November 13, 2019. Professor Jay Feinman met with a Subcommittee of the Federal Advisory Committee on Insurance to discuss the Rutgers Center for Risk and Responsibility project on the protection gap in property insurance, The Subcommittee is preparing recommendations for the Federal Insurance Office, an entity of the US Treasury Department,to address the protection gap … Continue reading Prof. Jay Feinman: Meeting of Federal Advisory Committee on Insurance Subcommittee…
Month: November 2019
Symposium on the American Convention on Human Rights and Its New Interlocutors
November 11, 2019. Professor Jorge Contesse co-edits a symposium on the American Convention on Human Rights and Its New Interlocutors in AJIL Unbound. Available here.
Prof. Jorge Contesse’s new essay, “Conservative Governments and Latin America’s Human Rights Landscape”
November 11, 2019. Professor Jorge Contesse publishes essay on the rise of conservative governments and its impact on human rights in Latin America, available here.
Prof. Jorge Contesse on the Advisory Jurisdiction of International Courts
November 8, 2019. Professor Jorge Contesse presented his work-in-progress at the Annual Meeting of the Latin American Society of International Law, in Buenos Aires, and at the American Society of International Law’s Midyear Meeting, in Brooklyn. The paper examines the use of advisory jurisdiction in international human rights law.
Professor Ray Solomon presented at the Second International Conference on Facts and Evidence: A Dialogue Between Law and History at Peking University School of Transnational Law, Shenzhen, China
November 16, 2019. Professor Solomon gave a talk entitled “THE ELAINE MASSACRE: A CASE STUDY IN THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN LAW AND HISTORY” concerning one if not the largest murder of African-Americans in U.S. history, an event which occurred in 1919 in Arkansas.