Daniela Gabor, senior lecturer, Bristol Business School
Otto Heinz, principal counsel, European Central Bank
Jonathan Kirshner, professor of government, Cornell University
Peter Lindseth, Olimpiad S. Ioffe Professor of International and Comparative Law, University of Connecticut School of Law Katharina Pistor, Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law, Columbia Law School Wataru Takahashi, professor, Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration, Kobe University
Cornell Law Library Wins AALL Award for Trial Pamphlets Collection The Cornell Law Library has won the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Law Library Publications Award in the nonprint category for their Trial Pamphlets Collection. Thomas Mills, associate director for collections and administrative services and lecturer in law, who oversaw the project, describes the collection as “an everyman’s look at legal history of the United States.” The collection preserved and digitized contemporaneous accounts of
Ndulo Keynotes Inaugural Deans’ Conference for Leading African and Chinese Law Schools For the first time ever, the deans of Africa’s and China’s law schools gathered for the Sino-African Law Deans’ Conference in Cape Town, South Africa. Cornell Law Professor Muna B. Ndulo delivered the opening keynote address on the first day of the inaugural conference.
Jean Wenger, president of AALL, presents award to Femi Cadmus, the Edward Cornell Law Librarian, associate dean for library services and senior lecturer in law
important or particularly lurid trials produced for mass readership in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. “There’s a trial pamphlet on the first time that a mother was given custody of the children
in a divorce case,” Mills said. “The first time the insanity defense was used. You look at how women and minorities were represented in the pamphlets and reflected in the legal system at the time.”
Thirty-five deans from Africa and China’s leading law schools attended, including representatives from Renmin University of China Law School, Shanghai University Law School, the University of Nigeria, and the University of Namibia. While in South Africa, Ndulo also spoke at the University of Cape Town’s All Africa House about the role of academic engagement in the future of African development.
“There are growing relations between Africa and China and there is need to underpin these relations with an understanding of the parties’ legal systems,” says Ndulo, who is also director of the Institute for African Development at Cornell University. “There are not just growing economic relations. At this conference, I saw exchanges of different ideas regarding legal education and the challenges that are being faced by schools from the two regions. The parties recognized their mutual interests in the field to curriculum development, teaching, research, and student and faculty exchanges.” At the conference, which took place on March 27 and 28 at the Kramer School of Law at the University of Cape Town, presentations explored the reform of Sino-African legal education in an era of globalization. Topics included “The Political Context of Legal Education in Africa and China” and “Challenges Facing China and Africa in the Area of Research.”
Professor Ndulo with PJ Schwikkard, Dean of University of Cape Town Law Faculty, and HAN Dayuan, Dean of Renmin University of China Law School
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