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After the Violence: Crimes, Prosecutions and Then What?

Lubar Commons (7200 Law)

November 14, 2009

Agenda

8:30 Coffee and Registration

8:50 Welcome

Professor Frank Tuerkheimer, UW Law School

9:00-10:45 Panel One - International Trials for Genocide and Crimes

Against Humanity

Professor Frank Tuerkheimer, UW Law School

Professor Francine Hirsch, UW-Madison

Dacil Keo, UW-Madison

Jennifer Petersen, UW-Madison

10:45 Break

11:00-12:30 Panel Two - Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity in

Domestic Courts

Professor Michael Bryant, Bryant University, Rhode Island

Professor Lisa Laplante, Marquette University Law School

12:30-2:00 Lunch

2:00-3:30 Panel Three - Torture: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

Professor Wolfgang Form, University of Marburg, Germany

Professor Al McCoy, UW-Madison

3:30 Break

4:00-5:30 Panel Four - What Happens Afterwards?

Professor Heinz Klug, UW Law School

Professor Alexandra Huneeus, UW Law School

Professor Frank Tuerkheimer, UW Law School

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Short biographies of speakers

Michael Bryant holds a J.D. from Emory University and a Ph.D. in Modern European History from the Ohio State University. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Legal Studies in the Department of History and Social Sciences at Bryant University (Rhode Island). He is the author of Confronting the “Good Death”: Nazi Euthanasia on Trial, 1945-53 (University Press of Colorado, 2005). He has held many fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Wolfgang Form teaches political science and peace and conflict studies at University of Marburg, Germany. His doctoral degree was on political criminal justice during Nazi time in Germany. He is the co-founder of the Research and Documentation Center for War Crimes Trials and is on the advisory board of the Austrian Research Center for Post-War Trials. His research focuses on (international) criminal and military justice and peace and conflict studies. He is the author of Politische NS-Justiz in Hessen (2005); and Resistance and Prosecution in Hesse 1933 - 1945 (2008).

Francine Hirsch is Associate Professor, Department of History at UW-Madison. She received her BA from Cornell University and MA and PhD degrees from Princeton University. Her specializations are Russian and Soviet history and her research and teaching Interests include Russian and Soviet History, Modern European History, and Comparative Empires. She is the author of Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union published by the Cornell University Press (2005).

Alexandra Huneeus is an Assistant Professor of Law and Legal Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She studies the judicialization of politics, the politics of human rights, and legal culture in Latin America. Her Ph.D. dissertation centered on the Chilean judiciary’s changing attitude towards cases of Pinochet-era human rights violations. She teaches sociology of law, human rights, Latin American legal institutions, and international law. Before joining the UW faculty in 2007, Professor Huneeus was a fellow at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law.

Dacil Keo is is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at UW-Madison. Her dissertation research focuses on the local dynamics of genocide in Cambodia. Her research interests include Southeast Asian studies, international law, and human rights.

Heinz Klug is Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, Evjue-Bascom Professor in Law, H. I. Romnes Faculty Fellow and Director of the Global Legal Studies Center at the University of Wisconsin Law School. He is an Honorary Senior Research Associate in the School of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. His book on South Africa's democratic transition, Constituting Democracy was published by Cambridge University Press in 2000. 

Lisa Laplante is a visiting Assistant Professor at the Marquette University Law School. She has many years of experience in human rights and teaching International Law, Comparative Transitional Justice and International Human Rights. She has worked with institutions such as Human Rights Watch, the International Institute of Human Rights in Costa Rica and the Center for International Justice and Law. She also won a Furman Fellowship at Human Rights First (formerly Lawyers Committee for Human Rights) and has many publications to her credit.

Al McCoy is the J.R.W. Smail Professor of History at the UW-Madison. His book, published in 1972 as The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, is regarded as the “classic work” about Asian drug trafficking. Now in its third revised edition, this book has been translated into nine languages, including, most recently, Thai and German. Three of his books on Philippine historiography have won the Philippine National Book Award. In 2001, the Association for Asian Studies awarded him the Goodman Prize for a “deep and enduring impact on Philippine historical studies.”

Jennifer Petersen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Political Science department at UW-Madison. Her dissertation research focuses on the local politics of reconstruction and reconciliation after mass violence in Rwanda and Burundi.  Her research interests include African politics, human rights, and the construction of collective memory and identity.

Frank Tuerkheimer is Professor of Law Emeritus at University of Wisconsin Law School. As a member of the UW Law Faculty, Frank Tuerkheimer has been active in the three areas of faculty responsibility: teaching, service and research, as per the Wisconsin tradition. He is a member of the advisory board to EPIC, the Electronic Privacy Information Center and has testified before Congress on proposed legislation affecting the Internet. He is a frequent consultant to USA Today on current legal issues.

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