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On the morning of November 10, thirty-six leaders from the Human Rights field will arrive at The Bishop's School for the second Human Rights Day event. For the entire school day students, faculty, and staff will explore pressing local and global issues through attending a variety of different activities ranging from focus group sessions with guest speakers, to opening and closing ceremonies with the entire school.
Human Rights Day 2008 has been co-chaired by Bishop’s seniors and students: Julie Gantz and Sarah Levin.
Human Rights Day Guest Speakers
Keynote Speakers:
Lisa Ling
— Correspondent for National Geographic and Oprah
1:35 p.m. Closing Assembly (Eva May Fleet Athletic Center)
Lisa Ling is a special correspondent for the National Geographic Channel and the Oprah Winfrey Show. For Oprah, Ling has been sent to cover the Lord's Resistance Army and the crisis of AIDS orphans in Uganda, bride burning in India, and gang-rape in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Ling was the first woman host of National Geographic's Emmy award-winning flagship series Explorer, where she investigated the increasingly deadly drug war in Colombia, examined the complex issues surrounding China's one-child policy and explored the phenomenon of female suicide bombers in Chechnya and Israel's occupied territories. She also explored the hidden and dangerous culture inside American prisons and street gang MS-13.
Ted Braun
— Documentary Filmmaker
9:20 – 11:50 a.m. Film screening and Q&A with Bishop’s seniors (Taylor Performing Arts Center)
Ted Braun studied English at Amherst College and film production at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts and later taught screenwriting at both institutions; he is an Assistant Professor in screenwriting at USC. He has written and directed several award-winning documentaries and fictional films. He spent the first four months of 2007 in Sudan filming Darfur Now with unprecedented access to the internally displaced people of Darfur, international aid workers, the government and the rebels. Darfur Now is his first theatrical documentary.
Peter Irons
— Professor Emeritus, UCSD
7:35 a.m. Opening Assembly (Eva May Fleet Athletic Center)
Irons is the author of numerous books on the Supreme Court and constitutional litigation, including The New Deal Lawyers; Justice at War; War Powers: How the Imperial Presidency Hijacked the Constitution; God on Trial: Dispatches from America’s Religious Battlefields; The Courage of Their Convictions; Justice Delayed; Brennan Vs. Rehnquist: The Battle for the Constitution; May It Please the Court; A People’s History of the Supreme Court; and Jim Crow’s Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision. He has also contributed to numerous law reviews and other journals. He was chosen in 1988 as the first Raoul Wallenberg Distinguished Visiting Professor of Human Rights at Rutgers University. He has been invited to lecture on constitutional law and civil liberties at the law schools of Harvard, Yale, Berkeley, Stanford, and more than twenty other schools. In addition to his academic work, Irons has been active in public affairs. He is a practicing civil rights and liberties attorney, and was lead counsel in the 1980s in the successful effort to reverse the World War Two criminal convictions of Japanese-Americans who challenged the curfew and relocation orders. He was also elected to two terms on the national board of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Chip Pitts,
— Former Chairman, Amnesty International USA
7:35 a.m. Opening Assembly (Eva May Fleet Athletic Center)
Chip Pitts is an international attorney, investor/entrepreneur, and law educator who advises businesses on international, strategic, intellectual property, marketing, legal, and ethics matters. Formerly Chief Legal Officer of Nokia, Inc. and partner at a major global law firm, he is a Lecturer in Law at Stanford University Law School, has taught at other law schools and universities, and is a frequent speaker, writer, and commentator on ethical globalization, human rights, and foreign affairs, including in national and international law journals, magazines, newspapers, and broadcast media. Previously Treasurer of the Amnesty International USA Board, he is also a volunteer leader with the Bill of Rights Defense Committee movement and the corporate social responsibility movement, and currently serves on Advisory Boards of the Center for Social Entrepreneurship and Accountability (University of Texas at Dallas), the ACLU of Dallas, the United Nations Association of Dallas, and the London-based Business & Human Rights Resource Centre. Pitts has worked in South Africa against apartheid, represented both the U.S. government and Amnesty International as well as other leading human rights and economic development organizations at the United Nations and international conferences, and provided pro bono representation to hundreds of victims of human rights abuses from all over the world. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and the Pacific Council on Foreign Policy in San Francisco, he is a long-time Amnesty activist and remains a local group coordinator.
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Lectures by Our Distinguished Guest Speakers:
Adam Branch '93
— Professor of Political Science, SDSU
1:35 p.m. Closing Assembly (Eva May Fleet Athletic Center, Adam will receive a special introduction by his father and Bishop’s English teacher, Dr. Watson Branch.)
Adam Branch has a Ph.D. from Columbia University. He studies human rights, conflict resolution, transnational justice and international law, with an empirical emphasis on the war-afflicted regions of Africa. His current research examines the impact of humanitarian intervention in Northern Uganda and is based on extensive fieldwork in the region. He has published a number of articles, including papers in "African Studies Quarterly" and "Ethics and International Affairs," and his fieldwork has been supported by Human Rights Focus and the Ford Foundation for Eastern Africa. Dr. Branch has done extensive field research in Uganda and Sudan.
William Aceves
— Professor of Law and Director of the International Legal Studies Program, California Western School of Law
Dee Aker
— Interim Director of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice
Farouk Al-Nasser, Ph.D.
— President of San Diego World Affairs Council
Bobby Bailey
— Documentary Filmmaker and co-founder of The Invisible Children Foundation
Lawrence Baron, Ph.D.
— Professor of History, SDSU. Holder of the Abraham Nasatir Chair in Modern Jewish History
Michael Brunker
— Executive Director of the Jackie Robinson YMCA
Linda A. Canada
— Japanese American Historical Society
Sean Carpenter, Iskander-Indonesia, Gurumani-India
— Project Concern
Marjorie Cohn
— President of National Lawyers Guild
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Midge Costanza
— Executive Director, Founder of The Midge Costanza Institute
Estela De Los Rios
— Border Angels
Karen Dunn
— San Diego Food Bank
Dr. Edith Eva Eger
— Holocaust Survivor
Judge Norbert Ehrenfruend
— California Superior Court Judge, reporter during the Nuremberg Trials
Richard Feinberg
— Professor of International Relations, UCSD
Joseph Goetz
— Holocaust Survivor
Michio Himaka
— Japanese American Historical Society
Rachel Jensen
— Lawyer with experience in the War Crimes Tribunal
Rosemarie Johnson, M.D.
— Member, United States – Mexico Border Health Commission
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David Kaye
— Executive Director, International Human Rights Program, UCLA School of Law
Kevin Keenan
— Executive Director of the ACLU in San Diego and Imperial Counties
Carol Lam
— Former United States District Attorney for the Southern District of California
Michael Marrinan
— Practicing Civil Rights and First Amendment Attorney
Ernie McCray
— Civil Rights Activist, Educator, Writer
Alison Adams Royle '57
— Founder of Mission Namibia
Mahvish Rukhsana Khan
— Lawyer and author – My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me
Sasha Seyb
— Documentary Filmmaker, The Tijuana Project
Gershon Shafir
— Professor of Sociology, UCSD
Jan Stankus-Nakano
— Center Director, San Diego Youth and Community Services
Dr. Bonnie Stewart
— Executive Director, Fred J. Hansen Institute for World Peace
Reverend Jim Yanagihara
— Japanese American Historical Society
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