Webinar: Keeping Jurisdictional Boundaries Straight at the ICJ, the UNCITRAL, the ICC, and the PCA: An Introduction

This quarterly topical webinar program will engage experts working in and around the International Courts and Tribunals about jurisdictional boundaries surrounding the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), the International Criminal Court (ICC), and the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA).  This program is aimed at young legal professionals and will highlight selected cases, legal community initiatives, and employment opportunities at these international bodies ensuring that program participants develop a useful set of skills that will make them competitive in the hiring process, and, once hired, that they have the right “toolbelt” to ensure success in their international court roles.

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Registration for this event is now closed. Attendees will receive a calendar invitation for the webinar with streaming information.

Registration Fees

• FBA Members – $0
• Nonmembers – $75

Meet the Presenters

Hon. Mimi Tsankov, Board of Director, Federal Bar Association (Introduction)

Mimi Tsankov is an Immigration Judge at the New York Federal Plaza Immigration Court.  In the past 15 years presiding at Immigration Courts in New York, Colorado, and California, she has held a variety of national leadership roles including Pro Bono Liaison Judge, contributing editor to the Immigration Judge Benchbook, Attorney Discipline Adjudicator, Chair, Immigration Court – Board of Immigration Appeals Precedent Committee, Mentor Judge, and Juvenile Docket Best Practices Committee Chair.  She is currently active in a variety of roles in the National Association of Immigration Judges (NAIJ), including Eastern Regional Vice President, and chairing committees addressing gender equality issues and vulnerable populations cases.  In her personal capacity, she has been elected to the Federal Bar Association (FBA) Board of Directors, and serves as Immediate Past President of the FBA Southern District of New York (SDNY) Chapter.  She is a prior Chair of the FBA national International Law Section. Presently she serves on the Board of the Judicial Division and the Diversity and Inclusion Committee.  In Fall 2020, she chaired a national law student three-part webinar program entitled, Racial Equality and the SDGs: A Certificate Training Program for Law Students.  This program was accessible to all law students, nationwide. Judge Tsankov is co-chair of the National Association of Women Judges (NAWJ) Immigration Law Committee, and is Vice President of Publications.  At the American Bar Association (ABA), she is currently serving on a presidential appointment to the Commission on Immigration, and is a member of the Executive Board of the Judicial Division, National Conference of Administrative Law Judiciary.   Judge Tsankov serves as an adjunct faculty member at the Fordham Law School in New York.  She publishes regularly and in the past few months has published articles in the California Western Law Review, the International Bar Association Immigration Law Journal, and the ABA Human Rights Magazine. She speaks regularly before members of the immigration law community at international, national, and regional conferences.

Rachel V. Rose (Moderator)

Ms. Rose has a unique background. Throughout her career, she has accumulated knowledge in a multitude of fields, with an emphasis on various facets of healthcare. Her experiences include:

• working on Wall Street and at one of the “Big Four” consulting firms;
• producing for the Chairman of the Reform and Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill;
• interning at the Department of Health and Human Services;
• compiling policy papers at the Royal College of Nursing in London;
• consultative work as a top performing representative for the pharmaceutical and medical device industry; ​
• clerking for the Honorable Linda R. Allan (6th Judicial Circuit, FL).

Prior to opening her law firm, she was Director of Business Development and Assistant General Counsel for a healthcare advisory company.

She is extensively published and presents on a variety of healthcare, False Claims Act, Dodd-Frank, and securities law topics including: cybersecurity, qui tam, physician reimbursement, ICD-10, access to care, anti-kickback and Stark laws, U.S. Supreme Court cases impacting the medical device industry, international comparative healthcare laws, and the HIPAA/the HITECH Act.

Presently, she is the chair of the Federal Bar Association’s Government Relations Committee. Ms. Rose has co-authored The American Bar Association’s books –  The ABCs of ACOs and What Are International HIPAA Considerations?, as well as being a co-editor of American Health Lawyers Association’s Enterprise Risk Management Handbook (2nd Edition). Ms. Rose is also an Affiliated Member of the Baylor College of Medicine’s Center for Health Policy and Medical Ethics, where she teaches bioethics and is on the University of Houston Law School’s Healthcare Law Advisory Board.

Linda Strite Murnane, “Of Counsel”, Dave Cusack Law Firm, LLC; Retired Chief Circuit Military Judge (European and Eastern Circuits); Colonel, USAF, Ret.

Colonel Linda Strite Murnane (U.S. Air Force, Retired) is “Of Counsel” with the Dave Cusack Law Firm, LLC.  She  served as the Chief, Court Management Services Section for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon Leidschendam, The Netherlands and as the Chief, Court Management at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, in The Hague, The Netherlands. She served two years as the Acting Senior Legal Officer for Trial Chamber III at the Yugoslavia Tribunal.  As the Chief Court Management Services Section at the Lebanon and Yugoslavia Tribunals, she was responsible for the electronic filing and evidence systems, and the support teams comprised of lawyers and other legal support staff proving in court services which operated in English, French and Arabic or Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian.

While at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon she was also designated as the Independent Commissioner and, upon assignment, investigated allegations of misconduct involving defence (European spelling convention) counsel and legal representatives of victims who appear before the Tribunal. While at the Yugoslavia Tribunal, she led teams totaling about 40 staff involved in the daily operation of the courtrooms in which the trials of alleged war criminals were being conducted under the mandate of the United Nations Security Council.  She also was responsible for leading a team responsible for implementing three components of the European Union-funded War Crimes Justice Project, providing training to court professionals and others in the Balkans, transcribing verbatim local language transcripts and providing translation of the ICTY’s Appeals Chamber Case Law Research Tool in Balkan languages.  In 2011, she also spent three months as the Acting Head of Chambers for the Tribunal and in 2011 – 2012 she spent four and one-half months as the Acting Deputy Registrar for the Tribunal.  While a Senior Legal Officer at the Yugoslavia Tribunal, Colonel Murnane was responsible for preparation of orders, decisions, judgments and support for the international judiciary.  Colonel Murnane specifically had responsibility for the cases of Milutinovic, et al. (six accused charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity in Kosovo), Prlic, et al. (six accused charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity involving the Herceg-Bosna leadership), Vojislav Seselj, and Vlastimir Djordjevic.  She was also responsible in the pre-trial phase for the cases of Rasim Delic, Stanisic and Simatovic, Momcilo Perisic, Lukic and Lukic, and Radovan Karadzic. While at the Yugoslavia Tribunal Colonel Murnane also served for periods as the Chair of the Disciplinary Panel, and legal officer for the Disciplinary Board.

Ms. Murnane served as the Judicial Bailiff for The Honorable Anne Taylor at the Franklin County, Ohio, Municipal Court from 2013 – 2014.  She also served as a legal researcher with Western Governors University, and as a solutions consultant for Lexis Nexis during her professional career.

Colonel Murnane served as the Senior International Attorney for the Defense Institute of International Legal Studies from November 2008 until her return to the ICTY in August 2009. Based in Newport, Rhode Island, the Institute is the Department of Defense’s lead agency providing seminars and programs to military personnel and civilian government officials throughout the world dealing with the legal complications of the strategic, operational, and tactical decisions faced by military personnel and civilian professionals as they work to accomplish their missions.  She served as the Executive Director for the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights in the United States, a gubernatorial executive cabinet commission, from February 2005 until July 2007.  Prior to that, she served for nearly 30 years on active duty with the United States Air Force.  In her Air Force career, Colonel Murnane served in a variety of positions, including ten years as a chief circuit military judge, or military judge.  She was the Chief Circuit Judge for Europe and the Eastern Judicial Circuit, Bolling AFB, Washington, D.C.  She presided at the first criminal trials for the U.S. Air Force during Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom in the war zone, deploying five times in support of those operations between 2001 and 2003.

Colonel Murnane served as the Chief, International, Operations and Civil Law while assigned at U.S. Forces Japan/Fifth Air Force from 1988 – 1991.  She was the Deputy Staff Judge Advocate at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, from 1991 – 1993, and the Staff Judge Advocate at Bitburg Air Base, Germany from 1993 – 1994.  In each of these positions, she served as an advisor to commanders making decisions employing Rules of Engagement, in the European and Pacific Theaters for U.S. and Joint Forces.

Colonel Murnane has participated in training programs as an adjunct faculty member for the Defense Institute of International Legal Studies, training judges, lawyers and civilian leaders in Liberia, Rwanda, Zambia, Argentina, Latvia, and Papua New Guinea, on a wide range of legal topics.

Colonel Murnane began her career as an Airman Basic, the lowest enlisted grade in the U.S. Air Force, and retired as a colonel in 2004.  Her military decorations include the Legion of Merit, and the Meritorious Service Medal with bronze and silver oak leaf cluster.

Colonel Murnane is the Chair of the U.S. Chapter of the Pan American Judges on Social Justice and Franciscan Doctrine.  She is a Past Chair of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Judicial Division, and a past Chair of the National Conference of Specialized Jurisdiction Court Judges (NCSCJ) for the Judicial Division, and currently serves as the Budget Officer for the ABA Judicial Division and as the ABA House of Delegates Representative for the NCSCJ.  She currently serves on the ABA Section of International Law Executive Council and serves as co-chair of the ABA International Law Section’s International Human Rights Committee.  She is a past Chair and former member of the ABA’s Standing Committee on Armed Forces Law, and a past Co-Chair and current Senior Advisor to the ABA Section of International Law’s U.S. Lawyers Practicing Abroad Committee.  She is a member of the ABA’s GP Solo and Small Firm Division, Government and Public Sector Lawyers Division, Criminal Law Section, and State and Local Government Section.  She is also a member of the American Judges Association, the International Association of Women Judges, the National Association of Women Judges, and the Federal Bar Association.  She is a co-chair of the Ohio State Bar Association’s Military and Veterans Affairs Committee.

She is admitted to the practice of law before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Ohio and Kentucky Supreme Courts, the Federal and Sixth Circuit Courts of Appeals, the U.S. Court of International Trade, the U.S,. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio,  the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, and the Army and Air Force Courts of Criminal Appeals.   In 2017 she received the ABA International Law Section’s Mayre Rasmussen Award for advancing opportunities for women in the field of international law.  In August 2008, she received the Margaret Brent Women of Achievement Award, one of the most prestigious awards presented by the American Bar Association, and in 2003, she received the Ohio State Bar Association’s Nettie Cronise Lutes Award for opening doors for women and girls in the field of law.

She attended Loyola University New Orleans Night Law Program, and transferred to the regular law study program when she was selected for the United States Air Force’s Funded Legal Education Program in 1977.  She was awarded the American Jurisprudence Award for Academic Excellence in Constitution Law while at Loyola.  She transferred to the University of Cincinnati College of Law in the summer of 1978, and was awarded her J.D. degree from the University of Cincinnati, completing her law studies in December 1980.

Colonel Murnane is married to Lieutenant Colonel Kevin Murnane, U.S. Air Force, Retired, who, at the time of his retirement was the Deputy Chief of Strategic Plans for Personnel for the United States Air Force, The Pentagon.  They have two children, Christina Veillon and Rachel Lyn Veillon Manuel, both born while Colonel Murnane was attending law school, and three grandchildren.

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