Human Rights Committee. She joined Beth VanSchaack, state department ambassador-at-large for global criminal justice, and Candace Rondeaux, senior director of the future frontlines program at New America, for a conversation about “Putin’s Ghost Army: Prospects for Accountability for Russian Irregulars” at an in-person luncheon co-hosted by New America, the McCain Institute and the War Crimes Research Office and moderated by Paul Fagan, director of democracy programs at the McCain Institute. She chaired a session at the three-day International Conference of Prosecutors on Accountability for Conflict- Related Sexual Violence, organized by the UN Team of Experts on Rule of Law/Sexual Violence in Conflict and co-sponsored by the governments of The Netherlands, United Kingdom and France, held at the Peace Palace in The Hague.
SáCouto published “Individual Criminal Responsibility for the Crime of Aggression: Why and How?”. She submitted an amicus brief, with Assistant Director Natalie Coburn and in collaboration with the Due Process of Law Foundation, in support of the families of the victims of the El Mozote massacre. She moderated a discussion with ICC Registrar Osvaldo Zavala Giler as part of the WCRO War Crimes Speaker Series and the Academy’s 2023 Human Rights Month: The Experts Speak Series. She participated in three different panels at the 2023 American Society of International Law (ASIL) 117th Annual Meeting; served as the moderator of a panel entitled “A Hopeful Conversation: Overcoming impunity for sexual and gender
based violence;” served as a speaker on a panel discussion hosted by ASIL’s Women in International Law Interest Group focused on gender and international law; and served as a panelist in the closing plenary entitled “Pursuing Global Accountability for Atrocity Crimes: Needs, Challenges and the Path Forward.” SáCouto moderated an event organized by the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, the War Crimes Research Office and the LLM Board, on “How the ‘Laws of War’ apply to the Conflict between Israel and Hamas,” with AUWCL Professor Robert Goldman.
Anita Sinha published “But for Borders: The Protection Gap for Internally Displaced Persons,”
in New York University Journal of International Law and Politics. She was a recipient of the AUWCL Pauline Ruyle Moore Award for outstanding scholarship in the area of public law and a recipient of the AUWCL Innovation in Pedagogy Award. She was appointed interim faculty director of the Women and the Law Program. She was a facilitator at International Human Rights Clinicians Conference at Harvard Law School; presented at the AALS Clinical conference in a concurrent session on “Decolonizing Supervision” in St. Louis, Missouri; and was a plenary panelist at the National Immigration Law Professors conference at the University of Minnesota Law School.
Sinha was quoted in a New York Times Magazine article, “Why Can’t We Stop Unauthorized Immigration?”. As co-chair of the Association of American
Law School’s (AALS) Section on Clinical Legal Education, Sinha helped curate an extended program at the AALS 2024 Annual Meeting, “Collaborating to Defend Democracy across Disciplines,” including the section’s first Works-in-Progress session at the Annual Meeting. Sinha moderated a panel at the International Human Rights Clinicians’ Conference at the UVA School of Law, “Clinics in Regional and Global Human Rights Ecosystems.” She presented on a panel titled “Separate and Unequal Spaces in Migration” at the Law & Society Association Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Sinha presented at a session on “Decolonizing Rounds” during the annual Association of American Law Schools Clinical Conference in San Francisco. As a member of the planning committee, she served as a facilitator at the national New Clinicians Conference hosted by the Clinical Legal Education Association in San Francisco. She presented at the New England Law School’s “Transitional Justice in the USA” speakers’ series. Sinha completed a one-year project funded by the Skadden Foundation offering two clinics and other legal assistance to pro se asylum seekers from Afghanistan.
Brenda V. Smith testified as an expert in Doe v. Macleod, March 29, 2023; the plaintiff secured a $19
million verdict, the largest in history for an individual survivor of sexual assault in custody. She presented, along with Hon. Simone Bell, Darren Hutchinson, and Subasri Narasimhan, “Visions for the Future” at the Social Movements and the Politics of Law, Emory School of
Law, Center for Civil Rights and Social Justice.
William Snape and David Hunter submitted a brief on behalf of four UN Special Rapporteurs on the international climate law implications of the US approving a massive oil and gas extraction project in Alaska. One of the rapporteurs is Dr. Marcos Orellana, LL.M. ’98, SJD ’09, now an adjunct professor at AUWCL.
William Snape published “Codifying Prior Informed Consent to Govern Unregistered Pesticide Exports,” ABA, Natural Resources and Environment; “The Endangered Species Act at 50, Dialogue with Experts,” Environmental Law Reporter; and Petition to the US Department of Commerce to list the American Horseshoe Crab under the Endangered Species Act. He submitted an amicus brief before the Supreme Court of Montana regarding Held v. Montana (climate and environmental rights for children plaintiffs) and an amicus brief submitted before the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, Kelsey v. United States (opposing writ of mandamus by federal government and seeking a trial on the merits regarding youth climate case in federal district court of Oregon).
David Snyder taught the spring semester at the University of Michigan Law School as a visiting
professor. He also delivered guest lectures on comparative American and French contract law at the University of Paris II
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