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This talk will feature Charles Moyer, the former Assistant Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and Registrar of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Drawing from his illustrious career devoted to the international protection of human rights, Moyer will reflect on the development of the inter-American system for human rights and consider its current outlook amid contemporary challenges. Charles Moyer is a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Law. After law school, he worked as a Peace Corps volunteer in Venezuela and a legal aid attorney, before becoming a staff lawyer at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. He was the first U.S. national to serve as the Executive Secretary of the Commission and later served as the Registrar of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights from 1980 to 1989. From 1989 to 2024, Moyer held various roles at the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights. Since 2012, the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice has awarded the Charles Moyer Human Rights Fellowship to Texas Law students through the generous support of Scott Hendler and Lulu Flores of Hendler Flores Law, PLLC, an international plaintiffs' trial firm based in Austin, Texas.