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UPDATE: Uganda’s Legal System and Legal Sector by Lydia Matte at http://www.nyulawglobal.org/Globalex/Uganda1.html.
Lydia Matte is a Ugandan lawyer and a Compliance Officer at Ligomarc Advocates.
UPDATE: Sri Lanka: Legal Research and Legal System by Thamil Venthan Ananthavinayagan at http://www.nyulawglobal.org/Globalex/Sri_Lanka1.html.
Thamil Venthan Ananthavinayagan holds an LL.M. from Maastricht University, The Netherlands. He is a German citizen with ethnic roots traced back to Sri Lanka. He studied law in Germany at the University of Bonn and Marburg. He holds a LL.M. in Human Rights and is currently a PhD researcher and Fellow at the Irish Centre for Human Rights.
UPDATE: Burkina Faso Legal Information and Research by Kounkinè Augustin Somé at http://www.nyulawglobal.org/Globalex/Burkina_Faso1.html.
Kounkinè Augustin Somé LLB (Ouagadougou), DEA (Nantes, Paris XII) LLM (Pretoria-American University, Cairo), is a graduate in International Human Rights Law with Specialization in Human Rights and Democratization in Africa and Humanitarian Assistance. He has comprehensive experience in the area of human rights, democratic governance and peace building. Mr. Somé has written several articles and papers including on the African peer review mechanism (APRM); the Human Rights situation in Burkina Faso in the Human Rights Law in Africa Series (Volume 2, 2000–2004). Mr. Somé has worked with the Parliament of Burkina Faso as Parliamentary Legal Affairs Officer. He also offers over 12 years of human rights field work with the United Nations, including serving as the senior women protection advisor with the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). He is currently serving on Human Rights with the United Nations Operation in Cote d’Ivoire (UNOCI), and he is also the Founder of the Burkina Faso-based Citizens information and documentation Center (Cidoc). Mr. Somé is the Winner of the Vera Chirwa Award (2013) on human rights, instituted by the University of Pretoria (Center for Human Rights) to recognize alumnus/alumna who epitomizes the true human rights lawyer by making a difference to the protection of human rights or the strengthening of democratization in Africa.
UPDATE: The Exploitation of Women and Children: A Comparative Study of Human Trafficking Laws between the United States-Mexico and China-Vietnam by Christina T. Le with assistance by Cathleen S. Creegan at http://www.nyulawglobal.org/Globalex/Human_Trafficking1.html.
Christina T. Le is a private attorney at an immigration law firm in Houston, Texas. She received her J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center and a B.S. in journalism from Northwestern University. Prior to entering private practice, she served as Attorney Advisor and Judicial Law Clerk to the U.S. Immigration Court in Houston. During law school, she worked with victims of human trafficking at the UH Law Center’s Immigration Clinic and at the non-profit organizations Boat People SOS and YMCA International Services.
Cathleen S. Creegan is a private attorney at an immigration law firm in Houston, Texas. She received her J.D. from the University of Oklahoma College of Law and a B.A. in journalism from the University of Oklahoma
UPDATE: A Guide on the Harmonization of International Commercial Law by Matthew Nowak at http://www.nyulawglobal.org/Globalex/Unification_Harmonization1.html.
Matthew Novak is an Associate Professor of Law Library and reference librarian at the Schmid Law Library of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Law. Prior to joining the Schmid Law Library, he was an Assistant Public Defender with the Missouri Public Defender System. He teaches courses which focus on foreign and international legal research. He received his B.A. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, his J.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Law, and his M.A. in Library Science from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
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