by Robin Kirk | Dec 2, 2008 | Robin Kirk
It’s amazing to listen in on the debate now emerging over what to do about the US officials who planned and condoned human rights abuses as part of the war on terror. Law professor Jeffrey Rosen mounts one such defense here. I’ve also heard talking heads...
by Robin Kirk | Dec 1, 2008 | Robin Kirk
President-elect Barack Obama’s pick for the post of ambassador to the United Nations is known as an advocate for stronger action to prevent genocide. Susan E. Rice was Bill Clinton’s assistant secretary of state for Africa and visited Rwanda just after the...
by Robin Kirk | Nov 26, 2008 | Robin Kirk
Jack Goldsmith resigned from his post at Justice because he tried, albeit in a very limited way, to halt some of the worst human rights excesses of the Bush administration. But his call in today’s Post to limit investigations is dead wrong — and...
by Robin Kirk | Nov 26, 2008 | Robin Kirk
Mike Tigar resently joined Duke’s law faculty and is on the Duke Human Rights Center steering committee. This is his talk before the election: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT56wVUt5Ho[/youtube]
by Robin Kirk | Nov 25, 2008 | Robin Kirk
One of the aspects of Bush’s “war on terror” that has not received enough attention is how appalling tactics — torture, warrantless arrests and wiretapping, detention without trial — have dug their way into the world in which we live....
by Robin Kirk | Nov 23, 2008 | Robin Kirk
I’ve been slow in posting the iTunes videos of the Duke Human Rights Center events. This is a great one, featuring noted historian John Hope Franklin talking with CUNY scholar Lea Wernick Fridman about African-American politician, historian and journalist George...
