Fall 2005
Spring 2006
Fall 2005
Human Rights Workshops
September 16
Jonathan Freiman, Attorney for Jose Padilla, Visiting Lecturer and Schell Fellow, YLS, Human Rights After 9/11
September 30
Alfredo Bullard, Law Firm of Bullard, Fall, Ezcurra & Rivarola, Peru; Andrés Jana, Universidad de Chile, Raúl Mejia, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México; Esteban Restrepo; Universidad de los Andes Law School, Colombia; Calixto Salomão Filho, University of São Paulo, Brazil, Democratic Prospects: Latin American Elections 2005-2006
October 14
Michael Doyle, Harold Brown Professor of Law and International Affairs, Columbia Law School, Democracy Building: Empires, Intervention and Peacekeeping
November 4
Hassan Jabareen, Yale World Fellow and Founder and General Director, Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, Litigating Palestinian Rights Before the Israeli Supreme Court
November 11
Nancy Soderberg, Senior Advisor, International Crisis Group, and author of The Superpower Myth: The Use and Misuse of American Might, America’s Power: Using it Wisely
November 18
Mohsen Sazegara, Research Affiliate, Middle East Studies Council, YCIAS, Lawful Crimes in Iran
December 2
Catherine Powell, Co-Faculty Director, Crowley Human Rights Program and Associate Professor of Law, Fordham Law School, Lifting the Veil of Ignorance: Culture, Constitutionalism, and Women’s Human Rights in Post-September 11 America
December 9
Mark J. Osiel, Professor of Law, University of Iowa, Shared Responsibility for Mass Atrocity: Aligning the Incentives
December 16
Robert Sloane, Associate-in-Law, Columbia Law School Measuring Harm and Culpability in the ‘Maelstrom of Violence’: The Expressive Capacity of International Punishment
Other Schell Events
September 13
Introduction to Human Rights Programs
September 20
A conversation with the founders of Ru'ya Falastiniya (Palestinian Vision)
Executive Director Rami Naser Eddin and Program Manager Ruwa Jaber
October 10
Film Series: Long Night's Journey Into Day: South Africa's Search for Truth and Reconciliation
October 17
Human Rights Career Panel
Catherine Amirfar, Debevoise & Plimpton; Sarah Prosser, U.S. State Department, Office of Legal Adviser; Rick Hertz, EarthRights International
October 19
Beatriz Boza, Executive Director, Ciudadanos al Día, Peru and Yale World Fellow
Development Disappointment in the Peruvian Andes: Natural Resources, Poverty and Local Governance
November 1
Middle East Discussion Series: Abbas Amanat, Prof. of History, Yale University, From Reformism to Messianic
November 7
Middle East Discussion Series: Chibli Mallat, Senior Schell Fellow, Truth & Justice in the Lebanese Revolution: After Mehlis
November 15
Middle East Discussion Series: Sadik Jalal Al-Azm, Professor at Damascus University, Syria at the Crossroads: the Search for a Damascus Spring
November 10
Intro. to Summer Fellows Panel
Brandon Birdwell, Ghana Center for Democratic Development;
Talia Inlender, Center for Reproductive Health, Research & Policy, Nepal;
Adam Porsch, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, India and Zhou Dan - Public Interest Law Firm, China;
Theresa Sgobba, Childrens Rights Project of the Community Law Centre at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa
November 15
Greg Khalil, YLS '02 and Legal Advisor, Negotiations Support Unit (advises PLO)
Beyond Disengagement: Unilateralism or Law
November 16
Len Rubenstein, Executive Director, Physicians for Human Rights
Coercive Interrogation and the Corrosion of Law and Medicine
November 21
Ma Thida, Burmese Doctor and Writer and Former Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience, Health and Human Rights in Burma
November 21
Human Rights Film Series: Sometimes in April
December 5
Derek Gilman, Day, Berry & Howard, LLP
The Iraqi Higher Criminal Court and the Trial of Saddam Hussein: A New Development in International Law
December 14
Tom Perriello, Partner and Fellow, Res Publica, Afghanistan consultant, International Center for Transitional Justice, Justice as a Security Strategy in Afghanistan
December 15
Human Rights Film Series: The Killing Fields
Co-sponsored events
October 19
Patrick Ball, Director, Human Rights Data Analysis Group Benetech
Statistical Imagination & Creativity in the Analysis of Large-Scale Human Rights Atrocities (with the Program on Order, Conflict and Violence, part of YCIAS)
October 25
Claudia Acevedo, Founder of Guatemala’s only lesbian organization, Lesbiradas, When Coming Out Can Get You Killed: Violence against Women in Guatemala (with Larry Kramer Initiative and the Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies)
November 8
Film Series: Stolen Childhoods (with Workers’ Rights Project)
November 15
Film: Walmart - The High Cost of Low Price
(With Workers’ Rights Project, Yale Law Women, American Constitution Society at Yale Law, Latino/a Law Students Association, Social Change Network, Project Opportunity, Yale Hunger and Homeless Action Project, Social Justice Network, Yale Environmental Law Association)
November 29
Reading & Debate with the editors of: In the Name of Democracy: American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond [Jeremy Brecher, Jill Cutler, and Brendan Smith] (with Labyrinth Books)
December 1
Fujimori: From Fugitive to Candidate? (with Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies, Latin American Forum, Canadian Studies Committee and YCIAS)
Human Rights Workshops
January 27
Dieter Grimm
Rector, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Institute for Advanced Study, Professor of Law, Humboldt University of Berlin, and Georges Lurcy Visiting Professor of Law, YLS
Integration by Constitution
February 3
Thomas Carothers
Director, Democracy and Rule of Law Project, Carnegie Endowment for Int’l. Peace
Democracy Promotion Under Stress: Causes and Consequences
February 10
Christian Tomuschat
Professor Emeritus of Law, Humboldt University of Berlin
The UN Security Council and Human Rights: An Assessment by the Judiciary of the European Union
February 17
Kim Lane Scheppele
Director, Program in Law and Public Affairs, and Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School and University Center for Human Values, Princeton University Russian Puzzles in Human Rights
February 24
Naomi Roht-Arriaza
Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings
Transnational Prosecutions in Latin America and Beyond: The Legacy of the Pinochet Case
March 3
Hauwa Ibrahim
Yale World Fellow, Recipient of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, and Senior Partner and Pro Bono Legal Aid Counsel, General Law Practice, the Aires Law Firm, Nigeria
Defending Women's Human Rights Under Sharia Law
March 24
Sarah Cleveland
YLS ’92, Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
The Cambodian Garment Industry: A Test Case for International Labor Rights?
April 7
David Rieff
Journalist, author of At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention
and A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis, Humanitarian Action to Humanitarian War: The Slippery Slope
April 28
Lama Abu-Odeh
Professor of Law, Georgetown University
Human Rights and the Globalization of American Law: The Case of Egypt
Other Schell Events
January 30
Human Rights Film Series, Born into Brothels
February 7
Human Rights Film Series, Rabbitproof Fence
February 9
The Hamas Victory in Palestinian Elections: Implications for the Middle East
Hassan Jabareen, Yale World Fellow and Founder and General Director, Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel; Riaz Hassan, Visiting Professor, Sociology Department and Emeritus Professor, Flinders University, Australia; Ellen Lust-Okar, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Chair, Council on Middle East Studies, Yale University
February 10
Kamala D. Harris, San Francisco District Attorney
Beyond Due Process Doing Substantive Justice in Women's Rights, Human Rights and Public Safety
February 13
Working on International Justice: A Panel of Summer Human Rights Fellows
Geoffrey Chepiga, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Nusrat Choudhury, Prosecution Division, International Criminal Court
Krissa Lanham, Legal Advisory Section, International Criminal Court
Tegan Shohet, Immediate Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Court
Viola Trebicka, The Special Court for Sierra Leone
February 21
Human Rights Film Series, The Laramie Project
February 27
Justice and the Future of the Congo
Panelists: Jacques Depelchin, University of California, Berkeley; Mvemba Dizolele, writer and journalist; Karen Stauss, Human Rights Watch, Moderator: David Simon, Yale Dept. of Political Science.
March 8
Julieta Rossi, Clinical Professor of Human Rights, University of Buenos Aires; former Director, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Program, Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS), Buenos Aires, The Role of Domestic Courts in Adjudicating Economic and Social Rights in Latin America
March 20
Stephen Toope, Chair and Rapporteur of the U.N. Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances; independent fact finder for the Canadian Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar and President and CEO of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, Losing the “War on Terror” New Forms of Disappearance
March 22
Eric A. Friedman, YLS ‘02, HIV/AIDS Policy Analyst, Physicians for Human Rights
The Right to Health: What Does it Add to The Fight Against AIDS and the Health Worker Shortage in Africa?
March 28
Human Rights Film Series, The Passion of Maria Elena
April 3
Panel: Trafficking in Human Beings: Combating a Global Problem
Sealing Cheng, Anthropologist and Assistant Professor, Department of Women's Studies, Wellesley College; Dr. Laura Lederer, Senior Adviser on Trafficking in Persons to the U.S. Under-Secretary of State for Global Affairs; Mie Lewis, Aryeh Neier Fellow, Human Rights Watch and ACLU, and former New Voices Fellow and representative of trafficking survivors; Janie Chuang, Moderator, Practitioner in Residence, Washington College of Law, American University, and advisor on trafficking issues, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
April 11
Charles Kamba, Eisenhower, Fellow and Board Member, ZimbabweLawyers for Human Rights
A Constitution Without Constitutionalism: The Zimbabwean Experience
April 21
The Robert L. Bernstein Human Rights Fellowship Symposium
The Demands of Memory: The Purposes, Forms and Moral Obligations of Remembering Atrocities
Co-Sponsored Events
February 11
Film: Sophie Scholl (with Dwight Hall et. al.)
February 22
Trudy Huskamp Peterson, International Human Rights Archivist and Former Acting Archivist of the United States, Final Acts: Preserving the Record of Truth Commissions (with the Artemis Project Student Initiative)
February 28
Hassan El Menyawi, Professor, United Nations University for Peace and Head of the HIV/AIDS and Human Rights Project, Activism from the Closet: Strategizing Gay Rights in the Middle East
(with OutLaws at YLS)
April 8
Beyond These Walls: Promoting Health and Human Rights of Youth in the Justice System
(with Physicians for Human Rights, Connecticut Juvenile Justice Alliance, Campaign for Youth Justice)
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