Thursday, March 13, 2008 - Keynote Dinner Program
The University Club, 420 Summit Avenue, St. Paul
6:00 p.m. Welcome and Introduction
Jon Garon, Dean
Hamline University School of Law
Aneta Toporowska, Symposium Editor
Journal of Public Law and Policy
6:15 p.m. Dinner and Keynote Speaker (to follow)
Dr. Johannes Van Aggelen, United Nations
Human Rights Commissioner Office,
Geneva, Switzerland
Insider's Story and Implementation of
Article 28 of the Universal Declaration by
the UN Conferences in the 1990s
Friday, March 14, 2008 - Symposium
Klas Center, Hamline University, St. Paul
8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast and Registration
8:30 - 9:15 a.m. Adam McBeth, Monash University, Australia
Every Organ of Society: The Responsibility of
Non-State Actors for the Realization of Human Rights
9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Panel: Embedding Indigenous, Racial and
Cultural Perspectives Into Human Rights
9:30 - 9:40 a.m. Introduction by Robin Phillips, Executive Director at
Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights
9:40 - 11:30 a.m. Fernne Brennan, University of Essex, UK
Exploring a Reparations Framework for Addressing Trade
Inequality
Don Wedll, Ojibwe Tribe, MN, USA
United Nation Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
People and its Relation to Tribal People in Minnesota
Nsongurua Udombana, Central European University, Hungary
Assessing the Impact of the UDHR in Africa
Johanna Gibson, London University Queen Mary School of Law, UK
Individual and Community Rights to Culture
11:45 - 12:45 p.m. Lunch Keynote Address: Dina Francesca Haynes, New England
School of Law, MA, USA
International Civil Service: Ethics and Self-Care
1:00 - 4:00 p.m. Panel: Re-Imagining the Role of Human Rights in the Modern
Nation-State
1:00 - 1:15 p.m. Introduction by Velma Korbel, Commissioner of the MN Department
of Human Rights
1:15 - 4:00 p.m. William Carter, Temple University Beasley School of Law, PA, USA Principle of Subsidiarity Underlying the International Human Rights Regime
John Cary Sims, University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law, CA, USA
The Asymmetrical Nature of the U.S. Treaty Process and the Challenges That Poses for Human Rights
Johan Van Der Vyver, Emory University School of Law, GA, USA
Binding Force of Economic and Social Rights Listed in Articles 21 to 27 of the UDHR
Miguel Gonzalez Marcos, International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, D.C., USA
The UDHR and the Use of International Law in Constitutional Adjudication
4:15 - 5:00 p.m. Symposium Culmination Address
Rahul Manchanda, Manchanda Law Offices, PLLC, NY, USA
Correspondence Between the Evolution of Humans and the Progress of Human Rights