EDUARDO BERTONI, Former Special Reporter for Freedom of Expression, Inter-American Commission of Human Rights at the Organization of American States
Mr. Bertoni is an Argentine lawyer and a graduate of the University of Buenos Aires. He has done graduate studies at Columbia University School of Law and is a former fellow of the Human Rights Institute there. He has also been appointed Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at the School of Law of Universidad de Buenos Aires, where he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on freedom of expression and criminal law. Before taking office at the OAS, he was a legal advisor for several nongovernmental organizations in his country, among them Asociación Periodistas, and he was a member of the Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales(CELS), Instituto de Estudios Comparado en Ciencias Penales y Sociales(INECIP) and Foro para la Reconstrucción Institucional. He has also worked as an advisor to the Department of Justice and Human Rights in Argentina. Mr. Bertoni has written several publications on the right to freedom of expression and has given lectures and conferences in several countries.
Dinner will be served.
This event is co-sponsored with the CLAS Working Group on Law and Policy in Latin America and the Stanford International Human Rights Law Association (SIHRLA).