The World and Business: Responsibilities, Obligations and Profit
An interdisciplinary conference sponsored by the Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
and
Carthage College's Clausen Center for World Business and the Department of Political Science
Keynote Presenter:
Douglass Cassel is Director of the Notre Dame Center for Civil and Human Rights. He was also named by the University as a Notre Dame Presidential Fellow.
Prior to joining the faculty of Notre Dame, Professor Cassel was clinical professor and director of the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University School of Law. Specializing in international human rights and international criminal law, he was also the executive director of the International Human Rights Law Institute at DePaul University College of Law and of its Jeanne and Joseph Sullivan Program for Human Rights in the Americas from 1990 until 1998. He has also been a consultant to the United Nations, the Organization of American States, the United States Department of State, and the Ford Foundation. He lectures worldwide and his articles are published internationally in English and Spanish. His commentaries on human rights are published in the Chicago Tribune and broadcast weekly on National Public Radio in Chicago.
In 2000, Professor Cassel was elected to the board for the Justice Studies Center for the Americas, Santiago, Chile, serving most recently as its president. Since 2000, he has been the president of the Due Process of Law Foundation in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the executive council of the American Society of International Law, and a consultant to Transitional Justice.
Professor Cassel earned a B.A. cum laude from Yale in 1969 and a J.D. cum laude from Harvard in 1972. After serving as a Lieutenant in the Judge Advocate General's Corps for the United States Navy for two years, he worked for Business and Professional People for the Public Interest, first as a staff counsel and then as general counsel, until 1991. From 1992 until 1993, he served as Legal Adviser to the United Nations Commission on the Truth for El Salvador, advising the commission, supervising its investigations, and acting as principle editor of its report.
Douglass Cassel, Center for Civil and Human Rights, University of Notre Dame