United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
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
Chair, International Law Association (ILA)
Committee on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Member, Executive Council
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 (Badenwww.un.org/law/avl
United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS:
LANGUAGES:
Württemberg)
Certificate in Modern English Law, 1975
(British Institute of Int’l and Comparative Law)
Certificat d'Etudes Françaises, 1974 (University of Geneva)
Visiting Professor of Law, City University of Hong Kong, October 2009
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
English, French, German, Spanish
BOOKS:
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, forthcoming
2010)
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:
www.un.org/law/avl
United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
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 95101 (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 AIN EINEM
VEREINTEN EUROPA DEM FRIEDEN DER WELT ZU DIENEN...@ LIBER AMICORUM THOMAS OPPERMANN 453473 (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:
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. 5
(2009)
www.un.org/law/avl
United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
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-number-4/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
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 ReEmpowerment 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 247276 (2006)
The Movement Toward Federalism in Italy: A Policy-Oriented Perspective, 15 ST. THOMAS L. REV. 301-319
(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 AIndigenous 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), available at
http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/hrj/iss12/wiessner.shtml
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)
www.un.org/law/avl
United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
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)
Die Schiedsfähigkeit internationaler Antitrust-Streitigkeiten, 10 RECHT DER INTERNATIONALEN
WIRTSCHAFT 757-765 (1985), with Dieter G. Lange
The Public Order of the Geostationary Orbit: Blueprints for the Future, 9 YALE J. WORLD PUB. ORDER 217274 (1983[1985])
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
92-112 (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
supra, at 77-102
MENSCHLICHE WÜRDE,
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:
www.un.org/law/avl
United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
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:
www.un.org/law/avl
United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
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
Activities Report, Chair, ILA Committee on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, ABILA Newsletter, Issue 82,
January 2009, at 7-8, 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
TEACHING
EXPERIENCE:
HONORS:
International Law; Comparative Law; International Business Transactions;
Constitutional Law; Jurisprudence; Commercial Law; Communications Law;
Administrative Law; Property
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
www.un.org/law/avl
United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
ACTIVITIES:
PROFESSIONAL
ORGANIZATIONS:
Chair, International Law Association Committee on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples (2008 – present)
Member, Executive Council, American Society of International Law (2007 present)
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:
Policy-Oriented Jurisprudence: A Global Approach to Solving Global Problems,
City University of Hong Kong, October 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
www.un.org/law/avl
United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
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
www.un.org/law/avl
United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
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:
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
www.un.org/law/avl
United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
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
www.un.org/law/avl
United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
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
www.un.org/law/avl
United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
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:
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)
ASacred Mother Earth: The Struggle to Save the Everglades,@ March 27, 1998,
published at 11 ST. THOMAS L. REV. 1-107 (1998)
ASacred Sites and Modern Lives: The Miami Circle and Beyond,@ February 17
& 18, 2000, published at 13 ST. THOMAS L. REV. 1-414 (2000)
ADefending 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, 2006-
www.un.org/law/avl
United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
Chair, 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
www.un.org/law/avl