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Penn Law travel & news

November 14, 2014

See where around the globe Penn Law faculty have traveled this season.

In June, Sarah Paoletti published Migrant Workers Access to Justice at Home: Nepal as the lead author of the report, second in a series which received much news coverage. The report presents detailed recommendations for government and civil society advocates that address the failures of Nepal’s migrant worker policies by treating workers as holders of defined, enforceable rights. Read the full report.

In August, Howard Langer taught American antitrust law at the University of Tokyo and delivered a paper entitled “The Moral and Pedagogic Functions of Markets in a Democratic Society and the Role of Antitrust Law” at a symposium on The Global Trends in Modern Competition Law & Policy held at the Institute of Business Law and Comparative Law and Politics, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo.

Charles Mooney, Jr. was in Oxford at the Cape Town Convention Academic Conference in September.

On September 17 and 18 at the University of Mannheim, Michael Knoll presented “Tax Discrimination in European Union and Beyond” at the 1st Annual MaTax Conference.

At the 9th Annual Symposium of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network in Istanbul, Turkey on September 1, Christopher Yoo served on the Cyber War, Cyber Weapons, and Internet Governance panel. Also in Istanbul, Yoo participated in a panel on Internet Governance: A Case for Variable Geometry? at the Internet Governance Forum September 2–5.

In September, Associate Director of Graduate Programs, Elise Luce Kraemer, traveled to Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Bogota, and Mexico City to host Penn Law international recruitment activities and alumni events. Additionally, Associate Dean of Graduate Programs, Matthew Parker,also traveled abroad to host such events in October throughout Europe including visits to Paris, Zurich, Brussels, and Frankfurt in October.

In October, Stephen Burbank spent five days in Berlin in order to attend board meetings of the American Academy in Berlin, celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the Academy, and the Kissinger Prize ceremony.

William Bratton traveled to Beijing in October to Tsinghua University Law School to participate in a Finance Seminar Series lecturing on “Preferred Stock in Venture Capital Finance in the United States: Unsolved Problems” and the Tsinghua Commercial Law Research Center where he presented a paper entitled “The Curious Persistence of Fraud on the Market” at the 21st Century Commercial Law Forum: 14th International Symposium.

At the Association of Canadian Clinical Legal Education annual conference held October 22–25 at the University of Windsor law school, Sarah Paoletti presented on a panel, Working Together? The Transnational Crossroads of Justice, Education, and Migration.

In December, Douglas Frenkel will be traveling to England where he is delivering the keynote address at the Law and Dispute Resolution Symposium at Canterbury Christ Church University.  He also will be attending a meeting of the Advisory Board of the university’s Mediation Clinic, of which he is a member. 

The Transnational Legal Clinic has been working as part of and on behalf of a coalition of national and local immigrant rights and human rights organizations on a hearing at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (based in Washington, D.C.) on the Human Rights Situation of Migrant and Refugee Children and Families in the United States held on December 27.

In December, Eric Feldman will be traveling to Tokyo to research the regulation of electronic nicotine delivery systems as well as meet with faculty at Waseda University and other law schools.

Jacques deLisle and Bill Burke-White will be leading Penn Law students participating in the Global Research Seminar “Rising Powers: Power Shifts in International Law and Global Governance” on a trip to China January 5–9 where they will engage meaningfully with international senior legal experts, practitioners and faculty.