News & Events
Since its inception in 2003, the Human Rights Program has brought leading figures in the field to the Law School. Recent events and speakers include:
Rashida Manjoo, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and UVA Distinguished International Fellow in Residence and visiting research professor
"STONEWALL UPRISINg," feature film and discussion with the film's co-director, David Heilbroner (about the rise of the gay rights movement)
International Symposium on Human Rights in Education, with human rights practitioners and scholars from India, South America, South Africa and more
Gender-Based Violence in Post-Earthquake Haiti, with Eramithe Delva, a founder of the Haitian women's organization KOFAVIV; Tamara Brown of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti; and Professor Deena Hurwitz
Indigent Defense from Brooklyn to Kathmandu,with Adam Heyman ’03 of the Brooklyn Legal Aid Society
Property, Indigenous
Autonomy, and
International Law: The
Forestry Law Case in the
Colombian Constitutional
Court, with Daniel Bonilla,
law professor and director
of the Public Interest Law
Group, Universidad de los
Andes, Bogota, Colombia
Lucy Reed, partner and co-head of the global international arbitration group, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer; arbitrator, Eritrea- Ethiopia Claims Commission; former president, American Society of International Law, International Tribunals and Victim Compensation
From Jack Bauer to Abu Ghraib: Holding the Mercenary Industry Accountable for Torture, with William Gould '90, Susan Burke, and Becky Burke '90 of law firm Burke O'Neil
What Islam? Whose Islam? Gender and Other Constitutional Rights in Pluralist Legal Systems, with Zainah Anwar, project director, Musawah, Global Movement for Equality and Justice in the Muslim Family; Founder, Sisters in Islam
The Iraq History Project:
The Right to Truth,
Transitional Justice and
Mass Data Collection in a
Conflict Zone, with Daniel
Rothenberg, managing
director, International
Projects, International Human
Rights Law Institute, DePaul
College of Law
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