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Law, Human Rights, and Revolution: Transitions in the Wake of the Arab Spring

A two-day symposium

Thursday, February 16, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room 1430
UCLA School of Law
Los Angeles, CA 

Political Transition, Rule of Law, and Human Rights: What have we learned from the Arab Spring?

introduction:     Susan Slyomovics | Professor of Anthropology and Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, UCLA

moderator:       Cheryl Harris | Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Professor of Civil Liberties and Civil Rights, UCLA School of Law

panelists:         Khaled Abou El Fadl | Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

Dalia Dassa-Kaye | Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation; visiting fellow, UCLA International Institute

James Gelvin | Professor of History, UCLA

Lisa Hajjar | Associate Professor of Sociology, UC Santa Barbara

 

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Sponsor(s): Campus Programs Committee of the Program Activities Board; Critical Race Studies, UCLA Law; Graduate Students Association; International Human Rights Law Association; International Human Rights Program, University of California Humanities Research Institute