Brown Bag Lunch Series

David Scamell, from the Open Society Foundations, a global human rights philanthropic organization, will talk about the human rights situation facing sex workers and transgender people across the world, and highlight some of the important and innovative legal, policy and community mobilizing work that civil society advocates, including lawyers, are doing to bring change.

[Photo: Melissa Gira Grant]

Brown Bag Lunch Series

Jennifer Smith, advocacy director for the International Legal Foundation, and Adam Heyman, staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society and former Kathryn Wadia Fellow at the ILF-Nepal, will talk about the obstacles facing the millions of indigent accused persons in post-conflict countries who languish in prison without access to counsel, and the ILF’s approach to establishing public defender systems in these countries (including Afghanistan, Nepal and the West Bank).

Brown Bag Lunch Series - Last of the Fall Semester

Katy Glenn, Clinical Teaching Fellow in the Walter Leitner International Human Rights Clinic, will discuss her work at Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights as well as recent developments in the human rights situation in Zimbabwe.

Register online at http://cthnyc.eventbrite.com.

**Registered guests must arrive by 6:30 P.M. to be guaranteed a seat.
The live webcast with Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski will begin promptly at 7:00 P.M.**

To view the event poster, click here.

CHINA Town Hall is a national day of programming on China involving 50 cities throughout the United States.

LIVE WEBCAST

“Issues in U.S.‐China Relations”
Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski
Former National Security Advisor; Current counselor & trustee, Center for Strategic & International Studies

Moderated by:
Stephen A. Orlins, President, National Committee on U.S.‐China Relations

LOCAL GUEST SPEAKER

“Internet Censorship in China”
Rebecca MacKinnon, Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow, New America Foundation

Moderated by:
Carl Minzner
Professor, Fordham University School of Law

SCHEDULE:

6:45 Welcome
7:00 Webcast featuring Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski
7:45 Presentation by Rebecca MacKinnon
8:30 Q & A
9:00 Adjourn

Presented by: Fordham Asia Law Society; Leitner Center for International Law and Justice; National Committee on United States-China Relations

Co-Sponsors:
Fordham International Law Journal
Fordham Law Federalist Society
Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA)
Center on Law and Information Policy at Fordham Law School
Office of International and Non-J.D. Programs

at Fordham University School of Law
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 6:45 P.M.

Location: Fordham University School of Law – McNally Auditorium
140 West 62nd St. (near Columbus Ave.), New York, N.Y. 10023

This program is free of charge and open to the public, however space is limited and RSVP is required.
For more information, please contact the Fordham Asia Law Society at als.fordham@gmail.com.

Brown Bag Lunch Series

Becca Heller, Director of the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project, and a visiting clinical lecturer in law at Yale Law School, will talk about her experience founding a refugee rights project in law school, and the necessity of increased procedural protections in the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program.

Brown Bag Lunch Series

David Scamell, from the Open Society Foundations, a global  human rights philanthropic organization, will talk about the human rights situation facing sex workers and transgender people across the world, and highlight some of the important and innovative legal, policy and community mobilizing work that civil society advocates, including lawyers, are doing to bring change.

This event qualifies for the 5 required Leitner Events for summer funding.

Free Kosher Pizza will be provided.

[Photo: Melissa Gira Grant]