"Impunity, Justice and the Human Rights Agenda,” CONFERENCE, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN, FEB. 7 & 8, 2013

On behalf of the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, this year’s annual conference committee, and our co-sponsors, we are pleased to invite you to register for “Impunity, Justice and the Human Rights Agenda,” to be held at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law on February 7-8, 2013.  This year’s conference will bring together scholars, human rights advocates and policy makers from around the world to assess critically the human rights movement’s focus on anti-impunity.

The conference will open Thursday afternoon, February 7, with an opening discussion on criminal law and the human rights agenda between Ariel Dulitzky and Karen Engle, moderated by Daniel Brinks, all from the University of Texas at Austin.  It will be followed by our keynote event, which will feature a conversation among three anti-impunity professionals:  Ruben Carranza (Director, Reparative Justice Program, International Center for Transitional Justice), Fredy Peccerelli (Executive Director, Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation), and Patricia Viseur Sellers (Special Advisor on Prosecution Strategies to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court).  The keynote conversation will be facilitated by Judge Dennis Davis (High Court of Cape Town).

The event will continue on Friday with panels on “The Criminal Law Paradigm,” “Criminalization and the Politics of Transition,” and “Transitional Justice Outside the Criminal Law Paradigm.”  

The conference is co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies, the Edward A. Clark Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies, the Department of Government, the South Asia Institute, and the Teresa Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies, all at the University of Texas of Austin, and by the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School.

To learn more about the conference and register to attend, please visit the conference website:

https://www.utexas.edu/law/conferences/impunity/

This event is free and open to the public but, because space is limited during certain events, we would appreciate your registering as soon as possible.

We hope that you will be able to join us for what we are sure will be an exciting and thought-provoking event!

All Best,

Karen Engle (Co-director, Rapoport Center)

Daniel Brinks (Co-director, Rapoport Center)