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Continuing Education\/Short Course Presentations\/Other Public Activities<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Workshop: \u201cTrump\u2019s America: Issues, Conflicts, and Future Trajectories\u201d Presentation for a workshop of the Dutch Labour\/Greens Parties, 14 June 2025. ACCESS PPT HERE: Backer_Trump_Admin_Analaysis2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Online Expert Seminar, project \u201cFuture-Proofing Human Rights: Developing Thicker Forms of Accountability<\/a>\u201d, organized by Dr. Elif Durmu\u015f | Postdoctoral Researcher at Antwerp University (14 October 2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cESG Trouble\u2013From the Center to the Ends of the Silk Roads\u2013A Comparative Probl\u00e9matique<\/a>\u201d. Journal of Law & International Affairs (JLIA) ESG Fall Speaker Series, Penn State Law, University Park, PA, 31 October 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUnderstanding the ESG Wars.\u201d Teach in for Penn State Law and SIA Students, University Park, PA, 20 April 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOutlining Tips and Final Exam Prep for 1Ls,\u201d Penn State Law, Latinx Law Students Association (11 October 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Natural Law and the US Constitutional Order<\/a>” a conversation with Larry Cat\u00e1 Backer and Bruce Frohnen. Organized by the Penn State Law Federalist Society. Penn State University,  12 April 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cVaccine Mandates and Religious Exemptions: What Could be Controversial<\/a>\u201d A Conversation with Larry Cat\u00e1 Backer and Eric Treene.  Organized by the Penn State Law Federalist Society.  Penn State University 15 March 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cResponsibilities of Economic Actors affected by the Russo-Ukraine War.\u201d Teach in on the War in Ukraine, Penn State Law, State College, PA 14 March 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOutlining and Final Exam Prep for 1Ls,\u201d Penn State Law, Latinx Law Students Association (17 November 2021). Access here: :LLALSA_Student_Exam_Study_-presentation_Backer_11-2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA Framework Treaty Within an Ecology of Regulatory Systems,\u201d Prepared for Seminar \u201cLinks to the business and human rights governance constellation\u201d University of Dundee, Institute for Social Science Research Online Seminar Series: A framework treaty on business and human rights: Interdisciplinary insights, 14 October 2021 (virtual).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remarks delivered on the Opening of the International Symposium: Globalization in a Post-COVID World: Retreat or Revival?  Organized by Foundation for Law and International Affairs and the School of Foreign Studies, East China University of Political Science and Law (Shanghai, China), 26 February 2021. Available HERE: Remarks on the Opening of the International Symposium<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discussant presentation for Aaron A. Dhir: \u201cBlack Star Line, Inc.: Race in the Historical Life of the Corporation.\u201d Business and Human Rights Workshop Series, University of Connecticut Human Rights Institute, 19 February 2021. PowerPoint HERE: Backer_Discussant_Dhir_Black Star Line_UConn2-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPeaches and Plums do not Speak, but they are so Attractive that a Path is Formed Below the trees\u201d [\u6843\u674e\u4e0d\u8a00\uff0c\u4e0b\u81ea\u6210\u8e4a]: China\u2019s Belt and Road Initiative and the United Nations Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights<\/a>,  Remarks delivered at the 8th United Nations Forum for Business and Human Rights,<\/a> 26 November 2019, Palais des Nations, Geneva Switzerland. Download Text HERE: Peaches and Plums do not Speak<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cClass Struggle Comes to States in Multilateral Fiscal, Trade and Climate Footprints.\u201d Cross Over Session: Understanding our Fiscal, trade and Climate Footprint\u2014The Intersection of High, Middle and Low Income Countries\u2019 Policies on the Achievement of the SDGs.  Purdy Crawford Workshop: The Role of Business Regulation in Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals<\/a>.  Schulich School of Law<\/a>, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia 27 September 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roundtable Discussion: Reflecting on the Ethical and Professional Responsibilities  of Business  Lawyers for Environmental and Climate Justice\u2014Developing a Research Agenda? .  Purdy Crawford Workshop: The Role of Business Regulation in Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals<\/a>.  Schulich School of Law<\/a>, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia 27 September 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIntroduction to the Language and Systems of Law in the US<\/a>.\u201c Short Course held at Universidad Latina de Panam\u00e1: “Introduction to the Language and Systems of Law in the US” (Penn State Law-U. Latina Joint Program) Panama City, Panama, 6-15 July 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHow to Become a Full-Time Law Professor.\u201d for Panel 4G: How to Become a Full-Time Law Professor. Conference:  4th National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, \u201cPeople of Color and the Future of Democracy.\u201d American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C., 22 March 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reflections on \u201cMultinational Enterprises and Supply Chain Liability.\u201d AALS Economic Globalization and Governance Section Panel on Globalization, Sustainability and Firm Cultures. Conference: Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 3, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graduate Workshop, Current Issues in American Constitutional Law, East China University od Political Science and Lawn, Shanghai, China, 10 December 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consultation, Report of the Expert for draft Report of the Accountability and Remedy Project (ARP III), non-state, non-judicial grievance mechanisms. Geneva, Switzerland, 29 November 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Experts Consultation, Accountability and Remedy Project (ARP III). Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva, Switzerland, 21 September 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participant, \u201cEnsuring Impact: Constructing a vision for the AMBS Research Centre on Business and Human Rights.\u201d Business and Human Rights Catalyst, The University of Manchester and the Alliance Manchester Business School, Manchester, U.K., 13 October 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presentation, \u201cElements of the Law and Legal Systems of the United States\u2014The Five Distinctive Sub-Systems that Together Comprise U.S. Law.\u201d Address to Post-Graduate Seminar.  China Jiliang University Law School, Hongzhou, China, September 25, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presentation, \u201cRemarks: “Methodological Approaches to Assess the Legal Development in China\u2019s One-Party State– A Personal Journey<\/a>.\u201d European China Law Studies Association Young Scholars Workshop. Panel on Methodological Approaches to Access the Legal Development in China\u2019s One-Party State. Conference: 12th Annual General Conference European China Law Studies Association, Faculty of Law of the Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands, August 25, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CLE Presentation, \u201cForeign Investment in Cuba: Law, Policy, and Practicalities,\u201d 27th Annual Conference Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy, Miami, Florida; 28 July 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presentation: \u201cCuba: Economy & Politics 2017.\u201d Program on Cuba and Immigration Issues, sponsored by the Latinx Law Students Association, Penn State Law. University Park, PA April 11, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presentation: \u201cDiversity in Legal Education: Considering the Hollow Spaces Between Speech and Action<\/a>.\u201d  Program: All in at Penn State Law: Addressing Diversity & Implicit Bias<\/em>. Penn State University Law School Diversity Committee, sponsor. March 16, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBetween State, Company and Market: A Preliminary Engagement on the Business and Human Rights Obligations of States and State Owned Enterprises.\u201d  School of International Affairs Research Seminar Series, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, February 21, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graduate Workshop: On China\u2019s Constitutional Order.  East China University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai, China, October 22, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discussant. Chinese Professor Lei Zhang and Professor Pengxiang Wang . Criminal Justice Seminar, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA October 1, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discussant. Panel: Courts and Economic Rights in a Neoliberal Age. Conference: Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, May 30, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presentation, \u201cCorporate Social Responsibility in Weak Governance Zones.\u201d Copenhagen Business School Graduate Class of Corporate Social Responsibility.  Copenhagen, Denmark, March 11, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participant, Experts for Consultation on the Reporting and Assurance Frameworks Initiative (RAFI).  Sponsored by Mazars LLP, Human Rights Resource Center and Shift.  New York, NY, May 16, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participant, Expert workshop on national action plans. United Nations Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises. Eighth session, Geneva, Switzerland, May 8, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair and Discussant, “The Possibilities and Contours of State Multiplicity: Preliminary Findings”, featured Jan-Hendrik Passoth (Technische Universit\u00e4t Berlin), Nicholas Rowland (Penn State University), and Larry Cat\u00e1 Backer (Penn State) as discussant.  Pennsylvania State University School of Law, March 18, 2014. University Park, Pennsylvania. Available http:\/\/mediasite.dsl.psu.edu\/Mediasite\/Play\/f3aac706a4784758a148d8989c6fd5031d<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair and Discussant.  Panel: From International Relations to Transnational Polycentric Governance: Politics, Law and Business.\u201d Conference: International Workshop, Business and Human Rights\u2014Networks of Transnational Governance.\u201d Hebrew University  of Jerusalem, February 19-20, 2014.  Jerusalem, Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seminar, Chinese Constitutional Law, National Law University, Delhi, India, November 16, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaker, “Shared Governance Under Stress: Reflections of the Chair of the Penn State University Faculty Senate.” Panel: Shared Governance.  Conference: American Association of University Professors (AAUP), 2013 Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., June 13, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaker, \u201cCorporate Law Practice, Multinational Corporations & Human Rights Issues.\u201d Program:  Explore Law at Penn State; University Park, PA, May 13, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Address,  \u201cThe Trans-Pacific Partnership: Japanese Strategic Diplomacy or Chinese Containment.\u201d Japan America Society of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, PA, March 21, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participant, Men\u2019s Perspectives Panel, Women\u2019s Leadership Initiative, College of Health and Human Development, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, February 1, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participant, \u201cRule Jungling: Strategies and Innovations.\u201d Innovating Justice Forum. Hague Institute for the Internationalization of Law. The Hague, Netherlands, Nov. 1-2, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaker, \u201cCorporate Law Practice, Multinational Corporations & Human Rights Issues.\u201d Program:  Explore Law at Penn State; University Park, PA, May 14, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remarks: \u201cPenn State\u2019s New Reality; Reflections by the Penn State 2011-2012 Fellows–Four Lessons Learned About University Governance in Crisis.\u201d  Committee on Institutional Cooperation Academic Leadership Program, Seminar III:  Money, Management, Strategy.  Pennsylvania State University, State College, April 13, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Address, \u201cBetween Faculty, Administration, Board, State, and Students: On the Relevance of a Faculty Senate in the U.S. University,\u201d AAUP Symposium: The Future University:  Academic Freedom, Shared Governance, and Contingent Faculty, Pennsylvania State University, April 2012, available http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2032779<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panel Chair, Panel:  Comparing Labor Standards and Labor Rights.  Conference:  Defining and Defending Global Workers\u2019 Rights.  Project for Global Workers\u2019 Rights.  Pennsylvania State University, March 29, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guest Speaker presenting materials on the Multinational Corporation as Object and Subject of Law, Seminar, \u201cThe Corporation in Global Perspective (L8244), Professor Curtis J. Milhaupt, Columbia Law School, New York, New York, March 19, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaker, \u201dExplore Law at Penn State.\u201d Penn State University Law School, May 14, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participant, EU Studies Syllabus Design Workshop.  Massey College.  Organized by the EU Centre of Excellence York University.  Toronto, Ontario, Canada, March 3, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participant and Discussion Leader Small Group Sessions, Arab Spring Regional Strategic Symposium,. U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Jan. 30-31, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participant, Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), Academic Leadership Program Fellows Agenda: Seminar I:  The Evolving University, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, Nov. 3-5, 2011; Seminar II: Internal and External Relationships, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, February 16-18, 2012 .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participant, Chinese Delegation. 2011 Roundtable of the International Association of Constitutional Law.  Xi\u2019an, China.  October 23-27, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presenting \u201cHow to Develop Good Study Habits.\u201d Black Law Students Association 1L Workshop, Pennsylvania State University Law School, University Park, PA, Aug., 20, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paper Discussant; Elaine Scheye, “The VI Congress Guidelines on Cuban Biotechnology and Health Care: Just What the Doctor Ordered or a Bitter Pill to Swallow?” Panel: Social Issues and the VIth Party Congress. Conference: 21st Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy: Cuba\u2019s Evolving Socio\u2013Economic and Political Landscape, Miami, Florida, Aug. 6, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participant, Law of the Future Forum, Hague Institute for the Internationalization of Law, Peace Palace, The Hague, The Netherlands, June 23, 2011 (participation by invitation).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participant, Law of the Future Conference, Hague Institute for the Internationalization of Law, Peace Palace, The Hague, The Netherlands, June 23-24, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participant, \u201cThe \u2018Law and Semiotics\u2019 Discourse,\u201d The Roberta Kevelson Seminar on Law and Semiotics, Pennsylvania State University, Friday, Feb. 25, 2011, Carlisle, PA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participant: Consultation on SRSG Guiding Principles for the Implementation of the Protect, Respect, Remedy Framework. United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights, Palais des Nations, Geneva Switzerland, October 11-12, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panelist: Advice for Late Bloomers.  Pipeline Program, Third National People of Color Scholarship Conference (Our Country Our World in a \u201cPost-Racial\u201d Era), Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, New Jersey, September 9, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panelist: Private Law and Globalization.  Conference:  XVIIIth<\/sup> International Congress of Comparative Law, Private Law Theory\u2014A Workshop.  American University, Washington, D.C., July 28, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organizer and Participant, U.B.-U.S.D. Round table: Perspectives on Current Challenges for Law and Governance Across Borders, University of Barcelona, Faculty of Law, Barcelona, Spain, June 10, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Introductory Remarks on the International Criminal Court and the Indictment of Sudan\u2019s Head of State for Program: Retribution, Reconciliation, Reparation:  Perspectives on Justice in Darfur, sponsored by the Penn State Law School Human Rights Law Society and the Penn State Law School Alternative Dispute Resolution Society, University Park, PA, April 5, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Introductory Remarks on Venezuela\u2019s relations with Cuba, and Moderator for Program: “What Kind of Democracy? A discussion about Hugo Chavez and the upcoming National Assembly Elections in Venezuela” featuring sponsored by the Penn State Law School Latino\/a Law Student Association, University Park, Pennsylvania, April 1, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moderator, Beyond Rhetoric: The State of Iran \u2014 Its Policies, Politics, and Global Impact, sponsored by the Penn State Law School’s International Law Society and School of International Affairs’ Student Government Association, State College, Pennsylvania, February 15, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Conference, THAT’S RIGHT!: Corporate Responsibility for Human Rights Concepts, Examples, Approaches, organized by Development Policy Forum InWEnt – Capacity Building International, Germany on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development in cooperation with Global Compact Network Germany Institute for Development and Peace Round Table Codes of Conduct , 21 January 2010, Berlin, Germany (by invitation).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Expert Multi-Stakeholder Consultation, Closing Governance Gaps: Application of the U.N. “Protect, Respect, Remedy” Framework, sponsored by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, 20 January 2010 in Berlin, Germany (Invited participant).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paper Commentator on work in progress. Eric J. Miller, \u201cConstitutional Doctrine of Police Experience and Training.\u201d Northeast People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference 2009, University of Buffalo School of Law, Buffalo, New York, Oct. 24, 2009. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paper Commentator on work in progress.  Francine J. Lipman, \u201cSaving Private Ryan’s Tax Refund.\u201d Northeast People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference 2009, University of Buffalo School of Law, Buffalo, New York, Oct. 24, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paper presentation, The Party as Polity, The Communist Party and the Chinese Constitutional State: A Theory of Party-State Constitutionalism<\/em>, Scholarly Dialogues, Pennsylvania State University Law Review Speaker Series, University Park, Pennsylvania, October 8, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panelist, Panel on Teaching Strategies to Success, Association of American Law Schools Workshop for Pretenured Minority Law School Teachers, Washington, D.C., June 18, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paper Commentator, Workshop on Iyiola Solanke, Critical Race Theory and the European Union.  <\/em>Conference: CRT 20:  Honoring Our Past, Charting Out Future, University of Iowa College of Law, April 4, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paper Commentator, Workshop on Kaaryn Gustafson \/ Lily Khadjavi, Becoming the Man:  Can An Anti-Subordination Perspective Be Reconciled With Economic Models?<\/em> Conference: CRT 20:  Honoring Our Past, Charting Out Future, University of Iowa College of Law, April 4, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Student Seminar:  \u201cFrom Moral Obligation to International Law: Disclosure Systems, Markets and the Regulation of Multinational Corporations.\u201d  Government Law College, Mumbai, India, October 21, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Address, \u201cEmerging Trends in the Convergence of Public and Private Law:  Sovereign Wealth Funds, the Regulation of Sovereign Golden Shares, and the Regulation of Multinational Corporations,\u201d Address Given at the Istanbul Chamber of Industry, Istanbul, Turkey, June 24, 2008<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participant, International Law Forum, Jus Gentium, Loyola New Orleans International Law Students Society, October 11, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reader\/Principal Commentator, Darren Rosenblum, Feminizing Capital:  Quota for Gender Equality in Corporate Boards.  Works in Progress.  Twelfth Annual LatCrit Conference Miami Beach, Florida, October 6, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Collaboration as the Essence of Student Run Law Journals.  Address at the celebration of the 25th<\/sup> Anniversary of the founding of the Penn State international Law Review, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, April 14, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Introduction and Question & Answer Session:  American Society of International Law Webinair\u2014Careers in International Law.  State College, Pennsylvania, January 30, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Debate Participant: A Debate on Wal-Mart and Economic Due Process. Ninth Annual Federalist Society Faculty Division Conference, Washington, D.C., January 5, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moderator:  Finality and the Enforcement of Arbitration Agreements in Latin America.  Conference sponsored by the American Society of International Law, the Penn State International Law Review and the Coalition for Peace & Ethics, Washington, D.C.  December 15, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lecture:  Religious Pluralism and the U.S Constitution. South Asian Undergraduate Student Leaders Institute Program: State, Society, and Culture in the United States for foreign undergraduates, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, July 11, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lecture: Politics, Media, Free Speech and the U.S. Constitution. South Asian Undergraduate Student Leaders Institute Program: State, Society, and Culture in the United States for foreign undergraduates, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, July 11, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panel Chair and discussant.  Panel: Comparative Religion and the Law in Context.  Conference:  The Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, July 6, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commentator.  Panel:  Adapting Political Structure to Societal Needs\u2014An Italian Federalism? Redefining the State:  Regionalism and Supra-Nationalism.  Conference:   2006 Joint Conference, The American Society of Comparative Law and the Italian Society of Comparative Law, Pennsylvania State University, Dickinson School of Law, Carlisle, PA, April 7, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presentation:  Corporate Social Responsibility, Emerging International Norms and Reparations.  Panel:  Responses to Reparations Claims, the Corporate Restitution Movement.  Conference:  Reparations and the Law:  Trying Reparations, American University, Washington School of Law, Washington, D.C., March 31, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lunchtime Discussion: Who\u2019s Protecting Your Rights?  Should Judges Find and Enforce Unenumerated Rights with Roger Pilon, Vice President, Legal Affairs, Cato Institute.   Penn State University Dickinson School of Law Speakers Trust and the Penn State Dickinson School of Law Federalist Society, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, February 23, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Questioner, Roundtable: Presidential War Powers From Lincoln to Bush, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, November 3, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Debate:  Religious Liberties:  The Rise of State Religion, The Fall of Christian Civilization and How It All Began, with Kevin Hasson, President of the Beckett Fund, Sponsored by the Penn State University Dickinson School of Law Federalist Society, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Nov. 2, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participant. On-Line Symposium: Sarbanes-Oxley and the Federalization of Corporate Law, sponsored by the New York University Journal of Law & Liberty, October 28, 2005, available at http:\/\/www.nyujll.org\/blog\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moderator. Panel:  On Scholarship:  What to Write, How to Finish, Conference:  Third Annual LatCrit-SALT Junior Faculty Development Workshop, October 7, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foreign Undergraduate Student Program: State, Society, and Culture in the United States for foreign undergraduates, presenting lecture entitled:  Religious Pluralism and the U.S.  Constitution, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, July 7, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foreign Undergraduate Student Program: State, Society, and Culture in the United States for foreign undergraduates, presenting lecture entitled:  Politics, Media, Free Speech and the U.S. Constitution, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, July 5, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roundtable Discussion on the Ramifications of the Rejection of the Proposed European Constitution, held by invitation at the International Financial Law Unit of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies of Queen Mary, University of London, London, England, June 22, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discussant.  Panel:  Raising Good Corporations:  Regulation and Corporate Ethics. Conference:  Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair.  Panel:  Discourses of Identity in Politics and Law.  Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities, 8th<\/sup> Annual Conference, University of Texas, College of Liberal Arts, Austin, Texas, March 12, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presentation: A New Constitution for the EU? Institute for Advanced Legal Studies (University of London) and Pennsylvania State University, Dickinson School of Law Program, London, England, Jan. 14, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Symposium commentator, A New Constitution for Europe: Major Innovations of the Proposed New European Constitution Treaty, Pennsylvania State University, Dickinson School of law, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, October 30, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Program:  Lawyers\u2019 Disclosure Obligations Under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. CEB presentation, Pennsylvania State University, Dickinson School of Law, Carlisle, PA, October 18, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Program: The Application of International Law to Camp X-Ray at Guantanamo Bay, commentator on talk by Jordan Paust, University of Houston. Pennsylvania State University, Dickinson School of Law, Penn State-Dickinson SBA Speakers Trust Fund Series, Amnesty International and International Law Society,  Carlisle, Pennsylvania, March 28, 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJudicial Politics and Constitutional law Roundtable \u2013 Bush v. Gore.\u201d  Roundtable Session; The Pennsylvania Political Science Association 62nd<\/sup> Annual Meeting, Dixon University Center, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, April 7, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moderator.  Panel: Issues in International Law; Conference: Mid-Atlantic People of Color Scholarship Conference, Pennsylvania State University, Dickinson School of Law, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, February 2, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moderator.  Pane: New Perspectives in Anti-Poverty Advocacy: Promoting Equal Justice in the Post-Welfare Era, Section on Poverty Law.  Conference: American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, January 5, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presentation: A Practitioner\u2019s Guide to the 1999-2000 Supreme Court Term \u2013 the First Amendment Cases. University of Tulsa, Continuing Education of the Bar, Tulsa, Oklahoma, December 8, 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presentation: A Practitioner\u2019s Guide to the 1998-99 Supreme Court Term \u2013 the Privileges and Immunities Clause Revived. University of Tulsa, Continuing Education of the Bar, Tulsa, Oklahoma, December 7, 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keynote Address. D\u00fan Laoghaire Fourth of July Festival: Some Thoughts on The American Declaration of Independence and It\u2019s Irish\/European Connections At Century\u2019s End, D\u00fan Laoghaire, Ireland, July 1, 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presentation: Latin America and the European Union: A Closer Look at Legislative Processes and Legal Issues, presentations: Latin American Overview: Federalism Issues Arising at the Intersection of Local Laws and International Treaties, and The Reception of EU or Community Law in the Member States. Shook, Hardy & Bacon International Law CLE, Kansas City, Missouri, April 14, 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participant, The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Research Competitiveness Program Research in Domestic Preparedness: Ensuring Security, Protecting Infrastructure, Preventing Violence, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, March 14-16, 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presentation: Litigating in an e-Commerce World \u2013 Personal Jurisdiction and Web Based Commerce. Commercial Law League of America, Southern Region Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 29, 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presentation: A Practitioner\u2019s Guide to the 1997-98 Supreme Court Term \u2013 the Federalism Decisions of the Supreme Court. University of Tulsa, Continuing Education of the Bar, Tulsa, Oklahoma, December 11, 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

E-Commerce Workshop: Legal Considerations of Doing Business on the Internet. U.S. Department of Commerce, Oklahoma State Department of Commerce, Oklahoma Export Assistance Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma, October 14, 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presentation: A Practitioner\u2019s Guide to the 1996-97 Supreme Court Term \u2013 the Due Process decisions of the Supreme Court. University of Tulsa, Continuing Education of the Bar, Tulsa, Oklahoma, October 31, 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moderator.  Panel: Corporate Responsibility.  Conference: Second Annual Northeastern People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, March 22-24, 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speech: Recent Legal Decisions and Legislative Acts of Concern to Hispanic-Americans. Hispanic-American Foundation of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, March 4, 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Program: A Practitioner\u2019s Guide to the 1995-96 Supreme Court Term \u2013 the Equal Protection Decisions of the Supreme Court. University of Tulsa, Continuing Education of the Bar, Tulsa, Oklahoma, December 6, 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presentation: Raping Sodomy and Sodomizing Rape: A Morality Tale About the Transformation of Modern Sodomy Jurisprudence. University of Tulsa, Continuing Education of the Bar, Tulsa, Oklahoma, September 9, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presentation: Appellate Practice and Procedure in Oklahoma. University of Oklahoma, Dept. of Continuing Legal Education, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, April 8, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seminar: The New Oklahoma Judgments and Appeals Laws and the New Amendments to the Oklahoma Pleadings Code. Oklahoma Bar Association, Continuing Legal Education, Tulsa, OK, September 10, 1993, and Oklahoma City, OK, September 17, 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moderator.  Panel:  Gays in the Military \u2013 What\u2019s the Problem?  University of Tulsa College of Law Federalist Society Presentation, University of Tulsa College of Law, Tulsa, Oklahoma, April 7, 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moderator.  Panel: The Great School Prayer Debate.  University of Tulsa College of Law Federalist Society Presentation, University of Tulsa College of Law, Tulsa, Oklahoma, November 20, 1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting Into and Succeeding in Law School.  Houston Law Forum Minority Workshop, Houston, Texas, October 16, 1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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