ALSB International Law Section: News

ANNOUNCEMENTS

NEW INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS LAW TEXTBOOK coming Fall 05: DIMATTEO & DHOOGE, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS LAW: A TRANSACTIONAL APPROACH (Thomson/West 2005).

The 9th Hurst Legal Studies Research Seminar will be held at the University of Florida in February 2005. Please contact Robert Thomas at Warrainton College of Business for details (rethomas@ufl.edu).

Position Announcement

UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN - has a tenure-track Legal Studies in Business position at the Assistant or Associate level, starting Fall 2005. Dawn Swink and Susan Marsnik will be conducting interviews at the ALSB Conference in Ottawa, August 18 - 21, 2004. If you are interested, or know someone who is, please see the job posting at www.myalsb.org. Note: if you are interested in speaking with us at the National Conference, please send your credentials to Dawn at drswink@stthomas.edu.

-Susan Marsnik, Search Committee Chair

Bruce Carolan, Visiting Professor, Stetson University College of Law, Head of Department of Legal Studies, Dublin Institute of Technology. RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS: “Perils of Harmonization: Refusal to Supply Spare Parts, Article 82 of the European Community Treaty and Abuse of a Dominant Position,” 107 Dickinson (Pennsylvania State University) Law Review 733 (2003); EUROPEAN UNION LAW FOR IRISH STUDENTS (Gill & MacMillan, 2004) is an introductory textbook on EU law aimed primarily at Irish business students. Editorials on the failed WTO talks in Cancun, Mexico appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Buffalo News, the Orlando Sentinel and elsewhere. INVITED TALKS: Rollins College MBA Program, on Regulatory Reform in Ireland; University of Florida, Warrington College of Business, Inaugural Lecture in Darden Lecture Series on “Managing Diversity,” entitled, “Sex, Sexuality and the European/US Worker”; University of Tulsa College of Law, Faculty Colloquium, “The Draft Constitution for the European Union.” CONFERENCES: Association of American Law Schools, Section on International Legal Education Exchange, on panel considering new American Bar Association criteria for study-abroad programs (I also was elected to the Executive Committee of the Section on International Legal Education Exchange). TEACHING ABROAD: in Summer 2003, I taught EU Law and International Trade Law to US law students on study-abroad programs in Dublin, Ireland, Leuven, Belgium and Geneva, Switzerland. I will be returning to these locations in 2004, and also teaching in Grenada, Spain. OTHER: I have completed my stint as Visiting Professor at Stetson University College of Law, and will be resuming his position as Head of the Department of Legal Studies at the Dublin Institute of Technology in Ireland, after teaching EU law and Global Trade Law in Spain, Belgium and Geneva.

Lucien Dhooge, University of the Pacific PUBLICATIONS: “A Model and Resource Guide to Incorporating Human Rights Education into the Business Law Classroom” 21 The Journal of Legal Studies Education 33-85 (2004), “The Interpretive Turn in International Sales Law: An Analysis of Fifteen Years of CISG Jurisprudence” (with Larry DiMatteo, Stephanie Green and Marisa Pagnattaro) 24 Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business 299-440 (2004),“The Alien Tort Claims Act and the Modern Transnational Enterprise: Deconstructing the Mythology of Judicial Activism” 35 Georgetown International Law Journal 3-103 (2003). FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: “Beyond Voluntarism: Social Disclosure and France’s Nouvelles Régulations Économiques” accepted for publication in Volume 20 of the Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law, “Shifting the Balance of Terror” accepted for publication in Volume 20 of the Transnational Lawyer. FORTHCOMING BOOKS: INTERNATIONAL SALES LAW (with Larry A. DiMatteo, Stephanie Green, Virginia Maurer and Marisa Pagnattaro),THE LAW OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS: A TRANSACTIONAL APPROACH (with Larry DiMatteo) RESEARCH AWARDS: Faculty Research Award for Academic Year 2003-2004, Eberhardt School of Business, University of the Pacific, May 2004. ACADEMIC CONFERENCES AND COLLOQUIA: “The Liability of Multinational Enterprises for Human Rights Violations: A Case Study of Unocal Corporation and Burma,” Monterey School of International Studies, Monterey, California, April 2004; “The Case for Human Rights Education in the Business Law Classroom” Association of Law Teachers, York, United Kingdom, April 2004; “Human Rights and the Multinational Enterprise” Kemper Scholarship Foundation National Conference, San Francisco, California, April 2004; “Markets in Transition: Reconstruction and Development” Discussion Panel, Annual International Law Symposium, McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento, California, February 2004.

This is the good news. The bad news is that I am now serving on the business school’s promotion and tenure committee. BLEAH!

Larry A. DiMatteo, University of Florida. PUBLICATIONS: “The Interpretive Turn in International Sales Law: An Analysis of Fifteen years of CISG Jurisprudence,” 24 Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business 299-440 (2004) (with Lucien Dhooge, Stephanie Greene, Virginia Maurer and Marisa Pagnattaro); INTERNATIONAL SALES LAW (with DiMatteo, Dhooge, Greene, Maurer and Pagnattaro) (Cambridge University Press 2005) (forthcoming textbook). Both are excellent reference sources for instructors teaching CISG.

Nancy J. King, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon. RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS: I am working on research that combines advances in technology with impacts on the workplace and businesses in general. One of my areas of emphasis is workplace privacy, including the international dimensions. Gail Lasprogata, Seattle University, Sukanya Pillay, University of Windsor, and I have recently completed a comparative law paper that analyzes electronic workplace monitoring practices under the privacy laws of the EU, Canada, and the U.S. Last year we made presentations on our workplace privacy research at the Pacific Northwest regional conference of ALSB, and at the national ALSB conference in Nashville. Our paper is being submitted to various law reviews this winter. I also published the following articles in 2003: “Web Access For Customers With Disabilities: Can We Get There From Here,” 2003 UCLA Journal of Technology Law 6 (2003); “When Online Recruiting Is A Jurisdictional Hook: How Using Interactive Web Technology Gets E-Businesses Sued in Distant Courts,” 1-2 Journal of Strategic E-Commerce 123 (2003) (with Ping-Hung Hsieh); “Labor Law for Managers of Non-union Employees in Traditional and Cyber Workplaces,” 40(4) American Business Law Journal 827 (2003); and “Electronic Monitoring To Promote National Security Impacts Workplace Privacy.” 15:3 Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal 127 (2003). TEACHING: I teach a legal environment of business class for undergraduates and a graduate MBA course on e-commerce and technology law. OSU has committed to providing curriculum to include the concepts of sustainable business practices, and we have developed a module to teach these concepts for the undergraduate business law course. We implemented the module in 2003 and are refining it this year. TRAVEL AND OTHER: My family enjoyed travel to Oaxaca, Mexico over the 2003 Christmas Holidays. We were lucky to make it home in time for the start of the term, having booked two flights on Aero Mexico, one of the airlines under severe security scrutiny for terrorists. Despite 3-hour waits on the ground, missing some connecting flights, fog in Mexico City, and general disorganization, we made it home. We did have to send the girls on ahead on one flight and layover in Los Angeles. Never has landing on U.S. soil been so welcome. We also made a trip to Alaska in the fall. This was a return home for me, since I grew up in part in Alaska, and also a birthday celebration for my husband.

Carter Manny, University of Southern Maine. CONFERENCES: I am scheduled to give a presentation on the tension between EU data protection law and U.S. counterterrorism efforts at a conference on EU – U.S. trade relations at Oxford University in early August. I attended a conference sponsored by the International Association of Privacy Professionals in Washington in February and a conference sponsored by the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington in May. PUBLICATIONS: “A Comparison of American and European Attempts to Restrict Unsolicited Commercial E-mail” in the spring 2004 issue of Business Law Review.

Susan J. Marsnik, University of St. Thomas. AWARDS: I am delighted to report that Danielle Hanson, one of my students, will be presenting a paper at the ALSB conference in Ottawa. Her paper, “Women’s Reproductive Rights in the Americas: Myth or Reality? A Comparative Analysis of Laws in the United States, Argentina and Mexico” was the result of a UST/Bush Foundation Collaborative Inquiry Grant. RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS: “External Environment, Trust and East-West Trade,” an interdisciplinary paper coauthored with marketing faculty at Tennessee State University, has been accepted for presentation and publication in the proceedings of the international conference “Catalysts and Impediments of Economic Development in Central and Easter Europe” in Vilnius, Lithuania. (One of the coauthors is presenting. My visit to Lithuania will have to come another time!). This spring, I wrote a handbook, OVERVIEW OF PRIVACY ISSUES, for the Legal Research Network’s Legal Ethics and Compliance Center. CONFERENCES: I will attend the Oxford Round Table on European Union – United States Trade Relations at Saint Anthony’s College, in the University of Oxford, Oxford, England the first week in August. I am attending the conference due to the generous support of the Fredrikson & Byron law firm. GRANT: I was awarded a University of St. Thomas Maxi-Grant to support my copyright research during the 2004-2005 academic year. Still waiting to hear about the U.S. State Department Grant I mentioned last time. OTHER: This summer, I taught the intellectual property law survey course at the University of Minnesota Law School as a Visiting Associate Professor. Finally, but most importantly, I’ll be taking my holiday in the north of Spain the second week in August. I promise not to bring a stack of vacation photos to Ottawa!!!

In May, Marisa Pagnattaro from the University of Georgia taught an intensive international law/European Union undergraduate course on campus for a week as part of UGA’s Terry Travels Program, then the class traveled for three weeks in the European Union. They visited companies in Prague, Bratislava, Salzburg, Amsterdam and London. Corporate visits included Hewlett-Packard, Bohemian Glassworks, Aalsmeer Flower Auction, Radio Free Europe, the Bank of England, the European Bank for Reconstruction, White & Case and the Economist Intelligence Unit. After the class concluded, Marissa went out to the Isle of Wight, where she found great walking trails all along the coast. After that amazing trip, she’ll now spend the rest of the summer working on her papers for Ottawa, including one on labor provisions in international trade agreements.

Susan Marsnik wishes to acknowledge and
publicly thank Betsy Lofgren of the University
of St. Thomas for her work in putting
together this newsletter. Omissions and
errors are the complete responsibility of
the Secretary Treasurer and not our
able editor. See you all in Ottawa!!!!!!!

Respectfully submitted,
Susan J. Marsnik

Ray August, Washington State University: RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS I have an article entitled "Bringing Nations before the Bar of Justice: The Compulsory Jurisdiction of International Tribunals" that is currently on submission and under review at the usual large number of law reviews. I'm working on papers entitled "The Caroline Case and the Doctrine of Preemption: The Perils of Ignoring History" and the "Free Trade Area of the Americas: A Progress Report." I am also working on an online survey instrument to rank law reviews. TRAVEL I was in Barcelona, Madrid and Paris last December, mostly to visit the museums, but also to check out the possibility of buying a second home. The museums were fantastic (especially the Prado and the Louvre) while the housing market was way over priced. This October I was in Boston as my university's representative to the Consortium on Undergraduate International Business Education (CUIBE). The CUIBE seeks to promote undergraduate I.Bus education by making information about successful programs available to deans and other decision makers at universities that don't have such an offering. I will have a CUIBE Web site online before too long. We'll be meeting again in March in sunny Miami. OTHER I will be contacting section members in January about their interest in participating on panels for the upcoming national conference in Ottawa. Panels on NAFTA and the FTAA.

Larry A. DiMatteo, University of Florida, Lucien Dhooge, University of the Pacific, Stephanie Greene, Boston College, Virginia Maurer, University of Florida, Marisa Pagnattaro, University of Georgia: "The Interpretive Turn in International Sales: A Critical Analysis of CISG Jurisprudence," Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business (2004). This article will be a valuable tool for those who teach the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). It reviews 15 years of jurisprudence interpreting the major provisions of the Convention.

Lucien Dhooge, University of the Pacific: AWARDS University of the Pacific, Eberhardt Teacher Scholar Award, June 2003. IN PRINT PUBLICATIONS IN 2003 "The Case for Human Rights Education in the Business Law Classroom" 3 ALSB International Business Law Journal 1-31 (2003); "A Previously Unimaginable Risk Potential: September 11 and the Insurance Industry" 40 American Business Law Journal 687-779 (2003); "The Insurance Industry after September 11: The Case for Limited Federal Intervention" 34 McGeorge Law Review 27-63 (2003); "The North American Free Trade Agreement and Hemp: America’s War on Drugs Gets Nipped in the Bud" 20 Wisconsin International Law Journal 65-159 (2003). CONFERENCES (OTHER THAN ALSB CONFERENCES) "Global Business in Times of Terror: Liability and Shifting the Balance of Terror," Annual International Law Symposium, McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento, California, February 2003. I also wish to note that, despite my best efforts, I was not arrested or detained while visiting Burma in November nor did I accept a position teaching totalitarian legal studies at Mandalay University! Attending the ALT conference in York (see below).

Susan J. Marsnik, University of St. Thomas: AWARDS Two of my students have received recognition for research they have conducted under my supervision. In addition to "An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Data Privacy Laws in the United States and European Union," Brian Kalis’ paper presented at the national conference and published in the proceedings, another student has been recognized. The Tri-State ALSB selected Jeff Kogan’s paper, "Copyright Law and the Quest for Joining the WTO in the Russian Federation" for presentation and publication. His paper tied for the Student paper award. RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS Susan J. Marsnik, "A Delicate Balance Upset: A Preliminary Survey of Exceptions and Limitations in U.S. and European Union Digital Copyright Law," 4 International Business Law Review ___ (2004). CONFERENCES In early September, I was invited to present the next phase of my research on digital copyright at the Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference at Oxford, UK. I have submitted a revision of my conference presentation, "Confusion Now Hath Made His Masterpiece: A Comparative Analysis of Limitations and Exceptions to Digital Copyright Law In the United States and European Union," for publication. Attending the ALT conference in York – I hope (see below). TEACHING ABROAD I taught two courses on the legal aspects of international business as part of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics Intensive MBA Program. OTHER I have been working with colleagues at UST on another grant: Freedom Educational Support Partnership Between UST & Novosibirsk State University US State Department.

Kathleen A. Lacey, Californa State University, Long Beech: RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS "The U.K.,s Metric Martyr Case: A Challenge to the European Union's Authority Over Its Member States" in the Wisconsin International Law Journournal. Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business our article entitled" Crackdown on Money Laundering: A Comparative Analysis of the Feasibility and Effectiveness of Domestic and Multilateral Policy Reforms". CONFERENCES Attending the ALT conference in York (see below).

Marisa Anne Pagnattaro, University of Georgia, Terry College of Business: RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS I have an article forthcoming in the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, "Enforcing International Labor Standards: The Potential of the Alien Tort Claims Act." on the use of the Alien Tort Claims Act in the context of international labor standards. CONFERNECES I also attended a conference at a study abroad program in Paderno del Grappa, Italy. The study abroad program is called Consortium International University; it is a consortium of 30 U.S. public universities (including UGA) which offers upper-division undergraduate business courses and MBA classes. The program is north west of Venice, in the foothills of the Dolomite Mountains. For more about the program, see www.business.ku.edu/italy. I highly recommend the program for business students.

Ray August Teaching ideas: I am in the process of changing my online course lectures. I currently use Microsoft Agent 2.0 technology because it allows me to put narrated lectures online. I am switching to Flash technology, now that it provides the same capabilities, plus the ability to put online interactive quizzes and review questions. If anyone has any experience using Flash, I'd really like to hear from him or her.

Susan Marsnik: I am teaching one section of International Business Law and one section of the Legal Environment of Business spring semester. I am hoping to find someone teaching one or the other of those courses interested in having students in either class conduct a contract negotiation. This tends to be approximately 1/3 of the grade for the course for my students.

You will note that a number of those listed above are planning to attend the ALT Conference in York. Here is the link to more information: www.lawteacher.ac.uk/.

Spring 2003 Newsletter

William McCarty, Western Michigan University, reports he is a co-director of a Title VI A International Studies and Foreign Language grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
The $125,000 two year grant seeks to increase the awareness, knowledge, and skills of the university community--students, faculty and community members--regarding Japan's language and cultural and business environment. The activities included a study trip to Japan for 17 students and 4 faculty last spring.

Carter Manny, University of Southern Maine, attended a conference on September 30 and October 1, 2002, in Brussels reviewing the current status of European data protection law at the invitation of its sponsor, the European Commission. Following the conference, the Commission requested a copy of his article, "European and American Privacy: Commerce, Rights and Justice," which was recently accepted for publication in a European journal, The Computer Law and Security Report. While in Belgium, Professor Manny was also invited to visit colleagues at the computer law research center at the law school of the University of Namur to discuss the possibility of working together on future projects.

Professor Hugh Spall, Central Washington University, spent January -June of 2002 as a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Pecs in Hungary where he taught Business Law and International Business in the English language undergraduate Business Administration Program and in the M.B.A. program. The University of Pecs, which was founded as Janus Pannonius University in 1367, is the largest university in Hungary and the fifth oldest university in Europe. During his fellowship, Professor Spall completed his research on the differences between U.S. and Hungarian Agency Law and gave an invited lecture on this topic at the University of Pecs Law School. His research will appear in the November issue of Jura under the title "A Comparison of the Rules Governing Contractual Liability Under U.S. and Hungarian Law When a Person Without Authority Agrees on Behalf of a Privately Owned Business Firm to a Contract With Another Privately Owned Business Firm."

Pat Cihon, Syracuse University, seeks help with syllabi, in the process of developing a course on International Business Law, and would appreciate any comments, suggestions or other information from those members who teach such a course, or whose school offers such a course. I would greatly appreciate it if they could Email or send me a syllabus for such course. My email is: pcihon@som.syr.edu and my mailing address is Pat Cihon, LPP Dept., School of Mgmt., Syracuse Univ., Syracuse, NY 13244.

Dr. Clifford A. Jones, University of Florida Levin College of Law, and Dr. Mark Jamison, University of Florida Warrington College of Business, are carrying out a research grant from the Center for Business Education & Research, (CIBER), a Title VI Center located in the UF Warrington College of Business. The project is titled "International Network Industries and Conflicting International Antitrust Regimes: The Trials of Microsoft in the USA and the European Union." In carrying out this grant, the principal investigators have interviewed or are completing interviews with antitrust regulators and private attorneys in London, Bonn, Brussels, Paris, and Washington, D.C. The study is examining strategies of companies and their lawyers faced with multiple and possibly conflicting antitrust regulatory action and means of cooperation among U.S. and foreign national (e.g., Germany) and regional (e.g., EU) antitrust authorities. Results are expected to be available in Spring, 2003. jonesca@law.ufl.edu

James Maxeiner, Visiting Professor of Law at Rutgers School of Law - Camden, reports that he has an article that appeared in in the Yale Journal of International Law, vol. 28, winter 2003 issue "Standard Terms Contracting in the Global Electronic Age: European Alternatives." maxeiner@camden.rutgers.edu

Ray August, Washington State University, reports that his article "International Cyber-Jurisdiction: A Comparative Analysis" has recently appeared in the American Business Law Journal (vol.39, Summer 2002, pages 531-574.) It deals with "a topic of central importance in Cyberlaw" (in the words of John Bagby) and with the problem of the "Internet's borderless reach."
The fourth edition of his "International Business Law" textbook became available from Prentice Hall in February 2003. The new edition has expanded coverage of human rights (including materials on the liability of multinational firms for violating workers' rights); new coverage on the affect that 9/11 has had on doing business internationally (including materials on terrorism and on tracking the illegal movement of money); an examination of the pros and cons of globalization (with new materials on the Battle for Seattle, the Kyoto Protocol, genetically modified foods, countertrade, etc.); revised materials on intellectual property rights and cyberlaw (including WIPO's role in settling domain name disputes and the use of compulsory patents in the fight against AIDS); and updated and expanded coverage of the European Union. More about the book will be available at www.IntBusLaw.com after the first of the year.
As for travel, he reports to have spent most of the month of December, 2002 in Barcelona, Spain. While mostly for pleasure, he visited local universities to investigate exchange programs and other links.

Tom Pearson, Professor of Accounting, University of Hawaii at Manoa, is a Visiting Professor at National Taiwan University. This is the second year that he has spent the fall semester visiting abroad. Because students in Taiwan need stronger English skills, he is teaching a modified Business Communications course with a technological emphasis. The course is taught in NTU's computer lab so that in every class session the students engage in some e-mail writing, as well as speaking and listening. Tom Pearson's wife is engaged in the practice of law in Taiwan.

Professor Paulete L. Stenzel of Michigan State University was the featured guest speaker at Albion College, Albion Michigan on November 21, 2002. Each year, Albion College presents an "International Week" with special lectures, presentations, films, and cultural events. Albion's theme this year is: Reflections on September 11. Professor Stenzel spoke on "Aftershocks of September 11 in International Business and International Business Law." stenzelp@bus.msu.edu

Bruce Carolan, Head of Law at the Dublin Institute of Technology (and a member of the ALSB International Section), has spent the past several summers teaching International Trade Law to US law students studying abroad. He taught 'International Business Transactions' at the University of Palermo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and 'Emerging Issues in Global Trade Law', at the Institute for Graduate Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. In addition, Bruce was a Visiting Professor of Legal Studies at the University of Florida, where he taught a course on the MA in International Business entitled, 'The European Community.' He continues to run the Department of Legal Studies at the Dublin Institute of Technology, where his research interests include the Law of the European Union (particularly social policy issues and competition law), and the International Trade Law (particularly the law of the WTO/Gatt, Nafta and FTAA). Bruce is interested in exploring academic exchanges with US academics. bruce.carolan@dit.ie

Doria Bonham-Yeaman attended a conference in New Delhi, India, October 6 - 8, 2002 -- sponsored by the Indian Law Institute. She reports that India is doing a lot in high-tech. Dbonyea@aol.com
Regards, Marisa, University of Georgia, I actually missed the conference this year because I was teaching in the Terry at Oxford program. I spent the summer at Oxford University teaching an international legal transactions course. As part of the program we took the students on an excursion to Ireland where we toured the Waterford Crystal plant and Guinness Brewery (which was quite a hit with the students). http://www.terry.uga.edu/legalstudies/map.html

I'd appreciate suggestions on how others are addressing these concerns in their classes, and what sort of research agenda might help clarify a response or responses. I will say I have used Naomi Klein's "No Logo" twice, once in an MBA class and once in an undergraduate class, and it usually engages the students on a variety of levels. Trying to make the class think through non-violent dispute resolution (using William Ury's The Third Side, in paperback revised edition) was less successful.
I plan on attending the Law and Society Association annual meeting in Pittsburgh this June, and will try to make the ASIL annual meeting in Washington, D.C. this April. Assuming we aren't at war and under biological attack, etc. Susan & Bruce Rockwood shieling@epix.net

Pat Cihon, Syracuse University writes: I am in the process of developing a course on International Business Law, and would appreciate any comments, suggestions or other information from those members who teach such a course, or whose school offers such a course. I would greatly appreciate it if they could Email or send me a syllabus for such course. My Email is listed above [pcihon@som.syr.edu] and my mailing address is Pat Cihon, LPP Dept., School of Mgmt., Syracuse Univ., Syracuse, NY 13244.

Minutes of
International Law Section Meeting

Nashville, Tennessee,August 19, 2003

Michael Bixby, Boise State, past president, called the meeting to order. Paul Frantz, Cal. State Long Beach, president, was unable to attend.

Don Mayer, Oakland U., reported that he is willing to share the job of Editor of the IBLJ (which was renamed the International Business Law Review soon after this meeting). We now have a system whereby the faculty member keeps the copyright to any article and may resubmit to another journal.

Mark Usry, James Madison U., reported on the section newsletter begun in 2003. The newsletter is for members to report on research, travel and classroom innovations.

It was moved and seconded that the officer list be reduced by one, elimination of the President-Elect position. Motion passed.

Moved and seconded that Peter Shears, U. of Plymouth, be elected President of the section and Mark Usry be elected as Vice-President (also in charge of the Bunch Award). Both were elected by acclimation.

There were two nominees for the position of Secretary-Treasurer: Leigh Anenson of the U. of Akron and Susan Marsnik of the U. of St. Thomas. Susan was elected.

It was moved and seconded that the section meeting for 2004 be once again a luncheon, not a breakfast.

The section approved spending $75 for a plaque for Paul Frantz, Cal. State Long Beach.

Susan Marsnik offered to update the section mailing list. Ray August, Washington State, offered to list the name and email address of all members on the website.

The Ralph J. Bunche Award Presentation was made. Ralph Bunche was an African American Diplomat, first to win the Noble Peace Prize, served as Undersecretary of the United Nations and negotiated the 1949/50 Mid-East peace accord. Alana Bradley of Prentice Hall presented the $500 award to the authors of two papers for 2003. These were: "Yes, We Have No Bananas" by Don Mayer and Kyle Sable and "Interpretive Turn in International Sales Law" by Larry DiMatteo, U. of Florida; Lucien Dhooge, U. of the Pacific; Stephanie Greene, Boston College; and Virginia Maurer, U. of Florida.

Robert Bennett, Butler U., and Linda Osborne, Tulane, candidates for ALSB office, stopped by to make a few comments to those assembled.

Terry Dworkin, Indiana U., announced that an international focus would be part of the 2004 ALSB Ottawa meeting. He encouraged those present to think of panels and papers that would support the theme and to suggest ideas for the 2004 annual meeting. Ideas included:

It was announced that the JLSE was going to have a special edition for internationalizing business law.

Those present were encouraged to attend the Association of Law Teachers Conference to be held the weekend before Easter in York, England. Peter Shears (peter.shears@pbs.plym.ac.uk) is the contact to have a paper accepted.

Ralph Bunche Award

Call for Submissions. The International Law Section announces that it will again give the Ralph J. Bunche Award for the best paper concerning international legal issues in business presented at the ALSB annual conference in Nashville. In order to enter the competition, papers should be prepared in appropriate style, and must be received no later than Monday, July 7, 2003. Prentice Hall Publishing (Pearson Education) will generously contribute a $500 prize to accompany the award.

The Ralph J. Bunche Award has been established to recognize unpublished original legal research in the area of international business law. The major factors used in judging will be: excellence in legal scholarship, contribution to an understanding of an appreciation for an area of international business law, quality of writing and research, and readiness for publication.

To be considered, papers must not have been published or accepted for publication elsewhere by the time of the conference. The submission (to be made in word format as an email attachment to the email address given below), should be submitted with a detachable cover page indicating the title, and the author's name, position, school affiliation, address, telephone number, and -mail address. Receipt will be acknowledged by return email. A panel of reviewers will then blind referee the papers. The decision of the reviewers will be final. Last year's winners are ineligible, as they will be helping to judge the papers. Also, the International Law Section reserves the right to publish the winning paper in our own online journal: International Business Law Journal. Those who intend to submit the paper for consideration in other journals should make sure this requirement does not create problems.

President:	Peter Shears	University of Plymouth (England)	peter.shears@pbs.plym.ac.uk
Vice-President:	Mark Usry	James Madison University	usryml@jmu.edu
Secretary-Treasurer:	Susan Marsnik	University of St. Thomas	sjmarsnik@stthomas.edu

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Spring 2003 Newsletter

Minutes of
International Law Section Meeting

Nashville, Tennessee,August 19, 2003

Ralph Bunche Award

2003-2004 Section Officers

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N E W S

Spring 2003 Newsletter

Minutes of International Law Section Meeting

Nashville, Tennessee,August 19, 2003

Ralph Bunche Award

2003-2004 Section Officers

Academy of Legal Studies in Business
International Law Section

Minutes of
International Law Section Meeting