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Dean Melanie Leslie’S Office Hours, Melanie B. Leslie, Richard Weisberg

Event Invitations 2024

Join Dean Leslie and Professor Emeritus Richard Weisberg, author of ‘Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France,’ for a discussion on World War II, the Nazi occupation of France and how the French legal system was changed to perpetuate the Holocaust in France.

Hate Speech And Online Antisemitism, Louis D. Brandeis Center For Human Rights Under Law, The Brandeis Center’S Cardozo Law Student Chapter

Flyers 2023-2024

No abstract provided.

Cardozo International And Comparative Law Review Presents: Disability Justice Under International Human Rights Law, Cardozo International And Comparative Law Review, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Flyers 2023-2024

No abstract provided.

International Law And The Israel/Hamas Conflict: A Focus On Ihl And The Icj Case Of South Africa V. Israel, Cardozo Law Institute In Holocaust And Human Rights (Clihhr), The Floersheimer Center For Constitutional Democracy

Event Invitations 2024

On January 26, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued a provisional measures order in the case of South Africa v. Israel. This case has been the focus of significant attention.

Join legal scholars with extensive backgrounds in international humanitarian and human rights law in discussing the legal implications of the ICJ’s role in the ongoing conflict.

International Law And The Israel/Hamas Conflict: A Focus On Ihl And The Icj Case Of South Africa V. Israel, Cardozo Law Institute In Holocaust And Human Rights (Clihhr), Floersheimer Center For Constitutional Democracy

Event Invitations 2024

On January 26, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued a provisional measures order in the case of South Africa v. Israel. This case has been the focus of significant attention.

Join legal scholars with extensive backgrounds in international humanitarian and human rights law in discussing the legal implications of the ICJ’s role in the ongoing conflict.

Brandeis Center Presents: Post-October 7th Litigation, The Louis D. Brandeis Center For Human Rights Under Law

Flyers 2023-2024

No abstract provided.

Identifying A Finacial Footprint Of Human Trafficking, Cardozo International Law Society (Cils)

Flyers 2023-2024

No abstract provided.

Brandeis Center Presents: Navigating The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict With Justin Ellis, The Louis Brandeis Center For Human Rights Under Law

Flyers 2023-2024

No abstract provided.

From The Frontlines: A Student Panel On The Israel-Hamas Conflict, The Louis Brandeis Center For Human Rights Under Law

Flyers 2023-2024

No abstract provided.

Dean Melanie Leslie’S Office Hours, Melanie B. Leslie, Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum, Rebecca Ingber

Event Invitations 2023

Join Dean Leslie and meet two Cardozo professors on the frontline of global human rights initiatives, Professor Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum

Book Talk: Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe, Jacob Burns Center For Ethics In The Practice Of Law, Cardozo Law Institute In Holocaust And Human Rights (Clihhr), Jessica A. Roth, Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum

Event Invitations 2023

Join Professor Jessica Roth and Professor Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum for a conversation with Eric L. Muller, author of the newly released book Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe: Complicity and Conscience in America's World War II Concentration Camps.

Book Talk: Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe, Jacob Burns Center For Ethics In The Practice Of Law, Cardozo Law Institute In Holocaust And Human Rights (Clihhr)

Flyers 2023-2024

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Intersectional Feminist Practice In International Justice: Sexual & Gender-Based Grimes In Ongwen, Cardozo Law Institute In Holocaust And Human Rights (Clihhr), Cardozo International And Comparative Law Review

Flyers 2022-2023

No abstract provided.

Queer Liberation Under International Law, Cardozo Journal Of Equal Rights And Social Justice, Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review, Cardozo Outlaw

Event Invitations 2023

This symposium will equip attendees with an understanding of how global movements, including activists, lawyers, scholars and organizations, navigate and employ international law in pursuit of queer liberation.

Adopting an intersectional feminist framework, this symposium is an acclamation for queer justice everywhere. Introduced by Dean Melanie Leslie, this symposium will explore how international law may subjugate or protect queer populations, how domestic efforts interact with international law and how constitutional laws and international law must evolve for exhaustive social justice.

The Brandeis Center Presents: Religious Accommodation In The Workplace, The Louis Brandeis Center For Human Rights Under Law

Flyers 2022-2023

No abstract provided.

Making A Career Working For Lgbtq+ Rights: An Alumni Panel, Cardozo Dean's Office, Cardozo Outlaw

Event Invitations 2023

Dean Melanie Leslie ’91 will moderate a panel of distinguished alumni who will speak about their experiences working to advance LGBTQ+ rights in the legal world. They will discuss cases and projects they have worked on, how recent high-profile legislation targeting the LGBTQ+ community has impacted their work and provide advice for law students who want to enter the field.

Panelists:

• Taylor Brown ’17 is a Staff Attorney in the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project.
• Jason Starr ’10 has over 15 years of experience as an attorney, educator and strategist in the fight for human rights.
• Debra Guston ’88 is …

The Supreme Court In Crisis, David Rudenstine, David M. Hunt Library

Event Invitations 2023

The speakers will discuss recent decisions affecting abortion and gun rights, the public’s trust and confidence in the high court and cases the Court will decide before the summer involving LGBTQ rights, affirmative action, election law and immigration policy.

Speakers:

• Tom Gerety, former President of Amherst and Trinity Colleges, former Executive Director of the Brennan Center for Justice
• Adam Liptak, New York Times Supreme Court Correspondent
• David Rudenstine, Sheldon H. Solow Professor of Law at Cardozo and former Dean

Why Florida Copied Its ‘Don’T Say Gay’ Bill From Hungary & What It Means For Democracy In The United States, Floersheimer Center For Constitutional Democracy

Event Invitations 2022

On the eve of mid-term elections in which polls find large majorities of Americans worried about the future of U.S. democracy, scholars and journalists are tracking growing interest here in the successful path of autocratic leaders abroad. Do once-democratic countries like Hungary offer American populists a meaningful roadmap for reforming the structures of U.S. democratic governance and constitutional law?

Moderator: Deborah Pearlstein, Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy

Panelists:

• Zack Beauchamp, Senior Correspondent, Vox
• Kim Lane Scheppele, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in the Princeton School of Public and International …

Why Florida Copied Its ‘Don’T Say Gay’ Bill From Hungary & What It Means For Democracy In The United States, Floersheimer Center For Constitutional Democracy

Flyers 2022-2023

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Weekly Pop-Up Class: Understanding The Lgbtq+ Civil Rights Movement And Why It Matters, Ferkauf Professors Kailey Roberts And Jennifer Cooper, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Event Invitations 2022

Kailey Roberts is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology specializing in bereavement and existential psychotherapy. Roberts' research and teaching focuses on understanding existential distress and supporting individuals facing adversity through connection to their unique sense of meaning, identity and purpose. Jennifer Cooper, is an Assistant Professor at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. Cooper’s research agenda is focused on preventing and treating youth mental, emotional and behavioral issues through improving the use of multi-tier frameworks and culturally responsive evidence-based practices in schools. They will discuss "Cultivating Psychosocial Wellbeing in LGBTQIA+ Individuals and Communities."

Weekly Pop-Up Class: Lgbtq Rights And The Crisis Of Democracy, Deborah Pearlstein, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Event Invitations 2022

Deborah Pearlstein is Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy. Pearlstein has repeatedly testified before Congress on topics from war powers to executive branch oversight. Her work on the U.S. Constitution, international law, and national security has appeared widely in law journals and the popular press.

Weekly Pop-Up Class: Understanding The Lgbtq+ Civil Rights Movement And Why It Matters, Kate Shaw, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Event Invitations 2022

Cardozo Professor Kate Shaw is the Co-Director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy. Before joining Cardozo, she worked in the White House Counsel’s Office as a Special Assistant to the President and Associate Counsel to the President. She clerked for Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Richard A. Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Weekly Pop-Up Class: Understanding The Lgbtq+ Civil Rights Movement And Why It Matters, Rachel B. Tiven, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Event Invitations 2022

Rachel Tiven will discuss "A History of U.S. Immigration Exclusion." Tiven is a civil rights leader turned historian. As the head of national non-profits Lambda Legal, Immigration Equality, and Immigrant Justice Corps, Tiven fought for equality for immigrants and LGBTQ/HIV+ people. Tiven has been recognized for her work by the Advocate magazine, New York County Lawyers Association and United We Dream.

Weekly Pop-Up Class: Understanding The Lgbtq+ Civil Rights Movement And Why It Matters, Dmytro Vovk, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Event Invitations 2022

Dmytro Vovk, Cardozo Visiting Associate Professor will cover Religious Freedom and LGBTQ+ Rights: The European Court of Human Right's Perspective.

Dmytro Vovk runs the Center for Rule of Law and Religion Studies at Yaroslav the Wise National Law University in Kharkiv, Ukraine. He was an expert on human rights and rule of law for USAID, OSCE/ODIHR, Council of Europe and Constitutional Commission of Ukraine.

Weekly Pop-Up Class: Understanding The Lgbtq+ Civil Rights Movement And Why It Matters: Professor Edward Stein, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Event Invitations 2022

The first class will cover the evolution of LGBTQ+ family law in the United States and will be presented by LGBTQ+ legal expert and Cardozo Professor and former Vice Dean Edward Stein, author of The Mismeasure of Desire, The Science, Theory, and Ethics of Sexual Orientation and other scholarly works on sexual identity and the law.

Supporting Mental And Public Health Prevention Work In Pre-Atrocity, Atrocity, And Post-Atrocity Settings, Cardozo Law Institute In Holocaust And Human Rights

Event Invitations 2021

The second event in the Digital Dialogue Series, exploring the various chapters in the book through panels with the contributing authors.

Join us for a timely discussion at the intersection of public health, mental health, and mass atrocity prevention in the U.S. and globally. Purchase the volume edited by Professor Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum: "Public Health, Mental Health, and Mass Atrocity Prevention."

Lets Talk Internships, Cardozo Latin American Law Student Association

Flyers 2021-2022

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‘Sexualized Slavery’ And Customary International Law, Patricia Viseur Sellers, Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum

Book Chapters

This chapter examines the doctrinal avenues for the recognition and prosecution of ‘sexualized slavery’. The Hissène Habré trial and appellate judgments represent watershed legal decisions rendering long-denied justice to victims of the brutal Chadian regime. Delayed charges of credible sexual violence inflicted upon both males and females challenged the judges of the Extraordinary African Chambers (EAC) in Senegal. Legal characterizations of sexual assaults ultimately attributed to Habré represent significant jurisprudential advancements on rape, sexual slavery, and torture as international crimes. The EAC's observations acknowledge that sexual slavery constitutes part of the actus reus of enslavement as crime against humanity and …

Lunchtime Talk With Diana Kearney: Strategic Litigation Against The Administration’S Migration Policies, Cardozo Law Institute In Holocaust And Human Rights (Clihhr)

Event Invitations 2019

CLIHHR will host Diana Kearney for a lunchtime lecture on the Administration's migration policies. Strategic litigation efforts across the US and Mexico are combating policies that strip migrants of their human and refugee rights. We will survey cases protecting these rights, including challenges to the "remain in Mexico" policy, family separation, and expedited deportations without due process. In addition, we will examine how civil society groups are coordinating efforts throughout North and Central America to protect migrants.

Diana Kearney is a Legal and Shareholder Advocacy Advisor at Oxfam America, where she focuses on corporate accountability, land rights, refugee rights, and …