Abortion law prompts more than 200 ABA members to protest plan to hold 2021 meeting in Atlanta
Updated: On Friday, the ABA Board of Governors will be discussing whether to move the 2021 ABA Midyear Meeting from Orlando, Florida, to Atlanta. In a letter sent on Tuesday, 243 ABA members urged the Board not to select Atlanta as an alternate site “in light of Georgia’s new draconian anti-choice legislation.” The ABA is moving its […]
Harvard Law Collaborates on Project to Combat Human Trafficking
Elizabeth Olson – Special Correspondent Aug. 16, 2019 Four law schools team up to tackle solutions to human trafficking Sex and forced labor trafficking exists in all 50 states Harvard and three other law schools aim to devise legal and policy solutions to combat human trafficking and help victims. Students in law, social work, public […]
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Presentation on Doing Business in Latin America
The treatment of women was a big issue in the election. Now what?
Attorney Laurel Bellows joined 900 women from 60 countries for the International Women’s Forum annual conference in Chicago this fall. At every lunch and dinner, she says, the conversation turned to the mistreatment of Hillary Clinton during her campaign for president.
International Association of Lawyers – UIA Budapest
A UIA congress is always a special time for knowledge sharing, conviviality and openness to other cultures, with no set pattern or single mind-set. Budapest is a very modern city that is also steeped in history, which needs to be discovered at a gentle walking pace. It is not very far from the banks of […]