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SUMMARY:The Weaponisation of Human Rights - Chase Madar\, attorney\, autho
 r and journalist
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CONTACT:Romy Schirrmeister
DESCRIPTION:Human rights\, once a rallying cry to free prisoners of consci
 ence and curb government abuses\, is increasingly deployed as a justificat
 ion for war\, from Libya to Iraq\, from Niger to Colombia. Human rights la
 wyers in and out of government are weighing in on how wars should be fough
 t: in the United States\, the phrase "human rights-based approach to drone
 s" passes without much comment in the legal academy and mainstream media. 
 As human rights professionals enter the civilian and military institutions
  of government throughout North America and Western Europe\, what is the e
 ffect of these humanitarian legal doctrines on warfare–and vice versa? W
 ill this blossoming relationship bring about more humanity in warfare? Or 
 is human rights being conscripted into ever more militarized foreign polic
 y? \n\n\n*Speaker*\n\nChase Madar is an attorney\, author and journalist f
 rom New York. He is the author of The Passion of [Chelsea] Manning: The St
 ory behind the Wikileaks Whistleblower (Verso\, 2013) and a contributor to
  the New York Times\, Guardian\, London Review of Books\, Le Monde diploma
 tique\, The Nation\, The American Conservative\, Jacobin\, TomDispatch\, B
 ookforum and the TLS\, among other venues. He has lectured widely on law a
 nd society\, from Oxford and Cambridge to Occupy Wall Street and the Missi
 ssippi State capitol\, and is a frequent participant in academic conferenc
 es and workshops on international law\, criminal justice and U.S. foreign 
 policy. He has translated one book each from French and his own reporting 
 has been translated into a dozen languages. \n\nA graduate of Stanford and
  NYU Law School\, Madar was previously a staff attorney at Make the Road N
 ew York where he provided a wide variety of low-tech legal services to Spa
 nish-speaking immigrants and carried out larger advocacy projects includin
 g the first-ever empirical investigation into employment discrimination ag
 ainst transgender job-seekers and much work on school security reform. The
  most recent course he taught was a seminar on “Criminalization and its 
 discontents” at Wallkill Correctional Facility through the NYU Prison Ed
 ucation Program. \n\n
LOCATION:King's Audit Room\, King's College
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