Bon Voyage!
Brooklyn Law School is proud of its many students who will be working in far-flung overseas locales during the summer of 2008. We look forward to hearing reports of your work and your adventures on...
View ArticleRefugee law in Budapest
I’m in Budapest for a week attending a conference on international refugee law and working on the Refugee Law Reader, an on line resource for students, academics, advocates, and others interested in...
View ArticleGreetings from Kviv
Actually, I just got home after an 11+ hour flight from Kviv where I spent 4 days at meetings with lawyers and law teachers from Central Asian law schools (Moldova, Kyrgystan, Armenia, Georgia, and...
View ArticleSawatdee Kha (Hello) from Bangkok
Last week I arrived in Thailand, where I’ll be working on projects concerning human trafficking and labor exploitation. I’ll be splitting my time between the U.N. Inter-Agency Project on Human...
View ArticleGreetings from Shanghai, China
I arrived in Shanghai at 5 a.m. on May 21, the last day of a mandatory, three-day national mourning period commemorating victims of the earthquake in Wenchuan, Sichuan province. An important part of...
View ArticleSa wa dee kha from Chiang Mai Thailand
I am working for an NGO Bridges Across Borders. I am currently writing a legal training manual concerning indigenous community land rights in Cambodia. Indigenous communities are illegally losing...
View ArticleHowzit from Johannesburg!
I am currently in Johannesburg working with the Refugee Rights Project of Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR), a South African NGO. With the recent outbreak of xenophobic attacks on foreigners living in...
View ArticleGreetings from Hong Kong
I am currently in Hong Kong working for Linklaters (a UK law firm) in their Capital Markets practice. I arrived here almost three weeks ago. At first, I found the city very overwhelming and crowded,...
View ArticleHola desde Peru
I’ve attached a few photos of a family trip to Peru. We hiked the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, and then some. The Andes are so big, the Inca ruins so extensive–it’s hard to fathom even when I’m...
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