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Venezuelan Supreme Court Justice discusses human rights in wide ranging talk at HLS

Justice Vegas Torrealba

On April 15, Venezuelan Supreme Court Justice Vegas Torrealba discussed his country’s justice system during a talk entitled, “Role of Human Rights, Gender Equality, and Race in Venezuelan Law.” The event was sponsored by the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice.

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Taguba calls for investigation of Bush Administration at HLS event

Katherine Glenn ’09, Taguba, and Claret Vargas ’10

In an April 14 speech at Harvard Law School, Major General Antonio M. Taguba called for an independent commission to investigate the Bush Administration for war crimes. Taguba is the author of the controversial 2004 “Taguba Report” exposing the detainee abuse occurring at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

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HLS students work on historic corporate lawsuit involving human rights abuses during apartheid

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The International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program has been working since 2005 on corporate Alien Tort Statute (ATS) litigation involving human rights abuses committed in apartheid South Africa. 

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Goldsmith in Washington Post: Rights case gone wrong

Jack Goldsmith on American Institutions and the Trump Presidency

The following op-ed, “Rights case gone wrong,” co-written by Harvard Law School Professor Jack Goldsmith and Duke Law School Professor Curtis Bradley, was published in the April 19, 2009, edition of the Washington Post.

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Koh named State Department legal adviser; Stith will be acting dean of Yale Law

Harold Hongju Koh ’80 and Kate Stith ’77

Dean of Yale Law School Harold Hongju Koh ’80 has been named legal adviser of the U.S. Department of State, President Barack Obama ’91 has announced. Kate Stith ’77 has been appointed acting dean of Yale Law School.

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Responsibility to Protect Takes Center Stage

Dr. Edward C. Luck

The Harvard Human Rights Journal brought leading scholars and practitioners to campus on February 20 for a symposium on the doctrine known as Responsibility to Protect (R2P).

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Cavallaro: We need a truth commission to uncover Bush-era wrongdoing

Professor James Cavallaro

The following op-ed, “We need a truth commission to uncover Bush-era wrongdoing,” by HLS Clinical Professor James Cavallaro appeared in the Feb. 20 issue of The Christian Science Monitor. Cavallaro is executive director of the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School.

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Gaston documents victims of war in Afghanistan

Erica Gaston ’07 in Kabul, Afghanistan

For those who work in the field of human rights during times of war, Afghanistan is the front line. For the past year, Erica Gaston ’07 has lived in Kabul as a Henigson Human Rights Fellow, assisting victims of the war and studying the conflict.

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In a major new study, recommendations for reforming the way human rights courts work

HLS Class: Doctrine and Practice of the Inter-American Human Rights System

James Cavallaro, clinical professor and executive director of the Human Rights Program, has litigated numerous cases before the Inter-American Court, Latin America’s human rights court.

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Chris Rogers ’09, advocate for a ban on cluster weapons

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Christopher Rogers ’09 has spent the better part of the past year in HLS’s International Human Rights Clinic working on issues related to cluster munitions, particularly surrounding the creation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

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