Please join us as five Pitt Law LLM students discuss the legal systems and related issues and developments in their home countries:
Bashir Alghussein (Palestine)
Rafal Jasim (Iraq)
Nevena Jevremovic (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
James Ochieng (Kenya)
Yevhenii Shatskyi (Ukraine)
Students selected for the International Career Toolkit Series trip to Washington D.C. are required to attend a one-hour session on creating a 30-second elevator speech. This is an important skill to develop and will be utilized during the trip. Any student is welcome to participate, regardless if they are going on the Washington DC networking trip.
We eagerly seeking your feedback on how we can strengthen Pitt's commitment to international education and expand our global reach.
The University has recently developed the Plan for Pitt: Making a Difference Together, Academic Years 2016-2020. The University Center for International Studies (UCIS) has been tasked with engaging the Pitt community in conversations on how we might align a university-wide global plan with strategies and objectives identified in the Strategic Plan for Pitt.
Cody Corliss is a war crimes prosecutor at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) where he is part of trial team prosecuting Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity, and violations of the laws and customs of war. Mr. Corliss is an expert on international truth commissions and his work has appeared in magazines, newspapers, and legal journals throughout the United States.
This international conference will address international and cross-disciplinary perspectives on prolonged solitary confinement. It will bring together leading legal academics, UN officials, social and political scientists, prison experts, prison managers in Europe and the United States, psychologists, neuroscientists, former prisoners and activists from around the world to discuss the legality, advisability, history, and alternatives to solitary confinement.
Cody Corliss is a war crimes prosecutor at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) where he is part of trial team prosecuting Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity, and violations of the laws and customs of war. Mr. Corliss is an expert on international truth commissions and his work has appeared in magazines, newspapers, and legal journals throughout the United States.
Linda Seligmann’s recent Broken Links, Enduring Ties: American Adoption Across Race, Class, and Nation compares the meanings that adoptive parents in the US attribute to race and nation and considers how children respond. Her research includes interviews with children as well as memoirs and films by adopted adults. She reveals the shifting cultural patterns and stubborn global forces that shape the quest to know who we are, where we belong, and with whom. For more information contact Marianne Novy, mnovy@pitt.edu.
Dr. Paul B. Stares will discuss the following questions: Why does the United States need to make preventive action the centerpiece of a new securitystrategy?How would such a strategy be implemented? What kinds of reforms would be needed for the United States to carry out a preventive strategy?
