Ethnic studies Professor Natsu Taylor Saito will address the effects of U.S. foreign policy on international human rights protection March 12 at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Saito's talk, "We Have Met the Enemy American Exceptionalism Confronts the Rule of Law," will be held from 2:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. in University Memorial Center room 384. Her book on the topic is forthcoming from New York University Press.
Saito teaches CU-Boulder undergraduate courses on American Indian Studies and race, ethnicity and the law. In the fall she will teach a seminar on "The Japanese American Internment and Arab Americans Today" as well as a course on the immigration of racial minorities. Her research focuses on the legal and political history of race and racial subordination in the United States.
She is an expert in international human rights law, with a focus on rights for indigenous people. She joined the ethnic studies faculty in January as an associate professor and is a full professor on leave from the Georgia State University College of Law where she has taught for 10 years. She also is a member of the State Bar of Georgia.
Saito earned her law degree from Yale Law School and her master's degree in education from Georgia State University. She is the recipient of numerous honors and awards and is a nationally renowned speaker.
She serves as co-director of the Human Rights Research Fund and is on the board of directors for the Color of Justice, the Society of American Law Teachers and the Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty. She is also founding president of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Georgia.
For information call (303) 492-8852.
