International Law, Local Justice International Law, Local Justice

Northeastern University Law Review Symposium

INTERNATIONAL LAW, LOCAL JUSTICE:

Human Rights Transformed

Friday, November 17, 2017

240 Dockser Hall, Northeastern University School of Law

In Honor of Professor Hope Lewis and to Commemorate the Launch of the Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration

While the discourse of human rights shaped our understandings of the relationship between states and their communities for well over half a century, new thinking about how best to protect lives and livelihoods has emerged from the dynamism and border-disregarding character of our contemporary global economic order. Before her untimely death in December 2016, Professor Hope Lewis was at the forefront of initiatives to theorize the relationship between human rights and the new global economy, to identify best practices for her colleagues in government and the advocacy community, to address racial inequality and to further develop the now flourishing socio-economic rights dimension of human rights discourse. This symposium explores the impact of Professor Lewis’ work and illuminates the role human rights principles can play in protecting people from the volatility and extractive excess of inadequately regulated global markets.

For Professor Lewis, who was both a leading academic and an activist, research and scholarship were meant to inform the work of activists and the struggling communities for whom they speak. She mentored and supported generations of students whose work as lawyers and advocates today gives life to her vision of human rights, racial equality, social justice and engaged practice.

With one eye on the topics that Professor Lewis pursued and the other on today’s social justice challenges, the presenters will consider immigrant rights, inequality and human rights; global feminisms and human rights; and international rights protection for disabled persons as we celebrate her legacy and launch the law school’s Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration.

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Keynote Speakers

Harold Koh
Sterling Professor of International Law, Yale Law School

Ibrahim Gassama
Frank Nash Professor of Law, University of Oregon School of Law
(private session, by invitation only)

Cheryl Harris
Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Professor in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, UCLA School of Law

Agenda
Friday, November 17, 2017
8:45 - 9:00 a.m.	Welcome and Introduction of Keynote Jeremy R. Paul Dean and Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law Lucy Williams Professor of Law and Director, Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration, Northeastern University School of Law Sonia Rolland Professor of Law and Faculty Director, LLM and International Programs, Northeastern University School of Law
9:00 - 10:20 a.m.	Keynote Speaker Harold Koh Sterling Professor of International Law, Yale Law School
10:20 - 10:45 a.m.	Break
10:45 a.m.- 12:15 p.m.	PANEL ONE Human Rights, Economic Inequality and Global Markets Moderator: Aziza Ahmed Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law Panelists: Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol Levin, Mabie & Levin Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law Henry J. Steiner Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law, Emeritus, Harvard Law School Karl Klare Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law
12:15 - 2:00 p.m.	LUNCH AND KEYNOTE Andrew L. Bardetti Editor-in-Chief, Northeastern University Law Review Aziza Ahmed Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law Cheryl Harris Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Professor in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, UCLA School of Law
2:00 - 3:30 p.m.	PANEL 2 Human Rights: Contemporary Topics Moderator: Rachel Rosenbloom Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law Panelists: Tendayi Achiume Assistant Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law Arlene Kanter Visiting Scholar, Harvard Law School; Bond, Schoeneck & King Distinguished Professor of Law, Syracuse University College of Law Zina Miller Assistant Professor, International Law and Human Rights, Seton Hall University School of Diplomacy and International Relations Michael Ashley Stein Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School, and Executive Director, Harvard Law School Project on Disability
3:30 - 3:45 p.m.	Break
3:45 - 5:15 p.m.	PANEL 3 Reflecting on Hope Lewis: Teacher and Scholar Moderator: Wendy Parmet Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Health Policy and Law, Northeastern University School of Law; Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs Panelists: Jaribu Hill Founder and Executive Director, Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights Margaret Kwoka '07 Associate Professor, University of Denver Sturm College of Law Amy Senier '08 Trial Attorney, US Department of Justice

Special thanks to

Margaret Burnham
University Distinguished Professor of Law and Director, Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, Northeastern University School of Law

Ibrahim Gassama
Frank Nash Professor of Law, University of Oregon School of Law

International Law, Local Justice International Law, Local Justice

INTERNATIONAL LAW, LOCAL JUSTICE:

Keynote Speakers

Agenda

Friday, November 17, 2017