CHILE: Art and Law in a Time of Torture

Abstract: 

Christopher Edley, the Dean of the Berkeley Law School, on the role of art and the law in protecting human rights as part of the opening of the Abu Ghraib exhibition in Santiago.

The following is an edited transcript of Dean Edley’s talk at the opening of an exhibit of Fernando Botero’s Abu Ghraib series of paintings and drawings at Chile’s Museo de la Memoria.

Author: 
Christopher Edley
Publication date: 
August 16, 2012
Publication type: 
Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies Article