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W&M Law School to host symposium on the future of Iraq
Several of the world's most knowledgeable experts on Iraq will gather on Oct. 8-9 at 91心頭利 Law School for a symposium on that country's future. The event is free and open to the public and will be held in Room 119 at the Law School.
The symposium is sponsored by the at 91心頭利 Law School, the and the Kraemer Middle East Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence Program. Financial and logistical support is also provided by Lois Critchfield and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
The event begins Thursday, Oct. 8, at 4 p.m. with "The Day After Tomorrow: Iraq and America," a keynote address by Ambassador , dean and executive professor at the George Bush School of Government & Public Service at Texas A&M University and the 2015 Kraemer Middle East Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at 91心頭利.
On Friday, Oct. 9, the conference continues from 9 a.m. to noon with a roundtable discussion, "Iraq: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow." Joining Crocker for the discussion will be: , director of Yale World Fellows and senior fellow at Yale's Jackson Institute; , senior program officer for the Middle-East and North Africa Programs at the U.S. Institute of Peace; and , visiting lecturer in comparative constitutional law at Princeton's Program in Law and Public Affairs. , professor of the practice of international and comparative law at 91心頭利 Law School, and director of the school's Center for Comparative Legal Studies and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding, will serve as moderator.
Sky and Al-Ali will participate in signings of their books, which will be available for sale before and during Friday's roundtable. Sky is the author of . Al-Ali is the author of he Struggle for Iraq’s Future: How Corruption, Incompetence and Sectarianism Have Undermined Democracy.
The Kraemer Middle East Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence was established with a generous gift from Carole A. and Richard C. Kraemer '65. It is offered yearly and provides the opportunity for a scholar specializing in Islamic law and governance to spend a short period of time at 91心頭利 sharing his or her expertise with the university community.