COLLOQUIA AND CLINICAL PROGRAMS
Spring 2007 IILJ Colloquium
Compliance with International Human Rights Law: Contemporary Perspectives
8 Jan. 2007
1. Introduction to the Colloquium and overview of issues relating to compliance.
Philip Alston. Background reading
22 Jan. 2007
2. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights: So Far From Heaven, So Near to the OAS.
Gerald Neuman, J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign and Comparative Law, Harvard Law School. Background readings: Part 1, Part 2
29 Jan. 2007
3. Redesigning the European Court of Human Rights: From International Tribunal to Constitutional Court.
Laurence Helfer, Professor and Director, International Studies Program, Vanderbilt University. Background reading
5 Feb. 2007
4. The UN Security Council and Human Rights
Frédéric Mégret, Canada Research Chair in the Law of Human Rights and Social Diversity, McGill University. Paper
12 Feb. 2007
5. The interface between domestic and international law: the process of socialization
Ryan Goodman, Rita E. Hauser Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. Paper
20 Feb. 2007
6. Human Rights ‘Mainstreaming’: A response to Fragmentation or Human Rights Imperialism by another name?
Martti Koskenniemi, Global Visiting Professor of Law, and Academy Professor, The Academy of Finland, Helsinki. Paper
26 Feb. 2007
7. The interaction between human rights and humanitarian law: a case of fragmentation?
Alexander Orakhelashvili, Shaw Foundation Junior Research Fellow in Law, Jesus College, Oxford. Paper
5 March 2007
8. The US and international monitoring –can the superpower be held to account by international mechanisms?
Kenneth Anderson, Professor of Law, Washington College of Law, American University, and Research Fellow, The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University. Memorandum
19 March 2007
9. How and why norms prohibiting torture eroded so rapidly post 9/11
Rosa Brooks, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, and Special Counsel at the Open Society Institute in New York. Paper
26 March 2007
10. What's All the Fuss About Human Trafficking?
James Hathaway, James E. and Sarah A. Degan Professor of Law, and Director, Program in Refugee and Asylum Law, Michigan Law School.
2 April 2007
11. An empirical study of the impact of human rights trials on respect for human rights, democracy and the rule of law.
Kathryn Sikkink, Professor and Arleen C. Carlson Chair in Political Science, Political Science Department, University of Minnesota. Paper
9 April 2007
12. The interface between domestic and international human rights law in practice
Murray Hunt, Legal Adviser to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, UK Parliament, Westminster. Outline and readings Part 1, Part 2
16 April 2007
13. Perspectives on state compliance with international human rights law
Beth Simmons, Professor of Government, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.
23 April 2007
14. Wrap-up session
Philip Alston
