Latest News
March 5, 2012
Applications for the NAMUN 2013 Secretariat are now available here.
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February 24, 2012
NAMUN XXVII closes another great year. Thank you to all staff and delegates who participated!
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February 22, 2012
The Wednesday Edition of The Diplomat is now available online! Printed copies will be available in the afternoon.
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February 21, 2012
NAMUN XXVII
University of Toronto
Conference Schedule available here.
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January 31, 2012
Background guides for committees have been posted.
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Conference Speakers
Keynote Speaker - Mohammad Fadel
Mohammad H. Fadel is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto, which he joined in January 2006. He received his B.A. in Government and Foreign Affairs (1988), a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago (1995) and his J.D. from the University of Virginia (1999). While at the University of Virginia School of Law, Professor Fadel was a John M. Olin Law and Economics Scholar and Articles Development Editor of the Virginia Law Review.
Prior to law school, Professor Fadel completed his Ph.D in Chicago, where he wrote his dissertation on legal process in medieval Islamic law. Professor Fadel was admitted to the Bar of New York in 2000 and practiced law with the firm of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York, New York, where he worked on a wide variety of corporate finance transactions and securities-related regulatory investigations. In addition, Professor Fadel served as a law clerk to the Honorable Paul V. Niemeyer of the United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit and the Honorable Anthony A. Alaimo of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia. Professor Fadel has published numerous articles in Islamic legal history.
Gala Speaker - Jeffrey Kopstein
Jeffrey Kopstein is Professor of Political Science and Acting Director of the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of California, Berkeley. He has held fellowships at Harvard University, Princeton University and from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. His most recent publications are “Deadly Communities: Local Political Milieus and the Persecution of Jews in Occupied Poland,” (with Jason Wittenberg in Comparative Political Studies, vol. 44, no. 5, May 2011, 259-283) and “Between Nationalization and Internationalization: Electoral Behavior in Interwar Poland” (with Jason Wittenberg in POLIN: Studies in Polish Jewry, vol. 24, forthcoming in November 2011).