The Judge Stephanie K. Seymour Lecture in Law featuring Monica Hakimi

Monday, February 22, 2010 from 06:00 PM to 07:30 PM

“Operationalizing the Responsibility to Protect” featuring Monica Hakimi, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School Monday, February 22, 2010, 6 p.m. Price & Turpen Courtroom John Rogers Hall

Monica Hakimi

Monica Hakimi earned her J.D. in 2001 from Yale Law School and her B.A, summa cum laude, from Duke University. Following law school she clerked for Judge Kimba Wood of the Southern District of New York. She has also served as an attorney-advisor to the State Department in its Office of the Legal Adviser where she advised on non-proliferation, the Iraq reconstruction, civil aviation, and international investment disputes.

She is extensively published on public international law, international human rights law, the law of armed conflict, and U.S. foreign relations law. Her research focuses primarily on the ways in which international actors manage the international legal process and achieve their ends within it – particularly in the contexts of human rights, armed conflicts, and the use of force. Her publications include pieces in the Yale Journal of International Law, the Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law, and the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. Hakimi has been an adjunct professor at George Mason University Law School and a visiting assistant professor at the Benjamin N. Cordozo School of Law at Yeshiva University.

The Judge Stephanie K. Seymour Lecture in Law is a lecture series established by Judge Seymour’s former clerks to honor the judge for whom they served. Those who clerked under Judge Seymour credit her as a tremendous teacher. In cooperation with the Judge’s family, these clerks chose to honor their mentor in a manner that reflects her commitment to provide opportunity to the best and brightest law graduates. As such, the lecture highlights the scholarship of an untenured law professor whose dedication and passion emulate that of Judge Seymour.

Contact:
Jimmy Hart
jimmy-hart@utulsa.edu
918-631-2568