Human Rights Workshop: Current Issues and Events
Spring 2008
Workshops will be held on Thursdays at 4:15 p.m. in the Faculty Lounge unless otherwise noted.
Please consult weekly announcements and posters for room changes.
For more information, contact the Schell Center at 203-432-7480 or schell.law@yale.edu

February 7: Michael Posner
President, Human Rights First
The Struggle to End Torture and Official Cruelty by the U.S. – Human Rights and
Presidential Politics

February 21: Joe Stork
Deputy Director, Middle East and North Africa Program, Human Rights Watch
Political Violence, Religion, and Human Rights: Addressing Islamist Armed
Groups

March 6: Shareen Hertel
(Rm. 128) Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Connecticut
Rights in Conflict: Insights from Transnational Labor and Economic Rights
Advocacy Campaigns on Mexico and Bangladesh

March 27: Shameem Black
Assistant Professor of English, Yale University
Fiction in the Age of Transitional Justice

April 10: Ralph Steinhardt
Professor of Law and International Affairs and Arthur Selwyn Miller Research
Professor of Law, George Washington University
Corporate Complicity and the Alien Tort Statute

April 24: Ruti Teitel
Ernst Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law, New York Law School
Humanity's Law