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A Special Meeting at the New York City Bar Association: What Should the Legal Community Do About the Arrest of Chinese Lawyers?

Date: 2011-04-20

The Committee to Support Chinese Lawyers is co-sponsoring a Special Meeting on “What Should the Legal Community Do About the Arrest of Chinese Lawyers?” at the New York City Bar Association. The event is on April 20, from noon to 2PM.  This meeting will explore what further steps the U.S. legal community should take in response to this continuing threat to the professional independence of lawyers and the rule of law in China.

Dear All,

The Committee to Support Chinese Lawyers is co-sponsoring a Special Meeting on “What Should the Legal Community Do About the Arrest of Chinese Lawyers?” at the New York City Bar Association. The event is on April 20, from noon to 2PM.  This meeting will explore what further steps the U.S. legal community should take in response to this continuing threat to the professional independence of lawyers and the rule of law in China.

Moderator:
Stephen L. Kass, Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP

Speakers:
Jerome A. Cohen, NYU School of Law; Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Hualing Fu, Professor of Law, Hong Kong University
Phelim Kine, Human Rights Watch
Scott Greathead, Wiggin & Dana; Committee to Support Chinese Lawyers

Sponsored by:
Committee on International Human Rights, Stephen L. Kass, Chair; Council on International Affairs, Mark R. Shulman, Chair; NYU’s US-Asia Law Institute; Leitner Center for International Law and Justice, Committee to Support Chinese Lawyers

I hope that you will be able to join us for the discussion on what the legal community in New York and elsewhere can and should do about the continuing arrests, detentions and disappearances of Chinese lawyers since February 2011.

Best regards,

Committee to Support Chinese Lawyers