• Affiliations
• Personnel

Past News

• International Pro Bono Opportunities
  Panel at the Boston Bar Association April 14, 2008 at 5:30p.m.
• Prosecuting the Khmer Rouge: The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
  Join Assistant Prosecutor Anees Ahmed of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for a discussion of recent developments and the substantive and procedural issues likely to be raised before the tribunal.
• Jessup International Law Demonstration Argument: Human Rights and Terrorism
  Quarterfinalist Jessup International Law Moot Court Team gives demonstration argument.
• Observing the 10th Anniversary of the Mine Ban Treaty
  For the 10th anniversary of the Mine Ban Treaty, join the CILP and UNMAS Policy Coordination Officer Gabriele Russo for a discussion of the legal framework surrounding mine action.
• International Law and Women's Rights
  CILP Speaker Series with Maria Graterol Garrido, April 2 at 1:30 in room 503
• Human Rights in Post-Election Kenya
  CILP Speaker Series, March 26, 2008 at 1:30 in Room 501
• Human Rights Conference Focuses on Africa
  March 15 event was followed by fund raising concert
• Former Deputy Counsel to speak on Oil-for-Food Programme
  The CILP Speaker Series Presents: International Corruption and the Oil-for-Food Programme, March 10, 2008
• Symposium, Panel Examine Bhopal, Feb. 6 & 8
  The Bhopal Tragedy Approaches 25: Looking Back to Look Forward
• Instances of Complicity in Human Rights Violations:
  "Extraordinary Rendition, Human Trafficking, and Torture." The New England Journal of International and Comparative Law's 2008 Symposium, Friday, Jan. 25.
• Expert Speaks on Bioterror and Crime
  Nov. 29 talk by Interpol special advisor

About—Center Affiliations

Public International Law and Policy Group

The Center is affiliated with the Public International Law and Policy Group, a nonprofit organization incorporated in the State of Virginia. Founded in 1996, and supported by grants from the United States Institute of Peace, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the Carnigie Corporation. The Group consists of two dozen former State Department lawyers and other practitioners with an expertise in public international law, who provide pro bono international legal services to foreign governments and international organizations in need of specialized public international legal counsel.

In 1999, the Group was granted Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) status by the United Nations. This enables the Group to participate in United Nations meetings and circulate official documents at the United Nations. Since its founding, the Group has provided legal services to the governments of Bosnia, Estonia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Nagorno-Karabagh, and Poland, as well as to the Parliament of South Africa and the Office of the Prosecutor of the United Nations Yugoslavia and Rwanda war crimes tribunals. The chairman of the Center's board of advisors, Michael Scharf, professor of law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, serves as executive director of the Group, which maintains its Boston office at New England School of Law.

• Periodic Status Reports
• Memoranda and Publications
• Articles of Incorporation

International Legal Assistance Consortium

In the spring of 2000, the leaders of several international bar associations and human rights organizations established the International Legal Assistance Consortium (ILAC). The purpose of the ILAC is to provide experts to countries on a speedy basis who would make assessments and recommendations on accountability issues in the aftermath of conflict or transition. ILAC also serves as an electronic clearinghouse for groups and individuals who are available to assist countries with accountability issues. In addition to having contact information about experts, the ILAC database includes copies of peace agreements with accountability provisions, truth commission mandates, domestic war crimes legislation and procedures, and legal memoranda addressing issues that are likely to arise in domestic war crimes trials. The Center was a founding member of the ILAC, and has been designated as one of the institutions serving as ILAC's research arm. The Office of the Prosecutor of the Rwanda Tribunal has given the Center permission to make the legal memoranda prepared for the Office by New England School of Law students available to world-wide access on the ILAC database "to aid efforts at achieving international accountability in other parts of the world in the future."

American Society of International Law's International Organizations Interest Group

In addition the Center is host the American Society of International Law's International Organizations Interest Group, a non-profit organization.. which is chaired by Professor Michael Scharf. Newsletters of the 400-member Interest Group are available from the Center's website.