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?? 2025 Symposium – Keynote Speaker Spotlight ?? ?? Date: TOMORROW, Friday, March 21 ?? Location: The Jack Morton Auditorium ?? Registration required: https://lnkd.in/dP7j85p7 Join The George Washington International Law Review for our 2025 Symposium: Global Votes, Global Threats: Democracy in the 2024 Super-Cycle Election on Friday, March 21, 2025. With over 73 elections in the 2024 Super-Cycle,?this symposium will offer a legal reflection on the state of democracy globally, including panels on election access, trust, and security. Meet our esteemed keynote speaker, Wajahat Ali. Wajahat Ali has given speeches around the world such as TED, The Aspen Ideas Festival, Google, the United Nations, and The New Yorker Festival. His writing appears regularly in the New York Times, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, and The Guardian. He is a Senior Fellow at The Western States Center and Auburn Seminary and co-host of Al Jazeera’s “The Stream.” His memoir Go Back to Where You Came From, one of Amazon’s Best Books of the Year, follows his life as a Muslim Pakistani-American on a surprising, emotional, and challenging quest for the good life. He is also a recovering attorney and playwright.

?? 2025 Symposium – Panel Three Spotlight ?? ?? Date: Friday, March 21 ?? Location: The Jack Morton Auditorium ?? Registration required: https://lnkd.in/dP7j85p7 Join The George Washington International Law Review for our 2025 Symposium: Global Votes, Global Threats: Democracy in the 2024 Super-Cycle Election on Friday, March 21, 2025. With over 73 elections in the 2024 Super-Cycle,?this symposium will offer a legal reflection on the state of democracy globally, including panels on election access, trust, and security. Meet our esteemed panelists who will be discussing election security: Sabrina Siddiqui is a national politics reporter at the Wall Street Journal, where she has reported on the White House and the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections.?She will be moderating this final panel. Sebastian Bay is a researcher and project manager specialising in election security and hybrid threats. His election expertise is grounded in managing multiple projects to reduce electoral risks, enhance resilience, and establish effective response and recovery mechanisms for Sweden’s 2018 and 2022 general elections. David Levine is a senior fellow at the University of Maryland’s Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement. He is also an election security professor at George Mason University, an advisory committee member for the Global Cyber Alliance's Cybersecurity Toolkit for Elections, an advisory council member for The Election Reformers Network, a member of the Election Verification Network, and a contributor to the Fulcrum. Lisa Poggiali joins IFES with over fifteen years of experience working at the intersection of technology, democracy, and human rights. Most recently, Lisa served as the Senior Democracy, Data, and Technology Specialist at USAID, where she helped develop the Agency’s digital democracy portfolio.

?? 2025 Symposium – Panel Two Spotlight ?? ?? Date: Friday, March 21 ?? Location: The Jack Morton Auditorium ?? Registration required: https://lnkd.in/dP7j85p7 Join The George Washington International Law Review for our 2025 Symposium: Global Votes, Global Threats: Democracy in the 2024 Super-Cycle Election on Friday, March 21, 2025. With over 73 elections in the 2024 Super-Cycle,?this symposium will offer a legal reflection on the state of democracy globally, including panels on election access, trust, and security. Meet our esteemed panelists who will be discussing election trust: Ambassador Peter F. Romero is currently Co-Host/Producer of the podcast “American Diplomat”. This unique podcast features the personal narratives of our nation’s career Foreign Service Officers, has reached 650K downloads, and a solid five-star rating with an 86.2% loyalty (repeat listens) rate. He will be our moderator for this panel. Mai El-Sadany is a human rights lawyer with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Throughout her career, she has worked to expand creative pathways to accountability, to leverage international and regional mechanisms to advance human rights, and to publish accessible analysis and scholarship on legal, judicial, and constitutional issues. Dr. Annika Silva-Leander oversees the organization’s outreach in the region, engagement with the US government and UN, and coordination of the Global Democracy Coalition. She serves as International IDEA’s Permanent Observer to the UN, advocating for democracy at the UN General Assembly. Rana Ayyub is an Indian investigative journalist and a global opinions writer at the Washington Post. She has worked as a reporter, Editor and columnist with some of the leading publications in India and internationally. Her pieces appear in the Time, New York Times, Guardian, Atlantic and Foreign Policy and she has been profiled for the cover of the New Yorker. Dean Rosa Celorio is the Burnett Family Associate Dean and Distinguished Professorial Lecturer for International and Comparative Legal Studies. In this capacity, she directs the International and Comparative Law program at GW Law, and teaches the courses International Law, International Law of Human Rights, and International Human Rights of Women.

?? 2025 Symposium – Panel One Spotlight ?? ?? Date: Friday, March 21 ?? Location: The Jack Morton Auditorium ?? Registration required: https://lnkd.in/dP7j85p7 Join The George Washington International Law Review for our 2025 Symposium: Global Votes, Global Threats: Democracy in the 2024 Super-Cycle Election on Friday, March 21, 2025. With over 73 elections in the 2024 Super-Cycle,?this symposium will offer a legal reflection on the state of democracy globally, including panels on election access, trust, and security. Meet our esteemed panelists who will be discussing election access: Leila Fadel is a host of Morning Edition, as well as NPR's morning news podcast Up First. She has won numerous prestigious awards for her national and international reporting, and she will be our moderator for this first panel. Dr. Irena Hadziabdic has been working in the field of election management for the past 28 years, with the OSCE, IFES BiH, etc.?She is currently serving as the President of the BIH CEC, a position she had already served twice (2010-2011 and 2017-2018). Gerardo de Icaza has been Director of the Department of Electoral Cooperation and Observation since March 1, 2014. In his years as Director, he has led more than 100 Electoral Observation Missions in 27 countries. His well known publications include "International Law of Democracy" coordinated with Luis Almagro and “The Narrative of Fraud in Elections.” Mamabolo, Sy is an established executive with extensive electoral experience of over 25 years. He is currently the Chief Electoral Officer in South Africa, a position he has held for over seven years.?He has been involved with eleven general elections of which three he oversaw as the ultimate accounting officer as CEO. Dr. Darcie Draudt-Véjares, PhD is a Fellow for Korean Studies in the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC. A political scientist and policy analyst, she publishes regular commentary on Northeast Asian relations and US foreign policy.

Join The George Washington International Law Review for our 2025 Symposium: Global Votes, Global Threats: Democracy in the 2024 Super-Cycle Election on Friday, March 21, 2025, in the Jack Morton Auditorium at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The event is co-sponsored by GW Law’s International and Comparative Law Program, the Multiracial Democracy Project, Human Rights Law Society, and International Law Society. With over 73 elections in the 2024 Super-Cycle,? this symposium will offer a legal reflection on the state of democracy globally, including panels on election access, trust, and security. Speakers from election commissions, media, academia, civil society, and international organizations such as the United Nations (UN), Organization of American States (OAS), and Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE) will share insights. Lunch will be provided. Please see additional details on the symposium here: https://lnkd.in/e_twvAnr and RSVP HERE: https://lnkd.in/eTTUDsWw

We are excited to announce the publication of Volume 56, No. 3. This issue is an outgrowth of GWILR’s 2024 Symposium—A World Under Fire: Examining the Global Impact of Gun Trafficking and Violence. This issue is dedicated to Joaquin “Guac” Oliver. His parents founded Change the Ref in his memory. The works featured in this issue of GWILR are: ????????????????, by Jonathan Lowy ????????????????????????, by Casey Glasser ?????? ?????????? ???? ?? ???????????? ?????? ???????????????? ???????????????? ???????? ??????????????: ?????????????? ?????? ???????????????????????????? ???????, by León Castellanos-Jankiewicz & Antonio Guzman Mutis ?????? ???????? ???????????????? ?????? ?????????? ????????????: ?? ???????? ???? ?????????????????? ????????????????????????????????, by Humberto Cantú Rivera ?????????? ?????????? ?????????? ?????? ??????????: ?????????? ?????????????????? ?????????? ???????????? ?????? ?????????????????? ???? ???????????? ?????????????????? ???????????????????? ???? ?????? ???????????? ?????? ?????????????????????? ????????????, by Cole Vick ???????? this issue here:?https://lnkd.in/eJs6WPE6

Volume 56, Nos. 1 & 2 have officially been posted to our new website! This is an incredibly fascinating double issue with nine student Notes that you will not want to miss.? The works featured in this double issue of GWILR are: ?????????? ???? ?????? ????????????: ?????? ?????? ???????????? ?????????????? ???????????? ?????????? ?????????????? ?? ???? ?????? ?????????????? ???????????? ??????, by Tara Rosen ?????????? ??????: ?????????? ???????? ???????????????????? ?????????????????? ????????????????????-?????????? ???????????????????? ????????????????????????????, by Andrea Stein ???????????????? ???????????????? ???? ???????????? ??????????????????: ???????????????????? ???????????????? ?????? ???????????? ?????????????????????? ???? ?????????? ??????????, by Emily S. ?? ?????????? ???? ??????????: ?????? ?????????????????????????? ?????????????????????? ???? ???????????????? ?????????????????? ?????? ???????????????? ?? ???????????? ?????? ?????????????????? ????????????, by Jacquelyn Sherman ?????????????? ???????? ?? ?????????????????? ????????: ?????? ??????????????’?? ???????????? ???? ???????? ?????????? ???????????????????? ?????? ???????? ?????? ???????????????? ????????’?? ???????????? ????????????????????, by Ananda M. de Almeida ???????????? ???? ?????????? ??????????: ??????????’?? ?????????? ?????????? ?????????? ?????? ?????? ?????????? ?????????????????????? ???????????? ???????? ???????? ???????? ????, by Cristina Marila ??????’?? ???? ?????????? ????????! ????????????, ??????’???? ????????????????, by Jordan Reed ???? ????-?????????????????? ?????????????????? ??????????????: ???????????????????? ?????? ?????????????????????? ???????????????????????????? ???????????????? ???? ?????????????? ?????????????? ?????????? ???????????????????? ?????? ???????????????????? ??????????????????, by Isabella (Izzy) Schwarze ??????????’?? ???????? ?????????????????? (????????????????????) ??????: ???????? ?????? ‘????????-??-????????’ ?????????????? ???? ?????? ?????????? ???? ???? ???????????????? ?????? ???? ???????????????????? ??????????????????, by Azniv Nalbandian ???????? this double issue here: https://lnkd.in/e7yzwacB

We are very excited to present the Editorial Board of Volume 58 of The George Washington International Law Review. We look forward to seeing all that our journal can accomplish under their leadership.

Our new website is now officially live! Go to thegwilr.org to check it out!

The George Washington International Law Review?is now accepting article submissions for our spring symposium titled,?“Global Votes, Global Threats: Democracy in the 2024 Super-Cycle?Election.”?The symposium will take place on?Friday, March 21, 2025, in the Jack Morton Auditorium at The George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs. All of the information regarding submission requirements is available on the Symposium page of our website. Submissions are due by?February 1, 2025?to be considered. https://lnkd.in/e_twvAnr