Legal Education During Armed Conflict - Live Webinar, 23 September 2024
How does armed conflict affect legal education? How can we teach law students about justice, respect for diversity and the rule of law, in an environment where rights are restricted and critical voices are silenced due to war-induced intimidation, nationalism, fear and trauma?
Join us to hear legal educators and clinicians drawing on their personal experience in addressing these questions.
14:00 – 14:05 – Opening remarks
Shiran Reichenberg, Executive Director, Clinical Legal Education Center (CLEC), The Hebrew University; Director of Rights of Youth-at-Risk Clinic, CLEC
14:05 – 15:05 – Legal Education Amidst Turmoil: Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nigeria
Moderator: Sigall Horovitz, Transitional Justice Advisor, CLEC
Afghanistan – Stephen A. Rosenbaum – Frank C. Newman Lecturer in Law, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Pakistan – Arshad Nawaz Khan – Assistant Professor and Coordinator Clinical Legal Education, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad.
Nigeria – Omoniyi Bukola Akinola, Professor of Legal Ethics and Education and Dean School of Law, Kampala International University
15:05 – 15:15 Intermission
15:15 – 16:15 – Resilience in Legal Education: The Israeli Experience
Moderator: Shiran Reichenberg, CLEC
Hala Khoury-Bisharat, Academic Director, Haifa Campus Law School, Ono Academic College
Michal Goren, Director of the International Human Rights Clinic, CLEC
Dana Giloh, Director of the Conflict Resolution Clinic, University of Haifa
16:15 – 16:25 Intermission
16:25 – 17:20 – European Conflict Zones: Legal Education in Ukraine and Armenia
Moderator: Thomas H. Speedy Rice, Visiting Professor of Practice, Washington & Lee University School of Law
Ukraine – Mariia Tsypiashchuk, Board Member of the Assoication of Legal Clinics of Ukraine; Yuliia Lomzhets, Head of the Association of Legal Clinics of Ukraine
Armenia – Liana Malkhasyan, Director of the Yerevan Haybusak University (YHU) Institute of Jurisprudence & International Relations; Anzhelika Nazaretyan, Institute of Jurisprudence & International Relations and Legal Clinic, YHU
17:20 – 17:30 Concluding Remarks
Mark Drumbl, Washington & Lee University, School of Law
The Webinar is organized by The Clinical Legal Education Center (CLEC) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem under the Fried-Gal Transitional Justice Program in Collaboration With The Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions at the University of Haifa with the support of the Global Alliance for Justice Education (GAJE)
