Panel presentations and lectures regularly speak to pressing issues in human rights law and scholarship.
For more information about upcoming panels, visit our Events Page.
Past events include:
Defending the Defenders: Lawyers and Criminal Defense in China
(2008)
Genocide in Darfur: Human Rights, the International Criminal Court, and the U.S. Response
(September 2007)
Richard Dicker, Director, International Justice Program, Human Rights Watch
Nicholas Rostow, General Counsel, United States Mission the United Nations
Olivier Bercault, Counsel, Human Rights Watch
Rule of Law in Hong Kong Ten Years after the Handover
(2007)
Speaking Out: The Fight for Human Rights in Iran
(2007)
Fariba Davoodi Mohajer
Mehrangiz Kar
Elahe Sharifpour-Hicks
Torture By Proxy: the Legality and Politics of Extraordinary Rendition
(February 2006)
Michael Hirsh, Senior Editor of Newsweek
Elisa Massimo, Washington Director of Human Rights First
Meg Satterthwaite, Associate Clinical Professor of NYU Law School
Michael Scheuer, Author of Imperial Hubris
The Human Rights Crisis in North Korea
(September 2004)
Hon. Stephen J. Solarz, Former U.S. Congressman
David Hawk, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, Former Executive Director of Amnesty International, USA
Jana Mason, International Rescue Committee
Marcus Noland, Institute for International Economics
The Constitutionality of Torture: Human Rights in the Age of Terror
(January 2004)
Scott Horton, Human Rights Advocate
Jean-Pierre Kamwa, Torture Survivor
Dr. Allen Keller, Program Director, Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture
David B. Rivkin, Jr., Partner, Baker & Hostetler LLP and Former Advisor to Presidents Reagan and Bush
Rwanda: Rape as a War Crime
David J. Scheffer, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues
Bruce Broomhall, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
Sarah Dareshori, Former Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Nicole Kekeh, Journalist
Dr. Betty Reardon, Columbia University
The Role of Journalism in Human Rights
Mona El-Tahawy, Managing Editor, Arabic Women’s eNews
Claudia Rosett, Columnist, Wall Street Journal Europe and OpinionJournal.com
Peter Spielmann, World Service Editor, AP, International Desk
David Unger, New York Times Editorial Board and Senior Editorial Writer on Foreign Affairs
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