New York: The Attack on China’s Rights Defense Lawyers and Implications for the Legal Profession

 
The Attack on China’s Rights Defense Lawyers and Implications for the Legal Profession

Tuesday, September 15 from 5-7pm

Fordham Law School, Bateman Room (2-01B)
150 West 62nd Street, New York City

The Committee to Support Chinese Lawyers and the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice invite you to a panel discussion on Tuesday, September 15 from 5-7pm to discuss challenges faced by Chinese rights defense lawyers and implications for China’s broader legal profession. The Committee to Support Chinese Lawyers will also launch its new report on China’s growing professional community of public interest and human rights lawyers.

Panelists:

Jerome Cohen (moderator), Professor of Law at New York University School of Law and Senior Fellow for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations

Liu Wei (??), veteran human rights lawyer and co-founder of the Public Interest Collaborative Network for Women Lawyers in China

Teng Biao (??), veteran human rights lawyer and visiting fellow at New York University’s U.S.-Asia Law Institute

Tom Kellogg, Director of the East Asia Program at the Open Society Foundations and Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School

Elisabeth Wickeri, Executive Director of the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice and the Committee to Support Chinese Lawyers

Please RSVP to LeitnerCenter@law.fordham.edu

Photo credit: Tim Sheerman-Chase/Creative Commons

Committee to Support Chinese Lawyers
Leitner Center for International Law and Justice
150 W. 62nd Street, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10023
(212) 636-6862
LeitnerCenter@law.fordham.edu
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