Amnesty International USA will host its Annual General Meeting this weekend, March 18-20, in San Francisco. Registration details here; full
agenda here. (photo at right is from last year's meeting)Amnesty is convening a special session for human rights lawyers on Friday, March 18 at the Fairmont Hotel, 950 Mason Street, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. The event is free, but registration is recommened. Topics will include:
- the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act,
- the Torture Victims Protection Act,
- the Alien Tort Statute,
- corporate accountability for complicity in human rights violations, and
- applying actions from international human rights mechanisms in U.S. courts.
Here is the full schedule:9:00 – 9:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks: Jessica Carvalho Morris (left), Vice-Chair AIUSA Board of Directors and Director of the International and Foreign Graduate Programs, University of Miami School of Law
9:30 – 11:00 Civil Actions to Hold Human Rights Violators
Accountable: Successes, Obstacles, and Future Challenges • William S. Dodge, Professor of Law at the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law
• IntLawGrrl Chimène Keitner, Associate Professor of Law at the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law (right)
• Andrea Evans, Litigation Director, Center for Justice and Accountability (left)11:00 – 12:30 No Safe Haven: Criminal and Administrative Enforcement
• IntLawGrrl Pamela Merchant, Executive Director, Center for Justice and Accountability (left, at podium)
• IntLawGrrl Beth Van Schaack, Associate Professor of Law, Santa Clara University School of Law (below left)
• Theresa Harris, AIUSA Board of Directors and Executive Director of the World Organization for Human Rights USA (right)12:30 – 2:00 Lunch
2:00 – 3:30 Corporate Accountability: Emerging Standards
• Paul Hoffman, Schonbrun, Seplow, Seplow, Harris, Hoffman & Harrison, LLP
• IntLawGrrl Natalie Bridgeman Fields, Founder and Executive Director of Accountability Counsel (right)
• Morton Winston, Founding Chair of the AIUSA Business & Human Rights Group
3:30 – 4:00 Discussion and Closing Remarks
Hope to see you there!
3:30 – 4:00 Discussion and Closing Remarks
Hope to see you there!
