Videos tagged with Human Rights

  • Presentation on some of the human rights issues with detainees at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.

    Recorded on February 17, 2006.

    Appearing: Jumana Musa (Amnesty International), speaker.

  • Anne Gallagher, Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), gives a talk titled "From Peacekeepers to Slave Traders: A Lawyer's Journey to the United Nations and Beyond." This lecture was co-sponsored by the Human Rights Center at the Kenan Institute for Ethics, the International Human Rights Clinic and the Center for International & Comparative Law.

  • Duke Law Professors Charles Dunlap, Curtis Bradley and Laurence Helfer discuss the domestic, international, and humanitarian legal issues surrounding a possible U.S. military strike in Syria. Sponsored by the National Security Law Society, International Law Society, American Constitutional Law Society, and Human Rights Law Society.

  • Panel discussion on Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Mapping the Global Interface. This new book, from Professors Laurence Helfer and Graeme Austin (Melbourne Univ. and Univ. of Victoria of Wellington), analyzes the complex issues involved when human rights claims are often used to counter expansion of intellectual property rights or intellectual property rights are asserted as a fundamental human right. The panelists are Professors Sean Flynn (American Univ. Washington Coll. Of Law), Molly Land (N.Y. Law School), Chidi Oguamanam (Univ. of Ottawa Faculty of Law), Ruth Okediji (Minn.

  • Jayne Huckerby, associate clinical professor of law and inaugural director of the Duke International Human Rights Clinic, moderates a panel featuring: Joy Ezeilo, UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children; Alison Kiehl Friedman, Deputy Director of the U.S. Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (to be confirmed); and Lindsey Roberson, Assistant District Attorney at Office of the District Attorney New Hanover County.

  • 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.