Human Rights Workshop: Current Issues and Events

January 26

Samuel Moyn, Professor of  History, Columbia University and Visiting Professor Yale Law School
Judith Shklar versus the International Criminal Court

 [Reading]

February 9

Elaine Pearson, Deputy Director, Asia Division, Human Rights Watch
Between Rhetoric and Rights: Political Prisoners, Ethnic Conflict and Reform in Burma

[Reading 1]    [Reading 2]    [Reading 3]    [Reading 4]    [Reading 5]

February 23 
             

Jason Stearns, Former Coordinator of UN Group of Experts on the DR Congo
Mineral Trade and Conflict in the Congo - Can Corporate Due Diligence Reduce Violence?

[Reading 1]    [Reading 2]

March 8

Ruth Gavison, Haim Cohn Professor of Human Rights (emerita), Hebrew University and Straus Center for Law and Justice, NYU Law School, 2011-2012
Liberalism, Conflict and the Human Rights Discourse

[Reading]        [Reading]

April 5

Mateo Taussig-Rubbo, YLS '01, Associate Professor University at Buffalo Law School, The State University of New York
Military Outsourcing: The Limits of Contract Law

[Reading]

Bethany Berger, YLS '96, Professor of Law, University of Connecticut Law School
Race, Equality and Indian Tribes

[Reading]

Emma Gilligan, Associate Professor of History and Associate Director Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut
Post-Soviet Russia: Understanding the Language of Violence in the Chechen Wars

[Reading]        [Reading]