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2004-2005 Events

November

Wednesday, November 3, 2004
Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson
President, Constitutional Court of South Africa
"Constitutional Protection of Socio-economic rights: The South African Experience"

Thursday, November 11, 2004
Donald Donovan
Debevoise & Plimption LLP
Lori Damrosch
Professor, Columbia Law School
"The International Court of Justice and America's Death Row"

Friday, November 12, 2004
Paul Hoffman
Schonbrun, De Simone, Seplow, Harris and Hoffman LLP
"The Alien Tort Statute after Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain"

Monday, November 15, 2004
Brigitte Suhr
Director of Regional Coordination, Coalition for the International Criminal Court
"Implementation of the ICC statute in Africa" Back to top

February

Monday, February 7, 2005
Richard Dicker
Human Rights Watch
"International Justice"

Monday, February 14, 2005
Yvonne Terlingen
Amnesty International
"The role the UN will play in shaping human rights over the next year"

Monday, February 21, 2005
Mary Dudziak
Author of Cold War Civil Rights
Legal Historian

"Impact of international opinion on civil rights policy makers in the 1950s & 60s"

Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Michael Posner
Executive Director, Human Rights First
"Connections between US foreign policy and international human rights"

Monday, February 28, 2005
Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift
"Defense counsel for Salim Ahmed Hamdan at the military tribunal in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba" Back to top

March

Thursday, March 3, 2005
Sandra Babcock
Director, Mexican Capital Legal Assistance Program

Friday, March 4, 2005
Maud de Boer-Buquicchio
Deputy Secretary General, Council of Europe
"Human Trafficking and Human Rights"

Monday, March 7, 2005
Gillian Caldwell
Executive Director, WITNESS
"Video version of the Sierra Leone/TRC written report"

Thursday March 10, 2005
Indira Jaising
Director of the Lawyers Collective, India
"Civil claims in domestic forums for genocide against state & non-state actors"

Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Juan E. Mendez
President, International Center for Transitional Justice
"Special Adviser on Prevention of Genocide, United Nations"

Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Cass Sunstein
Author of the Second Bill of Rights
"Why do social and economic rights find such a receptive audience in Europe, and much less so in America?"

Thursday, March 24, 2005
Nomi Levenkron
Head, Legal Department- Hotline for Migrant Workers
"Trafficking Women in Israel" Back to top

April

Tuesday, April 5, 2005
Corrine Carey
Human Rights Watch
"Fair Housing Policies" Back to top