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Raymond and Beverly SacklerDistinguished Lecture SeriesPast Speakers (1996-2006)October 16, 1996Francis Sejersted, Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Chair of the Foundation for Norwegian-Danish Cooperation, and Director of the University of Oslo’s Centre for Technology and Culture, “The Nobel Peace Prize and the World Struggle for Human Rights” April 23, 1997Bernard Williams, Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy, Cambridge and Monroe Deutsch Professor of Philosophy at the University of California-Berkeley, “Human Rights: The Challenge of Relativism” October 21, 1998Senator George J. Mitchell, “The Peace Process in Northern Ireland” April 11, 2000Dr. Henry C. Lee, Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Safety, “Forensic Science: Using New Tools to Address Human Rights Abuses” October 30, 2001Fr. Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Georgetown University Law Center, “The Mobilization of Shame: A World View of Human Rights” April 11, 2002Dr. Joshua Lederberg, Sackler Foundation Scholar, “Bioterrorism & Civility” February 26, 2003Samatha Power, Founding Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, “American Bystanding in an Age of Genocide” September 9, 2004Michael Ignatieff, Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, “The Lesser Evil: Hard Choices in the War on Terror” April 13, 2005Nina Bang-Jensen, Executive Director of the Coalition for International Justice, “International Criminal Courts: Worth the Effort?” October 6, 2005Michael R. Marrus, Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies, Massey College in the University of Toronto, “A Jewish Lobby at Nuremberg, 1945-1946” November 7, 2005Benjamin B. Ferencz, prosecuting attorney at the Nuremberg Trials, “The Lessons of Nuremberg for Today and Tomorrow” October 25, 2006James Crawford, Whewell Professor of International Law at Cambridge University and
Director of the Lauterpacht Center for International Law, "Human Rights and State
Responsibility" October 2, 2007Dr. Harold Koh, Dean and Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, "Repairing Our Human Rights Reputation"March 3, 2008Honorable Patricia Wald, Former Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and
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