Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights Inaugural Conference
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
| 10:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Greenberg Lounge
40 Washington Square South New York 10012
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The new Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights is a research center that promotes cutting-edge scholarship, advocacy, and education on human rights issues in the US and abroad. Honoring and extending the human rights work and vision of Robert L. Bernstein, the Institute seeks to deepen engagement between scholars and those beyond academia-practitioners, law makers, diplomats, nongovernmental organizations, and international institutions-on a wide variety of human rights issues, from Internet freedom and poverty to refugee rights and armed conflict. The conference will examine human rights responses to inequality.
10:30-12:00 Panel: Gender and Disability Discrimination in China
Moderator - Jerome Cohen, Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the US Asia Law Institute (USALI)
Panelists:
Ira Belkin, Executive Director of USALI
Zhou Dan, Chinese Lawyer, Scholar and Activist
Sharon Hom '80, Executive Director of Human Rights in China
12:30-1:30 Emerging Voices: A Conversation with the Next Generation, a conversation with Michael Posner, Co-director, Center for Business and Human Rights and Clinical Professor, Business and Society, Dean Trevor Morrison, NYU School of Law, and the newest generation of NYU School of Law Human Rights leaders
Boxed lunches provided
2:00-3:30 Panel: Global Inequalities of Wealth and Health
Moderator - Meg Satterthwaite '99, Professor of Clinical Law, Faculty Director of the Bernstein Institute
Panelists:
Joe Amon, Director, Health and Human Rights Program of Human Rights Watch
Paula Braveman, Director of the Center on Social Disparities in Health of the UCSF School of Medicine
Strive Masiyiwa, Founder & Chairman of Econet Wireless International, Ltd.
4:00-5:30 Panel: Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Global Perspective
Moderator - Martín Abrégu, Vice President of the Ford Foundation
Panelists:
César Rodríguez Garavito, Director of Global Justice and Human Rights Program at Universidad de los Andes
Gay McDougall, Visiting Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law
Vincent Warren, Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights
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For more information about the Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights, please visit us at http://www.law.nyu.edu/bernstein-institute
We hope you can join us!
| Contact | Sue Anderson sue.anderson@nyu.edu |
| CLE Credit Available | Yes |