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Past Events

 

• Tunisia - A Model of Middle East Stability or an Incubator of Extremism? (November 13, 2007).  To watch the video, click here. 

• U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg moderates a discussion on "Courts at Risk, Rights in Peril: Where Have All the Corageous Gone?" with recipients of the Gruber Justice Prize (October 10, 2007).  To watch the video, click here. 

• Leadership and Advocacy for Women in Africa (LAWA) Fellows present their graduate research papers (July 19, 2007).  To watch the video, click here.

• Panel Discussion: Issues in International Criminal Law (April 11, 2007).  To watch the video, click here.

• Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Majority Whip, U.S. Senate; Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law; and Georgetown Law Class of 1969 speaks on "Human Rights and the Law (February 27, 2007).  To watch the video, click here.

• Judge Thomas Buergenthal of the International Court of Justice, Georgetown University Law Center's first Robert F. Drinan, S.J. Chair in Human Rights, delivers his inaugural lecture on "One Hundred Years of Human Rights" (February 15, 2007).  To watch the video, click here. 

• Second Annual Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights: Constitutional Checks and Balances in the Post-9/11 Era: Revitalizing Congress's Role (featuring Senator Patrick Leahy, Professor Jane Stromseth, Mickey Edwards, Thomas Mann, Norman Ornstein, Senator Arlen Specter, Professor Nina Pillard, David Abramowitz, Professor Martin Lederman, Elisa Massimino, and William Taft) (February 13, 2007).  To watch the video, click here. 

• Conversation with former Guantánamo detainee Moazzam Begg and Gitanjali Gutierrez, attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights (January 17, 2007).  To watch the video, click here.  Sponsored by the Muslim Law Students Association and Human Rights Action. 

• Book Event: Can Might Make Rights? Building the Rule of Law After Military Interventions (December 8, 2006).  To watch the video, click here.

• Establishment of the Father Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Chair in Human Rights (October 23, 2006).  To watch the video, click here.

• Georgetown Law Forum: Human Rights and the War on Terrorism: A British Point of View (October 3, 2006).

• Georgetown Law Forum: Guantanamo and the Rule of Law: Military Tribunals and the Geneva Conventions (September 25, 2006).
  
• 2006 Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights: War, Terror, and Human Rights: Setting the Agenda (April 10, 2006).
  

 

 

Revised January 15, 2008