MAY 28 | 6:30pm at McNally Jackson Seaport
Where Do Human Rights Go From Here?
Kenneth Roth, Linda Kinstler, Lila Hassan, and Monica Hakimi
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We live in an age of hyper-documented warfare: evidence of atrocities is widely circulated on social media, and is collected, analyzed, and archived in the hope of bringing perpetrators to justice. But with the international legal system under unprecedented threat, it is getting far more difficult to hold bad actors to account. What is the future of international law? Is evidence enough to protect human rights?
Kenneth Roth is the former executive director of Human Rights Watch. He has extensively investigated human rights abuses around the world, focusing especially on the world’s most dire situations, the pursuit of international justice, the major powers’ foreign policies, the work of the UN, and the global contexts between democracy and autocracy. He has published a memoir, Righting Wrongs, and written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, and other major publications. He spends his time between New York and Geneva.
Linda Kinstler is the author of Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends, which one a Whiting Award in Non-Fiction and was shortlisted for the Wingate Prize in Jewish literature. Her reporting appears in The New York Times Magazine, The London Review of Books, The Atlantic, The Economist, and elsewhere. She is currently a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, and her next book, Acts of Oblivion, is under contract with Liveright/Norton.
Lila Hassan is a Pulitzer, Livingston, and George Polk and other awards-winning independent investigative journalist who focuses on extremism, human rights, and immigration. Hassan has reported from Cairo, Doha, Istanbul, Paris, and New York, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wired, The Nation, Mother Jones, The Intercept, FRONTLINE PBS, Reuters, The Guardian, ProPublica, HuffPost National, and more. Hassan has served on the jury for the James Foley Conflict Reporting Award (2021, 2022) and has also been an adjunct teaching local, immigration, and conflict reporting at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Monica Hakimi is the William S. Beinecke Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, Co-Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of International Law, and a recent recipient of the Humboldt Research Award for her contributions to the field of international law. Before joining the Columbia Law faculty, she was the James V. Campbell Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where she also served as associate dean. Her current research focuses on how international and U.S. domestic law are changing and on the implications for human and national security.