2007-08 Events

Fall 2007
Spring 2008

Fall 2007

Human Rights Workshops

September 7
Joanne Mariner, Terrorism and Counterterrorism Program Director, Human Rights Watch
The CIA's Detention, Interrogation and Rendition Program   

September 27  
Edward Mortimer, Senior Vice President and Chief Program Officer, Salzburg Global Seminar
The UN Human Rights Council: Origins and Prospects 

October 11  
Karima Bennoune, Associate Professor, Rutgers School of Law - Newark
Terror/Torture      
   

November 1
Lawrence Douglas, James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought, Amherst College
A Jurisprudence of Atrocity and the Didactic Trial

November 15
Martin Lederman, Visiting Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
The Role of Executive Branch Lawyers

December 6 
Paul Schiff Berman
Jesse Root Professor of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law
Global Legal Pluralism

Other Schell Events

September 18      
Introduction to Human Rights Programs
    
September 24
Dan Fitzpatrick, Reader in Law, Australian National University
When Human Rights Meet Property Rights: Restoring Rights to Land after Conflict and Disaster  

September 25   
Human Rights Career Panel
Evelyn Aswad, Legal Adviser, Office of Human Rights and Refugees, Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. State Department; Asli Bali, Irving S. Ribicoff Fellow, Yale Law School,
John Lyon, Attorney, WilmerHale, Washington, D.C.; Hina Shamsi, Deputy Director & Senior Counsel, Law and Security Program, Human Rights First      

September 26
Kwame Frimpong, Professor of Law, University of Botswana, 74 LLM, 77 JSD
Corruption, Human Rights and Accountability in Africa  

October 2
Brown Bag Lunch with Eric Rosenthal, Executive Director, Mental Disability Rights International  

October 8
Douglas Johnson, Executive Director, Center for Victims of Torture
The Global Torture Treatment Movement: A Strategic Response to Torture in the 21st Century 

October 9
Dr. Wolfgang M. Schröder, Department of Philosophy and History, Tübingen University
Paradigm Lost? The European Experiment after the Failure of the Constitutional Treaty

October 10
Introduction to Summer Fellows Panel 
Laurie Ball, Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor, State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Martha Lovejoy, International Organization for Migration and Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association, Republic of Georgia
Ashley McDowell, Khulumani Support Group, South Africa
Jeffrey Sandberg, Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales, Argentina

October 17
Martin Sabelli, partner, Winston & Strawn, former federal public defender, national faculty, National Criminal Defense College and National Institute of Trial Advocacy
A Human Rights Approach to the ‘War on Gangs’   

November 7        
Informational Meeting on Summer Internships with Institutions of Transitional Justice

November 29
Rape and Redress: Seeking Justice for Violence Against Women in Liberia
Nancy Gertner, U.S. District Court for Massachusetts, and  Liberian judges: Felicia V. Coleman, Former Associate Justice, Evelina Z. Quaqua, Circuit Court Judge, Geevon S. Smith, Circuit Court Judge 

December 5
Juvenile Justice and Legal Reform in Kazakhstan: A Discussion with Kazakh Judges
 
December 11
Verena Knaus, Yale World Fellow 2007 and Co-founder, European Stability Initiative, Austria
Authoritarian Temptation and International Governance in Bosnia and Kosovo  

December 13
Denis Mizne, 2007 Yale World Fellow and founder and director of Instituto Sou da Paz, leading NGO dealing with violence prevention in Brazil
Youth, Guns and Deaths: Overcoming Violence in Brazil 

Co-Sponsored Events

September 25
Kosovo: Past, Present and Future       
Ivo Banac,  Bradford Durfee Professor of History, Yale University
Dastid Pallaska, LL.M. ‘08, Assistant Professor of International Public Law, University of Pristina
Garentina Kraja, Yale World Fellow ‘06 Former Reporter for the Associated Press, Kosovo
Verena Knaus, Yale World Fellow ‘07, Co-founder, European Stability Initiative
Laurie Ball, J.D. ‘09, Former Research & Policy Manager, Mozaik Foundation, Sarajevo
Jonathan Finer, J.D. ‘09, Former Reporter for the Washington Post, Kosovo
(with the Graduate Programs at Yale Law School, and the Yale World Fellows Program)
     
October 16
Testimonial Event - Grandmother Mak Dal Lee, survivor of the Japanese Military Sexual Slavery System
(with American Studies Program, Asian American Cultural Center, Calhoun College, Council on East Asian Studies, Initiative on Race, Gender and Globalization, KASY: Korean American Students of Yale, Program in Ethnicity, Race and Migration, Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program, and the World Performance Project)

November 12
Rosita, A Film Screening and Conversation with Filmmaker Janet Goldwater
(with Law Students for Reproductive Justice)  

November 13 
New Year Baby, A Film Screening
(with Yale Film Studies Department, Yale Asian Cultural Center, Yale South East Asian Council, Yale Genocide Studies Program)

November 30
Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution at Home and Abroad: A New Geometry of Power?
(with Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies)

December 7
A Massacre Foretold - A Film by Nick Higgins
(with Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies)

December 10
Amrit Singh, ‘01, Staff Attorney, ACLU Immigrant Rights Project
Administration of Torture: A Book Talk
(with ACS and the 9/11 clinic)

December 10
Justice without Borders, A Film Screening
(with Amnesty International)

Spring 2008

Human Rights Workshops

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
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  

Other Schell Events

February 11
Christine Chung, Senior Schell Fellow and Former Senior Trial Attorney, International Criminal Court
First Cases and First Challenges at the International Criminal Court - A Prosecutor's Perspective 

March 4
Auret van Herden, President, Fair Labor Association
Non-Governmental Initiatives to Protect International Workers’ Rights 

March 20
Working on the Rights of Refugees, Immigrants and Rural Migrants -
A Discussion with Kirby Simon Summer Human Rights Fellows
Aliza Cover, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area
Nicole Hallett, ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project (San Francisco)
Andrew Verstein, Beijing Rural Migrants= Legal Aid and Research Center

April 1
Primetime Torture: When Real Life Imitates Television
Discussants: David Danzig, director, The Primetime Torture Project, Human Rights First
Rebecca Dana, Television Reporter, Wall Street Journal

April 2
Raj Kumar, University of Hong Kong
Human Rights and the Asian Tsunami: Governance Implications of Disaster Management

April 8
Bruce Shapiro, Executive Director, Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma
The Cost of Bearing Witness: Understanding Human Rights and Trauma

April 10
Stephen Lewis, co-director, AIDS-Free World and former Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa
AIDS, Conflict, the United Nations and the Law

April 14
David Hawk, International Human Rights Consultant for Freedom House and Researcher for U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea
Human Rights in North Korea Today

April 17
Bereket Habte Selassie, William E. Leuchtenburg Professor of African Studies and Law, University of North Carolina, former Attorney-General and Associate Justice of the Federal Supreme Court of Ethiopia, and Chairman of the Constitutional Commission of Eritrea from 1994-1997
The Elusive Treasure: Human Rights and Humanitarian Law - A Focus on the Horn of Africa   

April 23
Ali Afshari, Iranian political activist
Obstacles to Promoting Respect for Human Rights in Iran

April 3-4
Bernstein Symposium: Justice Delayed? The Impact of Time on the Trials of Gross Atrocities

Robert L. Bernstein Lecture
Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch

Discussion with Current Bernstein Fellows
Nick Robinson and Katherine Southwick

Delayed Justice for the Crimes of Argentina’s Dirty War
Carmen  Argibay, Justice, Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, Argentina
Carlos Rosenkrantz, Professor and President, University of San Andres, Buenos Aires
Catalina Smulovitz, Professor and Director, Department of Political Science and International Studies, Torcuato Di Tella University, Buenos Aires
Horacio Verbitsky, President, Center for Legal and Social Studies, Buenos Aires, investigative journalist, and author, The Flight
Owen Fiss, Sterling Professor of Law, Yale Law School (moderator)

Justice for Mass Atrocities and the Problem of Time
Mark Drumbl, Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law and Director, Transnational Law Institute, Washington and Lee University School of Law
Thane Rosenbaum, John Whelan Distinguished Lecturer in Law, Fordham Law School, and author, The Myth of Moral Justice and novels and essays about post-atrocity memory and legal relief and restitution.
Ronald Slye, Associate Professor of Law and Director, International and Comparative Law Programs, Seattle University School of Law, and Honorary Professor, University of the Witwatersrand School of Law, South Africa
Robert Sloane, Associate Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law, and 2000-2001 Bernstein Fellow  (moderator)

Co-Sponsored Events

February 7
Disappearance and Extraordinary Rendition: Comparing Latin American Security Regimes to the U.S. ‘War on Terror’
Terry Karl, William and Gretchen Kimball University Fellow and Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
Harold Hongju Koh, Dean and Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law, Yale Law School
Joanne Mariner, Director, Terrorism/Counterterrorism Program, Human Rights Watch
Juan Méndez, President, International Center for Transitional Justice
Steven Watt, Senior Staff Attorney, Human Rights Program, American Civil Liberties Union
(with Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies)

February 21
The Iraqi Refugee Crisis: The Human Impact/The Human Response  
Panel Discussion and Screening of Documentary Film Trailer
Anwar Aljebir, former radio station manager, Iraqi refugee
Elizabeth Campbell, Refugee Council USA
Kirk Johnson, The List: Project to Resettle Iraqi Allies
(with Council on Middle East Studies)

March 31
Charged in the Name of Terror, A Film Screening
Mohamed Yousry: A Life Stands Still, directed by Mary Billyou and Annelisse Fifi
The Terrorist’s Lawyer, Nightline ABC Production
Discussion with Annelisse Fifi and Mary Billyou, filmmakers,
Mohamed Yousry, New York University; and Michael Gasper, Yale Univ. History Dept.
(with Middle East Studies)       

April 15
Human Trafficking, Sex Workers and Slavery in Southeast Asia: A Film Screening Mekong Butterfly
Discussants, Christina Arnold Founder, Prevent Human Trafficking
Pierre Le Roux, social anthropologist
(with Yale Law Women, American Constitution Society, and Yale Law Students for Reproductive Justice)

April 29
Writing Wrongs? Foreign Correspondents, Human Rights, and the China Story
Evan Osnos, Beijing Bureau Chief, Chicago Tribune
Philip Pan, former Beijing Bureau Chief, Washington Post
Susan Jakes, former Beijing Correspondent, TIME Magazine
Nicholas Bequelin, China Researcher, Human Rights Watch (invited)
Moderator: Jeffrey Prescott, Deputy Director, The China Law Center (with China Law Center)