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DescriptionLocation: Edgewood College, Anderson Auditorium, Predolin Hall Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 Time: 6:15 pm to 7:30 pm Social and Annual Business Meeting Activities 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm Guest Speaker on Human Rights
Title: “Protection of Human Rights in the Americas” Speaker: Alexandra Huneeus, Professor of Law at the UW Madison
Biography: Alexandra Huneeus studies judicial politics, human rights and legal cultures in Latin America. She teaches public international law, sociology of law, human rights, and Latin American law. Before joining the UW faculty in 2007, Professor Huneeus was a fellow at Stanford University's Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. She received her Ph.D. (2006) and her J.D. (2001) from the University of California, Berkeley.
As a fellow at the International Human Rights Clinic at Berkeley Law School in 2004, she supervised students bringing a case before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. She also worked on the case against Augusto Pinochet in Chile and Spain, through the Center for Justice and Accountability in San Francisco. Prior to her turn to law, Professor Huneeus worked as an editor and journalist in Santiago, Chile, and in San Francisco, writing for The San Francisco Chronicle, Business Week, El Mercurio, Am".
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