Fall 2002
Spring 2003
Fall 2002
Human Rights Workshops
September 6
Ian Martin, International Center for Transitional Justice
East Timor and the Prospects for Truth and Justice
September 13
Jennifer Martinez, Research fellow, YLS
The International Judicial System
September 20
Abdul Tejan Cole, Yale World Fellow and attorney, Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone and the Prospects for Truth and Justice
September 27
Daniel Rothenberg, Schell Fellow and Fellow, Center for Agrarian Studies
The Implications of Truth Commissions for the Theory and Practice of Human Rights
October 4
David Luban, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Crimes against Humanity: What’s in a Name?
October 11
Ghassan Abdullah, Information Systems Analyst Birzeit University, Palestine
Lev Grinberg, Department of Political Sciences, Hebrew University
Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace
November 1
Mary Anne Weaver, author, Pakistan in the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan
November 8
David Rieff, author, A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis
November 15
Graeme Simpson, Executive Director Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, Johannesburg, South Africa
Violence and the Challenges to Restorative Justice in Post-Apartheid South Africa
November 22
Deena Hurwitz, Cover/Lowenstein Fellow, Yale Law School
Lawyering for Justice in the 21st Century: The Inevitability of Human Rights Clinics
December 6
Ali Miller, Law & Policy Project, Columbia University School of Public Health
Sexual Rights and the UN System
December 13
Alec Stone Sweet, Oxford and Visiting Professor
Constitutionalization of Gender Equality in the European Union
Other Schell Events
September 9
Jamie O'Connell (YLS '02), YLS/Open Society Institute Fellow, Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone, Supporting Human Rights Work in a War-Torn Society The Yale Law School-Fourah Bay College Sierra Leone Human Rights Alliance
September 17
Introduction to Human Rights
October 7
Jeffrey Jowell, Professor of Public Law, University College, London
Britain’s New Constitutionalism: From Discretion to Rights
October 8
Lunch discussion with Mary Robinson, recently retired UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and former President of Ireland.
October 15
Human Rights Career Panel
Katherine Birmingham-Wilmore, Associate, Debevoise & Plimpton (NY)
Mark Bromley, Deputy Director of Programs, International Human Rights Law Group
Melissa Waters, YLS '98 and Former Senior Advisor to Assistant Secretaries of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, Harold Koh and Lorne Craner
October 28
Colin Rowat, Economist, University of Birmingham,
Sanctions on Iraq: Impact, Consequences and Options
October 29
Learn About Summer Fellowships
Sandra Gebhardt, Kenya Human Rights Commission; Justyna Gudzowska, Legal Advisors Office, Eritrea; Miriam Ingber, South Asian Human Rights Documental Centre, India; Kevin Kish, Coalition for International Justice, The Hague
November 7
Lula's Victory in Brazil:Implications for Latin America: A Roundtable Discussion
Antonio Barreto Colombian JSD student; Alejandro Madrazo, Mexican LLM student; Gustavo Binenbojm, Brazilian LLM student; Caio Mario Silva Pereira, Brazilian JSD student; Marcio Grandchamp, Brazilian JSD student; Alonso Perez-Kakabadse, Yale World Fellow & former Vice Minister of the Economy of Ecuador
November 11
Alex deWaal Director, Justice Africa
Human Rights and the Political Imagination: How African and Western Movements have Diverged?
November 18
Schell Summer Fellows Panel: Working on the Rights of Minorities and Women
Neha Vahali, Minority Rights Group International (London)
Sofia Yakren, Latvian Coalition for Gender Equality (Latvia)
Seun Ajayi, Center for Economic and Social Rights (Ecuador)
Intisar Rabb, National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (Morocco)
December 3
Xiao Qiang, Executive Director, Human Rights in China and 2001 MacArthur Fellow (“Genius Award”), The Internet and Human Rights in China
December 4
Learn About Bernstein Fellowships: An Informational Meeting
December 10
Paul Meyer, President and CEO of Voxiva, Inc. and YLS '98
Making Technology Work to Solve Real Problems for Real People in the Developing World: A Long and Winding Journey from New Haven to Liberia, Kosovo, East Timor and Peru
Co-Sponsored Events
September 18
The European Court of Human Rights: A Discussion with its President, Luzius Wildhaber
(with the Global Constitutional Seminar)
September 19
Dr. Lynn Amowitz, Physicians for Human Rights
The Impact of Human Rights on Maternal Mortality in Afghanistan
(with Griffin Center for Health and Human Rights, Derby, CT)
October 8
Mary Robinson
Building an Ethical Globalization
(With YCIA, SOM and Globalization Center)
November 8-9, 2002
HIV/AIDS as a Threat to Global Security (With Yale College International Conflict Research Group (ICRG) Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, Yale Center for International and Area Studies)
Human Rights Workshops
January 31
Juan Mendez, Center for Civil and Human Rights, Notre Dame Law School; President, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Human Rights Protection in the Inter-American System: Current Challenges and Future Proposals
February 7
David Kretzmer, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University and Former Member, UN Human Rights Committee, The Supreme Court of Israel and Occupation
February 14
Martti Koskeniemmi, Counsellor for Legal Affairs, Foreign Ministry of Finland: Member, International Law Commission, The Gentler Civilizer of Nations: The Rise and Fall of International Law 1870-1960
February 21
Gary Bass, Center of International Studies, Princeton University, Milosevic in the Hague: the Politics of War Crimes Tribunals
February 28
2002-2003 Bernstein Fellows: Molly Beutz, ‘01, Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights and Eric Friedman, '02, Physicians for Human Rights discuss their work.
March 28
Radhika Coomaraswamy, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women Director, International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, Fighting Violence Against Women: Reviewing a Decade
April 4
James Anaya, University of Arizona College of Law, Indigenous Peoples’ Rights within the Inter-American System: Human Rights Discourse in Flux
April 11
Grainne De Burca, European University Institute, Florence, Putting Europe to Rights: The EU Charter, the Curopean Convention on Human Rights, and Eastward Enlargement
April 25
Tai-Heng Cheng, Former Senior Officer, Singapore Police Force, JSD Candidate, YLS, Human Rights in Singapore: Flying Below the Radar
May 2
Oona Hathaway, Yale Law School, Why do Countries Really Commit to Human Rights Treaties?
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Other Schell Events
February 19
Human Rights Film Screening- Battle of Algiers
February 20
Schell Summer Fellows Panel: Working for the Rights of Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Elizabeth Brundige, Witswatersand University Legal Aid Clinic, South Africa
Carlos Scott Lopez, Refugee Advice and Casework Service, Australia
Stephen Vladeck, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, Washington
March 10
Tom Perriello, YLS '01, Appellate Adviser, Office of the Prosecutor Special Court for Sierra Leone, The Special Court for Sierra Leone, Its Potential and Its Challenges: A View from the Office of the Prosecutor
March 12
Film Screening -- Justice and the Generals
March 26
Albin Eser, Judge ad litem, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Director, Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Towards International Criminal Justice: The Genesis and Features of the Rome Statute
April 9
War, Oil and Sudan: When a Humanitarian Crisis Becomes the Status Quo
Peter Bell, President, CARE USA
John Prendergast, Co-Director, African Program, International Crisis Group
Jemera Rone, Sudan Researcher and Counsel, Human Rights Watch
April 10
Stuart Eizenstat, Former Deputy Secretary of Treasury and Undersecretary of State for Economics, Business and Agricultural Affairs, Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor and the Unfinished Business of World War II
April 23
Justice Richard Goldstone, Constitutional Court of South Africa,The Structure of South African Constitutionalism
April 30
Liam Brody, Fair Trade Coffee
April 30
Bacre Wali Ndiaye, Office of the UN High Commisioner for Human Rights, UN Efforts to Protect Human Rights: The Role of the Office of High Commissioner
Co-sponsored Events
March 25, 2003
Vivian Stromberg and Fathieh Saudi, A Gender Perspective on the US War Against Iraq
part of MADRE’S national tour, "Every Child Has a Name: No War Against Iraqi Families."
(With Women's and Gender Studies, Yale Center for International and Area Studies, , Middle East Studies, Women's Center, Women Faculty Forum, Schell Center for International Human Rights, Amnesty International)
March 27
Joy Gordon, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director, Legal Studies, Fairfield University
Iraq: Economic Sanctions, U.S. Unilateralism, and Post-War Prospects (with Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale)
April 3-4
Conference: The Hemispheric Trade Debate (with YCIAS, The Edward J.and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund, Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, ISPS, Economic Growth Center, Sustainable Americas Project, Dept. of Economics and Dept. of History)
April 7
Conference: Reviving Aspirations of Peace: Strategies for an Israeli-Palestinian Accord (with Yale Law School and the Yale Middle East Law Forum)
Session 1: "Negotiating for Peace: From Oslo to Taba, Lessons to be Learned"
Panelists: Ghaith Al-Omari, Gidi Grinstein; Moderator: Michael Ravid
Session 2: "Aiming Toward Peace: Charting a Vision for the Future"
Panelists: Hassan Abdul Rahman, Shlomo Ben Ami, Robert Malley
Moderator: Ernesto Zedillo
Robert L. Bernstein International Human Rights Fellowship Symposium
Global Interests and Local Needs: Striking a Balance in Post-Conflict States
February 27-28, 2003
Reconstruction of Post-Conflict States: An Exchange of Views
Moderator: Michael Reisman
Speakers:
·Amy Chua, Professor, Yale Law School
·Niall Ferguson, Herzog Professor of Financial History, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University
Panel I: The Players
Moderator: Rudy von Bernuth, Vice President, Division of Humanitarian Response, Save the Children USA
Panelists
·Isam Ghanim, Director, Program Analysis and Development Group, CARE USA
·Ameera Haq, Deputy Assistant Administrator and Deputy Director, Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, United Nations Development Program
·Gail Lecce, Deputy Director, Office of Democracy & Governance, United States Agency for International Development
·Christiaan J. Poortman, Operations Director, Vice PresidentÆs Office of the Africa Region, and former Coordinator for South East Europe, World Bank.
Panel II: Reconstruction in Post-Conflict African States
Moderator: Makau wa Mutua, Professor, SUNY Buffalo Law School
Panelists
· Jennifer Cooke, Deputy Director, Africa Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
·Aileen Marshall, Senior Advisor, Global Coalition for Africa
·Peter Uvin, Henry J. Leir Associate Professor of International Humanitarian Studies, Fletcher School, Tufts University
Human Rights Workshop: Current Bernstein Fellows discuss their work
·Molly Beutz, Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights
·Eric Friedman, Physicians for Human Rights
Panel III: Reconstruction in Post-Conflict Balkan States
Moderator: Elizabeth Anderson, Executive Director, Europe and Central Asia Division, Human Rights Watch
Panelists
·James C. O'Brien, Principal, The Albright Group LLC
·William G. O’Neill, Independent Consultant
·Nicholas Whyte, Europe Program Director, International Crisis Group
Panel IV: An Emerging Model of Multilateral Democracy Promotion: Appraisals and Alternatives
Moderator: Greg Fox, Associate Professor, Wayne State University Law School
Panelists
·Charles Call, Assistant Professor, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University
·Patrick Merloe, Senior Associate and Director, Programs on Elections and Political Processes, National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
·Marina Ottaway, Senior Associate, Democracy and Rule of Law Project, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Closing Address: The Future of Democracy Promotion
Harold Koh, Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law,
Yale Law School