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InternationalConference
organizedbytheLL.M.ProgramandtheDiplomaticStudiesProgram
atTheFletcherSchoolofLawandDiplomacy
160 Packard Avenue
Medford, MA 02155
(617) 627-3700
Schedule
Thursday, January 17
12:00 PM
Moderator:
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1:00 PM
3:00 PM
3:30 PM
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4:30 PM
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5:30 PM
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6:30 PM
Student Panels
Seventh Floor, Cabot Center, Fletcher School
Tameisha Henry (Fletcher School)
Abigail Gotter (Boston University)
Mary Chapman (Fletcher School)
Jeremy Beck (Fletcher School)
Light lunch provided by the Fletcher School's Diplomacy Club
Almaz Baishygashev (Fletcher School)
Alexandria Kirkland (Boston University)
Samantha Lakin (Fletcher School) and Wah-Kwan Lin (Fletcher School)
Opening of the Conference
ASEAN Auditorium, Cabot Center
Welcome by Alan Henrikson (Diplomatic Studies, Fletcher School)
Legal Perspectives
ASEAN Auditorium, Cabot Center
Hurst Hannum (LL.M. Program, Fletcher School)
Daniel Hernandez Joseph (Consulate General of Mexico)
Michael Glennon (Fletcher School)
Jan Wouters (University of Leuven; College of Europe)
Stacey Saufert (DFAIT Legal Services Unit, Department of Justice Canada)
Coffee break (refreshments courtesy of Boston University)
Diplomatic Perspectives
ASEAN Auditorium, Cabot Center
Dean Stephen Bosworth (Fletcher School)
Janice L. Jacobs (Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs,
U.S. Department of State)
William R. Crosbie (Assistant Deputy Minister for Consular Services,
Emergency Management and North America, Foreign Affairs and International
Trade Canada)
Paul Sharp (University of Minnesota)
Coffee break (refreshments courtesy of Boston University)
Operational Perspectives
ASEAN Auditorium, Cabot Center
Erik Goldstein (Boston University)
Corina L. DuBois (Chief, New Media Unit, Bureau of Consular Affairs,
U.S. Department of State)
Xia Liping (China Foreign Affairs University)
Paul Hare (Boston University)
Reception
Hall of Flags, Cabot Center
Sponsored by the Canadian Consulate General in Boston
* Please note that we will follow the Chatham House Rule: Do not quote or attribute remarks to any of the participants or their
instituations/organizations without their explicit permission.
Speakers
Stephen W. Bosworth is the Dean of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, a
position he assumed in February 2001. From 2009-2011, Dean Bosworth served as President Obama's
Special Representative for North Korea Policy. He has also served as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of
Korea (1997-2000), U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines (1984 -1987), and U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia
(1979 -1981). Other State Department assignments include service as Director of Policy Planning,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American affairs, and Deputy Assistant Secretary
of State for Economic Affairs.
William R. Crosbie has worked with the Canadian Federal Government since 1986, both as a Ministerial
Advisor and as a Trade Negotiator. His experience in trade negotiations began with the Canada-U.S.
FTA in 1988 and continued with the NAFTA, the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations and
the creation of the WTO. In October 2007, Crosbie became the first Assistant Deputy Minister of the
Consular Services and Emergency Management Branch. He was then appointed as Ambassador to the
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in August 2009. In September 2011, he returned to the Department of
Foreign Affairs and International Trade as the Assistant Deputy Minister for the recently expanded
Consular, Security and Emergency Management Branch.
Corina L. DuBois directs social media, mobile, and web outreach for the U.S. State Department's Bureau
of Consular Affairs, managing a team of foreign and civil service staff devoted to online engagement
with both foreign and domestic audiences. Her New Media Unit manages the worldwide @TravelGov
brand across several platforms and consults Embassies on the use of effective social media strategy,
governance and practices. She graduated with a BS in Communications and Political Science from the
University of Maryland and a Masters Degree in Political Management from the George Washington
University. DuBois served in the U.S. Navy from 1994-2000, stationed at NAS Cecil Field, onboard USS
BOXER, and with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service European Headquarters in Naples, Italy.
Michael J. Glennon is Professor of International Law at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He
has been Legal Counsel to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (1977-1980); Fulbright Distinguished
Professor of International and Constitutional Law, Vytautus Magnus University School of Law, Kaunas,
Lithuania (1998); a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC
(2001-2002); Thomas Hawkins Johnson Visiting Scholar at the United States Military Academy, West
Point (2005); Director of Studies at the Hague Academy of International Law (2006); and professeur
invite at the University of Paris II since 2006. Professor Glennon has served as a consultant to various
congressional committees, the U.S. State Department, and the International Atomic Energy Agency. He
is a member of the American Law Institute and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Erik Goldstein is Professor of International Relations and History at Boston University, a Fellow of the
Royal Historical Society (of Britain), and a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Global
Change and Governance, Rutgers University, having previously served as a member of the Advisory
Board of the Centre for the Study of Diplomacy at the University of Leicester (UK). In 2010 he was
elected to the Governing Board of the International Baccalaureate. He was previously Professor of
International History and Deputy Director for the Centre for Studies in Security and Diplomacy at the
University of Birmingham (UK) and has held appointments as Secretary of the Navy Senior Research
Fellow at the Naval War College and as Visiting Scholar at the Centre for International Studies at the
University of Cambridge.
Hurst Hannum is Professor of International Law at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where he
teaches courses in international human rights and related topics; he served as Director of Fletcher's
LL.M. in International Law in 2012. In 2006-2008, he was Sir Y.K. Pao Professor of Public Law at the
University of Hong Kong, and in 2010-2011 he was Professor of International Law at Central European
University (Budapest). Professor Hannum has served as counsel in cases before European, InterAmerican, and UN human rights bodies and has served as a consultant to the United Nations on issues
ranging from minority rights to the situations in Afghanistan, East Timor, and Western Sahara.
Paul Hare is a Professor of Diplomacy and Cuba in Transition at Boston University. He worked for five
years in the private sector, in law and investment banking, before serving for 30 years in the British
Diplomatic Service. Hare served in Portugal, New York, at the UK Representation at the EU in Brussels,
and in Venezuela as Deputy Head of Mission. He was Head of the Foreign Office's Non-Proliferation
Department and the first Project Director for the UK's presence at the Shanghai World Expo in 2010.
Hare was a Fellow of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and is a
member of the Brookings Institution Core Group on Cuba. He has been designated a Lieutenant of the
Royal Victorian Order by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
Daniel Hernandez Joseph is a career ambassador in the Mexican Foreign Service. A diplomat since
1982, he currently serves as Consul General in Boston. From 2009 to July 2011, he was Director General
for the Protection of Mexican Citizens Abroad prior to which he was as Director General for Mexico's
Consular Services. He also served as a Diplomat in Residence at American University, studied
international relations at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, USA, and received a master's degree in
Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He authored "Mexico's Concentration on
Consular Services in the United States," which appeared in the Volume 7, Issue 2 of 2012 The Hague
Journal of Diplomacy.
Alan K. Henrikson is the Lee E. Dirks Chair of Diplomatic History and the Director of Diplomatic
Studies at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. During 2010-2011 he was
Fulbright Schuman Professor of US-EU Relations at the College of Europe in Bruges. In August 2009 he
was Guest Lecturer in diplomatic studies at the University of Pretoria. In November 2005, he was
Visiting Professor at the European Commission in Brussels. During the Spring of 2003, he was
Fulbright/Diplomatic Academy Visiting Professor of International Relations at the Diplomatische
Akademie in Vienna. He has been an Associate and Visiting Scholar at the Weatherhead Center for
International Affairs at Harvard University. He is currently a member of the National Council of the
United Nations Association of the USA.
Janice L. Jacobs was sworn in as the Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs in June, 2008. Prior to
assuming this position, she served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Consular
Affairs and before that as U.S. Ambassador to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau. A/S Jacobs is a Senior
Foreign Service Officer with 28 years of experience in Africa, Latin America, and Europe. She has
advanced foreign policy interests across a broad range of issues including democratization and human
rights, trade and investment liberalization, counter-terrorism, and immigration. She served as Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Visa Services from 2002-2005 and as the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S.
Embassy in Santo Domingo from 2000-2002. Her career includes Washington, DC and overseas
assignments, such as in the State Department's Visa Office, Operations Center, and Office of Cuban
Affairs.
Xia Liping is a Professor and the Deputy Dean of the Department of Diplomatic Studies, China Foreign
Affairs University. She worked in the Consular Section of the Chinese Embassy in Israel from 2000 to
2002. Her research focuses on Consular Affairs, Overseas Chinese, and the Diplomatic History of
Contemporary China. She has published a monograph entitled "A Study of Consular Protection
Mechanism Reform - Perspective of Major Developed Countries" and more than 20 papers in academic
journals. She also contributed to the Chinese version of Luke Lee's
.
Stacey Saufert is a lawyer with the Department of Justice Canada in Ottawa, Ontario. She advises the
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada on consular, national security, and civil
litigation matters. She has also been counsel to the Department of National Defence Canada. Prior to
joining the Department of Justice Canada, Stacey practiced as a civil litigator at a national law firm in
Ottawa, Ontario specializing in the areas of administrative, public and commercial law. She was called to
the Bar in the Province of Ontario in 2008 following a clerkship at the Federal Court of Canada. Stacey is
originally from Saskatchewan, Canada where she obtained her law degree and Bachelor of Arts
(Honours) in International Studies. She has studied and travelled extensively abroad.
Paul Sharp is Professor and Head of Political Science at the University of Minnesota Duluth, where he
teaches courses in International Relations, Foreign Policy, and International Relations Theory. He is also
Co-chair of the Diplomatic Studies Section of the International Studies Association for which he
coordinated the Compendium Project and is Convener of the Group on Diplomacy of the British
International Studies Association. His research focuses on diplomacy, the English School, and the future
of international relations in a post-state, hyper-plural world. Sharp is co-editor of the
.
Jan Wouters is Professor of International Law and International Organizations, Jean Monnet Chair ad
personam EU and Global Governance, and Director of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies
and Institute for International Law at the University of Leuven. He teaches public international law,
international organizations, and humanitarian and security law. As Visiting Professor at Sciences Po
(Paris) and the College of Europe (Bruges), he teaches EU external relations law. In this capacity, he also
teaches international law in the Master of Laws in International Economic Law at the University of
Barcelona and international criminal law in the European Master's in Human Rights and
Democratisation (EMA, Venice). He is President of the Flemish Foreign Affairs Council.
Student Panelists
Almaz Baishygashev is an MA student at The Fletcher School. Almaz is on sabbatical from the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan. Prior to Fletcher, he worked as the Consul of the Embassy the Republic
of Kazakhstan to the State of Qatar. Previously, Almaz worked in the Department of Asia and Africa at
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he was in charge of cooperation with the Arab countries. He also
worked in the Ministry of Economy and Budget Planning, where he was responsible for international
cooperation, including communication with the international rating agencies. Almaz Baishygashev holds
a BA/MA in the Arabic Language and Literature from Kazakh State University and BA in Law from the
Kazakh-Turkish International University.
Jeremy Beck is a MALD student, concentrating on Security Studies and Development. He is particularly
interested in the challenges facing post-conflict societies. Prior to The Fletcher School, Jeremy served as a
Naval Intelligence Officer. While in the U.S. Navy he was stationed in Atsugi, Japan as part of a Carrier
Air Wing. He later was deployed to Baghdad (while serving as the Deputy Director of Intelligence for
Naval Special Warfare Group Two). Following military service, Jeremy was a civilian counter-terrorism
analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency. Jeremy was recently selected for a summer internship with the
East Africa Desk at the U.S. Department of State. After completing his studies, Jeremy hopes to become a
Foreign Service Officer.
Mary Chapman is a graduate student at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Mary is from
Seattle, where she worked on international business technology systems for Amazon.com and Starbucks
Coffee for 12 years. Mary has worked in France, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom. She has
visited Guatemala many times as a tourist and recently served as a medical translator for Rotary
International. Mary completed her undergraduate degree at Beloit College in Wisconsin and at Kansai
Gaidai in Japan. Mary is a member of Tufts University's Cyber Policy Work Group.
Abigail Gotter is a junior at Boston University, studying International Relations in the College of Arts
and Sciences, with minors in Anthropology and Spanish. Originally from Minnesota, Abbie spent the
past semester studying abroad in Geneva, Switzerland, where she interned at the International Catholic
Migration Commission preparing for the Global Forum on Migration and Development. Abbie is also a
copy editor and writer for Boston University's
and contributes pieces on
international law for BU's
.
Tameisha Henry is a MALD student at The Fletcher School of Law of Diplomacy. Prior to Fletcher,
Tameisha worked for a State Department contractor administering the U.S. Refugee Admissions
Program across the African continent. Prior to this, she served as a Small Business Development
volunteer in the Peace Corps in Kenya. As a State Department Charles B. Rangel Graduate Fellow,
Tameisha will be joining the U.S. Foreign Service upon graduation. Originally from Barbados, Tameisha
received her B.S. in International Business from the American University in Washington, D.C.
Alexandria Kirkland is a sophomore Trustee Scholar at Boston University. She is majoring in
International Relations and is in her fourth semester of Turkish language studies. Alexandria is on the
executive board of the Boston University chapter of Women for Women International. She recently
published an article titled "Realism v. Liberalism: Determining America's Future Policies Towards
Turkey" in the Boston University
.
Samantha Lakin is a MALD student at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, studying issues of
post-conflict society, survivors' testimony, and memorials. Samantha graduated Magna Cum Laude
from Brandeis University with a B.A. in International and Global Studies, Politics, and French. From
2008 to 2010, she was a member of the Teach For America corps, where she taught elementary special
education in Greater New Orleans. In 2009 she received a grant from the National Endowment for the
Humanities to study World War II and the Vichy regime in France. Prior to attending The Fletcher
School, Samantha was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Lausanne, where she studied the rescue of
Jewish children into Switzerland during World War II. Her research has gained international
recognition, and she has presented papers at the University of London, Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, and
The Museum of Tolerance New York. Samantha is currently working on a chapter for publication at
Hebrew University. At The Fletcher School, Samantha serves on the Gender Mainstreaming Committee
and is a staff editor for
.
Wah-Kwan Lin is a MALD student at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. His main areas of
concentration are diplomacy, international negotations, and East Asia. Before joining Fletcher, Kwan
was a Senior Associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). He worked primarily with PwC's
International Assignment Services group, where he helped multinational companies navigate through
various tax regimes and treaties in their efforts to expand internationally. Kwan also worked with
PwC's technology development group, where he helped develop software used to project the long-term
costs of international personnel assignments and to streamline compensation-related data collection.
Kwan also earned his Certified Public Accountant license during his time at PwC. Kwan graduated
from Brown University with dual degrees in International Relations and Business Economics.
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Luke T. Lee, born in China and educated there until 1946, studied at Columbia University from which he
received an M.A. degree in 1947, and then at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy from which he
received the Ph.D. degree in 1954. He received a Certificate from The Hague Academy of International
Law in 1959. He subsequently was a Fellow at Harvard Law School. He received his J.D. degree from
Michigan Law School in 1963. His magisterial book, Consular Law and Practice, first published in 1961,
was published in a second edition by Oxford University Press in 1991, and, in collaboration with John
Quigley, in a third O.U.P. edition in 2008.
From 1970 to 1977, Luke Lee was Professor of International Law at The Fletcher School where he taught a
course on consular law and was the Director of the Law and Population Program. He then went to the
U.S. Department of State where he became a member of the Senior Executive Service. He was the
Director of the Office of Planning & Programs, Office of the U.S. Coordinator for Refugee Affairs. He
also served as Senior Policy Adviser on the Law of the Sea and was a member of the U.S. Delegation to
the Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea. He established the Rights of the Child Project in
cooperation with UNICEF, UNITAR and the National Commissions for the International Year of the
Child (IYC) in sixty countries. He was Chairman of the International Committee on the Legal Status of
Refugees of the International Law Commission and, over the years, he has lectured at many universities
around the world.
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Sponsored by
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Tufts University
in association with
Department of International Relations, Boston University
United Nations Association of Greater Boston (UNA-GB)
WorldBoston: A World Affairs Council
Foreign Affairs Retirees of New England (FARNE)
Harvard Kennedy School
Diplomatische Akademie Wien
with special thanks to
the Consulate General of Canada in Boston
the Department of International Relations, Boston University
and
the Austrian Cultural Forum New York