Human Rights in Practice:Ambassador Stephen Rapp

Former US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice
When
February 21, 2017, 12:15 to 1:15 pm
Where
Walter F. Mondale Hall
Room 55

University of Minnesota Law School
229 19th Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55455

The Human Rights in Practice series gives students the opportunity to engage with international law and human rights practitioners in an informal setting and to learn about diverse career paths in the field.

Stephen J. Rapp served as the US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice from 2009-2015 and he is currently a Distinguished Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Prevention of Genocide and at The Hague Institute for Global Justice. He previously served as Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, where he led the prosecution of former Liberian President Charles Taylor and Chief of Prosecutions at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. 

Ambassador Rapp has been working tirelessly to collect documents and other evidence in war zones in Iraq and Syria and lay the foundation for prosecutions. 

Please RSVP to Vicky at nguye386@umn.edu.