This symposium will assess the legitimacy and viability of current international law, insofar as it governs the transformation from post-war occupation to post-occupation peace. Using Iraq as a test case, the symposium will test this modern law against both changed contemporary realities and recent developments in moral and political thought. The first panel will will bring together a number of renowned moral, political, and legal philosophers to address the question of what fundamental obligations the U.S. has to Iraq in moving from occupation to post-occupation. The second panel assess the current state of the law, and consider whether it has evolved sufficiently from its origins to encompass democratic "nation building" and economic reforms within its ambit. The third panel will, finally, explore the possibility of developing American exit strategies from Iraq that meet these broad moral and legal requirements.

Articles from the symposium are available in the Fall 2009 issue of the Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review.

Program
2008
Friday, April 4th
10:00 AM

Panel One: Moral Obligations of an Occupier to the Occupied

Jules Coleman, Yale Law School
Jeff McMahan, Rutgers University
Jeremy Waldron, New York University School of Law
Robin Kar, Loyola Law School - Los Angeles

10:00 AM

11:45 AM

Luncheon Speaker

Noah Feldman, Harvard Law School

11:45 AM

1:30 PM

Panel Two: Legal Obligations of an Occupier to the Occupied

Kriston Boon, Seton Hall University School of Law
Sean Watts, Creighton University School of Law
Ralph Wilde, University College London
Cesare Romano, Loyola Law School - Los Angeles

1:30 PM

3:15 PM

Panel Three: Practical Realities: Exiting Iraq

Feisal Amin Rasoul, Indiana University School of Law
Phillip Carter, McKenna Long & Aldridge
Noah Feldman, Harvard Law School
Olga Oliker, RAND Corporation
David Glazier, Loyola Law School - Los Angeles

3:15 PM

4:45 PM

Closing Remarks

Jeff Montez, Loyola Law School - Los Angeles

4:45 PM