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Info session: Winter Term Opportunities Abroad
HLS offers 2Ls, 3Ls and LL.M. students the opportunity to spend Winter Term abroad, pursuing internationally focused independent clinicals or research and writing projects. Come learn about finding a clinical placement, developing a research and writing proposal, and applying for funding through the Winter Term International Travel Grant program, as well as registration and deadlines.
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Special event: A talk with Nasredeen Abdulbari LL.M. ‘08, Minister of Justice, Republic of Sudan
Transitional Justice in Sudan and the Role of the International Criminal Court
A talk with Nasredeen Abdulbari LL.M. ‘08, Minister of Justice, Republic of Sudan
Nasredeen Abdulbari currently serves as Minister of Justice of the Republic of Sudan. (Read “Pursuing justice, freedom and peace,” a profile on Harvard Law Today.) Earlier, he was a lecturer in the International and Comparative Law Department, University of Khartoum, where he taught courses in public international law, conflict of laws, and an introduction to the English legal system. He also worked, on a Satter Fellowship from Harvard Law School, as Head of the Protection, Peace-building, and Psychosocial Unit of the Sudan Social Development Organization (SUDO). In East Africa, Abdulbari was a senior researcher at the Rift Valley Institute and consultant for the Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa, based in Nairobi, Kenya.
His academic articles have been published in the Journal of African Law (University of London), the African Human Rights Law Journal (Pretoria University), the Birkbeck Law Review (University of London), and the Harvard Human Rights Law Journal, and his opinion pieces have been published in The Guardian, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Global Observatory. He is a co-author of The Future Constitution of Sudan: Aspirations and Views (Ahfad University for Women, Sudan, 2013). His most recent work, “The Interlinkage between Understandings of Self-Determination and Understandings of Peace,” was published as a book chapter in Making and Breaking Peace in Sudan and South Sudan: The Comprehensive Peace Agreement and Beyond (Oxford University Press, 2021).
Abdulbari holds an LL.B. and LL.M. from the University of Khartoum; an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, where he was a Stoffel Scholar and a Landon H. Gammon Fellow; and an S.J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center.
Lisa Dicker, Lecturer on Law and Clinical Instructor, Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program, will serve as moderator.
This event is open to the Harvard community. Please use your Harvard email address to register and access the Zoom link.
Friday, April 23 at 12 p.m. | Online; register here
Sponsored by International Legal Studies, the Human Rights Program, and the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World
Special Event: Digital Rights in the Time of COVID-19
Nani Jansen Reventlow is founding Director of the Digital Freedom Fund, which supports partners in Europe to advance digital rights through strategic litigation. She is also the initiator of the Catalysts for Collaboration project, which offers best practices and case studies encouraging activists to collaborate across disciplinary silos and use strategic litigation in digital rights campaigns. Nani is a recognized international lawyer and expert in human rights litigation responsible for standard-setting freedom of expression cases across several national and international jurisdictions. She is a Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School and Adjunct Professor at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government. She is also a Senior Fellow at Columbia Law School’s Human Rights Institute and an Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Nani has been an advisor to Harvard’s Cyberlaw Clinic and an Associate Tenant at Doughty Street Chambers since 2016.
Evelyn Douek, Lecturer on Law and an S.J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School, will join the conversation as moderator.
Tuesday, March 30 at 12 p.m. EDT | Online
This event is open to members of the HLS community. Please register in advance with your Harvard email address to access the Zoom link.
Special Event: A talk with Zaid Al-Ali LL.M. ’01, International IDEA
