Rule of Law Conference Hosted by Pitt Law

Professor Bart De Schutter, president of the Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (third from left), speaking at Pitt Law’s E.U.-U.S. Rule of Law conference.

On May 6–7, 2010, the University of Pittsburgh’s European Union Center of Excellence, Pitt Law’s Center for International Legal Education (CILE), and the Institute for European Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel cosponsored a conference on “Promoting the Rule of Law: Cooperation and Competition in the EU-US Relationship.” Participants at the Pittsburgh conference included representatives from, among others, the Council and Commission of the European Union, the European Court of Justice, the Council of Europe, the International Bar Association, the ABA Section of International Law, the U.S. Army JAG Corps, the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Institute of Peace, and the U.S. Department of Commerce, as well as academics, including four members of the Pitt Law faculty. According to CILE Director and conference coordinator, Professor Ronald Brand, “The conference was unique in both the effort to identify the various rule of law programs sponsored by the U.S. and the E.U. and to consider the benefits of coordinating those programs.” Papers from the conference will be published in Volume 72, issue 2, of the University of Pittsburgh Law Review.