Seminar This Week

1st Tuesday -- April 7, 2009 at 5:30 p.m.

The Iraq History Project: Why Documenting Human Rights Violation in Iraq
is Important for the American Public

Did the overthrow of Saddam Hussein have a positive or negative effect
on human rights in Iraq? Has the intervention of American military force
in Iraq and the introduction of a fledgling democracy resulted in a
reduction in human rights abuses? The answers may be surprising and
thought provoking. Our speaker, Daniel Rothenberg, has been studying
these issues for the past six years and will share his insight.

Daniel Rothenberg is the Managing Director of International Projects at
the International Human Rights Law Institute (IHRLI) at DePaul
University College of Law where he designs and runs rule of law and
human rights projects. For the past three and a half years, he has
managed a number of projects in Iraq involving an all-Iraqi staff of as
many as 60 working throughout the country. These projects have gathered
over 8,800 personal narratives of serious human rights violations
committed during the regime of Saddam Hussein and from 2003 through
mid-2008.

Before coming to DePaul, he was a Senior Fellow at the Orville H.
Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School, an
Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University
of Michigan, a Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan Law
School and a Fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows. His research and
writing focuses on transitional justice issues, particularly truth
commissions, amnesty laws, tribunals and reparations, as well as labor
migration, moral panics, genocide and social responses to
institutionalized violence.

DePaul Club Room
11th Floor of the DePaul Center
1 E. Jackson Blvd.
April 7, 2009
5:30 to 6:30 p.m.