WILJ offers articles of scholarly and practical interest in various areas of international law. WILJ publishes between three to four issues each year.
The Wisconsin International Law Journal (WILJ) was established in 1982, and is written by both professionals in the field and by law students. Student members of WILJ edit articles of interest in various areas of international law and draft articles for submission and possible publication. Each spring, the student members coordinate a conference on recent topics of interest in international law.
04/02/2023
The 2023 WILJ Symposium, Immigration & Access to Legal Resources for Migrants & Refugees, will be held virtually on Thursday, April 13, from 5-7pm and Friday, April 14, from 9am-3:15pm. This will be free and open to the public. CLE credit is pending. Please register at the link below to attend. We hope to see you all there!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2023-wisconsin-international-law-journal-symposium-virtual-tickets-579806475777
03/29/2022
The Wisconsin International Journal's annual symposium: Climate Change and Law: Global to Local Legal and Policy Challenges second panel is on Climate Justice and Communities at Risk on April 1, 2022 from 9:00am - 10:30am.
This panel will take a closer look at communities and the justice framework since climate change poses an existential threat to certain groups and communities.
Speakers include: Dessima Williams, a Former Ambassador to the United States from Grenada; Sumudu Atapattu from the University of Wisconsin Law School; Ayman Cherkaoui from the Hassan II International Center for Environmental Training in Morocco; Robin Bronen from the Alaska Institute for Justice; and Damiola S. Olawuyi from HBKU Law School, Doha, Qatar.
Register for in-person attendance here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2022-wisconsin-international-law-journal-symposium-in-person-tickets-256240822197
Register for virtual attendance here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2022-wisconsin-international-law-journal-symposium-virtual-tickets-256262717687
2022 Wisconsin International Law Journal Symposium (In Person) 2022 Wisconsin International Law Journal Symposium (In Person), "Climate Change and Law: Global to Local legal and policy challenges"
03/25/2022
The Wisconsin International Journal's annual symposium: Climate Change and Law: Global to Local Legal and Policy Challenges first panel is on Climate Change, Consequences, and Challenges on March 31, 2022 from 5:00pm - 6:30pm.
This panel will discuss the science of climate change, its consequences on people, including its disproportionate impact on racial and other minorities, the environment, the economy, and the challenges of addressing it.
Speakers include: Steve Vavrus from Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Wil Burns from the Environmental Policy & Culture Program at Northwestern University; Carmen Gonzalez from the Loyola University Chicago School of Law; Jacqueline Patterson from the Chisholm Legacy Project; Dayna Nadine Scott from Osgoode Hall Law School and the Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change at York University, Toronto.
Register for in-person attendance here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2022-wisconsin-international-law-journal-symposium-in-person-tickets-256240822197
Register for virtual attendance here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2022-wisconsin-international-law-journal-symposium-virtual-tickets-256262717687
2022 Wisconsin International Law Journal Symposium (In Person) 2022 Wisconsin International Law Journal Symposium (In Person), "Climate Change and Law: Global to Local legal and policy challenges"
03/23/2022
The Wisconsin International Law Journal is hosting our annual symposium: Climate Change and Law: Global to Local Legal and Policy Challenges on Thursday, March 31 and Friday, April 1. This is a hybrid event. The event will be held at the University of Wisconsin Law School in Room 2260 and broadcasted on Zoom. CLE credit for Wisconsin attorneys is still pending.
Climate change is a defining issue of our generation. Across the global, climate change has caused a mass movement of people and an increase in more frequent severe weather events. This symposium delves into the unique and unprecedented legal challenges that the world currently faces in the midst of climate change.
Register for in-person attendance here: https://lnkd.in/e56_KU-G
Register for virtual attendance here: https://lnkd.in/eHxzDpyh
For a full program of speakers, visit: https://lnkd.in/ekHQcj-x
Conferences & Symposia WILJ will be hosting our annual Symposium, "Climate Change and Law: Global to Local Legal and Policy Challenges" March 31 and April 1, 2022. CLE credits are available in Wisconsin.
03/08/2022
We are thrilled to announce the new Wisconsin International Law Journal Senior Editorial Board for 2022-2023!
02/08/2022
Wisconsin International Law Journal Issue 39.1 is now published! Read some of our articles here: https://wilj.law.wisc.edu/issues-archive/volume-39-issue-1/
11/29/2021
In her recent article, Suffering in Silence: The Failure of Malawi’s Sexual Offense Laws to Protect Children–A Human Rights Report and Proposed Legislation, Michelle Xiao Liu, the Supervising Attorney & Teaching Fellow of the International Women's Human Rights Clinic at Georgetown Law from 2018 to 2020, critiques the current Malawian laws on sexual offenses, and argues they are failing to protect all children adequately and equally from sexual abuse and exploitation.
Volume 38, Issue 3 Articles include: The Start of History for Corporate Law: Shifting Paradigms of Corporate Purpose in the Common Law by Lance Ang Regulating Cyber Racism in the United States: Legal and Non-Legal Responses from a Comparative Perspective by Dr. Ying Chen Where Next for Article VI of the Nuclear Non-Pr...
11/24/2021
In his recent article, Where Next for Article VI of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Following the Marshall Islands’ Cases?, Alexander Gilder, a lecturer in law at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, discusses the future of adjudicating Article VI of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons at the International Court of Justices using the case of Marshall Islands v. UK.
https://bit.ly/3mVf4k5@
Volume 38, Issue 3 Articles include: The Start of History for Corporate Law: Shifting Paradigms of Corporate Purpose in the Common Law by Lance Ang Regulating Cyber Racism in the United States: Legal and Non-Legal Responses from a Comparative Perspective by Dr. Ying Chen Where Next for Article VI of the Nuclear Non-Pr...
11/15/2021
Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowship applications are now open for Summer 2022 and Academic Year of 2022-2023. Fellowships are administered to assist students in acquiring foreign language or international studies competencies. The deadline to submit for both is Monday, February 14, 2022. For more details and to access online applications, visit https://flas.wisc.edu/
10/14/2021
We are thrilled to announce our new Wisconsin International Law Journal Staff for 2021-2022.
In her recent article, Regulating Cyber Racism in the United States: Legal and Non-Legal Responses from a Comparative Perspective, Dr. Ying Chen, a Lecturer in Law and Chair of International Advisory Group at the University of New England, AU School of Law, investigates the possibility of regulating cyber racism in the United States and assesses France and Australia's restrictions on racist speech as persuasive authority. https://bit.ly/2YjkOu3
In his recent article, The Start of History for Corporate Law: Shifting Paradigms of Corporate Purpose in the Common Law, Lance Ang, Visiting Researcher, EW Barker Centre for Law & Business, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, discusses current regulatory developments in the U.S., U.K., Australia, and Singapore which have led to a shift of corporate purpose from one based upon shareholder primacy to one in which directors of public corporations are increasingly required to consider the interests of the company’s broader stakeholders in corporate decision-making.