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MEDIA ADVISORY
NEW YORK, NY, November 19, 2003—With the help of videoconferencing,
a group of scholars whose comments and questions on South Africa
would otherwise be confined to the dark-paneled walls of the library
board room at New York Law School are beaming their discussion worldwide
on Thursday, November 20, bringing in participants from Johannesburg
to London to Baltimore, Maryland.
The discussion will start at noon in New York, or around 7 p.m.
in South Africa, 5 p.m. in London. At New York Law School, leading
Constitutional law scholar Frank I. Michelman, Robert Walmsley University
professor at Harvard, will commence this meeting of the South Africa
Reading Group by discussing his paper, “The Bill of Rights, The
Common Law, and the Freedom-Friendly State.” In Johannesburg, Judge
Catherine O’Regan of the South African Constitutional Court will
respond to Michelman’s paper. A discussion involving all four locations
will follow, led by Professor Jonathan Klaaren of the University
of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Law in
Johannesburg, Professor Taunya Banks from the University of Maryland
School of Law in Baltimore, Maryland, and Bronwen Manby, deputy
director of the Africa division at Human Rights Watch in London.
The South Africa Reading Group, an interdisciplinary group of
scholars who focus on South Africa from a variety of perspectives,
is cochaired by New York Law School Professor and Associate Dean
Stephen Ellmann, and City University of New York (CUNY) Law School
Professor Penelope Andrews.
ABOUT NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL
Located near the centers of law, government, and finance in New
York City, New York Law School is one of the oldest independent
law schools in the United States. Its faculty of noted and prolific
scholars has built the school’s curricular strength in the areas
of tax law, labor and employment law, civil and human rights law,
media and information law, urban legal studies, international and
comparative law, and interdisciplinary fields such as legal history
and legal ethics. The Law School enrolls 1,400 students and has
more than 11,000 graduates.
Contact: Jim Hellegaard, Director of Communications, Office of
Public Affairs, 212.431.2191, jhellegaard@nyls.edu
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