Justice and the Colombian Peace Process
- Conference
- Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
- CLE
Congressional Accountability in an Era of Contempt
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
The Human Rights Council: Current Challenges
Daniela Kravetz, Special Rapporteur on the State of Affairs of Human Rights in Eritrea, United Nations
- Conference
- Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
- CLE
Elections at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: The Independent Panel of Experts Presents its Final Report on the Candidates
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
Fact-finding in the Inter-American System: The Powers of the Commission to Monitor Human Rights Violations in Real Time
- Conference
- Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
- CLE