1985)
Vom "verwalteten Grundrecht" zum "verwalteten Menschen"? in POLITISCHES ASYL UND EINWANDERUNG 92112 (Ulrich O. Sievering ed. 1984)
Das völkerrechtliche Regime der geostationären Umlaufbahn, 32 AUSTRIAN J. PUB. & INT'L L. 209-239 (1982),
with Rüdiger Jung
Die "Vorläufige Wohnheimordnung": Anmerkungen zum Statut des Sammellagers Tübingen, in LAGER UND
MENSCHLICHE WÜRDE, supra, at 77-102
Die rechtliche Problematik der Sammellager für Asylbewerber in Baden-Württemberg, 3 INFORMATIONSBRIEF
AUSLÄNDERRECHT 261-270 (1981)
Asylverweigerung ohne Anerkennungsverfahren, 7 EUROPÄISCHE GRUNDRECHTE-ZEITSCHRIFT 473-479 (1980)
Nevil Johnson: Die Institutionen im Studium der Politik [transl. Nevil Johnson, The Place of Institutions in the
Study of Politics], 16 DER STAAT 1-19 (1977)
LECTURES AND PANEL CONTRIBUTIONS:
Interim Report and Remarks, Working Session, International Law Association Committee on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples, ILA REPORT OF THE 74TH CONFERENCE HELD IN THE HAGUE 15-19, 2010 834-923
(London 2010)
The Kurdish Issue and Beyond: Territorial Communities Rivaling the State, 98 PROC. AM. SOC’Y INT’L L.
107-108 (2004)
Intellectual Property and Indigenous Peoples: An Overview, 95 PROC. AM. SOC’Y INT’L L. 151-153 (2001)
The Project of Reconfiguration: How Can International Law Be Reconstituted?, 94 PROC. AM. SOC’Y INT’L
L. 73-74, 79-81 (2000)
Remarks, Panel on Communities in Transition: Autonomy, Self-Governance and Independence, 87 PROC.
AM. SOC'Y INT'L L. 264-265 (1993)
Developments in the International Law of Telecommunications, 83 PROC. AM. SOC'Y INT'L L. 400-403 (1990)
The Art of the Possible: A Review of Space-WARC 1985-1988, PROC. 32ND COLL. ON THE LAW OF OUTER
SPACE 266-269 (1990)
Remarks, Panel on Treaty Law and Outer Space: The Role of the United Nations, 80 PROC. AM. SOC'Y INT'L
L. 385 (1988)
Access to a Res Publica Internationalis: The Case of the Geostationary Orbit, PROC. 29TH COLL. ON THE
LAW OF OUTER SPACE 147-153 (1987)
BOOK REVIEWS:
Alexandra Xanthaki, Indigenous Rights and United Nations Standards, 103 AM. J. INT’L L. 188-193 (2009)
The Reasons Requirement in International Investment Arbitration. Critical Case Studies (Guillermo Aguilar
Alvarez & W. Michael Reisman eds.), 4 (2) GLOBAL ARBITRATION REV. 38-39 (2009)
Sandra Voos, Die Schule von New Haven, 96 AM. J. INT’L L. 498-501 (2002)
Gerard-René de Groot, Staatsangehörigkeit im Wandel, 85 AM. J. INT'L L. 422-424 (1991)
Stephen Gorove, The Teaching of Space Law Around the World, 15 J. SPACE L. 72-75 (1987)
INTERNET LECTURE:
The Rights and Status of Indigenous Peoples, United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law,
Lecture Series, at http://untreaty.un.org/cod/avl/ls/Wiessner_HR.html
INTERNET PUBLICATIONS:
Final Report and ILA Resolution No. 5/2012, International Law Association Committee on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples, 75th ILA Biennial Meeting, Sofia, Bulgaria, August 26-30, 2012, at http://www.ilahq.org/en/committees/index.cfm/cid/1024 (Chair, with Members)
Remarks, Open Session, International Law Association Committee on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, ILA
Report of the 75th Conference held in Sofia, Bulgaria, August 28, 2012 (forthcoming, ILA Website)
Interim Report, International Law Association Committee on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 74th ILA
Biennial Meeting, The Hague, August 2010, at http://www.ila-hq.org/en/committees/index.cfm/cid/1024
(Chair, with Members)
ILA Committee Chair Report, Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 87 ABILA NEWSLETTER 10-11 (September
2010), at http://ila-americanbranch.org/newsletters/201009_ABILA_ NEWSLETTER.pdf.
Introductory Note, General Assembly Resolution 61/295 of 13 September 2007 (United Nations Declaration
on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples), United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law, Historical
Archives, at http://untreaty.un.org/cod/avl/historicarchives.html
ILA Committee Chair Report, Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 82 ABILA Newsletter, 7-8 (January 2009), at
http://ila-americanbranch.org/newsletters/ABILANews2009-01.pdf.
Council Comment: The U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision in Medellín v. Texas, ASIL Newsletter, April/June
2008, at 14, at http://www.asil.org/pdfs/asilnews080606.pdf.
The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Towards Re-empowerment, JURIST Forum, Oct.
3, 2007, at http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumy/2007/10/un-declaration-on-rights-of-indigenous.php (with S.
James Anaya)
Council Comment: The International Court of Justice’s Decision in Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia and
Montenegro, ASIL Newsletter, Spring 2007, at 9, at http://www.asil.org/pdfs/asilnews070625.pdf
A New United Nations Subsidiary Organ: The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, ASIL Insight No. 67,
Apr. 2001, at http://www.asil.org/insigh67.cfm (with John Carey)
Non-State Actors and Their Impact on International Human Rights Law, AALS Workshop on Human Rights,
Oct. 26–28, 2000, at http://www.aals.org/profdev/humanrights/weissner.html
WORK IN PROGRESS:
Second Edition, INTERNATIONAL LAW IN CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE (Casebook, Foundation Press), with
W. Michael Reisman et al.
BRILL/ Nijhoff Series, American Classics in International Law, Volume Editor: General Theory
TEACHING
EXPERIENCE:
HONORS:
International Law; Constitutional Law; Human Rights Law; Comparative Law; Rule
of Law; Jurisprudence; International Business Transactions; Commercial Law;
Communications Law; Administrative Law; Property
Law Professor of the Year Award, Lawyers to the Rescue,
March 14, 2013
Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, European University Institute,
Florence, Italy, Fall 2009
Heavy Hitter in Education, South Florida Business Journal, 2005
Elected Member, Int'l Institute of Space Law, 1986
German Government Fellowship (DAAD), 1982-83
Netherlands Government Scholarship, 1979
C.M.E.L., with distinction and merit, 1975
German Government Fellowship (DAAD), 1973-74
Int'l Essay Award, Council of Europe, 1971 & 1972
("Youth & European Federalism"; "Europe and Détente")
PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES:
PROFESSIONAL
ORGANIZATIONS:
Chair, International Law Association Committee on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples, 2008-2012
Member, Executive Council, American Society of International Law, 20072010
Chair, American Society of International Law Interest Group on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples, 2001-2005
American Society of International Law
International Law Association
International Institute of Space Law
German Society of International Law
LECTURES:
Miami Circles: The Birthplace of Miami, FIU Law Review Symposium,
Florida International University College of Law, February 28, 2014
A Practical Interdisciplinary Framework to Solving Problems in Society, Nova
Southeastern University School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS) in
partnership with SHSS Departments on Conflict Analysis and Resolution,
Family Therapy and Multidisciplinary Studies, November 7, 2013
Conducting Workshop on New Haven School of Jurisprudence for Romanian
Law and Economics Faculties, at University of Siena, Italy, June 3-8, 2013
The New Haven School of Jurisprudence, “Human Trafficking, Public Health
and the Law: A Spring School from the New Haven Perspective,” Technische
Universität Dresden, University of Siena, Romanian-American University &
Masarykova University, Czech Republic, Erasmus Intensive Programme, Certosa
di Pontignano, Siena, Italy, March 4-6, 2013
The Scope and the Limits of Executive Power, Conference on "Navigating the
Political Divide: Lessons from Lincoln," Lincoln Memorial University Duncan
School of Law, Knoxville, Tennessee, April 20, 2012
Cultural Diversity and the Safeguarding of Indigenous Peoples’ Rights, UN
Expert Seminar: Indigenous Peoples’ Languages and Cultures, Brunel
University, London, England, March 8, 2012
Class on Culture and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at the Academy of European
Law, European University Institute, in Florence, Italy, June 27-29, 2011
The ILA Commentary on The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples, Faculty Seminar, European University Institute, Florence,
December 2, 2009
Policy-Oriented Jurisprudence: Global Problems, Global Solutions, Faculty
Seminar, City University of Hong Kong, October 22, 2009
The Rights and Status of Indigenous Peoples, United Nations Audiovisual
Library of International Law, United Nations, New York, July 2, 2009
Keynote Address, The Struggle to Vote: The Political Right to Self-Determination
in the District of Columbia and Beyond, UDC David A. Clarke School of Law,
Washington, DC, March 27, 2009
The Scope and the Limits of Indigenous Peoples’ Right to Self-Government,
Faculty Speakers Program, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, February
22, 2007
Creating Safe Spaces for Indigenous & Non-Western Peoples and Their Laws,
Earth Jurisprudence Seminar, Barry University School of Law, Orlando, February
12, 2007
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Miami Dade College, December
10, 2004
The Effects of Demographic Change on the Protection of Minorities, Symposium
on Global Demographic Change and Human Rights, University of Potsdam,
Germany, July 3, 2004
The Articles on State Responsibility and Contemporary International Law, 31st
Session, Institute of International Law and International Relations, Aristotle
University, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 15-19, 2003
Human Rights and the War on Terrorism, COJUMA Deployment Workshop I,
Miami, February 12, 2002
The International Protection of Human Rights, UN/UNITAR Fellowship
Program in International Law, Peace Palace, The Hague, 2000
International Protection of Indigenous Peoples: Prospects and Realities,
American Society of International Law Human Rights Interest Group
Distinguished Lecture, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 2000
Native American Religions and the Law, Florida International University, 2000
The International Protection of Human Rights, UN/UNITAR Regional
International Law Fellowship Program for Central Asia and the Middle East,
Tehran, 1999
The Miami Circle: Condos Over Sacred Ground?, Keynote Address, University of
Miami International and Comparative Law Review Annual Banquet, 1999
The Miami Circle: Heritage, Takings, and Eminent Domain, American Planning
Association, Gold Coast Section, 1999
The Miami Circle: Preserving Historic, Archaeological, Natural Sites, and Legal
Takings, American Planning Association, Broward Section, 1999
Roman Law and Citizenship, Sarasota Institute of Lifetime Learning, Sarasota,
Florida, January 13, 1999
Selected Topics of Human Rights Law: Women, Indigenous Peoples, and
Religious Intolerance, UN/UNITAR Fellowship Program in International Law,
Peace Palace, The Hague, 1997 & 1998
The Draft Declarations on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, University of Zulia,
Maracaibo, Venezuela, 1996
International Law in the 21st Century: Decisionmaking in Institutional and NonInstitutional Settings, 23rd Session, Institute of International Law and International
Relations, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece, 1995
Federalism: An Architecture for Freedom, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Symposium on Federalism for the New Europe, New York, 1992
La Violencia y el Derecho en el Nuevo Orden Mundial, University of Córdoba
Faculty of Law, Spain, 1992
American Legal Culture, University of Sevilla Faculty of Law, Spain,1992
Law and Peace in a Changing World, Cordell Hull Centennial Celebration
Lecture, Cumberland School of Law, 1991
International Law and the Conflict in the Gulf, St. Thomas University Center for
Justice and Peace, 1991
Human Rights and International Law, University of Miami Graduate School of
International Studies & NACAW, 1988
International Arbitration of Antitrust Disputes: The Mitsubishi Experience, Yale
Association of International Law, 1985
The Legal Status of the Geostationary Orbit, International Law Society,
University of Connecticut Law School, 1983
PANELS:
UNDRIP and Beyond: The Rights of Indigenous Peoples and ILA Resolution
No. 5/2012, UU-UNO Spring Seminar on “Sacred Roots: Indigenous Rights,
Resistance and Reclamation,” United Nations, New York, April 3, 2014
Mass Claims in International Arbitration, 5th International Conference on “New
Haven and other Jurisprudential Perspectives on Conflict Resolution and Current
Legal Problems”, City University of Hong Kong School of Law, September 1718, 2013
The Possible Future of the Declaration – Lessons Learned from Human Rights
Treaties and Customary International Law, Symposium on “Can International
Law Support Changes to Federal Indian Policy? Implementing the United
Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,” Sandra Day
O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, April 19, 2013
Panel IV: Human Rights, Conference on “Solving Global Problems:
Perspectives from International Law and Policy,” New York Law School, April
12, 2013 (Commentator)
ILA Resolution No. 5/2012, American Society of International Law Annual
Meeting, Interest Group on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Washington, DC,
April 5, 2013 (Presenter)
The Historic Significance of ILA Resolution No. 5/2012 on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples, American Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Juan,
Puerto Rico, November 16, 2012
Pluralism and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights: A New Haven Perspective, 4th
Conference on “Contemporary Legal Problems: The New Haven School of
Jurisprudence from a Comparative Perspective,” City University of Hong Kong
School of Law, October 6, 2012
The Cultural Dimension of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Conference on
“International Law for Common Goods: Normative Perspectives on Human
Rights, Culture and Nature,” European University Institute, Florence, Italy, June
25, 2012
Moderator, Panel on Combating Domestic Servitude: Roles of Criminal Justice
and Human Rights Law, Conference on “Justice at the Door: Ending Domestic
Servitude,” St. Thomas University School of Law, January 27, 2012
United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Recognition by
the United States -- What’s Next?, June 2, 2011, Oklahoma Supreme Court
Sovereignty Symposium, Oklahoma City
Global Ethics and the Goal of a World Public Order of Human Dignity, City
University of Hong Kong 2d International Conference on the New Haven School,
November 23-24, 2010
Sovereignty, Indigeneity, and the Law, Cornell University American Indian Law
Program Symposium, Ithaca, October 29-20, 2010 [presentation of my paper by
Prof. Bruce Duthu]
Indigenous Peoples’ Cultural Rights, European University Institute Symposium
on “International Law for Cultural Heritage,” Florence, June 18, 2010
[presentation of my paper by Prof. Federico Lenzerini]
Minorities and Indigenous Peoples: The Battle over Definition, Gulbenkian
Foundation Seminar, European University Institute, Florence, May 17, 2010
The Roma Predicament: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead, Foreign Policy
Association and Consulate General of Hungary, Conference on “The Roma of
Europe – The Europe of Roma,” New York, May 6, 2010
Indigenous Peoples, Governance, and Political Autonomy, UCLA American
Indian Studies Center Symposium: “Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in the
International Human Rights Framework -- A Comfortable Fit?,” Los Angeles,
January 22, 2010
The U.N. Declaration and Beyond, 6th Annual Indigenous Law Conference,
September 26, 2009, Michigan State University College of Law, East Lansing
Realistic Idealism in International Law: A Conference in Honor of W. Michael
Reisman, Yale Law School, April 24, 2009
The Cuban Embargo and Human Rights, Intercultural Human Rights Law
Review Symposium, St. Thomas University School of Law, October 24, 2008
Indigenous and Minority Languages under Siege: Finding Solutions to a Global
Threat, Eighth Tribal Sovereignty Symposium, St. Thomas University School of
Law, January 25, 2008
Similarities and Difference in International Legal Scholarship, American
Society of International Law – European Society of International Law Joint
Leadership Retreat, Washington, D.C., January 12, 2008
The “New” New Haven School: International Law – Past, Present & Future,
Yale Law School, March 9-10, 2007
Chair, Panel on Sovereignty and Sustainable Development of Indigenous
Peoples, Seventh Tribal Sovereignty Symposium, St. Thomas University
School of Law, January 27, 2006
International and Comparative Approaches on American Indian and Indigenous
Peoples’ Rights: Possibilities and Pitfalls, Association of American Law
Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting, January 7, 2005
Self-Determination and International Law, Mid-Year Conference of the
National Conference of American Indians, Mohegan Sun Resort & Casino,
Connecticut, June 20, 2004
Moderator, Panel on The Kurdish Issue and Beyond: Territorial Communities
Rivaling the State, 98th Annual Meeting, American Society of International Law,
March 31 – April 3, 2004
Indigenous Peoples in Human Rights Law, Symposium on Indigenous Peoples in
International Fora, University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, March 26,
2004
Legitimacy,
Recognition,
Democratic
Control,
Transparency
and
Accountability of Non-Governmental Organizations, From Government to
Governance?, Hague Joint Conference (ASIL/NVIR) on Contemporary Issues of
International Law, The Hague, Netherlands, July 4, 2003
Moderator, Panel on Developments in the Doctrine and Jurisprudence of the
Inter-American and Universal Systems of Human Rights, Conference at
American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C., April 11,
2002
The Role of the UN Human Rights Machinery in Promoting and Protecting the
Peaceful Application of the Right to Self-Determination, III Seminar on SelfDetermination and Conflict Transformation, Center UNESCO de
Catalunya, UNPO, Pax Romana & Sami Council, July 28, 2001, Geneva
Roundtable, Personality, Policy, Law: A Reintroduction of Harold D.
Lasswell, 24th Annual Meeting, International Society of Political Psychology,
Cuernavaca, Mexico, July 18, 2001
Intellectual Property and Indigenous Peoples’ Traditional Knowledge, XIVth
Sovereignty Symposium, Oklahoma City, June 5, 2001
Globalization and Indigenous Enlightenment, Policy Sciences Annual Institute,
Yale Law School, Oct. 24, 1999
International Laws & Instruments in Indian Country, 13th Annual Coming
Together of the Peoples Conference, Seeding Charred Ground, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, February19, 1999
Indigenous Peoples and International Law, XIth Sovereignty Symposium,
Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1998
Race, Nation and Indigenous Communities, LatCritIII Symposium, Miami
Beach, 1998
Teaching Law, Science and Policy: A Call for Action, Policy Sciences Institute,
Yale Law School, 1996
Human Rights for the World's Indigenous People, VIIIth Sovereignty
Symposium, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1995
The Status and Contemporary Validity of American Indian Treaties, St. Thomas
University Symposium on Tribal Sovereignty: Back to the Future?, Miami, 1994
The Resurgence of Indigenous Communities, Policy Sciences Institute, Yale
Law School, 1994
Rights and Status of Indigenous Peoples in Comparative Perspective, VIIth
Sovereignty Symposium, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1994
Human Rights and the Telecommunications Revolution, Policy Sciences
Institute, Yale Law School, 1993
Current Issues in Global Telecommunications Law, International Law
Weekend, New York, 1993
Ethics in the Media, Hispanic Media Festival, Miami, 1993
Restitution of Property in the Former East Germany, Comparative Juridical
Review Symposium, Miami 1993
Invasion of Haiti? Reflections on the Use of the Military Instrument,
Symposium on Haiti: Crisis & Renewal, St. Thomas University, Miami 1993
Empowering Indigenous Peoples: The Relevancy of Self-Determination,
Sovereignty and Federalism, VIth Sovereignty Symposium, Tulsa, Oklahoma,
1993
The New European Public Order, Policy Sciences Institute, Yale Law School,
1992
Hate Crimes and International Law, University of Miami School of Law, 1992
Claims of Groups to Preferential Treatment, Policy Sciences Institute, Yale Law
School, 1991
Developments in the International Law of Telecommunications, 83rd Annual
Meeting, American Society of International Law, Chicago, 1989
National Security, Policy Sciences Summer Institute, Yale Law School, 1988
International Communications, Policy Sciences Summer Institute, Yale Law
School, 1987
Arms Control and Disarmament: The U.S.-Soviet Dialogue, 27th Annual
Convention, International Studies Association, Anaheim, 1986
Refugee Problems in West Germany, Arnoldshain Academy of Lutheran
Church, 1982
MISCELLANEOUS:
Editor-in Chief, Studies in Intercultural Human Rights, Martinus Nijhoff
Publishers, Leiden & Boston:
Volume 1: ROZA PATI, DUE PROCESS AND INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM
(2009)
Volume 2: MARK D. KIELSGARD, RELUCTANT ENGAGEMENT: U.S. POLICY
AND THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT (2010)
Volume 3: QERIM QERIMI, DEVELOPMENT IN INTERNATIONAL LAW: A
POLICY-ORIENTED INQUIRY (2012) [was awarded 2012 Harold D. Lasswell
Prize by Society of Policy Scientists]
Volume 4: CULTURAL HERITAGE, CULTURAL RIGHTS, CULTURAL
DIVERSITY. NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN INTERNATIONAL LAW (Silvia Borelli
& Federico Lenzerini eds., 2012)
Volume 5: ALEXANDRA RENGEL, PRIVACY IN THE 21ST CENTURY (2013)
Volume 6: DENISE WALLACE, HUMAN RIGHTS AND BUSINESS: A POLICYORIENTED PERSPECTIVE (forthcoming, 2014)
Chair, Intersessional Meeting, ILA Committee on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples, Anchorage, Alaska, July 2 & 3, 2011
Organizer, Chair & Presenter, EUI/ILA Conference on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples, EUI Florence, December 14 & 15, 2009
Member, American Society of International Law Exploratory Mission on Possible
Cooperation with Egyptian Society of International Law, Cairo, June 18, 2008
Participant, Joint Leadership Retreat, American Society of International Law –
European Society of International Law, Washington, D.C., January 12, 2008
Facilitator, Drafting Commission on Principles, United Nations Seminar on Draft
Principles and Guidelines on the Protection of Indigenous Cultural Heritage,
Feb. 28 - March 1, 2000, Geneva, UN Doc. E/CN.4/Sub.2/2000/26 (19 June
2000), at http://www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/42263fd3915c047
ec1256929004f1ffc?Opendocument
Chair, Steering Committee, St. Thomas University Tribal Sovereignty
Symposia:
"Tribal Sovereignty: Back to the Future?," December 1 & 2, 1994, published at
7 ST. THOMAS L. REV. 421-843 (1995)
"The Sacred and the Profane," January 18 & 19, 1996, published at 9 ST.
THOMAS L. REV. 1-293 (1996)
"Indigenous Renascence: Law, Culture and Society in the 21st Century," March
13 & 14, 1997, published at 10 ST. THOMAS L. REV. 1-209 (1997)
“Sacred Mother Earth: The Struggle to Save the Everglades,” March 27, 1998,
published at 11 ST. THOMAS L. REV. 1-107 (1998)
“Sacred Sites and Modern Lives: The Miami Circle and Beyond,” February 17
& 18, 2000, published at 13 ST. THOMAS L. REV. 1-414 (2000)
“Defending Indigenous Peoples’ Heritage & Autonomy,” September 21, 2001,
published at 14 ST. THOMAS L. REV. 259-457 (2001)
“Sovereignty and Sustainable Development of Indigenous Peoples,” January 27,
2006, published at 2 INTERCULTURAL HUM. RTS. L. REV. 1-147 (2007)
“Indigenous and Minority Languages under Siege: Finding Answers to a
Global Threat, January 25, 2008, published at 3 INTERCULTURAL HUM.
RTS. L. REV. 1-189 (2008)
Founder & Faculty Advisor, INTERCULTURAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW REVIEW, 2006Founder & Faculty Advisor, Susan J. Ferrell Intercultural Human Rights Moot
Court Competition, 2006Chair, Faculty Advisory Board, ST. THOMAS LAW FORUM, 1988-90
(Inaugural & Second Issue)
Director, 1997 St. Thomas University Summer in Spain Program
Member, Evaluation Team, USAID Evaluation of ABA/CEELI Rule of Law
Program in CEE/NIS, esp. Russia, Ukraine & Georgia, 1998
ABA/CEELI Assessment, Draft Minorities Laws, Romania, 1994
ABA/CEELI Assessment, Draft Press Law, Latvia, 1994
Instructor, Human Rights, ABA/CEELI Human Rights Workshop, Lodz, Poland,
1992
St. Thomas Law School Liaison, ABA/CEELI Sister Law School Program,
Novisad, Yugoslavia, Visit, 1992
Director, 1989 St. Thomas-Costa Rica Law Student Exchange
Of Counsel, Brief for Law Professors Concerned with International
Arbitration as Amici Curiae, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit,
Marathon Oil Co. et al. v. Ruhrgas AG, No. 96-20361, February 4, 1998
Of Counsel, Brief for Int'l Chamber of Commerce as Amicus Curiae, U.S. Supreme
Court, Mitsubishi Motors Corporation v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc., Nos. 831569, 83-1733, December 17, 1984, with D. Lange and S. Jarvin