THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LAW
The University of St. Thomas School of Law Atrium, 1000 LaSalle Avenue, Minneapolis, February 5, 2010, 9 am-5 pm. Free; open to the public; no reservations necessary.
PRESENTATIONS
Mark L. Movsesian, St. John's University School of Law, "Legal Reform (Tanzimat) in the Ottoman Empire and the Armenian Genocide"
Vahakn N. Dadrian, Zoryan Institute, "The Turkish Military Tribunals Prosecuting the Armenian Genocide"
William A. Schabas, National University of Ireland, Galway, "The Retroactive Applicability of the UN Genocide Convention to the Armenian Genocide: A Reappraisal"
Geoffrey Robertson, QC, Doughty Street Chambers, "Politics, Government, and the Armenian Genocide in the United Kingdom"
Mark C. Fleming, Willmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, "Griswold v. Driscoll: The Massachusetts Board of Education Lawsuit and the Armenian Genocide"
Eren Keskin, Turkish Human Rights Lawyer, "The Politics of Memory, Denial and the Law: A Test-case for the Independence of Turkish Justice"
Roger W. Smith, International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, "Legislating against Genocide Denial: Criminalizing Denial or Preventing Free Speech?"
CLE CREDIT APPLIED FOR. Questions? jmsandy@stthomas.edu
