The Leitner Center sponsors a year-round weekly Brown Bag Lunch series. The Brown Bag Lunches give law students the opportunity to interact with human rights advocates in an informal setting.
For more information about upcoming Brown Bag Lunches, visit our Events Page.
Previous Brown Bag speakers include:
Eric Guttschuss, Human Rights Watch, Nigeria Researcher
Lisa Magarrell, Director of U.S. Programs & Co-Director of the U.S. Accountability Project at the International Center for Transitional Justice
Christina Storm, Executive Director & Founder, Lawyers Without Borders
Fabien Dubuet, Specialist in International Humanitarian Law & Researcher at Médecins Sans Frontières
Mr. B. Murali, UNDP, discusses his work relating to the Afghanistan Elections
Timothy J. Feighery, Esq. (FLS ’87), Attorney-Adviser, Office of the Legal Adviser at the State Department
Steven Wax, Author, Kafka Comes to America
Jennifer Turner, Researcher, Human Rights Program, American Civil Liberties Union
William Abresch, Director, NYU Law Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Project on Extrajudicial Executions
Robert Quinn, Director, Scholars at Risk Network
Scott Horton, Project Consultant, Human Rights First
Julieta Rossi, Director, International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Roberto Saba, Executive Director, Association for Civil Rights, Argentina
Elise Keppler, Counsel, International Justice Program, Human Rights Watch
Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples, United Nations
Andrew Hudson, Human Rights Defenders Program, Human Rights First)
Aya Fujimura-Fanselow & Elisa Slattery, Center for Reproductive Rights
Maria LaHood, Senior Staff Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights
Ivy Suriyopas, Staff Attorney, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
Elissa Mittman, National Immigration Director, International Rescue Committee
Michael Shaikh, Advocacy and Research Analyst, International Crisis Group
Elise Keppler, Counsel, International Justice Program, Human Rights Watch
J. Paul Martin, Executive Director for the Study of Human Rights, SIPA, Columbia University
Benjamin Skinner, author, “A Crime So Monstrous. Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery”
Johannes Morsink, Professor of Political Science, Drew University
Tracey Gurd, Associate Legal Officer, International Justice Program, OSI
Agalar Agashirinov, President of the 21st Century Lawyers Association
Maureen Aung-Thwin, Open Societies Institute’s Burma Project
Prof. Baher Azmy, Attorney representing several Detainees at Guantanamo Bay
Suliman Baldo, Africa Program Director, International Crisis Group
Mel Barkan, Esq., formerly of the NYC Civilian Complaint Review Board
Jo Becker, Member of the Campaign to Stop Use of Child Soldiers
Olivier Bercault, Counsel, Human Rights Watch
Taina Bien-Aime, Equality Now
David Buchbinder, Human Rights Watch
Miriam Buhl, Executive Director, New York Women’s Foundation,
Gillian Caldwell, WITNESS
Carlito Caminha, East Timorese journalist and human rights advocate
Christopher Jun Chen, Human Rights in China
Terry Collingsworth, General Counsel, International Labor Rights Fund
Sara Dareshori, Esq., on Rwandan War Crimes Tribunal
Florence Darques-Lane, Esq., formerly of the ICTY, discussing Kosovo
Prof. Dennis Driscoll, Irish Center for Human Rights
Alison Des Forges, Senior Advisor to the African Division, Human Rights Watch
Richard Dicker, Director, International Justice Program, Human Rights Watch
Steven Donziger “Oil Contamination & Human Rights – The Toxic Legacy of Oil Companies in Ecuador”
Helen Duffy, Human Rights Watch, The International Criminal Court
Shirin Ebadi, Iranian Women’s and Children’s rights activist
Estelle Fach, United Nations Development Program
Andi Friedman, Global Justice Center
Dr. Nehmet Semih G., Human Rights in Turkey
Prof. Fred Galves, The Vicaria de Solidarid in Chile
Arvind Ganesan, Human Rights Watch, on business & human rights
Brent Garron Esq., UNITE, on working conditions in the garment industry
Elizabeth Go, Esq., People Power: the lessons of grassroots activism in Marcos era Philippines
Michael Goldfarb, Freedom House
Maia Goodell, Equality Now
Seth Green, President, Americans for Informed Democracy
Jafar Siddiq Hamzah, Acehnese human rights activist and lawyer who founded the International Forum for Aceh
Bethany Hurley, Equality Now
Aslan Ismailov, free-press advocate from Azerbaijan
Suraiya It, International Forum for Aceh, Chair
Francis Jacobs, A comparative examination of US-EU
Pasamba Jow, Gambian human rights activist, Human Rights in Gambia
Zdravka Kalaydjieva, Esq., from Bulgarian Lawyers for Human Rights
Anil Kalhan, Human Rights and Antiterrorism Laws in India
John Kamm, Founder and Executive Director of the Dui Haa (“Dialogue”) Foundation
Kakuna Kerina, Director, Africa Program, International League of Human Rights
Patrick Levi, Israeli AIDS Task Force
Prof. Sharon Livesey, Fordham University Graduate School of Business Administration
Paul Mageean, Committee for the Administration of Justice, Belfast, N.I.
Nurliza Mahjhrin, Peace Brigades International, Volunteer, Aceh, Indonesia
Beatriz Mieses-Hernandez, MADRE
Anna Milanovic, Belgrade Center for Human Rights
David Miller, Pres., Toy Manufacturers Association of America
Simone Monasabien, former prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Sam Monika, Cambodian Defense
B. Murali, United Nations Development Program
Johnny Noka, Human Rights in Albania
Maurice Nsabimana, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Sonia Picado, Inter-American Institute of Human Rights
Sukanya Pillay, Director, Law & Human Rights Program of TVE
Shanta Rau, Information Coordinator, Coalition for the International Criminal Court
Billy Robinson, Director of COUNTERACT, Belfast, N.I.
Eli M. Rosenbaum, Director, Office of Special Investigations, U.S. Department of Justice
Mila Rosenthal, Director, Worker’s Rights Program, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
Nicholas Rostow, General Counsel, United States Mission to the United Nations
Senal Sarihan, Esq., human rights advocate, Ankara, Turkey
Nicholas Shalita, First Counselor, Rwandan Mission to the United Nations,
Hina Shamsi, Human Rights First
Pradeep Singlap, The Lesbian and Gay Immigration Rights Task Force
Bryan Stevenson, Founder & Director of Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama: Race Poverty and Capital Punishment
Moctar Teyeb, Outreach Director, American Anti-Slavery Group
Jakob von Uexkull Founder, Right Livelihood Awards / Alternative Nobel Prize
Nisha Varia, Human Rights Watch
Xu Wenli, Chinese human rights advocate
Eldar Zeynalov, Human Rights Center of Azerbaijan
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