Human Rights Brief
A Legal Resource for the International Human Rights CommunitySpring 1997
FACULTY/STAFF NEWS
Daniel Bradlow, Professor of Law and Director of the International Legal Studies Program at WCL, recently published an article titled, "The World Bank, IMF and Human Rights." He also organized a conference co-sponsored by the Center on International Environmental Law on "People, Profit and Pachyderms: The Role and Responsibility of Lawyers in Planning Investment Transactions." He participated in a discussion group on "Progressive Lawyering in the Global South," along with other WCL professors.
Adrienne Davis,Professor of Law, currently teaches Critical Race Theory, which educates students about the possibility of Black Reparations. Her students are drafting memoranda in the area of international human rights, as well as domestic criminal justice to argue for reparations.
Robert Goldman, Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center, began his term as Second Vice President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in March and serves as the Commission's Rapporteur to Colombia. In April, Professor Goldman traveled to Geneva to meet with the UN Secretary General's Representative on Internally Displaced Persons and a group of international legal scholars and experts as part of an ongoing project to draft a set of guiding principles on displaced persons.
Claudio Grossman, Dean and Co-Director of the Center, was the principal Investigator for the Inter-American Human Rights Digest Project and hosted a reception where the preliminary draft of the Inter-American System on Human Rights was released. In February, he attended several events with Chilean President Frei, including a White House reception with President Clinton. In March, Dean Grossman was interviewed on the Derek McGinty show about international human rights treaties and their effectiveness. Dean Grossman also gave opening remarks at the first teleconference organized at WCL entitled: "Hong Kong: Preserving Human Rights and the Rule of Law" in March. In April, Dean Grossman gave opening remarks on a panel which included Tipper Gore, Diane Rehm, Carol Browner, and Congressional Representative Connie Morella, at the Lawyer's Home Showcase Program on women and family sponsored by the D.C. Women's Bar Association.
Diane Orentlicher, Professor of Law, is Director of the Tribunal Research Office. She has recently been appointed to the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law and began her three year appointment in April. In March, she was a guest speaker on National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation, on a program called "The Politics of Forgiveness." Also in March, she gave a speech at Notre Dame University entitled, "In the Name of Peace: Getting Away With Genocide?" She presented a paper on Amnesty Laws at a conference at Notre Dame on "International Human Rights Litigation in U.S. Courts: The State of the Law and Future Prospects." In April, she participated in an experts' workshop on "Post-Conflict Justice: The Role of the International Community," sponsored by the Stanley Foundation in Queenstown, Maryland. Professor Orentlicher also published an opinion piece in Newsday on arresting war criminals in Bosnia, and spoke at a conference at U.C. Berkeley entitled "Reporting From the Killing Fields: A Conference on Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity and War."
Ira Robbins, Professor of Law, is a member of the Board of Directors for D.C. Prisoners' Legal Services. He frequently makes presentations on the death penalty, habeas corpus and prisoners' rights and consults regularly on death penalty litigation. He recently published an article entitled "The Americans with Disabilities Act in Prison" in Yale Law & Policy Review.
Herman Schwartz, Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center, continued progress on his book on constitutional courts in Eastern Europe. He continues to work with the Open Society Institute, to plan further workshops on with constitutional issues in the Caucasus and Central Asia, like the workshop for Central Asian Judges that was held in Paris in March 1997. In April, Professor Schwartz also held a consultation meeting with two Moldovan Constitutional Court judges.
Rick Wilson, Professor of Law and Director of WCL's International Human Rights Clinic, gave a presentation titled "Defense of the International Criminal Accused: Equality of Arms, the Heinous Murder Rule and Devil's Advocates" for the Symposium on International Crime and the Protection of Human Rights held at New York University in April. He also served as a guest on Worldnet Television's Conversamos en Esta Noche, a call-in show on the theme of human rights in the Americas. In May, Professor Wilson will represent the International Bar Association at the Centre for Human Rights in Geneva, where he will work with representatives of NGOs to review a draft manual for human rights practitioners to be published by the UN and disseminated worldwide.
The proper citation for this article in the Human Rights Brief Volume 4, Number 3, beginning at page 23 is: 4 No. 3 Hum. Rts. Brief 23 (1997).
