Liberty Under Law – Details, episodes & analysis

Staffan I. Lindberg of the V-Dem Institute joins Kristan again to wrap up the year's theme and discuss their most recent (as of recording) Democracy Report, which analyzes the characteristics of democracy and each country's movement toward democracy or autocracy.Staffan I. Lindberg is a Professor of political science and Director of the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and a founding Principal Investigator of Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem).

Leading experts on Ukraine and international criminal tribunals share their thoughts on how an international tribunal could be established to hold Russia accountable for its invasion of Ukraine and the atrocities being committed. This episode is drawn from a July 28, 2022 webinar was hosted by the Robert H. Jackson Center and co-sponsored by the Global Accountability Network, the International Section of the New York State Bar Association, and the Public International Law & Policy Group. Panelists are:

• Ambassador Hans Corell, former Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and former Legal Counsel of the United Nations

• David Crane, founding Chief Prosecutor for the Special Court for Sierra Leone and Founder, Global Accountability Network

• Ambassador Anton Korynevych, Ambassador-at-Large of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

• Inna Liniova, CEO & Executive Director of the Ukrainian Bar Association

• Dr. Paul Williams, the Moderator and co-Founder of the Public International Law & Policy Group

Richard Overy, historian and prolific author, shares his thoughts on the interplay of the Nuremberg Trials with the allegations of crimes committed by Soviet soldiers during World War II. Professor Overy was the Robert H. Jackson Center's 2022 Al & Marge Brown Lecturer on World War II.

Richard Overy is an honorary professor at the University of Exeter and the author of more than 30 books on military history, World War II, the Third Reich, the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin, and the Soviet war effort

The final installment of our Cold War Secrets Revealed seminar features Professor Arthur T. Downey. He speaks about his government experience and his book - The Cold War: Law, Lawyers, Spies and Crises.

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The third installment of the Cold War Secrets Revealed seminar features Nancy Thorndike Greenspan as the Al & Marge Brown Lecturer. She discusses her book Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs.

The Robert H. Jackson Center envisions a world where the universal principles of equality, fairness, and justice prevail. All Jackson Center programming is free and open to the public. To learn more about the Jackson Center, our mission, and our work, please visit us at www.roberthjackson.org. To support our mission and work, please click here: https://bit.ly/2YABefz

The second episode of the Cold War Secrets Revealed seminar features Eli Rosenbaum. He shared stories from his work as the director for the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Special Investigations, which was primarily responsible for identifying, de-naturalizing, and deporting Nazi war criminals from 1994 to 2010.

The first episode of the Robert H Jackson Center Cold War Special, Counsel General of Germany in New York, David Gill shares his perspective growing up in East Germany, the changes that occurred after the Berlin Wall fell as Germany reunified, and the preservation of evidence related to the Stasi, German Secret State Police.

Join Kristan and the women from the Center for Democracy and Technology as they discuss equity issues in technology. Listen as they about technology accessibility and how socioeconomic status, abilities, and race and ethnicity impact tech equity. Panelists include: Avery Gardiner, General Counsel and Senior Fellow for Competition, Data, and Power Lydia X. Z. Brown, Policy Counsel, Privacy and Data Project Hannah Quay-de la Vallee, Senior Technologist

Join Kristan as she talks to Navi Pillay, the former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, discussing human rights during a pandemic. Ms. Pillay has focused on human rights for much of her storied career - defending anti-apartheid activists, acting as a judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and serving as a judge on the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court - ICC in the Hague.