As we announced earlier this summer, CJA and Mental Disabilities Rights International are the winners of the 2007 Thomas J. Dodd Prize in International Justice and Human Rights. We invite all of you to join us as we proudly accept the Dodd Prize, which will be awarded on Monday, October 1, 2007. The ceremony will take place at 11:00am at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center Plaza, University of Connecticut, in Storrs, Connecticut.
After the ceremony, there will be an outdoor luncheon followed by a program and book signing with U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd for his first book, Letters From Nuremburg: My Father's Narrative of a Quest for Justice. Finally, the following day at 4:30pm, Harold Hongju Koh, Dean of the Yale Law School, will deliver the 13th Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture on Human Rights with a talk entitled, "Repairing our Human Rights Reputation."
All guests are invited to attend these events. If you are interested in attending, please RSVP to Tina Savior at the University of Connecticut: tina.savoir@uconn.edu or (860) 486-1038.
The Dodd Prize is awarded by the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut to a leader or group who has made a significant effort to advance the cause of international justice and global human rights. The Dodd Prize was established in 2003 to commemorate the distinguished career in public service of Thomas J. Dodd, who served as Executive Trial Counsel at the Nuremberg Trials, as Connecticut Senator from 1959 to 1971, and who fought against infringement and suppression of human rights in the United States and abroad. For more information on the prize, see http://doddprize.uconn.edu/.
The board and staff of CJA would be delighted if you could attend and share this honor with us.