CHRGJ has been hosting the Emerging Scholarship Conference since 2003. In 2015, the event became the International Law and Human Rights Emerging Scholarship Conference due to partnership with the Institute for International Law and Justice. Below is a list of selected student papers and commentators who have participated through the years.
15th Annual International Law and Human Rights Emerging Scholarship Conference
The Fifteenth Annual International Law and Human Rights Emerging Scholarship Conference was held April 19–20, 2018.
The following student papers were selected for presentation:
- Chelsea Annelli, The Proper Scope, Definition, and Usage of the Foreign Emoluments Clause and Its Potential Application as a Tool of Reform
- Michaela Bolton, Truth, National Reconciliation and Cultural Interventions: Lessons Learned from the South African TRC
- Alissa Clarke, Pocket Governance: Ethical Consumer Apps and the Global Governance Gap
- Sarah Coco, Harmonizing Standards for the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgements: Putting the New Judgements Treaty in Context
- Nora Christiani, Necessary but Not Sufficient: The Legal Victory of Smith, Armedariz v. United States
- Mikaela Ediger, Can China Use Force against Taiwan under International Law?
- Isabelle Glimcher, Legal Limits on the Use of the Veto Power
- Tess Graham, Gender and Economic and Social Rights in Transitional Justice in Tunisia
- Ng Wei Jie, Time to Pay the Fiddler: Monetary Compensation for Causing the Mass Exodus of Refugees
- Tamar Kofman, Human Rights at the Intersection of Market, Technology, and Law: The Case of AirBnB’s Nondiscrimination Policy
- Jennifer Lim, Social Protection as Dialogue in Transnational Ordering
- Sidra Mahfooz, Moving Towards Meaningful Accountability in the Context of the CIA Rendition, Detention, and Interrogation Program
- Melissa McKay, Putting Patriarchy on Trial: Feminist Legal Theory in International Criminal Litigation
- Kaitlin Owens, Building a Case: The Impact of an Increase in Supplies on the Marketplace for the Investigation of Atrocities
- Elise Perry, Addressing Cultural Rights within Transitional Justice: The Case Study of Mali
- Jan Petro, Populist Challenge to International Courts: Stocktaking of the European Court of Human Rights
- Claire Schupmann, Blockchain Technical Design and Decentralization
- Duru Yavan, Transitional Justice Strategies in the Absence of Political Will for Transition: The Changing Role of the European Court of Human Rights in the Kurdish Issue
- Suraiya-Asmau M. Zubair Banu, Islamic Almsgiving and Social Justice in Northern Nigeria
CHRGJ awarded 2018 Global Justice Emerging Scholar Essay Prizes for best paper on human rights to Nora Christiani.
The commentators were: Kayum Ahmed (Columbia Law School), Ira Belkin (NYU Law), Kristen Boon (Seton Hall Law School), Jessica Corsi (Brunel University), Danica Damplo (CHRGJ), Isaie Dougnon (Fordham University), Carles Fernandez-Torné (CHRGJ), Franco Ferrari (NYU Law), Angelina Fisher (IILJ), Robert Howse (NYU Law), Maryam Jamshidi (NYU Law), Sarah Kay (Council of Europe), Adam Kolber (Brooklyn Law School), Maria Hood (Center for Constitutional Rights), Joanna Langille (Western Law), Yafit Lev-Aretz (NYU Steinhardt), Ranieri Lima Resende (NYU Law), Clara Long (Human Rights Watch), Seyed Masoud Noorid (NYU Law), Vasuki Nesiah (NYU), Lori Nessel (Seton Hall Law School), Edefe Ojomo (NYU Law), Deborah Popowski (CHRGJ), Simon Rau (European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights), Fernando Ribeiro Delgado (CHRGJ), Christopher Roberts (NYU Law), Meg Satterthwaite (NYU Law), Joel Telpner (Sullivan & Worcester LLP), Jennifer Trahan (NYU Center for Global Affairs), Vilija Velyvyte (NYU Law), and Dan Weiner (Brennan Center for Justice).
The Fourteenth Annual International Law and Human Rights Emerging Scholarship Conference was held April 20-21, 2017.
The following student papers were selected for presentation:
- Maria Francisca Gallegos-Anda Naranjo, Strategic Litigation for Equal Marriage Rights: An Inter-American Approach
- Aaron Gavin, From Ending War to Endless War: Louis Henkin and then Interpretive Modification of the Jus ad Bellum
- Ayako Hatano, Can Strategic Human Rights Litigation Complement Social Movements? A Case Study of the Anti-Hate Speech Movement in Japan
- Kristi How, The Legacy of the British Post-World War II Crime Trials: Lessons for Transitional Justice
- Jorge Peniche Baqueiro, Triggering Transitional Moments by Means of Strategic Litigation? Widening the Narrative on Contexts of Atrocity Crimes
- Sherin Shefik, Re-imagining Transitional Justice through Participatory Art
- Tyler Walton, Sexual Minorities and the Right to Culture in African States
- Nathan Yaffe, Indigenous Consent: A Self-Determination Perspective
CHRGJ awarded 2017 Global Justice Emerging Scholar Essay Prizes for best papers on human rights to Ayako Hatano and Nathan Yaffe.
The commentators were: Philip Alston (NYU Law-CHRGJ), Pablo de Greiff (NYU Law-CHRGJ), Ryan Goodman (NYU Law-CHRGJ), Meg Satterthwaite (NYU Law-CHRGJ), Meg Davis (NYU Law-CHRGJ), Haley Anderson (Oxford University Press), Stephen Duncombe (NYU-Steinhardt, Center for Creative Activism), Janice Gallagher (Rutgers-Political Science), Elena Naughton (ICTJ), Shinji Higaki (NYU Law-US Asia Law Institute), Cynthia Rothschild (UN consultant), Elsa Stamatopoulou (Columbia-Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race), and Sam Szoke-Burke (Columbia Center on Sustainable Development).
The Thirteenth Annual International Law and Human Rights Emerging Scholarship Conference was held April 14, 2016.
The following student papers were selected for presentation:
- Nabil Ansari, Legal Restrictions on Civil Society: Reconciling the Freedom of Association with Counterterrorism and State Sovereignty
- Fraser Birrell Grier, Grand Theft Autocracy: Towards a Human Rights Based Approach to the Transnational Recovery of Assets Stolen by Former Dictators
- Olivia Ensign, Speaking Truth to Power: An Analysis of American Truth Telling Efforts vis-à-vis the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- Christina Holder, From Accountability to Justice: Elevating Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in UN Fact-Finding
- Jacob Hutt, On Detail: A Critical Examination of Presenting Sexual Violence
- Lara Sofia Romero, Payday Lending Regulations Ignore Women of Color: How an International Human Rights Framework Could Help
CHRGJ awarded the 2016 Global Justice Emerging Scholar Essay Prizes for best papers on human rights to Christina Holder and Jacob Hutt.
The commentators were: Philip Alston (NYU Law-CHRGJ), Sally Merry (NYU Law-CHRGJ), Alison Corkery (Center for Economic and Social Rights), Cristián Correa (International Center for Transitional Justice), Kevin Davis (NYU Law), Susana Fried (Global Health Justice Partnership), Robert Howse (NYU Law), Mark Sanders (NYU), Shawn Sebastian (Center for Popular Democracy), and Daniel Simons (Open Society Foundations).
The Twelfth Annual Emerging Scholarship Conference was held on April 17, 2015.
The following student papers were selected for presentation:
- Emily Buist-Catherwood (LLM) Enforcing the Right to Education: Military Presence and the GCPEA Guidelines
- Oliver Persey (LLM) Greening the Targeting Process in International Armed Conflicts: The Potential Impact of Environmental Human Rights Law on International Humanitarian Law
- Jay Shooster (JD ’16) Unalienable: The Human Right to Immigrate and the End of Extreme Poverty
- Allie Wilson (JD ’16) From Freedom of Information to a Right to Information: An Economic Rights Perspective
- Harry Hobbs (LLM) Locating the Logic of Transitional Justice in Liberal Democracies: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Rights in Australia
- Edefe Ojomo (LLM) Counterbalancing Peoples’ Rights and Persons’ Rights: Distilling a Nigerian Constitutional Construction of Rights
- Sumeya Mulla (LLM) Economic, Social & Cultural Rights: Is There a Role for International Criminal Law?
- Natalia Restrepo-Ortiz (LLM) Transitional Justice in Colombia: Is Law 1448 of 2011 (Victims’ Law) enough?
CHRGJ awarded its 2015 Global Justice Emerging Scholar Essay Prize for the best paper on human rights to Oliver Persey.
The commentators were: Ryan Goodman (NYU, CHRGJ), Sally Merry (NYU, CHRGJ), Nikki Reisch (CHRGJ), Meg Satterthwaite (NYU, CHRGJ), Chris Albin-Lackey (Human Rights Watch), Muzaffar Chishti (NYU, Migration Policy Institute), Zama Coursen-Neff (Human Rights Watch), Allison Corkery (Center for Economic and Social Rights), Eduardo Gonzalez (International Center for Transitional Justice), , Darian Pavli (Open Society Justice Initiative), Marlon Weichert (CHRGJ), Daniel Wilkinson (Human Rights Watch), John Wunderlin (Carbon Tracker), and Marcos Zunino (CHRGJ).
The Eleventh Annual Emerging Scholarship Conference was held on March 27, 2014.
The following student papers were selected for presentation:
- Ashley Fernandez (JD ’15),The Arab Spring: A New Season for Self-Determination
- Alvin Cheung (LLM), Road to Nowhere: Hong Kong’s Democratisation and China’s Obligations under Public International Law
- Rebecca Sheff (JD ’15), Operationalizing the Best Interests Principle in India’s Child Protection System
- Sarah Macrory (LLM), Closing Global Governance Gaps? Regulatory Responses to the Rana Plaza Factory Collapse in Bangladesh of April 2013
- Lisa Sangoi (JD ’15), A Human Rights Critique of the Use of the Chemical Endangerment Statute in Alabama to Prosecute Pregnant Women for their Drug Use
- Alyson Zureick (JD ’14), (En)gendering Suffering: Denial of Abortion as a Form of Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment
- Sam Burke (LLM), Searching for the Right to Truth: The Impact of International Human Rights Law on National Transitional Justice Policies
- Anji Manivannan (JD ’14), Ending Black January: Opening Political Spaces for the Media to Enact Creative Transitional Justice in Sri Lanka
CHRGJ awarded its 2014 Global Justice Emerging Scholar Essay Prize for the best paper on human rights to Alyson Zureick.
The commentators were Philip Alston (NYU Law-CHRGJ), Ryan Goodman(NYU Law-CHRGJ), Meg Satterthwaite (NYU Law-CHRGJ), Ioana Cismas (NYU Law-CHRGJ), Ira Belkin (NYU Law-US-ALI), Brian Dooley (Human Rights First), Cynthia Estlund (NYU), Sumit Galhotra (Committee to Protect Journalists),Amanda Klasing (Human Rights Watch), Isabelle Lassée (CHRGJ), Christopher McCrudden(Michigan Law, Queens University, NYU Straus Institute), Félix Reátegui (International Center for Transitional Justice), , Karla Torres (Center for Reproductive Rights).
10th Annual Emerging Human Rights Scholarship Conference
The Tenth Annual Emerging Human Rights Scholarship Conference was held on April 22, 2011.
The following student papers were selected for presentation:
- Olivier Barsalou, The Diplomacy of the Universal: The Cold War and the Rise of an American Conception of Human Rights, 1945-1948
- Mateya Beth Kelley, Human Rights & Refugee Claims by Stateless Persons: A Curse and A Blessing
- Emily Kenney, Developing a Gender Methodology for the UN Commission of Inquiry
- Merryl Lawry-White, The Reparative Effect of Truth Seeking in Transitional Justice: Means and Ends
- Anjali Manivannan, Seeking Justice for Male Victims of Sexual Violence
- Carey Shenkman, A Shock Value Defense for New Media: Rethinking Protections for the Fact-Finders of U.S. Government Misconduct in the National Security Age
- Alex Sinha, NSA Surveillance since 9/11 and the Human Right to Privacy
- Matthew Craig, Procedure, Targeted Killing, and the Risk of Legitimation
CHRGJ awarded its 2013 Global Justice Emerging Scholar Essay Prize for the best paper on human rights to Emily Kenney.
The commentators were Professors Philip Alston (NYU Law-CHRGJ), Meg Satterthwaite (NYU Law-CHRGJ), Paul van Zyl (NYU Law-CHRGJ), Sarah Knuckey (NYU Law-CHRGJ),Adam Cox (NYU), Vasuki Nesiah (NYU), and Ira Rubinstein (NYU) as well as Laura Bingham (OSJI), Kate Cronin-Furman (Columbia), Kelli Muddell (ICTJ), Faiza Patel (Brennan Center/NYU), Christopher Rogers (OSJI), Armin von Bogdandy (Max Planck Institute), Ben Wizner (ACLU).
9th Annual Emerging Human Rights Scholarship Conference
The Ninth Annual Emerging Human Rights Scholarship Conference was held from March 29 until April 2, 2012.
The following student papers were presented:
- Sam Litton (JD), “US-Tuna and the Hardening of International Soft Law”
- Karen Leovy (JSD), “The Inter-Jurisdictional Containment of Natural Disasters – The Case of Managing Cyclone Nargis (Myanmar, 2008)”
- Guy Sinclair (JSD), “To Reform the World: Law, Legitimacy, and the Expanding Powers of International Organizations”
- Julian Arato (LLM), “Treaty Interpretation and Constitutional Transformation: ‘Subsequent Practice’ as a Mode of Informal Change in International Organizations”
- Ben Heath (LLM), “Humanitarian Coordination as Administrative Power: The Intertwined Histories of the United Nations and the International Organization for Migration”
- Elizabeth Hassan (LLM), “Accountability Deficit of Specialized International Agencies and the Challenges Posed to Global Administrative Law”
- Elena Lobo (JD), “Meeting at the Margins – The Margin of Appreciation in the European Court of Human Rights: A Dialogue Between International and National, Privacy and the Paparazzi”
- Carson Thomas (JD), “Advancing the Legal Protection of the Environment in Relation to Armed Conflict: Interpreting Protocol I’s Threshold of Impermissible Environmental Damage” 4:30 pm – Hannah Bloch-Webha (JD), “Global Governance in the Information Age: The Terrorist Finance Tracking Program”
- Thomas Earnest (JD), “(Re)Developing Targeted Killings as a Neutral Principle?”
- Matt Craig (JD), “Responding with Appropriate Procedures to Concerns Raised by U.S. Targeted Killing Practices”
- Adria Gulizia (JD), “Substance, Form and Power in the Financial Action Task Force: A GAL Case Study”
- G. Alex Sinha (JD), “Mitigating the Twofold Tragedy of Child Soldiers: Uncovering Super-Privileged Combatants in the Geneva Conventions”
- Aneesa Walji (LLM), “Vicitms or Terrorists? Child Soldiers in Canadian Refugee Law”
- Nikki Reisch (JD), Resolving the Rights- Responsibility Imbalance in International Investment Law: Is ‘Arbitrating Human Rights’ the Answer?”
- Amos Toh (LLM), “Revisiting the Universality of Human Rights”
- Salona Lutchman (LLM), “Should South African law allow a child to sue its drug-addicted mother for harm inflicted in utero? An analysis of South Africa’s obligations under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989”
- Roberto Chenal (LLM), “Justiciability of the Rights to Food and Water and the Case-law of the European Court of Human Rights”
- Jessey Freeman (LLM), “Using Australian Tort Law to Respond to Resident Human Rights Violators”
- Christopher Roberts (JD), “Individual Rights and the Illegality of Amnesties Under International Law”
- Valerie Brender (JD), “A Private War: the Forced Labor of Migrant Workers Employed by Private U.S. Military Logistics Contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan”
- Catarina Prata (LLM) “Connecting the Dots: Law on State Responsibility and Private Military and Securities Companies – Questions of Attribution”
- Kaveri Vaid (JD), “Sovereignty Enforced is not Sovereignty Undermined: The ICC’s Same-Case Complementarity Requirement”
- Carey Shenkman (JD) “Catalyzing National Judicial Capacity – The ICC’s First Crimes Against Humanity Outside Armed Conflict”
- Jonathan Cardenas (JD), “Deal-Jumping in CrossBorder Merger & Acquisition Negotiations: A Comparative Analysis of Pre-Contractual Liability Under French, German, United Kingdom and United States Law”
- Elspeth Faiman (JD), “The Montreal Protocol in US Domestic Law: A ‘Bottom Up’ Approach to the Development of Global Administrative Law”
The commentators were: Claire Kelly, Melanie Samson, Jasper Finke, Robert Howse, Damian Chalmers, Seyla Benhabib, Freidl Weiss, Richard Stewart, Lorenzo Casini, Gráinne de Búrca, Bryce Rudyk, Krisztina Huszti Orban, Sarah Knuckey, Kevin Davis, Georgios Dimitropoulos, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Tai-Heng Cheng, Yasmine Ergas, Philip Alston, Megan Donaldson, Ruti Teitel, Faiza Patel, Alexander Greenawalt, John Washburn, Allain Maillot, Francesca Romanin-Jacur, Dean Bialek, Christen Broecker.
8th Annual Emerging Human Rights Scholarship Conference
The Eighth Annual Emerging Human Rights Scholarship Conference was held on April 22, 2011.
The following student papers were presented:
- Valerie Brender (JD ’12), Kiobel and Corporate Liability under the Alien Tort Statute —An Inquiry into Subjects of International Law
- Kate Horner (MPA ’12), Women, Poverty, and Power: Assessing the Promise of the Human-Rights Based Approach
- Emma Dunlop (LL.M ’11), Indications of Progress? Assessing the Reliance on Indicators in UNHCR Operations
- Felix Lange (LL.M ’11), Legal Obligations on the Prevention of Genocide and War Crimes
- Jeremy Shirm (LL.M ’11), Rhetorical Gridlock? U.N. Treaty Monitoring and Human Rights Protection
The commentators were: Ryan Goodman, Smita Narula, Meg Satterthwaite, Jayne Huckerby, and Jason Pobjoy.
7th Annual Emerging Human Rights Scholarship Conference
The Seventh Annual Emerging Human Rights Scholarship Conference was held on April 9, 2010.
The following student papers were selected for presentation:
- Niran Anketell, Genocide, Humanitarian Interventions, and the Exclusion of Slow, Rolling Genocides
- Christine Chiu, Relief from Deportation for Foreign Nationals with HIV/AIDS
- David Jacobson, The Right to Official State Recognition under the European Convention of Human Rights: Religionsgemeinschaft der Zeugen Jehovas v. Austria and the Status of New Religious Movements in Europe
- April Gu, Conflicts between Economic Development and Human Rights: The One Child Policy as Case Study
- Aristeidis I. Panou, GAL Norms and the Independence and Accountability of the ICC Prosecutor
Faculty commentators were: Ryan Goodman and Smita Narula. CHRGJ Staff and Global Visitor commentators were Amna Akbar, Jayne Huckerby, Sarah Knuckey, Veerle Opgenhaffen, Zoe Salzman, Liz Sepper, Hina Shamsi.
6th Annual Emerging Human Rights Scholarship Conference
The Sixth Annual Emerging Human Rights Scholarship Conference was held on April 10, 2009.
The following student papers were selected for presentation:
- Roberta Berzero, Humanitarian Intervention, Responsibility to Protect and Transitional Justice: Squaring the Triangle
- Christen Broecker, Undeserved Impunity: Foreign Sovereign Immunity as an Impediment to Effective International Corporate Accountability in U.S. Courts
- Jeannie Rose Field, Bridging the Gap between Refugee Rights and Reality: A Proposal for Developing International Duties in the Refugee Context
- Nelson Goh, Time or Manner: Resisting Prosecutorial Impulse in Transitional Societies for the ends of Peace and Justice
- Amrita Kapur, Catch-22 in Post-Conflict Pluralist Africa: The Role of Development Institutions in Persuading Local Authorities to Apply and Enforce Gender Equality in Land Law
- Ravi Mehta, The Lessons of Kadi: Reevaluating International Legal Ideology in Light of ‘Smart Sanctions’ Imposed on Individuals by the Security Council
- Jennifer Wheeler, Reviving the Right to Associational Participation for the Improvement of Human Rights Indicators
- Margarita O’Donnell, Rethinking the Role of National Sentencing Practice in the International Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda
Faculty commentators were: Philip Alston, Smita Narula, and Meg Satterthwaite. CHRGJ Staff and Global Visitor commentators were Amna Akbar, Jayne Huckerby, Veerle Opgenhaffen, Sarah Knuckey, Mario Savino, Frank Upham and Nehal Bhuta. Other commentators included James Cockayne (International Peace Institute) and Brian Gorlick (UNHCR).
5th Annual Emerging Human Rights Scholarship Conference
The Fifth Annual Emerging Human Rights Scholarship Conference was held on April 3, 2008.
The following student papers were selected for presentation:
- Julia Barry, Apostasy, Marriage, and Jurisdiction in Lina Joy: Where was CEDAW?
- Alexis Blane, Analyzing the Use of the State Department Country Reports on Human Rights in the Context of Asylum Cases
- Mitra Ebadolahi, The Case for a “Minimum Core Content” Concept As Applied to the ICESCR’s “International Assistance and Cooperation” Language
- Rosalia Gitau, “God Willing, I will be back”: Gauging the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Capacity to Deter Economic Crimes in Liberia.
- Jennifer Hainsfurther, A Rights-Based Approach: The Utilization of CEDAW to Protect the Human Rights of Migrant Workers
- James Kirk, Navigating the Confluence of Human Rights and Environmental Protection: Difficulties Exposed by the Case of the Inuit
- Alice Jaume, The Social Dimension of Globalization: which Level of Social Protection for which Link with Society? A Study of Acquisitive Residence and Access to Economic and Social Rights in the U.S.A. and in the E.U.
- Amanda Klasing, Towards a Rights-Based Methodology: The Case of the Right to Water in Port-de-Paix Haiti
Faculty commentators were: Philip Alston, Smita Narula, and Meg Satterthwaite. CHRGJ Staff and Global Visitor commentators were William Abresch, Jayne Huckerby, Veerle Opgenhaffen, Sarah Knuckey, Conway Blake, Dr. Ludovich Hennebel and Dr. Amparo Martinez. Other commentators included Paige Aurther (ICTJ).
4th Annual Emerging Human Rights Scholarship Conference
The Fourth Annual Emerging Human Rights Scholarship Conference was held on April 6, 2007.
The following student papers were selected for presentation:
- Roni Amit, Judicial Activism through International Law: From Security to Rights Supremacy in Israel’s High Court of Justice
- Reena Arora, India’s Private Torture: Recasting State Responsibility in International Human Rights Law
- Stephanie Barbour, The Blending of International Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law: The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
- Christen Broecker, To End Impunity The Decline of Amnesty in Transitional Justice
- Andrej Lang, Human Rights, Global Administrative Law, and the Role of Domestic Courts
- Rahim Moloo, Looking Beyond Article 71: NGOs in the General Assembly and the Security Council?
- Tafadzwa Pasipanodya, Rwandan Participants at the ICTR: For Them, With Them, or Despite Them
- Liz Sepper, The Evolving Scope and Substance of CEDAW Article 5(a) in the Jurisprudence of the CEDAW Committee
- Catherine Sweetser, Ensuring Accountability of UN Peacekeeping Personnel for Human Rights Violations
Faculty commentators were: Philip Alston, Smita Narula, Meg Satterthwaite, and Paul van Zyl. CHRGJ Staff and Global Visitor commentators were William Abresch and Jayne Huckerby. Other commentators included Angelina Fisher and Surabhi Ranganathan (IILJ), Doreen Lustig (J.S.D. Candidate, NYU School of Law), and Natalie Reid and Roy Schondorf (Debevoise & Plimpton LLP).
3rd Annual Emerging Human Rights Scholarship Conference
The Third Annual Emerging Human Rights Scholarship Conference was held on March 31, 2006.
The following student papers were presented:
- Andrew Hudson, Not a Great Asset: The U.N. Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Regime: Violating Human Rights
- Shamiso Mbizvo, Reviving The Dream That is Rome Through Ad Hoc Judges At the International Criminal Court
- Liliana Jubilut, Is the ‘responsibility to protect’ a real change in humanitarian intervention?
- Gaylynn Burroughs, Discouraging Demand? Reconceptualizing Demand in the Context of Human Trafficking
- Bill Van Esveld, The Administration of Justice in Refugee Camps
Faculty commentators were: Philip Alston, Smita Narula, Margaret Satterthwaite, and Paul van Zyl. CHRGJ Staff and Global Visitor commentators were: Jayne Huckerby, Frank Haldemann, Julie Ringelheim, and Stephen Humphreys.
2nd Annual Emerging Human Rights Scholarship Conference
The Second Annual Emerging Human Rights Scholarship Conference was held on March 4, 2005.
The following student papers were selected for presentation:
- Joanna Pozen The Non-Disclosure of Witnesses’ Identities in the Rwanda Trials: Failure to Recognize Cultural Differences in International Tribunals
- Katrina Gustafson Joint Criminal Enterprise Liability: The Link Between the Accused and the Principal Perpetrators of International Crimes
- James Cockayne Toward a ‘First Principles’ Approach to the Accountability of Private Military Contractors
- Adrian di Giovanni The ICC’s First Steps: Uganda, Prosecution and Mato Oput
- Ruben Carranza Plunder and Pain: Should Large-Scale Corruption be Addressed by Transitional Justice?
- Kevin Arlyck Competing Demands: Trials as a Response to the Holocaust in Contemporary France
- William Abresch A Framework for the Judicial Review of Amnesties and Transitional Justice Programs Under the American Convention on Human Rights
Faculty commentators were: Philip Alston, Smita Narula, Meg Satterthwaite, and Paul van Zyl.
Inaugural Emerging Human Rights Scholarship Conference
The Center held its inaugural Emerging Human Rights Scholarship Conference on October 31, 2003.
The following student papers were selected for presentation:
- Mark Toufayan, Return to Communitarianism? Implications for the Duty to Prevent Genocide for States and the United Nations
- James Cockayne, Human Rights Violations in Iraq: Holding the Occupiers Accountable
- Peter Gutherie, The Trafficking Victims Protection Act: American Exceptionalism or Collaboration?
- John Esmerado, Crossing the Great Divide: The Marginal Embrace of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by State and Federal Courts in the United States
- Patricia S. Mann, Just Individuals with Rights?
- Aaron Dhir, A Critical Analysis of the Proposed Disability Rights Convention and the Application of International Human Rights Norms to Persons with Mental Disabilities
- Chitra Aiyar, The Ongoing Struggle Against Caste Discrimination: Some Observations from Tamil Nadu
- Janet Hostetler, Grassroots Activism and the Evolution of and Compliance with International Human Rights Law
Faculty commentators were: Philip Alston, Smita Narula and Meg Satterthwaite.