Lecture Series on Human Rights Continues at Columbia Law

Nearly one year ago , Columbia Law School resumed a lecture series that engages members of the federal judiciary in discussion of human rights and humanitarian law.  The series is sponsored by Columbia’s Human Rights Institute and NYU Law’s Bernstein Institute for Human Rights. 

The series revives a program from the 1980’s established by Prof. Alice Henkin  of the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative. Prof. Henkin’s late husband, Louis Henkin, also of Columbia University School of Law, is credited with founding the study of human rights law.  Prof. Sarah Cleveland carries on Henkin’s work and was the first speaker in the series.  And earlier this year Prof. Cleveland spoke on Human Rights Connectivity and the Future of the Human Rights System.  To follow upcoming Human Rights events at the Institute, you may check out the Institute’s website as well as its Facebook page.