Yale Bulletin and Calendar

October 8, 2004|Volume 33, Number 6

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WHO human rights director to give bioethics lecture

Alexander Capron, the director of ethics, trade, human rights and health law at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland, will deliver two lectures on Wednesday, Oct. 13, as part of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) Bioethics and Public Policy Seminar Series.

At a seminar at noon, Capron will discuss "Dilemmas and Challenges when the North Conducts Research in the South." He will give a public lecture, titled "An International Perspective on the Ethics of Organ Transplantation and Research," at 7:30 p.m. Both lectures willtake place in the Joseph Slifka Center, 80 Wall St., and are free and open to the public. For further information, contact Carol Pollard at (203) 432-6188 or carol.pollard@yale.edu.

Capron, who earned his law degree at Yale, joined the WHO in 2002 to establish the ethics and health unit in the director general's office.

Capron has written or edited eight books, including "Law, Science and Medicine" and the "Treatise on Health Care Law." His recent articles and chapters focus on brain-based determinations of death, current controversies in human gene therapy, genome mapping, human cloning and research with human beings.

Capron is a director of the International Association of Bioethics, for which he served as president of the III World Congress on Bioethics in 1996. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine, a founding fellow of the Hastings Center and a fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American College of Legal Medicine.

Ontario Court of Appeals justice is the next Anderson Lecturer

Rosalie Silberman Abella, a justice with the Ontario Court of Appeals, will give the Anderson Lecture on Monday, Oct. 11.

Abella will discuss "A Justice Journey: Developing a Culture of Rights" 4:30-6 p.m. in Rm. 127 of the Law School, 127 Wall St. The talk is free and open to the public.

Abella graduated from law school in 1970 and practiced civil and criminal litigation until 1976, when, at 29, she was appointed to the Ontario Family Court, making her the youngest person appointed to the bench. She was then appointed to the Ontario Court of Appeal in 1992.

Abella was the commissioner and author of the 1984 federal Royal Commission on Equality in Employment, in which she created the term and concept of "employment equity," a new strategy for reducing barriers in employment. The theories of "equality" and "discrimination" she developed in her report were adopted by the Supreme Court of Canada in the court's first decision dealing with equality rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The report has been implemented by the governments of Canada, New Zealand, Northern Ireland and South Africa.

A specially elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Abella has written over 70 articles and written or co-edited four books on a variety of legal topics.

Abella has been active in Canadian judicial education, organizing the first judicial seminar in which all levels of the judiciary participated, the first judicial seminar in which persons outside the legal profession were invited to participate, the first national education program for administrative tribunals, and the first national conference for Canada's female judges.

ISS Lecture will focus on the Islamic world

The International Security Studies' Grand Strategy Lecture Series focusing on "The United States and the Islamic World" will continue on Tuesday, Oct. 12, with a talk by Bill Emmott, editor-in-chief of The Economist.

Emmott's talk, titled "The United States and the World: An Update on The Economist Survey," will begin at 4 p.m. in the Luce Hall auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave. The talk is free and open to the public.

Emmott, who has served as editor-in-chief for the past 12 years, has held many positions with The Economist during his 20-year career with the magazine. His previous assignments include being a correspondent in London, a correspondent in Tokyo covering Japan and South Korea, financial editor, and business affairs editor, responsible for all the paper's coverage of business, finance and science.

Emmott is the author of several books, including his most recent,"20:21 Vision: Twentieth Century Lessons for the Twenty-first Century," in which he revisits key world events and issues from the 20th century to predict how the lessons learned from them will shape global affairs in the century just begun.

In his current research, Emmott analyzes, from multiple perspectives, what the emergence of Japan, India and China as an economic triad means for the global economy. He evaluates their strategies for fitting into the global marketplace and explores the implications of their growing economic power for Europe and America.

Emmott was recently chosen by a jury of senior Italian journalists as the first foreign recipient of the È Giornalismo ("This Is Journalism") Prize.

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