The ISBA International and Immigration Law Section will be a co-sponsor of the spring meeting of the American Bar Association Section of International Law. It will take place Wednesday through Friday April 5 to 7 at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City.

Prof. Mark E. Wojcik of The John Marshall Law School, past chair of the ISBA section council, has held several positions in the ABA section.

He serves on the section council as editor-in-chief of The International Law News, and is a co-chair of the International Criminal Law Committee and a vice chair of the International Health Law Committee.

The New York meeting will consist of three days of educational programs – a total of 70 presentation – in seven tracks: Public Law, Dispute Resolution, Regulatory, Transaction, Trade, Corporate Counsel, and Law Practice.

Illinois attorneys who will serve as panelists include Mark Pals of Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago; Lawrence M. Gill of Schiff, Hardin & Waite, Chicago; Jeff Cooper and Robert Phillips of SimmonsCooper, East Alton.

Also John A. Kelley, senior attorney of the Northern Trust Co. Legal Department; Mark Firestone, executive vice president and general counsel of Kraft Foods, Northfield, and Kathy Bryan, corporate vice president of the Motorola Law Department, Schaumburg.

Judge Diane Wood of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, Chicago, will be a panelist for a Wednesday breakfast program on Problems and Potential of Extraterritorial Jurisdiction.

At 12:45 p.m. Thursday, the keynote luncheon speaker will be Thomas Buergenthal, an American judge on the International Court of Justice at the The Hague, Netherlands.

At 5 p.m. Thursday, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York will be host for a reception and program, “Terrorism: Learning from U.S. Responses to 9/11.” Panelists include James R. Thompson of Winston & Strawn, Chicago.

The meeting will conclude Friday night with a consular reception at the New York University School of Law.

For more information, call Jessica Elliot at (202) 662-1663 or access the Web site, www.abanet.org/intlaw/spring06/home.