Black Lives Matter Around the Globe: A Symposium Focused on Racial and Ethnic Discrimination Abroad - Fordham University
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The International Law Journal, the Leitner Center for International Law
and Justice and the Center on Race, Law and Justice presents
Black Lives Matter Around the Globe: A Symposium
Focused on Racial and Ethnic Discrimination Abroad
February 12, 2021
10 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. EDT
Zoom Webinar
CLE COURSE MATERIALSTable of Contents - http://jkhome.nic.in/psa0001.pdf
1. Speaker Biographies (view in document) [REPORT] Amnesty International Report -
Armed Forces Special Powers Act
2. CLE Materials
- https://www.amnesty.org/download/Docu
ments/12000/asa200422013en.pdf
Panel 1 #KashmiriLivesMatter: A Discussion
about the Ongoing Conflict in Kashmir [REPORT] OHCHR Report - Developments
in
UAPA, 1967 -
Kashmir https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/
https://www.mha.gov.in/sites/default/files/A
Countries/IN/DevelopmentsInKashmirJune
1967-37.pdf
2016ToAp
ril2018.pdf
UAPA Amendment 2019 -
http://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/2019/
[REPORT] OHCHR Report - UN experts
210355.pdf
call for urgent action to remedy "alarming"
human rights
Armed Forces (Jammu & Kashmir) Special
situation https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEv
Powers Act, 1990 -
ents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=26
https://www.mha.gov.in/sites/default/files/T
148
he%20Armed%20Forces%20%28Jammu%
20and%20Kashmir%29%20Special%20Po
wers%20Act%2C%201990_0.pdf Panel 2: Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in
Africa
Public Safety Act - [ARTICLE] ConCourt Brings Relief to Children
http://jkhome.nic.in/psa0001.pdf Born in South Africa to Foreign Parents
- https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-
Human Rights: africa/2020-02-27-concourt-brings-relief-to-
https://www.amnesty.org/download/Docum children-born-in-sa-to-foreign-parents/
ents/12000/asa200422013en.pdf
[ARTICLE] Ensuring All Lives Matter in South
https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countrie Africa - Toward Freedom
s/IN/DevelopmentsInKashmirJune2016ToA - https://towardfreedom.org/story/ensuring-all-
black-lives-matter-in-south-africa/
pril2018.pdf
[CONSTITUTION] - Excerpt of Bill of Rights
https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pag and Chapter 14 of Kenyan Constitution
es/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=26148 - http://www.kenyalaw.org:8181/exist/kenyalex/
actview.xql?actid=Const2010
[Law] UAPA, 1967
- https://www.mha.gov.in/sites/default/files/ [ARTICLE] - Black American and Kenyan Lives
A1967-37.pdf Matter - https://www.the-star.co.ke/siasa/2020-
06-13-black-american-and-kenyan-lives-matter/
[Law] UAPA Amendment 2019
- http://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/2019 [LEGAL RULING] - Chisuse and Others v
/210355.pdf Director-General, Department of Home Affairs
and Another [2020] ZACC 20
- https://collections.concourt.org.za/bitstream/h
[Law] Armed Forces (Jammu & andle/20.500.12144/36628/Judgment%20CCT
Kashmir) Special Powers Act, %20155-
1990 https://www.mha.gov.in/sites/default/fi 19%20Chisuse%20and%20Others%20v%20Di
les/The%20Armed%20Forces%20%28Jam rector-
mu% 20and%20Kashmir%29%20Special% General%2c%20Department%20....pdf?seque
20Powers%20Act%2C%201990_0.pdf nce=47&isAllowed=y
[Law] Public Safety ActPanel 3: Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in Europe Black Lives and German Exceptionalism Citizens of Nowhere [ARTICLE] - Black Lives Matter and German Exceptionalism - https://verfassungsblog.de/black-lives- and-german- exceptionalism/#:~:text=The%20killings%2 0of%20George%20Floyd,movement%20ha s%20come%20into%20being. [ARTICLE] - Citizens of Nowhere? Fear, Race, Migration, and the Dangers of Formalism - https://www.juwiss.de/84- 2016/ [CASE LAW] - DeGraffenreid v. General Motors Assembly Division St. Louis - https://www.westlaw.com/Document/I125 961b4910211d98e8fb00d6c6a02dd/View/F ullText.html?transitionType=Default&conte xtData=(sc.Default)&VR=3.0&RS=cblt1.0 [CASE LAW] - Korematsu v. United States - https://www.westlaw.com/Document/Id4c 846ac9c1d11d991d0cc6b54f12d4d/View/F ullText.html?transitionType=Default&conte xtData=(sc.Default)&VR=3.0&RS=cblt1.0
Bios for ILJ Spring Symposium CLE Packet Panel 1 Sehla Ashai Sehla Ashai is a Kashmiri American attorney and human rights activist, with a special focus on immigration, racial/religious discrimination, and women's rights. A graduate of Johns Hopkins University and University of Michigan Law School, Ms. Ashai received the Henry Bates and Clara Belfield Fellowship from University of Michigan Law School in 2005 to study the state subjects law of Kashmir and presented her findings at the Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting Session on Law and South Asian Studies. After law school, Sehla has worked as a federal judicial law clerk, a legal aid attorney, a human rights program consultant (domestically and internationally), and the director of immigration litigation for a nonprofit focused on serving the Muslim community. Currently, she is adjunct professor of law at the Texas A&M University Law School’s Immigrant Rights Clinic. Arjun Sethi Arjun Singh Sethi is a human rights lawyer, professor, author, and community activist based in Washington, DC. He works closely with Muslim, Arab, South Asian and Sikh communities, and holds faculty appointments at Georgetown University Law Center and Vanderbilt University Law School. In the wake of the 2016 election, Arjun traveled the country and met with a diversity of people to document the hate they experienced during the campaign and after inauguration. American Hate: Survivors Speak Out was released in August 2018 and named an NPR Best Book of the Year. Arjun also serves as Co-Chair of the Committee on Homeland Security, Terrorism & Treatment of Enemy Combatants at the American Bar Association and has served as a legal observer across the world, including military commissions at Guantanamo Bay. Mrinal Sharma Mrinal is a human rights lawyer and researcher who works with unlawfully detained human rights defenders, asylum seekers, refugees and stateless persons in South Asia. She completed her L.L.B. from the University of Delhi in 2013 and earned her L.L.M. in International Law and Justice from Fordham University of Law in 2018 where she was also a Dean's Scholar. Most recently, she worked as a Policy Advisor with Amnesty International India until the organisation was forced to shut down by the Government of India. At Amnesty, Mrinal's work focused on arbitrary deprivation of nationality in Assam, hindered access to justice in Kashmir and demonisation of minorities in India. Previously, she has worked with the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative and Refugee Solidarity Network. Her work has been published in various news dailies and the annual journal of the Indian National Human Rights Commission. Panel 2 Kofi Abotsi Dr. Kofi Abotsi is the Dean of the UPSA Law School. Prior to his assumption of post, he was the immediate past Dean of the GIMPA Law School, a position he held between for six (6) years 2012 and 2018. As a practicing lawyer, Dean Abotsi has a 19-year standing at the Bar and has played an active role in the administrative life of
the Ghanaian Bar. Dean Abotsi has also held various public service positions, including serving on Constitutional Commissions and consulting for governmental and inter-governmental agencies and bodies including the IMF. In addition to the above, Dean Abotsi has served on a number of boards and advisory councils and played pivotal roles in shaping the policy direction of corporate entities in Ghana, including presently chairing the advisory board of the Chief Executives Officers (CEO) Network of Ghana, (a body comprising the CEOs of some of the largest and notable corporations in Ghana). Dean Abotsi holds a bachelor of Laws Degree and Barrister-at-Law Certificate from the University of Ghana and the Ghana School of Law respectively, a Master of Laws Degree from the Harvard Law School and a doctoral degree in constitutional law from the University of Milan. He is equally widely consulted in academia and has been a visiting scholar and guest lecturer in leading European and American universities including Oxford University in the United Kingdom, Fordham Law School and Indiana Law School, in the United States, and the Universities in Italy. Dean Abotsi has written extensively in leading peer review journals of law in the world in various areas of law but largely concentrated in constitutional and corporate law. He is a member of charitable organizations and professional bodies including the Ghana Bar Association and rotary international. He is also a fellow of the Institute of Directors, Ghana. Willy Mutunga Willy Mutunga was Kenya’s 14th Chief Justice since independence and first President of the Supreme Court under the 2010 Constitution. He served in that capacity from 2011 to 2016. Recently he has served as consultant with the Constitution Review Commission of The Gambia; Secretary General of the Commonwealth special envoy to the Maldives; and a distinguished scholar-in-residence at Fordham Law’s Leitner Center for international Law and Justice School. Justice Mutunga studied law in the University of Dar es Salaam (LLB. LL.M) and Osgoode Hall Law School, University of York, Toronto (D.Jur). He is Senior Counsel of the Kenyan Bar. Justice Mutunga played a pivotal role in the constitution-making processes in Kenya from the 1970s and particularly, from the early 1990s. He worked on the implementation of the progressive 2010 Kenyan Constitution as head of the Judiciary and President of the apex court in the country. He advocated, in his writings and judgments, for the development of indigenous, robust, patriotic, decolonized, de- imperialized, pro-people, progressive, gender just, non-racist, non-ethnic, and transformative jurisprudence that is not insular and does not pay unthinking deference to other jurisdictions, regardless of how prominent they may be. He has also advocated for a progressive jurisprudence for Africa and the global south as part of the significant contribution in the struggle for a new just, peaceful, non-militaristic, ecologically safe, prosperous, egalitarian, and equitable socialist world. During his tenure as Chief Justice, Mutunga sought to lay permanent and indestructible foundations for a transformed judiciary. Under the blueprint of the Kenyan Judiciary Transformation Framework 2012- 2016, he achieved impressive progress in bringing the justice system closer to the ordinary people. He also worked on the linkage between formal and traditional justice systems as decreed by the constitution.
He not only humanized the Kenyan judicial system but also reduced the case backlogs significantly. He aimed to use technology as an enabler of justice, as well as to bring about equitable and transparent systems of recruitment, promotions, and training. He supported and strengthened the Judicial Training Institute as a nucleus for juristic training and an institution of higher learning. Justice Mutunga is well known for his fight against corruption in the Judiciary and in Kenya as a whole. He spearheaded, in the national interest, independent and principled dialogue, consultation, and collaboration between the three arms of government, the devolved governments, civil and corporate society, the media, and the public as a whole. Under his watch the notion of the Judiciary as an institutional political actor began to take root. As one of Kenya’s organic intellectuals Justice Mutunga has written books, co-authored books, and wrote many scholarly articles on his various areas of intellectual interest and pursuit. He continues to work with various social movements led by the grassroots youth and the middle classes that are committed to Kenya’s fundamental transformation. Monique Griffith Bio to be added Panel 3 Eddie Bruce-Jones Dr. Eddie Bruce-Jones is Deputy Dean of the School of Law and Head of the Department of Law at Birkbeck College, University of London. In 2020, he was the William and Patricia Kleh Visiting Professor of International Law at Boston University. Dr Bruce-Jones is Associate Academic Fellow of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple and Member of the New York State Bar. Dr. Bruce-Jones is author of Race in the Shadow of Law: State Violence in Contemporary Europe and co- author of two forthcoming textbooks on equality law. His research has been published in the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, the UCLA Journal of International and Foreign Affairs, the World Policy Journal and Race & Class. He is currently writing a monograph on the indentured labour in Jamaica. Dr. Bruce-Jones is the recipient of a 2018 Wellcome Trust ISSF grant to support a symposium in the area of the medical humanities, on race, mental health and state violence. In 2017 and 2018, he was a short- stay visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt, Germany. Prior to joining Birkbeck, Dr Bruce-Jones was Visiting Lecturer in Public International Law at King’s College London School of Law and an associate at the city law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, LLP in London, where in addition to corporate practice, he handled several asylum and public international law pro bono matters. Dr. Bruce-Jones is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law. He serves on the Boards of Directors of the Institute for Race Relations and the UK Lesbian and Gay Immigration Group, and the Advisory Board of the Centre for Intersectional Justice (Berlin). He is a comparative law specialist for the Independent Commission on the Death of Oury Jalloh (on police brutality and due process). Vanessa E. Thompson
Vanessa E. Thompson is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in comparative social and cultural anthropology at European University Viadrina, teaching and working in the fields of black studies (especially black social movements), critical racism studies, postcolonial feminism, critiques of policing and abolition. She has published on blackness and black movements in France and Europe more broadly, black abolitionist struggles and Fanonian thought. She has co-founded an intersectional cop-watch collective in Germany and was active in the Christy Schwundeck Initiative. Oluwaseun Matiluko Seun Matiluko is a journalist studying the Bachelor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford. Whilst at Oxford Seun is studying Comparative Equality Law, Comparative Human Rights Law, Philosophy Law and Politics and is working on a 10,000-word dissertation tentatively titled Black Lives Matter and the (ICCPR) Right To Life. Prior to Seun’s scholarship at Oxford, Seun studied law at the University of Bristol and received an MSc in Empires Colonialism and Globalisation at LSE. Seun’s dissertation whilst at Bristol focussed on The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and its impact on women in sub-Saharan Africa. Seun’s dissertation whilst at LSE focussed on civil rights struggles in Britain and how they intersected with struggles happening at the same time in Africa. Aside from Seun’s studies Seun also regularly writes freelance for a number of different UK-based publications.
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