Human Rights Month 2018 Panel - Business and Human Rights: Recent Developments in this Complex Relationship
Olivier de Schutter, Member, Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, United Nations, and Professor, Catholic University of Louvain / Miembro, Comité de Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales, Naciones Unidas y Profesor, Universidad Católica de Louvain
Soledad García Muñoz, Special Rapporteur on Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights, IACHR, Organization of American States, Washington, D.C. / Relatora Especial sobre Derechos Económicos, Sociales, Culturales y Ambientales, CIDH, Organización de los Estados Americanos, Washington, D.C.
Mac Darrow, Representative, Washington DC Liaison Office, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights / Representante, Oficina de Representación de Washington D.C., Oficina del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos
Moderator/Moderadora: Siobhan McInerney-Lankford, Senior Counsel, World Bank Legal Vice-Presidency, Washington, D.C. / Consejera Principal, Vicepresidencia Legal del Banco Mundial, Washington, D.C.
This panel will be in English/Este panel será en ingles pero se proveerá traducción
English/Inglés
https://www.wcl.american.edu/impact/initiatives-programs/hracademy/human-rights-month/panels/
Spanish/Español
https://www.wcl.american.edu/impact/initiatives-programs/hracademy/academia/actividades/paneles/
- Lecture
- Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
- CLE
Human Rights Month 2018 Panel - Regional Human Rights Mechanisms in Times of Crisis: An Update on the Inter-American, European and African Systems
Pablo Saavedra, Executive Secretary, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, San José, Costa Rica / Secretario Ejecutivo, La Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, San José, Costa Rica
Christof Heyns, Member, Human Rights Committee, United Nations, Professor of Human Rights Law and Director of the Institute for International and Comparative Law at the University of Pretoria / Miembro, Comité de Derechos Humanos de las Naciones Unidas, Profesor de Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos, y Director del Instituto para el Derecho Internacional y Comparativo, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Helen Duffy, Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, University of Leiden and Founder, Human Rights in Practice / Profesora de Derechos Humanos y Derecho Humanitario, University of Leiden, y Fundadora, Human Rights in Practice
Moderator/Moderadora: María Claudia Pulido (invited), Assistant Executive Secretary, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Organization of American States, Washington, D.C. / (invitada), Secretaria Ejecutiva Adjunta, CIDH, Organización de los Estados Americanos, Washington D.C.
This panel will be in English/Este panel será en ingles pero se proveerá traducción
English/Inglés
https://www.wcl.american.edu/impact/initiatives-programs/hracademy/human-rights-month/panels/
Spanish/Español
https://www.wcl.american.edu/impact/initiatives-programs/hracademy/academia/actividades/paneles/
- Lecture
- Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
- CLE
Reproductive Justice Lawyering Webinar Series
June 13 and 20, 2018
2 - 3pm EST or 11 - 12pm PST
Co-Sponsored
by the Women and the Law Program and If/When/How
June 13: Punitive Policies: How New Public Charge and Medicaid
Work Requirements Undermine Reproductive Justice
Sawyeh Esmaili, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health,
"Immigrant Families and Public Charge"
Kelsey Grimes, Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity, "A
Reproductive Justice Approach to Medicaid Work Requirements"
June 20: Centering Sex Worker's Rights in Reproductive Justice Work
Rebecca Wang, Positive Women's Network, "Let's Talk
About Sex Work (Decriminalization)!"
Fajer Saeed Ebrahim,
Legal Voice and SURGE Reproductive Justice, "Sex Work Decriminalization:
The Case of Washington State"
Registration is free but required here and here.
1 CLE credit will be applied for as requested ($55).
For CLE credit or to request a fee waiver, email:
Office of Special Events & Continuing Legal Education
secle@wcl.american.edu
- Presentation
- Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
Comparative Judging: A Unique Course for All Judges
A Roundtable of Discussion among Judges
from the U.S., France, Italy, Japan and Brazil
Partial list of topics
The judicial career ;
How Judges are selected, trained and
disciplined;
Influence of high court
decisions , Enforcement
of orders , and more.
Led by U.S. District Judge Peter J . Messitte
Adjunt Professor of Comparative Law
(AUWCL)
- Conference
- Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
- CLE
Comparative Judging: A Unique Course for All Judges
A Roundtable of Discussion among Judges
from the U.S., France, Italy, Japan and Brazil
Partial list of topics
The judicial career ;
How Judges are selected, trained and
disciplined;
Influence of high court
decisions , Enforcement
of orders , and more.
Led by U.S. District Judge Peter J . Messitte
Adjunt Professor of Comparative Law
(AUWCL)
- Conference
- Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
- CLE