Fall 2003
Spring 2004
Human Rights Workshops
September 5
Aharon Barak, President, Supreme Court of Israel
Human Rights in a Time of Terrorism
September 12
Jamie Fellner, Human Rights Watch, U.S. Division
Guantanamo: Land Without Law
September 19
Joanne Mariner, Human Rights Watch, Americas Division
Recent Developments in Justice and Accountability in Latin America
September 26
Celine d’Cruz, Yale World Fellow
Demolition to Dialogue: A Case Study of Pavement Dwellers in the City of Bombay
October 3
Wan Yanhai, Yale World Fellow, “HIV/AIDS"
Law and Human Rights in Henan Province of China
October 10
Roberto Saba (Argentina), Andres Jana (Chile), Efren Rivera (PR), Calixto Salomao (Brazil), Alfredo Bullard (Peru), Raul Mejia (Mexico)
Bush Administration Foreign Policy: The View from Latin America
October 31
Jonathan Schell, Coca-Cola World Fund Fellow and Visiting Lecturer, YLS
Disarmament Wars: Iraq, Iran, and North Korea
November 7
Dan Rabinowitz, University of Tel Aviv and Princeton
Between Right and Fulfilment: The Possibility of Palestinian Return to Israel
November 14
Adam Ashforth, Visiting Associate Professor, Institute for Advanced Study
Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa
November 21
David Wippman, Cornell Law School
Exaggerating the ICC
December 5
Khaled Abou el Fadl, Professor of Law, UCLA and Visiting Professor, YLS
The Human Rights Challenge to Islamic Law
December 12
Payam Akhavan, Schell Fellow and former Legal Advisor, Office of the Prosecutor, ICTY
Reducing Genocide to Law: Radical Evil, Legal Process and the Temptations of Closure
Other Schell Events
September 8
Introduction to Human Rights
September 22
Schell Center Kirby Simon Summer Fellows Reception
September 30
Schell Summer Fellows Panel
Presentations by: Aziz Rana, Justice Africa; Charisa Smith, Panamanian Center for Social Study and Social Action; Diarra McKinney, Dom Helder Chamber of Studies and Social Action, Brazil; Prasad Krishnamurthy, Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank, India
October 9
Vivek Maru, YLS '01, Human Rights Watch Fellow 2002-03
Human Rights and AIDS in Bangledesh: The Challenges of International Advocacy
October 14
Tom Parker, UK Special Advisor on Transitional Justice and Head of Crimes Against Humanity Investigations, Post-War Iraq: The Mission of the Office of Human Rights and Transitional Justice
November 4
Judge Tandazwa Ndita, Law Race and Gender Unit, University of Cape Town and Fellow, Women’s Law & Public Policy Fellowship Program, Challenges Facing the South African Judiciary
November 13
Human Rights Career Panel
Catherine Amirfar, Associate, Debevoise and Plimpton
Sara Rakita, Researcher, Africa Division, Human Rights Watch; Program Consultant for the Special Initiative for Africa, The Ford Foundation
James Silk, Executive Director, Schell Center for International Human Rights
November 17
Brown bag lunch with Chinwe Uwandu, Nigerian Human Rights Lawyer and Yale World Fellow
Human Rights, Democracy, and Accountability in Nigeria
November 19
Bernstein Fellowship Informational Meeting
November 20
Tyler Giannini and Rick Herz, EarthRights International
Litigating Doe v. UNOCAL
December 2
Close Encounters with International Criminal Justice: A Summer Human Rights Fellows’ Panel
Presentations from: International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslovia (ICTY): Kevin Kish ‘04, Bartlomiej Szewczyk ‘05, Katherine Southwick ‘05; International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR): Dale Ho ‘05; Special Court for Sierra Leone: Ethel Higonnet ‘05, Alexandros Zervos ‘05
December 8
Brown-bag lunch with Kamala Chandrakirana, Yale World Fellow
Legal Reform without Rule of Law: Working for Women's Human Rights in Indonesia
Co-sponsored events
September 22
Harriet McBryde Johnson, Attorney, Author, Spokesperson for “Not Dead Yet”
Disability Identity, Disability Rights, and Quality of Life (with Disability and Bioethics Working Group)
October 18-19
Thinking In and Out of Crisis, Intercollegiate Arab Student Conference (with Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Arab Academy, An-Nahar Newspaper, Asian American Cultural Center, Berkeley College, Davenport College, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Office of International Students and Scholars, Pierson College and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program)
October 20
Eric Rosenthal, Mental Disability Rights International Claiming Human Rights for People with Mental Disabilities (with Disability and Bioethics Working Goup)
October 20
Beyond Questions of Principle: Exploring the Implementation of Living Wages in Today’s Global Economy (A forum co-sponsored with the Fair Labor Association, the Center for the Study of Human Rights and the SIPA Human Rights Concentration, Columbia University, held at Columbia University in New York).
November 17
Harilyn Russo, Executive Director, Disabilities Unlimited Consulting Services, Networking Project for Disabled Women and Girls, From Girl to Woman to Elder: Gender Issues for People with Disabilities (with Disability and Bioethics Working Group)
December 5
Life After Fellowships: How do I turn a year into a career?
Fiona Doherty, YLS '99, a Bernstein Fellow for the Committee on the Administration of Justice, Belfast, currently a Senior Associate, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights; Michael Kagan, University of Michigan Law School graduate, a grant recipient from the Initiative for Public Interest. Jessica Sager, YLS, started All Our Kin in New Haven through an Arthur Liman Fellowship (with The Initiative for Public Interest, the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program, and the Career Development Office)
Spring 2004
Human Rights Workshops
January 30
Ryan Goodman, Assistant Professor, Harvard Law School
Mechanisms of Social Influence and Human Rights Law
February 6
Daniel Wilkinson, Counsel, Americas Division, Human Rights Watch,
Human Rights, Security, and America’s Wars: The Case of Latin America
February 13
Mridu Rai, Assistant Professor of History, Yale
Making Hindu Rulers and Muslim Subjects: Religion and Rights in Kashmir
February 20
Martha Nussbaum, Professor of Law and Ethics, Department of Philosophy and Schools of Law and Divinity, University of Chicago, Beyond the Social Contract: Capabilities and Social Justice (with Law and Globalization Seminar)
February 27
John Ruggie, Professor of International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard, American Exceptionalism, Exemptionalism and Global Governance (with Law and Globalization Seminar)
April 2
Bonita Meyersfeld, JSD candidate, Yale Law School
Private Torture: Domestic Violence in International Law
April 16
Corinne Dufka, Researcher, Africa Division, Human Rights Watch
The Imperative of Justice: Investigating Human Rights Violations in Sierra Leone
April 23
Alex Wendt, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
Why a World State is Inevitable (with Law and Globalization Seminar)
April 30
David Sugarman, Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs, Princeton, and Professor of Law, Lancaster University Law School, England, Pursuing Pinochet: A Global Quest for Justice
Other Schell Events
February 5
Mark Bowden, Pulitzer Prize finalist, author of Black Hawk Down and Killing Pablo, speaking on his recent article in The Atlantic Monthly The Dark Art of Interrogation -- A Survey of the Landscape of Persuasion
February 9
Eduardo Bertoni, Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Promoting Freedom of Expression in the Americas
February 10
Human Rights Film Series: Daughters of Afghanistan, with speakers Sally Armstrong and Sima Wali
February 11
Richard Bourke, Attorney, Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center
Human Rights and Capital Defense Work in the South: Creative Strategies in a Cynical Age
February 24
Human Rights Film Series: Human Weapon
February 25
Promoting Human Rights From Within: Schell Summer Fellowships with Local Organizations
Neeraj Arora ‘05, South Asia Human Rights Documentation Center, India
Hillary Forden ‘05, Asociacion por los Derechos Civiles, Argentina
Sandra Gebhardt ‘04, Citizens’ Constitutional Forum, Fiji Islands
Elaine Kim ‘05, Citizens’ Alliance for North Korean Human Rights, Korea
March 23
Human Rights Film Series: Gacaca, Living Together Again in Rwanda
March 30
Human Rights Film Series: Abandoned: The Betrayal of America’s Immigrants
April 6
Ranabir Samaddar, Director, Peace Studies Program, South Asia Forum for Human Rights
Rights and Justice: Limits of Constitutionalism and the Dialogic of Experience
April 7
David Crane, Prosecutor for the Special Court of Sierra Leone
Dancing with the Devil: Prosecuting West Africa’s Warlords for International Crimes
April 26
Tom Dimitroff, Legal Advisor, BTC/BP; Professor Sheldon Leader, Amnesty International and the University of Essex, UK; Gare Smith, Partner, Foley Hoag, Addressing Human Rights in Multinational Investment: The case of the Baku-Tiblisi-Ceyhan Pipeline
April 21
Human Rights Film Series: Stolen Childhoods with speaker Pharis Harvey
Co-Sponsored Events
February 11
Richard Bourke, Attorney, Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center
Human Rights and Capital Defense Work in the South: Creative Strategies in a Cynical Age
February 19
Leonard Weinglass, YLS ’58, defense counsel to Mumia Abu-Jamal, Jane Fonda, Abbie Hoffman, Tom Hayden, and other high profile, controversial clients (with the Greater New Haven Peace Council) From the Chicago 7 to the Cuban 5: Defending Civil Liberties
March 3
Dr. Gregory Stanton, President, GenocideWatch and James Farmer Professor in Human Rights, Mary Washington College, How International Law Failed Cambodia and What a Yale Law Student Did to Change It (with Americans for Informed Democracy)
April 12
Aryeh Neier, President, Open Society Institute and Former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch and ACLU, Democracy Promotion in the Middle East (with the Yale Law chapter of Americans for Informed Democracy)
April 21
Makau Mutua, Professor of Law, University at Buffalo Law School
Human Rights as a Political Project (with the Council on African Studies, Yale Center for International and Area Studies)
April 27
Craig Cooley, defense counsel for Lee Boyd Malvo
Defending Lee Boyd Malvo: A Conversation with Craig Cooley (with the Capital Assistance Project)
Bernstein Symposium: International Responses to State Crime
March 26, 2004
Current Bernstein Fellows, Tara Melish and Brent Wible, present their work
Panel: Genocide in Rwanda – Reflections Ten Years Later
Bill Berkeley, author of The Graves Are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe, and Power in the Heart of Africa, and Adjunct Professor, Columbia School of International and Public Affairs
Alison Des Forges, Senior Consultant, Africa Division, Human Rights Watch, and author, Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda
Charles Mironko, Department of Anthropology and former Associate Director, Genocide Studies Program, Yale University
Panel: Intervention, Justice and the Revival of Unilateralism
Peter Galbraith, Senior Diplomatic Fellow, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, partner, Galbraith and Morrow, and former U.S. Ambassador to Croatia
Chibli Mallat, Attorney and EU Jean Monnet Professor in European Law, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Université Saint Joseph, Beirut, Lebanon
Linda Fasulo, author, An Insider’s Guide to the UN, and UN correspondent, NBC News/MSNBC
Jonathan Schell, Coca-Cola World Fund Fellow, Yale, and Harold Willens Peace Fellow, The Nation Institute
Robert L. Bernstein Lecture
Luis Moreno Ocampo, Prosecutor, International Criminal Court
Establishing Global Justice: Challenges Faced by the Prosecutor of the ICC