Events at Hauser Hall; 102 Malkin Classroom

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Each year the LPE Student Association asks professors to give lunchtime talks offering a critical perspective on how the law is shaped by, and in turn shapes, who has and does not have political and economic power. Our goal is to give students strategies and intellectual structures to challenge status quo systems of power in […]

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David Evangelista is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Special Olympics International, overseeing the global operations of the movement with over 5 million competing athletes in 190 nations. Following an introduction by HPOD’s Chair and co-founder, Professor William P. Alford, Mr. Evangelista will describe how Special Olympics works to transform the lives of millions […]

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Human rights institutions are facing unprecedented pressures ranging from threats of non-compliance, denunciation, and backlash that has gone as far as the imposition of sanctions against the ICC. In Latin America, the threat may come from the dramatic rise of far-right governments, many of which have adopted adversarial stances toward the Inter-American Human Rights System […]