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Reimagining Access to Justice and The Rule of Law.

Reimagining Equal Access to Justice and The Rule of Law: A Conversation with Meg Satterthwaite, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 | 6:30 pm - 7:50 pm  Panel | 7:50 pm - 8:30 pm  Reception
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Format: In-Person

Program Fee:
Free for City Bar Members and Members of Co-Sponsoring Organizations | $50  Non Members 
Members of co-sponsoring organizations please call Customer Relations at 212-382-6663 to register. 

Description:
The Special Rapporteur's 2023 report to the Human Rights Council defined her formidable mandate by pairing a traditional emphasis on confronting threats to the legal profession at large, with a call to re-examine, and expand entrenched understandings of the rule of law and equal access to justice. In a conversation with practitioners, the Special Rapporteur will explore powerful means to enhance equal access to justice, which in turn, strengthen the rule of law: analyzing trends in direct threats and attacks against attorneys, and augmenting the role community justice workers, and grass-roots justice solutions play in combating inequality.

Speakers:
Margaret Satterthwaite, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers
Martin Flaherty, Co-Director, Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham School of Law
Christopher Pioch, Chair, Task Force for the Independence of Lawyers and Judges
Zenande Booi, Executive Director, Center on Race Law and Justice at Fordham School of Law
Jhody Polk, Founder of the Jailhouse Lawyer Initiative, New York Univesity
Ian Seiderman, Law and Policy Director, International Commission of Jurists

CLE Credit:
New York: 1.5 Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias
New Jersey: 1.5 Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias
California: 1.5 Elimination of Bias
Pennsylvania: 1.0 Professional Responsibility
Connecticut: Available to Licensed Attorneys

Sponsoring Committee:
Task Force on the Independence of Lawyers and Judges, Christopher Pioch, Chair

Co-Sponsoring Committees:
International Human Rights, Rayma Jawahar Kudekallu, Chair
Rule of Law Task Force, Marcy Kahn, Chair
United Nations, Catherine van Kampen, Sophia Murashkovsky, and Ervin Nina, Co-Chairs

Co-Sponsoring Organization:
American Association for the International Commission of Jurists
The International Commission of Jurists
Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice


Where
New York City Bar Association 42 West 44th Street New York, NY 10036

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