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Message from CLIHHR for Holocaust Remembrance:

Join the event here: ushmm.org/watch/2026-day…

Prof. Gabor Rona joined more than 100 international law experts in a letter stating that U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran violate the UN Charter and may constitute war crimes. justsecurity.org/135423/profess… He also discusses accountability on NPR: npr.org/2026/04/01/nx-…

Prof. Gabor Rona examines why the Minab School strike is a war crime: opiniojuris.org/2026/03/30/the…

Thanks to everyone who joined Monday’s discussion on the International & Constitutional Law Implications of U.S. Attacks on Iran, hosted by CLIHHR & the Floersheimer Center. Insightful thoughts from Profs. Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum, Rebecca Ingber, and Gabor Rona.

Join CLIHHR for an Upcoming Event on Artificial Intelligence and Atrocity Prevention 📅 Thursday, March 12 ⏰ 4:00pm - 5:00pm 📍 55 5th Avenue, NY, NY, 10003 | Room 1008 🎫 Open to the public 📖 In-person CLE credit offered Register here: ai-human-rights.eventbrite.com

The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law is hiring a Charles E. Scheidt Human Rights Clinical Teaching Fellow. This fellowship offers opportunities to teach, mentor students, & engage in human rights advocacy through our Clinic and Institute. Apply here: careers.pageuppeople.com/876/cw/en-us/j…

🚨EVENT POSTPONED🚨 Due to the weather, this event has been postponed to Wed, Feb. 25th from 3:00-4:30 PM in the 3rd Floor Lounge. For those who signed up for the original date, we hope you’re still able to join us on Wednesday and look forward to seeing you there!

Please join CLIHHR for a special evening with author Anne Hand as she discusses her memoir Austrian Again. Moderated by Evelyn Konrad, Cardozo alumna and Holocaust survivor. 📅Tuesday, Feb. 24 ⏰ 5:30–7 PM 📍 Room 1008 | Open to the public 🎟 Register via Eventbrite

CLIHHR’s Fall 2025 Newsletter is out now! Stay connected and catch all the highlights, click here to read: canva.com/design/DAG68Bl…

Today, coalition of legal clinics in Brazil, Canada, and the US made a submission to the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights (UNWG) on the challenges faced by Indigenous Mura communities in Brazil to their right to FPIC in connection with a Canadian owned mining project

We're also proud to highlight that Professor Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum contributed Chapter 24, co-authored with Rachel Locke.

“Some acts are so atrocious that data fails to capture their impact.” Discover how cities can become frontlines of peace, resilience, and prevention in Identity-Based Mass Violence in Urban Contexts: Uncovered: ibmv.org #IBMV

🚨 New report released at #COP30: “Resistance: Mura Struggle Against Canadian Potash Mining in Brazil’s Amazon” investigates the environmental and human rights concerns surrounding Canadian mining company Brazil Potash’s Autazes Potash Project.

The UN General Assembly's 80th session is a key moment to reaffirm protection for vulnerable populations. The International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect (ICR2P) calls for urgent reforms to prevent atrocities. Read here: globalr2p.org/publications/c…

Join us for the 2025 Lemkin Award Ceremony honoring Raphael Lemkin and this year’s winner, Elyse Semerdjian, for Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide. 📅 Nov 13 | 🕠 5:30–7PM 📍 Cardozo Law, 55 5th Ave, NYC 🔗Register here: lemkin-award-ceremony.eventbrite.com

Since Sept. 2, the Trump administration has conducted airstrikes on at least 3 Venezuelan boats, likely against international law. Gabor Rona examines how unlawful policies of previous post-9/11 administrations laid the groundwork for the current admin’s legal overreach.

For our IHL blogging symposium, Gabor Rona examines recent US approaches to international humanitarian law and the "concerted effort to unravel some of the most significant and hard-won threads of the international legal order." Read here: ila-americanbranch.org/the-trump-admi…

📣 Join us Sept 17 (12:40–2PM) for a discussion on Indigenous rights & self-determination w/ Prof. Fernanda Frizzo Bragato 🎯Free, Prior, Informed Consent and Power Imbalances: Upholding Indigenous Rights on the Anniversary of UNDRIP 📍 3rd Floor | 🍽️ Food provided 🔗 RSVP now