News Release: Law, Religion and Ethics
Mar. 10, 2009
Human Rights Advocate Irwin Cotler to Speak March 16
Irwin CotlerWHO: Irwin Cotler, Canadian Parliamentarian and Former Minister of Justice
WHAT: "The Danger of a Genocidal and Nuclear Iran: The Responsibility to Prevent," inaugural Harold J. Berman Lecture, presented by the Center for the Study of Law and Religion (CSLR) at Emory University
WHEN: Monday, March 16, 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Tull Auditorium, Emory Law School, 1301 Clifton Road on the main Emory Campus
PARKING: Free in Lowergate South Parking Deck, off Gambrell Drive. Follow directional signs.
COST: Free and open to the public. Click here for more information on the lecture, or call 404.712.8710
SPONSOR: The Henry Luce Foundation
CO-SPONSOR: Atlanta Jewish Times
Cotler will argue that state parties to the Genocide Convention have the legal duty to hold Iran accountable for its genocidal incitement against Israel. He has issued a Responsibility to Prevent petition, which calls for a series of legal actions by the United Nations and international legal community against Iran and other agents and accessories to genocide.
Cotler’s talk launches the CSLR’s 2009 “When Law and Religion Meet” lecture series and is the inaugural Harold J. Berman Lecture. The Harold J. Berman Lecture was founded in 2009 with a generous grant from the Berman family, friends and supporters. Berman (1918-2007) was Emory’s first Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law and is considered the father of the modern study of law and religion.
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