InternationalHumanRights, Mediation,&Restorative JusticeSymposium09

In June, UC Law SF was delighted to host our law school partners from Ghana, Haiti, and Kosovo for the International Human Rights, Mediation, & Restorative Justice Symposium The symposium took place under the auspices of generous grants from the U S Embassy in Haiti, the U.S. Embassy in Ghana, and the U.S. State Department Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) in Kosovo. For our Haitian partners, the symposium was the last activity under a U.S. Embassy grant (spearheaded by Prof. Kate Bloch) that the International Development Law Center has also been supporting

Throughout the 5 day symposium, representatives from the three countries shared information about the human rights situation, the approaches to restorative justice, and the uses of mediation in their legal systems. UC Law SF faculty and other experts provided models and strategies for developing clinical curriculum in these three substantive areas, and participants outlined their plans to implement - once they returned to their home institutions - what they found useful from their symposium experience

At the end of the symposium, we had built an uncommon friendship with others and also acquired considerable knowledge from the program, listening to various scholars on each subject.