Joint Program of the Sections For the Law School Dean, Graduate Programs for Foreign Lawyers, and Post Graduate Legal Education

Association of American Law Schools
2001 Annual Meeting
Wednesday, January 3, 2001 - Saturday, January 6, 2001
San Francisco, California

Wednesday, January 3, 2001
2:00-3:45 p.m.

Continental Parlor 7
Hilton San Francisco and Towers
Ballroom Level

Kent D. Syverud, Vanderbilt University, and Chair, Section for the Law School Dean
Toni M. Fine, Yeshiva University, and Chair, Section on Graduate Programs for Foreign Lawyers
Mark A. Rothstein, University of Louisville, and Chair, Section on Post Graduate Legal Education
Claudio Grossman, American University, Program Chair

Strengthening the Judiciary: Judicial Independence and the Role of Law Schools in the Western Hemisphere

Moderator:

Claudio Grossman, American University

Speakers:

Jaime Arellano, Vice Minister of Justice, Sanitago Chile
Nan Aron, President, Alliance for Justice, Washington, D.C.
Douglass W. Cassel, Jr., Northwestern University
Andres D'Alessio, Dean, Universidad de Buenos Aires Facultad de Derecho y Ciecias Sociales, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Jose Thomason, Inter-American Institute for Human Rights, San Jose, Costa Rica
Antonio Cancado Trinidade, President, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, San Jose, Costa Rica
Juan Enrique Vargas Viancos, Executive Director, Justice Studies of the Americas, Santiago, Chile

This panel will highlight recent efforts in Latin America to strengthen the role of the judiciary and the judicial process. Topics for discussion include judicial independence, the importance of judicial training, the role of women in the judiciary, and how law schools can promote a strong and independent judiciary.

Leaders of institutions that are at the forefront of these efforts will discuss the initiatives of their respective institutions

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