Agenda & Schedule


THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2007

6:30 - 9:00 p.m. [by invitation only]
Location: The Carter Center

Welcoming remarks
James Wagner, President, Emory University

Dinner and After-dinner Address
Former President Jimmy Carter
The Role of The Carter Center, with Emphasis on its Program of Protection of Health in Least Developed and Developing Countries, Advisor of the World Law Institute

FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007
Location: Gambrell Hall, Emory Law

8:00 - 8:45 a.m.
Registration and light breakfast

8:45 - 9:40 a.m.
Plenary Session

Introduction by Chair: 
Johan van der Vyver, Co-Director of the World Law Institute

Welcome of the Conference Participants
David Partlett, Dean, Emory Law School

World Law and the World Law Institute:
Harold Berman, Co - Director of the World Law Institute
Thomas Murray, Esq., Founder/Benefactor, World Law Institute
David T. Link and John C. Straub, Principals, World Law Institute

9:40 - 9:50 a.m.           
Coffee Break

9:50 - 11:30 a.m.
Keynote speakers: Introduction of the speakers by Dorothy Toth Beasley, Senior Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia, Member of the Board of Consultants of the World Law Institute

Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland, former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, President of the Ethical Globalization Initiative, Advisor of the World Law Institute.

Navanethem Pillay, Protection of the Health of Women through International Criminal Law: How Can International Criminal Law Contribute to Efforts to Improve the Health of Women?, Judge of the International Criminal Court, The Netherlands, Member of the Board of Consultants of the World Law Institute

11:30 - 12:30 p.m.
Lawrence O. Gostin, Global Health Law Governance

12:30 - 1:15 p.m.
Lunch Break

1:15 - 2:00 p.m.          
William Foege, The Role of Charitable Foundations in the Protection of Health of Women in Least Developed and Developing Countries, Emeritus Presidential Distinguished Professor of International Health, Emory University School of Public Health and Fellow, Gates Foundation

2:00 - 3:30 p.m.          
WORKSHOPS: First Floor Classrooms

Classroom B
Maternal and Neonatal Care:  Model Legislation for Countries in Transition: Alfred Brann; John Straub; Reynaldo Martorell; Juliette Apkarian

Classroom C
Childhood Vaccination and Preventive Healthcare: Roger Glass; Keith Klugman; Walt Orenstein; Walt Dowdle; Melinda Wharton

Classroom D
Domestic Violence and Health of Women: Bonita Meyersfeld; Managay Reddi; Charity Scott

3:30 - 3:45 p.m.          
Coffee Break

3:45 - 5:15 p.m.          
WORKSHOPS: First Floor Classrooms

Classroom B
Religious Barriers and Cultural Aspects of Protection of Women’s Health: Azizah Y. al - Hibri; Abduh An - Na’im; Christa Rautenbach

Classroom C
NGOs and Philanthropic Foundations as Sources of Emerging Norms of World Law: Amelia Siamomua; Thomas Robertson; Michel Veuthey; Zachary Manfredi

Classroom D
Sexual Trafficking of Girls and Young Women: Donna M. Hughes; Stephanie Davis; Sharon Cohn

5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Drinks and hors d’oeuvres, dinner and after - dinner address [for Conference Speakers and Panelists only]
James M. Hughes, Director, Emory Program in Global Infectious Diseases and Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine, Emory University


SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2007
Location: Gambrell Hall, Emory Law

8:00 - 9:00 a.m.           
Light breakfast

9:00 - 9:15 a.m.
Introductory remarks and Introduction of President Mádl: Tibor Varady

9:15 - 10:00 a.m.
Keynote Address: Ferenç Mádl, Health and Human Rights in the European Union, Former President of Hungary, Advisor of the World Law Institute

10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
David Fidler, Issues in the Establishment of World Standards of Protection of Health of Women

11:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Mark Rosenberg, A New Threat to the Health of Women and their Families: The Global Epidemic of Road Traffic Injuries

11:30 - 11:45 a.m.
Coffee Break

11:45 - 12:15 p.m.
President Carter’s video talk with audience responses

12:15  -  1:30 p.m.
Lunch Break

1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
WORKSHOPS: First Floor Classrooms

Classroom C
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): Kathryn Yount; Elizabeth Boyle; Febe Armanios; Mary Margaret Oliver

Classroom D
Clean and Safe Drinking Water: Joseph Hughes; John Hardman; Richard Rheingans; Eugene Gangarosa

Classroom B
The Need to Introduce into Universities an Inter - disciplinary Course in World Health and World Law: David Fidler; James Curran; Richard Goodman; Stanley Riepe

3:00 - 3:15 p.m.
Coffee Break

3:15 - 4:15 p.m.
Susannah Sirkin, Deputy Director, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR)

4:15 - 4:45 p.m.
Final Plenary Session: An Evaluation of the Contribution of the Conference, James Curran, Dean and Professor of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health; David Bederman, Professor of Law, Emory University Law School.