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Prof. Claudio Grossman, Center founder and Board member, joins @theauilr Nov. 2 to discuss immunity and accountability—continuing conversations from our fall 2025 symposium on atrocity prevention and connecting scholarship with urgent global debates.
📍 AUWCL | 9 a.m.–1 p.m.
Carlos Ayala, a member of our Board of Faculty Co-Directors and former IACHR President, presented the OAS Guatemala Mission’s findings to Secretary General Albert Ramdin, continuing decades of service in the Inter-American system.
Photo: OAS
🌎 From the classroom to the Inter-American human rights system!
Congratulations to Carter Hurley, Katherine Olsson, Nino Chikhladze, and Summer Robert, and to the Kovler Project for advancing this important work.
@kovlerproject @au_wcl
⚖️ TECH ON TRIAL | OPENING HIGHLIGHTS
@AUWCL Dean Michael F. Barry opened our symposium on technology, human rights, and the environment.
“These conversations reflect exactly what should be happening in the law school.”
🎥 Event recording coming soon!
Building bridges between scholarship and practice 🌎⚖️
How can legal scholarship help shape the decisions governing technology, human rights, and the environment? On October 13, our “Tech on Trial” symposium brought that question into conversation with international org.
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🌎⚖️ A full day of ideas at Tech on Trial! Thank you to our speakers, students, and everyone who joined us to explore technology and human rights at @AUWCL.
🎥 Coming soon: the event recording on our YouTube channel!
#TechOnTrial #HumanRights
Tomorrow! Register here
Be part of the latest human rights and tech discussions ⤵️
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Two human rights issues prepared by AUWCL’s Impact Litigation Fellows have been selected for thematic hearings at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Find out more: tinyurl.com/IACHR-Cases-AUWC… @AcadHumanRights @AUWCL_INTL @humanrts @CIDH
⚖️ Tech on Trial at AUWCL! Explore AI, critical minerals, autonomous weapons, free speech, neurotech & quantum technology through a human rights lens.
📅 Oct. 13 | 8:45 a.m.–6:45 p.m.
📍 Warren NT01
🔗 Register via the QR code on the flyers.
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Join CHRHL for Tech On Trial: The Impact on Human Rights & the Environment.
Oct. 13 | 8:45 a.m.–6:45 p.m.
AUWCL, Warren NT01
RSVP: scan the flyer’s QR. #HumanRightsViolations
Today, our Director, Prof. Eduardo Bertoni, marked #AccessToInformation Day by joining UNESCO’s regional roundtable on information integrity, media and information literacy, and challenges facing access-to-information oversight bodies. #AUWCL
This week at the Center: Prof. Bertoni discussed access to information in Montevideo; students and Humphrey Fellows explored AI and free speech over coffee; and we joined the Kovler Project for a conversation on gender-based violence and torture. 🌎⚖️
What does free speech mean in the AI era? ☕️
At yesterday’s Coffee and Human Rights, Jordi Calvet-Bademunt and Prof. Eduardo Bertoni joined JD, LL.M., and S.J.D. students and Humphrey Fellows to discuss human rights guardrails for AI, “technopanic,” and comparative AI legislation
What does free speech mean in the AI era?
Join Jordi Calvet-Bademunt for our next Coffee and Human Rights conversation, moderated by Prof. Eduardo Bertoni.
📅 Sept. 23 | 12–1 p.m.
📍 NT02 | 🍕 Pizza
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📢 En el marco del Día Internacional del Acceso Universal a la Información, la UNESCO invita a la mesa redonda virtual para América Latina y el Caribe:
🔹 “Integridad de la información y Alfabetización Mediática e Informacional: nuevos desafíos para los órganos garantes del acceso a la información”.
El encuentro reunirá a especialistas de Colombia, Chile, Estados Unidos y Uruguay para reflexionar sobre los desafíos actuales de garantizar información confiable, accesible y de calidad.
📅 28 de septiembre
🕛 12:00 a 13:30 (Montevideo)
🕘 9:00 a 10:30 (México)
💻 Vía Zoom
🔗 Inscripciones: f.mtr.cool/hcive1wfgv
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Join us at the Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law Welcome Event to meet our faculty, fellows, and students, learn about our upcoming programs and initiatives, and discover how you can get involved!
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A Yale Law Journal article highlights AUWCL Prof. Bob Goldman’s influential role in the evolution of modern international humanitarian law and his early efforts to bring the laws of war into the protection of human rights during armed conflict. More: tinyurl.com/Goldman-Impact
