Professor Naomi Roht-Arriaza, UC Hastings School of Law
Professor Naomi Roht-Arriaza
UC Hastings School of Law
DATE CHANGE – JUNE 20
6:00 Networking; 6:30 Dinner
($28 members; $33 nonmembers)
7:00 Program
Crow Canyon Country Club
711 Silver Lake Drive, Danville
Please RSVP president@srvdems.org
Professor Naomi Roht-Arriaza, UC Hastings School of Law
The San Ramon Valley Democratic Club is very happy to welcome Professor Naomi Roht-Arriaza speaking on “Trying Massive Human Rights Violations in Central America – How International Law Affects the Reasons People Flee to the U.S.” This is something new for our club – to learn about human justice in the world at large. Professor Roht-Arriaza will explain the roots of today’s border crisis in the policies of the past, and how international law has been used to try to change the impunity for crimes of past and present that lead people to flee. She will discuss trials in Guatemala and El Salvador, including the world’s first domestic trial for genocide, as well as other international efforts to change the paradigm of impunity. She will describe the traction gained by advocacy networks promoting universal jurisdictions.
Naomi Roht-Arriaza is a Distinguished Professor at the UC Hastings College of Law. Professor Roht-Arriaza Naomi Roht-Arriaza grew up in New York and Latin America, including stints in Chile, Guatemala and Costa Rica. She earned a B.A. from UC Berkeley, a M.A. from the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy (formerly the Graduate School of Public Policy), and a J.D. from the UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). Professor Roht-Arriaza has worked as an immigration paralegal, and an organizer for a nonprofit focused on corporate accountability. After graduating from law school, she clerked for Judge James Browning of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. During 1991 to 1992, Professor Roht-Arriaza was the first Riesenfeld Fellow in International Law and Organizations at UC Berkeley School of Law.
Professor Roht-Arriaza has written many books,including “The Pinochet Effect: Transnational Justice in the Age of Human Rights” (2005) and articles, including “After Amnesties are Gone: Latin American National Courts and the New Contours of the Fight Against Impunity” (2015).
She continues to write on accountability, both state and corporate, for human rights violations as well as on other human rights, international criminal law and global environmental issues. In 2011 she was a Democracy Fellow at the U.S. Agency for International Development, and in 2012 she was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Botswana. In December 2018, she was on a panel discussion arranged by “The Inter-American Dialogue” in Washington, D.C., called “Human Rights and Grand Corruption: What Role for International Law?”
Please join us at 6:00 pm to talk about the latest political news or to just socialize and have fun.
We have dinner meetings.
Members: $28
Non-members: $33,
Please email Stuart at president@srvdems.org that you are coming by Thursday, June 13 (we need a ‘head count’ for the dinner). Thank you for your help.
RSVP: To make certain you have a dinner, please RSVP.
Please make checks payable to Brodie Hilp, and send to SRVDC, P. O. Sox 1218, Danville, CA 94526.