Mar 30 Tue
2021

Center for Human Rights, 30th Anniversary: Creating Connections: A Career Panel on Opportunities in Human Rights

12:00PM - 01:30PM https://www.wcl.american.edu/secle/registration?event_id=308564&listonly

AUWCL students are invited to an alumni panel discussion and Q&A featuring alumni who have gone on to work in human rights and/or have integrated human rights perspectives into their careers. Students interested in exploring career pathways in human rights will have the opportunity to connect with AUWCL alumni who will share experiences about how to navigate different careers with a human rights perspective.

Learn more:  https://www.wcl.american.edu/impact/initiatives-programs/center/center-for-hr-30th-anniversary/

Register: https://www.wcl.american.edu/secle/registration  

  • Conference
  • Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
  • CLE
Mar 30 Tue
2021

Reproductive Rights & the Right to Information: Navigating Global Health Challenges

12:00PM - 02:30PM

In celebration of Women’s month, the Academy will host Celebrating Bright Minds: Important Conversations with Women Experts in the Human Rights Field, a two-discussion series addressing human rights violations against women capturing diverse global perspectives of reoccurring abuses.

Event co-sponsored by: Women's Link Worldwide, WCL's War Crimes Research Office and the Women and the Law Program

  • Conference
  • Open To Students AND Faculty/Staff
Mar 31 Wed
2021

Center for Human Rights, 30th Anniversary: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet: The Human Rights Challenge

12:00PM - 01:00PM https://ucla.in/3qSVrYG

Co-sponsored by a network of human rights centers at U.S. law schools, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet will give a presentation on the challenges to and opportunities for the protection of human rights. Ms. Bachelet assumed the role of Commissioner in 2018, following her tenure as President of Chile from 2006-2010 and 2014-2018. Ms. Bachelet is the seventh Commissioner since the Office's creation in 1993. 

 

Learn more:  https://www.wcl.american.edu/impact/initiatives-programs/center/center-for-hr-30th-anniversary/

 

Register:  https://ucla.in/3qSVrYG

  • Conference
  • Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
  • CLE
Mar 31 Wed
2021

International Suite Talk Series presents “China, Chips, and Change: International Trade, Technology, and Supply Chain Security” with Alexis Early, JD '11

12:00PM - 01:00PM

Alexis Early is a partner in King & Spalding’s International Trade Group, where she helps devise regulatory and policy solutions for clients. Alexis counsels companies, financial institutions, and individuals on economic sanctions, export controls, anti-money laundering, and CFIUS national security reviews of foreign investments. She represents clients in compliance and enforcement proceedings before the Treasury Department, State Department, Commerce Department, and Department of Homeland Security, and advocates for them on Capitol Hill.

Alexis counsels clients in the financial services and insurance, energy, aerospace and defense, IT/telecom, emerging technology, food and agriculture, shipping and logistics, and education/humanitarian sectors.

Alexis frequently conducts due diligence for M&A transactions and advises parties on whether to make CFIUS filings, how to navigate the CFIUS review process, and how to implement CFIUS mitigation. Often in parallel, she advises clients with classified operations on foreign ownership, control, and influence mitigation. She regularly counsels clients on licensing and compliance with the EAR, the ITAR, and OFAC sanctions regulations, including creating compliance programs and conducting trainings. Alexis also conducts internal investigations and assists clients in submitting disclosures of regulatory violations.

Alexis has advised foreign embassies, state-owned enterprises, and foreign sovereigns on their engagement with Capitol Hill and the federal government, and she counseled a pro-democracy opposition party in the Caucasus through its ultimately successful election campaigns.  She has implemented strategic advocacy campaigns related to economic sanctions, international trade and multilateral trade agreements, defense cooperation, energy security, foreign assistance, and immigration policy.

Alexis holds BAs in Political Science and Philosophy from Wellesley College and a JD from American University Washington College of Law. While in law school, Alexis was the founding editor-in-chief of the American University Business Law Review, the first comprehensive business law journal in Washington, DC. Prior to law school, she monitored multiple elections in Central America.

  • Seminar
  • Open To Students AND Faculty/Staff
Mar 31 Wed
2021

Digital Cons- A Conversation with Dr. Mark Nitzberg, Executive Director of the Center for Human-Compatible AI at UC Berkeley

05:00PM - 06:00PM

Please join Dr. Nitzberg for a wide-ranging mountain-peaks-tour of AI impacts, focusing on the dangers and negatives.

This event will feature comments by Professor Ken Anderson and will be moderated by Professor Padideh Ala'i.

Dr. Mark Nitzberg is a computer scientist and entrepreneur focused on the effects of AI and related technologies on our society, economy and democracy. Having worked with the founders of the field of AI, he brings business experience and a solid technology foundation to recent work engaging in broader debates. He is primarily concerned with tackling AI governance issues and the risk of social, economic, and political harms from the unchecked power of dominant digital platform companies.

Dr. Nitzberg is Executive Director of the UC Berkeley Center for Human-Compatible AI, Head of Strategic Outreach at the Berkeley AI Research Lab, and Director of Technology Research at BRIE, the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy. In industry, he has built technology ventures applying AI in health care, finance, education and data analytics for developing regions. He has worked at Bell Laboratories, Microsoft, and Amazon, and run operations of 300 persons on $30M annual budgets.

He is co-author of Solomon’s Code — an examination of AI and how it reshapes human values, trust, and power around the world — and has published a number of pieces on AI impacts and governance.

  • Seminar
  • Open To Students AND Faculty/Staff