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UH Law Center: Black History Month Lecture speaker Burr to analyze pre-Civil War ancestral history
Mar 09, 2021 11:03 AM ET Legal Newswire POWERED BY LAW.COM
In commemoration of Black History Month, the University of Houston Law Center will host a virtual discussion led by University of New Mexico School of Law Professor Emeritus Sherri L. Burr at 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 25.
Burr s presentation is titled, Genealogical Research into America s Antebellum Past: The Challenges of Finding the Enslaved, the Free, and Enslavers. Dean Leonard M. Baynes will serve as a commentator. We must analyze pre-Civil War ancestral history because too much of relations between races has been lost, misunderstood, or misinterpreted, Burr said. This unexamined history continues to impact relations between races today.
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Initiative on Global Law and Policy at UH Law Center to host international speaker series
Feb 16, 2021 3:15 PM ET Legal Newswire POWERED BY LAW.COM
The Initiative on Global Law and Policy for the Americas, founded by University of Houston Law Center Professor Elizabeth Trujillo, will launch by hosting a webinar series in Spring 2021 in partnership with the University of Bologna Center for Latin American Studies. The Latin America Interest Group from the American Society of International Law (ASIL-LAIG) will also co-sponsor the event.
The theme of the series is, Constitutionalism, Trade, Social Justice, and Sustainability in the Americas: Lessons from the 2020 Global Pandemic. Over six webinar events, international experts in comparative constitutional law, human rights, sociology, international trade, international health law, and international law will discuss specific areas of society that have been particularly impacted by COVID-19, with an eye towards gathering less
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HOUSTON, Jan. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Associate Justice Goodwin H. Liu of the California Supreme Court will discuss diversity and trends in law school enrollment virtually on Jan. 26, highlighting how the demographic composition of law students has shifted since the Great Recession.
Liu is the first speaker of the year for the Justice Ruby Kless Sondock Jurist-in-Residence Lectureship in Legal Ethics. His topic is titled, Who s Going to Law School? Trends in Law School Enrollment Since the Great Recession.
The Jurist-in-Residence program is named in honor of Justice Ruby Kless Sondock, a trailblazer in the law who graduated as valedictorian and one of only five women in the UH law school class of 1962. Sondock was appointed to the 234th District Court in 1977, the first female state district judge in Harris County. In 1982 she was appointed to the Texas Supreme Court, the first woman to serve in a regular session of the court.