Spring Quarter, 2010
Human Rights, Rule of Law, Responsibility to Protect
All lectures for the Spring 2010 quarter will take place at the U of C law school. 12:15-1:15 pm; a light lunch will be provided.
April 5 – Gary Haugen - Human Rights & Rule of Law: What do we do??
Gary A. Haugen, President and CEO of International Justice Mission, will be teaching a course on Human Rights and Rule of Law in Developing Countries, here where he received his J.D. in 1991. Gary was invited to give this course by the just previous Dean of the Law School, Saul Levmore, after he read the article about Gary and IJM's work in the New Yorker, January, 2009, written by Samantha Power, then professor at Harvard's Kennedy School on Intl Affairs, and now director of Multilateral Affairs for the National Security Council in President Obama's administration.
http://www.law.uchicago.edu/
http://www.ijm.org/whoweare/
http://www.newyorker.com/
April 13 - Rosalind Dixon - Human Rights & the Limits of International Law: a Debate
Rosalind Dixon's teaching and research interests include constitutional law, comparative constitutional law and design, international human rights, and law and gender.
http://www.law.uchicago.edu/
April 13 - Eric Posner - Human Rights & the Limits of International Law: a Debate
Eric Posner’s teaching and research includes international law, foreign relations law, contracts, employment law, bankruptcy law, secured transactions, game theory and the law, and immigration law.
http://www.law.uchicago.edu/
Co-sponsored by International Law Student group at the Law School
* 4:00 p.m.* - April 20 - Amy Uelmen - Workshop on Religion and Law - * 4:00 pm *
Amy Uelmen is Director of the Fordham Law School Institute on Religion, Law & Lawyer's Work. Her scholarship focuses on how Catholic/Christian social thought sheds light on tort law, legal ethics and legal education, and how dialogue can inform debates about religion in the public square. Take a few minutes to look at some of her law review articles.She will be reporting on recent work by a growing community of Christian legal scholars on a wide variety of legal issues. This will be an informal workshop. Bring computers to follow the discussion of organizations, scholars and papers.
http://law.fordham.edu/7624.
Co-sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute
For an additional resource list for Amy Uelmen's lecture, click here.
April 28 - Paolo Carozza - Religion, Law and Human Rights
Paolo Carozza is the Director of the Notre Dame Law School’s program in international human rights law. His expertise is in the areas of comparative law, human rights, and international law. Prof. Carozza was elected to the 7 member Inter-American Commission on Human Rights [IACHR] in 2006 and in March 2008, he was elected Chair of the commission. The commission's decisions enjoy a great deal of credibility in Central and South American countries, where it has played an important role in opposing dictatorships and abusive regimes.
http://law.nd.edu/people/
May 3 - Victor Boutros - Prosecuting Human Rights Abuses
Victor Boutros investigates and prosecutes official misconduct, hate crimes, and human trafficking in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and is co-teacher with Gary Haugen this quarter.
http://www.law.uchicago.edu/
UofC Law School - 12:15 – 1:15 p.m.
Light lunch provided
Holy Trinity Church
InterVarsity
&
Christian Legal Society
http://www.htcchicago.org/
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