As part of the Edward A. Smith Lecture Series, the following events have been held at Harvard Law School:
Reconstituting the African State to Protect Human Rights - Maina Kiai, Chairperson, Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (Note: You can view Mr. Kiai's presentation by clicking here.)
Human Rights and Constitutional Adjudication: The Role of the South African Constitutional Court and The South African Constitutional Court and the Enforcement of Socio-Economic Rights - Justice S. Sandile Ngcobo, South Africa Constitutional Court
New Dilemmas, Enduring Challenges for the Human Rights Movement - Ravi Nair, Executive Director, South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre
AIDS Denial and Holocaust Denial: AIDS, Justice and the Courts in South Africa - Justice Edwin Cameron, South African Supreme Court of Appeal
International Justice: A View from the Trenches - Judge Patricia Wald, former Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Transformation of the South African System of Justice - The Honorable Abdullah Omar, former South African Justice Minister
Reinventing International Law: Women's Rights as Human Rights in the International Community - Radhika Coomaraswamy, former Chair of the Sri Lankan Human Rights Commission, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, UN Security-General Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict
The Human Rights Movement: From Roosevelt's Four Freedoms to the Interdependence of Peace, Development, and Human Rights - Louis B. Sohn, Harvard Law School
The New World Order: Opportunity or Threat for Human Rights? - Ian Martin, former Special Advisor to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Human Rights Field Operations, former Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea, and former Vice President of the International Center for Transitional Justice