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Cristi Head, a second-year law student, spent her summer working for the Cambodian Women's Crisis Center (CWCC), in their Siem Reap office in northwest Cambodia.

Once the trials of terror detainees held in Guantanamo Bay are underway, Americans will be proud of the procedures set up to ensure that justice is done, Judge Advocate General School Commandant General Scott Black told a full house at the Miller Center's Newman Pavilion July 19.

It's a country without major roads, traffic lights, bookstores, or even ancient monuments, but Sierra Leone "may be the most interesting place on earth," said law professor Tim Wu.

The number of refugees resettled in the United States has fallen to 29,000 a year since 9/11, less than half the 76,000 routinely settled annually in the five years before the attacks, law professor David Martin told a lunch crowd Nov. 17.

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Attorney and Bernstein Fellow Tara Melish from the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) outlined several legal strategies the human rights organization uses to assist those who wish to being complaints concerning economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR) violations in the Inter-American Commission and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

Human Rights Study Project (HRSP) Director Michael Royal testified before Congress April 16 in a hearing held by the House Committee on International Relations concerning the Cuban government's recent crackdown on dissidents.

The war in Iraq is proof enough to Dr. Nareen Dezaye and Lara Dezaye, representatives of the Iraqi National Congress (INC) who spoke at the Law School March 31, that their exile group's efforts to organize a new democratic government are fully justified.

While they appear increasingly outdated, sodomy laws still exist in 14 states, Puerto Rico and the military, and while many such laws target gays in practice, four states target homosexuals explicitly.

New genetic knowledge is resulting in powerful reproductive technologies that raise the likelihood that parents will choose the characteristics of their offspring, according to John A. Robertson, a University of Texas Law School professor who presented a taxomony of philosophical views on reproductive technologies titled "Procreative Liberty in the Era of the Genomics" at a workshop Oct. 24.

Working for the government or a firm after law school may be the best way to get into Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) advocacy work down the road, according to Sharon Alexander, staff counsel for the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the largest lesbian and gay political organization in the country, with more than 460,000 members.

Like once-entrenched sexual and racial discrimination in the workplace, the restriction barring women from ground combat in the U.S. military is bound to fall, Professor Anne Coughlin predicted while talking to an undergraduate women's studies class in Ruffner Hall Oct. 14.