tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10551371441498816252010-03-02T17:41:20.970-05:00Bernard Hibbittsnoreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-83366045399595645612010-03-02T16:59:00.003-05:002010-03-02T17:41:21.010-05:00

Joseph Schaeffer, Pitt Law '12, attended a panel on Music, Copyright, and Free Speech as part of the ACLU's Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll series at Carnegie Mellon University...In the past 10 to 15 years, music has gone from a finite good available only in physical form from various brick and mortar retailers to an infinite good readily available for legal purchase and illegal download on the

Joseph Schaefferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05189366574344107971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-46194910437961427912010-03-02T15:13:00.002-05:002010-03-02T16:10:49.232-05:00

Max Parmelee, Pitt Law '12, discusses the ways in which his views of racial profiling changed after attending a lecture by Pitt Law Professor David Harris and reflecting on the use of profiling by federal and local authorities...Earlier this year, Jordan Miles was walking through Pittsburgh's Homewood neighborhood when three plainclothes police officers approached him. According to Miles, a young

Max Parmeleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12810649155782648248noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-65037969278761222802010-02-24T08:30:00.002-05:002010-02-26T22:48:56.265-05:00

Julia Carrano, George Washington University School of Law '10, spent a summer working for Heritage Watch in Cambodia...After my first year of law school, I spent a month in Phnom Penh, Cambodia with Heritage Watch, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving Cambodian cultural heritage sites and fostering sustainable development. As an intern, my job was to synthesize relevant laws and

Anna Kavalauskasnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-28856087491241292092010-02-23T12:01:00.001-05:002010-02-23T12:03:22.176-05:00

Kristine Long, Pitt Law '11, relates the findings of Anna Kavalauskas and Silpa Swarnapuri, Pitt Law '12, who looked into the measures taken to facilitate adoption proceedings for 54 Haitian orphans relocated to Pittsburgh...In January, Haiti was struck by an earthquake which devastated the nation and brought attention and aid from all over the world. In addition to shortages of food, housing,

Anna Kavalauskasnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-25335964180470469702010-02-16T15:45:00.001-05:002010-02-16T15:47:42.118-05:00

Hamsa Subramaniam discusses the knowledge she gained as a 2008 Clinton Fellow at SAATHII, an HIV/AIDS technical assistance organization in Chennai, India...In 2007, the World Health Organization reported that 2.3 million people above the age of 15 are infected with HIV in India, a rate which ranks second only to South Africa. Approximately 40 percent of the infected are women. The Indian

Silpa Swarnapurisilpa.swarnapuri@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-47876093163664445012010-02-15T18:51:00.005-05:002010-02-16T08:58:31.957-05:00

Myroslava Savchuk, Pitt Law LLM '10, discusses the differences between judicial review in the United States and her home country of Ukraine...Judicial review refers to a court's power to review the constitutionality of a country's laws and invalidate them when necessary. Although the structure, methods, and effects of judicial review differ from country to country, there are two main types of

Joseph Schaefferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05189366574344107971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-8238949758814373272010-01-30T12:02:00.001-05:002010-01-30T17:31:58.498-05:00

Sara Burhan Abdullah, Pitt Law LLM '08 and JD '12, was an observer to the Iraqi Constitutional Review Committee. She shares her experiences with the issue of inheritance of citizenship and women's rights in her home country of Iraq...Under Saddam Hussein's dictatorial regime, children born of Iraqi women and foreign men could not inherit Iraqi citizenship, whereas children of Iraqi men and

Joseph Schaefferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05189366574344107971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-80630610268772535572010-01-29T16:01:00.001-05:002010-01-30T17:34:04.048-05:00

Kristine Long, Pitt Law '11, attended a lecture hosted by the Center for International Legal Education on “The Role of the US in International Criminal Justice,” presented by Stephen Rapp, the US Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues...While I listened to Ambassador Stephen Rapp talk about the United States' role in international law, I couldn't help but think about Obama's State of the Union

Kristine Longhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13512276963395561164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-26094506306926806142010-01-12T18:10:00.001-05:002010-01-13T09:02:44.366-05:00

Silpa Swarnapuri, Pitt Law '12, attended the Second Annual Gay Pride Parade held in her home country of India...On the eve of New Jersey putting the issue of same-sex marriage to popular vote, I recalled India's Second Annual Gay Pride Parade last June. It was held in the cities of Delhi, Kolkata (Calcutta), Chennai and Bhubaneswar. I hadn't been in Delhi for the first parade, and so I followed

Silpa Swarnapurisilpa.swarnapuri@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-67225025109459527822009-12-01T13:34:00.020-05:002009-12-04T14:04:02.762-05:00

Ekaterina Sivolobova, student at the Law Faculty of the University of Buenos Aires and legal intern at the Center for Justice and International Law in Buenos Aires, recently interviewed Costa Rican journalist Mauricio Herrera-Ulloa about his experiences appearing before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights...Freedom of expression is a fundamental right of all people, regardless of their

Andrew Gilmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257823085029995232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-12845930636770280072009-11-16T15:24:00.005-05:002009-11-19T14:54:21.596-05:00

Anna Kavalauskas, Pitt Law '12, attended a talk on the impact of Mexicans' migration in the US, given by Witness for Peace spokesperson Paola Gutierrez Galindo...Tension surrounding Mexican immigration is growing, and I think almost everyone involved in the debate would say that the system is broken, especially Paola Gutierrez Galindo. From Oaxaca, Mexico, Galindo holds a degree in Indigenous Law

Anna Kavalauskasnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-44660578051514995732009-11-04T14:16:00.007-05:002009-11-16T15:17:55.508-05:00

Kristine Long, Pitt Law '11, and Joseph Schaeffer, Pitt Law '12, attended the 18th Annual McLean Lecture on World Law, Nationalism, Constitutionalism and the Future of the European Union, presented by Sir David Edward at the University of Pittsburgh...Kristine Long Rather fortuitously, I was able to go with Professor Ron Brand, Director of the Center for International Legal Education, to pick up

Joseph Schaefferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05189366574344107971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-58667505020546535782009-11-04T12:11:00.004-05:002009-11-11T08:05:22.578-05:00

Sara Burhan Abdullah, Pitt Law LLM '08 and JD '12, writes about an experience in her home country of Iraq...As an Iraqi lawyer and US law student, I often check some of the Iraqi websites meant to inform people about draft laws being put before the Iraqi Parliament. One day, I was reading through one such website when my eyes caught a brief report on the October 6, 2009 session of Parliament.

Max Parmeleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12810649155782648248noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-60741043895226248822009-10-27T14:18:00.004-04:002009-10-27T14:23:01.013-04:00

Pakistani officials announced last week that murder charges had been filed earlier this month against the nation's former president, Pervez Musharraf, who is now on a speaking tour in the US and the UK. Andrew Gilmore, Pitt Law '10, attended one of his lectures in late September...Having extensively covered the recent legal and political trials and tribulations of Pakistan over the past two

Andrew Gilmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257823085029995232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-62756980991125253342009-10-22T13:19:00.002-04:002009-10-22T14:08:17.944-04:00

Tom Carpenter, Pitt Law '11, spent his summer as a Legal Extern at the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic of Palau...The most recent general election in the Republic of Palau, held on November 4, 2008, was a historic event for the small island nation. In addition to electing a new President, Vice President, senators, and delegates, the people of Palau passed 22 constitutional

Andrew Gilmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257823085029995232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-69982976213426942522009-10-20T12:36:00.029-04:002009-10-23T09:01:53.633-04:00

Joseph Schaeffer, Pitt Law '12, attended a talk on a proposed national security court system given by US Coast Guard Captain Glenn Sulmasy*, a law professor at the US Coast Guard Academy and a National Security and Human Rights Fellow at Harvard University...Over the past seven years the Guantanamo Bay detention facility has excited more controversy than perhaps any other aspect of the "War on

Joseph Schaefferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05189366574344107971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-49120988519398935042009-10-13T18:06:00.003-04:002009-10-21T09:36:00.188-04:00

Ingrid Burke, Pitt Law '11; and Rick Grubb, Pitt Law '10; attended a University of Pittsburgh speech by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev speech during the G-20 summit...Russian President Dmitry Medvedev came to the University of Pittsburgh during the G-20 summit to give some remarks of his own on the 50th anniversary of President Nikita Khrushchev's 1959 visit to the city. The format was very

Kristine Longhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13512276963395561164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-64525058494204816242009-10-07T17:20:00.009-04:002009-10-13T17:55:16.227-04:00

Adrienne Lester, Pitt Law '11, interned at the Honorable House of Representatives for the Republic of Liberia this summer...West Africa evokes images of Juju child soldiers, dismembered limbs, and volatile men in short-sleeved safari suits with aviator sunglasses. When I had the opportunity to intern with the House of Representatives for the Republic of Liberia in the summer of 2009, I accepted

Kristine Longhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13512276963395561164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-59870397452067086132009-10-02T16:23:00.004-04:002009-10-04T19:38:30.807-04:00

Ingrid Burke, Pitt Law '11, Lynsie Clott, and Aaron Freudenthal attended licensed and unlicensed protests primarily organized by self-proclaimed anarchist groups during the G-20 Summit...."I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"-Beatrice Hall, Friends of VoltaireThe City of Pittsburgh undertook an enormous security burden by agreeing to host the G-20

Ingrid Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677828657640506476noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-55357893357838837572009-09-30T18:17:00.005-04:002009-10-12T09:12:31.335-04:00

Andrew Morgan, Pitt Law '11, attended a lecture given by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd while in Pittsburgh for the G-20 Summit...I'll be the first to admit that I don't know an awful lot about Australian politics. When I received a press pass for a speech by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University last Thursday, I wasn't sure what to expect. In the

Andrew Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01995196196025269403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-3193192455303063912009-09-30T07:20:00.002-04:002009-10-21T09:37:40.034-04:00

Kindra Mohr, Boston College Law '11, was a consultant at the headquarters of the World Bank* in Washington, DC...One of the fastest growing areas in international law, and within the international development field in general, is the expansion and enforcement of anti-corruption standards. The United Nations Convention Against Corruption, along with domestic laws such as the Foreign Corrupt

Kristine Longhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13512276963395561164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-58715772574746894812009-09-25T12:15:00.035-04:002009-10-13T22:22:45.576-04:00

Christian Ehret, Pitt Law '11, observed a G-20 Resistance Project protest held by self-proclaimed anarchists in Pittsburgh on Thursday...I ventured down to the G-20 Resistance gathering in the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh on Thursday afternoon with the sole intention of finding out what motivated people to be there. I was rather pessimistic, and expected inarticulate, uninformed

Christian Ehrethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763173228323485361noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-31589528689253553012009-09-25T11:49:00.019-04:002009-09-28T12:53:49.419-04:00

Abigail Salisbury, JURIST's Executive Director, observed events in downtown Pittsburgh on the first day of the G-20 Summit... I was able to get a press pass to the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and after going through security at Mellon Arena on Thursday morning, I was taken by shuttle to the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, the site of the summit itself. Upon arrival, I was

Abigail Salisburynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-47507199100784679432009-09-25T10:26:00.007-04:002009-09-25T12:49:57.523-04:00

Amelia Mathias, Pitt Law '11, attended a speech given by European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso at the University of Pittsburgh on Thursday...Accompanied by his wife, Margarita, and staff, President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso came to the University of Pittsburgh on Thursday to accept an honorary doctorate of Public and International Affairs from Chancellor Mark

Abigail Salisburynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055137144149881625.post-76041661473654153882009-09-23T13:06:00.005-04:002009-10-21T09:32:18.390-04:00

Ingrid Burke, Pitt Law '11, attended an "alternative" G-20 event on world hunger and economic decline which was hosted by the People's Summit on Pittsburgh's North Side...This week I was given the opportunity to attend several G-20 alternative/resistance events in Pittsburgh. On Monday night, I opted for a lecture and panel discussion hosted by the People's Summit entitled "Ending World Poverty,

Ingrid Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11677828657640506476noreply@blogger.com0