Presenters: Sandra Babcock, Director,
Mexican Capital Legal Assistance Program,
Professor
Ernest Young, Amicus brief co-author and Deputy Attorney General for
Alabama in Ex parte Ernesto Medellin
Moderator: Professor
Jordan Steiker
Date: Wed., Sept.14th
Time: 3:30 – 6:00 (with reception)
Location: Eidman
Courtroom. Overflow seating and closed circuit television viewing available.
The International Court of Justice
has insisted that a remedy be provided in U.S. courts
for the failure to provide non-citizen defendants their consular notification
rights under international treaty. The Medellin case
is back in the Texas courts to
determine whether noncompliance with the treaty requires the reversal of capital
cases for non-citizens. Medellin will
be argued in the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on September 14, 2005, and
Ms. Babcock and Professor Young will discuss the litigation and the broader
legal issues. MCLAP is a program funded by
This event is sponsored by the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, the Capital Punishment Center, the McCormick Society, the Sheffield Society, and the William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law.