The ILSA International Conference, 2009 at NUJS, Kolkata, India

 

NUJS International Law Students (NUJS—ILS)

Keynote Speakers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mr. Nitya Nanda

 

Mr. Nitya Nanda is a Fellow with the Centre for Global Agreements, Legislations and Trade at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi. A former Alumnus of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, he was awarded the Junior Research Fellowship by the University Grants Commission (UGC). He also attended an advance programme on Development Economics at the University of Cambridge.

 

He has been the lead researcher and coordinator for the International Working Group on Doha Agenda (IWOGDA), a network-based research programme to conduct research on new issues at the WTO. He has travelled across the globe both for managing projects as well as attending conferences. He has also been a consultant to UNCTAD, Geneva, and has been receiving regular invitations in their conferences, particularly on competition policy and investment issues. He has published several articles/papers on trade, investment and competition issues in professional journals, edited volumes and newspapers.

 

Currently he is working on a book titled “Expanding Frontiers of Global Trade Rules: The Political Economy Dynamics of the International Trading System” to be published by Routledge, London. An economist by training, he has fairly good understanding of relevant legal issues, and his areas of interest include International Trade, Investment, Industrial Economics and Competition Policy.

John Reifenberg

Professor of Law,

Michigan State University College of Law

 

Prior to joining the faculty in 1978, Professor Reifenberg was an Instructor at Southern Methodist University Law School, and Assistant Professor of Law at Nova University Law School. Professor Reifenberg is the Executive Director of the Center for Canadian-United States Law and Chair of the International and Comparative Law Program at the Law College. He was the author of the 1987 Jessup International Moot Court Problem. During the 1990-91 academic year, Professor Reifenberg was a Fulbright Fellow at Wuhan University Law School in the People's Republic of China. He teaches Torts, International Law, International Business Transactions, and various comparative law courses.

Dr. Philippe Cullet is a Reader in Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies – University of London (SOAS) where he teaches law related to the environment, natural resources and intellectual property. He is a Founding Director and the Programme Director for Europe of IELRC.

 
He studied law at the University of Geneva and King’s College London (LLM). He received an MA in development studies from SOAS and went on to receive his doctoral degree in international environmental law from Stanford Law School, Stanford University.

His current research interests include different fields in the area of environment and natural resource law, including biodiversity, biosafety, equity, global warming, water as well as human rights, international law and the socio-economic aspects of intellectual property protection. 

Dr. Cullet is also the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Law, Environment and Development Journal, a peer-reviewed academic journal jointly published by IELRC and SOAS.

The Charter for Human Responsibility Special Keynote Panel: The Growing Alarm of Climate Change, the Need and Requisites for a Refined Climate Policy

 

Date: 24^th July, 2009

 

Time: 1:45 p.m.  – 2:30 p.m.

 

Bill McKibben is an American environmentalist and writer who writes about global warming, alternative energy, and the need for more localized economies. Beginning in the summer of 2006, he led the organization of the largest demonstrations against global warming in American history.

 

Al Gore wrote in 2007 that “when I was serving in the Senate, Bill McKibben’s descriptions of the planetary impacts... made such an impression on me that it led, among other things, to my receiving the honorific title ‘Ozone Man’ from the first president Bush.”

 

McKibben is a frequent contributor to various magazines including The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Orion magazine, Mother Jones, The New York Review of Books, The Middlebury Campus, Granta, The National Geographic, Rolling Stone, and Outside. He is also a board member and contributor to Grist Magazine.

 

McKibben will be delivering a keynote lecture entitled “The Growing Alarm of Climate Change, the Need and Requisites for a Refined Climate Policy” on the 24^th of July. This lecture will address issues related with Climate change and human responsibility.