Santa Clara University School of Law faculty Margaret M. Russell, Evangeline Abriel and Lynette Parker are the recipients for the Santa Clara University Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education 2015-2016 Bannan Grants.
The awards are as follows:
Collaborative Solidarity Grant
Seeking Justice and Reconciliation for Past Atrocities: The Experiences of El Salvador, Spain, and the United States with Truth Commissions, Amnesty, and Historical Memory
Margaret M. Russell, School of Law
In collaboration with U.S. civil rights scholar, Professor Margaret Burnham, this project will involve the development of a textbook on historical memory and the law, with a major focus on the U.S. experience of social injustice and the nascent possibilities of truth commissions and other retrospective justice mechanisms. (Collaborative Solidarity Grant)
Working Group Grant
Working Group on Unaccompanied Central American Minors
Evangeline Abriel and Lynette Parker, School of Law
The project will address the ongoing critical situation of unaccompanied minors leaving El Salvador to come to the United States. The project will also provide law students with an invaluable opportunity to dialogue with Salvadoran law students and faculty serving the minors in El Salvador.
