BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CGHR Practitioner Series: Jason McCue on Lawfare—Human Rights Li tigation - Jason McCue (Senior Partner of McCue Jury &\; Partners LLP) DTSTART:20230125T170000Z DTEND:20230125T183000Z UID:TALK193726@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:Anusha Arumugam DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/practitioner-ser ies-jason-mccue-lawfare-human-rights-litigation-tickets-491503499197?utm-c ampaign=social\n\nABSTRACT: CGHR runs a Practitioner Series each year in L ent term\, Jan to March\, which often features rights activists\, aid prac titioners and journalists etc. \nOur speakers relate stories about their o wn experience — how they came to work in the field that they are in — with details about what the work itself involves. The session thus offers a combination of substantive discussion of the speaker’s work and critic al views on the challenges of working in their area\, as well as personal and practical insights into how they ended up doing what they do and how t hey would advise others thinking about practice/policy as a possible futur e after studies/research.\n\nCGHR's Practitioner Series provides students (both undergrads and postgrads) and researchers with the chance to ask que stions of people that they might not normally have access to.\n\nIn this s ession\, we speak to Jason McCue. Jason has had a career in international affairs (including conflict resolution\, humanitarian\, justice\, developm ent and state building matters)\, private diplomacy\, and as an internatio nal lawyer (U.K. Law Society’s lawyer of the year 2010 for his work on h uman rights in Africa and UK)) in human rights\, counter-terrorism/rogue r egimes\, victim global class action litigation\, conflict resolution\, and transitional justice.\n\nJason’s specialisation – in practice and aca demically - is state\, private\, hybrid and civil society lawfare (the use of law to gain strategic advantages). He has advised and acted on lawfare matters for numerous heads of state\, governments\, opposition groups\, i nternational bodies (UN and AU)\, NGOs\, civil society (campaigns)\, and c orporates. He is responsible for orchestrating and managing some of the la rgest victim led justice\, human rights\, international law\, and environm ental class actions around the world (including cases against IRA\, Hamas\ , IS\, Ghaddafi\, Lukashenko and recently representing the victims of Rohi ngya genocide against Facebook).\n\nHe is a founding partner of Ebro Globa l (www.ebroglobal.com – a not for profit organisation providing consulta ncy to governments and INGOs) and Rigel (www.rigelcorporation.com – prov iding litigation support and consultancy) and is Senior Partner of McCue J ury & Partners LLP (www.mccue-law.com – an international law firm). Jaso n is a founding partner of Greenlit SA (www.greenlit.global – a funding platform for global ESG related litigation).\n\nAmong other roles\, he has acted as Presidential Envoy for Somaliland\; as facilitator to the joint UN/AU Darfur Peace Process\; as adviser on transitional justice to the Tra nsitional Government of Libya\; and as head of the Libya-UK Victims Reconc iliation Group (supported by the U.K. FCO).\n\nJason recently founded Ukr aine Justice Alliance (www.ukrainejusticealliance.com) to provide legal re source (focusing on lawfare\, accountability and reparations) to the Ukrai nian people\, government\, and civil society. Leading law firms\, academic s and law schools throughout the world have joined the UJA to date. Jason is leading the Ukrainian Government backed civil society lawfare programme .\n\nHe has been a board member/advisor to numerous charities/NGOs includi ng Oxfam\, the Great Initiative\, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation and Crisis Act ion.\n\n\n LOCATION:In person\, SG2\, Alison Richard Building\, University of Cambrid ge END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR