September 22, 2014

Tonight, Sept. 22: “Gaza, International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights”

September 22, 2014

“Gaza, International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights”

6:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Wasserstein B010 Singer Classroom
Harvard Law School

Please join us for a panel discussion with Harvard faculty: Professor Duncan Kennedy, Harvard Law School; Professor Jennifer Leaning, Harvard School of Public Health; Naz Modirzadeh, Director, Program on International Law and Armed Conflict, Harvard Law School; and moderated by Bonnie Docherty, Senior Clinical Instructor, International Human Rights Clinic, Harvard Law School.

This event is being co-sponsored by the Middle East Initiative at the Kennedy School.

February 27, 2012

This Week: A Talk by Amnesty International’s Secretary General; a Discussion on Clinical Law Teaching

Posted by Cara Solomon

This week is packed with substantive events. For full descriptions, see our our events page. Meantime, here’s the lineup:

Tuesday:  “Responsibility to Protect: The Promise of Stopping Mass Atrocities in our Time?” with Jared Genser, Founder of Freedom Now.

Wednesday:  “Clinical Law Teaching” with Tyler Giannini, Clinical Director of the International Human Rights Clinic, and Ron Sullivan, Director of the Criminal Justice Institute.

Thursday:  “Ending Double Standards: Human Rights in the World Today” with Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International.

Also Thursday:  “Can Israel be Both Jewish and Democratic” with HLS  Professors Duncan Kennedy and Noah Feldman.

Friday:  “Under a Headscarf, a Turkish Lawyer Fighting to Wear it” with Turkish lawyer Fatma Benli.