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DESCRIPTION:Join us for the 2014 John P. Humphrey Lecture in Human Rights\,
  which\, this year\, will be given by Steven Ratner\, Bruno Simma Collegia
 te Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School.\nAbstract\nT
 he UN's engagement with holding individuals accountable for human rights a
 trocities is barely twenty years old.  Although much attention has been gi
 ven to the UN's creation of international criminal tribunals for Yugoslavi
 a\, Rwanda\, and other places\, accountability is a far more complex proce
 ss of which criminal justice is only one part.  In considering its involve
 ment in a post-tribunal era\, the UN needs to focus its efforts on those p
 rocesses where it has a comparative advantage to offer governments dealing
  with past atrocities as well as survivors.  The UN's role in fact-finding
  and investigation is a particularly promising avenue for the organization
  to pursue.   In developing a strategy for the future\, it is important to
  ask whether and why the UN should be involved in accountability\, what co
 nditions are necessary for successful UN involvement\, and how the UN can 
 avoid certain pitfalls along the way.\nBiography\nSteven Ratner is the Bru
 no Simma Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law Sch
 ool.  His research has focused on a range of contemporary challenges facin
 g governments and international institutions\, including ethnic conflict\,
  territorial borders\, implementation of peace agreements\, regulation of 
 foreign investment\, the normative orders concerning armed conflict\, and 
 accountability for human rights violations.  He served as a member of the 
 UN Secretary-General’s Group of Experts on Cambodia in 1998-99 and of the 
 Secretary-General's Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka in 201
 0-11.  He has also worked as an attorney-adviser at the U.S. Department of
  State\, a legal consultant at the office of the OSCE High Commissioner on
  National Minorities in The Hague\, and a consultant on international law 
 at the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva.  Since 2009\, h
 e has been a member of the U.S. State Department's Advisory Committee on I
 nternational Law.  Among his publications are The New UN Peacekeeping: Bui
 lding Peace in Lands of Conflict After the Cold War (St. Martin's\, 1995)\
 ; Accountability for Human Rights Atrocities in International Law: Beyond 
 the Nuremberg Legacy (Oxford\, 1997\, 2001 and 2009)\; International Law: 
 Norms\, Actors\, Process (Aspen\, 2002\, 2006\, and 2010)\, and The Thin J
 ustice of International Law: A Moral Reckoning of the Law of Nations (Oxfo
 rd\, forthcoming 2014).  He is graduate of Princeton University\, the Inst
 itut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales (Geneva)\, and Yale La
 w School.
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LOCATION:Maxwell Cohen Moot Court (NCDH 100)\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, Q
 C\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 3644 rue Peel
SUMMARY:After Atrocity: Optimizing UN Action toward Accountability for Huma
 n Rights Abuses
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 n-toward-accountability-human-rights-abuses-238595
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