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Please note room and time change.
In addition to this event; we're also organizing a lunch with Dr. Akhavan at
12pm. If you are interested in the lunch please RSVP me for further details.

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Global Justice and the Legacy of the Milosevic Trial:
Reflections from a UN War Crimes Prosecutor

Date: Tues. April 18th
Time: 1pm
Location: Sidney Pacific Grad Residence
	  Seminar Room
	  70 Pacific St., Cambridge, MA

Payam Akhavan was the first war crimes prosecutor at the UN Tribunal at the
Hague and was involved in the indictment of Slobodan Milosevic for crimes
against humanity in May 1999 during the Kosovo war.  He has also worked on
human rights issues in Rwanda, Guatemala, Cambodia, East Timor, Peru,
Eritrea-Ethiopia, and is counsel to Uganda in the Lord's Resistance Army Case,
the first proceeding before the International Criminal Court. He also served as
amicus curiae in Yasser Hamdi v. Donald Rumsfeld before the US Supreme Court. 
Dr. Akhavan is also President & Co-Founder of the Iran Human Rights
Documentation Centre in New Haven and Board Member of the Canadian Human Rights
Foundation.

He is presently Professor of Law at McGill University, and was previously
Visiting Professor at Yale Law School, the University of Toronto, and Leiden
University in the Netherlands. He received a Doctor of International Law from
Harvard Law School and has published extensively on human rights.

In recognition of his contributions to human rights, he was selected by the
World Economic Forum in 2005 as a Young Global Leader.

Sponsored by the MIT Baha'i Association