Spring 2005
Fall 2004
Human Rights Workshops
September 10
Bill Berkeley, author of The Graves Are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe, and Power in the Heart of Africa, The Iran Hostage Crisis: Roots of Reform?
September 17
Alfredo Bullard, Law Firm of Bullard, Falla, Ezcurra & Rivarola, Peru, Calixto Salomão Filho, Law Firm of Levy & Salomão, Brazil, Andrés Jana, Universidad de Chile, Raúl Mejia, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Esteban Restrepo, and Roberto Saba, Universidad de Palermo and Universidad de Buenos Aires, Prospects for Consolidation of Democracy in Latin America
September 24
J. Christopher McCrudden, Professor of Human Rights Law, University of Oxford, Buying Social Justice
October 1
Emanuel Gross, Faculty of Law, Haifa University, Law and Terrorism- The Israeli Perspective
November 5
Noah Feldman, Visiting Professor, YLS and Assistant Professor, New York University Law School, Imposed Constitutionalism: Rights and Self-Determination
November 12
Balakrishnan Rajagopal, Assistant Professor of Law and Development and Director, Program on Human Rights and Justice at MIT, Social Rights, Economic Development and Social Movements: A Critique through the Indian Supreme Court's Experience
November 19
Ilir Dugolli, Yale World Fellow, Adviser to the Prime Minister of Kosovo, and founder, Kosovar Institute for Policy Research and Development, The Culture of Human Rights in Kosovo Before and After the War
December 3
Habib Rahiab, Visiting Fellow, Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School, Human Rights and the Upcoming Parliamentary Elections in Afghanistan
December 10
Thomas Cushman, Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College, The Elephant in the Room: The Invisibility of the Human Rights Case for the War in Iraq
December 17
Jane Stromseth, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Moving Forward by Looking Backward?: Accountability for Atrocities and the Challenge of Long-Term Justice Reform in Post-Conflict Societies
Other Schell Events
September 14
Introduction to Human Rights Programs
October 14
Human Rights Career Panel
Susan Benesch, Refugee Program, Amnesty International USA; Steve Hill, Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Dept. of State; Andrew Wilson, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
October 19
Film on Haiti: Pote Mak Sonje: The Raboteau Trial
November 3
Brian Concannon, Jr., Director, Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, Deja Vu All Over Again: Haiti's Undemocratic Transition
November 4
Learn About the Schell Center’s Kirby Simon Summer Human Rights Fellowships
Pamela Campos, Racimos de Ungurahu, Latin America
Sabrina Charles, UN Sub-Regional Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, Central Africa
Kevin Reed, Access Justice Project, Sierra Leone
Michael Tsan, ABA/CEELI, Georgia
November 16
Bertrand Ramcharan, former UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights and Acting High Commissioner for Human Rights.
November 30
Sudan Panel: Never Again? International Responses to the Devastation of Darfur
Panelists: Charles Snyder, Special Representative on Sudan at the U.S. State Department, Oliver Ulich, Principal Desk Officer for the Sudan in the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, John Heffernan, Senior Communications Associate at Physicians for Human Rights, and Rogaia Abusharaf, Fellow, Francois-Xavier Bangoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health. Moderator: Dodie McDow, Lecturer, History Department, Yale University
December 1
The Work of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A collection of short documentaries produced by students from videotaped TRC testimony
December 9
Human Rights Day Film: Justice and the Generals
Co-Sponsored Events
October 6
FIP and Beyond Dinner (with CDO and Liman Program)
November 8
Roundtable Discussion with Françoise Gaspard, Professor of Sociology at the Ecole des hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France, and Member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) (with Liman Program)
November 19
Conversation with Denis Mizne, Instituto Sou da Paz, Brazil, on Urban Violence
December 16
Witness to Truth: A Video Report and Recommendations from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Sierra Leone with speaker Howard Varney, former Chief Investigator of the Sierra Leone TRC (with the Council on African Studies, and the Yale Center for International and Area Studies).
Human Rights Workshops
January 28
Barnett Rubin, Director of Studies and Senior Fellow, Center on International Cooperation, New York University, Transitional Justice in Afghanistan
February 4
Jorge Contesse Singh, LLM candidate, Chile, and Stacie Jonas, class of 2007, former coordinator, Institute for Policy Studies' Bring Pinochet to Justice Campaign, Pinochet in 2005 Fit to Be Tried?
February 11
Ruti Teitel, Ernst C. Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law, New York Law School, Transitional Justice Genealogy
February 18
Mark Schneider, Senior Vice President, International Crisis Group, Haiti’s Last Chance
February 25
Roberta Cohen, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution, and Co-Director, The Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, The UN’s Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement: An Innovation in International Standard Setting
March 4
Greg Fox, Associate Professor of Law, Wayne State University Law School, The Occupation of Iraq
March 24
Amartya Sen, Lamont University Professor, Harvard University, and 1998 Nobel Laureate in Economics, What's the Point of Human Rights? (with Legal Theory & LEO Workshops).
April 1
Neil Hicks, Director, International Programs & Human Rights Defenders Program, Human Rights First, Challenges Confronting Human Rights Defenders: New Pressures from States in the Context of Counterterrorism
April 8
Mark Danner, Staff writer at the New Yorker, author of Torture and Truth: America, Abu Graib and the War on Terror, and Professor of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley, Torture and How we Live With It
April 22
David Kennedy, Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law and Director of the European Law Research Center, Harvard Law School, The Dark Sides of International Humanitarianism
April 29
James Gustave Speth, Dean and Professor in the Practice of Sustainable Development, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Some Say by Fire: The Prospects for Effective Action in Climate Change
Other Schell Events
February 3
Working on International Justice: A Panel of Summer Human Rights Fellows
Heloisa Griggs, Judicial System Monitoring Programme, East Timor
Ethel Higonnet Task Force on the Khmer Rouge Trials, Royal Government of Cambodia
Neerav Kingsland, Special Court for Sierra Leone
Martin Skladany, Chambers, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
Rebecca Smullin, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
February 15
Working on Economic Rights and Development: A Schell Summer Fellows’ Panel
Clara Brillembourg, Global Exchange for Social Investment, Germany
Sameera Fazili, Kashf Foundation, Pakistan
Rahul Rajkumar, World Health Organization, Department of HIV/AIDS, Geneva
March 2
Michael Ratner, Guantanamo to Abu Ghraib: A Litigator's Perspective
March 21
Matt Eisenbrandt, Center for Jutice and Accountability, The Archbishop Romero Case: Seeking Justice in US Courts”
March 29
C. Raj Kumar, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong, Corruption, Human Rights and Development: Governance Perspectives
April 7
Morten Bergsmo, Senior Legal Adviser and Chief of the Legal Advisory Section, Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Between Legitimacy and Efficacy: Challenges to International Criminal Justice
April 18
Neil Lewis, Washington Correspondent for the NY Times, The Partisan Fight Over the Confirmation of Federal Judges
Co-Sponsored Events
February 10
Carlos Ivan Degregori,The Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission: The View of a Social Scientist (with the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies, the Genocide Studies Program, and the Institution for Social and Policy Studies)
February 21
Paul Rusesabagina, Rwanaa: A Lesson Yet to be Learned (with African American Cultural Center)
February 26
Conference: U.S. Colombia Policy at a Crossroads
(with Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, International Security Studies, Office of the Chaplain, The Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund)
April 5
A Conversation with Sister Helen Prajean (with Capital Assistance Project)
April 6
Peter Takirambudde, Executive Director of the Africa Division, Human Rights Watch, What is happening in Darfur? (with Sustainable Development in the South, Students Taking Action Now: Darfur, Concerned students in the Schools of Forestry, Law, and Medicine)
April 19
Gregg Bloche, Co Director, Georgetown-John Hopkins Joint Program in Law and Public Health and Jonathan Marks, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Triage at Abu Graib: U.S Doctors and the Abuse of Prisoners (with Yale Bioethics Project)
April 27
Jean Charles Paras, Head of Mission for Penal Reform International in Rwanda
The intersection of gacaca, local justice initiatives, and the ICTR
April 21
Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani, Peru, Theatre, Memory and Community - A Demonstration and Discussion
April 15
Robert L. Bernstein International Human Rights Fellowship Symposium
Global Poverty, Global Duty, Global Strategies
Breakfast Discussion with Current Bernstein Fellows
Liz Brundige (‘03) International Association of Women Judges in Washington, D.C.
Brandee Butler (‘02), UNICEF in Gabon, West Africa
Panel 1: Introductory Lectures and Discussion: What Obligations Do Developed States Have to Alleviate Global Poverty?
Elizabeth Ashford, Lecturer in Moral Philosophy, School of Philosophical and Anthropological Studies, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, The Duties Imposed by the Human Right to Basic Necessities
Arjun Sengupta, Adjunct Professor of Development and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health; former UN Independent Expert on the Right to Development; UN Independent Expert on Human Rights and Extreme Poverty; Chairman, Centre for Development and Human Rights, International Cooperation as Obligation for Rights-Based Poverty Eradication
Tara Melish, (YLS ’00) Legal Adviser to CEJIL – The Center for Justice and International Law; Bernstein Fellow (moderator)
Panel 2: Reducing Poverty: Aid, Trade, and the Rule of Law
Ron Daniels, Dean, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Cheryl Gray, Director of Poverty Reduction and Economic Management in the Europe and Central Asia Region, World Bank
Sanjay Reddy, Professor of Economics, Barnard College, Columbia University; Visiting Fellow, Center for Human Values, Princeton University
Mark Templeton (YLS ’99), Associate Dean, Yale Law School, Bernstein Fellow (moderator)