Held on October 28, 2015
In this event, Professor Cynthia Soohoo, Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic at the CUNY School of Law, and Dr. Natalie Nenadic, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky, discussed how mass rape came to be established as a war crime, crime against humanity, and crime of genocide.
Dr. Natalie Nenadic, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky, named and conceptualized the crime of “genocidal rape” with Asja Armanda, a Croatian Jewish feminist and philosopher, in their work with survivors of mass sexual atrocities in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia. She enlisted renowned attorney, Catharine MacKinnon, to represent them and, with her, initiated a landmark lawsuit in New York against Radovan Karadzic, head of the Bosnian Serbs (Kadic v. Karadzic, 1993-2000) that pioneered the crime’s recognition under international law, in a judicial venue they created in the United States before the existence of the International Criminal Tribunals. Her expertise is in 19th and 20th century continental philosophy, philosophy of law, and human rights.
Professor Cynthia Soohoo is Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic at the City of New York School of Law. She is an expert on reproductive justice, women's human rights, and human rights advocacy in the Unites States. Professor Soohoo supervises the clinic's work on reproductive rights and health, trafficking, and youth in the adult criminal justice system. Prior to CUNY, Soohoo was the Director of the U.S. Legal Program at the Center for Reproductive Rights. In addition to managing U.S. litigation and state advocacy work, she spearheaded and supervised the development of the Center's U.S. human rights advocacy and fact-finding work and the growth of its Law School Initiative. From 2001 to 2007, Soohoo was the Director of the Bringing Human Rights Home Project, Human Rights Institute, Columbia Law School, and a supervising attorney for the law school's Human Rights Clinic. She has worked on U.S. human rights issues before U.N. human rights bodies, the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights, and in domestic courts.
A Witness to Genocide by 
Are Women Human? by Nenadic, Natalie. "Genocide and Sexual Atrocities: Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem and Karadiz in New York." Philosophical Topics Vol. 39 No. 2 (2011); 117-144. Print
Documentary: Srebrenica: A Cry from the Grave. Dir. Ademir Kenovic. WNET Channel 13, 200. DVD.
