April 19 | Noon| Virtual | Tickets: $5, purchase your ticket here
When mass atrocities occur, what options do victims have to seek justice through the U.S. judicial system and possibly elsewhere? What are the U.S. policies on supporting international justice mechanisms in cases of genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity? Join us for a discussion with Esti Tambay, Senior Counsel of the International Justice Program at Human Rights Watch, and Kristin Smith, Director of the Atrocity Crimes Initiative at the American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Section, on the possibilities and limitations of accountability for atrocity crimes through a U.S. lens.
Links to the zoom webinars in the Rising Up for Human Dignity: Prospects for Justice series will be sent out by email two days before each virtual program. If you have any questions regarding this series, such as problems purchasing a ticket or not receiving the link, please get in touch with Amber Kurson at akurson@ojmche.org.
Rising Up for Human Dignity: Justice and Repair is presented in partnership with: OJMCHE, World Oregon, The Holocaust and Genocide Studies Project, Never Again Coalition, The Oregon Historical Society, and Kol Shalom Community for Humanistic Judaism.
Kristin J. Smith is the director of the Atrocity Crimes Initiative, a group of projects (including the International Criminal Court Project) focused on atrocity prevention, response and accountability and jointly supported by ABA’s Criminal Justice Section and the Center for Human Rights. She also serves as a Staff Attorney for the ABA’s Criminal Justice Section. Prior to the ABA, she worked on issues of gender equality, reproductive rights and justice for sexual and gender-based crimes as a Legal Fellow at the Global Justice Center in New York. She also previously supported the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute’s international research and educational initiatives as a Fellow (including the Crimes Against Humanity Initiative), and worked prior as a legislative analyst and criminal prosecutor in Oregon. She is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Washington University in St. Louis School of Law.
Esti Tambay is currently a senior counsel in the International Justice Program at Human Rights Watch, focusing on institutional issues related to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and U.S. policy toward the court, as well as accountability in several African countries. She previously worked at the Coalition for the ICC, conducted research for the International Center for Transitional Justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and worked on several U.S. litigations seeking corporate accountability pursuant to the Alien Tort Statute. For almost a decade at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, she specialized in international arbitration and complex cross-border litigation. She has also advised the United Nations’ Office of Legal Affairs on legal claims raised against the UN. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.