Event Description:
Remedial secession, a process whereby a people can declare independence, is a nebulous concept in international law and there are many questions surrounding its practice.
When can a people declare independence? What is remedial secession and when may it apply? What lessons can Palestine, East Timor and Western Sahara teach us about the Artsakh crisis?
Bringing together leader scholars and practitioners of internatioanl law, the panel will examine issues of external self-determination and remedial secession in the context of the recent Nagorno-Karabakh/Artsakh conflict. The goal would be to place the Artsakh issue in comparative perspective and survey the state of international law and practice at present on cases of remedial secession.
UNPO: Self-Determination, Remedial Secession and International Law: The Artsakh Crisis in Comparative Perspective unpo.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from unpo.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Bachelet Addresses UCLA Law Students April 22, 2021
UCLA School of Law joined eight law schools in sponsoring a national address to law students by Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and former president of Chile, on March 31.
More than 435 attendees – including about 80 from UCLA Law – participated in the event, titled “The Human Rights Challenge.” Kate Mackintosh, executive director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA Law, envisioned the event when she joined the institute in 2018. Her aim was to see a network of universities cooperating on larger initiatives with greater impact.
Yerevan Charents Museum of Literature and Arts, Hayganush Mark archive
Koharig Ghazarosian, left, and Hayganush Mark, Istanbul, July 6, 1957. UCLA Newsroom |
April 19, 2021
To commemorate the annual recognition of the Armenian genocide and to celebrate an amazing story of two Armenian women’s friendship, UCLA will host a special discussion and also the premiere performance of one of the friend’s music (based on the other’s poetry) on April 20.
Hayganush Mark was the leading Armenian feminist writer of her time, and Koharig Ghazarosian was a prominent composer, concert pianist and piano teacher active in Paris and Istanbul. Their intertwined lives can be traced in photographs, letters and pages of sheet music.
Immigration & Entrepreneurship: A Conversation with Kim Luu-Ng, Human Rights Attorney and Co-owner of Cassia Restaurant April 20, 2021 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
When Kim Luu-Ng and Bryant Ng opened Cassia in 2015, the Santa Monica restaurant was hailed as groundbreaking, with a menu that combined Vietnamese and French techniques in an approach the late Los Angeles Times food critic Jonathan Gold called “colonizing the colonizers.” Today, Cassia is widely recognized as one of the top restaurants in Los Angeles. Luu-Ng is also an attorney focused on the human rights of immigrants, drawing on her experience as a refugee from Vietnam to advocate for those seeking asylum in the U.S. In this Impact Week conversation, Luu-Ng will join Los Angeles Times columnist Frank Shyong to discuss her advocacy and entrepreneurship, and to highlight the importance of immigration to Southern California’s economy and culture.