Events

Join HLS Advocates to welcome a panel consisting of journalist and activist Beena Sarwar, Former HRP Visiting Fellow Yasser Latif Hamdani, and LL.M. ’19 student Orubah Sattar as they discuss Pakistan’s history with and struggle against its blasphemy law and those that support it. The discussion will revolve around the Pakistan Supreme Court’s recently lauded decision to overturn the death…

Please join us for a talk by Nicolette Waldman JD ’13, Senior Fellow in the International Human Rights Clinic. Nicolette will discuss the research she led for Amnesty International on crimes against humanity in Syrian government prisons. Lunch will be served. Sponsored by the Armed Conflict and Civilian Protection Initiative.

Come learn from and network with Matthew Wells JD ’09, Senior Crisis Advisor at Amnesty International, as he discusses the research that led to the 2018 Amnesty International report “We Will Destroy Everything”: Military Responsibility for Crimes Against Humanity in Rakhine State. Matthew has more than a decade of experience in human rights investigation and advocacy, including on atrocity crimes and international criminal justice; detention-related abuses; trafficking…

Please join us for a screening of The Destruction of Memory. This film chronicles the destruction of culture in Syria, Mali, the Balkans, Afghanistan, and elsewhere from World War II to the present day. It also relates the heroic efforts to save landmarks and libraries from the ravages of war. Through interviews and documentary footage, the film shows how individuals…

Come learn from and network with one of our highly esteemed and deeply knowledgeable Wasserstein public interest mentors, Lillian Langford JD’13, Head of Rule of Law, OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, as she discusses challenges and promises of domestic war crimes prosecutions for moving a country through a post conflict period. Co-sponsored by OPIA and the Armed Conflict and…

Join the Islamic Legal Studies Program: Law and Social Change for lunch and a discussion with Burmese Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Esther Htusan on the gendered impact of the rise of religious fundamentalism and populist nationalism in Myanmar. Having worked to uncover and disrupt human trafficking networks in Southeast Asia, including those exploiting Rohingya women, Htusan will share her insights on…

Last week, James Tamboer, a plaintiff in the In re South African Apartheid Litigation, passed away. This month also marks the 15th Anniversary of Black October in Bolivia, when scores were killed and hundreds injured by security forces, which inspired the groundbreaking Mamani litigation in the United States. More than 20 years ago, lawyers began litigating corporate accountability in light…