Human Rights Brief
A Legal Resource for the International Human Rights CommunityDaniel Bradlow, Professor of Law and Director of the International Legal Studies Program at WCL, participated in the International Law Lecture Series at the Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies. Professor Bradlow presented "A Legal Perspective on the Asian Financial Crisis" at this series in April 1998. In the same month, he was a panelist at the IMF Economic Forum on "The IMF and Structural Adjustment: What the Outside Evaluators Think" and participated and chaired a roundtable discussion on "The Accountability of International Organizations to Non-State Actors" on behalf of the American Society of International Law at their Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. Recent publications include "The Changing Operations of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and Its Implications for Southern Africa" chapter in Democracy, Human Rights and Economic Development in Southern Africa.
Robert Goldman, Professor of Law, Co-Director of the Center, and Vice-President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights was re-elected in March to the Executive Committee of the Board on the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights. In April, he went to Columbia and Venezuela, where the Commission held a Special Session, as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the OAS and Inter-American Declaration of Rights and Duties of Man. Over the summer and early fall, Professor Goldman will participate with other Commission members in on-site visits to Guatemala, Haiti, and Peru.
Claudio Grossman, WCL Dean, Co-Director of the Center and Member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights was awarded the René Cassin award for his work in the defense and promotion of human rights by B'nai B'rith International. The award is named for René Cassin, a French attorney, author of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968. In April, Dean Grossman attended the Summit of the Americas meeting in Chile addressing the themes of education, strengthening democracy, achieving economic integration, alleviating poverty, and freedom of the press. He was designated lead member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for freedom of the press to work with the Special Rapporteur to provide a voice for this essential right of democratic expansion and consolidation. As Chair of the Section on Graduate Programs for Foreign Lawyers of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), Dean Grossman will host a meeting of the deans of law schools of the Americas during the 1998 AALS meeting in New Orleans.
Nicholas Kittrie, Professor of Law, has had his latest book, a revised and expanded edition of The Tree of Liberty: A Documentary History of Rebellion and Political Crime in America published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. This book is an exhaustive survey of documents and background comments on incidents of political crime, civil disobedience, mass unrest and terrorism in the history of the United States. Dr. Kittrie served as a Co-organizer and Co-chair of an international conference on "Identity and Social Stability" held in Washington, DC. During the past academic year, Dr. Kittrie has served as a senior consultant to the Alliance for the Creation of an International Court of Criminal Justice. In that capacity he had been invited to participate and chair working panels on the ICCJ to be held at an international conference scheduled for Rome, Italy in July, 1998.
Diane Orentlicher, Professor of Law and Director of War Crimes Research Office was a discussant on a panel co-sponsored by AU and Amnesty International on Human Rights in the 21st Century. She organized a conference "The War Crimes Tribunals: The Record and the Prospects" which was held at WCL March 31 - April 1, 1998. Professor Orentlicher presented a paper on "Separatism and the Democratic Entitlement" at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law in April. She spoke at a faculty colloquium at the University of South Carolina law school on "Democratic Rights and Separatist Claims" later that same month. Professor Orentlicher has also been involved in numerous media events concerning her work in international law. She was interviewed on NPR's "All Things Considered" about efforts to bring Pol Pot to trial. She was interviewed on CNN about war crimes and then quoted on Newsday regarding the NATO=s arrest of two suspects charged by the Yugoslavia war crimes tribunal. Professor Orentlicher was quoted in the New York Times on six separate occasions in April regarding current issues involving international human rights violations.
Herman Schwartz, Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center, was Moderator of the Conference on constitutional issues for constitutional court judges in Kazakhstan, Khyrgystan, Uzbekistan and Mongolia, Budapest, and Hungary in March of 1998. He had two articles published in the Los Angeles Times: "The GOP's Judicial Delays and the Cost to Minorities," in February and "O'Connor A 'Centrist'? Not When Minorities are Involved," in April 1998.
Rick Wilson, Professor of Law and Director of WCL's International Human Rights Law Clinic, gave a deposition as an expert witness on public defense services in litigation brought by the ACLU to challenge the Public Defender Office of Allegheny County (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania in February. He had various presentations at the "First Conference on Legal Aid in China," sponsored by the International Republican Institute in Beijing, China. Professor Wilson also presented "Clinical Legal Education in the United States and in Newly Democratic Countries," Conference on Clinical Legal Education for Law Schools in Eastern Europe, Russia and the Newly Independent States, sponsored by the Constitutional and Legislative Policy Institutes and the Roma Rights Center in Budapest, Hungary in March 1998. Professor Wilson is co-author of a new book, International Human Rights Law and Practice: Cases, Treaties and Materials (Kluwer Law International, 1997). Other publications include "Environmental, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of the Indigenous Peoples of Chiapas, Mexico," in Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples and "The Inter-American Human Rights System: Principal Activities in 1997 and Related Developments," ACLU International Civil Liberties Report April 1998 Edition.
The proper citation for this article in the Human Rights Brief Volume 5, Number 3, beginning at page 23 is: 5 No. 3 Hum. Rts. Brief 23 (1998).
