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Visiting Scholars in Residence featured in lecture series
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Five visiting legal scholars who are experts in international law, the environment, governance and legal issues affecting women and low-income communities will be featured during a fall lecture series sponsored by the Valparaiso University School of Law.
The series “Scholars and Advocates in Residence: Shaping the Public Dialogue” will begin Sept. 16 with Owen McIntyre, a senior lecturer in law at University College Cork in Ireland, presenting “The Emergence of a Human Right to Water Under International Law: Issues and Implications.”
McIntyre has served as a consultant on environmental policy-making and the drafting of environmental legislation in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia. His scholarship in environmental law has been published extensively and he serves on the editorial boards of international journals including Environmental Liability, Environmental and Waste Management, and the Journal of Property Development.
He currently is coordinating two major environmental law research projects funded by the Irish Higher Education Authority and he recently completed a research project on nature conservation law for the Irish Heritage Council.
McIntyre’s lecture, as well as those of the other visiting scholars, will begin at 4 p.m. in Wesemann Hall (656 S. Greenwich St.). The lectures are free and open to the public.
Other lectures in the series are:
Oct. 7 - “Forming a Professional Identity in Law through Writing: A Pervasive Approach,” presented by Andrea McArdle, professor and director of legal writing at City University of New York and co-editor of the anthologies “Zero Tolerance: Quality of Life and the New Police Brutality in New York City” and “Uniform Behavior: Police Localism and National Politics”;
Oct. 23 - “Overcoming Historical and Continuing Challenges to Genuine Peace and Good Governance in Liberia,” presented by Negbalee Warner, a Liberian political and social activist who practices law at Pierre Tweh & Associates in Monrovia and recently completed an assignment as head of secretariat for the World Bank’s Liberia Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative;
Oct. 29 - “An Urban Slice of the Pie: The Constitution and the Prevention of Illegal Eviction and Unlawful Occupation of Law Act,” presented by Steve Kahanovitz, a staff attorney with the Legal Resources Center in Cape Town, South Africa, who has been a leading advocate in litigating socio-economic rights cases on behalf of poor and marginalized communities in South Africa;
Nov. 11 - “Sexual Offender Law Reform: The Australian Experience,” presented by Justice Marcia Ann Neave of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Court of Appeals division, who has been appointed as an Officer in the Order of Australia in recognition of her contributions to law reform.
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