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- Guest Blogger: Deepali Lugani
- WILIG networks
- 'Nuff said
- On September 4
- Another day, another rig blast
| Posted: 04 Sep 2010 02:50 AM PDT  It's IntLawGrrls' great pleasure to welcome Deepali Lugani (left) as today's guest blogger.Deepali is a researcher for Judge Donald C. Pogue of the U.S. Court of International Trade in New York. She earned an LL.M. in International Law from Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., in 2010, and an LL.B. cum laude from the University of Ottawa, Canada, in 2008. While at Ottawa, she was the legal editor for the 1st student-run international policy thinktank in Canada, and was selected a rapporteur for the annual meeting of the Canadian Council on International Law. Her summaries of conference proceedings were published in the Journal of Canadian Council on International Law in 2006 and 2007. In 2009, Deepali was an intern at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, where she worked on matters related to the administration of ICC's detention center in Scheveningen. In her guest post below, Deepali reports on a recent meeting of the Women in International Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law, of which she's a member. Heartfelt welcome!  |
| Posted: 04 Sep 2010 01:25 AM PDT (Thanks to IntLawGrrls for the opportunity to contribute this guest post)  The Women in International Law Interest Group (WILIG) of the American Society of International Law recently hosted its annual networking breakfast at Tillar House, ASIL's headquarters in Washington, D.C. The event drew over 60 attendees, comprising a diverse group of women students, practitioners and pioneers in the field of international law. Laura Bocalandro, counsel at the Inter-American Development Bank (left), opened up the event. The panel was introduced by Marcia Wiss, partner at Hogan Lovells and adjunct professor at Georgetown Law (below right). Sarah A. Altschuller, senior practitioner in Foley Hoag's corporate social responsibility group (below left), talked about the challenges facing attorneys in  that practice area. Wendy Patten, Senior Policy Analyst at the Open Society Institute and former Advocacy Director at Human Rights Watch, noted that her past experiences as a litigator have continually helped her draft legislation and policy papers that examine and incorporate practical legal remedies for the public facing  challenging situations. Carol Pier, Associate Deputy Undersecretary for International Affairs at the Department of Labor, talked about the importance of maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Martina Vandenberg, partner at Jenner & Block LLP, spoke about the various challenges in fighting sex trafficking for which she has been raising awareness for several years. Vandenberg's advice to young women was to build an "investment fund" – one consisting of a wealth of resources and network – in the early stages of their careers. The "fund," she said, that can  assist them during their professional life in later years.During the Q&A session, topics that arose included: ► Work-life balance for women in law, ► Transitioning from nongovernmental and international organizations to law firms, ► The importance of choosing law firms with a dedicated focus to pro bono work, and ► Rewards of international exposure that continue to enrich an international law attorney's career in the long run. The panel unanimously agreed upon the importance of mentors for young women in law firms who can help budding attorneys get quality work in their professional lives. Moderator Wiss encouraged women to continue to raise awareness and  advocate for the U.S. ratification of 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women by writing to their representatives in Congress. The panel also reminded women to maintain a healthy emotional life particularly when their work involves fighting against social issues that could have an adverse emotional impact on their personal lives.At the end of the Q&A, the session broke to allow for networking. Several small crowds formed where women introduced themselves, discussed legal and policy issues in international law, and sought and offered advice. The 4 panelists were among the last few women to leave Tillar House, having answered almost every query by the crowd to the very end.   Note: IntLawGrrls Naomi Cahn (near left) and Kristine A. Huskey (far left) are co-chairs of this interest group. They encourage all who are not yet members to join WILIG! |
| Posted: 04 Sep 2010 12:03 AM PDT (Taking context-optional note of thought-provoking quotes)
-- one Susan Klee, in a letter to the editor published in yesterday's New York Times  |
| Posted: 03 Sep 2010 11:02 PM PDT On this day in ...  ... 1995 (15 years ago today), the Fourth World Conference on Women opened in Beijing, China. More than 4,750 delegates, from 181 countries, attended. It would conclude 11 days later with the issuance of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, including these subheadings: Women and Poverty, Education and Training of Women, Women and Health, Violence against Women, Women and Armed Conflict, Women and the Economy, Women in Power and Decision-making, Institutional Mechanism for the Advancement of Women, Human Rights of Women, Women and the Media, Women and the Environment, and The Girl-child. In the course of the conference, Hillary Clinton, then the 1st Lady of the United States (now, of course, the U.S. Secretary of State), gave the "human rights are women's rights" address in this video:(Prior September 4 posts are here, here, and here.)  |
| Another day, another rig blast Posted: 03 Sep 2010 11:57 AM PDT  Another oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico yesterday (left).Fortunately, none of the 13 workers on the rig were seriously injured, and the fire was quickly brought under control. There are conflicting reports about leaks, with a mile-long sheen spotted in nearby waters. (credit for Reuters/Lee Celano photo) While it looks like this particular spill will not turn into a replay of BP's Deepwater Horizon environmental catastrophe, what about next time? How many warnings do we need before getting serious about safety and environmental regulation of offshore drilling? This latest incident directly contradicts attempts to spin the BP spill as "not so bad" -- attempts that have focused on characterizing the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe as an isolated case of bad judgment. BP has twice pleaded guilty to environmental crimes, one a felony and one amisdemeanor, and has amassed a lengthy record of hefty fines for other violations. Mariner Energy, the owners of the latest oil rig to explode, have been cited for 10 accidents in the Gulf over the last four years, ranging from blowouts to platform fires to pollution spills. This morning, BP announced that the spill had cost it $8 billion so far. That number sounds suspiciously low to me (though not as patently false as BP's laughably lowball estimates of the quantity of oil gushing from the well into the Gulf had been.) Whatever effective regulation would have cost the industry, it would have been significantly less than $8 billion. And regulation probably could have prevented contamination of our environment with the: ► Hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil that leaked from the well, plus ► Millions of gallons of dispersant that were dumped into the Gulf in response. Both are fouling th environment and wreaking as-yet-unknown havoc on the Gulf ecosystem, already harmed by disastrous losses in the tourism and fishing industries, and, of course, by the deaths of those 11 workers.  |
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