Colloquium Series — Fall 2009
September 25
Michael Moffitt, University of Oregon
Islands, Vitamins, Salt, Germs: Four Visions of the Future of ADR in Law Schools (and a Data-Driven Snapshot of the Field Today)
Professor Moffitt provides a detailed and data-driven snapshot of ADR’s recent history within the legal academy. How large is the field? Is it growing? What do we know about those who are joining the ranks of ADR faculty and those who are leaving it? What roles do gender and teaching experience play in who teaches or in what they teach? What do we know about the schools at which law faculty are teaching ADR? The empirical data suggest four different models for describing how law schools approach their ADR offerings.
October 2
Adam Rosenzweig, Washington University
Why Are There Tax Havens?
Professor Rosenzweig examines whether and how US tax policy can actually create the incentives for poorer countries to engage in harmful tax competition with the United States. If this is correct, then current policy to punish tax havens for harmful tax competition would actually be counterproductive, as it would only exacerbate these incentives, and instead the US should unilaterally and affirmatively consider the incentives for other countries to compete when adopting its domestic tax policy.
October 9
Greg Gordon, University of North Dakota
Complementarity and Alternative Justice
Certain commentators believe that domestic resort to alternative justice mechanisms (ARMs) can relieve the International Criminal Court of its obligation to prosecute under the complementarity principle. Professor Gordon proposes a concrete set of analytic criteria the ICC can use to formulate an admissibility test for conducting complementarity analysis in difficult cases of municipal reliance on ARMs. In the end, this analysis helps illuminate our complex understanding of the relationship between international criminal law and local initiatives in situations of gross human rights violations.
