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Kenneth Vandevelde
Phone: (619) 961-4348

Books

The First Bilateral Investment Treaties: U.S. Postwar Friendship, Commerce and Navigation Treaties (Oxford University Press 2017)

A History of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law (The California Press 2013)

The First Bilateral Investment Treaties: Friendship, Commerce and Navigation Treaties in the Truman Administration (Proquest 2012)

Thinking Like a Lawyer: An Introduction to Legal Reasoning (Westview Press, 2nd ed., 2011) 

Bilateral Investment Treaties: History, Policy and Interpretation (Oxford University Press, 2010)

U.S. International Investment Agreements (Oxford University Press, 2009)

Investment Provisions in Economic Integration Agreements (Principal Author) (Geneva: United Nations, 2006)

International Investment Arrangements: Trends and Emerging Issues (with Roberto Echandi)(Geneva: United Nations, 2006)

Bilateral Investment Treaties in the Mid-1990s (Geneva: United Nations, 2000)

Scope and Definition, UNCTAD Series on Issues in International Investment Agreements (New York : United Nations, 1999)

Thinking Like a Lawyer: An Introduction to Legal Reasoning (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996)

United States Investment Treaties: Policy and Practice (Deventer [Netherlands] ; Boston : Kluwer Law and Taxation, 1992)

Articles, Book Chapters, And Article-Length Works

Book Review: Jean E. Kalicki and Anna Joubrin-Bret, "Reshaping the Investor-State Dispute Settlement System: Journeys for the 21st Century", 23 Transnational Corps. 103 (2016)

The Liberal Vision of the International Law on Foreign Investment, in Alternative Visions of the International Law on Foreign Investment: Essays in Honour of Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah 43 (Chin Leng Lim ed., Cambridge University Press 2016)

A Unified Theory of Fair and Equitable Treatment, 43 N.Y.U.J. Int'l L. & Pol. 43 (2011)

A Comparison of the 2004 and 1994 U.S. Model BITs: Rebalancing Investor and Host State Interests, in Yearbook on International Investment Law and Policy (Karl P. Sauvant, ed. 2008/2009)

A Brief History of International Investment Agreements, 12 U.C. Davis J. Int'l L. & Pol'y 157 (2005), reprinted in The Effect of Bilateral Investment Treaties and Double Taxation Treaties on Foreign Direct Investment Flows 2 (Karl P. Sauvant and Lisa E. Sachs, eds., New York: Oxford University Press, 2009)

Leadership in Times of Institutional Change, 37 U. Tol. L. Rev. 163 (2005)

A New Generation of International Investment Agreements: The Asia and Pacific Perspective, UNCTAD Occasional Paper (2005)

International Investment Agreements in Historical Perspective, 12 UC Davis J. L. & Pol'y 157 (2005)

The Economics of Bilateral Investment Treaties, 41 Harv. Int'l L.J. 469 (2000)

Fixing International Law of Fixing Castro, 48 Cath. U. L. Rev. 1035 (1999)

The Political Economy of a Bilateral Investment Treaty, 92 Am. J. Int'l L. 621 (1998)

Investment Liberalization and Economic Development: The Role of Bilateral Investment Treaties, 36 Colum. J. Transnat'l L. 501 (1998)

Sustainable Liberalism and the International Investment Regime, 19 Mich. J. Int'l L. 373 (1998)

Toward an Effective International Investment Regime, 91 Am. Soc'y Int'l Law Proc. 485 (1997)

Investment Arbitration in the BITs and ECT, in The Energy Charter Treaty (Cambridge: Kluwer Law International, 1996)

Arbitration Provisions in the BITs and the Energy Charter Treaty, in The Energy Charter Treaty 409 (Cambridge: Kluwer Law International, 1996)

Book Review, Rudolf Dolzer and Margrete Stevens, Bilateral Investment Treaties, 90 Am. J. of Int'l L. 545 (1996)

Book Review, Claire Cushman, The Supreme Court Justices: Illustrated Biographies, 1789-1993, 3 San Diego Just. J. 317 (1995)

U.S. Bilateral Investment Treaties: The Second Wave, 14 Mich. J. Int’l L. 621 (1993)

Of Politics and Markets: The Shifting Ideology of the Bits, 11 Int’l Tax & Bus. Law 159 (1993) (now Berkeley J. Int’l L.)

Ideology, Due Process, and Civil Procedure, 67 St. John’s L. Rev. 265 (1993)

The BIT Program: A Fifteen Year Appraisal, 1992 Am. Soc'y of Int'l L. Proc. 532 (1992)

The Modern Doctrine of Prima Facie Tort, 79 Ky L. J. 519 (1991)

A History of Prima Facie Tort: The Origins of a General Theory of Intentional Tort, 19 Hofstra L. Rev. 447 (1990)

Reassessing the Hickenlooper Amendment, 29 Va. J. of Int'l L. 115 (1988)

Treaty Interpretation from a Negotiator's Perspective, 21 Vand. J. of Transnat'l L. 281 (1988)

The Bilateral Investment Treaty Program of the United States, 21 Cornell Int'l L.J. 201 (1988)

Organization and Administration: PAC Legal Considerations, in The PAC Handbook 192 (with William E. Sudow, Esq.) (K. Clair ed., Fraser/Associates, 1981)

The New Property of the Nineteenth Century: the Development of the Modern Concept of Property, 29 Buff. L. Rev. 325 (1980)

International Regulation of Fluorocarbons, 2 Harv. Envtl L. Rev. 474 (1978)

Rebalancing through Exceptions, Seventeenth Annual Business Law Fall Forum, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, OR (October 12, 2012)

Economic Crises and the National Security Exception, Conference on Global Governance, Oxford University, Oxford, England (June 28, 2012)

Model Bilateral Investment Treaties: The Way Forward, International Law Weekend West, International Law Association (American Branch), Southwestern University Law School, Los Angeles, CA (February 14, 2011)

Major Issues in International Investment Agreements, ASEAN Conference on Regional Economic Integration, Hotel Bali, Bali, Indonesia (November 14, 2007)

Current Issues in International Investment Agreements, UNCTAD International Experts Group Meeting, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland (June 14, 2007)

The Fair and Equitable Treatment Standard in International Law, OAS-UNCTAD Advanced Training Course on Managing Investment Disputes, Puebla, Mexico, Oct. 2006

The Impact of Investor-State Dispute Settlement on the APEC Region, APEC-UNCTAD Regional Seminar on Investor State Dispute Settlement, Mexico City, Mexico, Oct. 2006

Policy Coherence in International Investment Agreements, Presentation to UNCTAD Commission on Investment, Geneva, Switzerland, Mar. 2006

Policy Cohearnce in International Investment Agreements, Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Conference, Tokyo, Japan, Sept. 2005

Keynote Speaker, Romancing the Foreign Investor: Bit-by-Bit, UC Davis, Mar. 2005

Constitutional Law

International Law

  • International Economic Law
  • International Law

Legal Education

Legal History

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Ben Templin
Phone: (619) 961-4317

Books

Contracts: A Modern Coursebook (Wolters Kluwer 2017)

Articles, Book Chapters, And Article-Length Works

Social Security Reform: The Politics of the Payroll Tax, 32 Quinnipiac L. Rev. 1 (2013)

Chinese Reverse Mergers, Accounting Regimes, and the Rule of Law in China, 34 T. Jefferson L. Rev. 119 (2011)

Social Security Reform: Should the Retirement Age be Increased?, 89 OR. L. REV. 1179 (2011)

Social Security: Are Sovereign Wealth Funds a Model for Reform?, 35 FORDHAM INT'L L.J. 98 (2011)

The Government Shareholder: Regulating Public Ownership of Private Enterprise, 62 Admin. L. Rev. 1127 (2010)

The Marriage Contract in Fine Art, 30 N. Ill. U. L. Rev. 45 (2009)

The Public Trust in Private Hands: Social Security and the Politics of Government Investment, 96 Ky L. J. 369 (2008)  Download a PDF of the article.

Comment on Neil H. Burchanan's, Social Security and Government Deficits: When Should We Worry?, 92 Cornell L. Rev. 291 (2007)

Full Funding: The Future of Social Security, 22 J.L. & Pol. 395 (2006) Download a PDF of the article.

Expensing Isn’t the Only Option: Alternatives to the FASB’s Stock Option Expensing Proposal, 30 J. Corp. L 357 (2005) Download a PDF of the article.

Presenter, Intellectual Property Infringement in China: Recent Case Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan (July 17, 2012)

Presenter, Social Security Reform, UC San Diego’s Osher Institute, San Diego, CA (April 17, 2012)

Comparative Corporate Disclosure Standards for International Stock, Law & Economics Workshop, Waseda University Organization of Asian Studies, Tokyo, Japan (November 24, 2011)

U.S. Capital Market Response to Rule of Law Problems in China’s Accounting Regime, 10th International Conference of the Japan Economic Policy Association, Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan (November 20, 2011)

Sovereign Wealth Funds, Government Investment & Financing Social Welfare Programs, Special Conference of the Brazilian Control Bank, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, CA (November 8, 2011)

Political Economy and the Rule of Law, 2011 International Conference on Chinese Rule of Law, Zhejiang University Guanghua Law School/Thomas Jefferson School of Law, Hangzhou, China (May 27, 2011)

Social Security Reform, 9th International Conference of the Japan Economic Policy Association, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan (November 28, 2010)

The Political Economy of Government Investment, colloquium talk, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan (December 2, 2009)

Government Investment & State Entrepreneurism, 8th International Conference of the Japan Economic Policy Association, Tokyo, Japan (November 28, 2009)

State Entrepreneurism, Canadian Law & Economics Association Meeting, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (October 3, 2009)

The Marriage Contract in Fine Art, Twelfth Annual Conference for the Association of the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities, Suffolk University Law School, Boston, MA, Apr. 3, 2009 

Session Chair (moderator), Creating a United Sates Sovereign Wealth Fund, 7th International Conference of the Japan Economic Policy Association, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan (December 6, 2008)

Legal Writing Institute Writer’s Workshop, participant, July 2008

The Marriage Contract in Fine Art, Fourth International Contracts Conference, McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento, CA (February 8, 2008)

The Public Trust in Private Hands: Social Security and the Politics of Government Investment, 6th International Conference of the Japan Economic Policy Association, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan (December 9, 2007)

Session Chair (Moderator): Law & Economics Session. 6th International Conference of the Japan Economic Policy Association, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 2007

Technology in the Contracts Classroom: Ideas, Tools, and Questions, Third International Contracts Conference, South Texas College of Law, Houston, TX (February 24, 2007)

Teaching Contracts: Pedagogy of PowerPoint, Association of American Law Schools Poster Presentation, AALS Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. (January 3, 2007)

Legal Research and the Google Generation (joint presentation with Professor Linda Keller), Legal Writing Institute, Georgia State University College of Law, Atlanta, GA (June 9, 2006)

PowerPoint Pedagogy, Spring Contracts Conference, Texas Wesleyan School of Law, Fort Worth, TX (February 24, 2006)

Moderator, Innovative Methods for Teaching Research, Writing, and Effective Communication Skills to ESL and EFL Students, John Marshall Law School’s Global Legal Studies Conference, Chicago, IL, May 2005

The Amistad Case, Law & Opera Salon, (March 15, 2004)

Business Law

Contracts

Intellectual Property

Legal Education

Social Security Reform

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William Slomanson

Books

Fundamental Perspectives on International Law (coauthored) (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2022)

Cases and Materials on California Civil Procedure 6th ed. (coauthored) (West Academic, 2022)

Federal Civil Procedure e-book (Vol. 2, 2015) (TJSL 2015)

O'Connor's California Practice: Civil Pre-Trial (David Levine and Michol O'Connor ed. Jones-McClure 2015)

CASES AND MATERIALS ON CALIFORNIA CIVIL PROCEDURE (with David Levine and Rochelle Shapell (Hastings)) (5th ed. West,2015) and Instructor’s Manual, and Course Web Page http://www.tjsl.edu/slomansonb/CalCivPro.html )  

Federal Civil Procedure e-Book (Vol. 1, Fall 2014) (TJSL 2014)

California Civil Procedure in a Nutshell (5th ed. West 2014)

Federal Civil Procedure e-Book www.tjsl.edu/slomansonb/FedCivPro4_e-book (TJSL-2013)

O’Connor’s California Practice: Civil Pre-trial 2014 (with David Levine and Michol O’Connor ed., 4th ed. Jones-McClure, 2014)

O’Connor’s California Practice: Civil Pretrial 2012 (Jones McClure 2012)

Teacher's Manual for Cases and Materials on California Civil Procedure (with David I. Levine and Rochelle Shapell) (Thomson West, 4th ed. 2011)

California Civil Procedure in a Nutshell (4th ed. West 2011)

O'Connor's California Practice: Civil Pre-trial 2011 (with co-editors Julie Capell, David Levine, and Michol O'Connor) (JonesMcClure, 2011) 

Fundamental Perspectives on International Law (Thomson Wadsworth, 6th ed. 2010)

California Civil Procedure in a Nutshell (Thomson West, 3rd ed. 2008)

Cases and Materials on California Civil Procedure (with David I. Levine and Rochelle Shapell) (with Teacher’s Manual) (Thomson West, 3d ed. 2008) (Course Web Page online at www.tjsl.edu/slomansonb/CalCivPro.html)

Fundamental Perspectives on International Law (Belmont, CA:Thomson, 5th ed. 2006)

California Civil Procedure in a Nutshell (with online supplements and Instructor’s Manual) (Thomson-West, 2d ed. 2006)

Cases and Materials on California Civil Procedure (with David I. Levine, C. Keith Wingate & Rochelle Wirshup) (with online supplements and Instructor’s Manual) (Thomson-West, 2d ed. 2005). (with online supplements)

Historical Development of Arbitration and Adjudication, in Fundamental Perspectives on International Law 384 (West, 4th ed. 2002) reprinted in L'Histoire en Droit International 277 (Univ. Miskolc Press, 2004)

Fundamental Perspectives on International Law (with online supplements and Instructor’s Manual) (Thomson-West, 4th ed. 2003).  (with online supplements)

Fundamental Perspectives on International Law (with Instructor’s Manual) (Boston: West, 3d ed. 1999)

California Civil Practice Handbook: The Choice Between State and Federal Courts, (with Supplement) (St. Paul, MN: West, 1994, 1996)

Fundamental Perspectives on International Law (with Instructor’s Manual) (St. Paul: West, 2d ed. 1995)

California Civil Procedure in a Nutshell (with Keith Wingate-Hastings) (Thomson West, 1992)

Cases and Materials on California Civil Procedure (with Instructor’s Manual) (with David I. Levine, C. Keith Wingate & Rochelle Wirshup) (Thomson-West, 1991)

Fundamental Perspectives on International Law (St. Paul: West, 1990)

International Business Bibliography (Buffalo, NY: Hein, 1989)

Editorships

Editor, American Society of International Law UN21 (Newsletter #44) (2012) (published online, http://www.asil.org/un21)

American Society of International Law, UN21 Newsletter, Issue #42 (Aug. 2011), available at www.asil.org, click Membership, Interest Groups, Interest Group Documents

Member, Editing Council, Ukrainian Y.B. Int’l L., Kiev National Shevchenko University (2009-present)

Corresponding Editor, ASIL Int’l Legal Materials (2008-present)

Editor, American Society of International Law UN21 Newsletter, Issue #36, January 2007, Hosted by Cornell Law School, Available online

Member, Editorial Board, Miskolc J. Int’l L. (Hungary) (published online, http://www.uni-miskolc.hy/~wwwdrint/mjil1.htm) (2004-present)

Editor (1992 - present), UN21 Newsl. (Am. Soc'y Int'l L./UN21 Int. Group, Washington, DC), Oct. 2012 (published online, http://www.asil.org/un21)

Editor, American Society of International Law, UN21 Section Newsletter, (1992-present)

Articles, Book Chapters, And Article-Length Works

Iron River Case: Blueprint for Gun Trafficking Analytics, 56 Suffolk Univ. Law Review 1 (2023)

Second Amendment: The Dozen Yardsticks or Measuring its Scope, 34 CALIFORNIA LITIGATION REPORTER (forthcoming 2021)

California-Federal Procedural Contrast: A Proposal, 327 Federal Rules Decisions 1301 (2018)

Blue Book Rhapsody, 66 J. Legal Educ. 696 (2017)

Crimean Secession in International law, in Hungarian Yearbook of International and European Law, Vol. 3 303 (Eleven International Publishing 2015)

Introductory Note to Georgia v. Russian Federation: 2014 ECHR Judgment Regarding the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, 53 Int’l Legal Materials 810 (2014)

Blended Learning: A Flipped Classroom Experiment, 64 J. Legal Educ. 93 (2014)

Unilateral Secession in a Multipolar World (Introductory Remarks), 107 American Society of Int'l Law Proc. 211 (2014)

Nagorno Karabakh: An Alternative Legal Approach to its Quest for Legitimacy, 9 Miskolc J.I.L. 69 (2012), available at http://www.uni-miskolc.hu/~wwwdrint/mjil18/20121slomanson1.pdf

Pouring Skills Content into Doctrinal Bottles, 61 J. Legal Educ. 683 (ed., 2012)

Palestinian Statehood: A Secessionist Dialogue, 8 Miskolc J. Int'l L. 1 (2011)

Legitimacy of the Kosovo, South Ossetia and Abkhazia Secessions: Violations in Search of a Rule, 6 Miskolc J. Int’l L. 1 (2009), available at http://www.uni-miskolc.hu/~www.drint/mjil14/20092slomanson1.pdf, updated version available at http://slomanson.tjsl.edu/2.4_Secession_Legitimacy_Slomanson.pdf; reprinted in 3 Ukrainian Y.B. Int’l L. (2010)

American Judges against Judicial Independence, 11 Ukrainian J. Int’l L. 29 (2008)

Tunkin Centenary Symposium - Alien Detainee Cases and Responsive Legislation: United States Balance of Power Struggle Between the President and Congress versus the Supreme Court, 11 Sudebnik 711 (2007)

Practice and Pleading: Choosing State or Federal Procedure, 27 California Lawyer 37 (published online) (Jan. 2007)

International Humanitarian Law Symposium--Alien Detainee Cases and Responsive Legislation: U.S. Balance of Power Struggle between the President and Congress versus the Supreme Court, 15 Ukrainian J. Int'l L. 23 (2006)

Historical Development of Arbitration and Adjudication, in Fundamental Perspectives on International Law 384 (West, 4th ed. 2002) reprinted in L’Histoire en Droit International 277 (Univ. Miskolc Press, 2004)

State Civil Procedure Elective Plea, 54 J. Legal Educ. 235 (2004)

Legal Scholarship Blueprint, 50 J. Legal Educ. 431 (2000)

Electronic Lawyering and the Academy, 48 J. Legal Educ. 216 (1998)

Fundamental Perspectives On International Law and Instructor's Manual (2d ed.) (St. Paul, MN: West, 1995)

Right to War?, 1 Moscow J. Int'l L. 5 (English-language version 1995) (with Adam Lopatka, Chief Judge, Polish Supreme Court; Yuri Kolosov, Chair, Int'l Law Dept., State Inst. of Int'l Relations, Moscow)

Articulas Interruptus: Forbearing Footnote Folly, 12 Legal References Services Q. 87 (1993)

Book Review, The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (15th ed.), 42 J. Legal Educ. 147 (1992)

A Uniform System of Citation (13th ed.), 68 A.B.A. J. 735 (1992)

Intro to Law: First Year Survival, 11 Legal Ref. Serv. Q. 185 (1991)

Do's and Taboos for Making Law Review: A Law Student's Compass , 11 Criminal Justice Journal 489 (1989)

Do's and Taboos with Law Reviews, 8 Legal Ref. Serv. Q. 225 (1988)

U.S. Supreme Court Position and the Hague Evidence Convention, 37 Int'l & Comp. L.Q. 391 (1988)

Registered Foreign Legal Consultant: The Nonlawyer Lawyer, 34 Dicta 23 (1987)

Registered Foreign Legal Consultant: The Nonlawyer Lawyer, 34 Dicta (San Diego County Bar Journal), Apr. 1987, at 23

Footnote Logic in Law Review Writing: Previously Unaddressed in the Criminal Justice System, 9 Criminal Justice Journal 65 (1986)

International Service of Summons: New Statutory Application of the Hague Service Treaty, 8 Los Angeles Lawyer 38 (1986)

Civil Action for Return of Property: "Anomalous" Federal Jurisdiction in Search of Justification, 62 Denv. U. L. Rev. 741 (1985)

Civil Actions Against Interpol: A Field Compass, 57 Temple L. Q. 553 (1984)

Current American Legal Citations (2d ed.), 52 Fordham L. Rev. 428 (1984)

Dismissal for Failure to Serve and Return Summons in State and Federal Courts in California, 19 Cal. W. L. Rev. 1 (1982)

Supplementation of Discovery Responses in Federal Civil Procedure, 17 San Diego L. Rev. 233 (1980)

Real Property Unrelated to Claim: Due Process for Quasi in Rem Jurisdiction?, 83 Dickinson L. Rev. 51 (1978)

Emergence of the "Tender Years" Doctrine: Too Young to Drink but Capable of Escaping the Civil Consequences?, 5 Pepp. L. Rev. 1 (1977)

I.C.J. Damages: Tort Remedy for Failure to Punish or Extradite International Terrorists, 5 Cal. W. Int'l L.J. 121 (1975)

Foreign Legal Consultant: Multistate Model for Business and the Bar, 39 Alb. L. Rev. 199 (1975)

Judicial Review of War Renunciation in the Naganuma Nike Case: Juggling the Constitutional Crisis in Japan, 9 Cornell Int'l L.J. 24 (1975)

Free Transit in Territorial Straits: Jurisdiction on an Even Keel?, 3 Cal. W. Int'l L.J. 375 (1973)

Download a list of Shorter Work for Professor Slomanson

Introduction to the International Bill of Human Rights , San Diego County Legal Aid Society MCLE seminar, San Diego, CA, Zoom (July 28, 2020)

Crimean Secession in International Law, Atma Jaya Catholic University, Jakarta, Indonesia (April 15, 2016)

US Perspectives on International Law (short course), Islamic University of Indonesia, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (April 8, 2016)

The Teaching of International Law: Tri-national Perspectives , , Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary (June 8, 2015)

Crimean Annexation in International Law, Debrecen University, Debrecen, Hungary (June 4, 2015), available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQVfBGKkf8k

Creating Videos Workshop, 38th Annual AALS Clinical Education Conference, with co-presenters Angela Upchurch (SIU) and Michele Pistone (Villinova), Rancho Mirage, CA (May 5 & 6, 2015)

Pre-Conference Video, 38th Annual AALS Clinical Education Conference, Rancho Mirage, CA (March 22, 2015), available at http://media.tjsl.edu:8080/ess/echo/presentation/945b1395-6771-49cf-b12d-02dcff64e422

Nagorno-Karabakh is a case of remedial secession, Interview by Nvard Chalikyan, Panorama News, Yerevan, Armenia (April 19, 2014), available at http://www.panorama.am/en/interviews/2014/04/19/william-slomanson

Remedial Secession in the South Caucuses, American University Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia (August 6, 2012), available at http://law.aua.am/2012/08/15/international-law-prof-william-slomanson-presents-lecture-on-unilateral-declarations-of-independenc

Remedial Secession in the South Caucuses, Free Tblisi University, Tbilisi, Georgia (August 2, 2012), available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH2N4NGtbGQ&feature=share&list=UUGslH8OoAgATLQmfCET-Icw

Speaker, The Law and Politics of Genocide (with Chris Guzelian (MC) and Roger Kupelian), 97th Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide, UCSD Great Hall, La Jolla, CA, May 1, 2012  (Available at http://www.tjsl.edu/news-media/2012/6436)

Moderator (with panelists Sam Bettwy, Steve Berenson, Sara Stark 3L, and Sarah Stewart-Bussey 3L), War Crimes: Who Has Jurisdiction?, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, CA, April 24, 2012  (Available at http://www.tjsl.edu/news-media/2012/6405)

Human Rights Violations and State Secession: An Evolving Standard?, Professor Slomanson’s secession debate with President Enver Hasani, Kosovo Constitutional Court, set in the USA in the Year 2050. American Bar Association, International Section Conference, Dublin, Ireland, October 13, 2011 (Available online)

Pouring Skills Content into Doctrinal Bottle, Institute for National Law Teaching and Learning Conference: Engaging and Assessing Our Students, New York Law School, New York, NY, June 3, 2011

Civil Litigation: The Rest of the Story, Professor Slomanson presented an amusing account of what happened to the  parties involved in the major civil procedure cases—and how TJSL practitioners might avoid such predicaments. One cannot find this information in any legal treatise, TJSL Alumni Association, Mangia Italiano Restaurant, Chula Vista, CA, November 9, 2010

Conference on What and How to Teach: Web Links to Currency and Skills, American Society of International Law Interest Group, Hofstra University School of Law, Hempstead, NY, Sep 25, 2009

Legitimacy of the Kosovo versus South Ossetia and Abkhazia Secessions, USAID American Center, Saint Petersburg, Russia, Jul 2, 2009

Civil Procedure: The Rest of the Story, TJSL Alumni MCLE, (on the occasion of swearing in of the 2009 TJSL Alumni Board of Directors), Thomas Jefferson School of Law, Jan 14, 2009 

Kosovo v. South Ossetia and Abkhazia: Legitimate Secessions?, Kiev University, Kiev, Ukraine, Oct 14, 2008

University Faculty Roundtable: Kosovo, South Ossetia/Abkhazia: Beginning of Cold War II?, Kiev University, Kiev, Ukraine, Oct 15, 2008

American Judges Against Judicial Independence, Moscow State University American Legal System Class, Mar. 20, 2008

Kosovo's Dependent Independence, Moscow State University World Politics Association, Mar. 17, 2008

Kosovo's Dependent Independence, USAID American Center Moscow, Mar. 17, 2008

Q & A on Kosovo's Impact on Other post-Conflict Societies, Russian Academy of Foreign Trade, Mar. 17, 2008

Kosovo: United Nations Nation Building, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexicali campus, Mexico, Nov. 15, 2007

U.S. Supreme Court's Third Strike in the Alien Detainee Cases, Yeditepe University School of Law, Istanbul, Turkey, July 3, 2007

Presented the following papers: Isolation at All Costs: Attacking Judicial Reliance on Non-US Legal Sources; and Alien Detainee Cases: Washington's Balance of Power Struggle: Alien Detainee Cases and Responsive Legislation, Miskolc University, Miskolc, Hungary, Mar. 19 and 20, 2007

Bring Your Office to the Students, West Coast ASP Conference, TJSL, Jan. 26, 2007

California Civil Procedure: Merger and Bar, California Western School of Law Faculty Development Lunch, San Diego, CA, May 2005

Moderator, State Building Panel I: Issues of Choice, Creation and Justification, American Society of International Law, Washington, D.C., Mar. 2005

Moderator, The Global Impact of Feminist Legal Theory Conference, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, Panel on Globalization and Sexuality, San Diego, CA, Feb. 2005

Moderator, The Holocaust, Genocide, and Other Human Rights Violations Conference, Panel on The Law and Literature of the Holocaust and Genocide, Congregation Beth Israel, La Jolla, CA, Jan. 2005

UN Role in Iraq After June 30th: Lessons Learned from Kosovo, Tsinghua University School of Law, Beijing, China, Apr. 2004

Recent Developments in International Law, Tsinghua University School of Law, Beijing, China, Apr. 2004

International Rule in Kosovo: Five Years in Lessons in State Building, San Diego County Bar Association, San Diego, CA, Feb. 2004

Kosovo: Lessons Learned for Governing Post Conflict Societies, San Diego State University World Affairs Institute, San Diego, CA, Feb. 2004

NATO and UN Occupation of Kosovo: Prospects for Peace, Joan Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, San Diego, CA, Feb. 2004

Civil Procedure & Litigation

  • California Civil Procedure
  • Civil Procedure

International Law

Legal Education

U.S. Foreign Policy