Fifth Annual Human Rights Student Paper Symposium

March 19, 2021 | 11:45 AM-4:30 PM | Online (details below)

11:45 AM Welcome and Opening Remarks

Anahi D. Mendoza, Editor-in-Chief, Columbia Human Rights Law Review Jessica Pierson, Assistant Director of Programs, Human Rights Institute, Columbia Law School

12:00 PM-12:45 Session I: Capitalism, Corruption, and Rights in a Digital Age PM

Moderated by Sarah Mehta, Director, TrialWatch Project at Columbia Law School Human Rights Clinic

12:00-12:15 PM Richard Ong, 2L “Hard Drive Heritage”

12:15-12:30 PM Anita Kapyur, 3L “Digital Rights Under Siege? Internet Shutdowns as Modern Blockades and their Fundamental Rights Implications”

12:30 PM-12:45 PM Discussion

12:00 PM-1:00 PM Session II: Exploring Pathways to Justice Through

Moderated by Kathleen McFarland, L.L.M. Human Rights Fellow, Columbia Law School

12:00-12:15 PM Austin Collier, 3L “Rediscovering Tribes: Understanding and Protecting Contemporary Tribal Groups Through International Law”

12:15-12:30 PM Natalie Chu Sin Ping, LL.M. “Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict: Deepening the Dialogue between International Human Rights Law and International Criminal Law”

12:30-12:45 PM Anivesh Bharadwaj, L.L.M. “Genuinely willing” investigations: a tool against shielding or leeway to shield against ICC’s admissibility?”

12:45-1:00 PM Discussion

1:00-1:15 PM Break 1:15-2:00 PM Session III: Racial Justice Examined Through a Comparative Framework

Moderator by Rosario Grima Algora, L.L.M. Human Rights Fellow, Columbia Law School

1:15-1:30 PM Tolu Sogade, 1L “A Human Rights Framework to Consider Issues of Police Violence in the US and Nigerian Movements against Police Violence in 2020”

1:30-1:45 PM Natasha Almanzar-Sanchez, 1L “A Comparative Look at How the Intersectionality of Race and Religion Created Hispaniola’s Ongoing Human Rights Crisis”

1:45-2:00 PM Discussion

2:00-2:15 PM Break Session IV: Advancing Racial Equity Through Environmental Justice and 2:15-3:00 PM Immigrants’ Rights

Moderated by Bruno Acevedo, L.L.M. Human Rights Fellow, Columbia Law School

2:15-2:30 PM Bridgett McCoy, 2L “Critical Infrastructure, Racial Geography, and Protest: A Case Study of Cancer Alley,

Louisiana”

2:30-2:45 PM Ali Dawud, L.L.M. “The African Refugee: Representation, Protection, and Racial Equality”

2:45-3:00 PM Discussion Session V: Rights for All: Reproductive Justice, Trans Human Rights, and 2:15-3:15 PM Workers' Rights Moderated by Lucia Falcon Palomar, L.L.M. Human Rights Fellow, Columbia Law School

2:15-2:30 PM Sania Anwar, L.L.M. “Count Me In/Out: Census-Taking and Trans Citizenship in ”

2:30-2:45 PM Kim Mejía-Cuéllar, 3L “Domestic Workers Organizing for Change: A Fight for Federal and State Labor Protections”

2:45-3:00 PM Rosario Grima Algora, L.L.M “Advancing Reproductive Justice in Latin America Through a Transitional Justice Lens”

3:00-3:15 PM Discussion

Session VI: Examining New Pathways Toward Justice for Identity-Based 3:15-4:00 PM Harms

Moderated by Katie Weng, Student Public Interest Network, Columbia Law School

3:15-3:30 PM Rachel Rein, 2L “Suffering at The Margins: Applying Dis/ability Critical Race Theory to Trafficking in the ”

3:30-3:45 PM Yaron Covo, J.S.D. “Reverse Mainstreaming”

3:45-4:00 PM Discussion

3:15-4:15 PM Session VII: Weapons, Conflict, and Peace

Moderated by Anna Macdonald, Practitioner-in-Residence, Columbia Law School

3:15-3:30 PM Nausherwan Ahmed Aamir, 1L “Unmanned, not Uncontroversial: U.S. Drone Strikes in Pakistan Examined Under International Law”

Emily L Drake, 2L “Evaluating Autonomous Weapons Systems: a Dichotomic Lens of Military Value and 3:30-3:45 PM Accountability”

Shant Eulmessekian, 1L “A Step Toward Peace: The Remedial Right of Secession”

3:45-4:00 PM Discussion

4:00-4:15 PM

4:15-4:30 PM Closing Remarks Emilie Klovning, Editor-in-Chief, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law Academic and Practitioner Commenters:

Andrew Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science

Anjli Parrin, Associate Director, Project on War Crimes and Mass Graves, Columbia Law School

Benjamin Hoffman, Supervising Attorney, EarthRights International

Christopher Morten, Deputy Director, NYU Law’s Technology Law and Policy Clinic, Fellow at the Engelberg Center

David Pozen, Vice Dean for Intellectual Life, Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law, Columbia University

Gabor Rona, Lecturer in Law, Columbia Law School

Graeme Simpson, Director, Interpeace USA, Senior Adviser to the Director-General, Interpeace; Lecturer in Law, Columbia Law School

JoAnn Kamuf Ward, Director, Human Rights in the U.S. Project, Human Rights Institute; Lecturer-in-Law, Columbia Law School

Jessica Bulman-Pozen, Betts Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

Katharina Pistor, Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law, Columbia Law School

Kayum Ahmed, Director, Access and Accountability Division, Open Society Foundations Public Health Program; Lecturer in Law, Columbia Law School

Kendall Thomas, Nash Professor of Law, Co-Founder and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Culture, Columbia Law School

Patryk Labuda, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Amsterdam Law School, Amsterdam Center for International Law

Peter Strauss, Betts Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

Sarah Cleveland, Faculty co-Director, Human Rights Institute, Professor of Human and Constitutional Rights, Columbia Law School

Sarah Knuckey, Faculty co-director, Human Rights Institute; Lieff Cabraser Clinical Professor of Law, Director, Human Rights Clinic, Columbia Law School

Singo Mwachofi, Deputy Director, Security, Research and Information Center (SRIC)

Tony Wilson, Founder and Director, Security Force Monitor, Human Rights Institute

Yasmine Ergas, Director, Gender and Public Policy; Lecturer, Discipline of International and Public Affairs; Director, Institute for the Study of Human Rights Program in Gender and Human Rights, Columbia University School of Public and International Affairs

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