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Professor Osama Siddique: Lecture
Tour November 26th- December 5th
(1) Seminar titled: "Rebellious
Lawyers: The Pakistan Crisis and the
Rule of Law."
Venue: Yale Law School.
Date: November 26th, 2007.
Other participants included Ms. Nighat
Saeed Khan (Activist) and Mr.
Ali Ahsan (Speech Writer for the U.N
Secretary General and son of Mr.
Aitzaz Ahsan – President Supreme Court
Bar Association). Seminar
convened by Professor Jim Silk (YLS).
Around 60-70 Yale Law School
students and faculty attended this two
hour engagement.
* For a video of this seminar please
see:
www.law.yale.edu/news/5957.htm
* For news coverage of this
seminar in the Yale Daily News please
see:
http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/22548
* Individual faculty meetings to
discuss the situation with Dean Harold
Koh, Professor Paul Kahn, Professor
Robert Gordon, Professor Bruce
Ackerman, Professor Susan Rose
Ackerman, and Professor Jim Whitman.
* Dinner meeting with Professor Peter
Schuck, Professor Jim Silk and other
members of the Yale Law community.
Also discussed was the possibility of
LUMS being a partner Law School to
host fresh YLS
graduates interested in teaching and
researching in Pakistan under the
newly launched YLS Asian Law School
initiative.
(2) Talk titled: "The Challenges of
Civic Engagement in Pakistan under
Emergency Rule."
Venue: Harvard Law School.
Date: November 29th, 2007.
Event sponsored by the International
Legal Studies, the Human Rights
Program, the European Law Research
Center and East Asian Legal Studies –
Harvard Law School. Talk introduced
and lunch hosted by Professor Henry J.
Steiner (Professor Emeritus- Harvard
Law School). Around 60-70 HLS students
and faculty as well as students and
faculty from other schools in the
Boston area attended this two hour
lunch talk.
* For the Program of the talk on the
web page of International Legal
Studies, Harvard Law School please
see:
http://www.law.harvard.edu/ils/events/
* For the Program and Poster of the
talk on the web page of Human Rights
Program, Harvard Law School please
see:
http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/hrp/eventsid=37.html
* For an interview on the current
Pakistani crisis conducted by the
Harvard Law School Communications
Office and currently displayed on the
HLS website please see:
http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2007/12/06_siddique.php
Individual faculty meetings to discuss
the situation with Professor David W.
Kennedy (Manley Hudson Professor of
Law and Director, European Law
Research Center), Professor Henry J.
Steiner (Jeremiah
Smith, Jr. Professor of Law,
Emeritus), Professor William P.Alford
(Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law,
Vice Dean for the Graduate Program and
International Legal Studies and
Director of East Asian
Legal Studies), Professor Joseph
William Singer (Bussey Professor of
Law), as well as Jim Cavallaro,
Clinical Professor of Law and
Executive Director, Harvard Human
Rights Program and other
faculty/members of the Harvard Human
Rights Program.
(3) Seminar titled: "Public
Interest Litigation in Pakistan –
History, Evolution and Current Trends
from a Comparative Perspective."
Venue: Harvard University.
Date: November 30th, 2007.
The other speaker at the seminar was
Professor Ran Hirschl (Visiting
Faculty – Harvard Law School). The
seminar was organized by Harvard
graduate students in conjunction with
the Kennedy School of Government and
was attended by around 15-20 students.
(4) Lunch Talk on the current
Pakistani Crisis, the Civil Society
Reaction and Future Fallouts.
Venue: The Office of Sidley Austin
LLP, New York.
Date: December 3rd, 2007.
The lunch talk was organized by the
New York office of the international
law firm of Sidley Austin LLP. It was
attended by around 20 senior lawyers
who were highly interested in the
theme. The engagement lasted for one
and a half hours.
(5) Talk titled: "Law, Power and
Politics under Pervez Musharraf."
Venue: Woodrow Wilson School of
Policy, Princeton University.
Date: December 4th, 2007.
Event sponsored by Pehchaan
(Pakistanis at Princeton), Program in
South Asia Studies, Woodrow Wilson
School Law and Public Affairs Program,
Department and Program in Near Eastern
Studies, Davis
International Center, and the Global
Issues Forum – Princeton University.
Talk introduced by Dr. Zia Mian,
Research Assistant, Program on Science
and Global Security (PS&GS) at
Princeton University
and lecturer of public and
international affairs at the Woodrow
Wilson School. Around 60-70 students
and faculty attended the two hour
engagement. The formal engagement was
carried over into an informal
reception hosted by Pehchaan.
* Lunch faculty meeting to discuss the
situation with Professor Kim Lane
Scheppele – Laurance S. Rockefeller
Professor of Public Affairs and the
University Center for Human Values,
Director of Program in Law and Public
Affairs (LAPA), Woodrow Wilson School,
Leslie E. Gerwin, Assistant Director,
LAPA, and other members of the
Program.
* For the Program of the talk on the
web page of the Program in Law &
Public Affairs (LAPA), Woodrow Wilson
School of Policy see:
http://lapa.princeton.edu/eventdetail.php?ID=132
* For the Program of the talk on the
Princeton University web page please
see:
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S19/67/22C37/index.xml?section=announcements
(6) Talk titled: "Rebellious
Lawyers: The Lawyers' Movement in
Pakistan and its Ramifications."
Venue: Columbia Law School.
Date: December 5th, 2007.
Event sponsored by Students at
Columbia and the South Asian Law
Students Association (SALSA). The
talk was attended by around 0-50
students and faculty of Columbia
University and the engagement lasted
for around two hours.
* For an informal student review of
the talk please see:
http://politicalpoet.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/decemberremember-a-week-in-the-lifepakistan-and-immigrants-rights/
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