Daniel D. Bradlow, Professor of Law and Director of the Washington College of Law (WCL) International Legal Studies Program, participated in a panel discussion on “Race, Riots and Money: The Bretton Woods Institutions and Indonesia” at the annual American Society of International Law (ASIL) meeting in March 1999. In April 1999, Professor Bradlow organized a conference at WCL on “Human Rights and Development: Incorporating Human Rights Criteria into Infrastructure Projects.” In June 1999, he presented a lecture entitled “Intertwined Issues and Global Governance: The Case of the IMF,” during “International Forum: The Challenges of Globalization” organized by the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada and held in Sherbrooke, Quebec.

Robert K. Goldman, Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Center), is on sabbatical for the 1999-2000 academic year. He is currently serving as the president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).

Claudio Grossman, Dean, Co-Director of the Center, and member of IACHR, spoke on August 12, 1999, at a seminar on “Counter Terrorism Strategies for the 21st Century,” sponsored by the Inter-University Center for Legal Studies at the International Law Institute in Washington, D.C. On September 9, 1999, Dean Grossman presented a lecture on “The Influence of Human Rights on International Relations” at the Inter-American Defense College at Fort NcNair in Washington, D.C. He participated in a panel discussion on “The Role of the University in the Human Rights Movement: Scholars and Activities,” which was part of the fifteenth annual celebration of Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program on September 17 to 19, 1999. Dean Grossman wrote an article entitled “The Inter-American System of Human Rights and the New Hemispheric Reality,” which appeared in the journal Innovation and Inspiration: Fifty Years of the Universal Declaration of Human in September 1999.

Diane F. Orentlicher, Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center, served as Special Advisor to the High Commissioner on National Minorities of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in The Hague, Netherlands, while on sabbatical leave from January through July 1999. Her work with the High Commissioner, Max van der Stoel, focused on issues relating to Roma in Europe. In early September 1999, the Foundation Press published a casebook entitled Human Rights, which Professor Orentlicher co-edited with Columbia Law School faculty members Louis Henkin, Gerald L. Neuman, and David W. Leebron.

Herman Schwartz, Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center, organized and conducted an American Bar Association-Central and Eastern European Law Initiative seminar for East European judges, which was held on May 1, 1999, in Washington, D.C. The seminar focused on the role of the press in assisting the judiciary to promote the rule of law. On October 12 and 13, 1999, Professor Schwartz organized and conducted a United States Agency for International Development seminar in Warsaw, Poland, for judges from the Republic of Georgia. This seminar focused on the role of the judiciary in assisting and protecting the press, as well as the role of the press in assisting the judiciary to promote the rule of law.

Richard J. Wilson, Professor of Law, Co-Director of the Center, Director of WCL’s International Human Rights Law Clinic, and Acting Director of the WCL Clinical Program, participated in “Law School Human Rights Programs and Advocacy Work,” as part of the “Symposium on Law School Human Rights Programs: Sharing Our History, Planning Our Future,” held in April 1999 at the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School. In May 1999, he co-presented with George Washington Law School Professor Jenny Lyman the lecture “Interpretation: Clinical Teaching in Different Voices to Other Legal Cultures,” which was part of the Association of American Law Schools Workshop on Clinical Legal Education in Lake Tahoe, California. In June 1999, Professor Wilson presented “Clinical Legal Education and Legal Aid,” at the Legal Aid Practitioners’ Forum, hosted by the International Human Rights Law Group and the Asian Human Rights Commission in Bangkok, Thailand. He also organized a conference on “Consular Assistance and the Death Penalty under the Vienna Convention: Recent Developments and Strategic Issues,” which WCL’s International Human Rights Law Clinic and Amnesty International co-sponsored in Washington, D.C. in June 1999. In November 1999, Professor Wilson’s article entitled, “Prosecuting Pinochet: International Crimes in Spanish Domestic Law” will be published in Volume 21 of the Human Rights Quarterly. Professor Wilson also wrote a chapter entitled “The Spanish Proceedings” for the book, The Pinochet Papers, edited by Reed Brody of Human Rights Watch and Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights, which Kluwer Academic Publishers is scheduled to release in December 1999.