Greetings and salutations from Athens, GA!
My name is Russell James Edwards, and I write to invite you to visit the University of Georgia School of Law for a weekend of exciting public interest events.
The Working in the Public Interest (WIPI) Conference is a two-day, student-organized conference held in Athens, GA, bringing together students, professors, practitioners, and others to discuss ways the law can function in the public interest. This year's conference will be Friday, Feb. 27th, and Saturday, Feb. 28th. The conference opens Friday evening with keynote speaker Mary Bauer of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Immigration Project followed by an awards ceremony to celebrate outstanding achievements by practitioners and students in the public interest. Friday's activities then move to a reception in eclectic, downtown Athens with food and drink.
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The Conference begins on Saturday morning, Feb. 28th, with a plenary titled Human Rights in the Southeast, featuring David C. Fathi of Human Rights Watch and Ajamu Baraka of U.S. Human Rights Network. Conference attendees then have 6 panel discussions and several lunch roundtables to choose from. Legal practitioners may earn 10 CLE credits by attending this conference!
This year's panel topics are:
Throwing Away Our Youth: Harsh Sentencing of Juvenile Offenders,
The Problem of Eyewitness Testimony in Capital Cases,
Combating Economic Disparity with Civic Engagement,
An Examination of the Health Law Partnership: A Community-based Collaborative of Lawyers, Health Care Providers and Law Students,
LGBT Persons: The Fight for the Right to Marry,
A Modern Form of Slavery: The Prevalence of Sex Trafficking and the Sexual Exploitation of Minors Nationally and Locally.
Please visit this web address to find more information and details concerning conference registration: http://www.law.uga.edu/...
It is free for students and faculty!
Also, please comment with any questions you might have regarding the 4th Annual Working in the Public Interest Conference or if you are interested in supporting UGA Law's public interest community in another capacity.
Thanks for your consideration, and I sincerely hope you will join us. We depend on the support of the community for our success!
~cheers,
Russell