April 25 appearance of Judge Baltasar Garzon
From: patty (pattypaxearthlink.net)
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 12:57:43 -0700 (PDT)
I hope some of you would like to attend this appearance of Judge Garzon.




On Monday, April 25 at 2:00 p.m. Baltasar Garzon, a judge on Spain's Audiencia Nacional, will be speaking on "Truth, Justice and Reparation," at the University of Minnesota Law School (Room 25). Judge Garzon, best known for his attempts to bring Augusto Pinochet to justice, in recent years has begun investigations -- judges conduct investigations in the Spanish system -- of six high-ranking Bush administration lawyers for torture, of El Salvador military personnel for the 1989 killings of four Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter, and of Franco regime crimes. That latter item led to two right-wing groups filing charges against him, which were upheld by a Spanish court and resulted in indictments.

On January 28, 2011, a Spanish court ruled that the torture investigation of the six Bush administration lawyers could go forward. U.S. officials were given until March 1, 2011, to let the Spanish court know if the matter was being dealt with through the U.S. justice system.

A good source on Garzon might be Professor Lisa Hilbink (hilbink [at] umn.edu , 612-626-0160) of the University of Minnesota's Political Science Department, who delivered a recent talk about Garzon. I'm not sure, but she may be writing a book based on her paper.

Garzon is making only three appearances in the U.S. -- here, at Berkeley, and somewhere else in California. The European Studies Consortium of the U's Institute for Global Studies is bringing him here

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