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Spring 2004

April

Human Rights Speaker Series
Justice Richard Goldstone
Retired from the Constitutional Court of South Africa
"The First Ten Years of South Africa's Constitutional Court"
Monday, April 5, 2004
12:15 -1:30pm
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 106
Pizza provided.

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March

Human Rights Practitioner Brown Bag Series
Steven Watt

Center for Constitutional Rights
"Post 9.11 Litigation Strategies: Responses to Arbitrary Detention and Torture"
Wednesday, March 3, 2004
12:15 - 1:30pm
Jerome Greene Hall Annex
Light refreshments provided.  Feel free to bring lunch.


Human Rights Practitioner Brown Bag Series
Peter Takirambudde
Director, Africa Division of Human Rights Watch
"Human Rights Strategies in Africa"
Monday, March 8, 2004
12:15 - 1:30pm
Jerome Greene Hall Annex
Light refreshments provided.  Feel free to bring lunch.
 

Human Rights Speaker Series
Professor Diane Orentlicher
Washington College of Law, American University
"Frontiers of Global Justice: War Crime Prosecutions
From Augusto Pinochet to Saddam Hussein"

Thursday, March 11, 2004
12:30 - 1:30pm
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 105
Pizza provided.
 

Human Rights Practitioner Brown Bag Series
Naz Modirzadeh

"Iran and Human Rights"
Monday, March 22, 2004
12:15 - 1:30pm
Jerome Greene Hall Annex
Light refreshments provided.  Feel free to bring lunch.


Human Rights Practitioner Brown Bag Series
"The New York City Human Rights Ordinance Initiative"

Barbara Schulman
Amnesty International USA
Professor Susan Sturm
Columbia Law School
Monday, March 29, 2004
12:15 - 1:30pm
Jerome Greene Hall Annex
Light refreshments provided. Feel free to bring lunch.

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February

The Human Rights Practitioner Brown Bag Series
David Hecht

Former Chief of Press and Public Affairs
Special Court for Sierra Leone
"The Trials and Tribulation of the
Special Court for Sierra Leone: an Inside View"
Monday, February 2
12:15-1:30pm
Jerome Green Hall, Room 502
Light refreshments provided.

Human Rights Practitioner Brown Bag Series
Kirsti Pohjankukka
New York Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
"Humanitarian Action, Human Rights, and Iraq"
Monday, February 9, 2004
12:15 - 1:30pm
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 502
Refreshments provided.

Co-sponsored with SIPA Human Rights Concentration
Richard Bourke
"Issues on Guantanamo Bay"
Thursday, February 12, 2004
6:00 - 8:00pm
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 107
Following the event, a social hour will be held at the Underground.

Human Rights Practitioner Brown Bag Series
Dorchen Leidholdt, Esq.
and
Hilary Sunghee Seo, Esq.
from
Sanctuary for Families Center for Battered Women's Legal Services
"Sex trafficking in the United States?"
Monday, February 16, 2004
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 502
Light refreshments provided.  Feel free to bring your own lunch.

Human Rights Speaker Series
Professor Alejandro Garro
Columbia Law School
"The Contribution of the Inter-American System on Human Rights in Latin America"
Tuesday, February 17, 2004
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 102
Pizza provided.

Co-sponsored with the Center for the Study of Human Rights and others.
David Gewirtzman

75-year-old Holocaust survivor, and
Jacqueline Murekatete
18-year-old survivor of the Rwandan genocide
"Conversations on Genocide"
Thursday, February 19, 2004
7:00 - 9:00pm
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 104

Human Rights Practitioner Brown Bag Series
Marc Garlasco

Senior Military Analyst, Arms Division, Human Rights Watch
Lieutenant Colonel Tony Pfaff
Foreign Area Officer, Joint Staff, Pentagon
"The Conduct of War and Humanitarian Law in Iraq"
Monday, February 23, 2004
12:15 - 1:30pm
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 105
Refreshments provided.

Cosponsored with Columbia University Institute of African Studies
Jacqueline Moudeina
Lawyer for the victims of the exiled former dictator of Chad
Recipient of 2002 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defender
Friday, Febrary 27, 2004
1:00-3:00pm
Room 1118, International Affairs Building
Light refreshments served.

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