California International Law Center
The crisis in Darfur is the focus of this semester’s International Human Rights & Transitional Justice course taught by Professor Diane Marie Amann, Director of the California International Law Center at King Hall. Students are learning by doing – that is, by taking part in an inaugural partnership between this new law school institution and the 40-year-old, Washington, D.C.-based Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights.
A Darfuri physician who has been working to establish a framework for peace and reconciliation in that region of Sudan, Dr. Mohammed Ahmed Abdallah (right), is the 2007 RFK Human Rights Laureate. Students are contributing to this work by preparing a report that analyzes prior efforts around the world, such as truth commissions, perpetrator accountability, redress of victims, and rebuilding of society, and then applies lessons learned from those efforts to Darfur. Supplementing lectures and group work are guest speakers, among them:
January 14
Comparative Genocides, by Professor David Biale, University of California, Davis Department of History
January 27
Cambodia Documentation Project, by Professor Beth Van Schaack, Santa Clara University School of Law
February 2
New Trends International Legal Research, by Marci Hoffman, Associate Director and International & Foreign Law Librarian; Lecturer in Residence, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
February 3
Victims and Transitional Justice, by Harvey Weinstein, M.D., M.P.H., Clinical Professor at the School of Public Health and Senior Research Fellow at the Human Rights Center, University of California-Berkeley
February 11
Justice and Reconciliation on Trial: Gacaca Proceedings in Rwanda, by Professor Linda E. Carter, Professor of Law & Director, Institute for Development of Legal Infrastructure, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento
February 18
Darfur, by Dr. Michael Kevane, Chair, Department of Economics, Santa Clara University
February 25
Human Rights & Humanitarian Response, by Gwen K. Young, Policy and Advocacy Officer for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle
