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Stephanie Farrior

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Director of International and Comparative Law Programs and Professor of Law

LLM, Harvard Law School;
JD, The American University;
MA, University of Pennsylvania;
LHD (honoris causa), Macalester College;
BA, Macalester College

Phone: 802-831-1373
Email: sfarrior@vermontlaw.edu

Presentations

  • Institute for International Relations, Panteion University.  "New Challenges to the International System - An International Law Perspective," at conference The World and Greece in 2030. Athens, Greece, May 2010
  • Dartmouth College.  Guest lecturer on the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).  Hanover, New Hampshire, May 2010
  • Public Radio International's Living on Earth: "Human Rights in Cancer Alley."  Interviewed by PRI about the first environmental justice case to be brought against the United States before the OAS Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.  April 2010
  • Mid-Atlantic People of Color Conference (MAPOCC), University of Virginia School of Law.  "Internationalizing Concerns about Human Rights Abuses in the US: Developments at the UN and the OAS," at conference 50 Years after the Sit-Ins: Reflecting on the Role of Protest in Social Movements and Law Reform.  Charlottesville, January 2010
  • AALS Annual Meeting.  Speaker on panel "Cross-Currents in International Law, Human Rights Law & National Security Law."  New Orleans, January 2010
  • Case Western Reserve University School of Law. "Accountability for the Torture Memos," at conference After Guantanamo: The Way Forward -- Four Roundtables on Reconciling National Security and the Rule of Law.  Cleveland, September 2009.
  • "Challenges to Implementation of the CEDAW," at conference co-sponsored by the American Society of International Law and New England Law on "CEDAW and its Optional Protocol." Boston, March 2009.
  • "Women and Genocide: Perpetrators, Victims, Prosecutors and Judges," on panel on "Gender and Genocide" at national conference of International Law Students Association" Understanding Genocide: Prevention, Prosecution and Progress. South Royalton, Vermont, October 2008.
  • Harvard Law School. "International Human Rights Law on Economic and Social Rights in U.S. State Court Decisions," at conference on The United States and Human Rights: Bringing Rights Home. Cambridge, MA, March 2008
  • Pennsylvania State University, "Torture and International Law." March 2008
  • AALS Workshop on Clinical Legal Education - Challenging Assumptions: "Challenging Assumptions through International Human Rights Law." New Orleans, May 2007
  • 26th Annual Frank Church Symposium on International Affairs, speaker on two panels: "The Reality of International Human Rights Law" and "The Lives and Rights of Women and Children in the Middle East." Idaho State University, March 2007
  • New York University School of Law, Experts Meeting on Terrorism as a Human Rights Issue, Lead Speaker on session: "Should We Call Terrorism a Human Rights Violation?" New York City, February 2007
  • UN Commission on the Status of Women, 50th session: "Eliminating Violence against Women: Where Does Due Diligence Fit In?" United Nations, New York, March 2006
  • Asia-Pacific NGO Consultation with the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women: "The Due Diligence Standard in Holding States Accountable for Violence against Women in the Private Sphere." Bangkok, Thailand, October 2005
  • New York University School of Law symposium: "The Economic and Social Rights of Non-Citizens under International Human Rights Law." New York City, March 2005
  • NAACP Annual Convention: "International Human Rights Law and U.S. Civil Rights." Philadelphia, July 2004
  • ACLU and Amnesty International program, Human Rights After September 11: "Human Rights Violations in the Name of the War on Terrorism." Washington, DC, September 11, 2003
  • Columbia Law School, conference on "Why a Feminist Law Journal?": "The Rights of Women in International Human Rights Law Textbooks: Segregation, Integration, or Omission?" New York City, April 2003
  • Current Issues Forum, Penn State-Dickinson School of Law: "The US and Iraq: Humanitarian Intervention, Self-Defense, or Aggression?" Carlisle, February 2003
  • Institute for Advanced Legal Study, University of London, conference on Human Rights -- Dynamic Dimensions: "Protecting Against Discrimination." London, April 2002
  • Carnegie Council on Ethics and Foreign Affairs and the Clarke Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Contemporary Issues, symposium on the Death Penalty: "International Perspectives on the Death Penalty in the United States." Dickinson College, February 2002.
  • Mid-Atlantic People of Color Conference, Georgetown University Law Center: "International Law on Racial Discrimination for U.S. Civil Rights Advocates." Washington DC, January 2002
  • Ryukoku University, Kyoto: "The International Law on Racial Discrimination and its Application in Japan and the United States." Kyoto, Japan, November 2001
  • Fourth Annual Owen M. Kupferschmid Lecture: "International Human Rights Mechanisms to Combat Racial Discrimination: An Assessment." Boston College Law School, November 2001
  • United Nations, 2nd Prep. Comm. for the World Conference against Racism: "Workshop for NGOs: How to Use UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies to Address Racial Discrimination." Geneva, May 2001
  • Commencement Address, Macalester College, May 2001
  • European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights (EALDH) international conference on Asylum as a Human Right: "Protection against Non-State Persecution." Frankfurt am Main, Germany, November 2000
  • Maastricht University, Conference on Universal Jurisdiction: "Universal Jurisdiction for Crimes against Humanity." Maastricht, Netherlands, April 2000
  • Kosovo -- OSCE Conference on Human Rights: "The Obligations of States to Protect Women's Human Rights." Pristina, Kosovo, December 1999
  • DEMOCRACY NOW (Pacifica Radio) with Amy Goodman: "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights." Interviewed on the 50th anniversary of the UDHR, December 10, 1998
  • American Society of International Law Annual Meeting: "The International Law Commission's Draft Articles on State Responsibility and Their Application to Human Rights Abuses by Non-State Actors." Washington DC, April 1998
  • International Law Association (American Branch) annual conference: "Implementing the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination." New York City, November 1998
  • Japan Federation of Bar Associations, conference on The Death Penalty - East and West: "The Death Penalty in the United States and in International Law." Tokyo, Japan, July 1998
  • Osaka Bar Association, as part of its lecture series "UDHR 50": "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Death Penalty." Osaka, Japan, July 1998
  • International Law Association (American Branch) annual conference: "Trafficking in Human Beings." New York City, November 1997
  • International Conference on Government Inaction, convened by Amnesty International: "State Responsibility for Human Rights Abuses by Non-State Actors in International Law." Berne, Switzerland, October 1997
  • American Political Science Association annual meeting: "International Law in the Undergraduate Classroom: Back Door, Front Door or Locked Door?" Washington, DC, August 1997
  • New York Women's Bar Association symposium on The Status of Rights and Freedoms of Women Worldwide: "International Human Rights Law and Women's Reproductive Freedom." New York City, March 1997
  • University of Texas School of Law conference on National and International Strategies to End Violence against Women: "Using International Human Rights Law to Combat Violence against Women in the United States." Austin, February 1997
  • International Law Association (American Branch) annual conference, panel on Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Progressive Development of Human Rights: "Cross-cultural Perspectives on Hate Speech Regulation." New York City, November 1996
  • Harvard University Conference on Health and Human Rights, panel on HIV/AIDS, Child Health and the Rights of the Child: "The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child." Cambridge, MA, October 1996
  • Harvard University Conference on Health and Human Rights, chair of panel on The Legacy of the Doctors' Trial at Nuremberg: Health Workers and Human Rights. Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 1996
  • Association of the Bar of the City of New York, symposium on Sexual Slavery of Asian Women: "The International Law on Trafficking in Women and Children for Prostitution." New York, June 1996
  • Clarke Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Contemporary Issues, symposium on The Legacy of the Nuremberg Trials, panel on Contemporary War Crimes Tribunals: "The Need for a Permanent International Criminal Court." Dickinson College, March 1996
  • Symposium on the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations, Dickinson College: "Human Rights: Facing New Realities." Carlisle, February 1995
  • International Meeting of Amnesty International Lawyers Network: "Issues in the International Law on Hate Speech." Boston, August 1993
  • International Lawyers Meeting of Amnesty International, panel chair and speaker: "The International Law on the Death Penalty." Yokohama, September 1991