3/25/08--The Owen M. Kupferschmid Holocaust/Human Rights Project is pleased to welcome Andrew Tarsy to present its ninth annual lecture.  "Recognizing Genocide: Lessons from the Past and Present" will take place today, March 25, at 5 pm in East Wing room 115A.

From January 2000 until December of 2007 Andrew Tarsy worked for the Anti-Defamation League, serving as its New England Regional Director for two and a half years. Formerly he served as a Trial Attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice and as a lawyer in private practice focusing in civil rights litigation. Throughout a career built around advocacy and education, Andy has worked to achieve results within the law and in the public discourse about diversity, discrimination and democracy.

 In response to Andy's leadership in 2007 on the issue of recognition of the Armenian genocide, Andy was named to the Jewish Daily Forward newspaper's "Forward 50" list for 2007 recognizing the 50 most influential people in American Jewish life. He was also named a "Lawyer of the Year" for 2007 by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly newspaper.

Andy is a graduate of Boston’s Roxbury Latin School and received a Bachelor's degree from Cornell University and a JD with Honors from George Washington University School of Law where he was Notes Editor of the George Washington Law Review.

For more information, please contact Maria Stookey at maria.stookey@gmail.com.

The Owen M. Kupferschmid Holocaust/Human Rights Project -- named for its founder, a 1986 graduate of Boston College Law School who launched the Project with student and faculty support in 1984 -- helps to ensure that the precedential value of Holocaust-related law is fully realized and applied to state-sponsored human rights violations today. The project also organizes major conferences at Boston College Law School to address specific legal issues related to the Holocaust and other human rights violations, such as the annual Kupferschmid Lecture.