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Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights: Rule of Law in the Context of Military Interventions -- Part 1 of 5

Thursday, 03/19/2009

Welcome Remarks
T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Dean, Georgetown University Law Center
Rosa Brooks, Professor and Director of the Human Rights Institute, Georgetown University Law Center
Thomas B. Nachbar, Professor, University of Virginia School of Law


Panel 1 - Military Involvement in Rule of Law Activities: Boots on the Ground(Link Above)
Phillip Carter, Associate, McKenna Long & Aldridge
Col. David Paschal, Commander, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division,
William Spencer, Executive Director, Institute for International Law and Human Rights
Maj. Marie Anderson, Associate Professor, International and Operational Law, Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School (Moderator)

This is the fourth annual Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights. It is sponsored by the Human Rights Institute at Georgetown Law in partnership with the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School and the University of Virginia School of Law.

The annual Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights was established by Samuel Dashs family and friends, Georgetown Law alumni and the law firm of Cozen OConnor to honor Dashs contributions to international human rights and domestic civil rights.

Dash, who joined the Georgetown Law faculty in 1965, and was on the board of the International League of Human Rights, traversed the globe in pursuit of justice. He led a human rights mission to Northern Ireland to investigate the 1972 "Bloody Sunday" incident, and traveled to the Soviet Union and Chile. In 1985, he was the first American to visit Nelson Mandela in prison and became involved in mediation efforts that eventually led to Mandela's release.

Dash also served as chief counsel of the Senate Watergate Committees investigation into the Nixon administrations involvement in the Democratic National Committee break-in, which ultimately led to President Nixons resignation.
Dash died in 2004.

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