Tanner Lecture 2002 - 2003
Current year program 2003-2004
Prior year program 2001-2002
The
Program in Ethics in Society and The Office of the President
are honored to welcome Mary Robinson to the Stanford Campus
to give the '02-'03 Tanner Lecture. These lectures are free
and open to the public. Kresge Auditorium is loated in the Stanford
Law School and is wheelchair accessible. All lectures and seminars
are located on the Stanford Campus.
"Human
Rights and Ethical Globalization"
February 12, 2003, 5:45pm, Kresge Auditorium, Stanford
Seminar February 13 2003, 11:30am, SIEPR A
Landau Economic Building, Stanford
Discussants:
Deborah Rhode
(http://lawschool.stanford.edu/faculty/rhode/)
Susan Okin
http://www.ksu.edu/dthompson/okin.html
"The
Challenge of Human Rights Protection in Africa"
February 13 2003, 7:00pm, Kresge Auditorium, Stanford
Seminar February 14 2003, 9:00am, SIEPR A
Landau Economic Building, Stanford
Discussants:
Larry J. Diamond
http://www.stanford.edu/~ldiamond/
David Abernethy
Go
to Abernethy website
Mary
Robinson was the former President of Ireland and United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights (until September).
"Since
her appointment as United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in June 1997, Mary
Robinson has taken on the difficult challenges of her office
without hesitation and has consistently stressed the need for
action in the struggle to extend the full range of human rights
to all citizens.
Born
in Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland on May 21, 1944, Mary Robinson
was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where she received
a Master of Arts degree in 1970. She also earned a Barrister-at-Law
degree from the King's Inns, Dublin, and a Master of Laws degree
from Harvard University.
At
the age of 25, Mrs. Robinson was appointed Reid Professor of
Constitutional and Criminal Law at Trinity College, where she
also served as lecturer in European community law. With her
husband Nicholas, Mrs. Robinson founded the Irish Centre for
European Law in 1988. From 1969 to 1989, Mary Robinson was a
member of Seanad Eireann, the Upper House of Parliament. She
has also served on the Dublin City Council and the International
Commission of Jurists.
In
December 1990, Mrs. Robinson was inaugurated as the seventh
president of Ireland. As president, she represented her country
internationally, developing a new sense of Ireland's economic,
political, and cultural ties to other countries and cultures.
Linking the history of the Great Irish Famine to today's nutrition,
poverty, and policy issues, she articulated a special relationship
between Ireland and developing countries.
The
Robinson presidency was characterized by inclusiveness and a
concerted effort to use the office not only to improve the situations
of marginalized groups within Ireland but also to draw attention
to global crises. Mrs. Robinson was the first head of state
to visit famine-stricken Somalia in 1992 and also the first
to go to Rwanda in the aftermath of the genocide there. In recognition
of her efforts in Somalia, Mrs. Robinson received the Special
CARE Humanitarian Award in 1993.
Her
humanitarian work as president, her background in human rights
law, and her uncompromising pursuit of justice and equality
made her a prime candidate for the position of United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights. As High Commissioner, Mrs.
Robinson is responsible for overseeing the human rights activities
of the United Nations, including promoting universal enjoyment
of human rights, responding to human rights violations, undertaking
preventive human rights action, and providing education and
assistance in the field of human rights. Taking every opportunity
to speak out on human rights abuses as they occur, she has recently
expressed urgent concern about conflicts in East Timor, Kosovo,
and Sierra Leone, among others"
Fulbright
alumni - Robinson
BBC
forum on Robinson
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/hchr/unhc.htm
PBS
Newshour on Robinson
Salon.com
interview with Robinson
UK
Guardian story on Robinson
http://www.obrien.ie/Book187.cfm
