Friday, March 28, 2008

LLNE Scholarship Announcement

The 2008 AALL Meeting in Portland is only a few months away. The LLNE Scholarship Committee is now accepting applications for support to help pay the costs of attending. Applications are due by April 30. The policies and application forms are available on the LLNE website at: http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/llne/forms/index.htm.

Completed applications should be sent by mail or fax to:

Margaret Cianfarini Chair,
LLNE Scholarship Committee
Harvard Law School Library
1545 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02138

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Northeastern Law Library Presents: Bringing Human Rights Home

Northeastern University School of Law Library is co-sponsoring a panel discussion on Human Rights in the United States

Bringing Human Rights Home: A Panel Discussion on Human Rights in the United States
Moderated by Professor Martha Davis
Thursday, April 3, 2008
At Noon
333 Curry Student Center
Refreshments will be served

Sponsored by the NU School of Law Library, NU Libraries, the NUSL Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy, and the NU Bookstore. Formore information or for special needs assistance, please contact MariaCarpenter at m.carpenter@neu.edu or 617.373.2821.

Program: The anthology Uncertain Freedoms—the struggle for human rights, edited byMartha Davis, recounts the tumultuous history and politics of socialjustice action in the US. It examines the ways in which human rightsactivism has flourished and faltered within the US—and the differencesbetween the US’s domestic and international involvement in human rights.
Join us for an illuminating discussion by a panel of experts on topics asbroad ranging as civil rights, globalization and terrorism, and theirintersection with human rights.

Panel: Editor of the anthology and Northeastern Law Professor Martha Daviswill moderate a panel discussion with guests Hope Lewis, NU Professor ofLaw; Wendy Pollack, Senior Attorney for the Sargent Shriver National Centeron Poverty Law; Alec Irwin, Associate Director of the Francois-XavierBagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of PublicHealth; and Catherine Albisa, Executive Director of the National Economicand Social Rights Initiative.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

LLNE Newsletter Call for Articles

Hello LLNE Members -

The next issue of the LLNE News in is the works. We are calling for submissions for our new issue! Feel free to choose any topic, and email us with your ideas.

Also, please forward any news about our members such as recent publications, new jobs, achievements, etc. We need your materials by April 11th so we can get the issue out before people head off to the LLNE meeting in Maine!

Thanks,

Kyle K. Courtney & Susan Vaughn