Pax-salon Mailing List: Conversational Salon Erlinder/Dafur 10.26 6:30pm

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HI Everyone,  The following is our salon for next Tuesday.

patty

Begin forwarded message:

> Peter Erlinder on "Darfur and the International Criminal Court: the
> reality behind the facade"
> Pax Conversational Salon
> Tuesday, October 26, 6:30 to 8:30pm
> Mad Hatter's Tea House, 943 West Seventh, St. Paul.
>
> Peter Erlinder:
> Professor of Law at William Mitchell College of Law
> Lead Defense Counsel at the UN Tribunal for Rwanda
> Past National President (93-97) of the National Lawyers Guild
> Recently released from a Rwanda prison
>
> New additional longer (auto)bio:
>
> Academic Career: Prof. Peter Erlinder began his preparation for legal
> academia repairing garbage trucks and performing "hands-on  
> environmental
> upgrading" in the alleys of the Southside of Chicago, where President
> Obama began his career as a community organizier and Michelle Robinson
> Obama was raised. He attended Georgetown Law School and graduated  
> from the
> Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago-Kent College of Law.  He  
> was a
> Bigelow Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School and  
> on the
> Clinical Faculty at IIT/Chgo-Kent before joing the Wm Mitchell  
> College of
> Law Faculty in 1982. He has been a visited and lectured at Columbia  
> U; U.
> of Wisconsin; ; Geo. Wash. U;  U of Texas;  Waseda U (Tokyo); U of  
> Paris;
> Erasmus U, The Hague, and others.  He is the Director of the  
> International
> Humanitarian Law Institute, St. Paul, MN.
>
> Publication: He is the co-author of the three-volume treatise Criminal
> Constitutional Law (Lexis/Nexis) and author of numerous academic  
> articles,
> which have been cited by the Supreme Court of the United States,  
> various
> States, and many lower federal and state courts.  His commentaries are
> carried by domestic and international media, such as the New York  
> Times;
> Washington Post; Chicago Tribune, major Minnesota dailies;  
> International
> Herald Tribune; the Guardian; BBC; CNN; CBS; PBS; Al-Jazeera; CBC,  
> etc. He
> is President of the Association des Avocats de la Defense (ADAD-  
> defense
> lawyers of the UN-Rwanda Tribunal) ; Lead Defense Counsel-UN Rwanda
> Tribunal; past-President of the National Lawyers Guild; Founder of the
> National Police Accountability Project; founding Board Member,  
> National
> Coalition to Protect Political Freedom (to oppose "secret evidence"
> deportations) and National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms  
> (opposing
> pre-textual prosecutions of Muslims and politically-motivated  
> "material
> support" prosecutions; Legal Advisor, Somali Justice Advocacy Center.
>
> Legal Practice: Practice: first successful criminal defense of Vietnam
> Veterans suffering psychological effects of war (PTSD);  first
> Inter-American Human Rights claim against Peruvian Fujimori  
> dictatorship
> use of " faceless judges" (Dr. Abimael Guzman); defense counsel  
> post-9/11
> for Omar Jamal and many members of Minnesota's Somali community; U.S.
> counsel for families of Japanese students killed by US submarine off
> Hawaii; counsel for Minnesotans civilly-incarcerated for life  
> without jury
> trials or chance for release; defense counsel for the Cuban Five,  
> Cuban
> anti-terrorists convicted on false-espionage charges; defense  
> counsel for
> Palestinian-academic/activist Dr. Sami al Arian, acquitted of  
> "terrorism
> charges" but incarcerated;  Muhamed Warsame, longest pre-trial  
> detainee in
> US history (61/2 years in solitary confinement post-9/11); Muslims  
> facing
> politically-motivated charges; political activists facing
> poltically-motivated repression on "material support" and other  
> charges;
> won first acquittals at UN Rwanda Tribunal on conspiracy and  
> planning to
> commit genocide charges; and, numerous clients without power or  
> privilege,
> whose fundamental constitutional or human rights have been violated,  
> the
> vindication of which contribute to protecting civil liberties and
> democracy for all of us....as a matter of principle.