How can human rights advocates have a positive impact? Julia Hall will highlight legal and non-legal careers in human rights and the many ways people with diverse skills (tech/AI, education, social work, art, cartography, etc.) can be human rights workers without a law degree.
From 2021 to 2023, Hall 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.
Dinner will be provided for those who register.
Julia 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. Read more about Julia here