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Career Fair

Third Annual Muslim Law Career Conference

Halal Cocktail Hour
Saturday, February 21, 2009
4:00 p.m.

Great Hall, University of Pennsylvania Law School

We are excited to announce the post-Career Conference cocktail hour plans, including our keynote speaker, Mohammed Abdrabboh, Esq.

Abdrabboh is a practicing attorney in the Detroit area who has been representing hundreds of victims of racial profiling and discrimination throughout the United States, particularly since September 11th. His extensive involvement earned him the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) Pro Bono Attorney of the Year award for 2002. In May 2003, Governor Jennifer Granholm appointed Abdrabboh to Michigan's Civil Rights Commission. Mohammed Abdrabboh earned his J.D. from the University of Toledo School of Law in 1999. After earning his J.D. from the University of Toledo, Abdrabboh worked at Al-Haq, the first West Bank NGO establishment in1979. As a legal researcher and advocate for human rights, Abdrabboh was instrumental to Al-Haq obtaining observer status to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) Abdrabboh was the accredited representative of Al-Haq to the UNCHR and appeared before the UNCHR in Geneva on October 18, 2000. Abdrabboh has also been involved with the Landmine Monitor as a contributing author to the country report for the Syrian Golan in 1999 and 2000. In discussing various civil liberty issues, Abdrabboh has been featured on CNN's Morning Show with Paula Zahn, Dateline NBC, The War on Terror with Rita Cosby, The Point with Greta Von Sustren, and has been cited in the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and various other newspapers throughout the AP wire. He has also discussed racial profiling and civil rights related issues at universities throughout the country. Abdrabboh serves as a board member to the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), chairman of the ADC advisory board, as well as a legal advisor to ADC. This year Abdrabboh was appointed to the advisory board at the University of Toledo Law School and began serving as a board member for the State of Michigan ACLU. Abdrabboh is a member of the Michigan Alliance Against Hate Crimes as well as ALPACT. He regularly meets with officials from the local, state, and federal agencies to counsel them on various civil liberties issues.