The Leitner Center hosts a series of lectures throughout the year to address timely issues in the field of international law and justice. Past lectures include:
Nicholas Kristof, New York Times Op-Ed columnist and Sheryl WuDunn, former New York Times correspondent, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (February 2010)
Honorable Ann Claire Williams, US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, The Power of We – International Collaborations for Justice (April 2009)
Professor Laurence Boisson de Chazournes, Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva, International Financial Institutions & Human Rights – The Road Ahead (March 2009)
Her Ladyship Mrs. Georgina Theodora Wood, Chief Justice, Supreme Court, Ghana, The Dynamic of Law and Development in Ghana: The Case for Judicial Reform in an Emergent Democracy (April 2008)
Samantha Power, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World (March 2008)
Philip Alston, Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Council on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions, The Strengths and Weaknesses of UN Human Rights Fact-finding
H.E. Judge Akua Kuenyehia, First Vice-President, International Criminal Court, The First Years of the International Criminal Court
Thomas Franck, Murry and Ida Becker Professor of Law Emeritus, New York University, School of Law, State Responsibility in the Era of Personal Liability
Nicolas Michel, Under-Secretary General for Legal Affairs of the United Nations, International Law in a Time of Change: Challenges to the Next Generation
Justice Richard Goldstone, Former Chief Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, Justice in Iraq: The Trial of Saddam Hussein
Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Genocide, War Crimes, and Crimes Against Humanity
Justice Arthur Chaskalson, Chief Justice of South Africa and President of South Africa’s Constitutional Court, From Apartheid to Democracy: The Vision of South Africa’s Constitution (2004)
Philip Gourevitch, Author of the award-winning book about the Rwandan Genocide, We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will be Killed Along with Our Families
Ko-Tung Yung, Former General Counsel, World Bank, The Rule of Law and the Global Fight Against Poverty
Asha Amirali, People’s Rights Movement in Pakistan, Popular Resistance in Pakistan
Professor Louis Henkin, Columbia University, Levine Lecture, That “S” Word–Sovereignty, and Globalization, and Human Rights, et cetera
Tiawan Gongloe, Liberian Lawyer and Human Rights Activist, Human Rights Watch Honoree 2003, The Way Forward for Lasting Peace in Liberia
Lord Slynn of Hadley, Senior Law Lord, United Kingdom, The Development of Human Rights in the UK
Sister Helen Prejean, C.S.J., Author of the true story behind the Academy Award-winning film Dead Man Walking and Director, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
