Overview

The mission of the Stanford Human Rights Center is to promote events, research, student engagement, publications, public understanding, practical engagement and policy development in the area of international human rights and global social justice.  The Center will work closely with the International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic.

The Center launched in early April 2013 with the first of a series of events in its year-long speaker series on the "Future of Human Rights."  Ken Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, was the first of a number of leading practitioners and scholars to address this question.  Upcoming speakers and topics are:

April 16: Cameras Everywhere -- Will New Media Transform Rights Advocacy? with Sam Gregory, Program Director at WITNESS.  Room 185 from 12:45-2:00pm.  Lunch will be provided.

April 22: Does the History of Human Rights Matter for the Future? with Professor Jenny Martinez, Professor of Law and Warren Christopher Professor in the Practice of International Law and Diplomacy.  Room 280A from 12:45-2:00pm.  Lunch will be provided.

April 29: The Future of Human Rights: Human Rights Litigation in U.S. Courts After Kiobel with Paul Hoffman, Lead Counsel on Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co.  Room 280A from 12:45-2:00pm.  Lunch will be provided.

May 6: The Rise of the South with Professor Balakrishnan Rajagopal, Ford International Associate Professor of Law and Development, International Development Group at MIT.  Room 280A from 12:45-2:00pm.  Lunch will be provided.

May 13: Ejim Dike, Executive Director of U.S. Human Rights Network.  Room 280B from 12:45-2:00pm.  Lunch will be provided.