2008-09 Events

Schell Center Events – Fall 2008

Human Rights Workshops

September 11
Philippe Sands QC
Professor of Law, University College London, Barrister, Matrix Chambers, and author of Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values
Torture Team: Lawyers and War Crimes

September 25
Morris Davis
Former Chief Prosecutor for the Military Commissions at Guantanamo Bay
Prosecuting the Enemy in the Global War on Terrorism

October 10
Julieta Lemaitre (Colombia), Alejandro Madrazo, JSD ’03, (Mexico), and Roberto Saba, ’08 JSD ( Argentina)
Members of the Organizing Committee for the Seminario en Latinoamérica de Teoría Constitucional y Política (SELA)
Using Courts to Promote Human Rights in Latin America

October 30
John Ruggie
Kirkpatrick Professor of International Affairs and Weil Director, Mossavar- Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, and Special Representative of the UN Secretary General on Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises
Constructing a Global Corporate Human Rights Regime

November 13
Philip Gourevitch
Editor, The Paris Review, Staff Writer, The New Yorker, and author of Standard Operating Procedure and We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
Standard Operating Procedure: Fighting Terror with Terror at Abu Ghraib and Beyond

December 4
Christina Murray
Professor of Human Rights and Constitutional Law, University of Cape Town, South Africa, and Law and Public Affairs Fellow, Princeton University
Accommodating Diversity in South Africa

Other Schell Events

September 15
Introduction to Human Rights Programs

Tuesday, October 28
Judge Choucri Sader, Member, Supreme Council of the Lebanese Judiciary, Head of the Council of Legislation and Legal Advice, Lebanese Ministry of Justice, and Director, Institute of the Judiciary Studies, Beirut
A Very Special Tribunal for Lebanon

November 6
Introduction to Kirby Simon Summer Human Rights Fellowships: A Student Panel
Mytili Bala, People=s Watch, India
Nwamaka Ejebe, Constitutional Rights Project, Nigeria
Becky Perry, International Justice Mission, India
Robbie Silverman, South Africa Human Rights Commission

November 11
Working at Institutions of Transitional Justice: A Student Panel and Informational Meeting
on Summer Internships
Sadie Blanchard, Documentation Center of Cambodia
Tom Dannenbaum, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
Brian Finucane, The Registry for War Crimes, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Andrew Iliff, International Center for Transitional Justice, South Africa

November 12
Human Rights Career Panel
Mark Bromley, Council Chair, The Council for Global Equality
Sarah Prosser, Attorney Adviser, East and South Asian Affairs, Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State
Jill van Berg, YLS ’04, Associate, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

November 18
Michael Posner, President, Human Rights First
Human Rights Challenges and Opportunities for the Obama Administration

December 8
Eric Friedman, YLS ’02, Senior Global Health Policy Advisor, Physicians for Human Rights,
Global Health and the Right to Health: The Current Reality and the Future Possibility

December 9
Sawsan Zaher, Advocate, Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel,
Denying Family Life to Palestinians in the Name of Security - The Case of Israel

December 16
Ryan Goodman, YLS ’99, Visiting Professor of Law and Robina Foundation Fellow, Yale Law School, and the Rita E. Hauser Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Harvard Law School
Dapo Akande, Visiting Associate Professor of Law and Robina Foundation Fellow, Yale Law School and University Lecturer in Public International Law and Yamani Fellow, St. Peter's College, University of Oxford
The Global Diffusion and Domestic Use of International Law: A Conversation with the Robina Foundation Senior Fellows in Residence

Co-Sponsored Events

September 22
Katy Glassboro, International Justice Reporter, Institute for War and Peace Reporting
The International Criminal Court and the Problem of Hidden Agendas: A Journalist's Perspective on Sudan and Uganda
(with International Affairs Council at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University, and the Yale Law School Law and Media Program,

Monday, October 27
Aryeh Neier, President, Open Society Institute
Peace vs. Justice: Is there a Conflict? If so, What is to be Done?
(with Yale World Fellows Program)

October 29
Holly Burkhalter, Vice President of Government Relations, International Justice Mission
Making Public Justice Systems Work for the Poor: An International Justice Mission Perspective
(with Yale Law Christian Fellowship and the Human Trafficking Litigation Project)

November 24
Tahir Amin, Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge
Jonathan Berger, AIDS Law Project of South Africa
Patent Busters: Taking on the International IP System, One Lawsuit at a Time
(with American Constitution Society, Information Society Project, Outlaws, and UAEM)

November 24
Dennis Edney, Canadian Counsel for Omar Khadr
Growing up in Guantánamo
(with the Canadian Student’s Association, the American Constitution Society, the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Project, the Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal, the National Lawyers Guild, and the Dean’s Office)

Schell Center Events – Spring 2009

Human Rights Workshops

January 29
David Golove
Hiller Family Foundation Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
The Case for Incorporating Global Justice into the U.S. Constitution

February 12
Catherine Powell
YLS ’92, Associate Professor of Law, Fordham Law School
Human Rights at Home: A Domestic Policy Blueprint for the New Administration

February 26
Sean Jacobs
Assistant Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and Communication Studies, University of Michigan
The Postapartheid in South Africa

March 11
Diane Orentlicher
Professor of International Law and Co-director, Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Washington College of Law, American University
International Criminal Courts: What Impact Do They Have?

April 16
David Simon
Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Yale University
The Role of Gacaca in Politics and Reconciliation in Rwanda

April 30
Koray Tutuncu
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Abant Izzet Baysal University, Bolu, Turkey, and Schell Fellow, Yale Law School
Turkish Secularism, Neutrality of the State and Political Islam

Other Schell Events

February 6
The Pursuit of International Criminal Justice: The Case of Darfur (with support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation)
Keynote Address: Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
Roundtable Discussions among policymakers, scholars, civil society leaders (list of participants available) (Moderated by Dean Harold Hongju Koh)

March 24
David Schwendiman, Prosecutor for War Crimes, State Court of Bosnia and Herzegonivina
After the Shooting Stops: Justice at Home after the Fighting Ends – Challenges Facing the Domestic Prosecution of War Crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina

March 25
Steven Hill, YLS ’01, Deputy Head of the Legal Unit of the International Civilian Office in Kosovo Kosovo's Declaration of Independence: One Year Later

April 2-3
Beyond Borders: Immigration Policy in the New Century,
Robert L. Bernstein International Human Rights Fellowship Symposium

The Morality of Borders
Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University
Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale University
Paul Kahn, Robert W. Winner, Professor of Law and the Humanities, Yale Law School, (moderator)

Discussion with Current Bernstein Fellows
Kristina Scurry Baehr (’08) The Carter Center (project in Liberia)
Alisha Bjerregaard (’08) Center for Reproductive Rights (project in Kenya)
Matiangai Sirleaf (’08) International Center for Transitional Justice, Cape Town, South Africa

A U.S. Immigration Policy Reform Agenda for the Obama Administration
Lucas Guttentag, Founder and National Director, Immigrants’ Rights Project, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation
Serena Hoy, Counsel,Office of U.S. Senator Harry Reid
David Shahoulian, Counsel, Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives
James Ziglar, Former Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (2001-2002)
Susan Benesch, Dean’s Visiting Scholar, Georgetown University Law Center, and Senior Legal Advisor, Center for Justice and Accountability (moderator)

Local Responses to Immigration and National Immigration Policy
John DeStefano, Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut
Craig E. Ferrell, Jr.,Deputy Director, Houston Police Department, and General Counsel, Major Cities Chiefs of Police Association
Donald Cresitello, Mayor of Morristown, New Jersey
Michael Wishnie, Clinical Professor of Law, Yale Law School (moderator)

April 7
Michael Karayanni, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
The “Other” Religion and State Conflict in Israel: The Religious Accommodations for the Palestinian-Arab Minority

May 1
Humanitarian Law and the Middle East: Reflections from Gaza and Lebanon
Chibli Mallat, Presidential Professor of Law, University of Utah, and EU Jean Monnet Professor of Law, Université Saint Joseph, Lebanon
Darryl Li, PhD Candidate in Anthropology & Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard, and JD student, Yale Law School
Kenneth Mann, Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University, and Legal Advisor, Gisha: Legal Center for Freedom of Movement
Moderated by Aziz Rana, YLS ’06, Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fellow, Yale Law School

Co-sponsored events

February 12
Changing the Face of Hunger
Tony Hall, Former U.S. Congressman
(with Yale Law Christian Fellowship and the Rivendell Institute

February 13
Warring Parties: Conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo
(with the Women's Center at Yale Divinity School and the African Studies Council and Gaddis Smith Seminar Series at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University))

Film screening: “Rape of a Nation” by Marcus Bleasdale

Panelists:
Séverine Autesserre, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University
Bryan Mealer,former Associated Press staff correspondent in Kinshasa, Congo, and author of All Things Must Fight to Live: Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo
Kambale Musavuli, Congolese activist and Student Coordinator, Friends of the Congo
John Prendergast, Co-Chair, ENOUGH Project
Peter Rosenblum, Lieff, Cabreser, Heimann & Bernstein Clinical Professor of Human Rights Law, Columbia Law School
David Simon, Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Yale University (Moderator)

Photo Exhibit
“Portraits of Survival" by Finbarr O'Reilly, West and Central Africa Chief Photographer, Reuters

February 18
Shedding Light on Oppression: Testimonies of a North Korean Defector and Refugee Activists Timothy Lee, Yong Kim, and Sejin Seo
(with Thi[NK] North Korea, and Pierson College)

March 4
Daniel Bonilla, ’05 JSD, Associate Professor. Universidad de los Andes School of Law, Bogota, Colombia,
Same Sex Couples in Colombia: Equality, High Impact Litigation and Democracy
(with Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies of Yale University)

April 27
Film Screening of "Kimjongilia" and talk by director, N.C. Heikin
(with Yale Amnesty International, the Pacific Islander, Asian, and Native American Law Students Association, Thi[NK] North Korea, and the Yale Journal of International Law)