Berkeley Law's Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law invites you to a Welcome Reception for new JD, LLM, JSD and JSP students interested in international and comparative law! Please join us on Monday, August 25, 12:50-1:50pm in Berkeley Law Room 110 for this annual Fall gathering. Incoming students have the chance to engage with […]
Join us for a screening of award-winning documentary My Sweet Land, followed by a panel discussion including director Sareen Hairabedian, on Thursday September 18! Registration is required for this event, and attendees must register by Tuesday September 16th at 5pm. Please register here. Same-day registration will not be available. Be sure to bring a photo […]
Featuring Viviana Krsticevic, Executive Director of the Center for Justice and International Law and Nikki Reisch, Director of the Climate and Energy Program at the Center for International Environmental Law, in conversation with Prof. Laurel E. Fletcher. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to hear from leading experts involved in the landmark Advisory Opinion 32/25 issued […]
Every year since 1994, the Human Rights Center has provided fellowships to UC students for human rights fieldwork, research, and journalism. This year, our fellows spent their summers working with organizations in Puerto Rico, Mexico, Nigeria, Argentina, Madagascar, Hong Kong, California and New York on issues including sterilization in prisons, threats to asylum seekers at […]
Join us for a virtual roundtable discussion with global experts to discuss the distinct harms caused by the aggregation of online speech. While individual posts may not violate platform rules, their accumulation can lead to significant human rights issues. This event will explore frameworks for online platforms to address these cumulative harms while protecting free […]
UC Berkeley Special Event: Human Rights Defenders and Accountability in a Changing World with Binaifer Nowrojee, President, Open Society Foundations In conversation with Angana P. Chatterji, Chair, Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative, Center for Race and Gender; and Research Anthropologist, UC Berkeley Munis D. Faruqui, Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies and Associate […]
State of Silence/Estado de Silencio explores the limits of freedom of the press in Mexico, following four journalists who risk their lives to report on the collusion between organized crime and corrupt officials. From the reporters’ perspective, the documentary shows how they must navigate zones of silence and powerful entities to expose corruption and violence. […]
The Berkeley Law community is invited to a panel talk, "Disappeared in Plain Sight: Fighting Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan as a Crime Against Humanity." The Taliban regime has systematically removed women from public life since its return to power in 2021. Afghan women and their allies are fighting erasure, including through international law. Hear how human […]
This talk will examine how the universal promise of human dignity and human rights has been repeatedly compromised across the Middle East—by states, global powers, and the very system meant to uphold these rights. Moving beyond familiar narratives, it explores structural contradictions in the conception of humanitarian intervention, the political forces that distort the application […]
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