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Rebuilding the Shaken Justice System in Haiti: Promoting the Rule of Law Since the Earthquake, the Recent Elections and Aristide’s Return
Start: 4/6/2011 from 5:00 PM to
6:30 PM
Location: 198 McAllister, Room A
The panel discussion, titled "Rebuilding the Shaken Justice System in Haiti: Promoting the Rule of Law since the Earthquake, the Recent Elections and Aristide's Return," will feature three experts on the rule of law in Haiti.
- Mark Danner is the author of Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War, as well as a contributor to The New York Review of Books and a professor of journalism at UC Berkeley.
- Father Jomanas Eustache is the founder and dean of École Supérieure Catholique de Droit de Jérémie (ESCDROJ), UC Hastings' sister law school in Haiti.
- Professor Nicole Phillips, a staff attorney at the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IJDH) and assistant director for Haiti programs at USF's Center for Law and Global Justice, also leads a project to combat human trafficking in Haiti.
Presented by the Hastings-to-Haiti Partnership (HHP). Professors Karen Musalo and Richard Boswell will chair the panel, as founders of the HHP. Musalo also serves as HHP's director.
RSVPs are appreciated, but not required: hastingstohaiti@gmail.com, (510) 847-8901. A reception will be held at 5:00 PM, and the program will begin at 5:30 PM.
Support HHP's work here. For online donations, choose "student organizations" and then write "Hastings-to-Haiti Partnership" in the comment box at checkout.