The Goldstein Lecture on Human Rights 2005, " Genocide Emergency Sudan: Who Will Survive Today?,"  will be presented by Jerry Fowler, J.D., Staff Director, Committee on Conscience for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The lecture will be held Thursday, October 27, 2005, 7:00 p.m. at the Milo Bail Student Center Dodge Room.

Jerry Fowler is the first staff director of the Committee on Conscience, which guides the genocide prevention efforts of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

He previously was legislative counsel for the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, where he worked on a broad array of human rights issues, including international justice and refugee and asylum policy.

His publications include the essay, “Out of that Darkness: Preventing Genocide in the 21st Century,” in the 2nd edition of Century of Genocide: Eyewitness Accounts and Critical Views (Routledge, 2004). He also directed the short film A Good Man in Hell: General Romeo Dallaire and the Rwanda Genocide, based on a program at the Museum.

Mr. Fowler has taught at George Mason University Law School and George Washington University Law School, and has been a Scholar-in-Residence at American University’s summer Human Rights Institute. He is a graduate of Stanford Law School and Princeton University.

From 1983 to 1987, he was stationed in Germany as an officer in the United States Army. From 1993 to 1995, he served as Special Litigation Counsel for the U.S. Department of Justice.