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Incorporating Alternative Dispute Resolution At The United Nations: Establishing And Implementing And Arbitration Panel To Determine Whether A Permanent Member Of The Security Council Can Or Cannot Veto Proposed Resolutions Potentially Involving Human Rights Violations And Mass Atrocities, Jillian Leavey

Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution

No abstract provided.

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

2023–2024 Flyers

No abstract provided.

Time To Enumerate The Slave Trade As A Distinct Provision In The Crimes Against Humanity Treaty, Patricia Viseur Sellers, Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum, Alexandra Lily Kather

Online Publications

The proposed Draft articles on Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Humanity under consideration at the United Nations General Assembly’s Sixth Committee (Legal) are bereft of a distinct provision to address the international crime of the slave trade.

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

2023–2024 Flyers

No abstract provided.

Dean Melanie Leslie’S Office Hours, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

2023 Event Invitations

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)

2023 Event Invitations

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)

2023–2024 Flyers

No abstract provided.

2023 Summer - Clihhr Newsletter, Cardozo Law Institute In Holocaust And Human Rights (Clihhr)

CLIHHR Newsletters

This Summer 2023 issue of the CLIHHR Newsletter honors the legacy of Benjamin B. Ferencz and reflects on the Institute’s continued commitment to international justice and atrocity prevention. It features tributes to Ferencz’s life and work, updates on student and clinic achievements, including success at the Clara Barton International Humanitarian Law Competition, international fieldwork in Argentina and India, major conferences on sexual and gender-based crimes, faculty engagement in global legal advocacy, and partnerships advancing survivor-centered and intersectional justice. The newsletter highlights CLIHHR’s dedication to human rights education, accountability, and global collaboration.

Phr & Clihhr Submission To Sgbc Policy (June 2023), Physicians For Human Rights (Phr), Cardozo Law Institute In Holocaust And Human Rights (Clihhr)

CLIHHR Reports & Policy Submissions

This report was submitted by the Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights (CLIHHR) and Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) in June 2023 as part of the consultation process for the United Nations' policy on addressing sexual and gender-based crimes (SGBC). It offers legal analysis and strategic recommendations to strengthen accountability mechanisms for SGBC under international criminal law. The submission reflects CLIHHR’s ongoing work in advancing human rights and justice for marginalized and vulnerable populations.

Phr & Clihhr Submission To Icc Otp (May 2023), Physicians For Human Rights (Phr), Cardozo Law Institute In Holocaust And Human Rights (Clihhr)

CLIHHR Reports & Policy Submissions

This report was submitted by the Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights (CLIHHR) and Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) in May 2023 to the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Criminal Court (ICC). It provides legal and strategic recommendations on investigating and prosecuting crimes of sexual and gender-based violence, with an emphasis on survivor-centered approaches and international legal standards. The submission highlights the importance of addressing such crimes within the framework of international justice.

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

2022–2023 Flyers

No abstract provided.

Corruption And Judges' Personal Independence In The Judiciary Of Bangladesh: One Bad Apple Can Spoil The Bunch, S M. Solaiman

Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review

Corruption appears to have been an inexorable crime in Bangladesh for decades. More deplorably, the magnitude of judicial corruption has profoundly increased the miseries of litigants. The situation is so awful that the nation's two successive Attorney Generals have publicly raised the issue to two consecutive Chief Justices of Bangladesh at their felicitation gatherings organized by lawyers of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh soon after their appointments as the nation's top judges. Consistently, empirical findings of Transparency International, a German-based organization, and Transparency International Bangladesh have unequivocally revealed the practice of a large extent of judicial corruption. These allegations are …

Palestinian Women And Housing Laws In Israel: A Case Study Of Legal And Epistemic Injustice, Yael Cohen-Rimer

Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review

This Article is built on a legal metaphor. In criminal law, we discuss whether an actor has the mens rea for a crime. I argue in this paper that judicial review of cases related to rights infringements involve a similar inquiry. In applying discrimination laws, courts actually, though sometimes not explicitly, search for anything between intent and awareness. In administrative law, courts search for indications of the negligence of the administrator. I use the test case of Palestinian women and Israeli housing aid rules to show where these legal practices fall short in treating the core problem. I analyze this …

Aesthetics Of Slavery & Slave Trade Crimes, Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum

Articles

In his insightful new book, Invisible Atrocities, Randle DeFalco examines the aesthetic biases of international criminal law (ICL). DeFalco astutely argues that ICL prioritizes punishing "horrific spectacles" of violence while ignoring less visible, attritive forms of violence that cause similar levels of harm and suffering, generally over longer periods of time. While ICL is selective in its preference for "horrific spectacles," even the spectacular violence has been rendered invisible in ICL when inconvenient factual evidence counters dominant narratives in international law.

One such dominant narrative is the successful abolition of slavery and the slave trade of the nineteenth and twentieth …

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

2023 Event Invitations

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

2022–2023 Flyers

No abstract provided.

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

2023 Event Invitations

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 M. Hunt Library

2023 Event Invitations

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

Contextualizing Corruption: Foreign Financing Bans And Campaign Finance Law, Lori A. Ringhand

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

P*Law 2023, Center For Public Service Law

2022–2023 Flyers

This document provides the complete schedule for P*LAW Week 2023 at Cardozo School of Law, organized by the Center for Public Service Law. Held from January 23 to January 26, the week featured panels, workshops, and interactive events addressing pressing issues in public interest law. Topics included judicial independence, disability rights, reproductive justice, climate legislation, student mental health, comprehensive sexual education, and qualified immunity. Events also offered students career support through the PILC Fair prep session and Mentor Mock Interviews, fostering professional growth and public service engagement.

2023 Winter - Clihhr Newsletter, Cardozo Law Institute In Holocaust And Human Rights (Clihhr)

CLIHHR Newsletters

This Winter 2023 issue of the CLIHHR Newsletter highlights the Institute’s work in solidarity with communities affected by identity-based violence and mass atrocities. It features updates from the Benjamin B. Ferencz Human Rights and Atrocity Prevention Clinic, student and fellowship spotlights, international collaborations in Argentina, major public events including the Lemkin Award Ceremony, and faculty engagement in global human rights and humanitarian law forums. The newsletter reflects CLIHHR’s commitment to survivor-centered justice, Indigenous rights, restorative justice, and international accountability.

Thinking Ahead In The Grey Zone, Chris Honeyman, Ellen Parker

Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution

Readers who have recently begun to consider the implications of grey zone conflict or hybrid warfare for their own companies, law firms, or other organizations could be forgiven for seeing the entire subject as startling if not downright alarming. But some of our colleagues in this issue, notably Chris Corpora and Anne Leslie, have taken pains to point out how hybrid warfare could be seen instead as merely the latest and most technologically sophisticated version of attempts to undermine other countries which go back millennia. And the specific techniques that might help your company-or law firm, municipal government, university or …

Unsettling Human Rights Clinical Pedagogy And Practice In Settler Colonial Contexts, Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum, Caroline Bishop Laporte

Articles

In settler colonial contexts, law and educational institutions operate as structures of oppression, extraction, erasure, disempowerment, and continuing violence against colonized peoples. Consequently, clinical legal advocacy often can reinforce coloniality--the logic that perpetuates structural violence against individuals and groups resisting colonization and struggling for survival as peoples. Critical legal theory, including Third World Approaches to International Law (“TWAIL”), has long exposed colonial laws and practices that entrench discriminatory, racialized power structures and prevent transformative international human rights advocacy. Understanding and responding to these critiques can assist in decolonizing international human rights clinical law teaching and practice but is insufficient in …

Strengthening Nagpra, B. Stephen Jones

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

The note examines the limitations of the Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) in addressing international repatriation of cultural patrimony and proposes complementary legal frameworks to fill these gaps. It highlights the potential of the Safeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony Act (STOP Act) and the Indigenous McClain Doctrine to enhance protections, while advocating for the recognition of intangible cultural patrimony and the use of moral rights and the right to publicity to safeguard Indigenous cultural sovereignty.

The Next 100 Years Of International Intellectual Property: Integrating Human Rights And Corporate Social Responsibility, Julia Janewa Osei-Tutu

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

The article predicts that international intellectual property (IP) law will increasingly integrate human rights and corporate social responsibility (CSR) into its framework over the next century. This shift reflects a broader trend of balancing IP protection with societal concerns, such as public health, cultural heritage, and human development. The author argues that while the TRIPS Agreement established minimum IP standards, future agreements will prioritize equitable access to knowledge, medicines, and traditional knowledge, aligning IP law with global sustainability and human rights goals.

Thaler V. Vidal: Artificial Intelligence—Can The Invented Become The Inventor?, Michelle Lavrichenko

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

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

2022 Event Invitations

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

2022–2023 Flyers

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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

2022 Event Invitations

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

2022 Event Invitations

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.