Conference on International Law, Human Rights and the Death Penalty

July 19 2002

In conjunction with its Summer Institute in Geneva, Switzerland, Duke Law School will host a weekend conference on July 19-20 examining international law, human rights and the death penalty. Entitled Towards an International Understanding of the Fundamental Principles of Just Punishment, this conference will bring together some of the world's leading scholars and practitioners from law and other disciplines, policy-makers, and international experts to discuss imposition of the death penalty under international law, with a particular focus on the continuation of capital punishment in the United States.

Panel topics will include:

·International limits on severe punishment: their recognition and enforcement in national courts.
·The impact of the death penalty on the commercial interests and foreign relations of the United States.
·Understanding the attraction of the death penalty in the United States
·The Moratorium Movement in the United States: the influence of international law.
·Race and ethnic discrimination in state-sponsored execution is a serious human rights concern: a global perspective.
·Politics, politicians, and the death penalty: professional and personal ethics, and the role of the legal academy in effecting the future of the death penalty.
·International terrorism and the death penalty: fundamental principles after September 11, 2001.

Further Information about the conference, featured speakers and attendees is available at the conference web site.

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