![]() Sponsored by the Munk-Darling Lecture Fund in International Relations. Méndez has taught international law and human rights at Oxford University (UK), Notre Dame Law School, Georgetown, and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and has worked for Human Rights Watch and as executive director of the Inter-American Institute on Human Rights. Concurrent with his duties at ICTJ, he was Kofi Annan’s special advisor on the prevention of genocide. He has been an advisor on crime prevention to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, cochair of the Human Rights Institute of the International Bar Association, president of the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), and scholar-in-residence at the Ford Foundation in New York. He is the author- with Marjorie Wentworth-of Taking a Stand (New York: Palgrave-MacMillan, October 2011). Méndez is professor of human rights law in residence at the American University-Washington College of Law and the UN special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment. Thursday, Febru7 p.m., Vollum lecture hall Juan E Méndez “Torture and International Law: The Struggle for Effective Abolition” From prison overcrowding in Africa to the fight against torture worldwide, from restoring the rule of law to the social scientific work of policing on evidence-based foundations, the series explores how governments and nongovernmental organizations are responding to challenges in times of insecurity and crisis. ![]()
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