Speakers
Deyaa Alrwishdi
Syrian Attorney and Human rights activist
Recipient of the 2016 Stanford Law School Rubin Human Rights Award in conversation
Almudena Bernabeu
International Attorney and Transitional Justice Director at CJA
Co-Chair, BASF International Human Rights Section
Kate Jastram
International lawyer
Lecturer, Blum Center for Developing Economies, UC Berkeley
Topics will include:
The 2016 Stanford Law School Rubin International Human Rights Award recipient Deyaa Alrwishdi has worked at the national and international level to defend victims of human rights violations in Syria, including directly representing political prisoners and activists arrested at protests. He also documents violations and atrocities across Syria as a researcher with the Damascus Center for Human Rights. After several years representing individual political prisoners, he sought to achieve more systemic impact by founding the Free Syrian Lawyers Association (FLSA) a diaspora network of legal practitioners working to train other lawyers in human rights and reform the Syrian justice system in order to lay a foundation for a transition to rule of law. He will speak to us about the current situation in Syria, as well as prospects for peace and transitional justice in the future. Kate Jastram is an international lawyer with expertise in forced migration and armed conflict. A former UNHCR official, she is currently teaching an interdisciplinary graduate course on the Syrian refugee crisis at UC Berkeley. She will speak on refugees and others displaced by the conflict, the responses in the region, in Europe and in the U.S., and what lawyers can do to help.