September 16, 2020 | 12:30 pm 1:45 pm

Current Trends on Migration and Human Rights with Felipe Gonzalez Morales, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights of Migrants

Discussants:

Rose Cuison-Villazor, Vice Dean, Professor of Law & Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar
Janice Gallagher, Assistant Professor of Political Science

Moderated by:

Professor Jorge Contesse, Director of Rutgers Center for Transnational Law

Co-Sponsored by: 

The American Society of International Law – Latin America Interest Group
Rutgers-Newark Human Rights Working Group
Rutgers International Law and Human Rights Journal

Felipe Gonzalez Morales is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants. He is a former President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, where he was also a Commissioner and the Rapporteur on Migrants and Refugees between 2008 and 2015. Felipe is a Professor of International Law at the University Diego Portales, in Santiago, Chile, where he also directs a Master in International Human Rights Law. Felipe is an Honorific Professor at University Carlos III of Madrid, at which he teaches International Human Rights Law at a series of postgraduate programs since 2003.