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Andriy Kostin, Prosecutor General of Ukraine

Georgetown Law Hosts Prosecutor General of Ukraine

February 3, 2023 Campus News Human Rights & Immigration Impacting Change International & Comparative Law National Security Law

While visiting Washington this week, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Andriy Kostin, stopped at Georgetown Law to take part in an event highlighting the efforts of the Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group for Ukraine (ACA), an international justice initiative established last year by the United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom to support Ukraine’s efforts to document and prosecute war crimes and other atrocities perpetrated against its citizens.

Human rights lawyer David Tolbert delivers the 2022 Georgetown Law Human Rights Institute Drinan Lecture

Former War Crimes Prosecutor Speaks on Transitional Justice

November 14, 2022 Campus News Human Rights & Immigration Impacting Change

“From Nuremberg to Ukraine: Accountability for Mass Atrocities” was the title of this year’s Georgetown Law Human Rights Institute (HRI) Drinan Lecture, delivered by an international human rights lawyer who has devoted his career to pursuing justice on behalf of victims of crimes against humanity.

David Tolbert Joins Georgetown Law as the Drinan Chair in Human Rights

September 8, 2022 Human Rights & Immigration

WASHINGTON — International human rights lawyer and former war crimes prosecutor David Tolbert will join Georgetown Law as the 2022-2023 Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Chair in Human Rights. [caption id="attachment_333195" align="alignright" width="200"]…

Diann Rust-Tierney, the 2021-2 Drinan Chair in Human Rights, presents the 2022 Drinan Lecture.

Human Rights, Close to Home: Georgetown Law’s Human Rights Institute Focuses on Domestic Matters

July 29, 2022 Campus News Election Law Human Rights & Immigration Race & Law

Every year, aspiring lawyers with an interest in human rights choose to study at Georgetown Law, whose Human Rights Institute (HRI) is a hub of training, scholarship and expertise.

Ukrainian prosecutor for human rights violations Yuriy Belousov joined the event from Kyiv.

Reclaiming the Rule of Law: Georgetown Law, UPenn Co-Host Symposium on the Legacy of the U.S. Torture Regime

May 11, 2022 Human Rights & Immigration International & Comparative Law Military National Security Law

The 9/11 terrorist attacks – and how the U.S. government responded to them at the time – continue to affect this country and the world in ways we are only beginning to comprehend two decades later.

Coalition of Leaders of Jesuit Institutions Calls For End to Expulsions of Asylum Seekers Under Title 42

March 30, 2022 Human Rights & Immigration Press Releases

WASHINGTON – A group of leaders at 14 Jesuit law and immigrant advocacy institutions sent a joint letter Wednesday to President Joseph R. Biden and key members of his administration, issuing an urgent call to end the use of the Title 42 Public Health…

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas speaking at the 18th annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference.

DHS Secretary Mayorkas Headlines 18th Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference

September 30, 2021 Human Rights & Immigration

Seeking a new path forward on immigration, the Biden administration says it has been hampered by multiple crises — among them, the emergence of the COVID-19 Delta variant, the arrival of 50,000-plus Afghan refugees in the U.S. and the surge of Haitian immigrants at the southern border.

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Georgetown Law Hosts Prosecutor General of Ukraine

Former War Crimes Prosecutor Speaks on Transitional Justice

David Tolbert Joins Georgetown Law as the Drinan Chair in Human Rights

Human Rights, Close to Home: Georgetown Law’s Human Rights Institute Focuses on Domestic Matters

Reclaiming the Rule of Law: Georgetown Law, UPenn Co-Host Symposium on the Legacy of the U.S. Torture Regime

Coalition of Leaders of Jesuit Institutions Calls For End to Expulsions of Asylum Seekers Under Title 42

DHS Secretary Mayorkas Headlines 18th Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference

Diann Rust-Tierney Joins Georgetown Law as the Drinan Chair in Human Rights

Elisa Massimino Appointed to Lead Georgetown Law’s Human Rights Institute

Students Create Roadmap to Accountability For Syrian Crimes Against Humanity

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