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Release date: Nov. 26, 2003 Former Irish President to Speak at Emory
WHAT: Emory University's Rosalynn Carter Distinguished Lecture in Public Policy WHEN: 8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3. WHERE: Glenn Memorial Auditorium, 1652 N. Decatur Rd., Emory. COST: Free and open to the public. For information, call 404-727-0096. Parking is available in the Fishburne parking deck. A map is available online at www.map.emory.edu. Former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and former President of Ireland Mary Robinson will deliver the eighth annual Rosalynn Carter Distinguished Lecture in Public Policy at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3 in Glenn Memorial Auditorium at Emory University. Robinson will discuss "Getting Back on Track With the Global Human Rights Agenda." This event is free and open to the public. In the worlds of academia, law and politics, Robinson is a prominent figure. She began her academic career as a student at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. Holding law degrees from King's Inn in Dublin and Harvard University, Robinson became the youngest Reid Professor of Constitutional Law at Trinity College in 1969 and has served as chancellor of Dublin University since 1998. In 1988, she founded the Irish Centre for European Law at Trinity with her husband, Nicholas, also a lawyer and conservationist. Using the law as an instrument for social change, Robinson has argued landmark cases before the European Court of Human Rights as well as in the Irish courts and the European Court in Luxemburg. She served on the International Commission of Jurists, the Advisory Committee of Interrights and on expert European Community and Irish parliamentary committees. In keeping with the annual lecture's theme of women who have played significant roles in shaping public policy, Robinson was the first female president of Ireland. Elected in 1990, she served for seven years. Before her election, she served as a senator for 20 years. Robinson is a founding member and incoming chairwoman of the Council of Women World Leaders. Most recently, she served as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997-2002. Throughout her academic, law and political experience, Robinson has always been a human rights advocate. She currently is executive director of the Ethical Globalization Initiative. The goal of this project is to bring the norms and standards of human rights into the globalization process and to support capacity-building in good governance in developing countries, with an initial focus on Africa. The initiative is supported by a partnership of the Aspen Institute, State of the World Forum and the Swiss-based International Council on Human Rights Policy. Former first lady Rosalynn Carter has been a distinguished fellow of the Emory Institute for Women's Studies since 1989, and has worked to establish the Rosalynn Carter Programs in Public Policy. Past lecturers in this series include U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, former NAACP head Myrlie Evers-Williams, former Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders and Sarah Weddington, who successfully argued the landmark Roe v. Wade case before the U.S. Supreme Court. ### Emory University is known for its demanding academics, outstanding undergraduate college of arts and sciences, highly ranked professional schools and state-of-the-art research facilities. For more than a decade Emory has been named one of the country's top 25 national universities by U.S. News & World Report. In addition to its nine schools, the university encompasses The Carter Center, Yerkes National Primate Research Center and Emory Healthcare, a comprehensive metropolitan health care system. |
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