Rhonda Evans Case,
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, East Carolina University

“Representing Refugees ‘Down Under’”

Co-sponsored by the Edward A. Clark Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies.

Link to audio recording of lecture (Windows Media Player)

Susan Benesch,
Visiting Professor, University of Baltimore School of Law

"Song as Crime: the Prosecution of a Pop Star, and other New Cases on Incitement to Genocide"

Link to audio recording of lecture (Windows Media Player)

Gretchen Ritter,
Professor, Department of Government & Director of the Center for Women's and Gender Studies, University of Texas

"Women, Human Rights, and the 'War on Terrorism'"

Link to audio recording of lecture (Windows Media Player)

Kathleen Cleaver,
Visiting Professor, University of Texas at Austin School of Law

“Fighting for Human Rights in the Homeland”

Private Luncheon

Benjamin Gregg,
Associate Professor, Department of Government, University of Texas

"Human Rights as Social Theory"

Download the paper (.pdf)

Link to audio recording of lecture (Windows Media Player)

Gustavo Meoño,
Coordinator, National Police Archives of Guatemala

CANCELLED (read more)

“Memory and Impunity: Mining the Archives of the Guatemalan National Police”

Co-sponsored by LLILAS.

Read more: Recovery of the Guatemalan Police Archives - An Update, by Kate Boyle (George Washington University, The National Security Archive: July 2, 2008).

See also our Projects and Publications: Impunity in Guatemala.

Shirin Ebadi,
Nobel Peace Laureate (2003), civil rights activist and lecturer in law, University of Tehran

Roundtable Discussion: “Law, Locality, and International Human Rights”

A conversation moderated by Rapoport Center Director Karen Engle, with UT Professors Kamran Ali, Mounira Charrad, Barbara Harlow, Neville Hoad, and Shannon Speed.

Immediately followed by a Reception.

Co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute and the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law.

Ebadi profile and public events schedule

Link to video recording of lecture (Windows Media Player)

Daniel Blocq,
Royal Netherlands Navy and University of Wisconsin-Madison

“UN Military Observers at Work”

Abstract of Paper (PDF)

Read the feature story.

Link to audio recording of lecture (Windows Media Player)

Dan Connell,
Simmons College, Boston

“From Resistance to Governance: How the EPLF/PFDJ Experience Shapes Eritrea's Regional Strategy”

Abstract of Paper (.pdf)

Audio: Connell presentation (Windows Media Player)

Read the feature story.

Link to audio recording of lecture (Windows Media Player)

Roberto Gargarella,
Universidad de Buenos Aires

“The Philosophy of Punishment, Human Rights, and International Criminal Law"

Download paper (.pdf)

LLILAS Visiting Resource Professor, October 20-25

Audio: Gargarella presentation (Windows Media Player)

Read the feature story.

Link to audio recording of lecture (Windows Media Player)

Helena Alviar Garcia,
Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá

“The Progressive Redistribution of Land in Latin America: Between Economic Development and Positivism”

Abstract of Paper (.pdf)

Audio: Alviar Garcia presentation (Windows Media Player)

Link to audio recording of lecture (Windows Media Player)

Philippe Sands,
University College London

"The Torture Team: International Criminal Liability for Lawyers?"

Related Reading:

Link to Vanity Fair article, "The Green Light" (May 2008)

Congressional Hearings (May 2008) (.pdf)

Congressional Hearings (July 2008) (.pdf)

Link to audio recording of lecture (Windows Media Player)

Itty Abraham
Director, South Asia Institute, University of Texas

Audio: "A Genealogy of Caring: A Long View of the Figure of the Refugee"

Álvaro Restrepo
Founder, El Colegio de Cuerpo de Cartagena de Indias

Video: "Individual Body/Collective Body"

Read the press release.

LLILAS Visiting Resource Professor, co-sponsored by the Performing Arts Center

Jennifer Harbury
Human Rights Lawyer

Video: "The US and Torture: History and Jurisprudence"

Barbara Harlow
Professor, Department of English, University of Texas

"Tortured Thoughts: The Example Set by Ruth First from her Interrogation in 1963 to her Assassination in 1982"

Alejandro Moreno
Physicians for Human Rights

Audio: "Implementation of the Istanbul Protocol - A Summary Report of the Efforts to Eliminate Torture and Ill-Treatment in Mexico." (Windows Media Player)

Karen Engle
Cecil D. Redford Professor in Law & Director, Rapoport Center,
University of Texas School of Law

Gerald Torres
Bryant Smith Chair in Law,
University of Texas School of Law

Panel Discussion: "Indigenous Roads to Development" (.pdf) and "Indigenous Peoples, Afro-Indigenous Peoples and Reparations" (.pdf)

Moderator/Discussant: Shannon Speed, Assistant Professor, University of Texas Anthropology

Audio: Panel Discussion (Windows Media Player)

Daniel Bonilla
Associate Professor, Universidad de los Andes School of Law, Bogotá, Colombia

"Legal Pluralism and Extra-Legal Property: Class, Culture and Law in Bogotá." (.pdf)

Audio: Professor Bonilla's presentation (Windows Media Player)

Valentine Moghadam
Director of Gender Studies, Purdue University

"Globalization, States, and Social Rights: Negotiating Women's Economic Citizenship in the Maghreb." (pdf)

Audio: Professor Moghadam's presentation (Windows Media Player)

Vasuki Nesiah
Senior Associate, International Center for Transitional Justice

"Delimiting Accountability: Writing History out of Justice" (.pdf)

Audio: Professor Nesiah's presentation (Windows Media Player)

Patrick Macklem
William C. Graham Chair Professor of Law, University of Toronto

"What is International Human Rights Law? Three Applications of a Distributive Account." (.pdf)

Audio: Professor Macklem's presentation (Windows Media Player)

Thomas M. Franck
Murry and Ida Becker Professor of Law Emeritus, New York University

"State Responsibility in the Era of Individual Criminal Culpability"

Paper: Tom Franck - State Responsibility in the Era of Individual Criminal Culpability (.pdf)

Draft for Rapoport Center Workshop on Human Rights and Justice, Sept. 25, 2006

Not for quotation or circulation outside the workshop.

Liliana Obregon
Professor of International Law, Universidad de los Andes Bogotá, Colombia

"A Historical Look at the Inter-American System of Human Rights"

For background on Professor Obregon's talk, please see her article, "Between Civilisation and Barbarism: Creole interventions in international law."

LLILAS Visiting Resource Professor

Amr Shalakany
Assistant Professor of Law, American University in Cairo, Egypt

"Comparative Law as Archeology: On Sodomy, Islamic Law and the Human Rights Activist"

Paper: Amr Shalakany - Comparative Law as Archeology: On Sodomy, Islamic Law and the Human Rights Activist (.pdf)

Co-sponsored by Middle Eastern Studies and the LGBTQ/Sexualities Research Cluster

Denise Gilman
L.L.M. Candidate & Teaching Fellow, Georgetown University

"Calling the United States' Bluff: How Sovereign Immunity Undermines the United States' Claim to an Effective Domestic Human Rights System"

Paper: Gilman - Calling the United States' Bluff (.pdf)

Forthcoming in Georgetown Law Journal , Vol. 95 (February 2007)

Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo
Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology, Mexico

"Indigenous Peoples of Mexico and their Struggles for Rights: Gender Perspective on Cultural Citizenship"

Paper: National Law and Indigenous Customary Law: The struggle for justice of indigenous women in Chiapas, Mexico (.pdf)

LLILAS Visiting Resource Professor

Rachel Holmes
Author

"African Queen: The Real Life of the Hottentot Venus"

Co-sponsored by the English Department

Robert D. King
Audre and Bernard Rapoport Regents Chair of Jewish Studies and Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of Texas Linguistics

"Language Rights?"

Derek Jinks and Scott Sullivan
Assistant Professors of Law, University of Texas

"Rule of Law in Wartime: The Issues and the Academic Program"

Audio: Jinks and Sullivan presentation (Windows Media Player)

Christine Kovic
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Houston, Clear Lake

"Central American Migrants and Mexico's Southern Border: Human Rights and the Criminalization of Poor Workers"

Co-sponsored by the Anthropology Department

Julio Solórzano Foppa
Writer, Director, Producer
Mexico

"Human Rights in Guatemala"

Audio: Solórzano presentation (Windows Media Player)

Co-sponsored by the Performing Arts Center and LLILAS

Andy Palacio
Garifuna Artist, Belize

"How Does One Assign Value to Culture?"

A Discussion about the History, Music and Cultural Survival of the Garifuna

Read more about Garifuna culture.

Audio: Palacio presentation (Windows Media Player)

Co-sponsored by the Performing Arts Center

Susan Marks
Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, & Director of Studies & Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge

"The Ticking Bomb and Other Modern Myths"

Abstract of talk (.pdf)

Paper: "Apologising for Torture" (.pdf)

Laurel Fletcher
Clinical Professor of Law & Director, International Human Rights Law Clinic, University of California, Berkeley

"Bystanders: The Limits of International Criminal Trials and Jurisprudence"

Paper: From Indifference to Engagement: Bystanders and International Criminal Justice (.pdf)

Erika George
Associate Professor of Law, University of Utah

Abstract of paper (.pdf)

Working paper: "Development Priorities, Human Rights Principles: Globalization and the Place of the Transnational Private Actor" (.pdf)

Ryan Goodman
Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard

Derek Jinks
Assistant Professor of Law, UT at Austin

"International Human Rights Law and the Socialization of States"

Paper: "International Law and State Socialization" (.pdf)

Additional suggested reading: Introduction, Parts I and V, and Conclusion of "How To Influence States" (.pdf)

Nathaniel Berman
Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School

"The Law of War as a Field of Battle"

Handout for talk: "Law of War" (.pdf)

Paper: "Privileging Combat" (.pdf)

Judson Wood, Jr.
Attorney at Law,
Cox Smith Matthews Incorporated

"San Antonio's La Villita, Pan-Americanism and World War II"

Description and biography (.pdf)

Kerry Rittich
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

"Redesigning Workers' Rights for the Global Economy: Core Labor Rights Confront Labor Market Flexibility"

Tony Buti
Senior Lecturer in Law, Murdoch University,
Perth, Western Australia

"The Australian 'Stolen Generations' and Reparations"

Abstract (.pdf)
Paper (.pdf)

Daniel Brinks
Assistant Professor, Department of Government, UT at Austin

"The law, politics and impact of litigating social and economic rights in the developing world"

Abstract (.pdf)

Paolo Carozza
Associate Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School & Member, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

"Trafficking in Human Rights in the Postmodern Age"

Abstract (.pdf)

Ralph Wilde
Lecturer, Department of Laws
University College London

"From Guantanamo Bay to Abu Ghraib: Extraterritorial State Action and International Human Rights Law"

Michael Dale
Director
Northwest Workers Justice Project

Brown bag with students and guest speaker at Transnational Worker Rights Clinic seminar taught by Bill Beardall

Neville Hoad
Assistant Professor, English
University of Texas at Austin

"Disorientations: Sexuality Rights Claims and Imperial Geography"

Jules Lobel
Professor
University of Pittsburgh Law School

"Anticipating the War on Terror: Preventative Detention at Home and Pre-emptive War Abroad"

Joanne Mariner
Deputy Director
Americas Division, Human Rights Watch

"Crisis in Darfur" (with commentary by Rebecca Lorins) and brown bag with students

Lance Compa
Senior Lecturer
Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations

Brown bag to present January 2005 Human Rights Watch report "Blood, Sweat and Fear: Workers' Rights in U.S. Meat and Poultry Plants"

Gretchen Ritter
Associate Professor,
UT Department of Government

“U.S. Gender Politics in Transatlantic Dialogue: Internationalism and the Debate of Women's Rights in the U.S. in the 1940s”

Pascale Bos
Professor,
UT Department of Germanic Studies

"Interpreting the Politics of Wartime Rape: Berlin 1945"

Lama Abu-Odeh
Associate Professor,
Georgetown University Law Center

“The Regulation of Crimes of Honor in the Contemporary Islamic World”

Anthony Anghie
Professor,
University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law

“Self-Government, Imperialism, and the Birth of International Institutions”

Flavia Agnes, Sarah Buel, and Barbara Hines

"Violence Against Women: Emerging Transnational Approaches" (Panel Discussion)

Charles Hale
Professor, UT Anthropology

“Struggles for Human Rights and Against Impunity in Guatemala: Lessons from the Myrna Mack Murder Trial”

David Kennedy
Henry Shattuck Professor of Law
Harvard Law School

“The International Human Rights Movement: Part of the Problem?”

Martti Koskenniemi
Professor, University of Helsinki

“Human Rights, Politics, and Love”

Shannon Speed
Professor, UT Anthropology

“Rights at the Intersection:
Gender and Ethnicity in Nicolás Ruiz, Chiapas”