2010-11 Events

Fall 2010 - Human Rights Workshops

September 10
Pardiss Kebriaei, Staff Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights
Ben Wizner, Staff Attorney, ACLU National Security Project
Targeted Killings in the “War on Terror”

September 17
Samuel Moyn, Professor of History, Columbia University, and Robina Foundation Visiting Human Rights Fellow, Yale Law School
The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History: Part I

September 24
Ratna Kapur, Visiting Professor of Law and Coca-Cola World Fund Faculty Fellow
Un-Veiling Equality: Disciplining the “Other” Woman Through Human Rights Discourse

October 1
Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Wallerstein Distinguished Visiting Professor on Religion, Culture & Conflict, Drew University, Founder, Arab Organization for Human Rights, and Tom and Andi Bernstein Distinguished Human Rights Fellow, Yale Law School
The Dilemma of a Dissident Defending a Human Rights Defender

October 8
Samuel Moyn, Professor of History, Columbia University, and Robina Foundation Visiting Human Rights Fellow, Yale Law School
Mark Philip Bradley, Professor of International History and the College, University of Chicago
The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History: Part II

October 22
Samuel Moyn, Professor of History, Columbia University, and Robina Foundation Visiting Human Rights Fellow, Yale Law School
The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History: Part III

October 29
Ken Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch
The Shifting Global Politics of Human Rights Advocacy

November 5
Ana Paula Hernandez, Yale World Fellow and Consultant to the Angelica Foundation and Co-Founder of the Collective for an Integrated Drug Policy
Human Rights and the Drug Wars in Mexico

November 12
Yitzhak Benbaji, Associate Professor, Philosophy Department and Law School, Bar Ilan University and Robina Foundation Visiting Human Rights Fellow, Yale Law School
Justice in Asymmetric Wars

December 3
Gabriella Blum, Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
The Fog of Victory

December 10
David Tolbert, President, International Center for Transitional Justice
The Complementarity Principle and the Future of International Justice


OTHER SCHELL EVENTS

September 7
Introduction to Human Rights Programs at Yale Law School

September 23
Yanhai Wan, Director, Beijing Zizhixing Institute and 2003 Yale World Fellow
Six-Year Experience of Managing an HIV/AIDS NGO in China
Yale AIDS Colloquium Series
Co-sponsored by the Global Health Leadership Institute and the Yale World Fellows Program

October 6
Pakistan and Beyond: The Law and Politics of Aid After Humanitarian Catastrophes
Rudy Von Bernuth, Vice President and Managing Director, Children in Emergencies and Crisis, Save the Children
Nimmi Gowrinathan, South Asia Director, Operation USA
Shafqat Hussain, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Trinity College
Kala Mulqueeny, Senior Counsel, Asian Development Bank, and Yale World Fellow
Co-sponsored by the South Asian Law Students Association, the Yale South Asian Studies Council, and the Office of Student Affairs

October 7
John Teton
Director, International Food Security Treaty Campaign
The International Food Security Treaty: Human Rights Law and the Eradication of World Hunger

October 11
Gary Haugen
President and CEO of the International Justice Mission
The New Mandate for Human Rights: Addressing Lawlessness Among the Global Poor

October 11
World Day Against the Death Penalty: “No Human Way to Kill”— Panel Discussion
Reverend Cathy Harrington (negotiated commutation to a life sentence for her daughter’s murderer)
Renny Cushing, Director, Murder Victims Families for Human Rights (father was murdered in 1988)
Barbara Lewis (son has been on death row for the past 20 years and has lost an uncle, niece and nephew to violence)
Amnesty International Representative
In conjunction with the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex

October 21
Human Rights, Terrorism and U.S. National Security in Afric: A Conversation with Jendayi Frazer
Jendayi Frazer, Former Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for African Affairs
Professor Lea Brilmayer, Yale Law School
Co-sponsored by the Africa Law and Policy Association and the Yale International Relations Association

November 2
Human Rights Career Panel
Mariano Banos, Office of the Legal Adviser, US Department of State
Jonathan Kaufman, Staff Attorney, EarthRights International
Julia Kercher, Policy Specialist, United Nations Development Programme
John Lyon, Senior Staff Attorney, WilmerHale, Washington, D.C.

November 4
Film Screening, Living Juarez
talk and Q&A with director Alex Halkin, Founding Director/International Coordinator, Chiapas Media Project/Promedios, and Ana Hernandez, Yale World Fellow
Co-sponsored by the Yale on Latin American and Iberian Studies, MECHA, Yale Mexican Students Organization, Advocate for Latin America at Yale

November 8
Justice Denied: Policy, Political, and Human Rights Implications of Neglecting Immigrant Detainees
Mary Meg McCarthy, National Immigration Justice Center
Co-Sponsored by the American Constitution Society of Yale Law School

November 10
Film Screening of “REDLIGHT” and Discussion with MU SOCHUA , Cambodian Human Rights and Anti-Human Trafficking Activist
Co-sponsored by the Connecticut Council of Vital Voices Global Partnership, Redlight Children, and AIESEC

November 10
Panel: Transitional Justice in the Great Lakes Region of Africa
Godfrey Asiimwe, Makerere University
Suliman Baldo, International Center for Transitional Justice
Rene Lemarchand, University of Florida
Jason Stearns, Yale University
Co-sponsored by the Yale Council on African Studies and Yale Law School Africa Law and Policy Group

November 10
Kirby Simon Summer Human Rights Fellows Panel
Tienmu Ma, Kosovo Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Stephanie Safdi , Timap for Justice, Sierra Leone
Rupali Sharma, Supreme Court of India
Sirine Shebaya, Human Rights Watch, Lebanon

November 17
Film Screening: “Enemies of the People” and discussion with Rob Lemkin, Director
Co-sponsored by the Yale Council on Southeast Asia Studies

December 1
Working at Institutions of Transitional Justice: A Kirby Simon Summer Human Rights Fellows Panel
Michelle Argueta, Special Court for Sierra Leone
Sue Guan, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
Casey Hinkle, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Jariel Rendell, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

December 1
Economic Sanctions: Moral, Legal, and Strategic Perspectives
Joy Gordon, Senior Global Justice Fellow, Global Justice Program, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale
Nikolay Marinov, Assistant Professor, Political Science Department, Yale University
Charles Hill, Lecturer, International Affairs Council, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale, and Distinguished Fellow, International Security Studies, Yale University
James Silk, Clinical Professor of Law, Yale Law School (moderator)
Co-sponsored by the Arab Students Association at Yale, the Global Justice Program, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale, the Program in Ethics, Politics and Economics, Yale University, and the Yale International Students Organization

Spring 2011

Human Rights Workshops

January 27
Daniel Bonilla
(’00), Associate Professor, Universidad de los Andes School of Law, and Robina Foundation Visiting Human Rights Fellow and Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School
Urban Indigenous Groups and the Limits of Multicultural Liberalism

February 10
Daniel Wilkinson
Deputy Director, Americas Division, Human Rights Watch
Human Rights in Cuba: Is Progress Possible?

February 24
Karen Engle
Cecil D. Redford Professor in Law and Director, Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, University of Texas School of Law
Queering Human Security

March 10
Alice M. Miller
Senior Research Scholar in Law and Robina Foundation Visiting Human Rights Fellow, Yale Law School, and Lecturer in Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
‘Norm’-alizing Sex: The Contingencies and Constraints in Establishing Sexual Rights in International Law

March 31
Andrew F. March
Associate Professor of Political Science, Yale University
Blasphemy and Other Speech-Crimes in Islamic Law and International Human Rights Law

April 14
Laura Dickinson
(’96), Foundation Professor of Law, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
Outsourcing War and Peace


Other Schell Events

February 3
Film Screening: War Don Don
Co-sponsored by Yale Chapter of Amnesty International

February 8
Varieties of Faith as a Source of Commitment to Social Justice
Omer Bajwa, Coordinator of Muslim Life, Chaplain’s Office, Yale University
Joseph Eldridge, University Chaplain, American University, Washington, D.C., Methodist minister, founder and former executive director, Washington Office on Latin American, and former Washington director, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (now Human Rights First).
Rabbi Bruce Kahn, Rabbi Emeritus, Temple Shalom, Chevy Chase, Maryland, and former executive director, Equal Rights Center, Washington, D.C.
Sharon Kugler, University Chaplain, Yale University
Co-sponsored by the Yale University Chaplain’s Office

February 9
Talk by Alberto Mora, former Navy General Counsel, who led the efforts against torture within the Defense Department during the Bush Administration
Co-sponsored by the Yale Chapter of the American Constitution Society

February 21
Can We Fix the Death Penalty?
Shujaa Graham, California death row exoneree
Peter Tsimbidaros, New Haven Attorney
Roland Lemar, Connecticut State Representative (D-New Haven)
Co-sponsored by the Connecticut Network to Abolish the Death Penalty, Arthur P. Liman Public Interest Program, St. Thomas More Catholic Chapel, Yale University Chaplain’s Office, Yale ACLU, Yale Chapter of Amnesty International, Black Church At Yale, Black Student Alliance at Yale, Yale College Democrats, Jews for Justice, MEChA de Yale, Yale NAACP, Public Health Coalition, Salt of the Earth, Social Justice Network, Undergraduate Organizing Committee

February 28
Going to Law School: A Student Panel
Dan Alterbaum (’11)
Leah Bellshaw (’11)
Jeremy Kutner (’11)
Christopher Lapinig (’13)
Co-sponsored by the Yale Pre-Law Society, Yale Undergraduate Law Review, Asian American Cultural Center, and Yale Undergraduate Career Services

March 2
Invisible War: the United States and the Iraq Sanctions
Joy Gordon, Professor of Philosophy, Fairfield University, and Senior Fellow, Global Justice Program, MacMillan Center for Area and International Studies, Yale University

March 28
Revolution and Reform in Egypt: Prospects for Meaningful Change
Emad El-Din Shahin, Henry R. Luce Associate Professor of Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding, University of Notre Dame
Tarek Masoud, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Muneer Ahmad, Clinical Professor of Law, Yale Law School (moderator)

March 30
Experimenting with Torture: Psychology, Morality and the Law
Steven Reisner, Ph.D., psychoanalyst in private practice, Clinical Assistant Professor, NYU Medical School, and faculty member, NYU Psychoanalytic Institute
Tom Duffy, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
Hope Metcalf, Director, Liman Program, and Clinical Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School
Fred Simmons, Assistant Professor of Ethics, Yale Divinity School
Co-sponsored by the Yale Divinity School, the Yale University Chaplain’s Office, and Reclaiming the Prophetic Voice

March 31
Issues in U.S. Asylum Law: A Conversation with USCIS
Joanna Ruppel and Joseph Langlois, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
Co-sponsored by the Yale Law Chapter of the American Constitution Society and the Immigration Legal Services Clinic, Yale Law School

April 7
Robert L. Bernstein Human Rights Symposium:
Human Rights in 2025
Panel: Business and Human Rights
• Silvia M. Garrigo, Manager, Global Issues and Policy, Chevron Corporation
• Salil Tripathi, Policy Director, Institute for Human Rights and Business
• Auret van Heerden, President and Chief Executive Officer, Fair Labor Association
• Marco Simons (’01), Legal Director, EarthRights International, and Bernstein Fellow (moderator)

April 8
Robert L. Bernstein Human Rights Symposium:
Human Rights in 2025
Discussion with Current Bernstein Fellows
Itamar Mann (LLM ‘10) is investigating the human rights effects of the multinational immigration regime that the European Union is developing, in cooperation with Human Rights Watch, which is publishing the report he produced, and the Open Society Justice Initiative,
Thomas Stutsman (’10) is working at the Vera Institute of Justice in New York City on Chinese legal reform.

Panel: International Humanitarian Law and Asymmetric Warfare
Thomas Ayres, Brigadier General and Assistant Judge Advocate General for Military Law and Operations, U.S. Army
Gabriella Blum, Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Gabor Rona, International Legal Director, Human Rights First
Dale Stephens, Captain, CSM RAN (Royal Australian Navy), and Director of Operational and International Law, Defence Legal Service, Department of Defence, Australia
Noah Novogrodsky (’97), Associate Professor, University of Wyoming Law School, and Bernstein Fellow (moderator)

Panel: The Responsibility to Protect
Gareth Evans, President Emeritus, International Crisis Group, and Chancellor, Australian National University
Edward Luck, Special Adviser to the U.N. Secretary-General and Senior Vice President for Research and Programs, International Peace Institute
Aziz Rana (’06), Assistant Professor of Law, Cornell University Law School
Elizabeth Brundige (’03), Associate Director, Avon Global Center for Women and Justice, and Adjunct Professor, Cornell Law School, and Bernstein Fellow (moderator)

Panel: The United States and Human Rights in the “Coming World”
Larry Cox, Executive Director, Amnesty International USA
John Gaddis, Robert A. Lovett Professor of History, Yale University
Jonathan Schell, Lecturer, International Studies, Yale University
Paul Kahn, Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities, Yale Law School (moderator)

April 11
Crimes Against Present and Future Generations: A New Approach to Ending Impunity for Serious Violations of Economic, Social, Cultural, and Environmental Rights
Sébastien Jodoin, Ph.D candidate, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Director, Campaign to End Crimes Against Future Generations, Lead Counsel, Centre for International Sustainable Development Law
Co-sponsored by Environmental Justice at Yale, the Yale Environmental Law Association, and the Yale Chapter of Amnesty International

April 13
Working on Womens’ Rights in Iran – the Case of Stoning
Shadi Sadr, Iranian lawyer and women’s rights activist and Tom and Andi Bernstein Human Rights Fellow, Yale Law School
In conversation with Renee Redman, Executive Director, Iran Human Rights Documentation Center

April 13
Pauli Murray’s Centennial: Jane Crow, Intersectionality, and a Common Freedom Struggle
Sarah Azaransky, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of San Diego, and author of The Dream is Freedom: Pauli Murray and American Democratic Faith.
Co-sponsored by the Yale Divinity School and the Yale University Chaplain’s Office