Herman Schwartz: Changes in the American Legal Landscape

04/03/21 • 49 min

We sit down with Professor Herman Schwartz, Professor Emeritus of Law at the American University Washington College of Law, whose decades-long career has focused on issues of civil rights and civil liberties as they have played out in courts and prisons across the globe. He founded, among other causes, the ACLU Prison Project and formerly chaired the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty.

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Juan Mendez: His Career in Human Rights

We sit down with Professor Juan Méndez, former Special Rapporteur on Torture and professor of International Human Rights at the American University Washington College of Law, where he also leads the Anti-Torture Initiative as Faculty Director with WCL’s Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. Professor Méndez shares with us his own story of getting started in human rights law and how the field has progressed throughout his career.

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To watch a short film on Professor Méndez produced by UN Human Rights, "Juan Méndez: Campaigner Against Torture", click (here).

For more information on the Méndez Principles on Effective Interviewing for Investigations, click (here).

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Robert Goldman: The Development of the International Human Rights Field

We sit down with Professor Robert Goldman, Louis C. James Scholar at the American University Washington College of Law, where Professor Goldman also serves as Faculty Director of the War Crimes Research Office and Co-Director of WCL’s Center For Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. In addition to teaching, practicing, and writing in the areas of International Human Rights Law and Terrorism, Professor Goldman is one of the leading authors of the creation of soft-law guiding principles and was elected President of the International Commission of Jurists. Professor Goldman shares his journey and thoughts on his experiences in the international human rights field.

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