Friday, February 1, 2013

Conference: International Law in a Time of Scarcity

On February 5, 2013, the Dean Rusk Center at the University of Georgia School of Law and the Georgia Journal for International and Comparative Law will host a conference on "International Law in a Time of Scarcity." The program is available by clicking on the photo to the right. Here's the idea:
The scarcity of resources, whether food, water, fuel sources, or clean air, may be a defining reality for global policy in the years to come. By bringing together leading policy makers and legal scholars, conference organizers intend for the forum to serve as a foundation for future scholarship on the role of international law in scarcity issues. The keynote speaker will be Ertharin Cousin, United Nations World Food Programme executive director and 1982 Georgia Law alumna. Among the issues to be addressed are: how best to conceptualize scarcity, the regulation of scarcity and its potential impacts, and how to work forward in addressing the problem from the current available solutions