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Law School Hosts Symposium on Human Rights and Legal Judgments

September 26, 2016

Scholars visited The University of Alabama School of Law for Human Rights and Legal Judgments: The American Story Symposium.
The conference brought together scholars to track the various ways that American law recognizes and responds to claims made in the name of human rights as well as the way they are treated in political and cultural discourse.
The symposium featured:
William Brewbaker, The University of Alabama School of Law
Erika George, S. J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah
Stephen A. Simon, University of Richmond, Political Science
David Sloss, Santa Clara University School of Law
Cynthia Soohoo, CUNY School of Law


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