International Law Committee podcasts

Conversation on Climate Change with Pacific Island Leaders 09/22/14

On the eve of the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Summit, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, joined by the Committee on International Environmental Law of the New York City Bar Association, and Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, co-hosted a public conversation on climate change with Pacific Island leaders.

Featured Speakers:
President Christopher J. Loeak, Republic of the Marshall Islands; President Manny Mori, Federated States of Micronesia; President Tommy Remengesau, Republic of Palau; President Baron Waqa, Republic of Nauru; Prime Minister Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi, Independent State of Samoa; Foreign Minister Taukelina Finikaso, Tuvalu; Prime Minister Siale’ataongo Tu’ivakanō, Kingdom of Tongo; Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, Marshallese poet; Michael B. Gerrard, Professor at Columbia Law School, Director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

Federal Courts, Military Commissions, and Indefinite Detention: The Prosecution of Terrorist Suspects and Treatment of Those “Too Dangerous to Release, But Too Difficult to Prosecute” 4/7/10

Featured Speakers:
Scott Horton, Contributing Editor of Harper’s Magazine and Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School;James J. Benjamin, Jr., Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Co-Author of Human Rights First Report, “In Pursuit of Justice: Prosecuting Terrorist Cases in the Federal Courts; Eric Bruce, Kobre & Kim LLC, former Counselor to U.S. Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey; and Gregory Katsas, Jones Day, former Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice