Human Rights Speaker Series

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Location: B036 Geddes Hall

From Atrocity to Justice: Human Rights in Venezuela

 

Mora

Elizabeth Jimenez Mora

LL.M. Program in International Human Rights Law

The Klau Center is proud to support this new speaker series, presented by Human Rights ND. The Human Rights ND speaker series brings human rights advocates, current master’s students in the LL.M. Program in International Human Rights Law, together with the wider Notre Dame community for informal presentations on current topics in regional human rights.

Elizabeth Jiménez Mora earned her law degree from Universidad de Costa Rica in 2017. She participated and coached in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Competition, as well as the ICC Moot Court Competition. She worked at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights as a legal assistant from 2014 until 2018, and was researcher for Judge Elizabeth Odio Benito from 2013 until 2018. During that time, she worked on cases dealing with gender equality, non-discrimination, deprivation of liberty, protection for vulnerable populations, labor rights and others human rights issues. In 2016, Ms. Mora was a legal assistant to Víctor Rodríguez, the former member of the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations. She was president of the Costa Rican Association of International Law from 2017 to 2018.