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Benjamin Perrin

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LL.M. Candidate, McGill University, Faculty of Law, Institute of Comparative Law

Member of the Institute of Comparative Law, Max Stern Fellow, Wainwright Scholar, J.D. from the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto; Assistant Director, Special Court for Sierra Leone Legal Clinic; Legal Intern, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.  After completing his graduate research in international criminal law, he will be serving as a Law Clerk to Justice Marie Deschamps of the Supreme Court of Canada.

Promoting Compliance of Private Security & Military Companies with International Humanitarian Law & Human Rights

Dayna Gulka

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2^nd  year LLB, Osgoode Hall Law School, Faculty of Law

Honours B.A. (English and French Literatures), McMaster University.

She has been an active member of the Osgoode Hall Law School community: Immigration Caseworker and Duty Counsel for the Community Legal Aid Services Programme (CLASP); Organizer of the Putting Theory to Practice International Speaker Series; Co-Chair of the 2005 and 2006 Student Public Interest Network Legal Action Workshop (SPINLAW Conference); Second Year
Representative on Osgoode Student Caucus; member of the Faculty Recruitment Committee of Faculty Council; volunteered in a rural community of El Salvador from April – August 2005.

Divergent Approaches, Convergent Needs: South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Rwanda’s Gacaca Tribunals 

Mauricio ernesto Granillo 

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LL.M in International Human Rights Law, University of Essex

B.A. in Economics and Political Science, McGill University. 

His current research interests are in the following areas: the horizontal application of human rights norms to non-state actors and the demobilization negotiations in Colombia.

Assessing Blanket and Partial Amnesty Legislation in Conjunction with the Inter-American System of Human Rights

David Aaron

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2^nd  year LLB University of Western Ontario, Faculty of Law

M.Sc. (with Distinction), London School of Economics; Honours B.A. Queen's University

“The Responsibility to Protect Doctrine: A Critical Assessment of Its Legal Significance” 
 

Christina Croteau

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Third Year  LLB Queen’s University, Faculty of Law

Honours B.A.

The Draft Declaration of Human Rights: As a Basis for Self Government Claims in Canada  

Andrea Marlowe

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2^nd  year LLB University of Western Ontario,  Faculty of Law

Honours B.A.

“The Responsibility to Protect: Human Rights Protection in a Changing World” 

Lidvina Rajabalan

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2^nd year MA Legal Studies,  Carleton University, Department of Law

Honours BA University of Toronto

Transnational Policing, Technology and Human Rights Implications 

Carolyn Elliott-Magwood

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4^th year National Program, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Common Law

B.A (English) Wilfrid Laurier University

LL.B (Common Law) University of Ottawa

Participation in a variety of CLAIHR initiatives, including organizing Global Generation Conference in 2005, and a variety of research projects.  Will be articling at the Department of Justice in the National Capital Region in 2006/

Gender and Genocide – Comparing the ICTR and Gacaca

Suzette Marva Bernard

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LL.M with specialization in Women's Studies, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Common Law

B.A, York University, LL.L,
Ottawa University, LL.B, (cum laude) Ottawa University

Haiti: A Country in Perpetual Transition” 

Sandy Donaldson

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3^rd year LLB University of Ottawa, Faculty of Common Law

B.F.A.York University (Theatre).

He has been an active participant with CLAIHR Uof O: chair of the Fair Trade/ Sweat Free Project •  Division Leader of the University of Ottawa Community Legal Clinic (Criminal Division) • founder and co-chair of The Ottawa Coalition for Darfur. He will be articling with a boutique labour firm in Ottawa 2006-2007.

Transitional Justice in Kenya

Becca Murtha

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2^nd year LLB University of Ottawa, Faculty of Common Law

Security Certificates And International Human Rights Obligations:  Is Canada Keeping Its Own Promises?

Andrew Harrington

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2^nd year Joint MA/LLB
Norman Paterson School of International Affairs & University of Ottawa,
Faculty of Common Law

The paper was inspired after he spent the Summer of 2005 working in East Timor (Timor-Leste) on a legal aid project where he witnessed first-hand the failures of what is considered the most successful intervention to date. 

The United Nations and Rapid Deployment:  Is there a Role for Privatized Military?

Danna Ingleton

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University of Ottawa,
Faculty of Common Law, LL.B

BA, Saint Thomas University; Danna is currently working with the Canadian Red Cross as a Project Officer on the Ante Morten Data Collection Project.

The Responsibility to Distinguish: The International Criminal Court, peacekeeping and the fundamental distinctions of International Humanitarian Law

Priya Sarin

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4^th year Joint MA/LLB
Norman Paterson School of International Affairs & University of Ottawa,
Faculty of Common Law

B.Comm., McGill University

Past president CLAIHR at University of Ottawa, intern at the Department of Justice in the Human Rights Law Group, Volunteer at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, Arnold Smith Award in International Affairs (North-South Institute) for 2003-2004.

An Emerging Right to Conscientious Objector Status

Peter Tonge

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3^rd Year LLB University of Manitoba

Rape as a War Crime: Is There a Legal Solution?