Rebecca Hauser was just 22 when she and her family were taken from their home in Greece to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. After a year of hard labor, she was moved to Bergen-Belsen, where she was liberated in 1945. Mrs. Hauser came to the United States in 1947 and has been volunteering with The Center for Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Education of North Carolina to ensure that her experience and those like hers are never forgotten. This discussion also includes Rebecca Hauser's daughter, Bonnie Hauser, and Sharon Halperin, director of the Holocaust Speakers Bureau.

The Global Health Law and Policy Symposium, held at Duke Law School on Nov. 6, 2015, featured keynote speaker Professor Benjamin Mason Meier, a Scholar at Georgetown Law School's O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and a Faculty Fellow at UNC's Institute for Global Health and Infectious Disease. The event also featured two panel discussions on lessons from the recent Ebola outbreak and human rights issues in global health governance. Panelists include Dr. Chris Woods, Dr. Cameron R. Wolfe, Prof., Dr. Sulzhan Bali, Dr. Michael H. Merson, Prof.

The Global Health Law and Policy Symposium, held at Duke Law School on Nov. 6, 2015, featured keynote speaker Professor Benjamin Mason Meier, a Scholar at Georgetown Law School's O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and a Faculty Fellow at UNC's Institute for Global Health and Infectious Disease. The event also featured two panel discussions on lessons from the recent Ebola outbreak and human rights issues in global health governance. Panelists include Dr. Chris Woods, Dr. Cameron R. Wolfe, Prof. Jerome Reichman, Dr. Michael H. Merson, Prof.

Lenni Benson, Executive Director of the Safe Passage Project in New York delivers a talk titled "Unaccompanied Minors from Central America and Special Immigrant Juvenile Status." In 2014, nearly 70,000 children from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador arrived in the United States, with many teenagers fleeing gang violence. The event focuses on the response of the U.S. immigration system to this crisis, and exposes students to human rights work and issues in a domestic context.

As marriage equality seems poised to take effect nation-wide in America within the immediate future, many advocates of LGBT rights are shifting their energies towards challenging other forms of discrimination faced by LGBT individuals, both domestically and internationally. Duke Law Professor Laurence R. Helfer presents a lecture on the current state of LGBT rights and issues across the globe, drawing from his own well-recognized work in international LGBT advocacy and human rights research. Co-sponsored by OutLaw, the Human Rights Law Society, and the International Law Society.

Earlier this term, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, which presents the issue of whether, under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS), a business corporation operating in another country may be sued in a U.S. court for allegedly committing, or helping others to commit, human rights violations overseas. As human rights victims have increasingly turned to the ATS to seek redress for abuses suffered abroad, the outcome in Kiobel could limit or entirely foreclose this meaningful avenue for justice.

Join author/activist Rebecca MacKinnon and Professor James Boyle, for an exciting discussion about the expanding struggle for control over the Internet and the implications for civil liberties, privacy and democracy both in the U.S. and worldwide. MacKinnon is the author of the new book, Consent of the Networked: The World Wide Struggle for Internet Freedom. Previously CNN Bureau Chief in Beijing and Tokyo, she is the co-founder of the citizen media network Global Voices, an expert on Chinese Internet censorship, and presented at TEDGlobal 2011.

The Center for International and Comparative Law and the Kenan Institute for Ethics in association with the Law & History Society, International Law Society, ICCSN, Human Rights Law Society, and BLSA invite all students to join, from The Hague, Judge Patrick Robinson of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (President, 2008-2011). Judge Robinson will discuss the role of the ICTY and international criminal courts in the pursuit of justice and reconciliation.

Ben Wizner, director of the ACLU's Speech, Privacy & Technology Project, gives a talk and participates in a Q&A on "Something to Hide: New Technology, Dragnet Surveillance, and the Future of Privacy." This event was co-sponsored by the Center for International & Comparative Law, the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security, the Duke Law American Civil Liberties Union, the Human Rights Law Society, and the National Security Law Society.