The Harvard Human Rights Journal is excited to welcome Amnesty International USA Executive Director Paul O’Brien for a lunch talk on February 26th, in connection with his forthcoming Harvard Human Rights Journal article. O’Brien will be speaking about the law of genocide, its international convention, and state interventions that have been made to the International Court of Justice, connecting the conversation to current events in Gaza. Please fill out this Registration Form to RSVP—location information will be shared closer to the event date. Co-sponsored by the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World.
Speaker Bio: Since April 2021, Paul O’Brien has been the Executive Director at Amnesty International USA. Over his career he has done human rights research and advocacy in more than 50 countries, including most recently Mexico, Israel, Gaza and the West Bank. Before Amnesty, Paul co-led Oxfam’s worldwide influencing network’s advocacy efforts during the Covid pandemic and led Oxfam America’s advocacy with the US government and corporations. He was the President of the Echoing Green Foundation and a litigator in New York for Cravath, Swaine and Moore. He has a JD from Harvard Law School and was a former editor of the Harvard Human Rights Journal.
This event is organized by the Harvard Human Rights Journal and is cosponsored by the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World and the Human Rights Program.
https://hrp.law.harvard.edu/hrp-event/the-law-of-genocide-lemkin-gaza/
