College of Law Participates in 119th ASIL Annual Meeting

Faculty members from the College of Law participated in the 119th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law (ASIL), which took place in Washington, D.C. 

The delegation included Dean Susan L. Karamanian, Dr. Georgios Dimitropoulos, Professor of Law, WTO Chair and Associate Dean for Research, and Dr. Ka Lok Yip, Associate Professor. Alongside other world-leading legal scholars and practitioners, judges, and policymakers, they engaged in discussions and analyses of contemporary challenges to international law. 

During the event, Dr. Dimitropoulos moderated a high-level panel titled “Digital Sovereignty and Economic Regulation: The Future of Global Governance,” featuring Brian Egan (Skadden Arps), Danielle Osler (Google), Mark Wu (Harvard Law School), and Julia Pohle (WZB Berlin) as speakers. The discussion focused on how emerging technologies challenge traditional regulatory and legal frameworks and shape new global governance frameworks. 

Dr. Dimitropoulos also became the Co-Chair of ASIL’s International Law & Technology Interest Group (ILTech IG). As a result, he co-led the annual business meeting of the ILTech IG alongside Professor Han-Wei Liu (Singapore Management University) and Professor Ching-Fu Lin (National Tsing Hua University in Taipei). He also participated in an event held at Georgetown University Law Center and Georgetown Law’s Institute of International Economic Law titled “Global Supply Chains Under Pressure: Economic Statecraft and the Changing Trade Landscape.” The panel brought together the ILTech IG leadership, leading scholars, and policy experts to discuss how industrial policy and geoeconomic competition are reshaping trade and global supply chains.

Elsewhere, Dr. Yip participated as a speaker on a panel titled “Double Standards in the Emerging Multipolar Global Order.” Her talk centered on the more granular, inner dimension of double standards in international law. Building on her research examining legal philosophy, the sociology of law, and psychology, she addressed individuals’ reluctance to apply the same standards that they would use in judging others to themselves as a survival mechanism to avoid anxiety about guilt and condemnation. 

Dr. Yip commented that failure to confront this anxiety plays a major role in the widespread double standards in international law that in time tend to degenerate into a single standard of lawlessness.

At the meeting, Dr. Karamanian retired from the ASIL’s Audit Committee, where she had served as chair. She also contributed to the 2025 ASIL Annual Meeting Planning, helping organize panels on international economic law.

ASIL is one of the world’s premier learned societies committed to promoting an understanding of international law. The College of Law joins other major law schools from around the world as an ASIL Academic Partner, providing substantial benefits to students and faculty, including access to dedicated lectures and events as well as international legal resources.