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On Thursday, 26 January, the International Association of Democratic Lawyers held its online launch event for the Monique and Roland Weyl People’s Academy of International Law, a new popular and legal education project that will begin its first classes on November 3, 2023.
The People’s Academy of International Law is a new initiative that aims to democratize and popularize the teaching of international law to lawyers, legal workers, law students and jurists in order to empower them to seize these international instruments and use them as tools in peoples’ struggles and the struggle for peoples’ rights.
The Academy will include comprehensive courses taught by experienced and distinguished faculty as well as a series of seminars focusing on specific issues in international law today.
The webinar (full video above and on YouTube) includes speakers:
- Marjorie Cohn, Founding Dean of the People’s Academy of International Law
- Jeanne Mirer, President of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers
- Jun Sasamoto, President of the Confederation of Lawyers of Asia and the Pacific (COLAP)
- Walid Okais, Droit Solidarite (France)
- and members of our distinguished Scientific Committee from around the world.
The Scientific Committee members are:
- Phyllis Bennis
Director, New Internationalism Project, Institute for Policy Studies - Neri Colmenares
Filipino human rights lawyer and activist,
formerly Senior Deputy Minority Leader of the 16th Congress of the Philippines - Radha D’Souza
Law professor, University of Westminster, London - Richard Falk
Professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University - Arturo Fournier Facio
Costa Rican lawyer and retired diplomat - Lennox Hinds
Professor Emeritus in the Program in Criminal Justice, Rutgers University
Permanent Representative of the IADL to the United Nations - Rashida Manjoo
Emeritus Professor at the University of Cape Town
Former United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women - Yoshiro Matsui
Emeritus Professor of International Law, Nagoya University - Luis Carlos Moro
Brazilian labor lawyer and professor; General Secretary of the American Association of Jurists - Willy Mutunga
Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Kenya - John Quigley
Professor of law at the Moritz College of Law at the Ohio State University - Natali Segovia
International human rights lawyer, Legal Director, Water Protector Legal Collective - Ashwini Sukthankar
International labor rights lawyer - Carlos Villan Duran
Professor of International Human Rights Law (University of Alcala) - Yamila Gonzalez Ferrer
Vice President, National Union of Jurists of Cuba - Raji Sourani
General Director, Palestinian Center for Human Rights