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February 4, 2000
"Bringing Human Rights Home": A Lecture at Princeton
PRINCETON, NJ -- Catherine Powell, the acting executive director of Columbia University's Human Rights Institute, will speak on "Bringing Human Rights Home" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Wednesday, February 16, at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Bowl 1. Her talk will focus on U.S. compliance with human rights standards.
Powell, who earned a joint M.P.A./J.D. degree from the Woodrow Wilson School and Yale University in 1991, is also an associate professor of clinical law at Columbia's Law School. She joined the Columbia faculty in 1998 to found the school's Human Rights Clinic and help launch the Human Rights Institute.
She has been a member of the advisory committee for Human Rights Watch; a consultant for Human Rights Watch on a fact-finding mission to South Africa; and a member of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights delegation to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China. A former senior editor of the Yale Law Journal, she is the author of numerous articles and publications, including "Locating Culture and Identity in Human Rights," in the Columbia Human Rights Law Review; "(Dis)assembling Rights of Women Workers Along the Global Assembly Line: Human Rights and the Garment Industry," in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review; and "'Life' at Guantanamo Bay: Detention of Haitian Refugees," in Reconstruction.
Powell's lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School.