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NY Bar Eligibility requirements for LLMs NY Bar Eligibility requirements for LLMs Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ten Years After 9/11: The Changing Terrorist Threat - Combating the Ever-Changing Terrorist Threat: Legal & Policy Issues Ten Years After 9/11: The Changing Terrorist Threat - Combating the Ever-Changing Terrorist Threat: Legal & Policy Issues Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ten Years After 9/11: The Changing Terrorist Threat - Keynote Speaker Ten Years After 9/11: The Changing Terrorist Threat - Keynote Speaker Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Washington College of Law 2011 Commencement Address American University Washington College of Law 2011 Commencement Address by Stephen N. Zack, President of the American Bar Association Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Assisting Law Students with Disabilities in the 21st Century - Research Project: Bar Examination Accommodations for ADHD Graduates Some law students applying for ADHD accommodations on the bar exam are unfairly disadvantaged by the common state bar agency requirement to provide a childhood history of ADHD, as many are not diagnosed until adulthood, and others do not have a sufficient record of childhood history. The well-recognized need to diversify the legal profession lends importance to this issue, as the students disadvantaged by this requirement are more likely to be those generally underrepresented in the profess ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Assisting Law Students with Disabilities in the 21st Century - Law Students with Invisible Disabilities: How Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Psychiatric Disabilities, and Learning Disabilities Navigate Legal Education This panel discusses some of the more challenging populations of law students with disabilities. Accommodations will be discussed based on the new regulations and panelists will review some cases. Emphasis will be given to discussing students on the autism spectrum and students with psychiatric disabilities. Panel: Jane Thierfeld Brown, Director of Student Services, University of Connecticut School of Law (moderator); Salome Heyward, Principal, Salome Heyward & Associates; and Christy Willi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Assisting Law Students with Disabilities in the 21st Century - Technology: Are You (and Your Vendors) Ahead of, Behind, or on the Curve? It is virtually impossible to keep up with technology in our personal lives, let alone professionally when seeking to assist our students. At the same time, the recent lawsuit by the National Federation of the Blind leads to a host of questions about a law school's duty/best practice/options when a provider it uses is not wholly accessible to one or more disabled students. A technology vendor may claim that it is ADA-compliant, but we still see aspects of almost every product that are not a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Assisting Law Students with Disabilities in the 21st Century - Luncheon Keynote Patricia A. Shiu, Director, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, US Department of Labor Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Assisting Law Students with Disabilities in the 21st Century - The International Law Student: Culture; Access; and When Well Stop Scrambling The concept of accommodations can be alien to an incoming international law student, and inaccessible to any entering student. Whether made aware late in the process or not at all, the student typically arrives armed with minimal expectation or documentation regarding a disability. As administrators navigate the challenges of housing to insurance to personal assistance to academic accommodations, we will discuss best practices in this area, with the goal of distributing a guide on this topi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Assisting Law Students with Disabilities in the 21st Century - Kicking Down the Door to Employment II: Resources and How to Access Them Accommodations for students in law school may continue in practice, but the process is not automatic and is not a given. Our panelists will share their perspectives on transitioning from law school into the various workforce sectors (private, public, government) and how best to prepare our students. Panel: Paula Nailon, Assistant Dean for Professional Development, The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law (moderator); Sheri Denkensohn, Special Assistant Counsel to the Inspect ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Assisting Law Students with Disabilities in the 21st Century - Welcome Remarks David Jaffe, Associate Dean for Student Affairs, American University Washington College of Law Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Does it Mean to "Do" Human Rights Work? What is the work of the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture? What is it like to be a Commissioner on the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights? How do you meaningfully investigate human rights and terrorism? How do you advise newly independent states on writing their new constitution? The Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law's faculty co-directors are not only professors - they are among the most noted human rights practitioners in the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From Crisis to Opportunity: Human Rights in Egypt and Beyond In light of the popular revolution movements in Egypt, Tunisia, and elsewhere in the region, many commentators have said that the Middle East and North Africa will never be the same. Please join us to examine the human rights implications of the tumultuous events taking place in Egypt and throughout the MENA region. Panelists will include: Joe Stork, Deputy Director, Middle East and North Africa Division, Human Rights Watch; Jack DuVall, President, International Center on Nonviolent Conflic ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Opportunities Day: War Crimes Research Office Information Session Involve yourself in the study of international criminal and humanitarian law, and work to hold perpetrators of atrocities accountable, by assisting the WCRO to research and write legal memoranda for a variety of international justice institutions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Opportunities Day: Public International Law and Policy Program Information Session Provide pro bono public international legal assistance to states and sub-state entities involved in peace negotiations and in drafting post-conflict constitutions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Opportunities Day: Marshall-Brennan Program Information Session Teach constitutional law in a D.C. public high school. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Opportunities Day: International Dual Degree in France Information Session Earn a J.D. from WCL and the equivalent law degree from France. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Opportunities Day: Collaboration on Government Secrecy Information Session Serves as an academic center of expertise, scholarly research and information resources regarding freedom of information, government transparency, and the study of "government secrecy" in the US and internationally. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cool Human Rights Work I Did on My Summer Vacation Cool Human Rights Work I Did on My Summer Vacation Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cambodian Crackdown on Sex Sector: Rights Abuses and Donor Obligations Cambodian Crackdown on Sex Sector: Rights Abuses and Donor Obligations Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dont Ask Dont Tell: Beyond the Log Cabin Republicans Injunction and the Defense Authorization Act A discussion of the legal, social and policy implications of this legislation, including a discussion of the Log Cabin Republicans v. United States of America case, the subsequent injunction issued by Judge Virginia Phillips of the United States District Court for the Central District of California, the Defense Authorization Act and domestic partner benefits. Panel moderated by: Stephen Vladeck, American University Washington College of Law Professor & National Security Law Expert Panel: Mi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Constitutionalism in Latin America: A North American Perspective Professor Barker will make a presentation on "Constitutionalism in Latin America: a North American Perspective" Moderators: Dante Figueroa, Adjunct Professor, WCL and Georgetown Law Center, Senior Legal Information Analyst, Law Library of Congress. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fourth Annual International Right-To-Know Day Celebration - Updated Survey of Transparency Worldwide Toby McIntosh, Managing Editor, freedominfo.org, and Steering Committee Coordinator, Global Transparency Initiative; Thomas M. Susman, Director of Government Affairs, American Bar Ass'n; Andrea Stephenson, Senior Research Assistant, CGS Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fourth Annual International Right-To-Know Day Celebration - The World Banks New Transparency Regime Chad Dobson, Executive Director, Bank Information Center; Anne-Marie Leroy, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, World Bank; Laura Neuman, The Carter Center Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fourth Annual International Right-To-Know Day Celebration - Transparency in Scotland as Viewed at the Centre for Freedom of Information Sarah Hutchison, Head of Policy and Information, Office of the Scottish Information Commissioner, St. Andrews, Scotland Professor Janet McLean, Dundee Law School, University of Dundee, Scotland (via video connection) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fourth Annual International Right-To-Know Day Celebration - Welcome and Introduction / Keynote Presentation: "Worldwide Transparency in the 21st Century" Daniel J. Metcalfe, Executive Director, CGS Laura Neuman, Associate Director for the Americas Program, The Carter Center Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of the World Trade Organization Is the WTO ready to meet the challenges of 21st Century? What impact will the economic crisis have on the WTO? Are reforms needed to the WTO decision making and dispute settlement mechanisms to make the organization more legitimate, accountable and effective? How can greater coherence in international economic policy making between the Bretton Woods institutions and the WTO be facilitated? Will the "success" of the WTO dispute settlement mechanism be maintained in the face of new, complex c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Washington College of Law 2010 Commencement Address Washington College of Law 2010 Commencement Address by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Third Annual Freedom of Information Day - Panel Four: Exemption Three Going Forward An analysis of the FOIA's controversial "catch-all exemption," its recognized scope to date, and its future application under the OPEN FOIA Act of 2009 (the "2009 FOIA Amendment"). Jason I. Allen, Senior Research Assistant, Collaboration on Government Secrecy, Washington College of Law; Kevin M. Goldberg, Special Counsel, Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth, P.L.C.; Matthew L. Johnson, Chief Counsel to Senator John Cornyn for Senate Judiciary Committee; and Adina H. Rosenbaum, Director, Freedom of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Third Annual Freedom of Information Day - Panel Three: Pseudosecrecy, From SHSI to SBU to CUI A review of the problematic proliferation of "safeguarding labels," from Clinton-era origins to prospective Obama Administration solutions (potentially in the form of an unprecedented executive order). William J. Bosanko, Director, Information Security Oversight Office, National Archives and Records Administration; Michael German, National Security Policy Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union; Matthew L. Kronisch, Associate General Counsel for Intelligence, Department of Homeland Securit ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Third Annual Freedom of Information Day - Panel Three: Pseudosecrecy, From SHSI to SBU to CUI A review of the problematic proliferation of "safeguarding labels," from Clinton-era origins to prospective Obama Administration solutions (potentially in the form of an unprecedented executive order). William J. Bosanko, Director, Information Security Oversight Office, National Archives and Records Administration; Michael German, National Security Policy Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union; Matthew L. Kronisch, Associate General Counsel for Intelligence, Department of Homeland Securit ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Third Annual Freedom of Information Day - Luncheon Address Norman L. Eisen, Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform and key official on the White House Open Government Initiative Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Third Annual Freedom of Information Day - Panel Two: Backlog Reduction Under the Open Government Directive An inside look at the potential implementation of this major government-wide FOIA initiative. Charles N. Davis, Associate Professor, Missouri School of Journalism, and Executive Director, National Freedom of Information Coalition; William T. Kammer, Chief, Freedom of Information Policy Office, Department of Defense; Sharon M. Mar, Policy Analyst, Information Policy Branch, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget; and Mark Tapscott, Editorial Page Edito ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Third Annual Freedom of Information Day - Panel One: Big Freedom of Information Act Litigation Cases A wide-ranging discussion of pending issues in major FOIA litigation by expert government and private-sector litigators. Thomas H. Golden, Partner, Willkie, Farr & Gallagher; Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC); Leonard Schaitman, Assistant Director, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, Department of Justice; Arthur B. Spitzer, Legal Director, American Civil Liberties Union of the National Capital Area; and Thomas S. Blanton, Director, National Sec ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Third Annual Freedom of Information Day - Welcome and Opening Remarks / Introduction / Award Presentation / Keynote Address Welcome and Opening Remarks -- Daniel J. Metcalfe, Executive Director, Collaboration on Government Secrecy, Washington College of Law Introduction -- Claudio M. Grossman, Dean and Professor of Law, Washington College of Law Award Presentation -- Senator Patrick Leahy, Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee Keynote Address -- John D. Podesta, President and CEO, Center for American Progress, Former White House Chief of Staff, and Obama/Biden Transition Team Co-Chair Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Strengthening the Prohibition of Torture: The Evolution of the UN Committee against Torture - Concluding Remarks WCL Dean and Professor of Law Claudio Grossman, Chair, UN Committee against Torture Widney Brown, Senior Director, International Law and Policy, Amnesty International Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Strengthening the Prohibition of Torture: The Evolution of the UN Committee against Torture - Panel Three: Interpretation and Implementation of CAT Article 22 (Petitions) Julia Hall, Researcher on Counter?Terrorism and Human Rights in Europe, Amnesty International Barbara Jackman, Immigration and Refugee Lawyer, Jackman & Associates (Canada) Ann Jordan, Director, Program on Forced Labor and Trafficking, WCL Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Francisco Quintana, Deputy Program Director for the Andean, North America and Caribbean Region, Center for Justice and International Law Moderator: Ambassador Luis Gallegos, Member, UN Committee against Torture Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Strengthening the Prohibition of Torture: The Evolution of the UN Committee against Torture - Luncheon Keynote Address by the Honorable Michael Posner, Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Luncheon Keynote Address by the Honorable Michael Posner, Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor: "The Role of the U.S. in Strengthening the Prohibition Against Torture" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Strengthening the Prohibition of Torture: The Evolution of the UN Committee against Torture - Panel Two: Ensuring Reparations for Victims of Torture and Other Ill - Treatment Christopher Hall, Senior Legal Advisor, International Justice Project, Amnesty International Juan Mendez, WCL Visiting Professor of Law and former President, International Center for Transitional Justice Lorna McGregor, International Legal Advisor, REDRESS Nora Sveaass, Vice Chair, UN Committee against Torture Moderator: WCL Dean and Professor of Law Claudio Grossman, Chair, UN Committee against Torture Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Strengthening the Prohibition of Torture: The Evolution of the UN Committee against Torture - Panel One: Building on CAT's Successes and Addressing its Shortcomings: The Stakeholders' Perspectives Santiago Canton, Executive Secretary, Inter?American Commission on Human Rights Jens Faerkel,Minister Counsellor of the Human Rights Department of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Felice Gaer, Member, UN Committee against Torture Yuval Ginbar, Legal Advisor, Amnesty International Joao Nataf, Acting Secretary, UN Committee against Torture Florence Simbiri?Jaoko, Chairperson, Kenya National Commission on Human Rights Moderator: Mark Thomson, Secretary General, Association for the Preven ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Strengthening the Prohibition of Torture: The Evolution of the UN Committee against Torture - Opening Remarks WCL Dean and Professor of Law Claudio Grossman, Chair, UN Committee against Torture Widney Brown, Senior Director, International Law and Policy, Amnesty International Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why History Matters: International Law and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict Victor Kattan will speak on the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Mr. Kattan will discuss the international legal framework that governs the conflict and contextualize it within the larger history. He will introduce his new book, From Coexistence to Conquest: International Law and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1891-1949, which was released in June 2009. Max Paul Friedman, Associate Professor of History at American University will moderate the discussion Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2010 Symposium on Health Disparities - International Disparities Javier Vazquez, WHO?PAHO; Professor Margaret Farrell, American University Washington College of Law; Mark Green, Malaria No More; Leonard Rubenstein, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health; TBC, World Organization for Human Rights USA Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2010 Symposium on Health Disparities - Aging and Disability Disparities Moderator: Professor Bob Dinerstein, American University Washington College of Law Ahaviah Glaser, AARP, and Adjunct Professor, American University Washington College of Law; Daniela Kraiem, Associate Director, Women and the Law Program, American University Washington College of Law Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2010 Symposium on Health Disparities - Keynote Address Councilman David Catania, Council of the District of Columbia Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2010 Symposium on Health Disparities - Federal and State Perspectives Ken Johnson, HHS Office of Civil Rights; Carlessia Hussein, Maryland Department of Health, Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities; Hilary Frierson Keeley, HHS Public Health Division, Indian Health Services Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2010 Symposium on Health Disparities - Opening Remarks / Racial Disparities Corrine Parver, Practitioner?in?Residence and Executor Director, Health Law Project, LLM Program on Law and Government, American University Washington College of Law; Kathryn Coniglio, Health Law and Justice Initiative; and Jocelyn Moore, Health Law and Policy Brief Mara Youdelman; National Health Law Program; Julia Pierce, HHS Public Health Division, Indian Health Services; Gina Wood, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Regulatory Change Under the Obama Administration - Regulatory Change in the Environmental Sector / Closing Remarks Moderator: Professor William J. Snape, Washington College of Law Kyle W. Danish, Partner, Van Ness Feldman David D. Doniger, Climate Change Policy Director, Natural Resources Defense Council Professor Rena I. Steinzor, University of Maryland School of Law & President, Center for Progressive Reform Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Regulatory Change Under the Obama Administration - Regulatory Change in the Communications Sector Moderator: Professor Anthony E. Varona, Washington College of Law Daniel L. Brenner, Partner, Hogan & Hartson LLP Harold Feld, Legal Director, Public Knowledge M. Chris Riley, Policy Counsel, Free Press Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Regulatory Change Under the Obama Administration - Luncheon Keynote Address Cornelius M. Kerwin, President, American University & Founder, Center for the Study of Rulemaking Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Regulatory Change Under the Obama Administration - Regulatory Change in the Financial Sector Moderator: Professor Stephen Wermiel, Washington College of Law Annette L. Nazareth, Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP & former Commissioner, Securities and Exchange Commission Damon A. Silvers, Deputy Chair, Congressional Oversight Panel & Director of Policy and Special Counsel, AFL-CIO Professor Arthur E. Wilmarth, Jr., George Washington University Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Regulatory Change Under the Obama Administration - Welcome/Introduction / Opening Keynote Address Claudio M. Grossman, Dean, Washington College of Law Kevin G. Barker, Editor in Chief, Administrative Law Review The Honorable Cass R. Sunstein, Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Custom, Law and Tradition: Alternative Legal Systems and their Impact on Human Rights - Panel: How Does Customary Law Fit into or Conflict With State-building Processes? This panel will discuss the use of customary law communities or states that are emerging from human rights violations or seeking sovereignty. Panelists will discuss the pressure for nations/communities to come into line with a larger national or regional human rights framework. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Custom, Law and Tradition: Alternative Legal Systems and their Impact on Human Rights - Keynote Speech Topic: Whether modern conceptions of democracy and human rights provide a role for customary law in advancing human rights or enriching the constitutional state Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Custom, Law and Tradition: Alternative Legal Systems and their Impact on Human Rights - Panel: Customary Law and the Tension Between Collective Versus Individual Rights This panel will discuss the how collective rights under customary law intersect with and sometimes conflict with individual rights established under national law or international human rights law. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Custom, Law and Tradition: Alternative Legal Systems and their Impact on Human Rights - Welcome/Opening Remarks / Speaker: Different Perspectives on Customary Law This first session will give an overview of what customary law is and how it functions in various societies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Domestic Violence in Indian Country A panel of law professors, policy makers, and NGO advocates will examine how conflicts between federal and tribal jurisdiction can lead to a lack of prosecution and enforcement of domestic violence cases in Native American communities. In addition, panelists will identify the various policy mechanisms that have been developed to address this problem, and explore the ways in which Native women's organizations have used these mechanisms to help end violence against women in their communities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Demystifying the Journals Law journal information session Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Transparency in the Obama Administration - A First-Year Assessment - Panel Four: The Open Government Directive - an analysis of this long-awaited keystone of Obama Administration transparency policy with attn to the breadth of its related tech initiatives Clint Hendler, Staff Writer, Columbia Journalism Review; Alexander T. Hunt, Chief, Information Policy Branch, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget; Sean Moulton, Director, Federal Information Policy, OMB Watch; Burt Wides, former Senior Counsel to Senate Judiciary Committee, Chief Counsel to House Judiciary Committee, and Special Counsel to President Jimmy Carter; and Gary D. Bass, Founder and Executive Director, OMB Watch (moderator) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Transparency in the Obama Administration - A First-Year Assessment - Panel Three: The New Executive Order on National Security - a discussion of new Exec. Order No. 13,526, with focus on both classification and declassification. Meredith Fuchs, General Counsel, National Security Archive; Regina A. Genton, Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Policy, Office of the Director of National Intelligence; William H. Leary, Senior Director, National Security Council; J. William Leonard, former Director, Information Security Oversight Office, National Archives and Records Administration; and Steven Aftergood, Executive Director, Project on Government Secrecy, Federation of American Scientists (moderator) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Transparency in the Obama Administration - A First-Year Assessment - Luncheon Presentation Michael Isikoff, Investigative Correspondent, Newsweek, and contributor to MSNBC Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Transparency in the Obama Administration - A First-Year Assessment - Panel Two: The New Office of Government Information Services (OGIS) - an inside look at OGISs start-up operations and its plans for 2010. Rick Blum, Coordinator, Sunshine in Government Initiative; Lydia Kay Griggsby, Counsel to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy; Patrice McDermott, Director, OpenTheGovernment.org.; Miriam McIntire Nisbet, Director, Office of Government Information Services, National Archives and Records Administration Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Transparency in the Obama Administration - A First-Year Assessment - Panel One: Freedom of Information Act Policy - a review of governmentwide implementation of the Holder FOIA Memorandum. Lucy A. Dalglish, Executive Director, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press; Thomas J. Fitton, President, Judicial Watch; Richard L. Huff, Director, American Society of Access Professionals, and former Director, Office of Information and Privacy, Department of Justice; David Sobel, Senior Counsel and Director, FOIA Litigation for Accountable Government Project, Electronic Frontier Foundation; and Thomas M. Susman, Director of Governmental Affairs, American Bar Association (moderator) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Transparency in the Obama Administration - A First-Year Assessment - Welcome and Introduction / Keynote Speech Daniel J. Metcalfe, Executive Director, Collaboration on Government Secrecy, Washington College of Law Robynn K. Sturm, Assistant Deputy Chief Technology Officer and Deputy Director, White House Open Government Initiative Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lawyers Fiddle While the Constitution Burns Guest speakers Ralph Nader, the famed consumer activist and environmentalist, and Bruce Fein, a prominent conservative constitutional lawyer, team up to call the legal profession to account for ignoring a "chronic multi-faceted Constitutional crisis in America." What should law schools, lawyers, and the institutions of government be doing about systematic disregard for constitutional values and norms? Their provocative critique is sure to kick off a fascinating discussion. Moderated by Prof ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The State of the State Secrets Privilege: Panel Four: Idealized View of the Privilege -- a wide-ranging assessment of what, all things considered, the nature and scope of the privilege ought to be Elizabeth Goitein, Director, Liberty and National Security Project, Brennan Center for Justice, New York University School of Law; Kenneth Gude, Associate Director, Center for American Progress; Carl J. Nichols, former Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General, Department of Justice (Bush Administration); Kent Roach, Prichard-­??Wilson Chair of Law and Public Policy, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto; and Stephen I. Vladeck, Professor, Washington College of Law (moderator) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The State of the State Secrets Privilege: Panel Three: Legislative Perspective -- an up-to-date view from Capitol Hill of the prospects for state secrets privilege reform by Congress Danielle Brian, Executive Director, Project on Government Oversight; Sean Moulton, Director of Information Policy, OMB Watch; Heather C. Sawyer, Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The State of the State Secrets Privilege: Luncheon Louis Fisher, Specialist in Constitutional Law, Library of Congress, and author of The Politics of Executive Privilege (Carolina Academic Press 2004) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The State of the State Secrets Privilege: Panel Two: Obama Administration Policy and Practice -- a critical examination of the Obama Administrations emerging positions on the privilege and how they differ from positions advanced in litigation during the B Sharon Bradford Franklin, Senior Counsel, The Constitution Project; Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., Associate Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice; Benjamin E. Wizner, Counsel, National Security Project, American Civil Liberties Union; and Daniel Marcus, Faculty Fellow in Law and Government, Washington College of Law, and former Associate Attorney General (moderator) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The State of the State Secrets Privilege: Panel One: Background of the Privilege -- a foundation discussion of the state secrets privileges origin, its development, and its current status in the courts Robert M. Chesney, Charles I. Francis Professor of Law, University of Texas; Laura K. Donohue, Associate Professor, Georgetown Law, and affiliated faculty member, Georgetown Law's Center on National Security and the Law; Douglas N. Letter, Terrorism Litigation Counsel, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, Department of Justice; and Amanda Frost, Professor, Washington College of Law (moderator) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The State of the State Secrets Privilege: Welcome and Introduction / Congressman Jerrold Nadler, Chairman, House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties Daniel J. Metcalfe, Executive Director, Collaboration on Government Secrecy, Washington College of Law Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Juvenile Sentencing: Life without Parole - Cruel & Unusual or Necessary & Appropriate? The Criminal Law Society and Criminal Law Brief are hosting a panel on the issue of juveniles receiving life without parole sentences for non-homicide crimes. On Nov. 9, the Supreme Court will hear, separately, two cases on this issue. Those cases, Graham v. Florida and Sullivan v. Florida both involve juveniles who are serving life without parole for crimes that did not result in a homicide. Many organizations filed amicus briefs on both sides and this panel will include represented from s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview with Amy Gordon of the DC Rape Crisis Center Interview with Amy Gordon of the DC Rape Crisis Center Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website International Externship Workshop The Externship Program invites you to attend an informal workshop on international internship end externship opportunities for summer 2010. Avis Sanders, Director of the Externship Program, will provide information regarding international employers who have expressed an interest in receiving applications for WCL students. Learn how to get academic credits for your international work. We will provide tips and suggestions on how to write a curriculum vitae and how to conduct an international ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Customary International Law US Law A debate between Profs. David Moore (BYU) and Stephen Vladeck (WCL). Moderated by Prof. David Snyder. Debaters: Professor David Moore, BYU Law, has published numerous works on international law and the legal aspects of American foreign relations and has taught a number of courses on these subjects. He has twice clerked for Justice Alito and was clerking for him when the Supreme Court issued its Medellin v. Texas, 128 S.Ct. 1346 (2008) decision, which bears on the topic of the debate. Prof ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Positive Strategies for Maintaining Wellness in a Tough Economy Positive Strategies for Maintaining Wellness in a Tough Economy Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Crisis in Guinea: Human Rights and Accountability The Center is hosting a dynamic panel discussion to address the recent surge of violence in Guinea. The panel will feature experts from Human Rights Watch, and the New York Times bureau chief for West Africa is scheduled to patch in via phone. In addition, a WCL alumnus who now heads a NGO in Guinea is slated to join the panel via telephone. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Patent Information Session: Exam Tips and Career Strategies OCPD and the Intellectual Property Society invite students interested in a patent law career to attend this information session featuring Attorney John White on Monday, October 5 from 4:30 - 5:30 in room 401. 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Third Annual International Right-to-Know Day Celebration - Restoration of U.S. International Transparency Leadership During the Obama Administration Kevin M. Goldberg, Legal Counsel, American Society of Newspaper Editors; Miriam M. Nisbet, Founding Director, Office of Government Information Services, NARA, and most recently Director, Information Society Division, UNESCO, Paris; John Verdi, Director, Open Government Project, EPIC Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Third Annual International Right-to-Know Day Celebration - Restoration of U.S. International Transparency Leadership During the Obama Administration Kevin M. Goldberg, Legal Counsel, American Society of Newspaper Editors; Miriam M. Nisbet, Founding Director, Office of Government Information Services, NARA, and most recently Director, Information Society Division, UNESCO, Paris; John Verdi, Director, Open Government Project, EPIC Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Third Annual International Right-to-Know Day Celebration - Survey of Transparency Worldwide Tom Blanton, Director, National Security Archive; Jamie P. Horsley, Deputy Director, China Law Center, Yale Law School; Toby McIntosh, Steering Committee Coordinator, Global Transparency Initiative Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Third Annual International Right-to-Know Day Celebration - Survey of Transparency Worldwide Tom Blanton, Director, National Security Archive; Jamie P. Horsley, Deputy Director, China Law Center, Yale Law School; Toby McIntosh, Steering Committee Coordinator, Global Transparency Initiative Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Third Annual International Right-to-Know Day Celebration - Kevin Dunion, Information Commissioner of Scotland, and Arne Fliflet, Information Commissioner of Norway Kevin Dunion, Information Commissioner of Scotland, and Arne Fliflet, Information Commissioner of Norway - via audio connection at the Sixth International Conference of Information Commissioners in Oslo, Norway Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Third Annual International Right-to-Know Day Celebration - Kevin Dunion, Information Commissioner of Scotland, and Arne Fliflet, Information Commissioner of Norway Kevin Dunion, Information Commissioner of Scotland, and Arne Fliflet, Information Commissioner of Norway - via audio connection at the Sixth International Conference of Information Commissioners in Oslo, Norway Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Third Annual International Right-to-Know Day Celebration - Welcome and Introduction / Keynote Presentation: "Transparency in the UK and Beyond" Daniel J. Metcalfe, Executive Director, CGS Alasdair S. Roberts, Professor of Law and Public Policy, Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Massachusetts, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University College London Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Third Annual International Right-to-Know Day Celebration - Welcome and Introduction / Keynote Presentation: "Transparency in the UK and Beyond" Daniel J. Metcalfe, Executive Director, CGS Alasdair S. Roberts, Professor of Law and Public Policy, Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Massachusetts, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University College London Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gender and Climate Change International Week: Gender and Climate Change Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 21st Century Infrastructure: Opportunities and Hurdles for Renewable Energy Development - Financing Issues: Views from Wall Street to Sand Hill Road 21st Century Infrastructure: Opportunities and Hurdles for Renewable Energy Development - Financing Issues: Views from Wall Street to Sand Hill Road Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 21st Century Infrastructure: Opportunities and Hurdles for Renewable Energy Development - Policies for the Transition to a Carbon-Constrained Economy 21st Century Infrastructure: Opportunities and Hurdles for Renewable Energy Development - Policies for the Transition to a Carbon-Constrained Economy Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 21st Century Infrastructure: Opportunities and Hurdles for Renewable Energy Development - Private Investment and the Role of Government: The Goldilocks Conundrum 21st Century Infrastructure: Opportunities and Hurdles for Renewable Energy Development - Private Investment and the Role of Government: The Goldilocks Conundrum Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 21st Century Infrastructure: Opportunities and Hurdles for Renewable Energy Development - Lunch with Keynote Speaker 21st Century Infrastructure: Opportunities and Hurdles for Renewable Energy Development - Lunch with Keynote Speaker Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 21st Century Infrastructure: Opportunities and Hurdles for Renewable Energy Development - Generation Resources: Finding the Right Mix 21st Century Infrastructure: Opportunities and Hurdles for Renewable Energy Development - Generation Resources: Finding the Right Mix Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 21st Century Infrastructure: Opportunities and Hurdles for Renewable Energy Development - Electric Transmission Gaps and Bottlenecks: Issues and Potential Solutions 21st Century Infrastructure: Opportunities and Hurdles for Renewable Energy Development - Electric Transmission Gaps and Bottlenecks: Issues and Potential Solutions Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 21st Century Infrastructure: Opportunities and Hurdles for Renewable Energy Development - Introduction and Welcome 21st Century Infrastructure: Opportunities and Hurdles for Renewable Energy Development - Introduction and Welcome Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website International JD Dual Degree Program Info Session Information session for the International JD Dual Degree Programs in France, Australia, Canada, and Spain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Munching on Human Rights The Center's popular "Munching on Human Rights" series is back for another season of engaging and thought-provoking lunchtime lectures hosted by WCL faculty. This series is an introductory program designed particularly for 1Ls who are looking to get a "taste" of international human rights and humanitarian law during their first year of study. Topics will include an introduction to human rights treaty law, a discussion of the Universal Bill of Human Rights, and a primer on the law of war and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Business Law Program Orientation Business Law Program Orientation Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 * 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Moving From the Past in the Legal Profession: Black History Month Opening Ceremony 2008 Distinguished panelists will discuss obstacles they may have encountered as minorities while attending law school, after graduating, and how they have persevered in the legal profession. In addition, the panelists will briefly discuss why working in either a government agency or a law firm is beneficial in the long run. The distinguished guests, from different areas of the legal profession offering students a wide variety of insight, will include the Honorable Gerald Bruce Lee, U.S. Distric ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joint Journal, Note and Comment Training Joint Journal, Note and Comment Training Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ABCI Conference - Breakfast with Bruce Wilson on Dispute Settlement in the World Trade Organization American University Washington College of Law International Legal Studies Program (ILSP) and Brazilian International Trade Scholars, Inc. (ABCI) present the 89th Meeting of the Brazilian International Trade Scholars, Inc. featuring Bruce Wilson, Director, Legal Affairs Division, World Trade Organization. Discussion: "Dispute Settlement in the WTO" with opening remarks by Professor Padideh Ala'i and ABCI Chairman: Professor Aluiso Lima-Campos on May 27, 2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Washington College of Law 2009 Commencement Address Washington College of Law 2009 Commencement Address Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Privacy Protection After 20 Years Under Reporters Committee - Panel Four: The Future of Privacy Protection Comprehensive reviews of Reporters Committee's impact on FOIA administration, FOIA litigation and implementation of the Privacy Act of 1974, raising questions of the need for and prospects of legislative reform. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Privacy Protection After 20 Years Under Reporters Committee - Panel Three: Core Values Critical consideration of Reporters Committee "core purpose" standard for determining a limited "public interest" that can be balanced in favor of disclosure. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Privacy Protection After 20 Years Under Reporters Committee - Luncheon Mary Ellen Callahan, Chief Privacy Officer and Chief Freedom of Information Act Officer, Department of Homeland Security Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Privacy Protection After 20 Years Under Reporters Committee - Panel Two: Practical Obscurity? A pragmatic analysis of the Supreme Court's novel "practical obscurity" concept for protecting personal privacy interests. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Privacy Protection After 20 Years Under Reporters Committee - Welcome and Introduction / Keynote Address / Panel One: Reporters Committee Revisited Discussions of the origin of the case, the formulation of the government's position, and the unexpected breadth of the Supreme Court's decision. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Legislation and Policy Roundtable Election Law Discussion Legislation and Policy Roundtable Election Law Discussion Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Women's Law Association - Work Life Balance Women's Law Association - Work Life Balance Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sixth Annual IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections - Female Fan Culture and Intellectual Property - Panel Three: Cui Bono? Economic Contexts Peter Jaszi, Moderator Kristina Busse, Original Genius and Transformative Reptition Zahr Said Stauffer, Taking the 'Grrr' out of 'Grrrl': Strategically Gendered Marketing in Cathy's Book Abigail De Kosnik, Women's Work and 'Free' Fan Labor Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sixth Annual IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections - Female Fan Culture and Intellectual Property - Panel Two: New Forms of Organizing: Women Reinterpret the Legal, the Educational and the Political Ann Shalleck, Moderator Laura Murray, Boys and Their Toys? On the Gender Dynamics of Copyright Activism in Canada Jordan Gilbertson, We Will Not Be Ignored - Integrating Fan Created Works Into the Traditional Copyright Classroom Karen Hellekson, Intellectual Property, Transformation, and Academic Journals Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sixth Annual IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections - Female Fan Culture and Intellectual Property - # Panel One: Is There a Text in This Work? Transformation Beyond the Written Word Francesca Coppa, Moderator Ann Bartow, Commentator Melissa Tatum, Robert Spoo, Does Gender Influence Attitude Toward Copyright in the Filk Community? Tisha Turk, Transformative Narrations: Fan-made Videos and Fair Use Casey Fiesler, Paper Dolls: Role-Playing, Gender, and Pretending Without A License Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sixth Annual IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections - Female Fan Culture and Intellectual Property - Opening Remarks Sixth Annual IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections - Female Fan Culture and Intellectual Property - Opening Remarks Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Women and the Law Leadership Presents The Honorable Dorothy Toth Beasley '64 Women leaders from the United States and the world come together to discuss current events and network with students interested in global issues. The attendees will have an opportunity to discuss the challenges facing women in today's global legal environment. This year's recipient of the Award and Keynote speaker will be The Honorable Dorothy Toth Beasley '64, Retired Senior Judge, District Court of Georgia Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Chevron Out of Gas? The State of Judicial Review 25 years After Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council - Panel Discussion On June 25, 1984, the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council created a two-part inquiry to guide judicial review of a federal agency's interpretation of its own statute. Where a statute is ambiguous, the Chevron test calls for deference by the reviewing court to the agency's interpretation. In 2001, the Court attempted to clarify the reach of the Chevron test in United States v. Mead Corporation, which explained that Chevron deference ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Chevron Out of Gas? The State of Judicial Review 25 years After Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council - Keynote Address On June 25, 1984, the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council created a two-part inquiry to guide judicial review of a federal agency's interpretation of its own statute. Where a statute is ambiguous, the Chevron test calls for deference by the reviewing court to the agency's interpretation. In 2001, the Court attempted to clarify the reach of the Chevron test in United States v. Mead Corporation, which explained that Chevron deference ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roots and Reality: Community Organizing, Law and Public Policy - Activist Lawyering, Law Teaching and Law Learning / Closing Remarks Tayyab Mahmud, Past Pres. SALT, Prof. of Law and Assoc. Dean, Seattle Law; Thomas Ruffin, Public Education Coordinator and Instructor Priscilla Huang, Program and Policy Director of National Asian Pacific American Women's Health Forum; Shari D'Andrade, Clinic Student Attorney, WCL 2L Pamela Bridgewater, Activist and Professor of Law WCL Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roots and Reality: Community Organizing, Law and Public Policy - Art as Activism, Activists as Artists Seema Sadanandan, Activist, Documentary Filmmaker (Coolie Nation) and WCL 2L ; April Silver, Founder Pres., Akila Worksongs (a PR firm for activists, artists & advocates (NYC); Ajit Shai, Activist and Journalist (India) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roots and Reality: Community Organizing, Law and Public Policy - Organizing Around Intimacy: Sex, Sexuality and Reproduction Loretta Ross, National Coordinator, Sistersong: Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective, Atlanta; Tina Latham, Researcher, School of Public Health Emory University, Atlanta; Tracy Lloyd, Lawyer and Women's Health Activist, DC; Kenyon Farrow, National Public Education Director, Queers for Economic Justice, NYC Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roots and Reality: Community Organizing, Law and Public Policy - Organizing Around Crime, Justice and Injustice Raymond Coates Housing Coordinator of Edgewood/Brookland Family Support Collaborative DC; Brian Roberts, Coordinator, Institutional Services Program, DC Public Defender Service; Taij Motellal Community Organizer, NYC; Shaunte' Preer, Activist, Marshall Brennan Teaching Fellow, WCL 2L Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roots and Reality: Community Organizing, Law and Public Policy - Opening Remarks (00:12:48) Bill Quigley (via Skype) Recently Appointed Director of Center for Constitutional Rights, Activist, Professor of Law, Loyola Law Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roots and Reality: Community Organizing, Law and Public Policy - Welcome Dekera Greene, Activist, Member of National Lawyer's Guild AU Chapter, WCL 2L Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fourth Annual Modern American Diversity Symposium - The Regulation of Morality: Revisiting the Separation of Church & State in the United States Although the United States is constitutionally bound by the separation of church and state, religion has undoubtedly had a major influence on American law and policy. Religion has influenced discourse concerning a variety of issues in America including reproductive rights, foreign policy, marriage, social services, and education. This symposium will revisit the implications of the Establishment Clause, explore to what extent the separation of church and state in America has held true, and d ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Public Trials? Lifting the Veil on Military Courts-Martial This program will analyze the theoretical openness of military courtsmartial versus the reality that most courts?martial have few, if any, civilian spectators. Because of a fractured and not readily available docketing system, court dates are rarely widely publicized. The distinguished panel will suggest ways of remedying these shortcomings. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Examine The Story Behind Marbury V. Madison: The Great Decision Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe has said of the new book that Marbury v. Madison's "place in the turbulent politics and psychology of the time has never been painted in colors more vivid" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Third International Trade and Investment Trade Law Society Distinguished Alumni Dinner This annual event honors WCL's brightest and most distinguished alumni in the field of international trade and investment law. Each year the Executive Board of the International Trade and Investment Law Society selects one WCL alumnus to celebrate for their contributions to the field of international trade and investment law. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Free Trade Endangered: Protectionism or Pragmatism - Welcome / Presentation International Economic Law has been largely formed through the power structure developed after WWII. However, since the Asian financial crisis and cemented during the U.S. financial crisis, new players are seen at the negotiating tables. The world's elite power negotiating structure is changing from a G-7 framework to the G-20+ framework that has been demonstrated with the FSF. Join our distinguished panel as we discuss the impact on international trade and investment rules and regulations ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thirteenth Annual Sylvania Woods Conference on African Americans and the Law - Awards Dinner Recognition of Student Accomplishments Rising Star Award Recipient: Ms. Arnette "Art" Steele, '09 Special Hairston Alumni Award Recipient: the Honorable C. Darnell Jones II. '75 U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Presentation by the Honorable Gerald Bruce Lee, '76 U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia North Star Award Recipient: Perry E. Wallace, Jr, Professor of Law Excerpts form the ESPN film BLACK MAGIC, featuring Prof. Wallace's career in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thirteenth Annual Sylvania Woods Conference on African Americans and the Law - Juvenile Justice and the African American Community: Reversing the Trend A group of legal experts and other stakeholders will discuss how to transform the existing juvenile justice system by setting in place positive alternative strategies designed to prevent crime and reduce violence. * Sheila Bedi, Esq. (WCL '01), Juvenile & Criminal Justice Attorney, Southern Poverty Law Center * Jason Downs, Esq., Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia * Will Harrell, Esq. (WCL '90, '97) Chief Ombudsman, Office of the Independent Ombudsman for the Texas Youth ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 10th Annual Peter M. Cicchino Awards 10th Annual Peter M. Cicchino Awards Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Refugees in the Muslim World: Grounding Refugee Protection on Concrete Sources of Rights Susan Akram is Associate Professor at Boston University School of Law, teaching immigration law, comparative refugee law, and international human rights law and supervising students handling refugee and asylum cases in BU's civil litigation program. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (B.A), Georgetown University Law Center, Washington DC (JD), and the Institut International des Droits del 'Homme, Strasbourg (diplome in international human rights). Before joining the f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Creating a Pro Bono and Philanthropic Culture in Mexico - The Importance of Pro Bono Legal Support in Mexicos Social Development and Challenges / Question and Answer Period / Concluding Remarks Creating a Pro Bono and Philanthropic Culture in Mexico - The Importance of Pro Bono Legal Support in Mexico's Social Development and Challenges / Question and Answer Period / Concluding Remarks Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Creating a Pro Bono and Philanthropic Culture in Mexico - Welcome Remarks / Overview of Pro Bono Efforts in Mexico and Latin America / Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Development of a Pro Bono Culture in the Americas Creating a Pro Bono and Philanthropic Culture in Mexico - Welcome Remarks / Overview of Pro Bono Efforts in Mexico and Latin America / Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Development of a Pro Bono Culture in the Americas Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As Goes China, So Goes the World: Chinese Development and Environment Challenges - Giant Opportunity: China as a Partner in International Environmental Law As Goes China, So Goes the World: Chinese Development and Environment Challenges - Giant Opportunity: China as a Partner in International Environmental Law Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As Goes China, So Goes the World: Chinese Development and Environment Challenges - Development's Human Cost: Human Rights and the Environment in China As Goes China, So Goes the World: Chinese Development and Environment Challenges - Development's Human Cost: Human Rights and the Environment in China Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As Goes China, So Goes the World: Chinese Development and Environment Challenges - Welcome Remarks / Going Green: The Development of Chinese Environmental Law As Goes China, So Goes the World: Chinese Development and Environment Challenges - Welcome Remarks / Going Green: The Development of Chinese Environmental Law Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 it takes to become a successful solo practitioner; dealing with psychological, financial, and logistical barriers to entry; ethical and business considerations; how to launch your office; and attr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 relevant to addressing the current economic situation. Each speaker will represent different perspectives on economic policy and debate the merits of proposed measures to improve the economy. Speak ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 time documents the extensive use of specious criminal investigations in Colombia. Copies of the new report are available at http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/defenders/reports/index.aspx. Paneli ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pathways to Employment in International Law A distinguished panel will share their experiences to help you: pursue a career in international law; understand other legal systems and cultures; understand the paths they took in their international legal careers; suggest basic legal and interpersonal skills relevant in other cultures, network in this competitive environment; and get involved in international legal or non-legal organizations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Realizing the American Dream: Contemporary Challenges Facing H-2B Guest Workers and Their Advocates - Student Presentation Gillian Chadwick; Nicole Gamble; Caroline Lyznik; Shanti Martin Student Attorneys, International Human Rights Law Clinic, Immigrants' Rights Section Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Realizing the American Dream: Contemporary Challenges Facing H-2B Guest Workers and Their Advocates - The H-2B Program & the Obama Administration Speakers: Terry R. Yellig, Sherman, Dunn, Cohen, Leifer & Yellig, P.C.; Daniela Dwyer, Supervising Attorney, Farmworker Division, Maryland Legal Aid Bureau (Moderator); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Realizing the American Dream: Contemporary Challenges Facing H-2B Guest Workers and Their Advocates - The Realities of Transnational Litigation Involving H-2B Workers 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 Paoletti, Clinical Supervisor & Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania (Moderator) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Realizing the American Dream: Contemporary Challenges Facing H-2B Guest Workers and Their Advocates - Organizing H-2B Workers 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 Outreach & Leadership Programs, Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc.; Michele Pistone, Visiting Professor of Law, WCL (Moderator) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Realizing the American Dream: Contemporary Challenges Facing H-2B Guest Workers and Their Advocates - Opening Remarks / H-2B Workers: Recruitment & Trafficking 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 Lapointe, Staff Attorney, Immigrant Justice Project, Southern Poverty Law Center; Ann Jordan, Project Director, Human Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 oppression against this religious group. Speakers will explore the opportunities and limitations that international human rights law provides for the emancipation of the Bahá'í community in Iran. P ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 attacks against the civilian population of Darfur between April 2003 and July 2008. This arrest warrant is the first issued by the ICC for a sitting head of state. Please join the Center for a look at ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Distinguished Lecture in Antitrust, Entrepreneurship and Innovation The 2009 guest lecturer is Einer Elhauge, who is the Petrie Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and faculty director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. He teaches Antitrust, Contracts, Corporations, Health Care Law, and Statutory Interpretation. His most recent books include Statutory Default Rules (2008), U.S. Antitrust Law and Economics (2008), and Global Competition Law and Economics (2007). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Prevention of Torture and Other Ill-Treatment - Panel 3: Transparency and Access of Independent Experts to All Places of Detention / Cloncluding Remarks Oversight Practices of us Juvenile Facilities: Judge H. Ted Rubin, Consultant, Juvenile Courts and Justice Systems Experience in Latin America: Santiago Canton, Executive Secretary, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Expectations of the Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture, the National Preventative Mechanisms, and the UN Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture: Dean Malcolm Evans, Bristol University Law Faculty Health-Related Considerations: Nora Sveaass, Vice Chair ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Prevention of Torture and Other Ill-Treatment - Luncheon Keynote Address The United States and the Prohibition Against Torture: A Historical Perspective: Mark L. Schneider, Senior Vice President and Special Adviser on Latin America, International Crisis Group Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Prevention of Torture and Other Ill-Treatment - Panel 2: How are Laws Applied and Detention Practices Reformed? Litigation: Taking Cases and Those Responsible to Court: Steven Watt, Senior Attorney, ACLU Human Rights Program Advocacy and Campaigning against Torture: James Ross, Legal and Policy Director, Human Rights Watch Reforming Interrogation Practices: Eugene Fidell, President, National Institute of Military Justice Public Perceptions and the Role of the Media: David Danzig, Public Programs Department and Prime time Torture Project Director, Human Rights First Moderator: Joao Nataf, Acting Secre ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Prevention of Torture and Other Ill-Treatment - Opening Remarks / Panel 1: Are Adequate Legal Frameworks in Place at the Domestic Level? WCL Dean and Professor of Law Claudio Grossman, Chair, UN Committee against Torture Mark Thomson, Secretary General of the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT) The Protection Provided by International Law: Professor Manfred Nowak, UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment Challenging Impunity: WCL Professor Diane Orentlicher Domestic Incorporation of Obligations under the Convention against Torture: Ambassador Luis Gallegos, U ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indian Nations and Institution Building - Keynote Indian nations are sovereigns responsible for responding to the present and future needs of tribal members while at the same time forced to navigate federal limitations on sovereignty. Tribal institution building thus involves all those activities of nation building that non-Indian governments engage in as well as some challenges that are unique to Indian nations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indian Nations and Institution Building - Frank Pommersheim Indian nations are sovereigns responsible for responding to the present and future needs of tribal members while at the same time forced to navigate federal limitations on sovereignty. Tribal institution building thus involves all those activities of nation building that non-Indian governments engage in as well as some challenges that are unique to Indian nations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indian Nations and Institution Building - Chris Claney Indian nations are sovereigns responsible for responding to the present and future needs of tribal members while at the same time forced to navigate federal limitations on sovereignty. Tribal institution building thus involves all those activities of nation building that non-Indian governments engage in as well as some challenges that are unique to Indian nations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indian Nations and Institution Building - Paul Spruhan Indian nations are sovereigns responsible for responding to the present and future needs of tribal members while at the same time forced to navigate federal limitations on sovereignty. Tribal institution building thus involves all those activities of nation building that non-Indian governments engage in as well as some challenges that are unique to Indian nations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indian Nations and Institution Building - Bethany Berger Indian nations are sovereigns responsible for responding to the present and future needs of tribal members while at the same time forced to navigate federal limitations on sovereignty. Tribal institution building thus involves all those activities of nation building that non-Indian governments engage in as well as some challenges that are unique to Indian nations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indian Nations and Institution Building - Richard Monette Indian nations are sovereigns responsible for responding to the present and future needs of tribal members while at the same time forced to navigate federal limitations on sovereignty. Tribal institution building thus involves all those activities of nation building that non-Indian governments engage in as well as some challenges that are unique to Indian nations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indian Nations and Institution Building - Gavin Clarkson Indian nations are sovereigns responsible for responding to the present and future needs of tribal members while at the same time forced to navigate federal limitations on sovereignty. Tribal institution building thus involves all those activities of nation building that non-Indian governments engage in as well as some challenges that are unique to Indian nations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indian Nations and Institution Building - Ghislain Otis Indian nations are sovereigns responsible for responding to the present and future needs of tribal members while at the same time forced to navigate federal limitations on sovereignty. Tribal institution building thus involves all those activities of nation building that non-Indian governments engage in as well as some challenges that are unique to Indian nations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indian Nations and Institution Building - Marcia Yablon-Zug Indian nations are sovereigns responsible for responding to the present and future needs of tribal members while at the same time forced to navigate federal limitations on sovereignty. Tribal institution building thus involves all those activities of nation building that non-Indian governments engage in as well as some challenges that are unique to Indian nations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indian Nations and Institution Building - Lincoln Davies Indian nations are sovereigns responsible for responding to the present and future needs of tribal members while at the same time forced to navigate federal limitations on sovereignty. Tribal institution building thus involves all those activities of nation building that non-Indian governments engage in as well as some challenges that are unique to Indian nations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Civil Rights Litigation in the Roberts Court Era Washington College of Law welcomes Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of UC-Irvine law school. One of the nation's leading experts on constitutional law and civil rights litigation, Chemerinsky will deliver a presentation on "Civil Rights Litigation in the Roberts Court Era," discussing the future of Section 1983 and Bivens litigation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Achieving Innovation + Access in Global Pharmaceutical Markets Professor John Barton, the former Chair of the UK Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, and Pfizer CEO Jeff Kindler recently outlined a proposed global framework on medicine pricing to protect research and development incentives while promoting greater access to drugs in low and middle income countries. The proposal calls for trade agreement measures to restrain developed countries from excessive use of price controls while promoting price discrimination in middle income countries so ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Alice Paul Feminist Jurisprudence Essay Contest Celebration This year's essay contest winner, Michelle Larson-Krieg, presents her work on "Comparable Worth in Minnesota and Ontario: Implications for U.S. Policy." 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Kittrie, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University; Dr. Edward Ifft, Adjunct Professor, Security Studies Program of the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University; and Thomas Graham Jr., Executive Chairman, Board of Directors, Thorium Power and Special Representative of the President for Arms Control , Nonproliferation and Disarmament, 1994-9 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Waite Court and the Legacies of Reconstruction Traditional narratives of American history view the Reconstruction period (and its sweeping legal reforms) as ending with the disputed presidential election of 1876 and the inauguration of President Hayes in 1877. But by the time of the election, the Supreme Court, under the leadership of Chief Justice Morrison Waite (and Chief Justice Salmon Chase before him), had already acted in a series of cases to decisively limit the scope of the post-Civil War amendments and to scale back the federal ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Moot Court Honor Society Spring Qualifying Tournament Brief Writing Workshop Moot Court Honor Society Spring Qualifying Tournament Brief Writing Workshop Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mock Trial Closing Arguments Information Session Mock Trial Closing Arguments Information Session Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finding Your Public Interest/Government Summer Internship Many public interest/public service employers do not participate in formal on-campus recruiting programs. As a result, students must often take a "Do it Yourself" approach to the job search. This program will highlight resources available at WCL and other organizations to aid students in their search. A panel of upperclass students will share their own job search experiences and success stories. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spring Preview and Summer Options Panel 2 Spring Preview and Summer Options Panel 2 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spring Preview and Summer Options Panel 1 Spring Preview and Summer Options Panel 1 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Information Policy in the New Administration - Survey of Change Priorities An on?site consensus prioritization of policy changes, to be formally delivered to the Obama Administration Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Information Policy in the New Administration - Panel Three: View From Inside of Government A presentation of the internal government perspective during a first presidential year Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Information Policy in the New Administration - Luncheon Speaker Gary M. 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Koontz, recently retired Director of Information Management Issues, Government Accountability Office Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bar Exam Overview Session Bar Exam Overview Session Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Valuing All Families Under Law - Feminist Panel 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Valuing All Families Under Law - Policy/Activist Panel 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Valuing All Families Under Law - Luncheon Address Valuing All Families Under Law - Luncheon Address Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Valuing All Families Under Law - Welcome Remarks/Comparative Law Panel 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jurisprudence of the Military Commissions - The Future of Military Commissions Moderator: Jonathan Tracy, Assistant Director, National Institute of Military Justice Panelists: Hina Shamsi, Staff Attorney, National Security Project, American Civil Liberties Union and Charles "Cully" Stimson, Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, Senior Legal Fellow Heritage Foundation Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jurisprudence of the Military Commissions - Discovery and Evidentiary Issues Moderator: Eugene R. Fidell, President, National Institute of Military Justice Panelists: Mr. Frank Rangoussis , Prosecutor, Office of Military Commissions; Major David Frakt, Defense Counsel, Office of Military Commissions; and Lieutenant Commander Brian Mizer, Defense Counsel, Office of Military Commissions Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jurisprudence of the Military Commissions - Luncheon Keynote Luncheon Keynote Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jurisprudence of the Military Commissions - Jurisdictional Issues Moderator: Prof. Steve Vladeck, Washington College of Law Panelists: Lieutenant Colonel Stevenson, Prosecutor, Office of Military Commissions; Major Jon Jackson, Defense Counsel, Office of Military Commissions; Mr. Adam Thurschwell, Civilian Defense Counsel, Office of Military Commissions; Professor Madeline Morris, Duke University Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jurisprudence of the Military Commissions - Welcome and Introduction / Opening Remarks / Overview of the Military Commissions Eugene R. Fidell, President, National Institute of Military Justice Dean Claudio Grossman, Washington College of Law Moderator: Michelle M. Lindo McCluer, Director, National Institute of Military Justice Panelists: Dr. Louis Fisher, Specialist in Constitutional Law, Law Library of Congress; Colonel Lawrence Morris, Chief Prosecutor, Office of Military Commissions; and Colonel Peter R. Masciola, Chief Defense Counsel, Office of Military Commissions Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alvina Reckman-Myers - First Year Moot Court Tournament Information Session Alvina Reckman-Myers - First Year Moot Court Tournament Information Session Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Patentable Subject Matter after the Bilski Decision An Address by Chief Judge Michel United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit 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. The Bilski decision, of course, is being studied by a broad range of members of the patent community who are seeking to determine its effects on ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 10th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Commemoration 10th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Commemoration Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 Dean Harold Koh, Yale Law School Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 * 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 * 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 Moderato ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Legal Rhetoric Demonstration Argument Legal Rhetoric Demonstration Argument Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 - Overlapping Oversight and Reporting Mechanisms Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 - Uncertain Judicial Review Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 - Unclear and Conflicting Mandates on Transparency Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Human Rights, Housing, and Education: A Panel Discussion Exploring New Orleans 3 Years after Katrina 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," Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jerusalem Women Speak Jerusalem Women Speak Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Moot Court Honor Society and the Mock Trial Honor Society Information Session Moot Court Honor Society and the Mock Trial Honor Society Information Session Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Patent Law Information Session 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Human Trafficking by Diplomats Human Trafficking by Diplomats Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Escaping North Korea: Dinner, Discussion, and Book Signing Escaping North Korea: Dinner, Discussion, and Book Signing Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Section 4 Legal Formalism and Realism Commons Section 4 Legal Formalism and Realism Commons Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dolores K. Sloviter Q & A Session Dolores K. Sloviter Q & A Session Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fourth Annual Finnegan and Henderson Distinguished Lecture on Intellectual Property 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 implan ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MacArthur International Justice Lecture Series - Advocacy Before Regional Human Rights Bodies: A Cross-Regional Agenda - Panel 3: Institutional Challenges Facing Regional Systems for the Protection of Human Rights / Closing Remarks The panel will attempt to identify and share best practices, information and mechanisms that will allow regional human rights systems to coordinate and collaborate in their work and develop effective follow?up mechanisms to oversee domestic developments and compliance of international human rights law in the region. Moderator: Diego Rodriguez, Professor, Washington College of Law Speakers: Pablo Saavedra, Secretary, Inter?American Court of Human Rights; Santiago Canton, Executive Secretary ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MacArthur International Justice Lecture Series - Advocacy Before Regional Human Rights Bodies: A Cross-Regional Agenda - Working Lunch Working Lunch with Paolo Carozza, President, Inter-American Commission of Human Rights; Commissioner Felipe Gonzalez, Inter?American Commission on Human Rights and Victor Abramovich, Commissioner, Inter?American Commission on Human Rights. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MacArthur International Justice Lecture Series - Advocacy Before Regional Human Rights Bodies: A Cross-Regional Agenda - Panel 2: The Scope of Reparations: Challenges in Defining their Scope and Guaranteeing The second panel will build upon the first, and will focus on the interrelated questions of (1) how the remedies and recommendations issued by regional human rights bodies can be strengthened and (2) how implementation of regional human rights bodies' recommendations and judgments can be better ensured. Moderator: Claudio Grossman, Dean, Washington College of Law Speakers: Judge Sergio Garcia Ramírez, Inter?American Court of Human Rights; Judge Manuel Ventura Robles, Inter?American Court of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MacArthur International Justice Lecture Series - Advocacy Before Regional Human Rights Bodies: A Cross-Regional Agenda - Panel 1: Perspectives, Approaches and Experiences in Combating Impunity This panel will examine how broader international legal developments, such as those within international criminal law, have shaped the decisions of regional human rights bodies. Moderator: Diane Orentlicher, Professor, Washington College of Law Speakers: Commissioner Felipe Gonzalez, Inter?American Commission on Human Rights; Judge Leonardo Franco; Inter?American Court of Human Rights; Judge Rhadys Abreu de Polanco, Inter-American Court of Human Rights; Emanuel Magade, Dean, University of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MacArthur International Justice Lecture Series - Advocacy Before Regional Human Rights Bodies: A Cross-Regional Agenda - Welcome / Opening Remarks Welcome by Claudio Grossman, Dean, Washington College of Law Opening remarks by Jonathan Fanton, President, MacArthur Foundation Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Prosecuting Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes Before International/ized Criminal Courts - From Theory to Practice and Back Again: Lessons Learned from the Gender Jurisprudence and Feminist Critiques of the International/ized Criminal Tribunals Moderator: Ann Shalleck, Director, Women and International Law Program, Washington College of Law Panelists: * Kelly Askin, Open Society Justice Initiative * Justice Teresa Doherty, The Special Court for Sierra Leone * Valerie Oosterveld, University of Western Ontario, Faculty of Law * Beth Van Schaack, Santa Clara University School of Law Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Prosecuting Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes Before International/ized Criminal Courts - Keynote Address: Gender Strategy is not a Luxury for International Courts Former Legal Advisor for Gender and Trial Attorney at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY); Visiting Fellow Kellogg College, Oxford University; Special Consultant to the High Commissioner for Human Rights; and Independent Gender Expert Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Prosecuting Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes Before International/ized Criminal Courts - The Devil is in the Details: Policy and Practice Moderator: Susana SáCouto, Director, War Crimes Research Office, Washington College of Law Panelists: * Florence Darques-Lane, The International Criminal Court (ICC) * Chiseche Salome Mibenge, Researcher, Netherlands Institute for Human Rights Research, Utrecht University School of Law * Gabriela Mischkowski, Medica Mondiale * Susana SáCouto, War Crimes Research Office, Washington College of Law Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Prosecuting Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes Before International/ized Criminal Courts - Welcoming Remarks / Incorporating Gender: Does Institutional Structure Matter? * Dean Claudio Grossman, Washington College of Law * Susana SáCouto, Director, War Crimes Research Office, Washington College of Law Moderator: Daniela Kraiem, Associate Director, Women and International Law Program, Washington College of Law Panelists: * Rhonda Copelon, International Women's Human Rights Law Clinic, City University of New York * Brigid Inder, Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice * Maxine Marcus, The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugosl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Munching on Human Rights: What Is the Universal Bill of Human Rights? The ABC's of the UDHR Interested in human rights but stuck studying civil procedure and torts? Munching on Human Rights is an introductory program designed to educate and engage students, especially 1Ls, about basic issues in international human rights and humanitarian law. Held once a month, munching gives you a great opportunity to informally interact with WCL's internationally- known faculty and get a "taste" of international law. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 25th Anniversary of Pence Law Library as a U.S. Federal Depository 25th Anniversary of Pence Law Library as a U.S. Federal Depository Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 10th Annual Looking Ahead at the New Supreme Court Term For the 10th consecutive year, faculty of the Washington College of Law will provide a preview for law students and the WCL community of what to expect from the new Supreme Court Term that begins on October 6, 2008. Faculty will examine cases to be decided by the high court and consider the stakes for some high-profile issues. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Profiles of Legal Careers in Federal Government If you are interested in the federal government, the PMF Program and public sector work in general, this is a panel discussion you will not want to miss! Join OCPD and American University's Career Services Office for a panel discussion about legal careers in federal government, on October 2, 2008, from 5:30pm-7:00pm in the 6th floor Student Lounge. Four distinguished alumni will serve as panelists and discuss their careers in federal government, how they got to where they are, advice and ti ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Changing Landscape of Energy Law: Administrative Law Review Symposium - Luncheon Keynote The Honorable Walter Lukken, Acting Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Changing Landscape of Energy Law: Administrative Law Review Symposium - Panel 3: Nuclear Energy and Renewable Alternatives: Challenges Ahead Is the U.S. overly dependent on natural gas? How should carbon?neutral energy sources be developed? What are the related challenges regarding the transmission of electricity from such sources? Will nuclear licensing issues slow down the construction of new nuclear plants? If so, how should such issues be resolved? Moderator: Bill Horin, Partner, Winston & Strawn, LLP " The Honorable Joseph T. Kelliher, Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission " The Honorable David Hill, General Counse ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Changing Landscape of Energy Law: Administrative Law Review Symposium - Panel 2: Changes in Commodity and Gas Markets and Regulation of Carbon How are physical and futures markets converging? What are the implications of increased U.S. reliance on LNG? How should the U.S. create and regulate a carbon trading regime? Moderator: Ken Markowitz, Senior Counsel, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP " John Moot, Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP; former Chief of Staff and former General Counsel, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission " G. Philip Nowak, Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP " Bruce Kiely, Partner, Bak ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Changing Landscape of Energy Law: Administrative Law Review Symposium - Panel 1: Climate Change Legislation: Domestic and International Implications If Congress passes climate change legislation, (1) what is the most desirable form of such legislation; and (2) how would the new law be enforced? Will efforts to achieve climate change legislation be successful? What are the benefits/drawbacks of various climate change proposals? How do domestic legislative efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions account for the existence of international climate change arrangements? Moderator: William Snape, Professor, Washington College of Law " Cynth ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Changing Landscape of Energy Law: Administrative Law Review Symposium - Welcome/Introduction/Opening Keynote Address Claudio M. Grossman, Dean, Washington College of Law Andrew P. Kawel, Editor in Chief, Administrative Law Review The Honorable Joseph T. Kelliher, Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boumediene v. Bush and the Future of US Detention Policy On June 12, 2008, the US Supreme Court ruled that Lakhdar Boumediene, a Guantanamo Bay detainee, has a right to habeas corpus under the US Constitution. What does this decision mean for other detainees at Guantanamo petitioning for a writ of habeas corpus? How will this affect US detention policy? Join the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and the National Institute of Military Justice for an analysis of the Court's decision with noted experts in the field. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bringing Human Rights Home - Part 2 Bringing Human Rights Home - Part 2 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bringing Human Rights Home - Part 1 Bringing Human Rights Home - Part 1 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Just the Beginning Foundation: Pathfinders Panel The Pathfinder Judges Panel will include dialogue with United States District Judges: Judge Reggie B. Walton (D.C. DC) and Judge Marcia Cooke, (D.C. S. Florida). The Pathfinder Judges Panel will highlight inspiring stories about these two dynamic judges and their career paths to the bench. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Just the Beginning Foundation: Lunch Keynote Just the Beginning Foundation: Lunch Keynote Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Just the Beginning Foundation: Robes in the Schools Program As part of a community outreach effort on behalf of the Just The Beginning Foundation, sixty federal and state judges will be speaking to students throughout the greater metropolitan District of Columbia and the Baltimore region. The judges will seek to share stories of overcoming obstacles and opening pathways into the legal profession. The judges who will be speaking at Washington College of Law are: Honorable Julian Abele Cook, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Mic ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Constitutional Interpretation & Litigation after Heller - Panel II: Constitutional Litigation Moderator: Amanda Frost, Associate Professor of Law, Washington College of Law Discussants: Robert Cottrol, Harold Paul Green Research Professor of Law, George Washington University; Andrew L. Frey, Partner, Mayer Brown LLP and Counsel of Record for the City of Chicago as amicus curiae in Heller; Clark M. Neily III, Senior Attorney, Institute for Justice and Co-counsel for Heller before the Supreme Court; Steve Vladeck, Associate Professor of Law, Washington College of Law Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Constitutional Interpretation & Litigation after Heller - Introductory Remarks/Panel I: Constitutional Interpretation Moderator: Robert Tsai, Professor of Law, Washington College of Law Discussants: Eric Claeys, Associate Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law; Walter Dellinger, Counsel for the Petitioners in District of Columbia v. Heller; Lynda Dodd, Assistant Professor of Law, Washington College of Law; Tom Goldstein '95, Partner, Akin Grump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP; Alan Morrison, Visiting Professor (2008-09), Washington College of Law; Former Lead Counsel for the District in Distric ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website International Right-to-Know Day Celebration - Restoring U.S. Leadership in International Transparency/Closing Remarks Daniel S. Alcorn, Attorney at Law; Hugo Teufel III, Chief Privacy Officer and Chief FOIA Officer, United States Department of Homeland Security Robert Vaughn, Professor, Washington College of Law Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website International Right-to-Know Day Celebration - Focus on Nations Poised to Join the International Transparency Community Nathanial Heller, Managing Director, Global Integrity; Kevin M. Goldberg, Legal Counsel, American Society of Newspaper Editors Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website International Right-to-Know Day Celebration - Transparency in China Liu Wenjing, Associate Professor, Jinan University Law School, Guangzhou, China Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website International Right-to-Know Day Celebration - Welcome and Introduction/Survey and Transparency Worldwide Daniel J. Metcalfe, Executive Director, Collaboration on Government Secrecy, Washington College of Law Thomas M. Susman, Director of Government Affairs, American Bar Association; Kristin L. Adair, Staff Counsel, National Security Archive Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Looking Past Guantanamo: Are New Concepts Needed for Terrorist-Related Detentions? - Panel 3: Are New Legal Concepts Needed for Terrorist-Related Detentions? Moderator: Daniel Marcus, Professor, Washington College of Law Panelists: Madeline Morris, Professor, Duke Law School; Ben Wittes, Research Director in Public Law, Brookings Institute; David Remes, Partner, Covington & Burling; and Deborah Colson, Human Rights First Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Looking Past Guantanamo: Are New Concepts Needed for Terrorist-Related Detentions? - Panel 2: Are American Courts Creating New Concepts to Govern Terrorist-Related Detentions? Moderator: Stephen Vladeck, Professor, Washington College of Law Panelists: David Rivkin, Partner, Baker Hostetler; David Laufman, Partner, Kelley Drye; Justin Florence, Associate, O'Melveny & Myers Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Looking Past Guantanamo: Are New Concepts Needed for Terrorist-Related Detentions? - Welcome Remarks/Panel 1: Conceptual Implications of Terrorist Detentions Since 9/11 Moderator: Richard Wilson, Professor, Washington College of Law Panelists: Sandy Hodgkinson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Department of Defense, Carrie Newton Lyons, Assistant Professor, University of Akron School of Law Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Washington College of Law 2008 Commencement Address Washington College of Law 2008 Commencement Address Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Externship Faculty Workshop Externship Faculty Workshop Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twelfth Annual Sylvania Woods Conference on African Americans and the Law - The Intersection of Media, Law, & Politics - Welcome Remarks & Panel Conversation In a unique and remarkable political year, a panel of experts will come together to conduct an inclusive conversation about its meaning and ramifications for the African-American community. Confirmed and invited guests include: Jim Asendio, News Director, WAMU-88.5 (C)*Midwin Charles, '99, Midwin Charles and Associates & Member of the Dean's Diversity Council (I)*Donna Edwards, Democratic Candidate, Maryland's 4th District (I)*Joe Johns, '02, Correspondent, CNN*Craig Thompson, Thompson Com ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twelfth Annual Sylvania Woods Conference on African Americans and the Law - The Intersection of Media, Law, & Politics - Awards Dinner The dinner program recognizes those who have done good and done well through respective presentation of the Rising Star Award, the Hairston Award, and the North Star Award to a graduating student, a member of the alumni, and a professional. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Colombia - The Human Impact of Trade, War and the Rule of Law Video-Conference with the Universidad de los Andes Law School - Bogota, Colombia Moderated by Professors Henrik López Sterup, PhD and Pablo Rey Vallejo, PhD Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Colombia - The Human Impact of Trade, War and the Rule of Law Video-Conference with the Universidad de los Andes Law School - Bogota, Colombia Moderated by Professors Henrik López Sterup, PhD and Pablo Rey Vallejo, PhD Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Colombia - The Human Impact of Trade, War and the Rule of Law Video-Conference with the Universidad de los Andes Law School - Bogota, Colombia Moderated by Professors Henrik López Sterup, PhD and Pablo Rey Vallejo, PhD Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Colombia - The Human Impact of Trade, War and the Rule of Law Video-Conference with the Universidad de los Andes Law School - Bogota, Colombia Moderated by Professors Henrik López Sterup, PhD and Pablo Rey Vallejo, PhD Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Colombia - The Human Impact of Trade, War and the Rule of Law Video-Conference with the Universidad de los Andes Law School - Bogota, Colombia Moderated by Professors Henrik López Sterup, PhD and Pablo Rey Vallejo, PhD Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Summer Law Program in The Hague Pre-Departure Lecture Summer Law Program in The Hague Pre-Departure Lecture Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dean's Diversity Council Speaker Series The guest speaker for the spring 2008 series will be the Honorable Ricardo J. Urbina, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The series brings members of the council into the law school to speak on topics they have selected to be of particular interest to the law school community. Judge Urbina is the sixth speaker since the series began in the spring of 2005. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 9th Annual Peter M. Cicchino Awards The Annual Peter M. Cicchino Awards for Outstanding Advocacy in the Public Interest program is held every year in honor of a beloved former Washington College of Law Professor, Peter M. Cicchino, who passed away in 2000. Professor Cicchino was both a brilliant scholar and teacher and a brave and creative public interest lawyer. This program celebrates his outstanding devotion to public interest issues in all aspects of his life, by recognizing students and alumni who have demonstrated a sim ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website OCPD Professionalism Series Event: Business Etiquette Crash Course Join OCPD on Thursday, April 17 at 12pm in Room 402 for guidance on a range of business etiquette issues, including dining etiquette. Camille Franklin, a trained etiquette presenter and the Director of Career Development at American University's Career Center, will join us for an informative discussion and will answer questions about proper protocol in a business setting. Please register on CareerLink if you are planning to attend this program. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Does Red Lion Still Roar? - Public Interest Media Regulation Forty Years After Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC - Welcome / Introduction / Opening Keynote Address On June 9, 1969, the Supreme Court in Red Lion v. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Exploring Alternative Careers: Looking Inside, Outside and Around the Law Founders' Celebration Event: Cheryl Rich Heisler, President and Founder of Lawternatives and author of the upcoming 6th edition, What Can You Do With A Law Degree?, will discuss the broadening employment options for those with legal training, explain how to break the career transition process down into workable segments and offer coaching assistance to attendees on how to identify and begin to explore alternative career opportunities. PLEASE REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT BY VISITING THE EVENTS SE ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pathways to Employment in International Law The Office of Career & Professional Development (OCPD) and the American Bar Association Section of International Law will bring together attorneys who advise clients in legal issues involving international matters and international business transactions. During this exciting panel discussion, speakers will advise JD and LL.M. students on how to successfully pursue a career advising international clients. After the panel discussion, students will have the opportunity to meet the panelists an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Olympian Violence Erupting in Tibet Over the past two weeks, Tibet has experienced its worst violence in 20 years. The Chinese crackdown on Tibetan protesters has left hundreds wounded, dead and detained. Sympathetic protests in support of Tibet have spread through China, Nepal, India and beyond. Events continue to develop in the shadow of the upcoming Olympics. Join us for lunch and a discussion of the current crisis with T.Kumar, Advocacy Director for Asia and the Pacific, Amnesty International USA; John Ackerly, President, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bar Preparation Program - MD Civil Procedure Bar Preparation Program - MD Civil Procedure Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bar Preparation Program - New York Corporations Bar Preparation Program - New York Corporations Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The First Richard S. Levick Annual Lecture in Crisis Communication and International Law: The Role of Media in International and Legal Controversies The First Richard S. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Asian Pacific Americans Dinner In a collaboration of WCL's Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA) and the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of DC (APABA-DC), this event will highlight the continuing need to empower and encourage the participation of the Asian Pacific American community in the legal realm of society, and recognize the important contributions of WCL's Asian Pacific American alumni to the legal profession. WCL's APALSA will host a reception and dinner which recognizes and honors the W ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website OCPD Job Search Workshop Session 3 Long Distance Job Search and Headhunters OCPD Job Search Workshop Session 3 Long Distance Job Search and Headhunters Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Climate Change Panel 2 Scientists are predicting that the entire Arctic Ocean could have an ice-free summer surface by 2050. As climate change causes the Arctic to melt, the several countries with territory inside the Arctic Circle - including Russia, the U.S., Norway, Denmark and Canada -- are poised to claim the region's vast energy resources. One study estimates that a quarter of the world's oil and gas reserves are to be found under the Arctic, as well as significant deposits of other mineral riches. This pro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Climate Change Panel 1 Scientists are predicting that the entire Arctic Ocean could have an ice-free summer surface by 2050. As climate change causes the Arctic to melt, the several countries with territory inside the Arctic Circle - including Russia, the U.S., Norway, Denmark and Canada -- are poised to claim the region's vast energy resources. One study estimates that a quarter of the world's oil and gas reserves are to be found under the Arctic, as well as significant deposits of other mineral riches. This pro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Climate Change Plenary Speaker Scientists are predicting that the entire Arctic Ocean could have an ice-free summer surface by 2050. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Integrated Curriculum Program Panel: Course Selection Integrated Curriculum Program Panel: Course Selection Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website First Annual Freedom of Information Day Celebration - Use of the State Secrets Privilege Use of the State Secrets Privilege Amanda Frost, Professor, Washington College of Law Meredith Fuchs, General Counsel, National Security Archive (moderator) Freddi Lipstein, former senior appellate attorney, Department of Justice Matthew Miner, Counsel to Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Arlen Specter Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website First Annual Freedom of Information Day Celebration - Pseudosecrecy: Agency Use of "Safeguarding Labels" Pseudosecrecy: Agency Use of "Safeguarding Labels" William T. Kammer, Chief, Freedom of Information Policy Office, Department of Defense William H. 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Johnson, Counsel to Senator John Cornyn Anna Laitin, Counsel to House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Immigrant's Rights Coalition - The Current Realities of Female Genital Mutilation In 1996, the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") granted asylum to Fausinga Kasinga, a woman who fled her native Togo to escape forced female genital mutilation ("FGM") and polygamous marriage. The case created the first precedent that gender-based persecution could serve as a basis for asylum. Since In re Kasinga, courts have opened various paths to asylum for women who have been or who fear being subjected to FGM. Recent decisions, however, have begun reversing many favorable holdings, l ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eleventh Annual Hispanic Law Conference: Latino Perspectives on the 2008 Election American University Washington College of Law provides through its annual Hispanic Law Conference a forum for the promotion of issues that affect the Latino community, both nationally and internationally. This annual conference brings together a unique mix of institutions and personalities devoted to the progress of Latinos/as in the U.S. and in the region. This year's conference will begin with a Mentoring Program, conducted by members of the American University Community and the Hispanic ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Prohibition Of Torture Within The Context Of Emergency Situations This program is cosponsored by American University Washington College of Law, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and the Association for the Prevention of Torture. Moderator: Claudio Grossman, Dean, American University Washington College of Law and Vice Chair of the United Nations Committee against Torture (UN CAT) Panelists: Felice Gaer, Chair of the Commission on International Religious Freedom, Director of the Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Resisting Military Rule: Leaders of Pakistani Lawyers Movement Speak Out In November 2007, President Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule in Pakistan. In the days following, reports emerged from Pakistan of police violence, arbitrary arrests, and mistreatment of lawyers detained for peacefully protesting government policies. Join us on Monday, March 3, 2008, as leaders in the Pakistani lawyers' movement who were detained in November discuss military rule, judicial independence, and their involvement in promoting and protecting rule of law in Pakistan. Speake ... 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Consequently, thousands of recipients of deferred status are anxiously re-submitting applications, while future applicants, advocates, and law enforcement agents work to understand the regulation's practical applications and the implications for past and future recipients. This all-day program will seek to educate the attendees about the new regulations with a particular eye to the protection o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The New U Visa Regulations: Understanding Their Application and Building Collaboration After seven years of waiting, Congress finally enacted the U Visa regulations in October of 2007. Consequently, thousands of recipients of deferred status are anxiously re-submitting applications, while future applicants, advocates, and law enforcement agents work to understand the regulation's practical applications and the implications for past and future recipients. This all-day program will seek to educate the attendees about the new regulations with a particular eye to the protection o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The New U Visa Regulations: Understanding Their Application and Building Collaboration After seven years of waiting, Congress finally enacted the U Visa regulations in October of 2007. Consequently, thousands of recipients of deferred status are anxiously re-submitting applications, while future applicants, advocates, and law enforcement agents work to understand the regulation's practical applications and the implications for past and future recipients. This all-day program will seek to educate the attendees about the new regulations with a particular eye to the protection o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thinking Big When Choosing Small: The Secrets of Small and Mid-Size Law Firm Hiring Founders' Celebration Event: Donna Gerson, author of Choosing Small, Choosing Smart will present a practical, step-by-step approach to researching, targeting and securing employment in the small and mid-size law firm market. The importance of building personal networks, deciphering hiring timelines, providing relevant information to prospective employers and developing effective interview techniques will be thoroughly discussed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Small & Mid-Size Legal Employer Panel Founders' Celebration Event: The Office of Career and Professional Development will sponsor two inter-related programs and a networking event geared to students interested in working for small and mid-size legal employers. Students will learn about unique hiring dynamics and trends from a panel of small and mid-size legal employers (4:30 pm - 5:30 pm) and have the opportunity to utilize some of Donna Gerson's suggestions at a subsequent networking reception (5:30 - 7:00 pm). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Race in the US Today The United States will be reviewed by the UN Committee for the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on February 21 and 22. An unprecedented coalition of over 100 NGOs participated in writing a supplemental shadow report for consideration by the Committee. Over 80 US NGO representatives will be traveling to Geneva to advocate for better US compliance with CERD. To raise awareness of the reporting process and some of the key issues noted in the official US report and the c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Clinic Information Session Clinic Information Session Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rethinking The Future: The Next Five Years in Iraq - Lunch Panel: Bluebooking in Baghdad The American University International Law Review and the Public International Law & Policy Group (PILPG) are proud to present a symposium addressing the central issues that will challenge Iraqis over the next five years. Topics of discussion include the Specter of Partition, Transitional Justice, Islamic Law and the Iraq Constitution, Strategic Water Rights, the Role of Foreign Lawyers in Iraq, Displaced Persons, and the Role of the International Community in the Rebuilding of Iraq. The pro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Commercial Law Firms and International Pro Bono Work: Opportunities and Challenges Commercial Law Firms and International Pro Bono Work: Opportunities and Challenges Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rethinking The Future: The Next Five Years in Iraq - Lives in the Balance The American University International Law Review and the Public International Law & Policy Group (PILPG) are proud to present a symposium addressing the central issues that will challenge Iraqis over the next five years. Topics of discussion include the Specter of Partition, Transitional Justice, Islamic Law and the Iraq Constitution, Strategic Water Rights, the Role of Foreign Lawyers in Iraq, Displaced Persons, and the Role of the International Community in the Rebuilding of Iraq. The pro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rethinking The Future: The Next Five Years in Iraq - The Euphrates-Tigris The American University International Law Review and the Public International Law & Policy Group (PILPG) are proud to present a symposium addressing the central issues that will challenge Iraqis over the next five years. Topics of discussion include the Specter of Partition, Transitional Justice, Islamic Law and the Iraq Constitution, Strategic Water Rights, the Role of Foreign Lawyers in Iraq, Displaced Persons, and the Role of the International Community in the Rebuilding of Iraq. The pro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rethinking The Future: The Next Five Years in Iraq - Islamic Law The American University International Law Review and the Public International Law & Policy Group (PILPG) are proud to present a symposium addressing the central issues that will challenge Iraqis over the next five years. Topics of discussion include the Specter of Partition, Transitional Justice, Islamic Law and the Iraq Constitution, Strategic Water Rights, the Role of Foreign Lawyers in Iraq, Displaced Persons, and the Role of the International Community in the Rebuilding of Iraq. The pro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rethinking The Future: The Next Five Years in Iraq - Transitional Justice The American University International Law Review and the Public International Law & Policy Group (PILPG) are proud to present a symposium addressing the central issues that will challenge Iraqis over the next five years. Topics of discussion include the Specter of Partition, Transitional Justice, Islamic Law and the Iraq Constitution, Strategic Water Rights, the Role of Foreign Lawyers in Iraq, Displaced Persons, and the Role of the International Community in the Rebuilding of Iraq. The pro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rethinking The Future: The Next Five Years in Iraq - Questions and Answers Session The American University International Law Review and the Public International Law & Policy Group (PILPG) are proud to present a symposium addressing the central issues that will challenge Iraqis over the next five years. Topics of discussion include the Specter of Partition, Transitional Justice, Islamic Law and the Iraq Constitution, Strategic Water Rights, the Role of Foreign Lawyers in Iraq, Displaced Persons, and the Role of the International Community in the Rebuilding of Iraq. The pro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rethinking The Future: The Next Five Years in Iraq - The Partition Potential The American University International Law Review and the Public International Law & Policy Group (PILPG) are proud to present a symposium addressing the central issues that will challenge Iraqis over the next five years. Topics of discussion include the Specter of Partition, Transitional Justice, Islamic Law and the Iraq Constitution, Strategic Water Rights, the Role of Foreign Lawyers in Iraq, Displaced Persons, and the Role of the International Community in the Rebuilding of Iraq. The pro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rethinking The Future: The Next Five Years in Iraq - Introductions and Opening Remarks The American University International Law Review and the Public International Law & Policy Group (PILPG) are proud to present a symposium addressing the central issues that will challenge Iraqis over the next five years. Topics of discussion include the Specter of Partition, Transitional Justice, Islamic Law and the Iraq Constitution, Strategic Water Rights, the Role of Foreign Lawyers in Iraq, Displaced Persons, and the Role of the International Community in the Rebuilding of Iraq. The pro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bar Review - MD Corporations Bar Review - MD Corporations Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Integrated Curriculum Program's Section 5 Jobs and Activities Panel Integrated Curriculum Program's Section 5 Jobs and Activities Panel Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bar Review - NY Practice Bar Review - NY Practice Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Professionalism Series Program: Effective Communication with Employers Are you convinced that your cover letters and email communications with prospective employers are persuasive? Do employers have a good first impression about you before beginning the interview process? Please join OCPD for an informative program with two employer representatives, Dr. Ben Opipari, Writing Instructor in the Office of Professional Development at Howrey LLP, and Tiffany Wood, Recruiting Manager at Orrick, Herrington&Sutcliffe LLP. The speakers will discuss ways to strengthen yo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Role Of Lawyers In Promoting Judicial Independence In Pakistan Join us for a fascinating discussion with SJD candidate and Professor Nadeem Azam, Director of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Peshawar (UP), as he discusses the current state of affairs in Pakistan and the role of the lawyer in the fight for the independence of the judiciary in Pakistan. Professor Azam is pursuing his SJD at WCL as part of an ongoing collaborative project between the WCL Center for Human Rights and the UP Human Rights Centre and Gender Studies Department, the ... 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The Legal Framework for Detaining and Prosecuting Enemy Combatants Moderator: Professor Kenneth Anderson, American University Washington College of Law Introduction - "Who are the Guantanamo Detainees?": Benjamin Wittes, Fellow and Research Director in Public Law, The Brookings Institution Panelists: Honorable Patricia Wald, former Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Former Judge, International Criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia; John B. Bellinger, III, Legal Adviser to the U.S. Department of State; and Stua ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Terrorists and Detainees: Do We Need a New National Security Court? - Luncheon Keynote In the wake of the 9/11 attacks and the capture of hundreds of suspected al Qaeda and Taliban fighters, we have been engaged in a national debate as to the proper standards and procedures for detaining "enemy combatants" and prosecuting them for war crimes. Dissatisfaction with the procedures established at Guantanamo for detention decisions and trials of detainees for war crimes by military commissions, and concerns about the feasibility of conducting major terrorism trials in regular Arti ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tax Law and Cultural Property The first part of the program will focus on how the Art Advisory Panel, comprised of members of the art market, academic, and non-profit sectors, functions within the Internal Revenue Service and the statutory scheme of the Internal Revenue Code. Panelists will talk about the Art Advisory Panel's duties and objectives, its composition and the selection of its members, and its criteria and procedures for decision making. In addition, these panelists will explore the nexus between the work of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Right to Die with Dignity: An Argument in Ethics and Law This program will focus on ethical and legal considerations involving end of life issues, including: family members' rights, importance of power of attorney, living wills, euthanasia, forced feeding, medical decision-making, legislative and court interventions, and assisted suicide. The keynote speaker will be Raphael Cohen-Almagor, professor and chair in politics, The University of Hull, England; and fellow at The Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Washington, DC. Sponsored by the Health ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Challenges for Data Privacy in Transatlantic and Global Perspective A presentation by Peter Hustinx, European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), Contrôleur Europeén de la Protection des Données (CEPD), Brussels. 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D., Philadelpha, PA Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In-House Counsel/WMACCA Corporate Scholars Panel Discussion In-House Counsel/WMACCA Corporate Scholars Panel Discussion Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Basic Special Education Law for Special Education Hearing Officers - Review: Q&A Review: Q&A Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Basic Special Education Law for Special Education Hearing Officers - Review of Major Caselaw Jane Wettach, Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Children's Education Law Clinci, Duke Law School Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Basic Special Education Law for Special Education Hearing Officers - Overview of the Special Education Process Susan E. Sutler, David Clark School of Law, University of the District of Columbia Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Basic Special Education Law for Special Education Hearing Officers - The Purposes and Policy Underpinnings of IDEA: What hearing officers need to know and understand to do their job. Robert Silverstein, Esq., Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville PC, Washington, D.C. (former Staff Director and Chief Counsel for the US Senate Subcommittee on Disability Policy) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Basic Special Education Law for Special Education Hearing Officers - Disability as a Concept: Historical Overview and Development; Constitutional and Caselaw Background S. James Rosenfeld, Academy Director and Adjunct Professor, Seattle University School of Law; Jennifer Dabson, Director, Office of Special Events and Continuing Legal Education, American University Washington College of Law Robert Dinerstein, Professor of Law and Director, Disability Rights Law Clinic, Washington College of Law, American University; Sy DuBow, Adjunct Professor, Washington College of Law, Hearing Officer, District of Columbia Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOIA Community Conference on the FOIA Amendments of 2007 - Panel 3: Legislative Perspective Matthew L. Johnson, Chief Counsel to Sen. John Cornyn Patrice McDermott, Director, OpenTheGovernment.org Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOIA Community Conference on the FOIA Amendments of 2007 - Panel 2: Focus on Media-Related Provisions Pete Weitzel, Freedom of Information Coordinator, Coalition of Journalists for Open Government Kevin M. Goldberg, Legal Counsel, American Society of Newspaper Editors Loren A. Cochran, FOIA Service Center Director, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FOIA Community Conference on the FOIA Amendments of 2007 - Welcome / Panel 1: Focus on New Office of Government Information Services Gary M. Stern, General Counsel, National Archives and Records Administration Meredith Fuchs, General Counsel, National Security Archive Rick Blum, Coordinator of the Sunshine in Government Initiative Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ninth Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Commemoration WCL's 2008 annual program to commemorate the birth and work of Dr. King will fall on his actual birthday. Our speaker will be Daniel Bernstine, president and executive director of the Law School Admission Council. Among many other accomplishments, he has served as law professor and dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School, as well as interim dean of the Howard University School of Law. Dean Bernstine's speech will be followed by a communal reading of quotations from several of Dr. Kin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Turkey: At the Crossroads of Secular West and Traditional East - Panel 3 Professor Catherine J. Ross, George Washington University Professor Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana, American University, School of International Service Professor Rachel Rebouche, Adjunct Professor, Washington College of Law Ms. T?lin Daloglu, Columnist, The Washington Times Moderator: Susan Carle Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Turkey: At the Crossroads of Secular West and Traditional East - Panel 2 Professor Dr. Haluk Kabaalioglu, Dean, Yeditepe University Law Faculty Dr. Soner Çagaptay, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Director, Turkish Research Program. Professor Gianmaria Ajani, Turin University. Iren Borissova, EU Commission Delegation, Trade Section (invited) Moderator: Professor Fernanda Nicola, Washington College of Law Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Turkey: At the Crossroads of Secular West and Traditional East - Luncheon Discussion: U.S.-Turkey Relations: Past, Present and Future? Speakers: Dr. Bulent Aliriza, Director, Turkey Project, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Dean Haluk Kabaalio?lu,Yeditepe University Law Faculty Ms. Tülin Dalo?lu, Columnist, The Washington Times Ms. Düden Ye?eno?lu, Washington Representative, Turkish Union of Chambers of Industry and Commerce (TOBB). Professor Daniel Bradlow, Washington College of Law Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Turkey: At the Crossroads of Secular West and Traditional East - Panel 1 Professor Feroz Ahmad, Yeditepe University Professor Abdul Aziz Said, Mohammed Said Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace, School of International Service, American University Professor Mustafa Aksakal, Assistant Professor, History Department, American University Moderator: Professor Padideh Ala'i Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Turkey: At the Crossroads of Secular West and Traditional East - Welcome / Opening Remarks Welcome: Professor Padideh Ala'i, American University, Washington College of Law, Opening Remarks: Dean Claudio Grossman, American University, Washington College of Law Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Hard Road of Transition to Democracy in the Balkans The Hard Road of Transition to Democracy in the Balkans Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Revisiting the Law School Diversity Imperative: Access and Definition - Dean's Diversity Council Annual Dinner Keynote Keynote speaker: The Honorable Stuart Ishimaru, Commissioner Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Member, Dean's Diversity Council Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Revisiting the Law School Diversity Imperative: Access and Definition - Session III: Sum-up/What's Next?/Wrap-up Moderator: Sherry Weaver, Director WCL Office of Diversity Services Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Revisiting the Law School Diversity Imperative: Access and Definition - Session II: Definition: Who's diverse? What the term "diversity" means now, and how we can best serve the changing faces and interests of our diverse populations Moderator: Prof. Anthony E. Varona, WCL Fanta Aw, Assistant Vice President of Campus Life American University Mary Clark, Assistant Professor, WCL Jarrett Perlow (WCL '04), Former Executive Director Lambda Law Society, WCL Sonji Patrick, Education Division Director Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund Charlotte Taylor, Assistant Dean Multicult ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Revisiting the Law School Diversity Imperative: Access and Definition - Session I: Access: Obstacles, Overcoming Them A discussion of rising tuitions, commercial rankings, political and policy challenges to diversity and affirmative action Moderator: David Brennen, Deputy Director Association of American Law Schools (AALS) William "Bud" Blakey, Chair Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO) Trishana Bowden, Associate Dean Development & Alumni Affairs, WCL Camille DeJorna, Associate Consultant on Legal Education American Bar Association (ABA) Robert Duncan, Partner Hogan & Hartson Mon ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Revisiting the Law School Diversity Imperative: Access and Definition - Luncheon Keynote Luncheon Keynote Speech: Prof. Darren Hutchinson, WCL, Topic: "Racial Exhaustion" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Immigrants' Rights Coalition. A People's History of Immigration-11/12/07 Immigrants' Right Coalition: A People's History of Immigration Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Immigrants' Rights Coalition - Voices from the Margins: Displacement Narratives from Around the World Around the world, individuals and entire populations are displaced from their homes and communities by conflict and natural disaster. Each displaced person has an experience that is at once her own and common with many others. Join the Refugee and Asylum Committee of the Immigrants' Rights Coalition for an afternoon event highlighting individual refugee narratives and offering information on major displaced populations from around the world. During the first hour, three refugees will share ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Immigrants' Rights Coalition - Casualties of a Broken System: Deaths and Medical Disasters in Immigration Detention (11/15/07) Immigrants' Rights Coalition - Casualties of a Broken System: Deaths and Medical Disasters in Immigration Detention Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Moot Court Honor Society Information Session Moot Court Honor Society Information Session Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 14th Burton D. Wechsler First Amendment Moot Court Competition - Oral Advocacy Workshop 14th Burton D. Wechsler First Amendment Moot Court Competition - Oral Advocacy Workshop Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 14th Burton D. Wechsler First Amendment Moot Court Competition - Final Round The First Amendment Moot Court Competition is named for Burton D. Wechsler of American University Washington College of Law. The Washington College of Law Moot Court Honor Society is proud to honor Professor Wechsler for his commitment to both First Amendment jurisprudence and the Washington College of Law's Moot Court Program. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Munching on Human Rights: Exploring the Intersection of Human Rights and IP, Business, and Environmental Law Interested in human rights but stuck studying civil procedure and torts? Munching on Human Rights is an introductory program designed to educate and engage students, especially 1Ls, about basic issues in international human rights and humanitarian law. Held once a month, munching gives you a great opportunity to informally interact with WCL's internationally- known faculty and get a "taste" of international law. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website National Association of Administrative Law Judges - Annual Conference - Plenary: Central Panel vs. Agency Speakers: Honorable John Vittone, Chief Judge, U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Administrative Law Judges Arnold Rochvarg, Professor, University of Baltimore School of Law Honorable Denise Noonan Slavin, National Association of Immigration Judges (NAIJ) Jim Rossi, Harry M. Walborsky Professor and Associate Dean for Research, Florida State University College of Law Moderator: Honorable Tyrone T. Butler, Chief Administrative Law Judge, D.C. Office of Administrative Hearings Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website National Association of Administrative Law Judges - Annual Conference - Plenary: Constitutional Updates Speakers: Heather Elliott, Professor, Catholic University Columbus School of Law Amanda Frost, Professor, American University Washington College of Law Justin Smith, U.S. Department of Justice David Zaring, Visiting Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt Law School Moderator: Amanda Leiter, Professor, Georgetown University Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website National Association of Administrative Law Judges - Annual Conference - Welcome Remarks / Plenary: Evidence and Credibility for Fact Finding Speakers: Honorable Paul Grimm, Chief Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court for District of Maryland Honorable Frederic N. Smalkin (Retired Judge), Jurist-in-Residence, University of Baltimore School of Law Honorable Thomas Welshko, Administrative Law Judge, Maryland Office of Administrative Hearings Moderator: Lynn McLain, Professor of Law and Dean Joseph Curtis Faculty Fellow, University of Baltimore School of Law Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Legal Rhetoric Shapes the Law - Panel on Archetypes Speakers: James Eyster, Ave Maria Law School; Daphne O'Regan, Michigan State University Law School; and Ruth Anne Robbins, Rutgers Camden Law School Moderator: David Spratt, Legal Rhetoric Program, Washington College of Law Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Legal Rhetoric Shapes the Law - Panel on Metaphor Speakers: Linda Berger, Thomas Jefferson Law School; Christy DeSanctis, George Washington University Law School Moderator: Jamie Abrams, Legal Rhetoric Program, Washington College of Law Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Legal Rhetoric Shapes the Law - Panel on Narrative Panel on Narrative Speakers: Robert Dinerstein, Washington College of Law Linda Edwards, Mercer Law School; Philip Meyer, Vermont Law School; and Ann Shalleck, Washington College of Law Moderator: Jessica Ciani-Dausch, Legal Rhetoric Program, Washington College of Law Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Legal Rhetoric Shapes the Law - Welcome / Keynote Address - When Language Meets the Mind: Three Questions: Welcome and Introduction: Teresa Godwin Phelps, Director of the Legal Rhetoric Program, Washington College of Law Keynote Address - When Language Meets the Mind: Three Questions: James Boyd White, University of Michigan Law School Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Immigrants' Rights Coalition - Legally Alienated: The Interrelation between the Judicial System and Immigrant Mental Health Immigrants' Rights Coalition - Legally Alienated: The Interrelation between the Judicial System and Immigrant Mental Health Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website JD/MA Joint-Degree Program Information Session for 1Ls and 2Ls nterested in WCL's JD/MA joint degree with AU's School of International Service? Want to hear from current JD/MA students about their experiences? Then join us for an informational panel on Thursday, November 8th, from 12-1:20 p.m. in Room 401, to get a more in-depth look at the JD/MA joint degree program. The director of the program, Prof. Paul Williams, and JD/MA Advisor Jon Youngs will be on-hand to provide an overview of the program. You'll also hear from 2Ls and 3Ls currently enrolled ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Launching CIEL's Citizens Guide to WIPO The panel discussion will reflect civil society's successes at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and review the challenges, both substantive and procedural, to making WIPO a sustainable development- friendly organization. The objective of A Citizen's Guide to WIPO is to provide citizens and civil society organizations with the practical information required to promote and enhance their effective participation in WIPO discussions and activities. CIEL's A Citizen's Guide to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The American Prosecutor: Power, Discretion and Accountability - Ideas for Reform - Innovative Prosecutorial Programs and Remedies for Abuse / Closing Remarks This panel will highlight innovative projects and initiatives across the country that are seeking to reform and improve the prosecution function. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The American Prosecutor: Power, Discretion and Accountability - Prosecutorial Ethics - Do the Rules Apply to Prosecutors? The Supreme Court repeatedly has suggested that prosecutors who engage in misconduct be referred to state disciplinary authorities. However, prosecutors are rarely referred to bar counsel. This panel will discuss whether the current rules and disciplinary process effectively hold prosecutors accountable for misconduct and other ethical violations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The American Prosecutor: Power, Discretion and Accountability - Luncheon Keynote Keynote Speaker, Michael Tigar, Research Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law, Visiting Professor of Law at Duke Law School, and Professeur Invité at the Faculté de droit, Université Paul Cezanne, Aix?en?Provence. With Tribute to The Honorable Andrew Sonner, former State's Attorney for Montgomery County Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The American Prosecutor: Power, Discretion and Accountability - Charging and Plea Bargaining The charging and plea bargaining decisions often predetermine the outcome of criminal cases and are therefore the most important decisions that prosecutors make. These decisions are totally discretionary and almost impossible to challenge. This panel will explore the pros and cons of the vast discretion prosecutors exercise when deciding whether to charge or offer a plea bargain in a criminal case. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The American Prosecutor: Power, Discretion and Accountability - Opening Remarks and Welcome Prof. Angela Davis and Dean Claudio Grossman, Washington College of Law Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Third Annual Finnegan and Henderson Distinguished Lecture on Intellectual Property Ordinary people, as well as businesses and entrepreneurs, use other people's trademarks all the time - legally. But perceptions are skewed by continual emphasis on the power of intellectual property rights owners to exclude, rather than on people's rights to use another's trademarks. But clients ask lawyers every day: "Can I use this mark in this way?" Professor McCarthy will discuss the various ways that those other than the trademark owner can make proper and legal use of another's marks. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Impact on Litigation in the 21st Century - Panel Discussion PANEL PRESENTATION Colleen A. Conry, Hal Haddon, The Honorable Gerald Bruce Lee, and Nina Totenberg MODERATOR David E. Aaronson "Media Impact on Litigation in the 21st Century" DISCUSSION TOPICS ? media impact on fairness of trial system ? use of the media to affect the jury composition and juror expectations ? media impact on independence of prosecutor and court ? cameras in the trial courtroom Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Impact on Litigation in the 21st Century - Naming Ceremony for the Stephen S. Weinstein Trial Advocacy Program WELCOME BY Dean Claudio Grossman NAMING CEREMONY Remarks by Stephen S. Weinstein Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Media Impact on Litigation in the 21st Century - Ethical Issues Arising from the Interaction of Counsel with the Media PRESENTATION Harold (Hal) Haddon COMMENTATORS Mary L. Clark and Michael E. Tigar "Ethical Issues Arising from the Interaction of Counsel with the Media" DISCUSSION TOPICS ? ethical concerns of attorneys' use of media in litigation ? potential controls on attorney and media action Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 3L Public interest Job Search Strategies Are you a graduating student who wants to secure public interest employment? Come to this session to learn valuable job search tips and hear from alumni who successfully navigated the public interest job search process. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 1L Externship Workshop (Sections 1&4) Through the Externship Program, students earn academic credit for unpaid legal work with not-for-profit organizations, courts, government agencies, and law firms engaged in pro bono work. At this Orientation, the EP staff will explain the requirements of the Program, benefits of participating, and steps to securing a placement. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Presidential Management Fellowship Program Information Session - Fall 2007 Presidential Management Fellowship Program Information Session, Fall 2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Annual Lecture on International Arbitration Sponsored by Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP. 2007 - Does National Court Involvement Undermine the International Arbitration Process? Established in 2006, the American University Washington College of Law Annual Lecture on International Arbitration is delivered by a leading practitioner in the field of international commercial arbitration. The annual lecture offers an eminent figure in international arbitration a platform on which to share his or her ideas on novel issues and current trends in international arbitration from his or her own perspective and provides practitioners and academics an exclusive opportunity to par ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Munching on Human Rights: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Inalienable Rights or New Concepts? Interested in human rights but stuck studying civil procedure and torts? Munching on Human Rights is an introductory program designed to educate and engage students, especially 1Ls, about basic issues in international human rights and humanitarian law. Held once a month, munching gives you a great opportunity to informally interact with WCL's internationally- known faculty and get a "taste" of international law. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thomas Tang Moot Court Competition - Northeast Regional - Finals Thomas Tang Moot Court Competition - Northeast Regional - Final Round Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Connecting Women, Effecting Change: the Second Annual D.C. Women's Networking Event Guest Keynote Connecting Women, Effecting Change: The Second Annual D.C. Women's Networking Event With Guest Keynote Speaker Marcia Greenberger, National Women's Law Center Hosted by the Women's Law Association of American University Washington College of Law (WCL) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website International Right to Know Day (9-28-07) In a development that barely could have been envisioned by the authors of the Freedom of Information Act four decades ago, and with a force that has been accelerating around the globe, people in a growing number of nations now celebrate ?International Right?to?Know Day? on September 28 of each year to recognize and promote the worldwide proliferation of government openness. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website International right To Know Day In a development that barely could have been envisioned by the authors of the Freedom of Information Act four decades ago, and with a force that has been accelerating around the globe, people in a growing number of nations now celebrate "International Right to Know Day" on September 28 of each year to recognize and promote the worldwide proliferation of government openness. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Do You Want to Find Out More About Judicial Clerkships? Come to This Panel Discussion With Alumni Clerks Alumni and former/current judicial clerks from a variety of courts will discuss their clerkship experience, clerkship application process, tips for obtaining a clerkship, and answer student questions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Iraq's Displaced - Regional Impact, Individual Needs, and International Response The conflict in Iraq has led to the displacement of millions of Iraqi citizens, both internally and to many other countries throughout the region. This movement has had a tremendous impact on the lives of the displaced, as well as the social and political stability of the region in general. This panel discussion brings together experts in the area of refugee rights, protection, and policy to discuss the myriad issues facing Iraq's displaced and the impact of their mass movement on the regio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Networking for Women: Skills Workshop Networking for Women: Skills Workshop Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hispanic Heritage Month Program & Reception An interactive panel conversation on a variety of compelling and relevant topics, led by Dean Grossman and other members of the Latino faculty and staff. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Prosecution and Defense: Stories from Both Sides of the Courtroom The Criminal Law Society proudly presents an esteemed panel of prosecutors and public defenders discussing careers in criminal law. Panelists include attorneys from: U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office, Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, and Montgomery County Office of the Public Defender. Panel to be moderated by Professor Angela Davis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website International Legal Issues: The Current Debate over the Immunity of Foreign Cultural Property from Suit in the United States This program will present current issues concerning the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), which codified the restrictive theory of sovereign immunity providing that a foreign state and its agencies and instrumentalities have only limited immunity from suit in the United States. Particularly within the context of cases involving stolen or looted art, the FSIA has recently been subject to new and important interpretations of the statute that have had the apparent effect of broadening t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Conflict Resolution and Activism: Combining Islamic Principles and Practical Applications for Peacebuilding With the ongoing violence in Darfur, Iraq, and Afghanistan, the continuous instability in the Middle East, and the increasing security threats around the world, a new approach is needed to wage violence non-violently. Ms. Jana El Horr, International Peacebuilding Fellow at the American Islamic Congress, will address the necessity of youth engagement in peacebuilding based on principles of non violence and humanitarian consciousness. Ms. El Horr will focus on the application of peacebuilding ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lunch & Learn: Staff Attorney Positions with Federal and State Appellate Courts Join us for this panel discussion with current staff attorneys: William L. Lowe - Staff Director for the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal; Lee W. Ramsey - Staff Attorney for the Supreme Court of Tennessee; Kembra Smith - Prior Staff Attorney, Motions Attorney, and Personal Law Clerk, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 1st Annual ILSP Conference on Intl Law: "International Law, Secularism, and the Islamic World" ILSP is proud to present its 1st Annual Conference on International Law, hosting Professor Adrien Wing, of the University of Iowa. She will give a talk on "International Law, Secularism, and the Islamic World" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website International Week - Access to HIV/AIDS Medicine in the Africa and Caribbean Regions The goal of this event is to analyze the history and barriers to life saving HIV/AIDS medicines in the African and Caribbean regions. Panelists will discuss topics including: (1) the 1999 South Africa case and how global society formed around this issue, (2) Access to first line treatments and the role of generics in promoting access, (3) The role of free trade agreements in limiting access: the case of CAFTA and the Dominican Republic, and (4) The next wave: second line treatments, competi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website International Week - Global Focus: International Aspects of the 1L Curriculum Professors Popper, Vaughn, and Hunter speak on a panel about the international aspects of the 1L curriculum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website International Week Opening Ceremony Panel presentation by Dean Grossman and Professors Chuang, Wilson, Williams, Ala'i and Bradlow Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anti Trust Lecture Series: China's Proposed Antimonopoly Law WCL has inaugurated an international antitrust lecture series during which leading governmental officials, academics and practitioners will discuss antitrust policy and procedural issues in an international and comparative setting. On August 30, 2007, China enacted a comprehensive competition law. This law is likely to raise numerous procedural and substantive questions and will undoubtedly have far-reaching consequences. WCL is honored to have Professor Sheng Jiemin, Peking University, on ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Cost of Copyright Confusion for Media Literacy The Cost of Copyright Confusion for Media Literacy Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ninth Annual Looking Ahead at the New Supreme Court Term Listen to WCL Experts Preview the Important Cases of the Upcoming Supreme Court Year Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Teaching Gender and Human Rights in the Northwest Frontier Province (Pakistan) Join us for an interesting discussion with Professor Anoosh Khan from the University of Peshawar as she addresses the topic of teaching gender and the law in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province. Professor Khan is part of a delegation of two professors from the University of Peshawar in Pakistan who are International Visiting Scholars at WCL for the fall semester. The two professors are visiting WCL as part of a collaborative project with the University of Peshawar (Pakistan) focused on b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Left Out in the Cold? The Chilling of Speech, Association, and the Press in Post 9/11 America" American Civil Liberties Union & American University Law Review Symposium - The Role of Whistelblowers to Facilitate Government Accountability "Left Out in the Cold? The Chilling of Speech, Association, and the Press in Post 9/11 America" American Civil Liberties Union & American University Law Review Symposium - The Role of Whistelblowers to Facilitate Government Accountability Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Left Out in the Cold? The Chilling of Speech, Association, and the Press in Post 9/11 America" American Civil Liberties Union & American University Law Review Symposium - Secrecy and Barriers to Open Government "Left Out in the Cold? The Chilling of Speech, Association, and the Press in Post 9/11 America" American Civil Liberties Union & American University Law Review Symposium - Secrecy and Barriers to Open Government Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Left Out in the Cold? The Chilling of Speech, Association, and the Press in Post 9/11 America" American Civil Liberties Union & American University Law Review Symposium - Surveillance and Its Impact on First Amendment Rights / Closing Remarks "Left Out in the Cold? The Chilling of Speech, Association, and the Press in Post 9/11 America" American Civil Liberties Union & American University Law Review Symposium - Surveillance and Its Impact on First Amendment Rights / Closing Remarks Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Left Out in the Cold? The Chilling of Speech, Association, and the Press in Post 9/11 America" American Civil Liberties Union & American University Law Review Symposium - Censoring and Prosecuting the Press -- An Assessment of Reports' Shield Legislation "Left Out in the Cold? The Chilling of Speech, Association, and the Press in Post 9/11 America" American Civil Liberties Union & American University Law Review Symposium - Censoring and Prosecuting the Press -- An Assessment of Reports' Shield Legislation Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Left Out in the Cold? The Chilling of Speech, Association, and the Press in Post 9/11 America" American Civil Liberties Union & American University Law Review Symposium - Restrictions on Freedom of Association Through Material Support Prohibitions and Vi "Left Out in the Cold? The Chilling of Speech, Association, and the Press in Post 9/11 America" American Civil Liberties Union & American University Law Review Symposium - Restrictions on Freedom of Association Through Material Support Prohibitions and Vi Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Left Out in the Cold? The Chilling of Speech, Association, and the Press in Post 9/11 America" American Civil Liberties Union & American University Law Review Symposium - Keynote "Left Out in the Cold? The Chilling of Speech, Association, and the Press in Post 9/11 America" American Civil Liberties Union & American University Law Review Symposium - Keynote Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Left Out in the Cold? The Chilling of Speech, Association, and the Press in Post 9/11 America" American Civil Liberties Union & American University Law Review Symposium - Keynote "Left Out in the Cold? The Chilling of Speech, Association, and the Press in Post 9/11 America" American Civil Liberties Union & American University Law Review Symposium - Keynote Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Left Out in the Cold? The Chilling of Speech, Association, and the Press in Post 9/11 America" American Civil Liberties Union & American University Law Review Symposium - Constitutional Overview of Post-9/11 Barriers to Free Speech and a Free Press "Left Out in the Cold? The Chilling of Speech, Association, and the Press in Post 9/11 America" American Civil Liberties Union & American University Law Review Symposium - Constitutional Overview of Post-9/11 Barriers to Free Speech and a Free Press Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Left Out in the Cold? The Chilling of Speech, Association, and the Press in Post 9/11 America" American Civil Liberties Union & American University Law Review Symposium - Welcome Remarks "Left Out in the Cold? The Chilling of Speech, Association, and the Press in Post 9/11 America" American Civil Liberties Union & American University Law Review Symposium - Welcome Remarks Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Left Out in the Cold? The Chilling of Speech, Association, and the Press in Post 9/11 America" American Civil Liberties Union & American University Law Review Symposium - Congressional Panel: Setting a Positive Legislative Agenda for the First Amendment "Left Out in the Cold? The Chilling of Speech, Association, and the Press in Post 9/11 America" American Civil Liberties Union & American University Law Review Symposium - Congressional Panel: Setting a Positive Legislative Agenda for the First Amendment Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website OCI Screening Interview Strategies and Techniques OCI Screening Interview Strategies and Techniques Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website National Student Leadership Conference National Student Leadership Conference Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Recent Publications in Human Rights Recent Publications in Human Rights Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Plan Colombia and Human Rights: Seven Years Later Invited Panelists: Carolina Barco, Colombian Ambassador to the United States Michael Shifter, Vice President of Policy, Inter-American Dialogue Jose Miguel Vivanco, Executive Director Americas Division, Human Rights Watch Moderator: Robert K. Goldman, Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Strategic Litigation in the Inter-American System: The Law School Approach (Spanish) Invited Panelists: Nicolas Espejo, Co- Director, Center for Public Interest Actions and Human Rights, Diego Portales University, Chile Felipe Gonzalez, Co- Director, Center for Public Interest Actions and Human Rights, Diego Portales University, Chile Claudio Grossman, Dean, American University Washington College of Law Rodrigo Uprimny, Professor, Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Director, Centro de Estudios de Derecho, Justicia y Sociedad (DeJusticia) Moderator: Agustina del Campo, Coo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Current Status of the Prosecutor's Office before the International Criminal Court Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Chief Prosecutor, International Criminal Court Moderator: Claudio Grossman, Dean, Washington College of Law Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reparations in International Human Rights Law: Progress and Challenges Ahead Invited Panelists: Victor Abramovich, Member, Inter- American Commission on Human Rights Lisa J. Laplante, 2007 Human Rights Award Winner in English Juan Pablo Perez- Leon Acevedo, 2007 Human Rights Award Winner in Spanish Leo Zwaak, Senior Researcher, Netherlands Human Rights Institute, Utrecht University Moderator: Diego Rodriguez-Pinzon, Co- Director, WCL Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The International Court of Justice and the Impact of its Decisions in the Development of International Human Rights Law Invited Panelists: Paul S. Reichler, Partner of Foley Hoag LLP and legal advisor to Uruguay before the International Court of Justice William Schabas, Director, Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland Antonio Cancado Trindade, Former Judge and President, Inter-American Court of Human Rights Moderator: Claudia Martin, Co-Director, WCL Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dean's Fellow Training Workshop Related Handouts: Finding Books and Other Library Materials Finding General Print Materials Finding Scholarly Articles International Law Databases and Websites Library Services for Dean's Fellows Researching International Law Bibliography Select Reference Sources Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Racial Discrimination in the US Criminal Justice System and International Human Rights Standards: Reporting to CERD - Racial Disparities in the Prison System and in Post-Conviction Conditions Speakers: Johnna Christian, Rutgers UniversityBrenda Smith, Washington College of LawPat Allard, Senior Soros FellowDr. Divine Pryor, Nu Leadership Policy GroupFacilitator: Ryan King, The Sentencing Project Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Racial Discrimination in the US Criminal Justice System and International Human Rights Standards: Reporting to CERD - Racial Disparities Found in Court Proceedings Speakers: Marc Mauer, The Sentencing ProjectPaul Butler, George Washington UniversityJonathan Gradess, New York State Defenders AssociationFacilitator: Nkechi Taifa, Open Society Policy Institute Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Racial Discrimination in the US Criminal Justice System and International Human Rights Standards: Reporting to CERD - Racial Disparity and the Death Penalty KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Bryan Stevenson, Equal Justice InitiativeIntroduction - Al Bronstein, Penal Reform International Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Racial Discrimination in the US Criminal Justice System and International Human Rights Standards: Reporting to CERD - Racial Disparities in Law Enforcement Speakers: Ron Hampton, National Black Police AssociationTonya McClary, American Friends Service CommitteeJoey Mogul, Peoples'Law OfficeFacilitator: Andrea Ritchie, INCITE Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Racial Discrimination in the US Criminal Justice System and International Human Rights Standards: Reporting to CERD - Racially Disparate Treatment of Children in Conflict with the Law Speakers: Bernardine Dohrn, Northwestern Law SchoolMichael Harris, W. Haywood Burns InstituteRandolph Stone, University of Chicago Law SchoolMarsha Weissman, Center for Community AlternativesFacilitator: Jenni Gainsborough, National Juvenile Justice Network Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Racial Discrimination in the US Criminal Justice System and International Human Rights Standards: Reporting to CERD - Welcome and Introduction to the CERD Shadow Reporting Process - Why Should Activists Get Involved? Hadar Harris, Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, American University Washington College of LawRyan King, The Sentencing Project Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Racial Discrimination in the US Criminal Justice System and International Human Rights Standards: Reporting to CERD - Next steps in the Reporting Process Margaret Huang, Global RightsHadar Harris, WCL Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Annual Town Hall Meeting of the Law Librarians Society of the District of Columbia (LLSDC) / Peterson Lecture WCL and the Pence Law Library will host the Annual Town Hall Meeting of the Law Librarians Society of the District of Columbia (LLSDC), a regional chapter of the American Association of Libraries. Professor Steve Wermiel will present the society's Peterson Lecture, on his work as biographer for former Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. WCL's Associate Dean for Library and Information Resources Billie Jo Kaufman currently serves as LLSDC's president. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Value of a Post-JD Degree Please join the Program on Law and Government for a panel discussion about the value of a post-JD degree. LLM and SJD alumni Allen Loughry, Juria Jones, Marcela Matamoros, and Ben Firschein will share their thoughts on how their experiences at WCL allowed them to develop professionally and personally. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Investment and Trade in Latin America: The Chilean Experience - Settlement of Disputes The panel will discuss the different international and domestic mechanisms available to an investor for settling any investment disputes that may arise. ? Moderator: Paolo Di Rosa, Partner, Winston & Strawn, LLP, President, Chilean American Chamber of Commerce (Washington, DC) ? Panelists: ? GONZALO BIGGS, Partner, Figueroa, Valenzuela & Cia. ? GONZALO FERNÁNDEZ, Partner, Carey y Cia. ? ANDREA MENAKER, Chief of the NAFTA Arbitration Division, Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Investment and Trade in Latin America: The Chilean Experience - US-Chile Free Trade Agreement: Sectoral Perspectives The panel will analyze how the FTA provisions have affected different sectors such as energy, labor, banking and environment. ? Moderator: ESTEBAN TOMIC, President, The Law Center for Free Trade Implementation. ? Panelists: ? SUE CRONIN, Director of Brazil and the Southern Cone, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative ? ANDRES JANA, Advisor, Ministry of Finance and former Chilean negotiator of the US?Chile Free Trade Agreement; Partner, Alvarez, Hinzpeter, Jana & Valle. ? Commentators: ? DA ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Investment and Trade in Latin America: The Chilean Experience - Investing in Chile: The Corporate Perspective The panel will address foreign investment in Chile from the perspective and experience of foreign corporations. ? Moderator: SCOTT MILLER, Director, Global Trade Policy, Procter & Gamble ? Panelists: ? TOM BEDDOW, Vice President, Public Affairs, 3M Company ? JUAN CARLOS CAVALLINI, Managing Director Corporate & Investment Banking Citibank N.A., Chile ? MICHAEL GRASTY, Partner, Grasty Quintana, Majlis y Cia. ? Commentators: ? KELLIE MEIMAN, Managing Director, Kissinger McLarty Associates ? GO ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Investment and Trade in Latin America: The Chilean Experience - Legal Framework for Investment in Chile The panel will address how the Chilean legal framework has benefited foreign investors and the challenges the system faces. ? Moderator: KENNETH ANDERSON, Professor of Law, Washington College of Law ? Special Presentation by: CARLOS EDUARDO MENA, Executive Vice President, Chilean Foreign Investment Committee ? Panelists/Commentators: ? ROBERT HERZSTEIN, Of Counsel, Miller & Chevalier ? ROGER THOMAS, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Investment and Trade in Latin America: The Chilean Experience - Welcoming Remarks / First Presentation Welcoming Remarks by Dean CLAUDIO GROSSMAN and the Ambassador of Chile to the United States, Mr. MARIANO FERNÁNDEZ Presentation by the Chilean Minister of Economy, Mr. ALEJANDRO FERREIRO Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Trade Framework for Global Healthcare Research and Development James Love is the Director of Knowledge Ecology International (formerly the Consumer Project on Technology), a non-government organization with offices in Washington, DC, London and Geneva. An advisor to a number of UN agencies, national governments, international and regional intergovernmental organizations and public health NGOs, Mr. Love is US co-chair of the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) Working Group on Intellectual Property, founder and Chairman of Essential Inventions, Chai ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website India's New Patent Regime: TRIPS Implications Professor Shamnad Basheer (visiting at George Washington) speaks on India's new Patent Regime: TRIPS Implications.Professor Basheer completed a bachelor of civil law degree with distinction at Oxford as a Shell Centenary scholar, where his thesis dealing with biotechnology and patent law in India was awarded the second prize in a writing contest held by the Stanford Technology Law Review. He is currently an associate with the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre and is a Wellcome Tr ... 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 11th Annual Sylvania Woods Conference on African Americans and the Law This annual conference honors the late Judge Woods, a 1960 WCL alumnus, who practiced law in both the District of Columbia and Maryland, faithfully served his community and his church, and went on to sit on the Fifth District Court of Maryland and, later, the Circuit Court for Prince George's County. The conference will again address -through the participation of practicing lawyers, jurists, alumni, faculty, students, and administrators - matters of law that profoundly affect African Americ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 8th Annual Peter M. Cicchino Awards The Annual Peter M. Cicchino Awards for Outstanding Advocacy in the Public Interest program is held every year in honor of a beloved former Washington College of Law Professor, Peter M. Cicchino, who passed away in 2000. Professor Cicchino was both a brilliant scholar and teacher and was a brave and creative public interest lawyer. This program celebrates Professor Cicchino's outstanding devotion to public interest issues in all aspects of his life, by recognizing students and alumni who ha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Promoting Access: Diversity Among Judicial Clerks and Interns With assistance from alumni judges and clerks, this collaboration between the Office of Career and Professional Development and the Office of Diversity Services will address the fundamentals of achieving a successful judicial clerkship or internship experience. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Integrated Curriculum Electives Overview Integrated Curriculum Electives Overview Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bar Exam Overview Bar Exam Overview Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website User Generated Content: The Copyright Conundrum The Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at the American University Washington College of Law and the Center for Social Media at the American University School of Communications, in collaboration with the DC Chapter of the Copyright Society of the USA, present a lively discussion on the implications of copyright law for makers of participatory media and the platforms on which it is displayed. The discussion will emphasize strategies to avoid or minimize risk of copyright ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website First-Year Academic Advising - International Law (Public and Private) First-Year Academic Advising - International Law (Public and Private) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Direction for America: The Democratic Congress and the 2008 Presidential Race A New Direction for America: The Democratic Congress and the 2008 Presidential Race Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The New UN Disability Rights Convention: Building Support in the United States for Ratification and Implementation - Closing Remarks / From the ADA to the UN Disability Rights Convention Remarks: Yoshiko Dart, Disability Rights Leader Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The New UN Disability Rights Convention: Building Support in the United States for Ratification and Implementation - Strategy Session: Seeking US Government & Public Support Resource People: o Hans Hogrefe, Congressional Human Rights Caucus o Holly Burkhalter, International Justice Mission o Tom Malinowski, Human Rights Watch o Penny Wakefield, CEDAW Working Group o Jerry White, Landmine Survivors Network Open Discussion - Moderator: John Lancaster, USICD & NCIL Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The New UN Disability Rights Convention: Building Support in the United States for Ratification and Implementation - Implementation through International Development Policy o Judy Heumann, Global Partnership for Disability and Development o Sam Worthington, InterAction o John Kemp, State Department Advisory Board on Disability Moderator: Eric Rosenthal Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The New UN Disability Rights Convention: Building Support in the United States for Ratification and Implementation - Video & Presentation: Overcoming Abuses in Orphanages and Institutions o Laurie Ahern & Eric Rosenthal, Mental Disability Rights International Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The New UN Disability Rights Convention: Building Support in the United States for Ratification and Implementation - Lunch and Keynote: The Disability Convention and the International Human Rights Movement o Aryeh Neier, Open Society Institute Introduction: Prof. Herman Schwartz, American University Washington College of Law Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The New UN Disability Rights Convention: Building Support in the United States for Ratification and Implementation - Implementation through Domestic Law, Policy & Practice o Prof. Arlene Kanter, Disability Law and Policy Program, Syracuse University College of Law o Kathy Martinez, World Institute on Disability o Prof. Robert Dinerstein, Disability Rights Law Clinic, American University Washington College of Law o Hadar Harris, Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, American University Washington College of Law Moderator: Prof. Robert Dinerstein Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The New UN Disability Rights Convention: Building Support in the United States for Ratification and Implementation - The New Convention: Process, Principles & Prospects o Maria Veronica Reina, Burton Blatt Institute, Syracuse University & International Disability Caucus o Charlotte McClain-Nhlapo, The World Bank o Tracy Justesen, White House Domestic Policy Council o Tara J. Melish, Mental Disability Rights International Moderator: Charlotte McClain-Nhlapo Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The New UN Disability Rights Convention: Building Support in the United States for Ratification and Implementation - Welcome and Introduction Welcome: Erin Scheick, Human Rights Brief Dean Claudio Grossman, American University Washington College of Law Introduction: John Lancaster, President, US International Council on Disabilities & National Council on Independent Living Keynote: Gov. Dick Thornburgh - Hope and Promise of the Convention World Committee on Disability Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website First-Year Academic Advising - Intellectual Property; Communications