Each semester the Center holds informational conversations with speakers in the field of international human rights whose work is interdisciplinary. These scholars and practitioners are invited to discuss the interdisciplinary components of their work, as well as specific instances in which they have responded to human rights challenges from their disciplines’ perspectives.
Reservations are required, please RSVP to humanrights@bc.edu if you would like to attend one of our lunches.
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Previous Lunches:
November 20, 2009
12:30-2:00 p.m.
Boston Room, Corcoran Common
Conversations at Lunch with Susan Akram, Boston University Law School
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Professor Akram, teaches in the Boston University Law School’s Clinical Program and had worked for many years as an immigration lawyer before joining the faculty in 1993. She has served as executive director of Boston’s Political Asylum/Immigration Representation Project and as directing attorney of the immigration project at Public Counsel, a public interest law firm in Los Angeles. In 1992 she was interim director of the agency overseeing the resettlement of Gulf War Iraqi refugees in Saudi Arabia. “My areas of teaching and practice are an extension of my personal, political and philosophical beliefs about law as a change agent for social justice,” she says. “The rewards are many, from restoring safety and security to individual lives, to giving students the satisfaction of using law for positive change.” |
October 2, 2009
12:30-2:00 p.m.
Stuart House 410 (Law School)
Conversations at Lunch with Gerald Neuman, Harvard University
Professor Gerald Neuman is the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law at Harvard Law School. Professor Neuman is a leading scholar on the rights of foreign nationals and has written numerous articles on the transnational dimensions of constitutionalism, habeas corpus, executive detention etc. During the luncheon Professor Neuman will be talking about his most recent work on Extraterritoriality of Rights: Boumediene and Beyond.