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event is sponsored by Georgetown Law's Human Rights Institute.
The Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Chair in Human Rights at Georgetown
Law was established in October 2006. Father Drinan, a Georgetown
Law professor, human rights advocate, priest and former member
of the U.S. Congress, died in January 2007.
The International Court of Justice is the 15-member principal
judicial organ of the United Nations.
Buergenthal served as judge and president of the Inter-American
Court of Human Rights and the Administrative Tribunal of the
Inter-American Development Bank. He was the first American elected
to the U.N. Human Rights Committee and served on the three-member
U.N. Truth Commission for El Salvador.
Buergenthal has taught at the State University of New York
at Buffalo Law School, the University of Texas School of Law,
Emory Law School, where he directed the Human Rights Program
of the Carter Center, and George Washington University Law School,
where he was presiding director of the International Rule of
Law Center. He also served as dean of American University's
Washington College of Law from 1980-85.
Buergenthal is the author and co-author of more than a dozen
books and numerous articles in scholarly journals and the recipient
of several honorary degrees. He serves on the Ethics Commission
of the International Olympic Committee. One of the youngest
survivors of the Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen,
he was liberated from Sachsenhausen one month before his 11th
birthday and immigrated to the U.S. in 1951.
A Web cast will be available at https://www.law.georgetown.edu/webcast/.
Media interested in attending should
contact Kara Tershel at kat5@law.georgetown.edu. |
