A panel discussion titled "In Search of Justice and Accountability: Legal Remedies for Victims of Torture and Genocide in the 21st Century" will take place 4-6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 30, in Rm. 129 of the Law School, 127 Wall St.

The event will feature four distinguished professors and attorneys to discuss human rights lawyering and proper legal remedies for victims of state-sponsored torture, killing, genocide and other atrocious crimes. The panelists will highlight avant-garde lawsuits that are attempting to find restitution for the plaintiffs and hold the perpetrators (including heads of state) accountable under the current international legal system, despite its shortcomings.

The participants will be:

* William J. Aceves, professor of law and director of the International Legal Studies Program at California Western School of Law, who is currently the ombudsperson for Amnesty International USA;

* Andrea Bianchi, professor of international law at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, who is renowned worldwide for his works on international law and human rights;

* Terri Marsh, international human rights attorney, who is the leading counsel for several landmark class-action genocide lawsuits, including Falun Gong v. Jiang Zemin (former president of China) and Chen Gang v. Zhao Zhizhen, the first media complicity genocide suit in U.S. history, which was filed in 2004 in Connecticut District Court; and

* Steven M. Schneebaum, partner in Greenberg Traurig LLP, lecturer at George Washington University Law School and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, who was involved in the first Alien Torts Claim Act case Filartiga v. Pena in 1979 and most recently Doe v. Lumintang, in which a federal judge in Washington awarded survivors $66 million against an Indonesian general who gave orders to carry out atrocities in East Timor.

The event, which is sponsored by Americans for Informed Democracy at Yale, is free and open to the public.

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