Below is a list of many of the Public Interest Programs at YLS for the 2006-2007 year. These programs were sponsored by a variety of law school entities. For a complete list of these programs, including the speakers, please check the Master Calendar on the YLS web site.
Public Interest Programs
2006 - 200710th Annual Liman Public Interest Colloquium Programs
Address by Newark Mayor Cory Booker (YLS ’97).
An Urban Mayor's Perspective on Public Interest Advocacy
Celebrating and Reflecting on the Liman Infrastructure
Creating Opportunities to Generate New Forms of Public Interest Advocacy
Lives at Work/Working Lives
Practice, Methods, and Institutions
Public Interest Law in Practice
Reflections on Public Interest Lives
13th Annual Rebellious Lawyering Conference Programs
Anarchist Lawyering
Animals, Factory Farming, and the Law
Can Government Employees Still Speak Freely?
Courts as Forums for Protest
Defending the Indefensible
Eco-Sabotage and the War on Terror
Human Rights in America and the Role of Lawyers Within Movements
Increasing Access to Medicines: Local to International Strategies
Institutional Racism and the Suburban Landscape
Intelligent Design Meets the First Amendment: A Report on the Landmark Case of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District
International Disability Rights: Emerging Issues Abroad
Making Markets Work: Improving Access to Credit in Low-Income Communities
Mobilizing for School Integration
On the Fence:The Intersection of Labor Trafficking and Immigration Control Policies in the U.S.
The Path to Employment Protections for LGBT Individuals
Puerto Rico's Status: Strategies for Change
Where Is the Popular Movement Against Torture?
Yale Sustainable Food Project
American Constitution Society's Programs
Fighting Local Anti-Immigrant Ordinances: The Case of Hazelton, PA
States in Defense of the Planet: Climate Change and the Courts
What must the new Congress accomplish - and what stands in their way?
Universal Healthcare Panel
The New Politics of Abortion: The Woman-Protective Antiabortion Argument in South Dakota and Beyond
Voting Rights and Political Participation: What are the greatest concerns in this election and in Election 2008?
Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution goes wrong (and how We the People can correct it)
Career Development Office Programs
1L Introduction to Public Interest Careers: Developing a Three Year Game Plan
Being a Public Defender
Consider Being a White House Fellow
Developing a Project-Based Fellowship Proposal
Financing Your Summer Public Interest Job
FIP & Beyond: 2L / 3L Public Interest Job Search
How Should I Live My Life as a Lawyer?
Making a Success of Your Summer Public Interest Job
Next Steps for the 3L Public Interest Job Search
Nuts & Bolts of EJW Fellowships
NYU Public Interest Career Fair Information Session
Outlaws Discuss Summer Jobs
Public Interest Career Fair
Public Interest Celebration
Public Interest Fellowships: Getting Started
Public Interest Law Firms
Public Interest Lawyering: Conversation with the Dean
Skadden Fellowships: A Conversation with Susan Butler Plum
U.S. Based Careers in International Public Interest Law
Understanding COAP
Working for State & City Government
Working for the CIA
Working for the DOJ
Working for the State Department
Working in Civil Rights
Working in Criminal Prosecution
Working in Politics
YLS Fellowships: Bernstein, Heyman, Liman
Career Development Office - Mentors In Residence
Brian Kreiswirth ’99, Civil Rights Bureau, NY State Attorney General’s Office
Charles Brower, 20 Essex Street
Doug Smith ’86, Van Ness Feldman
Edward Chang, U.S. Attorney’s Office, CT
Emily Martin ’98, ACLU Women’s Rights Project
Hilary Meltzer ’92, Senior Counsel, Environmental Law Division of NYC Law Department
Jennifer Tschirch, Senior Program Manager, EJW Fellowships
Jonathan Hafetz ’99, Litigation Director, Liberty & National Security Project, Brennan Center for Justice
Julie Becker ’99, Legal Aid of D.C.
Karen Hudes ’76, World Bank Legal Department
Kathleen Morris, Deputy City Attorney of San Francisco
Linda Ricci ’94, U.S. Attorney’s Office, MA
Lisa Powell ’03, Bredhoff & Kaiser
Marco Simons ’01, EarthRights International
Pardiss Kebriaei, Center for Reproductive Rights, International Litigation
Rahul Kale, Manhattan District Attorney’s Office
Sarah Rosen Wartell ’88, Executive VP for Management & General Counsel, Center for American Progress
Spencer Freedman ’00, Beldock, Levine & Hoffman, soon to be NY State Division of Human Rights
Susan Butler Plum, Executive Director- Skadden Fellowships Foundation
Zachary Richter ’03, US DOJ Civil Division
China Law Center
Asking the Tiger For His Skin: Rights Activism in China
Campus and the Courts: Legal Approaches to Academic Freedom and University Autonomy in China
China: Emerging Prospects and Challenges
China: Lost in Transition
China, U.S. Tort Law Workshop
China, the WTO and Globalization
China’s Law Enforcement System and its Impact on Prospects for Rule by Law
China's Rise: Implications for US-China Relations
China’s 30 Years of Boom and Bust, Privilege Meets Productivity
Chinese Lawyers: Past, Present and Future?
Cross-border Privacy Regulation in China
Death Penalty Reforms in China
Diversity, Equality and Harmony: International Workshop on Sexuality, Policy and Law
From Comrade to Citizen: the Struggle for Political Rights in China
Hu’s Choice: Populism or Constitutionalism?
Imagining Gay law in China
International Workshop on “Legalizing Central-Local Relations”
International Workshop on the Legislature, Budget Supervision, and Public Finance
International Workshop on Water Conservation
Judges Becoming Judges? Judicial Innovation in China
Judicial Reforms in China
Legal Reform in China
Managing Social Conflict in China: The Role of Law
The Myth of Prosecuted Lawyers
Open Government in a Closed Political System? The Development of Public Participation in Chinese Government Rulemaking
Public Interest Law in China: the Role of Non-Profit Organizations
Recent Developments in Administrative Law in China
Regulation of the Media in China
Rightful Resistance in China
Roundtable on Drug Law and Policy
Using a Law for a Righteous Purpose: The Sun Zhigang Incident and Evolving Forms of
Citizen Action in the People’s Republic of China
Women, Gender, and Sexuality: Understanding Equality Issues in China
Dean's Office Programs
“Colored Men" and "Hombres Aqui" Hernandez v. Texas & the Emergence of Mexican American Lawyering
Freeing Scientific Culture: The Fight to Provide Public Access to Results the Public Finances
How the Law Affects Contemporaray Cancer Research: A Personal View Panel on Darfur
President the International Court of Justice, Rosalyn Higgins
Teaching Human Rights & Multiple Legal Systems
The Law Firm, Government, and In-House Perspective
The Political Representative as Powerful Stranger: Challenges for Democracy
The Red & The Black: Culture, Anti-Discrimination & Human Rights
The Rwanda Media Genocide Appeal: When is Journalist Guilty of Genocide?
Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights Programs
Cambodia Khmer Rouge Trials: Ownership of Justice
Can the Emerging Global Administrative Law Improve Accountability? How Much Use Is That?
China, Technology, and Human Rights: Exploring the Rise of Online Activism, the Role of International IT Companies, and U.S. Government Initiatives
China's Growing Global Role: Looking at the PRC's Engagement with Africa; Trevor Paglen
Contemporary Transitional Justice Experiences: From Iraq, Uganda, Columbia and Beyond
Defending Rights Through Law in China: Progress and Challenges
Enforcing International Law in U.S. Death Penalty Cases: From the Hague to Houston
Evolving International Standards on the Detention of Suspected Terrorists: Finding a
Middle Ground Between the Secret Prison and the Criminal Court
Extraordinary Crimes at Ordinary Times: International Justice Beyond Crisis Situations
Fairness to Rightness: Jurisdiction, Legality, and the Legitimacy of International Criminal Law
How to Write the Historical Origins of Human Rights
Human Rights vs. Jus in Bello: Law in Denial or Law in Command?
Intellectual Property Rights and Access to Essential Medicines
Law and the Failures of the Lebanese Cedar Revolution
Lawyering for Human Rights in Washington: The Case of the Military Commissions Act
Legal Pluralism and Property in Latin America
Norm Change on the Right to Health: HIV/AIDS in Africa
On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights: Dark Spaces, Disappeared People, and the War on Terror
Prohibiting the Employment of Undocumented Workers: The Experiment Fails
Protecting Iraqi Refugees: See No Evil, Hear No Evil?
Robert L. Bernstein International Human Rights Symposium
Scapegoating the Vulnerable: Preventive Detention of Immigrants in America’s ‘War on Terror’
Speech Before Genocide: Protected Right or Heinous Crime?
Supporting Local Responses to the Aftermath of Violent Conflict: The Work of the International Center for Transitional Justice
The Implications of the Mexican Presidential Election for Latin America and the United States
The Law of Historical Films: In the Aftermath of Jenin-Jenin
The Right to Political Participation in South Africa
Timap [Stand up] for Justice Sierra Leone: Developing a Model for Advancing Justice in Post-Conflict West Africa
Using Video for Change: WITNESS' Model for Human Rights Advocacy
Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center’s Co-sponsored Events
500 Bereaved Palestinian and Israel Families Work Together for Peace
Access to HIV/AIDS Treatment in Africa
Alternatives to Violence in the Middle East
Debate Forum on Road Development in the Amazon
International Responses to Darfur
Justice in the Mirror: Law, Culture, and the Making of History
Public Interest Films & Showings
An Inconvenient Truth
Defending Our Lives
Ethics in Clinical Practice
Every Mother's Son
Ghosts of Rwanda
Head On
Late Summer Blues (Israel)
Lost Boys of Sudan
New Year Baby
Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story
S21: Khmer Rouge Killing Machine
Shaking Hands with the Devil, The Journey of Romeo Dallaire
The Law of Historical Films: In the Aftermath of Jenin-Jenin
The Refugee All Stars
To Live (China)
Videoconference on Western-Islamic Relations
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts - Part I & II