Ariel E Dulitzky
- Clinical Professor
- Director, Human Rights Clinic
Faculty Profile: Ariel E Dulitzky
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Ariel Dulitzky is Clinical Professor of Law, the Director of the Human Rights Clinic and the Director of the Latin America Initiative. He is also an affiliated faculty of the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies and of the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice. He is a leading expert in the inter-American human rights system. In 2010 he was appointed to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances and elected as its Chair-Rapporteur in 2013 (2013-2015). Prior to joining the University of Texas, he was Assistant Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). Professor Dulitzky is an honors graduate of the University of Buenos Aires, School of Law, where he was editor of the Law Review. He received his LLM from Harvard Law School in 1999, where he was an editor of the Harvard Human Rights Journal. He served as a law clerk for a Federal Circuit Court in Argentina.
A native of Argentina, Professor Dulitzky has dedicated his career to human rights—in both his scholarly research and his legal practice. His extensive expertise is derived from active involvement in the promotion and defense of rights, particularly in the Americas and in international human rights litigation. His publications focus on human rights, the inter-American human rights system, enforced disappearances, afro-descendants and indigenous collective rights, racial discrimination and the rule of law in Latin America. He has taught at the University of Buenos Aires and the Washington College of Law at American University.
Recently, Professor Dulitzky has become interested in exploring the intersection between sports and human rights. He has been teaching a seminar on International Sports and Human Rights Law. Currently, he serves as the chair of the Student Athletes and Activities Committee ath the University of Texas at Austin.
Dulitzky received the 2007 Gary Bellow Public Service Award from Harvard Law School for his career in human rights. He has served as advisor to the IACHR's first Special Rapporteur on Afro-Descendants that he helped to establish in 2005. He has been an advisor to the second edition of the Amnesty International Fair Trial Manual and a member of the advisory panel for the revision of the UN Manual on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extralegal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions. Previously, Professor Dulitzky was the Latin America Program Director at the International Human Rights Law Group and Co-Executive Director of the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL). Professor Dulitzky has directed the litigation of more than 100 cases in front of the Inter-American Commission and Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
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2023
August 29, 2023
Roundtable discussion: "El Tri": deportes, derechos humanos, y violencia ("The Tri": sports, human rights, and violence)
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
This is a conversation on the book "El Tri": Deportes, Derechos Humanos y Violencia ("The Tri": sports, human rights, and violence) written by professor Ariel Dulitzky in collaboration with Clarissa Iglesias, taking place as part of La Feria Internacional del Libro de las Universitarias y los Universitarios (Filuni). The book explores intersections between sports and human rights, with many examples from Mexico. Participants include Rogelio Flores, Director of Instituto de Estudios Consitucionales del Estado de Querétaro and Alejandro Fernández Varela, Director General of Sports at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
July 3, 2023
Speaker at conference: “Hold Iran’s Regime Accountable for Ongoing Crimes Against Humanity”
Paris, France
Dulitzky spoke at the conference: “Hold Iran’s Regime Accountable for Ongoing Crimes Against Humanity." The topic of his presentation was “Enforced Disappearances and the pursuit of justice.”
June 8, 2023
Panelist: Fomentando la competencia intercultural desde la práctica
World Council on Intercultural and Global Competence (online)
Live online panel discussion "Fomentando la competencia intercultural desde la práctica (promoting practical intercultural competence) hosted by the World Council on Intercultural and Global Competence.
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May 26, 2023
Participant in Conference: Ejecuciones Extrajudiciales Criterios del Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos
Centro de Educación Continua, Abierta y a Distancia (CECAD-UABJO) and online
Participant in the hybrid online/in person conference "Ejecuciones Extrajudiciales Criterios del Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos" (Extrajudicial Killings: the Interamerican System of Human Rights' Criteria).
May 10, 2023
Guest Lecture: Human Rights Lawyering under Populist Regimes
The Minerva Center for Human Rights, Tel Aviv University
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May 8, 2023
Presentation to the International Law Workshop at the University of Tel Aviv School of Law
University of Tel Aviv School of Law
May 2023
Meeting with Alex Weinreb, Research Director at the Taub Center
Taub Center, Jerusalem, Israel
April 26, 2023
Taught a Judicial Education Seminar for visiting Brazilian federal judges
University of Texas School of Law
January 26, 2023
Talk: "Cain and Abel and Enforced Disappearances: Reflections from an Argentine Jewish Human Rights Lawyer"
Shusterman Center for Jewish Studies, College of Liberal Arts
Dulitzky gave a talk on enforced disappearances as viewed through the lens of a story from ancient scripture: Cain and Abel.
2022
December 8, 2022
Moderator: webinar "Improving Transitional Justice with People-Powered Transformative Justice"
Online
Ariel Dulitzky served as moderator in an interactive webinar "composed of frontline conflict victims/survivors from South Africa, Nepal and Syria working for transitional and transformative justice in their own countries. The panelists are founding members of the International Network of Victims and Survivors (INOVAS), a global solidarity network for victims and survivors of violent conflicts and human rights abuses." The panelists were Ahmad Helmi, Marjorie Jobson, and Ram Bhandari.
October 14, 2022
Panel Discussion and presentation of a paper - X Encuentro Nacional de Cuidados Paliativos
X Encuentro Nacional de Cuidados Paliativos, Argentina (10th National Conference on Palliative Care)
Clinical Professor Dulitzky participated in a panel discussion on La despedidad al final de la vida (The Goodbye at the End of Life) with Dr. of Psychology Silvina Dulitzky, Dr. María Laura Daud, moderated by psychologist Lorena Etcheverry. He also presented a paper on Human Rights Approaches to Mourning: The case of enforced disappearances.
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June 22, 2022
Invited Speaker
Participates in “El derecho a la reparación - desde diferentes áreas del derecho” (The Right to Reparations- As Seen from Different Areas of the Law), a roundtable discussion organized by The Independent Consultation and Investigation Mechanism (MICI). MICI addresses complaints against projects funded by the Inter-American Development Bank Group.
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May 1, 2022
Provided comments to journalist: The Alcalde
Dulitzky provided comments for an article published in The Alcalde about new rules allowing NCAA college athletes to profit from their name, image, and likeness.
April 4, 2022
Panelist: Human Rights & Political Violence in Latin America: Historic & Modern Implications for US Foreign Policy
William C. Powers, Jr. Building, North Ballroom
The International Affairs Society at The University of Texas at Austin invited Dulitzky to be a roundtable panelist in their annual event. The topic for 2022 was “Human Rights and Political Violence in Latin America: Historic and Modern Implications for US Foreign Policy.”
February 12, 2022
Provided comments to journalist: The Intercept
The Intercept
Dulitzky provided a statement to journalist Alleen Brown of The Intercept for the article "Boiling Behind Bars, In Sweltering Texas, Prisons Without Air Conditioning Are About to Get a Lot Hotter." His statement: “If any other Texan doesn’t have AC, they can be in a shaded situation. They can drink more water. They can take a shower,” [...] “Persons deprived of their liberty are under the absolute control of the state. They cannot do anything.”
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January 11, 2022, 6:15 PM
Interviewee: DW Español
Clinical Prof. Ariel Dulitzky provides analysis (in Spanish) on prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. DW Español is a news outlet based in Germany providing international news broadcast in Spanish. The interview was posted on Twitter.
2021
December 1, 2021
Interviewee: KXAN
KXAN, Nexstar Media Inc.
Clinical Professor Ariel Dulitzky provided statements about the Name, Image, Likeness (NIL) initiative called the Clark Field Collective which serves "to facilitate NIL deals between businesses, donors, fans and athletes, and serve as a support network that will help educate student athletes."
Article and interview by Tahera Rahman, published Dec. 1, 2021.
November 5, 2021
Keynote Speaker
online, Instituto de Ciencias Juridicas y Forenses
Keynote speaker at the conference 7ma Cumbre Mundial de Expertos Forenses, La Criminalidad en el Marco de la Pandemia (7th World Summit of Forensic Experts, Crime in the Context of the Pandemic), speaking on the subject of the phenomenon of enforced disappearances during the pandemic.
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October 12, 2021
Presenter: Info Session on Human Rights Internships & Fellowships
Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, Univ. of Texas School of Law
September 30, 2021
Provided comments to journalist
Christian Science Monitor
Dulitzky is quoted in a news story by Anna-Catherina Brigida, published in the Christian Science Monitor, "Under government attack, Salvadoran judges seek international remedy." The article concerns El Salvador's Constitutional Court judges who were illegally fired in May 2021 by a legislature loyal to President Nayib Bukelein. The judges appealed to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and Dulitzky provided his perspective on the IACHR and the inter-American system.
July 15, 2021
Speaker
Virtual Seminar during Afrodescendence Month, July 2021
Virtual Seminar during Afrodescendence Month, July 2021: "Redes Sociales, Discursos de Odio y Libertad de Expresión. Viejos Problemas, Nuevos Escenarios" ("Social Networks, Hate Speech and Freedom of Expression. Old Problems, New Scenarios"). This seminar was created in the framework of the United Nations' International Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024) and the 20th anniversary of the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, held in Durban, South Africa in 2001. Professor Dulitzky's portion of the video can be seen during 4:45 to 20:35.
April 9, 2021
Participant: curricular showcase, Admitted Students day
Virtual, at the University of Texas at Austin
Professor Dulitzky participated in the curricular showcase for International Law and Human Rights as part of UT Law's Admitted Students Day event.
April 7, 2021
Interviewee for the Institut d'Études Humanitaires Internationales
Virtual: Institut d'Études Humanitaires Internationales
Participated in the conference "Enforced Disappearances From the Perspectives of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Advances and Gaps in Inter-American Jurisprudence" hosted by the Institut d'Études Humanitaires Internationales. The interview is available at the link above.
March 4, 2021
Speaker at meeting of the Longhorn Alliance for Refugees and Asylees (LARA)
Virtual, at the University of Texas at Austin
Invited by the Outreach Coordinator, Dulitzky spoke at a meeting of the on-campus organization Longhorn Alliance for Refugees and Asylees (LARA). He discussed his work and research in inter-American human rights law and other subjects.
2020
August 31, 2020
Interviewee
The Advocacy Project podcast
Gave an interview with Iain Guest of the podcast The Advocacy Project. This episode is entitled "From Horror to Recovery" and discusses enforced disappearances in Argentina.
May 11, 2020
Received funds to support field research for book project “Leadership from the Horror. Argentina and Enforced disappearances”
University of Texas School of Law and LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections
The Argentine Studies Program is delighted to allocate $1500 to support field research expenses associated with Dulitzky's book project “Leadership from the Horror. Argentina and Enforced disappearances”.
2019
April 5, 2019
Participant: curricular showcase during Admitted Students Day
University of Texas School of Law
Professor Dulitzky participated in the curricular showcase for International Law and Human Rights as part of UT Law's Admitted Students Day event.
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April 5, 2019
Moderator: Witnesses to the Texas Death Penalty
The University of Texas School of Law
As part of the symposium The Death Penalty in Texas: Past, Present & Future on April 5-6, 2019, Professor Dulitzky served as moderator for the panel discussion Witnesses to the Texas Death Penalty. The symposium was sponsored by the Capital Punishment Clinic.
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March 23, 2019
Panelist
American University Washington College of Law
At the 4th National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, "People of Color and the Future of Democracy," Professor Dulitzky served on a panel entitled "Latin American Contributions to International Human Rights Theory."
March 18, 2019
Delegate of the International Bar Association Human Rights Institute for a report publication
Centro de Estudios de Derecho, Justicia y Sociedad (Dejusticia), Bogotá, Colombia
Professor Dulitzky served as one of the delegates from the International Bar Association Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) at the presentation of the new publication “¿Dónde Están? Estándares internacionales para la búsqueda de personas desaparecidas forzadamente” (Where are they? International Standards in the Search for Forcibly Disappeared Persons).
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March 12, 2019
Guest Speaker
Reagan Building, Texas Capitol
"Beat the Heat" Awareness Event to raise awareness of the dangers of extremely high temperatures in prisons in Texas. Organized by the Texas Prisons Air-Conditioning Advocates.
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March 7, 2019
Appointed to the Austin City Council Human Rights Commission
The Austin City Council appointed Ariel Dulitzky to the city’s Human Rights Commission.
February 21, 2019
Panelist
Texas A&M University School of Law, Fort Worth, Texas
Member of the panel called "The Hydrocarbons Industry and its Relations with Local Communities" at the 10th Annual Energy Law Symposium - Energy Law Currents: From the Ground Up.
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February 21, 2019
Attendee
LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections, The University of Texas at Austin
Attended the 2019 Lozano Long Conference, Journalism Under Siege- A Collective Reflection.
February 20, 2019
Inteviewee
The International Bar Association
Veronica Hinestroza, Senior Program Lawyer at the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute, interviewed Ariel Dulitzky about enforced disappearances and a new report on the subject called ¿Dónde Están? Estándares internacionales para la búsqueda de personas desaparecidas forzadamente. Dulitzky co-authored this report with Isabel Anayanssi Orizaga.
2018
September 10, 2018
Presentation
United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
As part of the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances, Ariel Dulitzky made a presentation on "Access to all relevant information and policies for preservation and disclosure of archives" as part of the expert consultation on standards and public policies for an effective investigation of enforced disappearances.
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August 30, 2018
Interviewee
Drivetime Show - Voice of Islam Radio (UK)
Qayyum and Imam Zawar interview Ariel Dulitzky for the Drivetime Show on Voice of Islam Radio (UK). The section on enforced disappearances begins during the second half of the show at 56:10 in the recording and the interview with Clinical Professor Dulitzky begins at 1:05:35.
June 4, 2018
Cited as an expert on enforced disappearances in Mexico
Cited in an Associated Press story on the problem of enforced disappearances in Mexico which was picked up by numerous other news outlets around the world, including The New York Times and ABC News.
May 22, 2018
Interviewee
Interviewed by the journalist Luis García Bendezú from the news publication El Comercio of Peru about enforced disappearances in Peru, where 20,329 people disappeared between 1980 and 2000.
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April 26, 2018
Panelist and co-sponsor
Universidad Externado de Colombia
Spoke as a panelist at the conference "La Búsqueda de Personas Desaparecidas, Una Reflexión Regional” (The Search for Disappeared Persons, a Regional Reflecion), April 26-28, 2018, in Bogota, Colombia. Texas Law’s Latin America Initiative (directed by Prof. Dulitzky) also co-sponsored the participation of Leonor Arteaga in a workshop during the same conference. Leonor Arteaga is an attorney from El Salvador and the Senior Program Officer at the Due Process of Law Foundation.
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March 30, 2018
Speaker at working seminar
Indiana University
As part of the working seminar, "Human Rights Justice in Hybrid Regimes: Enforced Disappearances and Torture in Russia, The Case of the North Caucasus," he gave the presentation "International Legal Standards on Enforced Disappearances."
March 9, 2018
Presentation
European Court Of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France
Made a presentation on Human Rights: Enforcement and Effectiveness as part of the conference Les Droits Humains Comparés, À La Recherche De L'universalité Des Droits Humains / Comparative Human Rights, Researching the Universality of Human Rights.
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March 2, 2018
Speaker: Curricular Showcase for Admitted Students Day
University of Texas School of Law
Spoke at the Curricular Showcase on Admitted Students Day 2018 on "International Law and Human Rights."
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February 18, 2018
Speaker
Austin Convention Center
Science and Technology for Human Rights: Opportunities to Make an Impact. Spoke on the relationship between human rights advocacy and science.
2017
November 7, 2017
Presentation of the book "Derechos Humanos en Latinoamérica y el Sistema Interamericano. Modelos para (des)armar”
Universidad Iberoamericano de la Ciudad de México, School of Law, Mexico City
Professor Dulitzky presents his book "Derechos Humanos en Latinoamérica y el Sistema Interamericano. Modelos para (des)armar” (Human Rights in Latin America and the Interamerican System, Models to (Dis)Arm).
November 6, 2017
Invited Speaker
Senate of the Republic of Mexico, Commission on Human Rights
Spoke at the forum, La Respuesta Estatal al Fenómeno de las Desapariciones, El Caso Coahuila (State Response to the Phenomenon of Disappearances, the Case of Coahuila) for the Senate of Mexico. Dulitzky also presented the Human Rights Clinic report on the subject "Control… sobre todo el territorio de Coahuila, un análisis de los testimonios de ex miembros zetas en los juicios de Austin, San Antonio y Del Rio, Texas." Senator Angélica De La Peña Gómez presided over the forum.
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October 10, 2017
Interviewee
Americas Program: A new world of action and communication for social change
Provided an interview to the Americas Program of the Center for International Policy based in Mexico City.
In English: https://www.americas.org/archives/20268
En español: https://www.americas.org/es/archives/20244
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August 8, 2017
Presentation
Tlachinollan Centro de Derechos Humanos de La Montaña in Guerrero, Mexico
At the Forum on Enforced Disappearances, "Contra el dolor y el miedo: Un grito de esperanza" (Against the Pain and Fear: a Cry of Hope), Ariel Dulitzky made a presentation on “La construcción de la legislación sobre desaparición forzada en México” (the construction of legislation on enforced disappearances in Mexico).
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July 1, 2017
Interviewee
CNN Español
Interviewed by Carmen Aristegui for CNN Español on the grave problem of enforced disappearances in Mexico.
June 21, 2017
Presentation: “Ariel Dulitzky: Reflexiones sobre su experiencia en contra de las desapariciones forzadas”
Museum of Memory and Tolerance, Mexico City
During a speech at the Museo Memoria y Tolerancia (Museum of Memory and Tolerance), Professor Dulitzky described the situation of enforced disappearances in Mexico, where the official count of the total number of people who have disappeared has gone from 3,000 in 2011 to 30,000 in 2017.
June 21, 2017
Presenter
Mexico City
Presented the paper "Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Approaches to Enforced Disappearances" during the session "Re-conceptualizing Human Rights in Natural Resource Governance" at the 2017 International Meeting on Law and Society program entitled "Walls, Borders, and Bridges: Law and Society in an Inter-Connected World."
June 21, 2017
Chair of Panel Discussion
Mexico City
Chaired the session "The Politics of Human Rights: Democracy, International Relations and Economic Development," at the 2017 Internationa Meeting on Law and Society program "Walls, Borders, and Bridges: Law and Society in an Interconnected World."
June 6-8, 2017
Amazon Network of Human Rights Clinics: Organizing Committee Member, Panelist, Coordinator, Speaker
University of Brasília School of Law
Organizing Committee Member and Participant in the First National Forum of Legal Clinics in Brazil, Meeting of the Amazon Network of Human Rights Clinics VIII (I Fórum Nacional de Clínicas Jurídicas, VIII Encontro da Rede Amazonica de Clínicas de Direitos Humanos). Served as a facilitator of the workshop "Assumptions of Human Rights Clinics: What is the legal clinic? How does it operate? What is it for?" and as a facilitator for the roundtable discussion "How to structure a national forum of legal clinics?"
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May 19, 2017
Moderator: Domestic courts and International bodies in the fight against impunity
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C.
This panel discussion took place at the Due Process of Law Foundation 20th Anniversary Event: "Truth and Justice for Grave Human Rights Violations in Latin America: Reflections on the past, lessons for the future."
May 15, 2017
Interviewee
Texas Public Radio, "The Source," Austin, Texas
Interviewed on "The Source" radio show on Texas Public Radio, "Solitary Confinement Is Still Used In Texas Jails And Prisons, But At What Cost?"
May 4, 2017
Provided briefing on conditions in TDCJ death row confinement
Texas Capitol
Provided briefing to staff of the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition as well as to staff of Texas legislators.
April 29-May 1, 2017
Workshop Chair, Session Organizer, and Panel Discussant
XXXV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association in Lima, Peru
Served as Chair and also as Session Organizer for the Workshop "Methodological, Forensic, Humanitarian and Judicial Challenges in Recovering and Identifying the Disappeared." Served as Discussant for the panel "Politics of Absence 1: Forensic, Humanitarian and Judicial Challenges in Recovering and Identifying the Disappeared."
April 28, 2017
Invited commentator
Instituto de Democracia y Derechos Humanos, Lima, Peru
Provided comments to the Panel "Hasta Encontrarlos! Estrategias en la Búsqueda de Personas Desaparecidas."
April 26, 2017
Interviewee
Texas Standard
Interviewed for a radio show about the use of mandatory solitary confinement for Texas death row inmates.
March 21, 2017
Presentation
Sid Richardson Hall, University of Texas at Austin
The 2017 Open House for Admitted Students at Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies (LLILAS Benson).
March 21, 2017
Presentation
Sid Richardson Hall, LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections
Made a faculty presentation for the 2017 Open House for Admitted Students as a LLILAS Affiliated Faculty member.
March 19, 2017
Interviewee
El Universal (Mexico)
Interviewed by El Universal, a national newspaper of Mexico, in an article entitled "Es hora de avalar ley de desapariciones," (it is time to endorse the law on disappearances) regarding possible legislation in Mexico on the issue of enforced disappearances.
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February 10, 2017
111th Session of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances
Seoul, Republic of Korea
The WGEID examined almost 600 cases from 42 countries. They met relatives of those who have disappeared, State authorities from different countries and civil society representatives to exchange information on individual cases. They discussed many issues related to this crime, especially in the context of migration.
February 7, 2017
Presentation
Seoul, Republic of Korea
At the conference Enforced Disappearances in the Context of Transitional Justice, Ariel Dulitzky gave a presentation on "The History and Typology of Enforced Disappearances." This event was hosted by Ministry of Foreign Affairs, UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances and was organized by Korea University Human Rights Center.
February 5, 2017
Expert Consultation on Enforced Disappearances in the Context of Migration
Seoul Global Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2016
2014-2016
Member of Advisory Panel
Member of the Advisory Panel on the Revised United Nations Manual on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extra-legal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions
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October 18, 2016
Provided expert testimony
The Senate of Mexico
Testified before a joint meeting of the Commission on Human Rights and the Commission on Justice and Government of the Mexican Senate. They met regarding the Draft Law on Enforced Disappearances.
October 13, 2016
Keynote Speaker
Instituto de Democracia y Derechos Humanos de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (IDEHPUCP) and Amnesty International Peru
Gave the keynote address to the Conference "Nuevas Estrategias de Búsqueda de Personas Desaparecidas Forzadamente (New Strategies in the Search for Disappeared Persons). The Latin America Inititiative, which Dulitzky directs, was among the co-sponsors of the event.
October 9, 2016
Co-Sponsored by the Latin America Initiative
The University of Texas at Austin, LLILAS Benson
The Latin America Initiative is proud to co-sponsor an event called "Guatemalan Women Healing Toward Justice: The Sepur Zarco Case." At this event, community psychologist Maudí Tzay, who represents the Alliance to Break Silence and End Impunity spoke on the survivors of state-sanctioned rape and sexual slavery under a military dictatorship in Guatemala during the 1980s.
2015
December 14, 2015
Speaker
Museo del Noroeste, Monterrey, Mexico
Presentation of the book "Te Seguiré Buscando" (I will continue searching for you), a compilation of testimonies by people whose loved ones have been disappeared.
June 12, 2015
Keynote Conversation Participant
Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute
Participated in a "Keynote Conversation" with Tracy Robinson, Commissioner of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and Rapporteur on the Rights of Women. This was part of Bringing Human Rights Home Lawyers' Network Annual Human Rights in the U.S. Symposium/CLE entitled "Engaging with the Inter-American Human Rights System for U.S. Advocacy."
April 11, 2015
Moderator
Eidman Courtroom, UT School of Law
Served as moderator at the conference Latinos and the Death Penalty for the presentation Litigating Capital Cases with Latino non-National Clients: Investigation Outside American Borders, Litigating International Treaty Claims, and other Challenges/Opportunities.
April 9, 2015
Testified at Texas State Capitol on House Bill 3303
House Bill 3303 is a bill "Relating to the creation of the Office of the Independent Oversight Ombudsman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice."
March 2, 2015
Participant
Palacio San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Participated in the Coloquio 35 Años del Grupo de Trabajo sobre Desapariciones Forzadas e Involuntarias de Naciones Unidas (“35 Years of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances”), which was organized by Argentina’s Ministry of Exterior Relations and Worship and the Secretary of Human Rights of the Nation.
February 25, 2015
Lecturer
Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS)
With Sebastián Klor, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, Clinical Professor Ariel Dulitzky gave a lecture entitled "Nisman's Death: Another Cloud over the Buenos Aires AMIA Bombing Investigation." They discussed the January 18, 2015 killing of Alberto Nisman, the general prosecutor of the 1994 terrorist attack which targeted the Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires (AMIA). Nisman was found dead just hours before he was to present controversial findings on the case before a congressional committee that implicated current Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
2014
November 13, 2014
Speaker
Mexican Chamber of Deputies
Addressed the lower house of Mexico’s legislature regarding the enforced disappearances carried out in September 2014. He was invited to speak there in his role as the Chair-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances. A photo of the meeting is here and a news article is available here.
November 13, 2014
Interviewee
CNN Mexico
Was interviewed by Carmen Aristegui on CNN Mexico. The journalist interviewed him on the issue of the September 2014 killings and disappearances in Iguala in the state of Guerrero, Mexico.
October 27, 2014
Attendee
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights at the Organization of American States, Washington, D.C.
Attended, along with all students enrolled in the Human Rights Clinic, a hearing on the extreme heat in Texas prisons. This is an issue on which the Human Rights Clinic is currently working. Clinical Professor Dulitzky requested this hearing. The full video of this hearing is here.
October 22, 2014
Speaker
United Nations General Assembly
Made a presentation to the 69th General Assembly on the activities of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances. This was in his role as the Chair-Rapporteur of the Working Group. The full video is here.
October 7, 2014
Respondent
University of Texas at Austin
Served as a respondent in the conference “Creating Model Health Communities, Summit II: Human Rights & Community Health Engagement, Think Globally to Act Locally.”
September 19, 2014
Attendee
United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
Attended the 104th session of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances.
April 29, 2014
Participant
Geneva, Switzerland via videoconference
During the 6th Session of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED), Professor Dulitzky gave a talk entitled “Military Justice in the Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and the work of the WGEID.” This was for a public discussion on “Enforced Disappearances and Military Justice” held by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights at the United Nations.
April 10, 2014
Panelist
American University Washington College of Law and the Cyrus Vance Center Conference
At the conference "Desafíos para el litigio estratégico en América Latina" (Challenges to strategic litigation in Latin America), Professor Dulitzky served as a panelist. The panel was entitled "Mecanismos extrajudiciales de protección y promoción de los derechos humanos a nivel local e internacional" ("Judicial mechanisms for the protection and promotion of human rights at local and international levels").
April 4, 2014
Keynote Speaker
UT Law Chicano/Hispanic Law Students' Association Annual Banquet
At the annual Cultural Celebration and Awards Banquet hosted by the Chicano/Hispanic Law Students' Association, Professor Dulitzky was honored to give the keynote speech.
April 1, 2014
Attendee
University of Notre Dame’s Center for Civil & Human Rights
Participated in the conference “The Future of the Inter-American Human Rights System.”
March 27, 2014
Participant
UT Institute for Historical Studies
Presented a talk entitled “The Supreme Court and Inter-American Court of Human Rights: the Amnesty Law and an uncomfortable relationship” for an event called "The Brazilian Coup D’État of 1964: A Roundtable Discussion to Mark its 50th Anniversary."
March 26, 2014
Participant
Geneva, Switzerland via videoconference
Made a presentation for the International Coalition Against Enforced Disappearances (ICAED) unity statement meeting. This meeting was entitled “ICAED Rising Up! The 2nd ICAED General Membership Conference” and was part of the global campaign for the universal ratification and full implementation of the UN Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.
February 14, 2014
Commentator
UT School of Law
Spoke at the Annual Conference of the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice. This conference was entitled "Human Rights Constitutionalism: Global Aspirations, Local Realities."
January 31, 2014
Organizer
UT School of Law
Organized a visit to the UT School of Law by a Justice and clerks from the Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federación de México (Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judiciary of Mexico). In addition to the visit, a public workshop took place on January 30 called “Comparative Election Law: México-USA.” The delegation met with Dean Ward Farnsworth and faculty and toured campus attractions relevant to their discipline.
January 22, 2014
Panelist
Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas
This forum entitled “Foro Urgente: Foreigners in their own Country, Dominicans of Haitian Descent and the Struggle for Citizenship” was sponsored by LLILAS Benson, the Kay Bailey Hutchison Center for Latin American Law, the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, and the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies.
2013
December 9, 2013
Keynote Speaker
National Human Rights Institute of Chile
Gave one of the three keynote speeches at the presentation of the Annual Report of Chile’s National Human Rights Institute (INDH). The other two keynote speakers at the ceremony were the President of the INDH and the President of the Republic of Chile.
November 13, 2013
Keynote Speaker
3rd Annual Symposium of the Democratic Memorial, Barcelona
Professor Dulitzky was the keynote speaker at the opening ceremony of "El III Col-loqui Internacional del Memorial Democràtic" (3rd Annual Symposium of the Democratic Memorial) entitled "Catalonia in Transition" at the Palace of the Catalan Government in Barcelona. His speech was on "Transitions, amnesties and crimes of the past."
October 19, 2013
ITAM and UT Schools of Law Joint Colloquium
UT School of Law
Organized a joint colloquium for faculty from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de Mexico (ITAM) and the University of Texas School of Law and hosted by the UT School of Law.
May 1, 2013
Attendee
Conference on Clinical Legal Education - The Value of Variety: Opportunities, Implications and Challenges of Diversification in Clinical Programs, San Juan, Puerto Rico
April 8, 2013
Respondent
University of Texas School of Law
Professor Dulitzky spoke as respondent to a lecture given by Charles Moyer from the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights on “The Inter-American System of Human Rights: From an auspicious beginning to an uncertain future.”
April 4, 2013
Moderator
"The Inter-American Human Rights System in Crisis," panel at the 107th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law
Professor Dulitzky moderated a panel including the speakers Breno de Souza Diaz de Costa, Interim Representative of Brazil to the Organization of American States, Joel Antonio Hernández García, Permanent Representative of Mexico to the Organization of American States, Monica Pinto of the University of Buenos Aires Law School, and José Miguel Vivanco of Americas Division of Human Rights Watch. The panel was cosponsored by the Human Rights Interest Group, the Transitional Justice and Rule of Law Interest Group, and the International Refugee Law Interest Group.
March 22, 2013
Reviewer
Isonomía, Revista de Teoría y Filosofía del Derecho (Journal of Theory and Philosophy of Law)
Performed an anonymous review of a publication submitted to the journal Isonomía, published by the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM).
March 2, 2013
Speaker
Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judiciary of Mexico, Mexico City
"Elections, political rights, and international law of human rights: jurisprudence of the Committee on Human Rights and the European Tribunal on Human Rights" as part of the "North American Political Electoral System," a seminar on electoral law in the United States.
February 15, 2013
Chair
University of Texas at Austin
"Violence and the Politics of Memory," Abriendo Brecha Conference: Activist Scholarship in the Americas.
2011
May 31, 2011
Speaker
Universidad de San Andres Law School, Argentina
"Impact and Effectiveness of the Inter-American Human Rights System"
May 31, 2011
Speaker
Encuentros Clinicos, Buenos Aires
"The Human Rights Situation in Argentina from a Regional Perspective"
May 31, 2011
Guest Lecturer
Universidad de San Andres Law School, Argentina
"Developing Professionalism"
March 31, 2011
Speaker
Event sponsored by the Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies, The Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, and the Human Rights Clinic, at UT Law School
"Enforced Disappearances in Mexico: From the 'Dirty War' to the 'War on Drug-Trafficking': preliminary findings of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances' mission to Mexico
2010
September 30, 2010
Commentator
XXIX International Congress of Latin American Studies
Professor Dulitzky served as a discussant on a panel at the XXIX International Congress of Latin American Studies in Toronto, Canada.
September 30, 2010
Co-Organizer and Moderator
University of Texas School of Law
"Two Paths in Democracy: Mexico-United States", a two day conference on electoral law.
September 30, 2010
Presenter
XXIX International Congress of Latin American Studies
Professor Dulitzky presented his paper "Massacres Without Blood: Human Rights Discourse and the Representation of Violence in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights"
June 30, 2010
Speaker
University of Lanus and the Center for Legal and Social Studies, Argentina
"Implementation of Human Rights Treaties in Federal States"
June 30, 2010
Speaker
University of Mar del Plata School of Law, Argentina
"Economic, social and cultural rights in the Inter-American System"
June 30, 2010
Speaker
Human Rights Masters Program, University of Buenos Aires School of Law
"National Human Rights Plans"
May 31, 2010
Expert Consultant to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
United Nations, Geneva
"Optional Protocol to provide a communication procedure for the Convention on the Rights of the Child"
May 31, 2010
Guest Lecturer
Institute for Global Law and Policy First Annual Workshop on Global Law and Economic Policy, Harvard Law School
"Human Rights and Social Justice: Economic and Social Rights, Possibilities for Radical Transformation?"
March 31, 2010
Moderator and Presenter
Workshop on Racism, Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies
Panels: "Strategies for Anti-Racist Work" and "Observatories as Anti-Racist Analysis and Practice"
March 31, 2010
Presenter
UT International Law Society of Texas
Professional Panel on careers in international law
January 31, 2010
Moderator
UT Institute of Latin American Studies Student Association Annual Student Conference on Latin America "ILASSA 30"
Panel: "Human Rights in Latin America"
January 31, 2010
Speaker
American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, UT School of Law
"Violence Against Women and International Law"
2009
December 31, 2009
Presenter
Chiang Mai, Thailand, American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative Conference
Workshop: "Ensuring the Effectiveness of the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights: The Role of Civil Society"
December 31, 2009
Presenter
UCLA School of Law Symposium, "Indigenous Peoples' Rights in the Human Rights Framework - A Comfortable Fit?"