2015 | Foreign Official Immunity Under Domestic and International Law

Event Title

The Sovereign Immunity Underpinnings of Foreign Official Immunity

Location

Duke Law School, Room 3043

Start Date

13-11-2015 1:30 PM

End Date

13-11-2015 2:15 PM

Description

Elizabeth A. Wilson joined the School of Diplomacy and International Relations in 2008 after working in private practice in Washington, DC. Professor Wilson teaches Human Rights Law and Public International Law.

Professor Wilson graduated from Harvard Law School in 2003. She then worked as an associate at two Washington D.C. law firms where she became deeply involved in the litigation on behalf of Guantanamo detainees. She worked on the early years of Boumediene v. Bush, a case that was eventually decided in detainees favor by the Supreme Court in 2008. She also coordinated and drafted the report by the Center for Constitutional Rights on Torture and Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and was involved in lobbying efforts to defeat the habeas stripping provisions of the Detainee Treatment Act. Later, she drafted appellate briefs for a civil damages case against U.S. officials for torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and religious abuse on behalf of former Guantanamo Bay detainees (Rasul v. Rumsfeld).

Laurence R. Helfer is an expert in the areas of international law and institutions, international adjudication and dispute settlement, human rights (including LGBT rights), and international intellectual property law and policy. He is co-director of Duke Law's Center for International and Comparative Law and a Senior Fellow with Duke's Kenan Institute forEthics. He also serves as a Permanent Visiting Professor at theiCourts: Center of Excellence for International Courts at the University of Copenhagen, which awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2014.

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Nov 13th, 1:30 PM Nov 13th, 2:15 PM

The Sovereign Immunity Underpinnings of Foreign Official Immunity

Duke Law School, Room 3043

Elizabeth A. Wilson joined the School of Diplomacy and International Relations in 2008 after working in private practice in Washington, DC. Professor Wilson teaches Human Rights Law and Public International Law.

Professor Wilson graduated from Harvard Law School in 2003. She then worked as an associate at two Washington D.C. law firms where she became deeply involved in the litigation on behalf of Guantanamo detainees. She worked on the early years of Boumediene v. Bush, a case that was eventually decided in detainees favor by the Supreme Court in 2008. She also coordinated and drafted the report by the Center for Constitutional Rights on Torture and Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and was involved in lobbying efforts to defeat the habeas stripping provisions of the Detainee Treatment Act. Later, she drafted appellate briefs for a civil damages case against U.S. officials for torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and religious abuse on behalf of former Guantanamo Bay detainees (Rasul v. Rumsfeld).

Laurence R. Helfer is an expert in the areas of international law and institutions, international adjudication and dispute settlement, human rights (including LGBT rights), and international intellectual property law and policy. He is co-director of Duke Law's Center for International and Comparative Law and a Senior Fellow with Duke's Kenan Institute forEthics. He also serves as a Permanent Visiting Professor at theiCourts: Center of Excellence for International Courts at the University of Copenhagen, which awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2014.