Top Human Rights Lawyers, Scholars Meet at NDLS

The Center for Civil and Human Rights, with the generous support of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, gathered a distinguished panel of human rights lawyers, scholars, diplomats, and judges involved with the Inter-American Human Rights System. Convened in private, these closed-door meetings provided an opportunity for frank, honest discussion around challenges facing the System, and began an on-going conversation about its structural needs.

Attending the retreat were figures intimately familiar with the Inter-American Human Rights System – a gathering of exceptional richness and depth. Attendees included (left to right):

• Bernard Duhaime, Professor, UQAM (Canada)
• Viviana Krsticevic, Executive Director of CEJIL
• Sebastián López Escarcena, Professor of Law, Catholic University of Chile
• Ariel Dulitsky, Clinical Professor, School of Law University of Texas
• Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen, Professor of Public Law, l’Ecole de Droit de la Sorbonne
• Evelyn Aswad, Professor of Law, University of Oklahoma
• Stephen Vasciannie, Professor of International Law, University of the West Indies, Jamaica
• Charles Moyer, Inter-American Institute of Human Rights
• Katya Salazar, Executive Director, Due Process of Law Foundation
• Dinah Shelton, Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School
• Doug Cassel, Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School
• Helen Mack, Myrna Mack Foundation
• Sergio García Ramírez, Professor, Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la UNAM
• André de Carvalho Ramos, Professor of Law, University of São Paulo Law School
• Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen, Professor of Public Law, l’Ecole de Droit de la Sorbonne
• André de Carvalho Ramos, Professor of Law, University of São Paulo Law School
• Pedro Nikken, Emeritus Professor of Civil and International Law at the Universidad Central de Venezuela
• Paolo Carozza, Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School
• Margarette May Macaulay, Attorney-at-Law, Jamaica
• Juan Méndez, Visiting Professor of Law at the American University – Washington College of Law
• Joel Hernández García, Ambassador and President of the Mexican Foreign Service Commission

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Public Forum on the Future of the Inter-American Human Rights System
Tuesday, April 1

Following the private discussions, members of the panel engaged in a lively public forum around the key issues involved. Taking the form of a "flash panel," participants were asked to give their thoughts on the challenges facing the system and their vision for its future.

Appearing at the forum:

(See video of forum)

• Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen, Professor of Public Law, l’Ecole de Droit de la Sorbonne
• Bernard Duhaime, Professor, UQAM (Canada)
• Sergio Garcia Ramirez, Judge (2004-2009) of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights; President (2004-2007)
• Joel  Hernandez Garcia, Permanent Representative of Mexico to the Organization of American States (2011-2013)
• Viviana Krsticevic, Executive Director of CEJIL
• Margarette May Macauley, Judge, Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2006-2012
• Helen Mack, Myrna Mack Foundation
  
• Katya Salazar, Executive Director, Due Process of Law Foundation
  
  

  With Notre Dame faculty hosts:
  

• Paolo Carozza, Commissioner, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (2006 to 2010); President (2008-09)
• Doug Cassel, Board Member, Justice Studies Center of the Americas (2000 – 2006, 2013-15); President (2002-04)
  
  

Co-sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies

Originally published at humanrights.nd.edu.