Professor Bill Ong Hing was part of a panel discussion on immigration reform that took place as part of the 2009 Advancing Justice Conference in Los Angeles October 29-30.
Professor Bill Ong Hing commented for a news report published on the website of Bay Area television station KPIX on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors' recent approval of a measure that would keep law enforcement from turning over minors to immigration authorities unless they have been found guilty of a felony.
Professor Diane Marie Amann commented for the Tennessean on the United States' extradition agreements with Costa Rica and other Latin American nations for an article reporting on the murder charges against a Costa Rican-born U.S. citizen who is believed to have fled to Costa Rica.
Professor Diane Marie Amann commented on the trial of Radovan Karadzic, former president of Bosnia's Republika Srpska, for an article published by Institute of War & Peace Reporting.
Monika Kalra Varma '00, Director of Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights (RFK Center), spoke on RFK Center initiatives, the organization's partnership with the California International Law Center at King Hall (CILC), and her career as a human rights advocate in the King Hall Moot Courtroom on October 26.
Jess Bravin, who covers the U.S. Supreme Court and issues related to counterterrorism for the Wall Street Journal, answered questions on the Court and his career in journalism for an audience of King Hall faculty, students, and staff in the Moot Courtroom on October 29.
Dean Kevin R. Johnson's lecture on "Opening the Floodgates: Why America Needs to Rethink Its Border and Immigration Laws," presented at Clark University in Massachusetts on September 24, is now available for viewing online from the Clark University website.
Professor Peter Lee recently presented his paper "Patent Law and the Two Cultures" at the Works In Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium at Seton Hall University School of Law.
