Leading German jurist to give human rights talk

Brun-Otto Bryde, judge of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, will deliver the Mildred Fish-Harnack Human Rights and Democracy Lecture at 3:45 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 19, in the Godfrey & Kahn Lecture Hall (Room 2260) of the Law School.

The talk, sponsored by the International Institute in conjunction with the Global Legal Studies Initiative, is named after the UW–Madison alumna executed for her resistance work by the Nazis during World War II, the only American civilian to suffer that fate.

Bryde has served on the Federal Constitutional Court, similar to the U.S. Supreme Court, since 2001. He is a professor of public law and political science at Justus-Liebig-Universität-Giessen. He has lectured and written extensively on international and comparative law and was a visiting professor at the UW–Madison Law School in 1989 and 1994.

Bryde will speak on “Fundamental Rights as Guidelines and Inspiration: German Constitutionalism in International Perspective.”