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Notre Dame Law School Calendar of Events
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February 2008, Tuesday
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Faculty Colloquium
Time:
12:00pm
Location:
CRRR
Lloyd Mayer, NDLS
Taxing Speech
Graduate Leverage
Time:
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location:
Room 121
Graduate Leverage was founded by graduate students when they identified the need for objective information on student debt management and refinancing. Basically we were fed up with getting all the junk mail on consolidation, so we were able to research the industry for class credit. By taking an unbiased look at this, we were able to expose the misleading information out there and, more importantly, develop best practices so graduate students can better navigate through this complex process. GL works with many national graduate student organizations and campus student leaders at the top MBA, Law, Medical, and Dental programs to ensure students are provided with the objective information they need to make decisions regarding their student loans.
Speaker : Joe Del Bene
Sponsor : ABA & maybe SBA
Contact Name : Guilherme Costa
Contact Email : gcosta1@nd.edu
"Waterboarding, Torture and the Law of Armed Conflict"
Time:
12:15pm - 1:50pm
Location:
Room 101
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In early February 2008 CIA Director, Michael V. Hayden, confirmed that the Agency had used waterboarding on three al-Qaeda detainees after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and the White House followed by commenting that the CIA could use waterboarding with Bush's approval, which would "depend on the circumstances," including whether "an attack might be imminent." In recent years, a variety of considerations, including threats to State security and the allegedly dangerous nature of certain people, have been invoked in an attempt either to limit or renegotiate the scope of the prohibition on torture or to argue that the use of forms of ill-treatment other than torture, such as cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment may be permitted since they fall short of actual torture. Article 3 common to the Geneva Conventions and other provisions of International Humanitarian Law embody an absolute and minimum rule of humane treatment by prohibiting torture, cruel or inhuman treatment and outrages upon personal dignity. How are these types of ill-treatment prohibited by International Humanitarian Law to be understood? Can these notions be interpreted in meaningful and practical ways?
Speaker : Laura Olson, CCHR Visiting Scholar
The CCHR will provide food.
Christian Legal Society Bible Study
Time:
12:15pm - 1:00pm
Location:
Room 115
This is the Christian Legal Society weekly Bible study.
Contact Name : Gregory Sanford
Contact Email : gsanford@nd.edu
Westlaw Certification: Cases
Time:
12:25pm - 12:55pm
Location:
Room 110
Your ability to perform effective and efficient research is crucial to your future success as an attorney. Westlaw certification is advanced training that will give you the edge that you need.
Each class is guaranteed to help you refresh your research skills and show you additional techniques for better search results.
This class will concentrate on Case Law
Sponsor : Westlaw
Contact Name : Lindsay Ogle
Contact Phone : 219-929-5264
Contact Email : lindsay.ogle@thomson.com
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