Panelist, International Seminar on Business and Human Rights: Global Challenges of our Time, (commemorating 60th anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights) Paris, France (December 2008) - Major invitation only conference sponsored by Mary Robinson and Business Leaders for International Human Rights-delivered lecture as part of panel on Access to Justice and Justifiability
Presented paper: "How does a company know it is complicit" at International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Responsibilities for Human Rights, and International Law: Where do we go after the final report of the SRSG on Human Rights and Business? 6-7 November 2008 at the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Participant in Asia Society Asia 21 Leadership Forum in Tokyo,
Japan and Speaker on Panel on Governance, Transparency and Corruption
Rapporteur for Workshop sponsored by the World Bank Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative at the 13th annual International Anti Corruption Conference in Athens, Greece
Speaker, Commerce, Crime and Conflict - Emerging Standards of accountability for Economic Actors in Conflict, lecture delivered at Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland Galway (Apr. 2008)
Presentation on Corporate complicity and International Law as part of Human Rights Moment Series sponsored by Center for Human Rights and Justice at the Law School (November 2007)
Presenter, at invitation only event on Role of states in effectively
regulating and adjudicating the activities of transnational
corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human
rights (November 2007) in Copenhagen sponsored by Danish Center for Human Rights and the United Nations Special Representative on Business and human Rights
Presenter/Speaker at invitation only expert Consultation on Business & Human Rights in Conflict Zones: The Role of Home States (November 2007) in Berlin Germany sponsored by Global Witness and The United Nations Special Representative on Business and Human Rights
Panel Member, "Corporations and International Law," Hague Joint Conference on International Law on 100th Anniversary of the Hague Peace Conference, Netherlands.
Presenter, Odious Debt Conference, University of North Carolina Law School.
Presenter, Rethinking Payments Law Symposium, Federal Reserve Bank of New York. (In conjuction with Columbia, NYU, Brooklyn and Chicago Kent Law Schools.)
Presenter, Rule of Law on the International Agenda, University of Umea, Sweden.
Speaker at UW Phi Beta Kappa/Honors program luncheon on business and human rights (May 2007)
"Electronic Commerce and Online Contracting," presentation for judges at Second Annual Commercial Law Conference, sponsored by U.S. Department of State and Ministry of Justice, Doha, Qatar (March 11, 2007).
Speaker at Seattle University Law School Trina Grillo Public Interest & Social Justice Law Retreat (February 2007)
Presenter, "Corporate Accountability for Grave Violations of International Law" symposium at Brooklyn Law School focused around my publication, Commerce, Crime and Conflict. Article will be published in symposium volume of Brooklyn International Law Journal
Presenter, Regional Conference on Commercial Law in Muscat Oman sponsored by US Department of Commerce, US State Department and Oman Ministry of Justice (presented paper on secured lending and commercial law in the Arabian Gulf)
"Impediments to the Electronic Delivery of Legal Services" presentation, ABA Standing Committee on Technology (May 20, 2006).
"Why South Asians Should Care about Civil Liberties" Inaugural Keynote address, South Asian Bar Association of Washington annual Banquet (April 27, 2006).
"Translating Unocal?" Presentation at Amnesty International Legal Network Conference: The Legacy of Nuremberg delivered a paper during panel on Non-State Actors, Seattle, Wa. (February 2006).
"Digital Dossiers and the Protection of Personal Information," panelist, at conference on Privacy in the Information Age, Santa Clara University Law School (Jan. 27, 2006).
Invited keynote speaker for Washington Model United Nations at UW
Convened invitation only workshop on Commerce, Crime and Conflict to kick off major research study funded by Canadian government and Ford Foundation in Oslo, Norway; Invited guests included lawyers and academic from 15 countries engage in comparative legal research relating to business entities and international crimes.
Invited Expert, Rountable on Commerce Crime and Conflict, Fafo Applied Institute of International Studies, Oslo, Norway (October 2005).
United States Agency for International Development, Guest Lecturer, Washington, DC (Oct. 2005).
Panel Chair, conference on rights of Individual and the State, Central European University Legal Studies Department, Budapest (June 2005).
Moderator, Computer Freedom and Privacy Conference, Seattle (May 2005).
Public Lecturer, ACLU Student Chapter, "USA Patriot Act," UW Law School (April 2005).
"International Commercial Law Standards", presentation at US Department of Commerce Commercial Law Conference in Bahrain (March 2005).
"Commercial Legal Reform in the United States," Presentation, part of Afghan Law Deans Conference, University of Washington School of Law (Feb. 19-25, 2005).
"New Payments in the 21st Century"; convened annual meeting program at AALS for Section of Financial Institutions and Commercial Financial Services and chaired panel on emergin electronic payments with Professor Michael Froomkin, John Muller of Paypal and John Morgan of Perkins Coie (Jan. 2005).
Convener, American Assocation of Law Schools Section on Consignor Financial Services, AALS Annual Meeting, San Francisco (Jan. 2005).
Faculty Cooolquium, "Formalizing the Informal?" Informal Payment Systems, University of Miami Law School (November 2004).
Paper delivered at Faculty Colloquium, "Corporate Complicity in Comparative Context," Brooklyn Law School (November 2004).
Guest Lecturer, United States Agency for International Development, Washington, DC (Oct. 2004).
"Getting Paid in the 21st Century", panelist and co-chair at ABA Annual Meeting, Atlanta Georgia (program sponsored by the Cyberspace Committee of the Business Law Section) (August 1, 2004).
"E-Money in Comparative Perspective" presentation at World Bank/International Montetary Fund Seminar on Current Developments in Monetary Financial Law (June 1, 2004).
Convened major conference, on Access to Justice and Technology in cooperation with Shidler Center, Washington Law Review, Washington Access to Justice Board and Information School (Feb. 2004).
Invited Lecturer, USAID Legal Training Seminar on Commercial Legal and Institutional Law Reform, Washington DC (Dec. 2002, Oct. 2003, 2004, and 2005).
Invited Expert, Roundtable on Defining Priorities for Legal & Policy Action: Unpacking Private Sector Complicity International Peace Academy (New York, NY, November 2002).
Invited Expert, Roundtable on Legal Responses to Private Sector Activity in War Economies sponsored by Fafo (Oslo, Norway, October 2002).
Lecture on Online Activism to staff and summer public interest fellows at the Electronic Privacy Information Clearinghouse (http://www.epic.org) (Washington DC, July 2002)
Multinational Corporations and Human Rights, public lecture, Central European University (Budapest, June 2002).
The Prospects of ODR for Transition Economies, presentation at the United Nationals Economic Commission for Europe, Forum on Online Dispute Resolution (Geneva, June 2002).
Corporate Complicity in the Global Context: An examination of Multinational Enterprises and Their Potential Liability for Human Rights Violations, lecture, as part of series on Law, Transition and Globalization sponsored by the Institute for Transnational Studies, University of Washington (May 2002).
Cybercrime" Lecture with Professor Charles Nesson as part of ILAW program, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School (May 2002)
Panel on Activism and Online Protest along with members of the Electronic Disturbance Theater and Legal Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation at Cybertree 2002, conference sponsored by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School. (May 2002).
Panel and Tutorial on Internet Activism Basics: What Works, What Doesn't and What Will Get You Arrested, in collaboration with Cindy Cohn Legal Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation and Nancy Chang, Staff Attorney Center for Constitutional Rights, Computers Freedom and Privacy Conference (San Francisco, April 2002).
Panelist on Legislative Changes after September 11, Washington State Appellate Judges Conference (April 2002).
Panelist, ABA Task Force on E-commerce and ADR Update, ABA Section on Dispute Resolution Annual Meeting, New Vistas in Dispute Resolution (Seattle, April 2002).
Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Violations, presentation at Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (March 2002).
Corporate Complicity in the Global Context, presentation at Program on Human Rights & Justice, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass., March 2002).
Keynote speaker, Fulbright Scholars Seminar on Civil Liberties after September 11 (Seattle, February 2002).
Presentation on Regulatory Practice in the United States, panel on e-payments Innovation and Regulation, European Payment Systems Observatory Conference on Consumer Online Payments: Trends & Challenges for Europe, European Commission, (Brussels, February 2002)
Fellows seminar presentation on " Hacktivism", Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School (January 2002).
Multinational Corporation and Human Rights, presentation to law faculty workshops, Ralph Papito School of Law, Roger Williams University (January 2002).
Invited Expert, Roundtable on Online Dispute Resolution: State of the Art and Issues, University of Geneva Faculty of Law, (November 2001).
Panelist, Law and Technology Forum, The Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall) (Berkeley, September 2001).
Plenary presentation on Comparative Approaches to Internet Privacy and Panelist on International Privacy Issues, Alaska Privacy Summit (Anchorage, September 2001).
E-Commerce and Online Dispute Resolution: Views of the ABA Task Force, panel on Online Dispute Resolution sponsored by the Business Law and Dispute Resolution Sections, American Bar Association Annual Meeting (Chicago, August 2001).
Perceptions of Commercial Law Reform: The EBRD's Legal Indicator Survey, Conference on Law Reform in Developing and Transition Economies, sponsored by Asian Law Center, University of Melbourne and Asian Law Center, University of Washington (Ulanbataar, Mongolia, July 2001).
Paper on The Problems of E-Money and Incompatible Regulatory Regimes, British Institute of International and Comparative Law conference on Cross Border E-Finance (London, June 2001).
Paper on ADR and the Internet, Conference on Technology: Are We Creating Additional Barriers or Additional Means to Access to Justice? Sponsored by Seattle University School of Law Access to Justice Institute and the Washington State Access to Justice Board (Seattle, May 2001).
Presentation on Recent Developments in Global Ecommerce and Internet Law at conference hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School and the National Association of Attorneys General (April 2001).
The Implications of the UNOCAL Case and Lawsuit for the International World of Corporate Accountability Workshop on The New World of Corporate Accountability: the Case of UNOCAL in Burma, sponsored by Global Source Education (Seattle, May 2001).
Licensing as a Jurisdictional Mechanism, paper delivered at panel on Internet Finance at Internet Law and Policy Forum Conference, Jurisdiction II: Global Networks/Local Rules (San Francisco, September 2000).
Speaker, Internet Panel, Annual Conference of Solicitors General, (Seattle, June 2000).
Hacktivism: Virtual Dissent and Global Organizing via the Internet, paper delivered at conference on "Internet & Power: A New Revolution in International Relations?" sponsored by the Internet Political Economy Forum and Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Trinity College, Cambridge (Cambridge, U.K., May 2000).
Keynote Speaker, Conference of Chief Deputies, National Association of Attorneys General (May 2000)
The Proposed Money Services Act of NUUSL, presentation at the Money Transmitters Regulations Association, annual meeting (Philadelphia, May 2000).
Co- Convener, Regulating the Internet: EU and US Perspectives conference sponsored by the University of Washington Center for Law, Commerce & Technology and School of Communications and the European Union Center (Seattle, April 2000).
Discussant, Emerging Economies, Internet Trade and the WTO, Conference on The WTO and the Developing World in the Millennium Round: Beyond the NGO Din, sponsored by the University of Washington Institute of International Policy and the Henry M. Jackson, School of International Studies Beyond the NGO Din (Seattle, November 1999).
Commentator, panel on Commercial Law Reform in Russia and the New International Financial Architecture, at conference on the New International Financial Architecture, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, University of London (London, June 1999).
Forced Labor Claims and the Second World War, paper presented at colloquium on the liability of multinational enterprises under international law hosted by the Institute of Globalization, International Economic Law and Dispute Settlement, Erasmus University, (Rotterdam, the Netherlands, April 1999).
Invited participant, Washington Conference on Holocaust Era-Assets, sponsored by the United States Department of State (April 1999).
Swiss Banks and International Human Rights, presentation at University of Manchester Law Faculty Workshop Series, United Kingdom (March 1999).
The Initial Screening Procedure and the Claims Resolution Tribunal, paper presented at the Swiss Arbitration Association Annual Conference (Zurich, January 1999).
Response to Ambassador Thomas Borer, panel on Assets of the Holocaust: The Swiss Perspective sponsored by Whittier Law School (Costa Mesa, CA, November 1998).
Panelist, The Lawyers Speak - - Actions Against Swiss Banks and European Insurance Companies in U.S. Courts, conference on Nazi Gold and Other Assets of the Holocaust: The Search for Justice, Whittier Law School (Costa Mesa, CA., October 1998).
Panelist, conference on The Holocaust: Moral and Legal Issues Unresolved Fifty Years Later sponsored by Cardozo Law School (April 1998).