Conference on Disasters, Displacement, & Human Rights

“Bridging the Collaborative Gap” September 25-27, 2015 The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Call for Presentations Earthquakes and tsunamis. Development-induced displacement. Armed conflict, terrorism, and human trafficking. Fifty-one million recognized refugees … Read more

Preiskel/Silverman Lecture at YLS

Stephen P. Berzon, founding partner of Altshuler Berzon LLP, will deliver the 2014–2015 Robert H. Preiskel and Leon Silverman Program on the Practicing Lawyer and the Public Interest on March … Read more

Leadership Changes In A World In Turmoil

Sergio Vieira de Mello’s long and distinguished UN career saw him dealing with refugee and human rights issues from Bangladesh, Cyprus and Mozambique in the 1970s, through to Peru, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Timor Leste in the 1990s.

He became UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in 2002, as well as the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative in Iraq in 2003.

More than a decade on from Sergio’s tragic death in a Baghdad terrorist attack, the world sadly continues to be plagued by conflict and crisis.

Leading international journalist Christiane Amanpour, herself a veteran reporter from conflicts all over the globe, talks with the UN’s human rights and refugee chiefs about leadership challenges in a world in turmoil.

Criminal Justice and Racial Inequality

In 2014, the deaths of Mike Brown, Eric Garner, and Tamir Rice, among others, reignited America’s dialogue on race and sparked a national response. That response included community organized street … Read more