Keynote speakers 


Richard Carwardine is President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He was born in Wales and educated at Oxford University and the University of California, Berkeley.  Between 1971 and 2002 he taught at the University of Sheffield and served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts.  From there he moved to Oxford University to become – until 2009 – Rhodes Professor of American History and a Fellow of St Catherine’s College.   He has held Fulbright awards at Syracuse University and UNC-Chapel Hill. His analytical biography of Abraham Lincoln won the Lincoln Prize in 2004; it was published in the United S (1993).  In July 2009 he convened an international bicentennial conference at Oxford University to examine Abraham Lincoln’s global legacy; it resulted in The Global Lincoln, ed. Richard Carwardine and Jay Sexton (2011).  He was elected to the Order of Lincoln by the State of Illinois in 2tates as Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power.  His other publications include Transatlantic Revivalism (1978) and Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America009.


Willem van Genugten studied law and philosophy (graduation with distinction and   cum laude respectively). As of now, he is Professor of International Law at Tilburg    University, extraordinary Professor of International Law at the North-West    University, South Africa, and visiting Professor of International Criminal Law at the   University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. In addition he is Editor-in-Chief of the   Netherlands Yearbook of International Law, and Chair of the Royal Netherlands   Society of International Law. In the past he has been, amongst other things, Dean   of the Law School of Tilburg University, Dean of The Hague Institute for Global   Justice, and member and later on Chair (2002-2013) of the standing Commission   on Human Rights of the Dutch Government. He (co-)authored or edited about 300    publications, recently: Global Justice, State Duties: The Extra-Territorial Scope of   Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in International Law, Cambridge University Press, 2013. In 2012, he received a doctorate honoris causa from the NWU in South Africa.



 


 Bill Leahy attended the University of Notre Dame (1968) and Harvard Law School (1974). After practicing for 10 years as a trial and appellate public defender for the Massachusetts Defenders Committee, he was chosen as the first Deputy Chief Counsel for the Public Defender Division of the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS) in 1984. In 1991, he became the second Chief Counsel of CPCS, leading that statewide public defender and assigned counsel agency until his retirement in July, 2010. He was lead counsel in the right to counsel case, Lavallee v. Justices of the Hampden Superior Court, 442 Mass. 228 (2004).

In February, 2011, Bill began his tenure as Director of the New York State Office of Indigent Legal Services in Albany (http://www.ils.ny.gov), where he has undertaken the responsibility of improving the quality of representation for poor people in the criminal and family courts throughout the state.

From 2002-2011, Bill served as adjunct professor at Brandeis University, teaching courses in American Criminal Law and International Criminal Law and Human Rights. In December, 2012, he was a featured speaker at the International Conference on Criminal Legal Aid Systems in Beijing, China, where he presented a paper entitled An Assessment of the Right to Counsel in the United States.
On March 15, 2013, he spoke as a panelist at the United States Department of Justice’s commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the famous right to counsel decision Gideon v. Wainwright (program viewable at http://www.justice.gov/atj/gideon/events.html), where he proposed the establishment of a National Center for Indigent Defense, and the creation of a White House Commission to advance the enforcement of the
right to counsel. His paper Amplifying Gideon’s Trumpet, Revitalizing Gideon’s Rule: A Prescription for Action will be published in the forthcoming online edition of the University of Louisville
Law Review.