[IntLawProfessors] Amicus opportunity

[Don Anton]

Dear colleagues,

The International Human Rights Clinic at Loyola Law School Los Angeles

is looking for individuals or organizations to sign on to an amicus 
curiae brief it prepared for the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

The case is: Nadège Dorzema et al v. the Dominican Republic (also known

as the case of the Guayubin Massacre) case before the Inter-American 
Court of Human Rights. See, the IACHR press release: 
http://www.cidh.oas.org/Comunicados/English/2011/11-11eng.htm; the 
admissibility report: 
http://www.cidh.oas.org/annualrep/2008eng/Dom.Republic1351.05eng.htm; 
the application: http://www.cidh.oas.org/demandas/12.688Esp.pdf.

In short, the case involves events that took place along the Dominican

Republic's border with Haiti on June 18, 2000, when members of the 
Dominican army opened fire on a vehicle that was transporting a group
of 
Haitians trying to enter the Republic. Seven individuals lost their 
lives, and several others were wounded. The acts were prosecuted in 
military courts, even though family members of those executed had 
requested that the case be subject to the jurisdiction of the regular 
courts. After several years of proceedings, the military courts 
acquitted the soldiers involved. Some of the victims who survived 
suffered a violation to their personal liberty and violations to their

right to a fair trial and their right to judicial protection, given
that 
they were expelled from the Dominican Republic without having received

due guarantees based on their status as migrants. Finally, the case 
falls within a context of structural discrimination against Haitians or

persons of Haitian origin at the hands of Dominican agents.

The amicus curiae brief brings to the attention of the Court three
legal 
issues in the case that have been neglected or have received little 
attention in the briefs submitted by the parties: the violation by the

Dominican Republic of Article 3 of the American Convention on Human 
Rights (“Right to Juridical Personality”); the violation of the Vienna

Convention on Consular Relations; and the violation of Article 22.9 of

the American Convention (“Prohibition of Collective Expulsions”).

If you are interested in signing on, please contact:

Prof. Cesare P.R. Romano

Joseph W. Ford Fellow

Director, International Human Rights Clinic,

Loyola Law School Los Angeles

919 Albany street

90015 Los Angeles, CA

Tel: 213-736.8198

Email: cesare.romano at lls.edu




 
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