Venue: Virtual. This panel will discuss the impact of COVID-19 on the situation of persons deprived of liberty and under state custody, focusing on challenges, alternatives, and the path forward. Speakers will include: James Cavallaro, Former Commissioner, President, and Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons Deprived of Liberty, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights; Sofia Galvan,Senior Attorney of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights; Juan Mendez,Professor of Human Rights, American University Washington College of Law and Former United Nations Rapporteur on Torture; Eric Rosenthal, Executive Director, Disability Rights International; and moderator Rosa Celorio, Burnett Family Associate Dean and Lecturer for International Law, GW Law School.  This event is organized by GW Law School and its International and Comparative Law Program and co-sponsored by ASIL, the Washington Foreign Law Society, and GW Law International Law Society. For more information and to register, please consult the following link: https://www.asil.org/event/covid-19-and-persons-deprived-liberty.