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2008 CLE & Ski - Whistler

The Feb 7-8, 2008 CLE and SKI Mid-Winter Meeting in Whistler, B.C. promises to be an experience to remember. The planning committee is working hard to bring members and their families a ski vacation and CLE program well worth the trip to British Columbia. The Meeting will be at the Fairmont Chateau Whistler, and includes activities for non-skiers as well as the usual ski activities and competitions. There are special programs for spouses and kids under 5. More details at DLA in Whistler.

DLA Annual Meet Co-sponsors Law Day for Undergrads

The DLA combined its May 2007 Annual Meeting in Hanover with the College's Law Day Program, co-sponsored by the Rockefeller Center and the Legal Studies Faculty Group. The educational program focused on the legal issues of combating terrorism and crimes against humanity.

Students joined the practicing lawyers and faculty for the Saturday morning panel discussion of career choices.

Panelists included Sam Braverman ’88, a criminal defense solo practitioner in the Bronx, retired Vermont Supreme Court Justice Jim Morse ’62; Al Moncure ’69, New York City’s in-house Bond Counsel and Julie Kalish ’91 a law school professor at Vermont Law School. Barbary Murphy ’79 served as moderator.

The afternoon panel addressed "The Ethics of War, Nuremberg and Humanitarian Intervention,” moderated by Aine Donovan, of the College's Ethics Institute.

Panelists were Hon. James Morse ’62, retired Vermont Supreme Court Justice and Hon. Linda Dalianis, Senior Associate Justice New Hampshire Supreme Court.

Both Justices were consultants to the War Crimes Tribunal in Bosnia. Morse described the history of war crimes jurisprudence from the Truman administration through the Bosnian War Crimes Tribunal in Sarajevo.

The Saturday Banquet speaker, Kenneth Yalowitz, is Director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding and former Ambassador to Belarus and Georgia.

He spoke about “The Chechen War, Georgia and Terrorism”. He shared the history of the Russian-Georgian relationship and its effect on the war in Chechnya, as well as the lessons it holds about failed states and the porus borders.

Thanks to Hal Rabner '64 and Barbara Murphy '69 for organizing this timely event.

Doug Simpson '70
DLA "Webster"