The all-day conference "Responses to Atrocity: International and Domestic Judicial Mechanisms" will be held Friday, April 20, 2007, at the University of Wisconsin Law School, sponsored by the Law School’s Global Legal Studies Center and the Humanitarianism and World Order Research Circle.

The event, which will bring prominent scholars, legal professionals, and human rights experts, is open to all. No registration is required.

The morning session, from 9 a.m. to noon, will be held in Room 3250 of the Law School; the afternoon session, from 1:30 to 5, will be in Room 7200.

Speakers and commentators will include:

Kathryn Sikkink, Regents Professor, the Arleen Carlson Professor of Political Science and the McKnight Distinguished University Professor at the University of Minnesota

Peter Rosenblum, Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein Clinical Professor of Human Rights Law, Columbia University

Judge Dennis Davis, New York University and South Africa’s High Court

Rebecca Wittmann, Assistant Professor, Historical Studies, University of Toronto

Heinz Klug, Professor, UW Law School, and Director, Global Legal Studies Center

Ronald Atkinson, Professor, Department of History, University of South Carolina

Lars Waldorf, Lecturer in International Human Rights Law and Course Convener of the Human Rights MA at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London

Thierry Cruvellier, Consultant, International Center for Transnational Justice, Bogota, Colombia

Victor Peskin, Professor, School of Global Studies, Arizona State University

Scott Straus, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Leigh Payne, Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison

For more information contact Sumudu Atapattu, Associate Director of the Global Legal Studies Center, saatapattu@wisc.edu.

Submitted by on April 19, 2007

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