Event Title
Inforporation of Treaty and International Law in the United States: A Focus on the Juvenile Death Penalty
Start Date
17-3-2000 9:45 AM
End Date
17-3-2000 12:45 PM
Description
Professor Connie de la Vega teaches International Human Rights at the University of San Francisco. She has also taught the course in U.S.F's summer abroad program at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland and will be teaching it this summer at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. She is also Director of the International Human Rights and Civil Litigation Clinics at U.S.F. The students in the International Human Right Clinic prepare written and oral statements on various human rights topics and participate in U.N. meetings in Geneva and New York. They also work on amicus curiae briefs in U.S. courts where international law is applicable. Professor de la Vega has written numerous articles on international human rights law including its application in the U.S. The articles and book reviews have appeared in Human Rights Quarterly and law journals at Harvard, University of Cincinnati, Whittier, and U.S.F.
Professor de Ia Vega will address the prohibition against the death penalty for juvenile offenders and its recent application in United States courts. She will include a discussion of the application of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in the U.S. and the effect and validity of reservations and declarations attached to the instrument of ratification. She will also cover the operation of customary international law and jus co gens norms.
Inforporation of Treaty and International Law in the United States: A Focus on the Juvenile Death Penalty
Professor Connie de la Vega teaches International Human Rights at the University of San Francisco. She has also taught the course in U.S.F's summer abroad program at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland and will be teaching it this summer at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. She is also Director of the International Human Rights and Civil Litigation Clinics at U.S.F. The students in the International Human Right Clinic prepare written and oral statements on various human rights topics and participate in U.N. meetings in Geneva and New York. They also work on amicus curiae briefs in U.S. courts where international law is applicable. Professor de la Vega has written numerous articles on international human rights law including its application in the U.S. The articles and book reviews have appeared in Human Rights Quarterly and law journals at Harvard, University of Cincinnati, Whittier, and U.S.F.
Professor de Ia Vega will address the prohibition against the death penalty for juvenile offenders and its recent application in United States courts. She will include a discussion of the application of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in the U.S. and the effect and validity of reservations and declarations attached to the instrument of ratification. She will also cover the operation of customary international law and jus co gens norms.