Joanna Harrington | Law professor | University of Alberta
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Past Presentations before the COVID-19 Pandemic

ASIL ACLIG Workshop

Using the Proceeds of Foreign Bribery to Provide Development Aid

December 2019 -- Very grateful for feedback received after presenting a paper on the redirection of some of the penalties imposed in foreign bribery prosecutions to provide international developmental aid and assistance to communities as the wider victims of corruption, with the American Society of International Law’s Anti-Corruption Law Interest Group and Ono Academic College providing the ideal forum by way of a works-in-progress workshop. Many thanks to the organizers, and a special thanks to Dr Dana Pugach and Dr Ina Kubbe for their insights as discussants.
Florence

Providing for Victim Redress in Foreign Bribery Cases

June 2019 -- My sincere thanks to the European University Institute and the University of Portsmouth Law School for hosting an international conference on “Corruption, Democracy and Human Rights: Exploring New Avenues in the Fight Against Corruption” at the Villa Salviati on the hillside overlooking Florence, Italy, 20-21 June 2019. A great opportunity to present my work on victim redress in foreign bribery cases and to meet other researchers also working on ways to address corruption’s impacts on its victims - defining victim in its widest sense.
Great Wall of China

Chatham House Roundtable in Beijing on Emerging Issues

June 2018 -- Delighted to return to Beijing to participate in a two-day roundtable on emerging issues in international law, including the role for China in Arctic affairs, organized by the international think tank Chatham House (The Royal Institute of International Affairs). Many thanks for the feedback on my presentation concerning the adoption of a resolution on mutually beneficial cooperation in the field of human rights at the UN Human Rights Council (A/HRC/37/L.36).
Histories of TCL

Exploring Extradition's Histories

October 2019 -- Honoured to be included in a three-day international symposium on the "Histories of Transnational Criminal Law" organized by the University of Hamburg at the Schloss Herrenhausen in Hannover, Germany. Many thanks to Professors Florian Jessberger, Neil Boister and Sabine Gless for bringing together an excellent program of speakers from law, history and sociology, and to the Volkswagen Foundation for financial support.
Columbia

Chatham House Roundtable on Peace and Security at Columbia University

November 2018 -- Delighted to participate in a two-day roundtable on current issues of peace and security in international law, organized by the international think tank Chatham House, in collaboration with the Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School and the China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL). The Chatham House roundtables bring together academics from Australia, Canada, China, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Jesus College

Treaties, Brexit, and the Constitution

​March 2018 -- Delighted to present on “The Practicalities of Parliamentary Engagement in Treaty-making” at a conference on "Treaties, Brexit and the Constitution" at Jesus College, University of Oxford, co-organized with the House of Commons Library, with the Brexit discussions leading to renewed interest in the topic. ​For a UK House of Commons Library briefing paper on Parliament’s role in ratifying treaties, see here.
Western Law

Workshop at Western University

September 2019 -- Delighted to return to Western Law to speak about remedial options for the foreign victims of foreign corruption at a works-in-progress workshop for international criminal law. Many thanks to Professors Ryan Liss and Valerie Oosterveld for organizing, and to the SSHRC-funded Canadian Partnership for International Justice and York University's ​Nathanson Centre for financial support. 
Brexit

Britain, Brexit, and Treaty Exits

March 2019 -- Many thanks to the Association of Professors Emeriti at the University of Alberta for hosting a presentation on the legal aspects of Britain's exit from the European Union. This invited talk was delivered as part of the Association’s speaker series on current events, prompting many timely questions on the legal consequences of exiting economic integration treaties.
CCIL 2018

'Extradition after Diab' Panel
at the CCIL Annual Conference

November 2018 -- Many thanks to the organizers of the 47th annual conference of the Canadian Council on International Law (CCIL) for including a panel on "Extradition after Diab", resulting in a call for extradition law reform to be guided by the principles of fairness, balance and transparency, recognizing the liberty rights at stake in any extradition request. A video recording of the panel has been made available via YouTube.
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