Jun 04 Tue
2019

Justice and the Colombian Peace Process

12:30PM - 02:00PM Tenley Campus - Warren NT01 Ceremonial Classroom

Patricia Linares, President, Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP)

Alejandro Valencia Villa, Commissioner, Commission for the Clarification of the Truth, Coexistence and Non-Repetition of Colombia, Colombia

Rodrigo Uprimny, Member, Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, United Nations

Miguel Ceballos, High Commissioner for Peace, Colombia

Catalina Botero, Former Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Organization of American States (OAS), and Dean of Law, University of Los Andes, Colombia 

Moderator: Robert Goldman, Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C.

  • Conference
  • Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
  • CLE
Jun 05 Wed
2019

Congressional Accountability in an Era of Contempt

11:45AM - 01:00PM Tenley Campus - Yuma Y402 Classroom

Speaker: Paul Solis; Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of Congressional Ethics, U.S. House of Representatives

Introductory Remarks: Nancy Boswell;  Adjunct Professor of Law; Director, Anti-Corruption Law Program

Lunch will be served!

Please Register online at:
www.wcl.american.edu/secle/registration.

  • Lecture
  • Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
  • CLE
Jun 06 Thu
2019

The Human Rights Council: Current Challenges

12:30PM - 02:00PM Tenley Campus - Warren NT01 Ceremonial Classroom

Daniela Kravetz, Special Rapporteur on the State of Affairs of Human Rights in Eritrea, United Nations


Santiago Cantón, Secretary of Human Rights, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Joshua Cooper, Co-Chair, Universal Periodic Review Task Force for the US Human Rights Network

Rochus Pronk, Counsellor and Head of the Human Rights Team, Permanent Representation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the UN

Moderator: Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen, Judge, Constitutional Court of Andorra, and Professor at the Université Paris I Pantheón Sorbonne, France

  • Conference
  • Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
  • CLE
Jun 07 Fri
2019

Elections at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: The Independent Panel of Experts Presents its Final Report on the Candidates

12:30PM - 02:00PM Tenley Campus - Warren NT01 Ceremonial Classroom

Join us for a timely discussion about important developments and new opportunities to improve the processes by which human rights judges and commissioners are nominated and elected to regional human rights systems.  In particular, panelists will discuss its seminal report on the 2019 candidates to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The report builds on efforts by civil society to advocate for the improvements that make the nominations and elections of commissioners and judges transparent, inclusive, and representative and that promote the most suitable candidates. Lunch will be served.  This event is co-sponsored by the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.  Please RSVP to humlaw@wcl.american.edu    

Carlos Ayala, Vice-President, International Commission of Jurists
Catalina Botero Dean, Law School, Universidad de los Andes 
Juan Méndez, Professor of Human Rights Law in Residence, Faculty Director of the Anti-Torture Initiative, American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C. 
Judith Schönsteiner, Associate Professor of Law, Human Rights Center; Universidad Diego Portales.
Moderator: Macarena Sáez, Director, Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law.

  • Lecture
  • Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
Jun 11 Tue
2019

Fact-finding in the Inter-American System: The Powers of the Commission to Monitor Human Rights Violations in Real Time

12:30PM - 02:00PM Tenley Campus - Warren NT01 Ceremonial Classroom

Claudia Paz y Paz, Secretary for Multidimensional Security, Organization of American States (OAS), Washington, D.C.

Carlos Ayala, Vice-President, Executive Committee, International Commission of Jurists

Salvador Sánchez, Permanent Representative of Panamá, Organization of American States (OAS), Washington, D.C.

Paulo Abrão, Executive Secretary, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Organization of American States (OAS), Washington, D.C.

Moderator: Claudia Martin, Co-director and Professorial Lecturer in residence, Academy of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, American University Washington College of Law, Washington D.C.

  • Conference
  • Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
  • CLE