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The Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights published an edited volume entitled Public Health, Mental Health, and Mass Atrocity Prevention in August 2021. Our Digital Dialogue Series explores the various chapters in the book through panels with the contributing authors. For a full series schedule, please reach out to cardozo.clihhr@yu.edu

Purchase Public Health, Mental Health, and Mass Atrocity Prevention here: https://www.routledge.com/Public-Health-Mental-Health-and-Mass-Atrocity-Prevention/Kestenbaum-Mahoney-Meade-Fuller/p/book/9780367612979

On October 13, 2021 at 12:00PM ET, CLIHHR will hold the first Series panel featuring the following authors:

Randle DeFalco is Assistant Professor of Law at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa William S. Richardson School of Law. His research focuses on international criminal law, especially how this body of law addresses harms brought about through unfamiliar causal processes, especially those that are slow or attritive in nature. He has also written on how aesthetic biases shape what forms of mass violence are and are not socially and legally conceptualized as international crimes. Randle’s recent scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, International Criminal Law Review, London Review of International Law, Fordham International Law Journal, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, and Temple International and Comparative Law Journal

Laura Miller-Graff is Associate Professor of Psychology and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Her research examines the developmental effects of exposure to violence in childhood. With a focus on children who have multiple traumatic exposures, she investigates resulting patterns of resilience and psychopathology, including the development of posttraumatic stress symptoms. Her current research projects include the effects of intimate partner violence (IPV) on women and children’s health and adjustment in the perinatal period factors contributing and the adaptation, development and evaluation of psychological interventions for violence-exposed pregnant women and for families living in settings of chronic violence. Working within an ecological framework, Laura's research seeks to understand how various systems (i.e., individual, family, and community) interact to promote or inhibit healthful development following violence exposure

Dr. Ellie Smith is a legal practitioner and academic with twenty years of experience in working with deeply vulnerable and traumatised individuals, as Head of Research for the UK’s Immigration Advisory Service and Research Lead (Legal and Interdisciplinary) for the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture (now “Torturecare”). She has expertise in the interactions of survivor needs and trauma within the justice system, including the impact of trauma on memory and testimony for the purpose of gathering, compiling and presenting legal evidence in court, and issues of victim participation and engagement. She holds a degree in Law from the University of Cambridge, a LLM from the London School of Economics and a PhD (Law and Psychology) from Bournemouth University

Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum is Associate Professor of Clinical Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law where she directs the Benjamin B. Ferencz Human Rights and Atrocity Prevention Clinic and the Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights (CLIHHR). Her scholarship focuses on human rights, public health, and atrocity prevention, especially related to preventing and responding to sexual and gender-based crimes, slavery and the slave trade, indigenous rights, and human rights violations against minority groups. She holds a J.D. from Cornell Law School and an MPH from the John Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.

This online event is approved for 1.5 transitional/non-transitional New York State CLE credits in the category “Areas of Professional Practice.” You must attend the “live” program in order to receive CLE credits. We cannot award CLE credits for watching a recorded version of this program

Zoom link will be sent out the morning of the panel via Eventbrite.