Subject: Re: Hello from Vuk
From: "Jared Genser" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Sara Birkenthal" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2015 23:26:04 +0000

Joan wasn’t cc:ed, but I’ve copied in my associate who scheduled me also… other than an 11:00-12 noon at State, I’m free in the morning and early afternoon on Friday July 10th.  Also pretty open following M/T July 13-14th except 12:30-2 pm both days for lunches.

From: Hunter Biden <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Date: Friday, July 3, 2015 at 2:31 PM
To: Jared Genser <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Subject: Re: Hello from Vuk

Ok- give me some times that work for you and Joan (cc'd) will put on my schedule.

RHB
202.333.1880

On Jul 3, 2015, at 2:28 PM, Jared Genser <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:

Overseas through Thurs.  Available Friday or early the following week. J

On Jul 3, 2015, at 2:23 PM, Hunter Biden <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:

Hey Jared- what's next week look like for you- Wed or Thursday probably best for me. Let me know- H

RHB
202.333.1880

On Jun 29, 2015, at 6:47 PM, Jared Genser <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:

Do you have time to meet this week? Best, Jared

From: Jared Genser <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 at 7:57 PM
To: Hunter Biden <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Subject: Re: Hello from Vuk

Looking pretty good next M, W, Th… let me know what works for you.

Moved Vuk to bcc.

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Jared Genser

Managing Director

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+1.202.320.4135 (m)

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The UN Security Council in the Age of Human Rights

Cambridge University Press, 2014

Co-Edited by Jared Genser and Bruno Stagno Ugarte

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For decades the UN Security Council skirted human rights, addressing them sporadically, reluctantly, and typically without reference to binding standards. That began to change with the end of the Cold War, as easing political tensions allowed the Council gradually to act on the fact that upholding the norms against atrocities is intimately connected to its classic mandate of defending international peace and security. Yet even since then, that evolution has been contested, particularly when the Council’s permanent five members fear the topic might come back to haunt them or their close allies. This exceptional volume of essays provides a comprehensive assessment of the Council’s conflicting views on human rights with more nuance, sophistication, and historical memory than anything else around. It helps us to understand how the shifting battles over human rights are being waged in the Council and provides guidance as to how the Council can more effectively defend our rights in the future.

Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch

Genser and Stagno Ugarte’s authoritative new volume serves as an indispensable guide to understanding the complex UN Security Council and human rights nexus. The editors have assembled a stellar cast of renowned practitioners and academics to provide their candid and personal perspectives. Their book, underpinned by meticulous research, offers a unique and penetrating critique of the Council’s progress and failures in preventing and responding to human rights abuses. It also serves as a vital clarion call for a rejuvenated Security Council that places the consideration of human rights at the center of its work.

Sam Daws, Director, Project on UN and Governance and Reform, Centre for International Studies, Oxford University

During the last 20 years, the UN Security Council has embraced the protection of individual rights as a matter of international peace and security. That said, progress has been uneven and there have been both great strides forward and terrible setbacks. This timely and important book provides the first comprehensive assessment about how the Security Council works to address major human-rights challenges around the world and recommends ways it can do so more effectively.

Luis Moreno Ocampo, First Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (2003-2012)

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From: Hunter Biden <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 at 7:46 PM
To: Jared Genser <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Cc: Vuk Jeremic <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Subject: Re: Hello from Vuk

Jared-
Look forward to meeting in person soon. What does next week look like for you?

RHB
202.333.1880

On Jun 24, 2015, at 4:44 PM, Jared Genser <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:

Thanks Vuk!  Hunter, great to meet you.  I suspect we’ll be fast friends on this common cause, not only because of its importance, but as an added bonus, I demonstrated the good judgment to contribute to your Dad’s campaign for President back in ’07!  That came from my having worked with mostly his staff, but occasionally him, on numerous human-rights causes/cases when he was on Senate Foreign Relations and was later chairman. :)

For a little more background on me, see below.  Let me know when you’d like to get together to talk.

Best,

Jared

—

Jared Genser is Managing Director of Perseus Strategies<http://www.perseus-strategies.com>, a law and consulting firm that focuses on human rights, humanitarian, and corporate social responsibility projects.  He is also founder of Freedom Now<http://www.freedom-now.org>, a non-governmental organization that works to free prisoners of conscience worldwide.  In addition, he is an Associate of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University and a columnist for The Diplomat, a current affairs magazine focused on the Asia-Pacific.  Previously, Genser was a partner in the government affairs practice of DLA Piper LLP and a management consultant with McKinsey & Company.  He has taught semester-long seminars about the UN Security Council at Georgetown University Law Center and the University of Michigan and University of Pennsylvania law schools.  His pro bono clients have included former Czech Republic President Václav Havel and Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Aung San Suu Kyi, Liu Xiaobo, Desmond Tutu, and Elie Wiesel.  Genser holds a B.S. from Cornell University, an M.P.P. from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a J.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School.  He is author of The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention: Commentary and Guide to Practice (Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming 2015).  In addition, he is co-editor of The UN Security Council in the Age of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and The Responsibility to Protect: The Promise of Stopping Mass Atrocities in Our Times (Oxford University Press, 2011).  He is the recipient of the American Bar Association’s International Human Rights Award, Liberty in North Korea’s Freedom Fighter Award, Voices of African Mothers’ Progress Award, and the Charles Bronfman Prize.  He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts.

Jared Genser

Managing Director

+1.202.466.3069 (o)

+1.202.320.4135 (m)

I’m now tweeting<https://twitter.com/intent/follow?original_referer=https://twitter.com/about/resources/buttons&region=follow_link&screen_name=JaredGenser&tw_p=follo>!

The UN Security Council in the Age of Human Rights

Cambridge University Press, 2014

Co-Edited by Jared Genser and Bruno Stagno Ugarte

<1084317D-2678-4CA8-9E90-1FE0DE99E92F[22].png><http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/law/public-international-law/united-nations-security-council-age-human-rights>

For decades the UN Security Council skirted human rights, addressing them sporadically, reluctantly, and typically without reference to binding standards. That began to change with the end of the Cold War, as easing political tensions allowed the Council gradually to act on the fact that upholding the norms against atrocities is intimately connected to its classic mandate of defending international peace and security. Yet even since then, that evolution has been contested, particularly when the Council’s permanent five members fear the topic might come back to haunt them or their close allies. This exceptional volume of essays provides a comprehensive assessment of the Council’s conflicting views on human rights with more nuance, sophistication, and historical memory than anything else around. It helps us to understand how the shifting battles over human rights are being waged in the Council and provides guidance as to how the Council can more effectively defend our rights in the future.

Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch

Genser and Stagno Ugarte’s authoritative new volume serves as an indispensable guide to understanding the complex UN Security Council and human rights nexus. The editors have assembled a stellar cast of renowned practitioners and academics to provide their candid and personal perspectives. Their book, underpinned by meticulous research, offers a unique and penetrating critique of the Council’s progress and failures in preventing and responding to human rights abuses. It also serves as a vital clarion call for a rejuvenated Security Council that places the consideration of human rights at the center of its work.

Sam Daws, Director, Project on UN and Governance and Reform, Centre for International Studies, Oxford University

During the last 20 years, the UN Security Council has embraced the protection of individual rights as a matter of international peace and security. That said, progress has been uneven and there have been both great strides forward and terrible setbacks. This timely and important book provides the first comprehensive assessment about how the Security Council works to address major human-rights challenges around the world and recommends ways it can do so more effectively.

Luis Moreno Ocampo, First Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (2003-2012)

The information contained in this email may be confidential and/or legally privileged. It has been sent for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or any of its contents, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please reply to the sender and destroy all copies of the message.

From: Vuk Jeremic <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 at 4:28 PM
To: Hunter Biden DC <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>, Jared Genser <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Subject: Hello from Vuk

Dear Hunter and Jared,

Following our respective conversations earlier today, I'm putting you in direct touch at Hunter's suggestion.

Hunter is my friend and partner in a number of international projects, including World Food Program.

Jared is my friend and a prominent human rights lawyer and activist, who works with the US Government (including Vice President) on a number of issues, most recently on Venezuela.

Guys, I truly appreciate our friendship and your readiness to help!

Big hugs,
Vuk

Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.

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