Upcoming Events at the Center

This Week:
November 3: Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan, International Student Lounge, 12:30pm - 1:30pm

Later In November:
November 11: DC and Gay Marriage: 'Til Congress Do Us Part, Room 603, 12pm - 1:20pm
November 17: LLM Human Rights Roundtable, Room 526, 2pm - 3pm

Summer Law Program in Israel

The new Summer Law Program in Israel will take place May 30-June 27, 2010, in Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Jerusalem. Participating U.S. law students will receive six credits for successfully completing two courses during the program: Rights, Liberties and Environment; and Intellectual Property and High Tech Law. The courses will be taught by well-known experts from premier universities and NGOs in Israel and overseen by members of the WCL faculty. The program is currently pending accreditation by the American Bar Association.

To visit the website click here; to learn more information about the program click here.

10th Annual Human Rights Film Series

In conjunction with our partners the Center for Social Media at American University, the 10th Annual Human Rights Film Series showcased documentaries that highlight key human rights issues. All screenings were free and open to the public. Filmmakers and advocacy experts were on hand to participate in discussions after the films. If you missed this years film series, keep checking this website for updates regarding the 11th Annual Human Rights Film Series in 2010.

AUHumanRightsFilmSeries.org

The Human Rights Film Series also has a social networking site at: www.humanrightsfilmseries.ning.com.
For each film screened at this years film series, there was a nonprofit featured on this website which dealt directly with the underlying human rights issues in each film. The organization was also at the screening of the film where they had an information table so interested parties could find out more about the organization and how people can become involved with the issues in the film.

Teaching International Humanitarian Law Workshop
October 2-3, 2009

On October 2-3, 2009, the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law together with the International Committee of the Red Cros hosted the second annual Teaching International Humanitarian Law Workshop. The workshop brought together law professors from over twenty institutions around the United States with eight resource faculty to explore ways in which to expand, support and enrich the teach of the IHL in law schools throughout the US. The participants came from schools as varied as the Universities of Miami, Denver, and Akron, Drexel University, Catholic University, Willamette University, Northeastern, UVA and the US Naval Academy, the Air Force Academy, the Army JAG School and the Marine Corps. This two-day workshop was the next step in an ongoing very successful collaboration with the ICRC which began with the publication of our joint report on Teaching IHL in US Law Schools in 2007.

The Spring/Summer 2009 Human Rights Brief Now Available Online

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