Human Rights
On October 21, William F. Starr Professor of Law Mark Weston Janis will speak on "The U.S. Supreme Court and Human Rights" at a Oxford University Human Rights Workshop.
Professor Janis teaches Public International Law, European Human Rights Law, Constitutional Law, and Conflict of Laws. He is the author of three widely-used books: International Law (Aspen 5th edition 2008), Cases and Commentary on International Law with John Noyes (West 3rd edition 2006), and European Human Rights Law with Richard Kay and Anthony Bradley (Oxford 3d edition 2008). He is also the author of The American Tradition of International Law: Great Expectations (Oxford 2004), America and the Law of Nations 1776-1939 (Oxford 2010, forthcoming), and of more than 60 articles concerning public and private international law. He is the co-editor of Religion and International Law (Martinus Nijhoff 2nd edition 2004) and International Law Stories (Foundation 2007).
Recent Homepage Highlights
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Professor Jessica Rubin will be teaching US law and legal writing for the Open Society Foundation at Bilgi University in Istanbul. Rubin teaches legal research and writing in the Lawyering Process program at the Law School.
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On June 18, Professor Sara Bronin will make a presentation at the annual meeting of the Connecticut Bar Association on "Legal Tools to Address Climate Change" at a panel discussion entitle "Following the Path of the Storm: Legal and Legislative Challenges in Addressing Rising Sea Levels on the Connecticut Coastline."
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On June 18, Professor Mark W. Janis will lecture on "Freedom of Religion and European Human Rights Law" at the University of Oxford, England.
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On June 17, Professor Alexandra Lahav will speak at the annual meeting of the Connecticut Bar Association (CBA) where she will comment on the proposed changes to the Federal rules of civil procedure.
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On June 17, Professor Richard Pomp will speak at the twenty-third annual Summer Tax Institute at University of California - Davis.
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Jennifer Brooks-Crozier '12 is the author of "Put Up Your Dukes: The Fight Over Commonality in the Era of Wal-Mart v. Dukes" (19 Texas Wesleyan Law Review 711 (2013)).
