Pozen Visiting Professor Julia Hall will share her experiences as a human rights lawyer . From 2021 to 2023, she was co-director of research in Amnesty International’s Europe Regional Office, part of the organization's International Secretariat. Hall was Amnesty's expert on counter-terrorism and human rights in Europe from 2009-2024, and she was senior legal counsel in the Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism Program at Human Rights Watch from 1996-2009.
Hall has conducted research, advocacy, and strategic litigation in over 25 countries and in a range of areas, including: freedom of expression in Europe; racial and gender discrimination; the prohibition against torture; refugee/migrants' rights; administrative and preventive detention; and oversight of intelligence agencies. She has also served as a trial monitor, including as a legal observer at military commissions' proceedings at Guantánamo Bay.
Learn more about Hall and her Spring Quarter course on the freedom of expression.
Dinner will be provided for those who register.