International Law: Dialogues between Latin America and the United States
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Latin America has long been a driving force in shaping international law, from the early articulation of sovereignty and non-intervention to today’s global struggles for human rights, corporate accountability, and environmental justice.
Join us in the Faculty Lounge (Room 1503) for a hemispheric conversation that brings together distinguished jurists and scholars from Latin America and the United States to explore shared challenges, lessons, and innovations in international and comparative law.
- Keynote: Justice Natalia Ángel-Cabo, Justice – Colombian Constitutional Court
- Co-organizers: Prof. Erika George & Prof. Enrique Prieto-Ríos
- With the support of LALSA (Latin American Law Students Association)
For more information, contact Prof. Enrique Prieto-Ríos at eprietor@bu.edu.
Agenda
Panel I — Business and Human Rights Advances from Latin America
- Enrique Prieto-Ríos (Boston University-School of Law)
- Sebastián Mantilla Blanco (The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts
- University)
- Erika George (Boston University-School of Law)
- Steven Koh (Boston University-School of Law)
Panel II — Transnational Dialogues: Can the U.S. Legal System Learn from Latin
American Human Rights Advances?
- Daniela Urosa (Boston College - Law School)
- Lina Céspedes (Universidad del Rosario – Law School)
- Jasmine Gonzales Rose (Boston University - School of Law)
- Jose Ignacio Hernández Gonzalez (Visiting Scholar - Boston College; Fellow - Harvard Kennedy School)