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Bradford-O'Neill Medallion to Douglas Cassel

Dominican University will present its annual Bradford-O’Neill Medallion for Social Justice to internationally recognized attorney, journalist and scholar Douglass Cassel during academic convocation on Thursday, September 15. Convocation will be held at 4:00 p.m. in the university’s Lund Auditorium, 7900 W. Division Street, River Forest.

Cassel has been on the forefront of civil and human rights activism for decades. Prior to his recent appointment as director of the Center for Civil and Human Rights at Notre Dame Law School, he served as director of the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University School of Law and director of the International Human Rights Law Institute at DePaul University.

Cassel is president of the Due Process of Law Foundation in Washington D.C., an organization which promotes justice reform, and former president of the board of directors of the Justice Studies Center of the Americas, a position to which he was elected twice by the Organization of American States. He has served as a consultant on human rights to the U.S. State Department and the Ford Foundation, and was special counsel to the United Nations Commission on the Truth for El Salvador in 1992 and 1993.

An internationally published author, Cassel’s weekly commentaries on international human rights are broadcast on Chicago Public Radio and published in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin. He is also a frequent contributor to the Chicago Tribune. Cassel advises non-governmental organizations around the world and regularly challenges violations of human rights by governments before international bodies and in friend-of-the court briefs before the US Supreme Court.

Dominican University ’s Bradford-O’Neill Medallion for Social Justice was named in honor of Sister Vincent Ferrer Bradford and Sister Thomas Aquinas O’Neill, two pioneering Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters. The award is presented annually to an individual or organization whose work reflects and embraces the university’s core mission to create a just and humane society.