Professor Barbara Stark organized and moderated a Roundtable on economic, social, and cultural rights at the American Society of International Law Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, March 25th. The other participants were: Philip Alson, NYU; Alicia Yamin, Harvard; Andrew Clapham, Institute of Advanced Studies, Geneva; and Mona Rishmawi, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Professor Stark also helped organize a panel at the Annual Meeting on International Law From the Bottom Up, held on March 26th.

Professor Amy R. Stein co-chaired the 22nd Annual Moot Court Competition, held at Plainview-Old Bethpage/John F. Kennedy High School. This year’s tournament was attended by more than a dozen high schools from Nassau, Suffolk and Queens; over 35 Judges, attorneys and court officials volunteered their time to judge each of the student trials.

On Wednesday, April 7, 2010, from 5:45–7:45 p.m., The Federal Bar Council is hosting, Securities Law: Primary Liability for Secondary Actors. The event will take place at Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. Courthouse, 500 Pearl Street, New York, NY, Ceremonial Courtroom. The program will be moderated by the Honorable Richard J. Holwell, U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York. The panelists will include James C. Dugan, Esq., of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP; Robert J. Giuffra, Jr., Esq., of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP; Stanley M. Grossman, Esq., of Pomerantz Haudek Grossman & Gross LLP; and Professor Ronald J. Colombo of Hofstra University School of Law.

On March 13, 2010, Professor I. Bennett Capers presented his paper “The Unintentional Rapist” at UCLA Law School’s Critical Race Studies Symposium. His co-panelists included Professor James Forman of Georgetown Law and Professor Russell Robinson of UCLA Law. The topic of the panel was “Masculinities and the Law.”

On Thursday, March 11, 2010, Professor J. Herbie DiFonzo presented a paper, “The Children of Baby M: Can Functional Norms Resolve Surrogacy’s Core Question?” at a panel dealing with the Impact of Assisted Reproduction on Families, at the Sixth Annual Wells Conference on Adoption Law, at Capital University Law School, Columbus, Ohio.