ON THE FRONT LINES: FIGHTING FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
Sherry Broder, Esq., Ved Nanda Center Practitioner-in-Residence
International Human Rights lawyer Sherry Broder has been on the front lines of protecting and redressing human rights violations for decades. She was the first woman president of the Hawaii Bar Association and serves as president of the Federal Bar Association for the District of Hawaii. She is Executive Director, Jon Van Dyke Institute of International Law & Justice, Adjunct Professor, William S. Richardson School of Law, and Adjunct Research Fellow, East-West Center, University of Hawaii.
Professor Broder will discuss her 30+ years representing clients in state and federal courts in class actions and other complex civil litigation at the trial and appellate level. Her areas of concentration include trials, appeals, class actions, personal injury, medical malpractice, products liability, international law, ocean law, environmental law, human rights, and rights of Native Hawaiians and other indigenous peoples. She won a major lawsuit ($2 billion) against the Marcos Family in reparations for human rights violations against the people of the Philippines.
