2008 Press Releases
‘Whither America: Law & Human Rights in the next US Administration?’- UCC Lecture
04.11.2008
Professor Samantha Power and Professor Cass Sunstein, Adjunct Professors of Law at UCC will deliver their Inaugural Lecture at the University on Thursday next, November 6th 2008 at 5.30pm, Devere Hall, Áras na Mac Léinn/Student Centre. Chairperson for the event will be Mr Dermot Gleeson.
04.11.2008
Professor Samantha Power and Professor Cass Sunstein, Adjunct Professors of Law at UCC will deliver their Inaugural Lecture at the University on Thursday next, November 6th 2008 at 5.30pm, Devere Hall, Áras na Mac Léinn/Student Centre. Chairperson for the event will be Mr Dermot Gleeson.
Professors Sunstein and Power were recently appointed as Adjunct Professors at the Faculty of Law UCC. Both renowned legal scholars, they will address one of the most pressing issues for the incoming US Administration. Samantha Power is the Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy, based at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, where she was the founding executive director [1998-2002]. She is the recent author of Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and The Fight to Save the World (Penguin Press, 2008), a biography of the UN envoy killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq in 2003. Her book "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (New Republic Books) was awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award for general nonfiction, and the Council on Foreign Relations' Arthur Ross Prize for the best book in US foreign policy. Power's New Yorker article on the horrors in Darfur, Sudan, won the 2005 National Magazine Award for best reporting.
In 2007, Power became a foreign policy columnist at Time magazine. From 1993 to 1996 she covered the wars in the former Yugoslavia as a reporter for the US News and World Report, the Boston Globe, and The New Republic. She remains a working journalist, reporting from such places as Burundi, East Timor, Kosovo, Rwanda, Sudan, and Zimbabwe, and contributing to the Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. Power is the editor, with Graham Allison, of Realizing Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to Impact. A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School, she moved to the United States from Ireland at the age of nine. She spent 2005 to 2006 working in the office of Senator Barack Obama. In 2008, Samantha Power was conferred with an honorary doctorate of law by the National University of Ireland at UCC.
Cass R. Sunstein is currently the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Mr Sunstein has testified before congressional committees on many subjects, and he has been involved in constitution-making and law reform activities in a number of nations, including Ukraine, Poland, China, South Africa, and Russia. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Mr. Sunstein has been Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia, visiting professor of law at Harvard, vice-chair of the ABA Committee on Separation of Powers and Governmental Organizations, chair of the Administrative Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools, a member of the ABA Committee on the future of the FTC, and a member of the President's Advisory Committee on the Public Service Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters.
Mr Sunstein is author of many articles and a number of books, including Republic.com (2001), Risk and Reason (2002), Why Societies Need Dissent (2003), The Second Bill of Rights (2004), Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle (2005), Worst-Case Scenarios (2001), and Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (with Richard H. Thaler, 2008). He is now working on various projects involving the relationship between law and human behaviour.
Professor Caroline Fennell, Dean of Faculty and Head of Department of Law commented: “This is an exciting opportunity to hear from two world class scholars on the role of human rights in the forthcoming US Administration. We are delighted that Professors Power and Sunstein have been appointed to the Faculty of Law, UCC. Their appointment marks the Faculty of Law's commitment to world class legal education and to contributing to international debates on pressing issues of law and public policy.”
If you would like to attend this lecture, please email lawevents@ucc.ie; Telephone: 021 4205170.
Picture shows: Professors Samantha Power and Cass Sunstein, Adjunct Professors of Law at UCC, prior to their inaugural lecture "Whither America: Law & Human Rights in the next US Administration", with Professor Caroline Fennell, Dean of Faculty and Head of Department of Law, UCC.
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In 2007, Power became a foreign policy columnist at Time magazine. From 1993 to 1996 she covered the wars in the former Yugoslavia as a reporter for the US News and World Report, the Boston Globe, and The New Republic. She remains a working journalist, reporting from such places as Burundi, East Timor, Kosovo, Rwanda, Sudan, and Zimbabwe, and contributing to the Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. Power is the editor, with Graham Allison, of Realizing Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to Impact. A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School, she moved to the United States from Ireland at the age of nine. She spent 2005 to 2006 working in the office of Senator Barack Obama. In 2008, Samantha Power was conferred with an honorary doctorate of law by the National University of Ireland at UCC.
Cass R. Sunstein is currently the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Mr Sunstein has testified before congressional committees on many subjects, and he has been involved in constitution-making and law reform activities in a number of nations, including Ukraine, Poland, China, South Africa, and Russia. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Mr. Sunstein has been Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia, visiting professor of law at Harvard, vice-chair of the ABA Committee on Separation of Powers and Governmental Organizations, chair of the Administrative Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools, a member of the ABA Committee on the future of the FTC, and a member of the President's Advisory Committee on the Public Service Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters.
Mr Sunstein is author of many articles and a number of books, including Republic.com (2001), Risk and Reason (2002), Why Societies Need Dissent (2003), The Second Bill of Rights (2004), Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle (2005), Worst-Case Scenarios (2001), and Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (with Richard H. Thaler, 2008). He is now working on various projects involving the relationship between law and human behaviour.
Professor Caroline Fennell, Dean of Faculty and Head of Department of Law commented: “This is an exciting opportunity to hear from two world class scholars on the role of human rights in the forthcoming US Administration. We are delighted that Professors Power and Sunstein have been appointed to the Faculty of Law, UCC. Their appointment marks the Faculty of Law's commitment to world class legal education and to contributing to international debates on pressing issues of law and public policy.”
If you would like to attend this lecture, please email lawevents@ucc.ie; Telephone: 021 4205170.
Picture shows: Professors Samantha Power and Cass Sunstein, Adjunct Professors of Law at UCC, prior to their inaugural lecture "Whither America: Law & Human Rights in the next US Administration", with Professor Caroline Fennell, Dean of Faculty and Head of Department of Law, UCC.
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