DESCRIPTION
This event is pending approval for 1 General CLE credit through the Alabama State Bar.
This one hour workshop is designed to be a birds-eye blueprint to provide interested litigators the overview to begin suing companies and officials that contribute to war crimes, apartheid and genocide. The workshop will particularly focus on private litigators suing these criminal actors for money damages in US courts.
The panelists will speak from their specialized experience and scholarship about US statutes and federal court precedent and how they may be used, or were not successful in being used- to address these particular crimes in US Courts. Discussions will be had about direct liability, aiding and abetting, civil remedies, status of past international and domestic law and cases on these issues. This workshop will examine recent legislation and international law, including the ICJ’s recent findings and anti-BDS legislation. The panelists will briefly introduce statutory vehicles that have been successfully used by victims of terrorism in the past. Participants will be provided with pitfalls and successes in suing US companies for their human rights violations, and how this has been/can be extended to weapons manufacturers, banks, and technology companies in US courts, under specific US statutes, US court precedent, and using internationally adopted/ ratified laws. Anti Terrorism Statutes will be discussed, specifically 18 U.S.C. 2333(a) and (d), Alien Tort Statute as vehicles in pursuit of accountability.
SPEAKERS
Maria Lahood, Center for Constitutional Rights
Terry Collingsworth, Executive Director of International Rights Advocates
Maryam Jamshidi, Associate Professor of Law at Colorado Law School
Gabor Rona, Professor of Practice at Cardozo Law School
P. Jenny Marashi (Moderator)
DETAILS
DATE/TIME:
Sunday November 3, 2024 9:00am - 10:00am CST
LOCATION:
Hamilton Ballroom
Jaribu Hill is the Founder and Executive Director of the Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights. Hill is an author and an international spokesperson on Civil and Human Rights topics. Through her organization, Attorney Hill has provided legal representation and advocacy for hundreds of workers in the state. Her efforts have led to the adoption of “Zero Tolerance Against Hate” policies being implemented in workplaces across the state. Hill also won an important judgment against the Ku Klux Klan in Pelion, South Carolina and has assisted Mississippi Delta parents in their fight for school equity.