On the Docket

On the Docket

Preserving the Memory of Violence

The “scorched earth” policy of the Guatemalan government during the late 1970s and early 1980s resulted in the massacre of thousands upon thousands of Guatemala’s indigenous Mayan groups. A “Silent Genocide” is what human rights scholars would term this atrocity since the world community gave little recognition, much less condemnation, to this wholesale decimation of a people by their own government. > Read more stories

Worth Noting

Worth Noting

John Jay College of Criminal Justice presented the 2009 John Jay Justice Awards to Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland; BJ Bernstein, a prominent Atlanta-based attorney; and the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law on April 14. Read more.