scholarly journals Teaching “Human Rights in Africa” Transnationally: Reflections on the Jos-Osgoode Virtual Classroom Experience

2009 ◽  
Vol 10 (6-7) ◽  
pp. 959-968 ◽  
Author(s):  
Obiora Chinedu Okafor ◽  
Dakas C.J. Dakas
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Attorney General ◽  
Virtual Classroom ◽  
Law School ◽  
New York University ◽  
Classroom Experience ◽  
Plateau State

During the Fall of 2007, as part of a much broader York-Nigerian Universities linkage project that he had been working on for some time, Professor Okafor taught an internationalized version of a pre-existing existing course entitled “Human Rights in Africa.” At the same time, Professor Dakas of the Faculty of Law, University of Jos, Nigeria (assisted by Mr. J.D. Gamaliel) taught a similarly modified version of an existing course at their own institution. Professor Dakas, a former Hauser Global Scholar at New York University and most recently the attorney-general of the Plateau State of Nigeria) was the lead faculty at that partner law school in Nigeria.

Retirement of the Co-Editors in Chief

1998 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 490-490
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Law School ◽  
New York University ◽  
Vanderbilt University

The AJIL Board of Editors wishes to announce the retirement of the Co-Editors in Chief, Professors Theodor Meron of the New York University School of Law and Detlev Vagts of Harvard Law School. As of the October 1998 issue, the editorial leadership will be assumed by Professors Jonathan Charney of the Vanderbilt University School of Law and W. Michael Reisman of Yale Law School.

scholarly journals Review of Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice by Zakiya Luna (New York University Press)

Lateral ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Djuna Hallsworth
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Reproductive Justice ◽  
New York University ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Human Rights Discourse

Zakiya Luna’s rich study combines comprehensive discourse analysis of political rhetoric and archival documents with her own ethnographic experiences within the reproductive justice movement. This book is an entry point into this often-marginalized arena, presenting a unique perspective informed by years of participant observation and thorough research which has produced additional projects, attesting to Luna’s expertise in this field of study. As a woman of color, Luna’s work is symbolically significant, and her intersectional lens renders this study broadly applicable to scholars of law, sociology, and gender studies, to policymakers and activists, and, indeed, to all women, who the reproductive justice movement indirectly or directly impacts. In tracing the way that reproductive justice has been framed as a “human right,” Luna addresses the potential for the human rights discourse to deliver on its intrinsic promise to secure freedom and equity for all.

Book Reviews

2013 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 897-900
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
International Law ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Foreign Debt ◽  
International Investment ◽  
Law School ◽  
International Criminal Law ◽  
New York University ◽  
Customary International Law ◽  
The University

Explores topics in the economic approach to international law. Discusses the fundamentals of international law; economic analysis of international law—the essentials; sovereignty and attributes of statehood; customary international law; treaties; international institutions; state responsibility; remedies; the intersection between international law and domestic law; treatment of aliens, foreign property, and foreign debt; the use of force; the conduct of war; human rights; international criminal law; international environmental law; the law of the sea; international trade; and international investment, antitrust, and monetary law. Posner is Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. Sykes is Robert A. Kindler Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law.

“Over There and Over Here”: Some Observations on Recent Reader Services Developments at four Academic Legal Researh Libraries

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Gee
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
The United States ◽  
Law School ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Yale University ◽  
New York University ◽  
Central Park ◽  
Perpetual Motion ◽  
Creative Space ◽  
To Come

Every night for ten nights last May, I returned to room 128 in the Westside YMCA (West 63rd Street, New York City – just off Central Park) armed with more behind the scenes insights, professional secrets and first hand accounts of US law library operation and management than one slim A5 notebook could hope to hold. I was fortunate to be in the United States on a two-week placement at Columbia University, visiting some of America's great law libraries – the law school libraries of Columbia itself, New York University and Yale University. Each morning, after orange juice, coffee and a toasted cream cheese bagel, I would head out with the commuters to join the subway at Columbus Circle – uptown for Columbia or downtown for NYU. Every evening I would admire the energy of the mostly silver-haired athletes in brightly coloured lycra returning to the Westside “Y” after numerous circuits of the Jackie “O” reservoir on the upper east side of Central Park. The park is 843 acres of creative space bounded by impressive hotels, apartment blocks and the streets of Harlem. In May it is in perpetual motion from dawn to dusk with joggers, roller-bladers and cyclists weaving their way around the trees, fountains and numerous statues. Indeed it appears to be a huge magic garden, complete with beautiful street lamps that seem to come from C.S. Lewis's Narnia – another world, like the City itself, at once familiar and fascinatingly different.

The Legal Education of the First Chinese American Admitted to the New York Bar in the Twentieth Century and his Crusade to End Discrimination Against Ethnic Chinese in America

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-229
Author(s):  
Li Chen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Extracurricular Activities ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Chinese American ◽  
Law School ◽  
New York University ◽  
Ethnic Chinese ◽  
American Law

AbstractThis article attempts to reveal how a typical first generation Chinese American activist set out to go to law school to learn the skill set to help fight against racial prejudice directed at the Chinese in the early twentieth century. It examines how Hua Chuen Mei, a first-generation Chinese American lawyer was educated and trained in America; it primarily traces his undergraduate and law school education at Columbia and New York University Law School from 1910–1914 to show how he overcame the odds and excelled academically to complete his undergraduate and law degree programs with flying colors. It revisits his extracurricular activities to understand what motivated early Chinese immigrants like him to seek legal education, and what issues were uppermost in the mind of a typical Chinese American law student in that era.

A Comparison of Four Premier Academic Law Libraries in the United States and the United Kingdom: The Findings of a Valuable International Placement

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 520-534
Author(s):  
David Gee
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
The United States ◽  
Law School ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
New York University ◽  
Central Park ◽  
Perpetual Motion ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
To Come

Every night for ten nights last May, I returned to room 128 in the Westside YMCA (West 63rd Street, New York City — just off Central Park) armed with more behind the scenes insights, professional secrets and first hand accounts of US law library operation and management than one slim A5 notebook could hope to hold. I was fortunate to be in the United States on a two-week placement at Columbia University, visiting some of America's great law libraries — the law school libraries of Columbia itself, New York University and Yale University. Each morning after an orange juice, toasted cream cheese bagel and cappuccino, I would head out with the commuters to join the subway at Columbus Circle — uptown for Columbia or downtown for NYU. Every evening I would admire the energy of the mostly silver-haired athletes in brightly colored lycra returning to the Westside “Y” after numerous circuits of the Jackie “O” reservoir on the upper east side of Central Park. The park is 843 acres of creative space bound by impressive hotels, apartment blocks and the streets of Harlem. In May it is in perpetual motion from dawn to dusk with joggers, roller-bladers and cyclists weaving their way around the trees, fountains and numerous statues. Indeed it appears to be a huge magic garden, complete with beautiful street lamps that seem to come from C.S. Lewis's Narnia — another world, like the City itself, at once familiar and fascinatingly different.

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