Pablo Saavedra, Secretary of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights will be speaking at a student lecture from noon – 1:00 pm on Wednesday, November 1st in Bannan 135. The topic of his presentation is "The Reparations in the Case-Law of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights." He will also be speaking at a faculty workshop on Thursday, November 2nd from noon – 1:00 pm in the Strong Common Room in Bergin Hall.
Pablo Saavedra is a Chilean attorney. He graduated from the Diego Portales University in Chile and obtained his Masters Degree in Law from the University of Notre Dame.
Currently, he acts as the Registrar of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in San José, Costa Rica. As an attorney for the National Corporation on Reparation and Reconciliation of Chile, he investigated human rights violations that occurred between 1973 and 1990 in Chile. He has also worked as a staff attorney at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and has presented numerous lectures and conferences at various universities.
