Counterterrorism and Human Rights Panel at CLS

 

Press contact: Erin St. John Kelly

office 212.854.1787 cell: 646.284.8549

 

February 25, 2008 (NEW YORK) – In 2006, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a Global Counterterrorism Strategy, which underscored the importance of respecting human rights in international efforts to combat terrorism. Columbia Law School’s Human Rights Institute and the Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation are co-hosting an expert panel on the prospects for implementing human rights into national and regional counter-terrorism efforts, and through civil society advocacy.

 

Two new publications from the Center will be presented: “Handbook on Human Rights Compliance while Countering Terrorism,” by Dr. Alex Conte, and “Human Rights and the Implementation of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy: Hopes and Challenges,” by Eric Rosand, Alistair Millar and Jason Ipe.

 

 

WHEN: Thursday, February 28, 2008, 5 P.M. to 6:30 P.M. EST

 

WHERE: Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Hall, Amsterdam at West 116 Street; Via subway: #1 train to 116 Street (Broadway)/Columbia University.

Moderator: Sarah Cleveland, Louis Henkin Professor of Human and Constitutional Rights and Co-Director Human Rights Institute, Columbia Law School.

Panelists:

•          Alex Conte, reader in law, University of Southampton, member, Advisory Panel of Experts to the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism, and fellow, International Policy Institute on Counter-Terrorism.

•          EJ Flynn,senior human rights officer, UN Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate and former officer, UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights in Geneva.

•          Eric Rosand,senior fellow, Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation in New York and non-resident fellow, NYU’s Center on International Cooperation.

•          Margaret Satterthwaite, assistant professor of clinical law and faculty director, Center on Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU Law School and member, Advisory Panel of Experts to the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism.

The Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation is a nonpartisan research and policy institute that for over 15 years has worked to improve internationally coordinated responses to the threat of terrorism. It provides governments and international organizations with research and analysis to improve arrangements for combating terrorism within the UN and other international and regional bodies and promotes international counterterrorism cooperation. It is the only research center in the world focusing on the role of multilateral institutions in the global campaign against terrorism.

 

Columbia Law School’s Human Rights Institute was founded in 1998, built on decades of human rights education and founded to help train the next generation of lawyers, teachers and human rights professionals. It is dedicated to building bridges between theory and practice; between law and other disciplines; between national (constitutional) rights and international human rights. It is the oldest comprehensive human rights program in legal education in the United States.

 

Columbia Law School, founded in 1858, stands at the forefront of legal education and of the law in a global society. Columbia Law School joins traditional strengths in international and comparative law, constitutional law, administrative law, business law and human rights law with pioneering work in the areas of intellectual property, digital technology, sexuality and gender, and criminal law.