Upcoming Events
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Past Events
- Cuba Speaks: An address on current bilateral relations by Carlos Fernández de Cossío, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Cuba (November 14, 2024)
- Symposium on Global Democracy Decay and the Rule of Law (April 12, 2024)
- Transnational Legal Pedagogy: Evolving Trends (February 29, 2024)
- See the Transnational Legal Pedagogy: Evolving Trends program here.
- “La Marea Feminista”: Feminist Movements for Reproductive Justice and Against Gender-Based Violence and Exclusion (January 31, 2024)
- Comparative Enforcement of the Law Workshop (May 15-16, 2023)
- International Law and Constitution-Making Symposium (May 18, 2022)
- The Construction of the Customary Law of Peace: Latin America and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (May 11, 2022)
- View “The Construction of the Customary Law of Peace: Latin America and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights” Book Talk recording.
- “Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood in Israel/Palestine” Book Talk (February 4, 2022)
- View the “Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood in Israel/Palestine” Book Talk recording.
- “Legal Experiments for Development in Latin America” Book Presentation (November 5, 2021)
- View the “Legal Experiments for Development in Latin America” Book Presentation recording.
- Event organized by the Rutgers International Law & Human Rights Journal (October 28, 2021)
- View the Law, Power and Sustainable Development: Whose Order? recording.
- Event organized by the Rutgers International Law & Human Rights Journal (Nov. 16, 2020)
- Event organized by the Rutgers International Law & Human Rights Journal (Nov. 11, 2020)
- Felipe Gonzalez, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights of Migrants, “Current Trends on Migration and Human Rights” (Sept. 16, 2020)
- Flavia Piovesan, Professor of Law, Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo, “Human Rights in the Americas: Challenges, Obstacles and Opportunities” (Oct. 28, 2020)
2019-2020
- Hélène Tigroudja Professor of Law, Aix-Marseille University (France), Member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, “States’ Environmental Obligations under International Human Rights Law” (Oct. 7, 2019)
2018-2019
- Rosa Celorio, Associate Dean for International and Comparative Legal Studies, “Human Rights Law and Anti-Discrimination: The Enigma of Effectiveness” (Oct. 24, 2018)
- Efrén Olivares, Director of the Racial and Economic Justice Program at the Texas Civil Rights Project, “Human Rights and Family Separation: The ‘Zero Tolerance’ Policy at the Texas-Mexico Border” (Nov. 12, 2018)
- Julieta Lemaitre, Judge of the Special Peace Jurisdiction in Colombia, “Justice and Peace in Colombia’s Groundbreaking Model of Transitional Justice” (Feb. 20, 2019)
- Film Screening + Panel Discussion, HOME TRUTH with Caroline Bettinger-Lopez, Lead Counsel & Director, Human Rights Clinic, University of Miami School of Law, Former White House Advisor on Violence Against Women (2015-17); Katia Maguire, Director & Producer, HOME TRUTH; Nicole Morella, Director of Public Policy and Communications New Jersey Coalition to End Domestic Violence (Mar. 11, 2019)
2017-2018
- Suzanne Goldberg, Executive Vice President of University Life at Columbia University, Herbert and Doris Wechsler Clinical Professor of Law, Columbia Law School: “Global Lessons in Marriage Equality Advocacy” (Jan. 25, 2018)
- Estefania Vela, Associate Professor at the Law Division of the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE; Mexico): “LGBT People’s Rights in Mexico: Between State Inaction and Conservative Uprising” (Feb. 13, 2018)
- Lisa Davis, Clinical Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic, CUNY School of Law: “Prosecuting ISIS for Crimes Against Women and LGBTI Persons” (Mar. 6, 2018)
- Robert Wintemute, Professor of Human Rights Law, King’s College London: “Same-Sex Marriage in National and International Courts: Principle vs. Consensus” (Apr.3, 2018)
2016-2017
- Eszter Kismödi, International Human Rights Lawyer: “Depathologization of Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Intersexuality: Human Rights and Legal Perspectives” (Sep. 7, 2016)
- Macarena Saez, Director of the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and a Fellow in the International Legal Studies Program at American University: “Vulnerability and Agency: Trans Women in Sex Work” (Oct. 27, 2016)
- Holning S. Lau, Reef C. Ivey, II Distinguished Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Faculty Development, and Faculty Director of the LL.M. Program, UNC School of Law: “Comparative Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage: What Can We Learn from South Africa?” (Feb. 27, 2017)
- Tracy Robinson, Senior Lecturer, The University of the West Indies, at Mona: “Criminalized Sex in the Anglo-Caribbean: Loved Law” (Mar. 28, 2017)
