Speaking truth to power challenges existing power structures, while posing personal, professional, and ethical dilemmas. Many times, scholarly research has led to discoveries that are inconvenient and troubling, questioning entrenched customs. Similarly, public activity in the defense of freedom, rule of law, and human rights has tested powers-that-be not only in authoritarian, but also in democratic regimes. Yet throughout history, individuals have faced the risks of speaking truth to power, confronting authority, and accepting the consequences.
The Seventh Annual Joint Speaker Series will explore the pivotal action of speaking truth to power. Speakers in the series who have acted upon speaking truth to power will elaborate on their personal experiences and responses. Speakers will also discuss the institutions, norms, and laws that either enable or inhibit speaking truth to power, and reflect on the idea of power itself, and the ways in which the interaction of truth and power shape one another.
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Paul Hoffman
Civil Rights Lawyer and Former Chair
of
the International Executive Committee
of Amnesty International
"Litigating Human Rights Cases Against Corporations:
A View From the Frontlines"
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Cal-West, Lecture Hall 1
12:15 PM - 1:05 PM
For more information, email Debra Compton at dxc@cwsl.edu,
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Paul Hoffman is a long-time civil rights and human rights attorney. He has
appeared on several occasions before the U.S. Supreme Court. Hoffman previously
served as the Chair of the Board of Directors for Amnesty International USA and
has served on the International Executive Committee for Amnesty International.
He is the former legal director for the ACLU Foundation of Southern California.
Hoffman has authored numerous publications, including International Human
Rights Lawyering and International Human Rights Litigation in U.S. Courts.
The 2009-2010 International Law Speaker Series is jointly sponsored by the Institute of International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS), at UC San Diego, and the International Legal Studies Program, at California Western School of Law.
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Richard C. J. Somerville, a theoretical meteorologist, is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. His Ph. D. is from New York University in 1966. He has been a professor at Scripps since 1979.
Somerville has received awards for both his research and his popular book, The Forgiving Air: Understanding Environmental Change, a new edition of which was published in 2008. His honors include election as a Fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Meteorological Society.
He was a Coordinating Lead Author for the 2007 Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize equally with Al Gore.
For more information on Richard Sommerville click here.
The 2009-2010 International Law Speaker Series is jointly sponsored by the Institute of International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS), at UC San Diego, and the International Legal Studies Program, at California Western School of Law.
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Charles Thorpe got his PhD in Sociology and Science Studies at UCSD. He then taught in Sociology at Cardiff University, Wales, and in Science and Technology Studies at University College London. He is now back at UC San Diego as an Associate Professor in Sociology and is active in the Science Studies Program. As well as teaching on sociology of technology and social theory, he leads an advanced undergraduate course on 'Science and War'.
His book, Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect (University of Chicago Press, 2006) is a sociological biography of the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer that examines the transformation of the social and political role of American scientists during World War II and the Cold War. In his spare time, Thorpe reads science fiction, but no longer believes it is fiction.
The 2009-2010 International Law Speaker Series is jointly sponsored by the Institute of International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS), at UC San Diego, and the International Legal Studies Program, at California Western School of Law.
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Professor Naomi Roht-Arriaza, University of California, Hastings College of Law:
"International Justice From Outside Pushing In: Using Transnational Prosecutions to Create Domestic Change"
Thursday, October 30, 2008, 12:10
Lecture Room 1 (Cal Western)
Professor Michael Bazyler, Chapman University Law School:
"Civil Accountability in the Aftermath of a Genocide and other Mass Atrocities: Lessons from the Holocaust Restitution Litigation"
Thursday, November 6, 2008, 12:10
Lecture Room 1 (Cal Western)
Professor Elazar Barkan, Columbia University:
"Redress and Human Rights"
Thursday, January 29, 2009, 4:00
Social Sciences Building Room 107 (UC San Diego)
Professor John Torpey, City University of New York Graduate Center:
"The Many Meanings of Reparations"
Thursday, February 26, 2009, 4:00
Social Sciences Building Room 107 (UC San Diego)
Professor Mark A. Drumbl, Washington & Lee University, School of Law:
"Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law"
Thursday, March 12, 2009, 4:00
Social Sciences Building Room 107 (UC San Diego)
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Charles Swift, from Emory Law School:
"Guantanamo and Other War Crimes"
Monday, September 10, 2007, 12:10 - 1:15 PM
Gafford Moot Court Room (Cal Western)
Harvey Rishikof, from the National War College at the National Defense University:
"International Humanitarian Law, Foreign Policy, and the Limitations of Power"
Thursday, November 8, 2007, 4:00 - 5:30 PM
Social Sciences Building, Room 104 (UCSD)
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Gabor Rona, International Legal Director of Human Rights First:
"Bull in a China Shop: U.S. Treatment of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in 'War on Terror' "
Thursday, November 15, 2007, 12:10 - 1:15 PM
Gafford Moot Court Room (Cal Western)
Ambassador David Scheffer, Northwestern University Law School
"The End of Exceptionalism in War Crimes "
Thursday, February 21, 2008 from 4:00 - 5:30 P.M.
IR/PS Room 3201
Professor Laura A. Dickinson, University of Connecticut School of Law
"Outsourcing War and Peace"
Thursday, March 27, 2008 from 12:10 to 1:15 P.M.
Gafford Moot Court Room
Professor Diane Amann, University of California, Davis
"Lacunae in International Humanitarian Law"
Thursday, April 24, 2008 from 4:00 to 5:30 P.M.
SSB 107
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Thomas Novotny, from the University of California, San Francisco:
"Global Governance for Public Health: How Can This Work in the 21st Century?"
Thursday, October 26, 2006, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Weaver Center, Institute of the Americas (UCSD)
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Andrew Mack, from the University of British Columbia:
"Civil War and the High Level Panel Report"
Thursday, November 30, 2006, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Weaver Center, Institute of the Americas, UCSD
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Bruce Zagaris, Esq., from Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, LLP:
"Transnational Organized Crime"
Tuesday, January 16, 2007, 12:10 PM
California Western School of Law
Larry D. Johnson, from the United Nations Office of Legal Counsel:
"Nuclear, Radiological, Chemical, and Biological Weapons"
Tuesday, February 27, 2007, 12:10 PM
California Western School of Law
Mary Ellen O'Connell, from Notre Dame Law School:
"Preserving the Peace through Force and Belief"
Tuesday, March 6, 2007, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Weaver Center, Institute of the Americas, UCSD
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Todd Landman, from the University of Essex:
"Imminence and Proportionality: The U.S. and U. K. Response to Global Terrorism"
Thursday, March 29, 2007, 12:10 PM
California Western School of Law
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Marc Rosenblum, from the University of New Orleans:
"U.S. Immigration Reform: Can the System be Repaired?"
Tuesday, January 17, 2006, 3:00 PM
Deutz Conference Room, Institute of the Americas (UCSD)
Joseph Carens, from the University of Toronto:
"Live-In Domestics, Seasonal Workers, Foreign Students, and Others Hard to Locate on the Map of Democracy"
Wednesday, February 8, 2006, 3:00 PM
Meridian Room, Cafe Ventanas (UCSD)
David A. Martin, from the University of Virginia, School Mon 11/9/09 11:18 AMy and Birthright Citizenship Good Ideas?"
Tuesday, March 7, 2006, 12:10 PM
Gafford Moot Court Room (Cal Western)
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Weapons of mass destruction
Terrorism
Transnational organized crime
IICAS' 2006-07 International Law Speaker Series, which is co-sponsored by the
International Legal Studies Program at California Western School of Law, will
examine each of these threats, offering comments from distinguished scholars and
practitioners about how best to address international security. All
lectures in the series are free and open to the public.
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Lt. Col. Michael Newton, from the United States Military Academy, West Point:
"Mighty Oak or Mere Shadow? The Human Rights Dimension of the War on Terror"
Thursday, November 18, 2004, 12:10 PM
Gafford Moot Court Room (Cal Western)
Bill Schulz, from Amnesty International, USA:
"Tainted Legacy: 9/11 and the Ruin of Human Rights"
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Jennifer Martinez, from Stanford Law School:
"Human Rights in the Age of Terror"
Thursday, February 10, 2005, 12:10 PM
Location TBA (Cal Western)
David Scheffer, from George Washington University Law School:
"The Future of Atrocity Law"
Wednesday, April 6, 2005, 4:00 PM
Deutz Conference Room, Institute of the Americas (UCSD)
Andrew Painter, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
"Refugee Protection in a Post-9/11 World"
Monday, May 2, 2005, 4:30 PM
Deutz Conference Room, Institute of the Americas (UCSD)
Christine Chinkin , from the London School of Economics and Political Science:
"Women's Rights as Human Rights: Current Challenges and Opportunities"
Thursday, September 25, 2003, 12:00 PM
Gafford Moot Court Room (Cal Western)
Leila Nadya Sadat, from the Washington University School of Law:
"Summer in Rome , Spring in the Hague , Winter in Washington : United States Policy Towards the International Criminal Court "
Thursday, September 25, 2003, 12:00 PM
Gafford Moot Court Room (Cal Western)
Ann Florini, from the
Governance Studies Program at the Brookings Institution:
"The Coming Democracy: New Rules for Running A New World"
Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB) Room 107 (UCSD)
David Harvey, from the CUNY Graduate Center:
"The New Imperialism"
Monday, November 3, 2003, 7:30 PM
Robinson Auditorium (UCSD)
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William Aceves & Michal Belknap, from California Western School of Law;
Michael Ramsey, from the University of San Diego School of Law;
Charles Anthony Smith, from the University of California, San Diego;
A Panel Discussion: "Guantanamo: A Legal Limbo?"
Wednesday, January 21, 2004, 2:00 PM
Weaver Center, Institute of the Americas (UCSD)
