INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS CULTIVATING CITIZENS OF THE WORLD
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INTRODUCTION Bringing the World to Cincinnati Law At Cincinnati Law we are committed to a vision in which “[w]e strive to create a learning environment that inspires the pursuit of justice, cultivates diverse and innovative ideas about law in society, fosters collaborative relationships, and imparts the knowledge, values, and competencies needed to excel in a changing world.” Now more than ever we are obliged to educate students to enter a world where people are interconnected—beyond borders, across oceans, and with little regard for language barriers. Experience and exposure to people and places outside of our own neighborhood is critical. We give Cincinnati Law students opportunities to develop an expansive world view, to be the kind of professionals who are comfortable with cultures not their own, and to launch into the world willing to take it all on.
Verna Williams
–Verna Williams
Interim Dean, College of Law
LLM students hail from 23 countries
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GROWTH OF THE LLM PROGRAM The LLM Program, now in its fifth year, has successfully enrolled 50 attorneys from 23 countries including England, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, India, Uganda, Estonia, France, the Republic of Georgia, Ghana, the Philippines, Brazil and China. Graduates launch careers in New York and right here in Cincinnati. Others return to their home countries and practice or teach law. The LLM program is continually developing additional services and opportunities to make a full range of law school experiences available to students. Our students create a US style resume, practice interview techniques, and hone elevator speeches. LLMs are encouraged to network at events organized by Cincinnati Law. Thanks in large part to our International Advisory Council, we are able to connect LLM students with individual attorneys in the Cincinnati area for shadowing and one-on-one conversations about life as an attorney in Cincinnati. Like all current law students, LLM students have extensive opportunities to develop practical skills and gain work experience opportunities. LLM students are getting real-world exposure by enrolling in our legal clinics and externships.
INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS Cincinnati Law Partners with Colombian University In 2016, Cincinnati Law established a dual degree program with the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Javeriana University) in Bogotá, Colombia, a major milestone for the law school and the Cincinnati community. The agreement gives students from this elite private university the opportunity to spend the fifth year of their five-year Bachelor of Law program at Cincinnati Law, earning a master’s degree in the US Legal System. “We’re excited about this arrangement with Javeriana University, the first of its kind for the college,” says Wagner. “It allows Cincinnati Law to increase LLM representation from Latin America, introducing highly qualified emerging lawyers, who desire to launch a career in international business law, to the Cincinnati legal and business communities.” Additional partnerships are under development in Chile, France, Croatia, Austria, Uganda and Canada.
Top Left: LLM students in the classroom hearing from former Ohio Court of Appeals judge and UC Law Professor of Practice Emerita Marianna Brown Bettman. Top Right: U.S. and Colombia flag.
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Natia Mezvrishvili
Adèle Sentuc
Jane Nemirovska
LLM STUDENTS LEVERAGE INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE Our LLM students come with strong backgrounds as attorneys. They can take the knowledge they learn back to their home countries— teaching, working—or bring a global eye to their work in the U.S. Natia Mezvrishvili ’17 wants to bring two things back to her native country of Georgia when she finishes the LLM program: a better understanding of the US criminal justice system and new teaching methods for her own classroom. Prior to being selected as a Fulbright Scholar, Mezvrishvili spent most of the last decade working for the Chief Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia. She also taught classes in criminal law at several universities, including as an assistant professor at East European University in Tbilisi, Georgia. She hopes that her year-long program in Cincinnati will give her new insights and skills. “The US and Georgia criminal justice systems have a lot in common,” she says. Her country’s interrogation procedures, jury selection, plea bargaining, and more are based on the US system. “That’s why I’m here.” Adèle Sentuc ’16 says her interest in tackling international food-related issues informed her curriculum at Cincinnati Law, where she focused
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on Environmental Law, Intellectual Property and International Business Transactions. Since returning to Europe in July 2016, Sentuc has been utilizing the knowledge she’s gained in all three of these areas working in-house for a food-industry cooperative group called Vivescia, which manages the supply chain “from field to fork.” Vivescia is present in 24 countries and focuses on three main areas of food production: farming activities, food processing activities and research and development activities. Sentuc manages the company’s contracts in France and with their foreign subsidiaries. Jane Nemirovska ’16, a Ukrainian attorney, is particularly interested in domestic relations and estate planning, including property law, wills and estates, divorce and child support. “I see it as a perfect circle,” she says. You build the property; you build the family; you build the estate for your future.” Nemirovska believes that a lot of good can come from pro bono work, something that is unavailable in Ukraine. While an LLM student, she externed at the Legal Aid of Greater Cincinnati, working in the housing department. “My time at Legal Aid was eye-opening. It really helped me to understand American legal culture.”
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Albalawi received her LLB degree from King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Before joining Cincinnati Law, she was a teaching assistant at Aljouf University, Sakakah. Upon completion of her studies in the US, Albalawi plans to return to Saudi Arabia to become a lecturer in law.
Islam Albalawi Saudi Arabia
Born in Kuwait, Aldousari grew up in Saudi Arabia in a family where two brothers entered the law profession before him. He earned his LLB from Cairo University in Egypt. He hopes to work with multinational corporations that partner with humanitarian organizations.
Mubarak Aldousari Kuwait/Saudi Arabia/Egypt
Aldousari received his LLB from Cairo University in Egypt and attends Cincinnati Law alongside his brother, Mubarak. He has both his LLM and his Certificate in Fundamentals of US Law. He has participated in our Domestic Violence Clinic, and plans to pursue a PhD in law in the future. Turki Aldousari Kuwait/Saudi Arabia/Egypt
Alhoymel joins from Princess Noura University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. She has a special interest in business law, and hopes to become one of the growing number of female university lecturers in law when she returns to her home country.
Ibtehal Alhoymel Saudi Arabia
Almawishir comes to Cincinnati Law from Saudi Arabia and completed his law studies at the University of Jordan, Amman, where he interned with the Supreme Court and other organizations. He is a practicing lawyer in Saudi Arabia and plans to pursue his SJD in the US after his LLM. Abdulrahman Almawishir Saudi Arabia
Timothy Appiah Ghana/US
Appiah has lived in Ohio for several years, but is originally from Ghana, where he earned his LLB at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi. He has extensive experience working in the financial sector and has a special interest in disability rights law. He is the President and CEO of Global One Inc., which links entrepreneurs in Africa with investors in the US.
Rawan Alsaeed Saudi Arabia
Alsaeed obtained her LLB at King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where she graduated with honors. She is committed to making a difference in her community, and has volunteered extensively with various youth organizations, She received a medal of excellence for her volunteer work at KSU and is currently involved with our Domestic Violence Clinic. In the future, she hopes to start her own business.
Chapagain received her LLM from Cincinnati Law in 2016 and has returned for a second year to pursue a Certificate in Fundamentals of US Law. She received her LLB from Purbanchal University in Biratnagar, Nepal, during which she focused especially on women’s and children’s rights law. Anjana Chapagain Nepal
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Flavia Ibyara Uganda
Ibyara earned her LLB from Uganda Christian University in Mukono, where she was President of the Human Rights Association and participated in The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award at the Inter-University Human Rights Competition. She has a special interest in international human rights law and plans to pursue her SJD in the future. Ahmed Khodir Egypt/US
Mezvrishvili is a Fulbright Foreign Student grantee from Georgia, She graduated with an LLB and Masters in Law from Tbilisi State University law school. She heads the Department of Supervision over Prosecutorial Activities and Strategic Development in Georgia’s Chief Prosecutor’s Office and is currently involved with Cincinnati Law’s Domestic Natia Mezvrishvili Violence Clinic.
Republic of Georgia
Sarah Sijelmassi France
Franklin Uwizera Uganda
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Khodir has been a Kentucky resident for some time. He obtained his LLB from Alexandria University and studied international commercial law at the Lyon Law School in France. He has experience as corporate lawyer in Alexandria, and hopes to practice law in the US in the future.
Sijelmassi earned her LLM in 2016 and returned for her Certificate in Fundamentals of US Law. She earned an LLB in business law at the Université Toulouse 1 Capitole law school and a master’s in Intellectual Property Law from the Université de Montpellier, France. In addition to intellectual property, she has a special interest in copyright and patent law.
Uwizera, from Kampala, Uganda, earned his LLB at Uganda Christian University. Known for his skills as an orator, his team twice won the Ugandan national moot court competition and represented Uganda in international rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in Washington, DC. His special interests include international arbitration, commercial and intellectual property law.
Belinda is a practicing lawyer in her home country of Uganda, and holds an LLB from Makerere University in Kampala, where she graduated with honors. She also holds a postgraduate diploma in legal practice. At home, she is currently working as a legal assistant at a private law firm. Belinda is especially interested in corporate law. Belinda Seruhere Uganda
Aradhana Singh India
Singh obtained her LLB from University Law College, Utkal University, in Bhubaneswar, India. She has interned with the Orissa High Court, as well as with the Orissa Information Commission and the Orissa Human Rights Commission. She is a participant in Cincinnati Law’s Entrepreneurship and Community Development Clinic.
Verro, a long time Cincinnati resident, comes to Cincinnati Law by way of Estonia and England. Born in Estonia, she earned her LLB from the University of Leicester and her LLM in International Human Rights at Birmingham City University. Her special interests include human rights, environmental and immigration law. Valeria Verro Estonia/UK
LLM CLASS Wang, from China, received a Bachelor’s degree in English from Xiamen University and a Master’s of Public Administration with a concentration in Human Resources Management. She earned her LLB from East China University of Political Science and Law in Shanghai, where she focused on administrative law. Jenny Wang China/US
Christine Wu China
Cora Wray The Philippines/US
Wray is a long time Cincinnati resident and a legal professional at the Procter & Gamble Company. Originally from the Philippines, she obtained both a Bachelor of Commerce and an LLB from Xavier UniversityAteneo de Cagayan, in Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines. Before joining P&G, she was an Assistant Professor at Xavier University, where she lectured in maritime law, marketing and management.
Wu, a Cincinnati resident originally from China, earned her LLB at Beijing Forestry University and participated in their legal aid center. Her most recent position was working as an investigator at the Copyright Protection Center of China. She also worked with a legal aid team that provides legal assistance to female prisoners at Beijing Women’s Prison. She is particularly interested in commercial law.
LLM student Mubarak Aldousari takes the bench during a visit to Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Jody M. Luebber’s courtroom to learn about the US court system
Visit with attorneys at P&G
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STUDY ABROAD PROGRAM Hong Kong—In March 2017, John Pinney, adjunct professor and partner at Graydon Head & Ritchey LLP, led a team of UC Law students to compete “against the world” in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot. A team consisting of three 3Ls, three 2Ls, and two LLM attorney students researched and prepared
written memoranda supporting each side of a hypothetical commercial dispute. Four students traveled with Professor Pinney to Hong Kong for oral arguments. While in Hong Kong, the team members networked with and competed against students from every continent.
LEGAL JOURNALS The internationally recognized annual law journal Immigration and Nationality Law Review is one of only two major student-edited American law journals focusing on immigration law. The journal is supervised by Brad Mank, the James B. Helmer, Jr. Professor of Law and Yolanda Vazquez, Associate Professor, each semester. The Human Rights Quarterly, which has a worldwide audience, covers the range of human rights matters encompassed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. With its more than 30 years and nearly a thousand articles and book reviews, the Quarterly is represented—by its audience and authors—on every part of the globe. It is edited by the student fellows of the Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights. 8 CINCINNATI LAW
URBAN MORGAN INSTITUTE Bert Lockwood, Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Director of the Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights, continues his 35-plus year tradition of recruiting top-tier law students as Urban Morgan Fellows and placing students in prestigious human rights law internships around the world. Over 64 Cincinnati Law students serve on the editorial staff of the Human Rights Quarterly, Students enjoy the longstanding tradition of hosting “Distinguished Visitors” for dinner discus- a multi-disciplinary academic journal widely acknowledged as the leading journal in the field. sions about their life and their work as human rights activists. Students also have the opportunity to work with Bert Lockwood, Professor and CLASS OF 2019 Director of the Institute, and Nancy Ent, Program URBAN MORGAN FELLOWS Manager, to tap into the Institute’s vast network Monica Murphy worked as a high school of contacts to complete legal internships in Eusocial studies teacher for eight years, then rope, Africa, South America, Asia and the US. For shifted her focus to the social service sector example, in the summer of 2015, 12 students and worked as the Shelter Coordinator for gained legal work experience through Urban Churches Active in Northside. Morgan Institute internships in places as far In 2015 the Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights celebrated 35 years of educating human rights lawyers who promote and protect human rights around the world. The center piece of the Institute’s success is the Human Rights Quarterly (HRQ), which is recognized as the leading academic journal in the human rights field. In addition to the HRQ, the Institute offers many opportunities, both inside the classroom and beyond, for students who are interested in international law and human rights.
flung as the Botswana Ministry of Education and Skills Development, The Netherlands Institute of Human Rights, The Irish Centre for Human Rights, the Human Rights Clinic at the University of Essex, and Dejusticia in Colombia.
Ronique Padda graduated from Gonzaga University summa cum laude and has experience in human rights and government advocacy. Megan Powley is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Akron who completed an Honors thesis titled “Life Histories of Refugees from Burma in Akron, Ohio.” Brittany Triggs graduated from the University of Evansville with a double major in International Studies and Spanish. She has worked with immigrants in a variety of settings, including through Americorps.
Bert Lockwood in Mukono with UC Vice Provost for International Affairs Raj Mehta, LLM alumnus Professor Arnold Agaba, and the Uganda Christian University law school’s Dean Anthony Kakooza.
Natalia Trotter earned a Master of Science in Criminology from Florida State University, where she conducted a qualitative research study titled “The Prevention of Human Trafficking and Care of Victims: NonGovernmental Organizations in Three Mexican Cities.” She also completed an internship with the International Justice Mission in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
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Galway, Ireland
Gaborone, Botswana
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The Hague, the Netherlands
Durban, South Africa
SUMMER 2016 HUMAN RIGHTS INTERNSHIPS Kristen Elia Irish Centre for Human Rights Galway, Ireland Responsibilities • Worked for Professor Aoife Duffy, Human Rights Lecturer at the Centre • Edited two chapters of Duffy’s book on detention without trial in the United Kingdom • Looked at how international human rights law “remembers” and interprets violent events in history through its depiction of violence in UN treaties • Read through UN treaties to aggregate references to: violence, genocide, atrocities, war, war crimes/criminals, etc.
Musah Abubakar Ministry of Education and Skills Development Gaborone, Botswana Responsibilities • Reviewed contracts • Conducted legal research • Provided legal recommendations • Participated in negotiation proceedings • Drafted briefs, pleadings and motions • Served on call
Kathleen Norris Special Tribunal for Lebanon The Hague, the Netherlands Responsibilities • Served in Court Management Services section • Worked for Legacy Project for Lebanon • Wrote memos and honed writing skills • Practiced reading/writing in French/Arabic • Attended court • Developed statistical/analysis skills • Visited other tribunals/ICC • Had access to lawyers in defense, prosecution, and victims’ participants units
Petra Ingerson Bergman Special Tribunal for Lebanon The Hague, the Netherlands Responsibilities • Worked in the Court Management Services section, which acts within the Registry organ of the Tribunal • Researched and drafted a memo on a novel legal problem • Catalogued and audited the Tribunal’s legacy archiving project that will pass to the Lebanese government • Formatted the Presiding Judge’s Oral Orders project
Luke Woolman International Criminal Court The Hague, the Netherlands Responsibilities • Provided legal advice and interpretation to legal officers and judges in the Chambers • Conducted legal research and analysis on questions of international criminal law, public international law, international humanitarian law, and human rights law • Prepared and provided legal memoranda for legal officers and judges • Wrote summaries of Court submissions and decisions
Emily Roberts Legal Resources Centre Durban, South Africa Responsibilities • Made field visits/client interviews • Led workshops • Attended government meetings for ongoing land rights’ case • Worked with Association for the Advancement of Rural Development (AFRA—NGO) • Conducted legal research—case law and argument formation/support • Reviewed fact portions of complaints • Compiled interview data and case files
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PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS Cincinnati Law Professors are actively engaging in the international field. Here’s s sample of recent activities: Professor Lynn Bai
Professor Bai delivered a series of lectures on U.S. business law topics to students of the University of Lorraine in Nancy, France, in March, 2017.
Jennifer Bergeron
Professor Bergeron delivered a lecture on the innocence movement at the University of Graz, Austria, in March 2017.
Professor Felix Chang’s article, Asymme-
tries in the Generation and Transmission of Wealth, was selected for publication in The Ohio State Law Journal and for a presentation at the 2017 AALS Conference by the Trusts and Estates Section.
Professor Jacob Cogan • Panelist, “The Future of International Organization,” New York City Bar Association, March 10, 2017. • Presented “Financing and Budgets of International Organizations,” at the University of Minnesota Law School International Law Colloquium, April 6, 2017. • Appointed Co-Chair of the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law. • Attended the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law. • Professor Jacob Katz Cogan had several publications, including The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations (Oxford University Press 2016) (co-edited with Ian Hurd and Ian Johnstone). • Professor Cogan also published the Preface to The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations (co-authored with Ian
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Hurd and Ian Johnstone) and Financing and Budgets, in The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations. • Professor Cogan completed International Organizations, in Concepts for International Law–Contributions to Disciplinary Thought (Jean d’Aspremont & Sahib Singh eds., Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming 2017). • Professor Cogan is the recipient of the Harold C. Schott Scholarship Award, which recognizes outstanding research and scholarly achievement by a member of the faculty of the University of Cincinnati College of Law. • He delivered the keynote address at a workshop on International/EU Law Scholarship and Teaching Facing Digital Technologies and Innovative Approaches, at the Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza Roma Tre on December 5, 2016. • Professor Cogan published the following blog post: A Role for the Security Council on Defensive Force? (with Monica Hakimi), EJIL Talk! (October 21, 2016). From September through November, more than 350 blog posts were published at the International Law Reporter blog. • Professor Jacob Katz Cogan’s article, The Two Codes on the Use of Force, 27 European Journal of International Law 257 (2016) (with Monica Hakimi), was published on July 26, 2016. • Professor Cogan’s case note, Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area; Construction of a Road in Costa Rica Along the San Juan River, is now in print at 110 American Journal of International Law 320 (2016).
Professor Mark Godsey
Professor Mark Godsey spoke at the European Innocence Conference in Prague on June 16–17, 2016. He spoke at the conference as the only non-European that has been invited to be on the EIN board. Godsey’s talk was titled: “The Global Innocence Movement, and What We Can Learn From Across National Borders.” The Ohio Innocence Project hosted barrister Niamh Hoare of the Irish Bar Association for summer 2017.
Professor Kristen Kalsem was an invited speaker by the Centre for Social Justice and Community Action at the University of Durham in England on June 30, 2016. Professor Kalsem’s presentation was titled, “Legal Participatory Action Research: Community Approaches to Legal Issues.”
VISITING SCHOLARS Yuan (Hannah) Gao came to us from the Southwest University of Political Science in Chongqing, China. Her research compared the prevention of international financial crimes under U.S. and Chinese law. She worked with Professor Armstrong and Professor Felix Chang. Jianxu Chen came from the Police Training School of the Shenzhen Security Bureau in Shenzhen, China. His research focused on criminal procedure and the court testimony of police. He worked with Mark Godsey. Additionally, his research was funded by the prestigious Chinese Scholarship Council.
Professor Bert Lockwood participated
in a meeting of the Association of Human Rights Institutes in Utrecht, The Netherlands, on September 1–3, 2016. Professor Lockwood serves as the Series Editor for the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Since 1982 he has been Editor in Chief of the Human Rights Quarterly, a multidisciplinary academic journal published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Professor Lockwood has been involved in international human rights for over 40 years.
Dean Emeritus and Professor Joseph P. Tomain presented Clean Power Policy in the United Sates for the ECPR Standing Group on Regulatory Governance at Tilburg University Law School, Tilburg, Netherlands on July 7, 2016.
Dean Emeritus Tomain was appointed
to the Board of Editors for Laws, an international, scholarly, open access journal of legal systems, theory, and institutions, and is published quarterly online by MDPI.
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WORK THAT MAKES AN INTERNATIONAL IMPACT Terry Coonan (’95) practiced immigration and human rights law for two decades. He is the founding executive director of the interdisciplinary Center for the Advancement of Human Rights at Florida State University, where he is also an Associate Professor of Criminology and Law. Under his direction, the Center has done leading national work on human trafficking, and offers pro bono legal assistance to asylum seekers, survivors of torture, and victims of trafficking. Prior to law school, Coonan was part of grassroots human rights work with survivors of torture in Pinochet’s Chile under the auspices of the Catholic Church. Sapphire Diamant-Rink (’11) practices federal Indian law for the U.S. Department of the Interior in the Office of the Solicitor and advises the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the state of California. She is responsible for advising the bureau on issues involving the 105 federally recognized tribes in California. Her focus is on tribal government and tribal enrollment, although she handles a variety of Indian law matters, all of which implicate human rights issues. Michael Heflin (’90) is the Director of Equality for Open Society Foundation’s Human Rights Initiative. He joined OSF in 2009 to launch a global grant making initiative on LGBT rights. Janine Kossen (’79) is the Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer for Women’s Protection and Empowerment at the International Rescue Committee. She uses policy and advocacy strategies to design, support, and lead initiatives aimed at creating lasting and transformational change for women and girls who have experienced sexual and gender-based violence in crisis-affected countries and humanitarian emergencies. Her policy work over the past decade has been directly influenced and shaped by her experiences in the field, first as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mauritania, West Africa, and more recently as a policy consultant, advisor and trainer for youth activists in the global south. 14 CINCINNATI LAW
Lindsey Wilkes (’12) began an immigration law firm in Washington D.C., Kayi & Wilkes PLLC. While the firm represents clients in all immigration matters, they specialize in asylum law. Wilkes and her law firm partner also serve as the volunteer co-directors of the Pro Bono Asylum Program (PBAP) at the Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition, a non-profit organization that provides legal and social services to survivors of torture with the goal of healing, obtaining asylum and rebuilding their lives in the US While at Cincinnati Law, she represented survivors of domestic violence in court, interned at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. She also worked on multiple international human rights cases and civil rights cases during her time with Schonbrun, DeSimone, Seplow, Harris & Hoffman.
INTERNATIONAL LAW COURSES In addition to opportunities abroad, Cincinnati Law provides a range of courses examining various aspects of international law. • Crimmigration – taught by Yolanda Vazquez, Associate Professor (fall 2014 and spring 2016) • Current Problems in International Women’s Human Rights – taught by Beth Mandel,
Attorney, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP (fall of 2014)
• Human Rights Seminar – taught by Bert Lockwood, Distinguished Service Professor of Law
and Director, Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights (spring 2015, fall 2016)
• Human Rights Seminar: The Human Rights City – taught by Bert Lockwood, Distinguished
Service Professor of Law and Director, Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights (spring 2016)
• Immigration Law and Policy – taught by Marilyn Zayas-Davis, sole practitioner
(spring 2016)
• International Business Transactions – taught by Jacob Cogan, the Judge Joseph P.
Kinneary Professor of Law (spring 2015, 2016, 2017)
• Public International Law – taught by Jacob Cogan, the Judge Joseph P. Kinneary Professor
of Law (spring 2016)
• International Commercial Arbitration – taught by John Pinney, Partner, Graydon Head &
Ritchey LLP (spring 2015 and fall 2015, 2016)
• International Tax – taught by Jacob Cogan, the Judge Joseph P. Kinneary Professor of Law
(spring 2015, 2017)
• Islamic Law - taught by Fatemeh Hajihosseini, PhD (spring 2015) • Practical Applications of Immigration Law Topics – taught by Maria Schneider, Associate
Attorney, Musillo Unkenholt (spring 2016)
• Children and War – taught by Erica Hall, Senior Child Rights Policy Advisor, World Vision UK
(spring 2017)
• Advanced Problems in Human Rights: Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights – taught
by Bert Lockwood, Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Director, Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights (spring 2017)
• Immigration Law Seminar –taught by Nancy Ota, Visiting Professor (spring 2017) • International Intellectual Property – taught by Tim Armstrong, Professor of Law
(spring 2017)
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