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  • January 7, 2016
    8:45 am - 5:00 pm
    Event: 2016 Annual Meeting
    Session Type: Section Field Trips
    Session Capacity: 50
    Location: N/A
    Room: N/A
    Floor: N/A
    The field trip to the United Nations (U.N.) includes panels that will cover topics of peace and security, development and human rights among others. Lunch is included. Participants will need to sign a waiver of liability to participate in this off-site field trip. There is an additional fee to attend this event. AALS now follows PCI Data Compliance Standards, we can accept your payment 24 hours in advance, but in order to meet standards, we will not be selling tickets on the day of the field trip.

    Participants should walk to the United Nations or take their own transportation (taxi) and meet at the U.N. between 9:00 and 9:30 a.m. to clear security. For those who would like to walk over together as a group to the U.N., please meet at the statue in the lobby of the New York Hilton Midtown Hotel at 8:45 am.
     
    “The Future of the United Nations in the 21st Century”
    January 7, 2016, 10:00am-5:00pm
    A program organized by the AALS Section on International Law with the cooperation of
    American University Washington College of Law

    Coordinators:
    Claudio Grossman, Dean, Washington College of Law
    Mark Wojcik, Professor, The John Marshall Law School

    Round Table Discussion, 10:00am-12:00pm
    Location: Conference Room 5
    Speakers:
    Richard Bennet, Representative and Head of UN Office, Amnesty International
    Topic: “Amnesty International’s Efforts”
    Claudio Grossman, Chair, United Nations Committee against Torture
    Topic: “The Human Rights Treaty Bodies of the United Nations- Challenges for the Future”
    Ben Majekodumni, Senior Officer at the Executive Office of the Secretary-General, United Nations
    Topic: “The Human Rights up Front Initiative Efforts Preventing and Responding to Serious Human Rights Violations.”
    Katarina Mansson, Capacity Building & Harmonization Section Human Rights Treaties Division, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) 
    Topic: “Partnering for Peace and Rights: The Evolving Relationship Between the UN and Regional Organizations" 
    Craig Mokhiber, Chief of the Development and Economic and Social Issues Branch, United Nations
    Topic: “Development and the post-2015 development agenda”
    Joanna Weschler, Deputy Executive Director & Director of Research, Security Council Report
    Topic: “The Security Council Report”
    Keynote Lunch, 1:00-3:00pm
    “Chile’s Participation at Security Council (2014-2015)”
    Location: West Terrace at the Delegates Dining on the 4th Floor
    Keynote Speaker: H.E. Cristian Barros, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations
    Tour of the United Nations, 2:45pm-4:30pm
    1) 1st group of 40 people will start the tour at 2:45 pm
    2) 2nd group of 20 people will start the tour at 3:15 pm
    3) 3rd group of 40 people will start the tour at 3:30 pm 
Session Speakers
The Honorable Cristian Barros
Permanent Mission of Chile to the United Nations
Speaker
Claudio Grossman
American University, Washington College of Law
Moderator and Speaker
Ms. Katarina Mansson
United Nations, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Speaker
Mr. Craig Mokhiber
United Nations, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Speaker
Mark E. Wojcik
University of Illinois Chicago School of Law
Moderator
Session Fees

Fees information is not available at this time.