Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio published a blog post on Intlawgrrls entitled “Commentary on John Bolton’s Speech Regarding New American Policy on the International Criminal Court.”  In this post, Professor Sterio argues that the new American policy vis-a-vis the ICC, as announced by John Bolton, would be detrimental to United States’ global interests.  In addition, Professor Sterio highlights several factually inaccurate claims about the ICC, which were part of Bolton’s speech.

Professor Milena Sterio’s book, “Secession in International Law: A New Framework,” was published by Edward Elgar.  In this book, Professor Sterio proposes a new legal framework for secession.  She addresses the inadequacy of existing legal norms, case studies, such as Bangladesh, Eritrea, East Timor, Kosovo, Scotland, and Catalonia, and she then proposes a normative framework on secession, which would attempt to reconcile competing claims of territorial integrity (of the mother state) and secession (of the separatist entity).

Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio presented at the American Society of International Law (ASIL)- Midwest Interest Group Annual Workshop, which was held at Southern Illinois University School of Law in Carbondale, Illinois, on September 7-8.  Professor Sterio presented a paper entitled “Self-Determination and Secession in Kurdistan and Catalonia.”  Professor Sterio served as Co-Chair of the ASIL-Midwest Interest Group last year; in her capacity as outgoing Co-Chair, she helped to organize this year’s Workshop.

Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio moderated a session entitled “Victims and International Criminal Tribunals” at International Humanitarian Law Dialogs, a conference which takes place annually at Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York, and which bring together academics and practitioners in the field of international criminal law.  Professor Sterio had organized this session in her capacity as editor of the Intlawgrrls blog, which had sponsored this session.  Intlawgrrls is an academic blog dedicated to discussions of international law and policy and open to female contributors only.  Professor Sterio is a member of the Advisory Board of International Law Dialogs, and has also helped to organize this year’s conference in general.

Professor Sterio published a blog post on this year’s female voices at International Humanitarian Law Dialogs on Intlawgrrls; the post is available here.

In addition, Professor Sterio’s remarks from last year’s International Humanitarian Law Dialogs were published in the “Proceedings of the Eleventh International Humanitarian Law Dialogs,” a conference volume published by the American Society of International Law.  Professor Sterio had delivered the “Year in Review” lecture at last year’s Dialogs.

On August 14, Professor David Forte was interviewed by Molly Smith on the program, “From the Median,” on WHK radio discussing what has been called the modern day genocide of Down syndrome children. The interview can be accessed here:

http://fromthemedian.org/2018/08/13/down-syndrome-from-termination-to-extermination/