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Alvina Reckman-Myers - First Year Moot Court Tournament Information Session

Posted on January 26, 2009
Alvina Reckman-Myers - First Year Moot Court Tournament Information Session

Valuing All Families Under Law - Feminist Panel

Posted on January 26, 2009
Prof. Margaret Johnson, University of Baltimore School of Law; Prof. Nancy Polikoff, Washington College of Law; and Prof. Cynthia Mabry, Howard University School of Law

Valuing All Families Under Law - Policy/Activist Panel

Posted on January 26, 2009
Prof. Dennis Ventry, Washington College of Law, Visiting Faculty; Leslie Gabel?Brett, Lambda Legal, Director of Education and Public Affairs; and Lara Schwartz, Human Rights Campaign, Legal Director & Chief Legislative Counsel

Valuing All Families Under Law - Luncheon Address

Posted on January 26, 2009
Valuing All Families Under Law - Luncheon Address

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Valuing All Families Under Law - Welcome Remarks/Comparative Law Panel

Posted on January 26, 2009
Prof. Macarena Saez, Washington College of Law. Adjunct Faculty; Prof. Lynn Wardle, Brigham Young University, Bruce C. Hafen Professor of Law; and Prof. Rachel Rebouche, Washington College of Law, Adjunct Faculty

10th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Commemoration

Posted on January 21, 2009
10th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Commemoration

Patentable Subject Matter after the Bilski Decision An Address by Chief Judge Michel United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Posted on January 21, 2009
In its recent en banc decision in In re Bilski, the Federal Circuit addressed limitations on patentable subject matter in the context of a business method invention, analyzing a body of caselaw in such a way that some say could call into question the validity of many other patents and types of claims while others argue it is not restrictive enough...

Realizing the Promise of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Examining the First 60 Years and Beyond - New Frontiers for Universal Rights: The Next 60 Years

Posted on December 03, 2008
* Climate Change and the Environment: David Hunter, American University Washington College of Law * Science and Technology: Rick Weiss, Center for American Progress * Poverty, Economic and Social Rights: Maria Foscarinis, National Law Center for Homelessness and Poverty * The Future of Human Rights Advocacy: Sarah Mendelson, Center for Strategic and International Studies Moderator: Elizabeth Andersen, American Society of International Law

Realizing the Promise of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Examining the First 60 Years and Beyond - Keynote Address - The Politics of Implementation: The Role of Human Rights in Foreign Policy

Posted on December 03, 2008
Dean Harold Koh, Yale Law School

Realizing the Promise of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Examining the First 60 Years and Beyond - Challenges to Promoting the UDHR: International Supervision and Enforcement

Posted on December 03, 2008
* United Nations: Dean Claudio Grossman, American University Washington College of Law * European System: Professor Fernanda Nicola, American University Washington College of Law * NGO Perspectives: Viviana Krsticevic, Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) Moderator: Hadar Harris, American University Washington College of Law

Realizing the Promise of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Examining the First 60 Years and Beyond - Welcome and Opening Remarks / Incorporating the UDHR into the Domestic Realm

Posted on December 03, 2008
* Dean Claudio Grossman, American University Washington College of Law * Elizabeth Andersen, Executive Director, American Society of International Law * Hadar Harris, Executive Director, WCL Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law * Overview: Professor Herman Schwartz, American University Washington College of Law * Regional Systems: Antti Korkeakivi, Council of Europe (on leave) * Remedies and Implementation: Professor Dinah Shelton, George Washington University Law School Moderator: Professor Diane Orentlicher, American University Washington College of Law

Legal Rhetoric Demonstration Argument

Posted on December 02, 2008
Legal Rhetoric Demonstration Argument

The Bailout Bill and the Rule of Law: A Public Participatory Roundtable on Plugging the Bill's Procedural Leaks - Overlapping Oversight and Reporting Mechanisms

Posted on November 25, 2008
The Bailout Bill and the Rule of Law: A Public Participatory Roundtable on Plugging the Bill's Procedural Leaks - Overlapping Oversight and Reporting Mechanisms

The Bailout Bill and the Rule of Law: A Public Participatory Roundtable on Plugging the Bill's Procedural Leaks - Uncertain Judicial Review

Posted on November 25, 2008
The Bailout Bill and the Rule of Law: A Public Participatory Roundtable on Plugging the Bill's Procedural Leaks - Uncertain Judicial Review

The Bailout Bill and the Rule of Law: A Public Participatory Roundtable on Plugging the Bill's Procedural Leaks - Unclear and Conflicting Mandates on Transparency

Posted on November 25, 2008
The Bailout Bill and the Rule of Law: A Public Participatory Roundtable on Plugging the Bill's Procedural Leaks - Unclear and Conflicting Mandates on Transparency

The Bailout Bill and the Rule of Law: A Public Participatory Roundtable on Plugging the Bill's Procedural Leaks - Welcome Remarks / No Role for Public Participation in Major Decisions

Posted on November 25, 2008
The Bailout Bill and the Rule of Law: A Public Participatory Roundtable on Plugging the Bill's Procedural Leaks - Welcome Remarks / No Role for Public Participation in Major Decisions

How Legal Rhetoric Shapes the Law - Keynote

Posted on November 25, 2008
Keynote address by Peter Brooks (Yale and Princeton). Professor Brooks is a scholar of narrative theory, co-edited "Law Stories" with Paul Gewirtz a few years ago, and recently has written two provocative pieces: "Narrative Transactions Does the Law Need a Narratology?" (18 Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 1) and an opinion piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education entitled "The Ethics of Reading" (Feb...

Dangerous Products: From Lead Toys to Tainted Drugs: Unavailable and Unaccountable: A Free Ride for Foreign Manufacturers of Defective Goods

Posted on November 25, 2008
Prof. Andrew F. Popper, American University Washington College of Law. E. Marla Felcher, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Ami Gadhia, Esq., Policy Counsel, Consumers Union; Thomas L. Gowen, Esq...

Dangerous Products: From Lead Toys to Tainted Drugs: The Social Costs of Dangerous Products: An Empirical Investigation

Posted on November 25, 2008
Prof. Sidney Shapiro, Wake Forest School of Law, Prof. Ruth Ruttenberg, National Labor College, and Prof. Paul Leigh, University of California at Davis. (Presented by Prof. Shapiro.) Prof. David Michaels, George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services; Prof...

Turkey Summer Law Program Information Session

Posted on November 23, 2008
Turkey Summer Law Program held a Question-and-Answer session on Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 at noon in room 501. Turkey Summer Law Program participants earn six credits for the two courses: (1) International Legal Perspectives on the Rule of Law, Human Rights, and Current Issues in Turkey , Central Asia and the Middle East and (2) Legal Perspectives on Business and Investment Issues in Turkey...

Some Lessons of Empirical Research and the Long March to China

Posted on November 23, 2008
Associate Dean Christine Farley is pleased to welcome Dean Mike McConville, Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law for a lunctime presentation. This Lecture will review what has been learned about the values and challenges of empirical research undertaken over the past thirty years based upon studies carried out in the general area of criminal justice including the rights of suspects, police interrogation and plea bargaining...

Human Rights, Housing, and Education: A Panel Discussion Exploring New Orleans 3 Years after Katrina

Posted on November 19, 2008
Student Activists for Katrina/Rita Survivors (SAKS) will host a discussion with Derrick Evans, founder of Turkey Creek Community Initiatives, an organization that serves the Gulf Coast Turkey Creek community that was settled by freed African-Americans in 1866, and Broderick Webb, activist and director of the film "Cut Off,"

Jerusalem Women Speak

Posted on November 10, 2008
Jerusalem Women Speak

Moot Court Honor Society and the Mock Trial Honor Society Information Session

Posted on November 07, 2008
Moot Court Honor Society and the Mock Trial Honor Society Information Session

Patent Law Information Session

Posted on November 07, 2008
OCPD invites students interested in a patent law career to attend this information session featuring Attorney John White. Mr. White is a patent lawyer and has prepared applicants for the Patent Bar Exam since 1988. He is the Director of Patent Professional Development at the Practising Law Institute (PLI) and will discuss tips for the job search, passing the exam, and practice.

Human Trafficking by Diplomats

Posted on November 07, 2008
Human Trafficking by Diplomats

Escaping North Korea: Dinner, Discussion, and Book Signing

Posted on November 05, 2008
Escaping North Korea: Dinner, Discussion, and Book Signing

Section 4 Legal Formalism and Realism Commons

Posted on October 28, 2008
Section 4 Legal Formalism and Realism Commons

Dolores K. Sloviter Q & A Session

Posted on October 24, 2008
Dolores K. Sloviter Q & A Session

Fourth Annual Finnegan and Henderson Distinguished Lecture on Intellectual Property

Posted on October 21, 2008
The paper will present the evolution of the TRIPS Agreement, which I will argue has now entered a third phase ("TRIPS 3.0"), one that is informed by calibration narratives. The intellectual components of the calibration process that is underway are many: (a) the recognition that developing countries are very different, from Chile to China, from Bolivia to Burkina Faso or from Egypt to India, and consequently may need different implementations of TRIPS, instead of "cookie cutter" norm implants; (b) the recognition that below certain developmental thresholds, the introduction of high levels of intellectual property protection will not generate positive impacts (as was evidenced by the extension of transitional periods available for least-developed WTO members); (c) the recognition that intellectual property protection is necessary to develop innovation and foreign direct investment (including technology transfers) but in itself is insufficient to achieve developmental objectives; (d) consequently, the recognition that any complete TRIPS implementation must form part of a broader strategic initiative; and finally (e) the recognition that the sudden introduction of high levels of protection and enforcement may induce significant welfare impacts, which must also be managed...

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