Diten e premte, date 15. 01.2016 ora 10.30 prane Fakultetit te Drejtësisë, salla 202, Ambasadori Amerikan ne Organizata e Kombeve te Bashkuara, Keshilli i te Drejtave te Njeriut, z. Keith Harper

Do te zhvilloje nje leksion te hapur, me studente dhe akademike  te Fakultetit te Drejtesise se Universitetit te Tiranes, mbi temen: Legal Issues and how they relate to human rights.  Jane te ftuar te gjithe studentet e programeve Master Shkencor/Profesional dhe Bachelor te marrin pjese.

Ambassador Keith M. Harper

Representative of the United States to the United Nations Human Rights Council

Ambassador Keith M. Harper was nominated by President Obama to serve as the Representative of the United States to the United Nations Human Rights Council. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on June 4, 2014.

Previously, Mr. Harper was a partner at the law firm of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, where he was chair of the Native American Practice Group. He currently serves as a Member on the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships. Previously, Mr. Harper served as Senior Staff Attorney for the Native American Rights Fund from 1995 to 2006. 

From 2007 to 2008, he served as a Supreme Court Justice on the Supreme Court of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, and from 2001 to 2007, he served as an Appellate Justice on the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Court. From 1998 to 2001, he was an adjunct professor at the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law, and from 1999 to 2001, he was a Professorial Lecturer at the American University Washington College of Law. Mr. Harper was a Law Clerk to the Honorable Lawrence W. Pierce on the Second Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals. He began his career as a Litigation Associate with Davis, Polk & Wardwell in New York. He is a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. He received a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.