2006-07 Events

Human Rights Workshops

September 8   
Thomas Pogge, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University, Professorial Fellow, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Australian National University, and Professor, University of Oslo Intellectual Property Rights and Access to Essential Medicines  

September 22           
Daphne Barak-Erez, Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law, Tel-Aviv University
Terrorism Law: Between the Executive Model and the Legislative Model  

October 6
Alejandro Madrazo (Mexico), Raúl M. Mejia (Mexico), and Efrén Rivera Ramos (Puerto Rico), Members of the Organizing Committee for the Seminario en Latinoamérica de Teoría Constitucional y Política (SELA)
The Implications of the Mexican Presidential Election for Latin America and the United States 

October 13 
Sharon Hom, Executive Director, Human Rights in China
China, Technology, and Human Rights:  Exploring the Rise of Online Activism, the Role of International IT Companies, and U.S. Government Initiatives  

November 3
Justice S. Sandile Ngcobo, Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
The Right to Political Participation in South Africa  

November 10 
Asli Ü. Bâli, Irving S. Ribicoff Fellow, Yale Law School, Doctoral Candidate, Princeton University, and Attorney, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton
Scapegoating the Vulnerable: Preventive Detention of Immigrants in America’s ‘War on Terror’  

November 17          
Michael J. Wishnie, Clinical Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Prohibiting the Employment of Undocumented Workers: The Experiment Fails  

December 1
Benedict Kingsbury, Professor, New York University School of Law 
Can the Emerging Global Administrative Law Improve Accountability? How Much Use Is That?  

December 8 
Samuel Moyn, Associate Professor of History, Columbia University  
How to Write the Historical Origins of Human Rights?  

Other Schell Events

September 12  
Introduction to Human Rights Programs 
  
September 20 
Sandra Babcock, Clinical Director, Center for International Human Rights, Northwestern University Law School
Enforcing International Law in U.S. Death Penalty Cases: From the Hague to Houston 

September 28
Motoo Noguchi, International Judge of the Supreme Court Chamber of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Schell Center Fellow, and Professor, UNAFI, Japan
Cambodia Khmer Rouge Trials: Ownership of Justice  

October 17
Introduction to Summer Fellowships Panel  
Asel Aliyasova, Kyrgyz Committee for Human Rights, Krgyzstan
Stacie Jonas, Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center
Bidish Sarma, University of Witswatersrand - Refugee Unit, South Africa, and Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights
Giulia Good Stefani, Asociacion Civil por la Igualdad y la Justicia, Argentina
   
Ocotber 18
Daphne Barak-Erez, Schell Fellow and Professor of Law, Tel-Aviv University
The Law of Historical Films: In the Aftermath of Jenin-Jenin  
 
Nov. 2
Louis Bickford, Program Director, International Center for Transitional Justice
Supporting Local Responses to the Aftermath of Violent Conflict:  The Work of the International Center for Transitional Justice  

Nov. 8
Stephen Rickard, YLS ‘83, Director, Washington Office of the Open Society Institute, and Deputy Director, Open Society Policy Center
Lawyering for Human Rights in Washington: The Case of the Military Commissions Act   
 
Nov. 9
Summer Fellows Panel on International Tribunals and Transitional Justice  
Tendayi Achiume – Human Rights Watch
Kenneth Harbaugh – International Center for Transitional Justice
Brittan Heller – International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Krissa Lanham – International Criminal Court
Matiangai Sirleaf – Truth & Reconciliation Commission of Liberia
 
November 15    
Holly Burkhalter, Vice President of Government Relations, International Justice Mission
Norm Change on the Right to Health: HIV/AIDS in Africa  

November 16
Human Rights Career Panel  
Catherine Amirfar, Debevoise & Plimpton
Kate Birmingham, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Steven Hill, YLS ‘01, Office of the Legal Advisor, U.S. Dept. of State
Tom Perriello, YLS ‘01, Res Publica 
        
December 6
Vivek Maru, YLS ‘01, Co-Founder and Co-Director, Timap for Justice, Sierra Leone, and Fellow, Open Society Justice Initiative
Timap [Stand up] for Justice Sierra Leone: Developing a Model for Advancing Justice in Post-Conflict West Africa  
    
December 11
Chibli Mallat, EU Jean Monnet Professor in European Law, St Joseph’s University, Beirut, and Visiting Professor, Woodrow Wilson School, Law and Public Affairs Fellow 2006-7, Princeton University 
Law and the Failures of the Lebanese Cedar Revolution   
   
December 12
Human Rights Day Film: The Refugee All Stars

December 13
Maria Burnett, YLS ‘05, Burundi Researcher, Human Rights Watch
Conflict and Justice in Burundi and Rwanda   
 
Co-Sponsored Events

October 10
Eric Rosenthal, Founder and Executive Director, Mental Disability Rights International
The New UN Disability Rights Convention: Opportunities and Challenges
(with the Global Health Division, Yale School of Public Health)  

October 16
International Response to Darfur
Francis Deng, Visiting Scholar, Center for International Studies, MIT, and former Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons
Michael Doyle, Visiting Professor of Law, Yale Law School, Harold Brown Professor of United States Foreign and Security Policy, Columbia Law School, and former Assistant Secretary- General and Special Adviser to United Nations Secretary-General
John Prendergast, Senior Advisor, International Crisis Group, and former Director of African Affairs, U.S. National Security Council
Moderator: Harold Hongju Koh, Dean, Yale Law School
(with Yale Law School Dean's Office, YLS Students United Against Genocide in Darfur (SUAGD), STAND, and Davenport College

October 24
Yonatan Shapira and Bassam Aramim, Combatants for Peace
Alternatives to Violence in the Middle East
(with Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, Yale/World Health Organization Collaborating Center, Yale Chaplain’s Office, Jews for Justice, Jews and Muslims, and Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)  

November 9
The Crisis in Dutch National Identity: Perspectives on the Eve of the Dutch National Elections
Joke Klein Kranenberg, LL.M 1996
Mohamed Baba, Yale World Fellow, and Co-Founder & Managing Partner, MEX-IT Intercultural Management
Chavi Keeney Nana, J.D. 2009, Former Senior Policy Officer, Ministry of Immigration and Integration, The Netherlands
Jarinde Temminck Tuinstra, Visiting Researcher, and Ph.D. Candidate in Law, University of Amsterdam
(with YLS Graduate Program)

November 28
500 Bereaved Palestinian and Israel Families Work Together for Peace
Ali Abu Awwar and Robi Damelin, The Parents Circle
Peter Salovey, Dean, Yale College
Miroslav Volf, Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology, Yale Divinity School
Moderated by Bruce E. Wexler, Professor of Psychiatry, Yale Medical School 
(with Divinity School, School of Medicine, Center for the Study of Globalization, Council on Middle East Studies, Religious Ministries, and Slifka Center for Jewish Life)  

November 30
Access to HIV/AIDS Treatment in Africa
Stephanie Urdang, Rwanda Gift for Life
Cecilia Mwaluda, Pathfinder International
Dai Ellis, JD 2007, and Project Manager for the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative
(with Center for Bioethics, Berkeley College, Yale AIDS Watch, Pathfinder International, and Divinity School)

December 8
Luis Moreno Ocampo, keynote address for conference, Justice in the Mirror: Law, Culture, and the Making of History (with The Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, the Whitney and Betty Macmillian Center for International and Area Studies at Yale, the International Affairs Council, the Yale Law School, the Genocide Studies Program, Women Faculty Forum, Council on African Studies, and the Department of Anthropology)    
 
Spring 2007
     
February 2
David Luban, Frederick Haas Professor of Law and Philosophy, Georgetown University Law Center Fairness to Rightness: Jurisdiction, Legality, and the Legitimacy of International Criminal Law

February 9 
Tara McKelvey, Senior Editor, The American Prospect, and Research Fellow, Center on Law and Security, New York University School of Law
Belated Justice: The Politics of Restitution for Victims of U.S. Torture

February 16 
Sonja Starr, YLS ’02, Climenko Fellow and Lecturer, Harvard Law School
Extraordinary Crimes at Ordinary Times: International Justice Beyond Crisis Situations

February 23 
Bill Frelick, Refugee Policy Director, Human Rights Watch 
Protecting Iraqi Refugees:  See No Evil, Hear No Evil?  

March 2 
Iulia Motoc, Schell Fellow, Professor of International Law, University of Bucharest, and Member, UN Human Rights Committee
The Trial of Communism: Truth, Reconciliation and Justice in Post-Communist Societies

March 9 
Leora Bilsky, Professor of Law, Tel Aviv University, and Karl Loewenstein Fellow, Department Political Science, Amherst College
Citizenship as Mask: Between the Imposter and the Refugee

March 30
Daniel Bonilla, J.S.D. YLS ’05, Professor, Faculty of Law, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia  Legal Pluralism and Property in Latin America

April 6        
Ken Mann (Israel) and Sharhabeel Al Zaeem (Gaza),attorneys and participants in the Middle East Legal Studies Seminar  
Palestinian Politics: Conflict or Unity? A Conversation  

April 20
Monica Hakimi, YLS ’01,Visiting Assistant Professor, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Evolving International Standards on the Detention of Suspected Terrorists:  Finding a Middle Ground Between the Secret Prison and the Criminal Court  

May 4
Nathaniel Berman, Professor, Brooklyn Law School
Human Rights vs. Jus in Bello: Law in Denial or Law in Command? 

Other Schell Events

February 20
Stephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt, International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
China’s Growing Global Role: Looking at the PRC’s Engagement with Africa  

February 21
Trevor Paglen, author of Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA’s Rendition Flights
On the Trail of the CIA’s Rendition Flights: Dark Spaces, Disappeared People, and the War on Terror
  
February 22
Sam Gregory, Program Manager for Strategic Networks, WITNESS
Using Video for Change: WITNESS’ Model for Human Rights Advocacy  

March 5
Summer Fellows panel - Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights   
Alisha Bjerregaard, Global Rights, Mongolia
Naomi Shatz, Centre for Gender, Health and Justice, South Africa
Alfredo Silva, Law Offices of Zhou Dan, China
Julia Simon-Kerr, Research on Women’s Rights, Argentina
Michael Yarbrough, OUT, South Africa
     
March 12
Susan Benesch, YLS ‘01, Clinical Fellow, Center for Applied Legal Studies at Georgetown Univ. Law Center Noah Novogrodsky, YLS ‘97, Director of International Human Rights Programs, University of Toronto Law School and Visiting Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Speech Before Genocide: Protected Right or Heinous Crime?  
    
April 12-13 
The Robert L. Bernstein Human Rights Fellowship Symposium
Defending Rights Through Law in China: Progress and Challenges
  
Discussion with Current Bernstein Fellows,
Etelle Higonnet and Jeremy Robbins 

Jerome Cohen and Jonathan Spence in Conversation with Orville Schell  
Reform or repetition? Are Chinese Leaders Prisoners of the Past in Their Approach to Legal Reform?

Strategies for Using Law and Reforming Law to Protect Rights in China  
Li Fan, Director, World-China Institute, Beijing, China
Xu Zhiyong, Director, Open Constitution Initiative, and Lecturer, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Zhou Dan, Executive Director, Yu Dan, Shanghai, China
Moderator: Paul Gewirtz, Potter Stewart Professor of Constitutional Law and Director, The China Law Center, Yale Law School
   
Critical Perspectives on the Impact of Legal Advocacy and Reform Strategies [80]
Nicholas Bequelin, China Researcher, Human Rights Watch
Fu Hualing, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong 
Titi Liu, Program Officer, Ford Foundation, Beijing, and Visiting Professor, University of Washington School of Law
Moderator: Jeffrey Prescott, Bernstein Fellow and Associate Director and Senior Research Scholar, The China Law Center, Yale Law School
     
April 18
Kenneth H. Bacon, President, Refugees International
Iraqi Refugees: Caught Between War and Politics  

April 25
Aziz Huq, Director, Liberty and National Security Project, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School
The Evolution and Future of Extraordinary Rendition  

April 26
Munir Nussiebeh, Lecturer and Coordinator, Al-Quds Human Rights Clinic, Faculty of Law, Al-Quds University, Jerusalem
Israel’s Wall in the West Bank and International Law 
  
April 30
Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, Programs Director, Memorial Human Rights Center in Northern Caucasus, and Assistant Professor of Political Science, History Department, Chechen State University in Grozny Shamil Tangiev, Head of Memorial Human Rights Center in Grozny
Anti-Terrorism and Human Rights: The Case of Chechnya and the North Caucasus       

Human Rights Film Series

February 13   
Every Mother’s Son

February 27
When the Levees Broke (Part I)  

April 17
When the Levees Broke (Part II)

April 19
Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story

Co-sponsored Events

February 7     
Dr. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari   
Member, UN Expert Committee of Committee on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), Senior Lecturer, Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law, and Director, Ruth and Emanuel Rackman Center for the Advancement of the Status of Women, Bar-Ilan University
CEDAW, Women's Rights and the Politics of Divorce in Israel
(with Yale Women Faculty Forum)

February 17:
Debate Forum on Road Development in the Amazon
Ane Alencar, University of Florida
Mary Allegretti, formerly Government of Brazil
Pedro Bara, World Wildlife Fund, Amazon Policy Director
Lisa Curran, Yale University
Adriana Moreira, World Bank, Senior Biodiversity Specialist
Francisco Ruiz, Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization, Executive Director
Robert Walker, Michigan State University
Francisco Wulff, Corporacion Andina de Fomento, Principal Executive,
Vice-presidency of Infrastructure
(with Gaddis Smith Seminar Series, Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Student Affairs Committee and Class of 1980 Fund of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Office of International Students and Scholars, and the Yale Graduate & Professional Student Senate) 

April 10  
Ishmael Beah, former child soldier and author of A Long Way Gone
(with BLSA and One World Coalition) 

April 17
Panel Discussion - Acting to Stop Genocide: Darfur and Beyond  
Carl Wilkins, Pastor, only American to remain in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide
Bill Berkeley, Columbia University, and author of The Graves Are Not Yet Full
Adam Jones, Research Fellow, Genocide Studies Program, Yale University
James Silk (moderator) Clinical Professor of Law and Executive Director, Schell Center for International Human Rights, Yale Law School 
(with BLSA and One World Coalition)

April 18
Senator Jon Ungphakorn, AIDS patient activist, Thailand
Holding Patients Hostage 
(with UAEM, Physicians for Human Rights, and the Graduate and Professional Student Senate, and Yale Law School)

April 19
Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of TIKKUN magazine, author of The Left Hand of God: Taking Our Country Back from the Religious Right, and co-chair of the Network of Spiritual Progressives
Needed: A New Spiritual Left and How it Could Help to End the War in Iraq (with Slifka Center)