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As Goes China, So Goes the World: Chinese Development and Environment Challenges - Giant Opportunit …
As Goes China, So Goes the World: Chinese Development and Environment Challenges - Giant Opportunity: China as a Partner in International Environmental Law
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As Goes China, So Goes the World: Chinese Development and Environment Challenges - Development's Hu …
As Goes China, So Goes the World: Chinese Development and Environment Challenges - Development's Human Cost: Human Rights and the Environment in China
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As Goes China, So Goes the World: Chinese Development and Environment Challenges - Welcome Remarks …
As Goes China, So Goes the World: Chinese Development and Environment Challenges - Welcome Remarks / Going Green: The Development of Chinese Environmental Law
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The Nuts & Bolts of Starting a Solo Legal Practice
This program, presented by Carolyn Elefant, author of Solo by Choice: How to Be the Lawyer You Always Wanted to Be, is ideal for both law students and practicing lawyers considering launching a solo legal practice. Topics to be discussed will include: overcoming the fear of hanging a shingle; what i …
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Picking Up the Pieces: Economic Policy in a New Administration
Who is to blame for the current economic crisis? Should Congress pass legislation to regulate corporations? What influence will the current administration have over action by Congress? Panelists will discuss potential benefits and disadvantages to changes in corporate regulation and other issues rel …
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In the Dock and Under the Gun: Baseless Prosecutions of Human Rights Defenders in Colombia
Two of Colombia's leading human rights activists, Luz Marina Monzon and Liliana Andrea Avila, will provide firsthand testimony of how the Colombian legal system is used to silence and stigmatize the human rights movement. Andrew Hudson will present Human Rights First's new report which for the first …
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Realizing the American Dream: Contemporary Challenges Facing H-2B Guest Workers and Their Advocates …
Gillian Chadwick; Nicole Gamble; Caroline Lyznik; Shanti Martin Student Attorneys, International Human Rights Law Clinic, Immigrants' Rights Section
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Realizing the American Dream: Contemporary Challenges Facing H-2B Guest Workers and Their Advocates …
Speakers: Terry R. Yellig, Sherman, Dunn, Cohen, Leifer & Yellig, P.C.; Daniela Dwyer, Supervising Attorney, Farmworker Division, Maryland Legal Aid Bureau (Moderator);
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Realizing the American Dream: Contemporary Challenges Facing H-2B Guest Workers and Their Advocates …
Speakers: Mary Bauer, Director, Immigrant Justice Project, Southern Poverty Law Center; Cathleen Caron, Executive Director, Global Workers Justice Alliance; Rachel Micah-Jones, Executive Director, Centro de los Derechos del Migrante; Arthur N. Read, General Counsel, Friends of Farmworkers; Sarah Pao …
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Realizing the American Dream: Contemporary Challenges Facing H-2B Guest Workers and Their Advocates …
Speakers: Joseph J. Baniszewski, Deputy Asst. General Counsel, National Labor Relations Board; Daniel Castellanos-Contreras, Organizer, Alliance of Guest Workers for Dignity; JJ Rosenbaum, Counsel, New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice; American University Leticia Zavala, Director of Outrea …
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Realizing the American Dream: Contemporary Challenges Facing H-2B Guest Workers and Their Advocates …
Speakers: Hilary Axam, Special Litigation Counsel, Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit, U.S. Department of Justice; F. Javier Díaz de León, Head of Section for Regional and Hispanic Affairs, Embassy of Mexico; Victoria Gavito, Legal Director, Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc.; Michelle Lapoin …
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Human Rights and Religious Freedom in Iran: The Situation of the Baha'is
Currently, seven leaders of the Iranian Bahá'í community have been imprisoned and accused of espionage and violations against Iran. This timely presentation will provide general information about the human rights issues facing the Bahá'í minority in Iran with a special focus on the historic oppressi …
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A Step Forward or a Roadblock to Peace and Justice in Darfur?
On March 4, 2009 Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity. He is suspected of being criminally responsible, as an indirect co-perpetrator, for intentionally directing attack …
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Dean's Business Law Lecture Series with Rick A. Lazio '83
Rick A. Lazio '83, Managing Director, JP Morgan Chase and Co.
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'Til Ballot Initiative Do Us Part: Marriage Equality, Religion and Civil Rights - Moving Forward: T …
Jonathan Capehart, Washington Post Editorial Board Jasper Hendricks, Director of Field Operations and Political Programs, National Black Justice Coalition Prof. Darren Hutchinson American University Washington College of Law Richard Kim, Senior Editor, The Nation Rev. Dr. Stephanie Nagley, St. Luke' …
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'Til Ballot Initiative Do Us Part: Marriage Equality, Religion and Civil Rights - What Happened on …
Prof. Helen Alvaré, George Mason University School of Law Prof. Mary Frances Berry (invited), Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania; Former Chair, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Rev. Derek McCoy, Assoc. Pastor, Hope Christian Church (Beltsvi …
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'Til Ballot Initiative Do Us Part: Marriage Equality, Religion and Civil Rights - Keynote Address
Shannon Minter, Legal Dir., National Center for Lesbian Rights; Lead Counsel, CA Marriage Cases and Prop 8 Appeal
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The New Japanese "Citizen Jury" System in Criminal Cases
Professor Takashi Maruta
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Human Trafficking, HIV/AIDS, and the Sex Sector - The Government of Brazil and Sex Workers Collabor …
Gabriela Leite, President, Davida
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Human Trafficking, HIV/AIDS, and the Sex Sector - Danaya So: Bringing Hope to Women and their Famil …
Sylvia Mollet, DANAYA SO Moderator: Pauline Muchina, Ph.D., Senior Partnership Advisor, UNAIDS

