October 24th, 2011
Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy

8:30 a.m. – Breakfast

9:00 – Welcome and Introduction

• Makau Mutua, Dean, University at Buffalo Law School
• Errol Meidinger, Director, Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy

9:15-11:00 – The Korean TRC Experience: Critical Reflections Toward the Future

• Professor Dong-Choon Kim, Former Standing Commissioner, TRC Korea, Sungkonghoe University (Korea)
  "Overview of the TRC Korea Recommendations and Obstacles to their Implementation"
• Professor Hun Joon Kim, Asia Institute, Griffith University (Australia)
  "Information Effect: A Comparative Analysis of Truth Commissions' Impact in South Korea"
• Professor Tae-Ung Baik, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai'i
  "Procedural Fairness for Transitional Justice in South Korea"
  
• Moderator: Professor Mark Nathan, University at Buffalo

11:00-11:15 – Coffee Break

11:15-1:00 p.m. – Implementing Truth and Reconciliation: Lessons from Peru, Cambodia and South Africa

• Professor Lisa Laplante, Praxis Institute for Social Justice, University of Connecticut School of Law
  “Negotiating Rights: Beneficiary and Civil Society Participation in Implementing Economic Reparations”
• Professor John Ciorciari, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
  Professor Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Temple Law School
  "Lessons Learned from the Cambodian Experience with Truth and Reconciliation"
• Ereshnee Naidu, International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, Former Project Manager of Memory Work, Center for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (South Africa)
  "Memory and Reparations: The Lessons and Challenges of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa"
  
• Moderator: Professor Tara Melish, University at Buffalo Law School, Director of Human Rights Center

1:00-2:00 – Lunch, Reflections by special guest, Dr. Theresa Chun

2:00-5:30 – Paper Workshop for Invited Participants