Critical Voices: Human Rights in Times of Crises
September 1, 2021 @ 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Wolfgang Kaleck leads a “Critical Voices: From Local to Global” discussion addressing the need for lawyers and activists to adopt new strategies to address human rights challenges. Camille Massey, Founding Executive Director of the Sorensen Center, will moderate.
Register now and submit advance questions! *CLE credit available for this program*
Kaleck is a Sorensen Center Visiting Scholar and the Founder, General Secretary, and Legal Director of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR). He is at the forefront of the legal fight to hold powerful individuals and entities accountable for human rights abuses. Kaleck is the European lawyer for whistleblower Edward Snowden. His new book The Concrete Utopia of Human Rights: A Look Back into the Future (currently available in German under the title Die konkrete Utopie der Menschenrechte. Ein Blick zurück in die Zukunft) discusses how, faced with climate crisis, a pandemic, and deeply unequal economic models, human rights activists and lawyers can no longer proceed with business-as-usual.
The Sorensen Center’s “Critical Voices: From Local to Global” speaker series features extraordinary leaders from around the world discussing groundbreaking issues.
CLE Credits are provided by Community Legal Resource Network at CUNY School of Law
– This CLE program is approved for both experienced and newly admitted attorneys.
– Under Continuing Legal Education regulations, CLE credit will be offered only to those attorneys completing entire session; attorneys attending only part of a session are not eligible for partial credit. Attorneys arriving late are welcome to attend the program but will not be eligible for credit.
– Also note that for remote trainings, attorneys must attend on the webinar; we cannot extend credit for audio only.