Remembering Rwanda: Post-Genocide Law and Policy

This event will commemorate and draw lessons from the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Panelists include two survivors of and a law professor who specializes in that Genocide. The survivors will share their testimonies about enduring the Genocide and their lives since. The professor will discuss transitional justice responses to the Genocide and how those responses both drew from transitional justice for the Holocaust and have contributed to transitional justice for atrocity crimes since Rwanda.

This session is organized by ASIL’s Human Rights Interest Group and Southeast Interest Group. It is co-sponsored by the University of Houston Law Center's Criminal Justice Institute, International Law Society, Initiative on Global Law and Policy for the Americas, and Houston Journal of International Law; Association of American Law Schools' International Human Rights Section and International Law Section; Law & Society Association's Collaborative Research Network on Transitional Justice; and the Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission.