UCSD - IICAS - The Future of International Humanitarian Law

International Law Speaker Series

 

2008-09: After Outrage: Human Rights Abuses and the Search for Accountability

Countries emerging from situations of war, civil conflict, genocide or ethnic cleansing face a daunting task in rebuilding their societies and returning to order. There have been a number of responses to mass atrocities and human rights violations. Some countries have sought to prosecute perpetrators in domestic courts. There have also been efforts to establish international tribunals to prosecute perpetrators. Most legal responses, however, have been slow to form and limited in scope.

Since it has often been impossible to exert the full force of the law to punish the guilty in the aftermath of atrocities, alternative responses have been attempted that include reparations, memorialization, and truth and reconciliation commissions.

Each response offers its own approach to justice. Criminal trials seek to punish perpetrators; truth commissions are more likely to focus on victims and provide an historical accounting of events. The memorialization of atrocities in museums, monuments, days of remembrance, and textbooks is geared toward the descendants and is based on a forward-looking approach.

These alternative responses to the scourge of war, political repression, and ethnic cleansing have left us with many vexing moral and political dilemmas. The Sixth Annual Joint Speakers Series will explore the many options for transitional justice - from restitution and reparations to international tribunals and truth and reconciliation commissions. Private actions including civil suits for human rights violations as well as non-legal responses will also be explored.




 

The 2008-09 lecture series has concluded. Check back later for information on the 2009-10 lecture series.


The 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.



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)





2007-08: The Future of International Humanitarian Law

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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

 

 

 

2006-07: A More Secure World

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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

 

 

 

2005-06: U.S. Immigration

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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)

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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)

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Tuesday, March 7, 2006, 12:10 PM
Gafford Moot Court Room (Cal Western)

 

 

 

2004-05: Human Rights in a New Age of Terror

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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"
    Thursday, February 3, 2005, 12:10 PM
    Gafford Moot Court Room (Cal Western)

    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)

     

     

     

    2003-04: Human Rights and International Institutions after Iraq


    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)

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    S. Houston Lay Memorial Lecture: "The U.N. after Iraq"
    Monday, February 23, 2004, 12:00 PM
    Gafford Moot Court Room (Cal Western)

     

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