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April 9, 2020By: international@law.upenn.eduPenn Law International
Follow Penn Law’s vibrant programs across the spectrum of international, transnational and foreign law.
Law Leadership, and Influence
Highlights from Rangita de Silva de Alwis’ ground-breaking course, which brought together women leaders in law and business for engagement with Penn Law students on the radical changes in public leadership in law and business around the world.
In our Own Voice
Student voices discuss various legal topics through a feminist lens.
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March 30, 2020By:Fatima Jamaluddin is a graduate of the Paris Sorbonne University law school, Abu Dhabi.
She is a lawyer with the Reed Al Dhaheri Lawyers and legal Consultancy. Reed Al Daheri is a renowned business woman with vast experience in commercial law in the UAE.
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September 27, 2019By:Katherine Schroeder L’20 and Ryan Plesh L’20 describe Penn Law’s release of the preliminary report “Access to Justice in The Gambia” – a result of the first law student led fact-finding project in The Gambia
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August 7, 2019By:On the death of Toni Morrison, the Penn Law community shares its reflections on the writer and artist, admired and beloved.Rangita de Silva de Alwis
Associate Dean of International Programs,
Fumnanya I. Ekhator L’ 20,
Leah Wong L’ 18,
Sophia Gaulkin L’ 20
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June 5, 2019By: Ryan Plesh L’20, co-Editor of the Global Affairs BlogEbola. It’s perhaps appropriate that the name itself is a French bastardization of an indigenous name for a river in the Congo. As the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of the most fragile states in the world, struggles to find its footing amid a contested presidential election and various rebellions, the nation is also facing the newest instantiation of Ebola outbreak. The ongoing outbreak, first identified in August 2018, is now the deadliest since the outbreak of 2014-16, which began in Guinea in 2013, directly caused more than 10,000 deaths and indirectly caused many thousands more.
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May 15, 2019By: Radhika Coomaraswamy, Bok Visiting International Professor, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, and Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict and High-level Mediation Advisory Group to the UN Secretary-GeneralRadhika Coomaraswamy, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict and High-level Mediation Advisory Group to the UN Secretary-General, will serve as a Bok Visiting International Professor in the Fall of 2019 and will teach a course on Women, Peace, and Security with Associate Dean of International Affairs, Rangita de Silva de Alwis.
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May 9, 2019By:Few law school classes involve convenings at the UN. Even fewer give students a forum to discuss their policy proposals with UN leadership. Yet Penn Law students in Associate Dean for International Programs Rangita de Silva de Alwis’s seminar on “New Debates in International Women’s Rights” did just that when they convened at the United Nations on April 29 to present their research to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), UN Women, Office of Legal Affairs, and the newly appointed Office of the Secretary-General’s Victims’ Rights Advocate. The students had the opportunity to present to Under-Secretary-General and Legal Counsel Miguel de Serpa Soares and Assistant Secretary-General Jane Connors and other experts. For students eager to share a semester or more of research, this audience of key policy leaders was an inspiration.
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April 1, 2019By:Brian Yeh, L’19; Emma Morgenstern, L’19; Fatoumata Waggeh, L’20 & Meroua Zouai, L’20
A post published last week titled, “A Diverse House,” accused freshman Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) of being a driving force behind the spread of anti-Semitism within the halls of Congress. While we strongly disagree with this false allegation, we write to emphasize that, much like the frenzied outcry that Rep. Omar’s Tweets generated, that post failed to acknowledge the broader context in which Rep. Omar’s criticisms of AIPAC and Israeli policies must necessarily be understood–in particular, the rise of white nationalism and Islamophobia in this country. We write to provide some of this necessary context.
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March 19, 2019By: Shane Fischman L’19 & Hannah Fischman, Barnard College ’18, Private Wealth Management Associate, Alliance BernsteinLiberty– the preeminent value protected by our Constitution– guarantees all citizens the right to form their own opinions, to create their own raison d’etre, and to champion, or to elect someone to champion, their beliefs. It is why we have the benefit of being governed by a diverse Congress. And appropriately, it is their election– democracy in action– that sets the parameters and guarantees the protection, of the very liberty that gave us the ideas and design to elect them in the first place.
It is therefore ironic and paradoxical that the 116th Congress is slowly eroding the fabric of our democratic principles.
Earlier this month, House Minority Leader Congressman Kevin McCarthy of California made a statement urging House Democrats to take action against two Freshman Congresswomen, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, for their acerbic remarks against Israel, and Americans who support Israel.
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