Notre Dame Law School Calendar of Events 24 October 2006, Tuesday Halloween Candy Grams Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT Location: Student Lounge Phi Alpha Delta is selling Halloween Candy Grams. Only $1 each! Send them to all of your friends. Sponsor : Phi Alpha Delta Contact Name : Annie Mulligan Summer Fellowship & Public Interest Opportunities Time: 12:00pm - 12:45pm EDT Location: Room 105 Looking for ways to fund your public interest job interests next summer? Come discuss funding options and job search strategies with Alisa over the lunch hour. Sponsor : Career Services Office Contact Name : Alisa Rosales Contact Phone : 631-8236 Contact Email : Rosales.11@nd.edu Professor Jonathan Adler of Case Western Reserve Law School will speak on Environmental Law Topics Time: 12:10pm - 1:00pm EDT Location: Room 110 Sponsor : The Federalist Society Contact Name : Rob Driscoll Contact Email : rdrisco1@nd.edu The role of national courts in prosecuting gross violations of human rights Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm EDT Location: Courtroom Mr Gahima will discuss the role of national courts in prosecuting genocide and crimes against humanity. He will particularly discuss different methods of accountability for gross violations of human rights used in Rwanda and evaluate their weaknesses and strengths with regard to issues of justice, truth, reparation and prevention. Gerald Gahima is a law graduate of Makerere University, Kampala Uganda and holds a Master of Laws degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He practiced law in Kenya before joining public service in Rwanda, where served respectively as Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Public Service, Deputy Minister and Secretary General of the Ministry of Justice, Attorney General and Deputy Chief Justice. Mr Gahima was instrumental in the rebuilding of both the public service and the judicial system of Rwanda following the 1994 war and genocide. He was intimately involved in the formulation of national policy on the issues of justice in general and accountability for genocide and other grave violations of human rights which were committed during the war in particular, the promotion of human rights and the rule of law, legal and judicial reform in post war Rwanda. He was also the government's principal legal adviser and representative on legal aspects of international matters. Mr Gahima served as a consultant to the War Crimes Chamber Project and as an International Judge on the War Crimes and Organised Crime Chambers of the Court of Bosnia Hercegovina. He is currently a Senior Fellow with Jennings Randolph Program for International Peace, United States Institute of Peace. Mr Gahima recently testified before the Congress on "the practice of International Tribunals and their relevance to Military Commissions in Light of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld". Sponsor : Center for Civil and Human Rights Contact Name : Jean-Marie Kamatali Contact Phone : 631 7233 Contact Email : jkamatal@nd.edu For questions regarding this calendar, contact: Webmaster Licensed To: Notre Dame Law School