International Human Rights Law
An outreach workshop for Attorneys, Policy Makers, State Agencies,
Civil Society Groups and
Other Interested Groups and Individuals
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Lubar Commons (7200 Law), UW Law School
CLE credit for Wisconsin attorneys pending
Sponsors
Global Legal Studies Center, UW Law School
Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE)
Co-sponsors
International Practice Section, Wisconsin Bar
Humanitarianism and World Order Research Circle, UW-Madison
This is part of a series of workshops on Global Legal
Issues on the theme:
“When Global Society Meets Local Society: The Impact of Globalization on
National Law”
Outreach Workshop on International Human Rights Law
Lubar Commons (7200 Law), UW Law School
Agenda
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
2:45-3:00
Registration
3:00-3:05
Welcome
Professor Heinz Klug
Professor of Law, UW Law School, Director, Global Legal Studies Center
3:05-3:50
“The Inter-American Court on Human Rights”
Professor Angel Oquendo
Olimpiad S. Ioffe Professor of Law, University of
Connecticut School of Law
3:50-4:00
Q&A Session
4:00- 4:20
“History of Human Rights”
Professor Francine Hirsch
Associate Professor of History, UW-Madison
4:20-4:45
“Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Access to Medicine and
Intellectual Property Issues”
Professor Heinz Klug
Professor of Law, UW Law School, Director, Global Legal Studies Center
4:45 – 5:10
“Sources of International Humanitarian Law”
Kevin Kelly
Assistant Dean, Curricular Affairs, UW Law School
5:10-5:30
Q&A Session
5:30 – 6:00
Reception
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Biography of Speakers
Francine Hirsch is an Associate Professor at Department of History of UW-Madison. She
received her PhD and MA Degrees from University of Princeton and a BA Degree from Cornell
University. Her specializations are Russian and Soviet history and her research and teaching
interests include Russian and Soviet History, Modern European History, and Comparative
Empires. She teaches many courses and seminars at the undergraduate and graduate levels,
including “History of Soviet Russia,” “Soviet Union & World, 1917-1991” and an advanced seminar
on “History of Idea of Human Rights.”
Her book on Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union
was published by the Cornell University Press in 2005. Other publications include "Toward a
Soviet Order of Things: The 1926 Census and the Making of the Soviet Union," in S. Szreter, H.
Sholkamy, and A. Dharmalingam eds., Categories and Contexts. Anthropological and Historical
Studies in Critical Demography (Oxford University Press, 2004) and “Getting to Know ‘The
Peoples of the USSR’: Ethnographic Exhibits as Soviet Virtual Tourism, 1923-1934,” Slavic Review
62, No. 4 (Winter 2003): 683-709.
Kevin M. Kelly has been on the Law School staff since 1998. He received a B.S. in Foreign Service
from Georgetown University and his J.D. from the University of Wisconsin, where he was Editorin-Chief of the Wisconsin Law Review. Following graduation from law school, Mr. Kelly served
as a criminal defense attorney and staff judge advocate in the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate
General's Corps, and was stationed in San Francisco and Scotland.
In addition to his Law School curricular affairs duties, Mr. Kelly, who is an officer in the Naval
Reserve specializing in military operational law issues, teaches courses on the Law of Armed
Conflict and on the Just War tradition. In 2003, he was recalled to active duty, serving as a
NATO legal advisor to the Peace Stabilization Force (SFOR) in Bosnia-Herzegovina, as well as on
the U.S. European Command headquarters staff during the Iraq War. His current Reserve
assignment is to the International Law Department of the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode
Island. Assistant Dean Kelly also represents the Law School on the Wisconsin Board of Bar
Examiners.
Heinz Klug is Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School and an Honorary
Senior Research Associate in the School of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, South Africa. He is also the Director of the Global Legal Studies Center and R H.
I. Romnes Faculty Fellow. He teaches International Human Rights Law, Comparative
Constitutionalism and Public International Law at the Law School.
Growing up in Durban, South Africa, he participated in the anti-apartheid struggle, spent 11
years in exile and returned to South Africa in 1990 as a member of the ANC Land Commission
and researcher for Zola Skweyiya, chairperson of the ANC Constitutional Committee. He was
also a team member on the World Bank mission to South Africa on Land Reform and Rural
Restructuring. He has taught at Wisconsin since September 1996.
Professor Klug taught law at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg from 19911996, offering courses on Public International Law, Human Rights Law, Property Law, PostApartheid Law and Introduction to South African Law, among others. He also worked as a legal
advisor after 1994 with the South African Ministry of Water Affairs and Forestry as well as the
Ministry of Land Affairs on water law and land tenure issues.
Professor Klug's book on South Africa's democratic transition, Constituting Democracy was
published by Cambridge University Press in 2000.
Angel R. Oquendo is Olimpiad S. Ioffe Professor of Law at University of Connecticut Law
School. He teaches courses on Civil Procedure, Business Organizations, Philosophy of Law,
International Law, Comparative Law, and Latin American Law. Professor Oquendo received his
A.B. Degree magna cum laude from Harvard College, J.D. Degree from Yale University, and Ph.D.
and M.A. Degrees from Harvard University. He was a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal; Law
Clerk for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Cir. 1986-87 and a
Fulbright-DAAD Doctoral Fellow at the Free University of Berlin, 1989-91. He was a visiting Law
Professor at the University of Aix-en-Provence (1998), Free University of Berlin (DAAD) (19981999), the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Fulbright-Hayes) (2000), Boalt Law School
(2003-2004), and Georgetown Law Center (2005).
His areas of publication and research include self-determination, comparative corporate law,
Latin American law, jurisprudence, moral and political Philosophy, international dispute
resolution, and critical race theory. Foundation University Press published his book Latin
American Law in 2006 and Fontamara (Mexico) printed his book Democracia y pluralism in
2004. Other publications include “Liking to be in America: Puerto Rico’s Quest for Difference
within the United States,” 14 Duke J. Comp. & Int’l L. 249 (2004); “When Democracy and
Human Rights Collide,” 7 Symposium 67 (2003); and “Deliberative Democracy in Habermas and
Nino”, 22 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 189 (2002).
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