Impunity, Justice and the Human Rights Agenda

Setting the Stage: Two Perspectives on Criminal Law and the Human Rights Agenda
Eidman Courtroom (CCJ 2.306)

• Ariel Dulitzky, Clinical Professor; Director, Human Rights Clinic, The University of Texas School of Law
• Karen Engle, Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law; Co-director & Founder, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, The University of Texas School of Law

KEYNOTE CONVERSATION The Anti-Impunity Professional: A View from Inside
Eidman Courtroom (CCJ 2.306)

• Ruben Carranza, Director, Reparative Justice Program, The International Center for Transitional Justice
• Fredy Peccerelli, Executive Director, Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation
• Patricia Viseur Sellers, Special Advisor on Prosecution Strategies to the Prosecutor of the ICC; Visiting Fellow, Kellogg College, University of Oxford; former Legal Advisor for Gender-Related Crimes and Acting senior trial Attorney, Office of the Prosecutor of the ICTY

Reception
Jamail Pavilion (CCJ 2.300)

Registration required

Breakfast
Jamail Pavilion (CCJ 2.300)

The Criminal Law Paradigm
Eidman Courtroom (CCJ 2.306)

• Helena Alviar García, Associate Professor and Dean, Faculty of Law, Universidad de los Andes
  "The political interpretations of impunity in times of transition: the case of Colombia"
• Vasuki Nesiah, Associate Professor of Practice, The Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University
  "Civil Society and the Civilizing Mission"
• Hani Sayed, Assistant Professor of Law, American University in Cairo
  "Anti-impunity as Governmentality"

Coffee break
Jamail Pavilion (CCJ 2.300)

Criminalization and the Politics of Transition
Eidman Courtroom (CCJ 2.306)

• Zinaida Miller, Doctoral Candidate in International Relations, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
  "(Re-)Distributing Transition: Costs and Consequences of Criminalization"
• Monika Nalepa, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Notre Dame University
  "To Stay or to Go: Decision Making on the Peaceful Surrender of Control after the International Criminal Court"
• Fabia Fernandes Carvalho Veçoso, Professor of Law, Faculdade de Direito do Sul de Minas
  "Between human rights absolutism and contextual history: aspects of the experience of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights"

Lunch
Jamail Pavilion (CCJ 2.300)

Registration required

Transitional Justice Outside the Criminal Law Paradigm
Eidman Courtroom (CCJ 2.306)

• Natalie Davidson, Doctoral Candidate, Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University
  "Collective Memory of Political Violence in the Shadow of Alien Tort Statute Litigation: the Filártiga Case"
• Dennis Davis, Judge, The High Court of Cape Town; Professor, University of Cape Town
  "Blowing up the bridge or strengthening its foundations: the story of the TAC and the Azapo challenge"
• Dianne Otto, Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for International Law and the Humanities, Melbourne Law School
  "Archival Disruptions: People’s Tribunals and Testimonies of Protest and Survival"

Coffee break
Jamail Pavilion (CCJ 2.300)

Concluding Reflections and Discussion Panel
Eidman Courtroom (CCJ 2.306)