NEW FRONTIERS IN HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
10-19-2011THE HUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT &
THE HANNAH ARENDT CENTER
PRESENT A SYMPOSIUM:
"NEW FRONTIERS IN HUMAN RIGHTS LAW"
SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE
MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2011
7:30 PM in Olin 102
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
ED VUILLAMY
"IRRESOLUTION & UN-RECKONING"
On the achievements & failures of the Hague International Crime Tribunal in the former Yugoslavia.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2011
PANEL DISCUSSIONS:
4:30 in Preston Auditorium
PETER MAGUIRE & SOPHAL EAR
"JUSTICE AFTER GENOCIDE"
Discuss Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Trials
6:00 PM in Olin 102
PETER MAGUIRE & JONATHAN BUSH
"FROM NUREMBERG TO NESTLE"
Discuss using human rights laws to hold corporations accountable
7:30 PM in Olin 102
LT. COL. MORRIS DAVIS & ANDREW PATEL
"TRIALS FOR TERRORISTS"
Discuss terrorism and human rights law
LEARN MORE:
The Human Rights Project and the Hannah Arendt Center have jointly organized, with the help of trustee Peter Maguire, a two-day mini-conference on the unsettled status of international human rights law. "New Frontiers in Human Rights Law" will begin on Monday evening, 24 October, and continue Tuesday afternoon and evening 25 October.
The symposium will begin with a keynote address by Ed Vulliamy, writer for the Guardian and the Observer, on "Irresolution and Un-Reckoning," a forthright account of the achievements and failures of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague. Vulliamy was in the first group of reporters to enter the Bosnian Serb camp complex in Omarska and Trnoplje in 1992, and has recently finished a book on the survivors of those camps. In 1996 he became the first journalist to testify at an international war crimes court, and will shortly testify once again in the Hague trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic. Last year he published a searing account of narco-violence along the U.S.-Mexico border called *Amexica: War Along the Borderline* (FSG 2010). The lecture will take place on Monday 24 October at 7:30 pm in Olin 102.
On Tuesday 25 October we will have three panel discussions. The first, about Cambodia and the political-legal process of trying the former leaders of the Khmer Rouge, will feature Peter Maguire and Sophal Ear, who teaches National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Cal., and has written extensively on post-genocide Cambodia. "Justice after Genocide" will start at 4:30 in Preston Auditorium.
The second, on corporations and human rights law, will focus on recent legal developments in using human rights laws to hold corporations accountable. Peter will discuss recent claims about the Nuremberg trials and corporate liability under the Alien Tort Claims Act with Jonathan Bush, who teaches human rights law at Columbia University and is the author of a biography of Telford Taylor. "From Nuremberg to Nestle" will take place at 6:00 in Olin 102.
Finally, two leading figures in contemporary debates about terrorism and human rights law will join us for a discussion, Lt. Col. Morris Davis (USAF Ret.), director of the Crimes of War Project and former chief prosecutor at Guantanamo, and Andrew Patel, human rights lawyer and attorney for Jose Padilla. "Trials for Terrorists" will also take place in Olin 102, at 7:30.
Peter Maguire '88 is the author of a pair of intensively-researched and passionately-argued books about human rights, *Law and War* (Columbia UP 2002, revised edition 2010) and *Facing Death in Cambodia* (Columbia UP 2005). He is a frequent op-ed columnist on human rights issues as well. In 1999 he organized, with the Institute for International Liberal Education, the landmark Bard conference "Accounting for Atrocities."
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