Wolfgang Kaleck, Marbre Stahly-Butts, and Vepuka Kauari discuss legal strategies to seek reparations around the world, including the United States and Namibia, as part of the Sorensen Center’s “Critical Voices: From Local to Global” speaker series.

Register required for this hybrid CLE program!

Wolfgang Kaleck, Founder and General Secretary of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) and Scholar-in-Residence at the Sorensen Center at CUNY School of Law, is the author of the upcoming book Concrete Utopia which traces how human rights have been reconceived at different points in time and sketches the way they may be re-envisioned for new struggles in the 21st century through feminist, decolonial, and ecological interventions. Vepuka Kauari, Director of Nursing Services at New York Presbyterian Hospital, is a co-founder of the Association of the Ovaherero/Ovambanderu Genocide in the USA which promotes awareness and affirmation of the 1904-1908 genocide in Namibia. Marbre Stahly-Butts, Associate Professor at CUNY Law, is a movement lawyer and abolitionist with expertise in criminal legal policy and a long history of supporting radical movement formations. She previously served as Executive Director at Law for Black Lives and currently sits on the Advisory Board.

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.