-Conference Brings Together Experts in Law, Ethics, the Military and Global Affairs to Examine the State of the World Post-9/11


Keynote Speakers Include Ambassador Rockwell A. Schnabel,
Gen. Joseph P. Hoar (U.S. Marines, Ret.) and Dr. Majid Tehranian


ORANGE, Calif. – An impressive roster of legal, scholarly and military experts – including General Joseph P. Hoar, former Commander in Chief, U.S. Central Command; and Ambassador Rockwell A. Schnabel, former U.S. representative to the European Union – will participate in Chapman University’s “Are We at War? Global Conflict and Insecurity Post-9/11” symposium on April 6-7, 2006.


The two-day symposium will take place in Kennedy Hall on the Chapman campus in Orange, with luncheons and a banquet in Beckman Hall. The event is open to the public, with registration ranging from $40 for a half day to $200 for the full conference. There will also be a live webcast on the Chapman School of Law’s website. The public can call (714) 628-2605 for more information.


The conference – the second annual symposium of the Chapman University School of Law’s Center for Global Trade and Development – is presented in partnership with the World Affairs Council of Orange County and the Walter Schmid Center for International Business of the George L. Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman University.


The interdisciplinary symposium will examine the question of whether the United States is really “at war,” and will challenge participants to think anew about global conflict and insecurities by questioning some of our basic premises and assumptions. What is war? Is it simply the absence of peace? What does war look like – and what should it look like – in an age of globalization that is marked by fragmented power, privatized resources and proliferating threats of terrorism and mass destruction?


Keynote speakers:
• Ambassador Rockwell A. Schnabel, former U.S. representative to the European Union: “The Importance of the European Union for Peace and Security”
• Gen. Joseph P. Hoar, U.S. Marines (Ret.), former Commander in Chief, U.S.
Central Command: “The Middle East: Culture, Terrorism and Democracy”
• Dr. Majid Tehranian, director of the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research and adjunct professor of international relations at Soka University of America: “Civilization, War and Peace”


Featured panel topics:
• Defining War in the 21st Century: Focus on Terrorism
• Security and Civil Liberties
• Historical Perspectives on War and Security
• Global Trade and Security
• International Law and Global Strategy
• Separation of Powers and Presidential Authority
• Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention

Visiting panelists:
• Dr. Asa Kasher – Israel Prize Laureate and Laura Schwarz-Kipp Professor of Professional Ethics and Philosophy, Tel Aviv University
• Fabiola Letelier del Solar – Human-rights attorney and president of Memoria y Justicia, Santiago, Chile
• Dr. Philip Towle – Reader in International Studies and former director of the Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge, England
• Prof. Elizabeth Rapaport – Dickason Professor of Law, University of New Mexico School of Law
• Prof. Norman Abrams – Professor of Law Emeritus, UCLA School of Law
• Dr. Michael S. Neiberg – Professor of History, co-director of the Center for the Study of War and Society, University of Southern Mississippi
• The Hon. James P. Gray – Judge, Superior Court of Orange County
• Dr. Ismael Hossein-Zadeh – Professor of Economics, Duke University
• Dr. Dennis J.D. Sandole – Professor of Conflict Resolution and International Relations, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
• Dr. Mohammed Wattad – Bretzfelder Constitutional Law Fellow, Columbia University School of Law
• Dr. Dominika Svarc – Senior International Law and Policy Analyst, Institute for Strategic Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Prof. Joseph W. Dellapenna – Professor of Law, Villanova University School of Law
• Dr. Seth Weinberger – Assistant Professor of Politics and Government, University of Puget Sound
• Prof. Michael D. Ramsey – Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law
• Dr. Irene Gendzier – Professor of Political Science, Boston University
• Dr. Joseph Morrison Skelly – Assistant Professor of History, College of Mount Saint Vincent, U.S. Army Reserve, Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran
• Dr. Stefan Halper – Director of the Donner Atlantic Studies Programme and Senior Fellow, Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge, England
• Prof. Marjorie Florestal – Assistant Professor of Law, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
• Dr. Eric J. Lobsinger – LL.D. candidate, Faculty of Law, Kyushu University, Japan


Chapman University panelists and participants:
• Dr. James L. Doti – President of Chapman University and Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Economics
• Prof. Parham Williams – Dean and Donald P. Kennedy Chair in Law, Chapman University School of Law
• Dr. Kevin T. Jones – Assistant Professor, Communications Studies
• Dr. Arthur Kraft – Dean and Robert J. and Carolyn A. Waltos Jr. Chair in Business and Ethics, The George L. Argyros School of Business and Economics
• Dr. Joseph Runzo – Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies; executive director, Global Ethics and Religion Forum
• Dr. Donald S. Will – Delp-Wilkinson Professor of Peace Studies and Political Science
• Dr. John C. Eastman – Professor of Law, director of The Claremont Institute Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence
• Prof. M. Katherine B. Darmer – Professor of Law
• Prof. Timothy A. Canova – Professor of Law, director of the Center for Global Trade and Development
• Prof. Donald J. Kochan – Assistant Professor of Law
• Dr. Henry N. Butler – James R. Farley Professor of Economics
• Prof. Celestine Richards McConville – Professor of Law
• Dr. John A. Hall – Assistant Professor of Law


The “Are We At War?” symposium is sponsored by Chapman University’s Center for Global Trade and Development, the Walter Schmid Center for International Business at The George L. Argyros School of Business and Economics, the Center for Global Education, and the Peace Studies Program in Chapman’s Wilkinson College of Arts and Letters.


For more information, call (714) 628-2605.


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