International Law and the Armenian Genocide: conference this weekend

I am planning to attend this on Saturday, so if anyone wants to join me, just leave a comment on this post and we can carpool perhaps.

USC INSTITUTE OF ARMENIAN STUDIES

International Law & the Armenian Genocide: Recognition, Responsibility & Restitution

Program

Morning Session

9:00 Breakfast

9:35 Richard Hrair Dekmejian – Director, USC Institute of Armenian
Studies

Opening Remarks

9:40 Sarkis Bezelgues – Freie Universität Berlin

International Liability and State Succession: The Responsibility of the Turkish
Republic for the Armenian Genocide

10:00 Michael Bazyler – Whittier Law School

Litigation for Restitution – Comparative Analysis of Armenians and Other
Groups

10:20 Break

10:40 David Nersessian – Harvard University

The Armenian Genocide and Human Rights Litigation in US Federal Courts

11:00 Payam Akhavan – McGill University
Criminalizing Historical Truth: Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code and
the Armenian Genocide

11:20 Discussants and Q&A

12:10 Dean Howard Gillman – USC College of Letters Arts & Sciences

Welcoming Remarks

12:20 Break for Lunch

Afternoon Session

12:50 Mark Geragos, Esq. – Geragos & Geragos – Luncheon Speaker
Tales from the Trenches: A Practitioner’s View

1:10 Hon. John Marshall Evans – US Ambassador to Armenia (2004-2006)
The Armenian Genocide: The International Political and Diplomatic Context of
Recognition and Redress

1:30 Alison Renteln – University of Southern California
An Overview of Holocaust Denial Litigation

1:50 John Torpey – City University of New York
Beyond Recognition: Truth, Reparations, and the Armenian Genocide

2:10 Break

2:30 Alfred De Zayas – Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes
Internationales, Genève The Armenian Genocide in the Light of the
Genocide Convention

Paper to be read in absentia by Harut Sassounian

2:50 Discussants and Q&A

4:00 End of Symposium

Free Admission, with complementary Breakfast & Lunch, Reservations Required: Armenian@college.usc.edu