World Peace Through Law Section
The World Peace Through Law Section focuses on international affairs and issues of war, peace, and law. A major benefit for members is the section's stimulating monthly forum series featuring experts addressing a diversity of current world affairs topics. See the section calendar for upcoming events.
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World Peace Through Law Section 2019 Upcoming-CLE Schedule
July 29 Webinar: Forced Evictions: The Samburu People of Kenya and Land Rights
This CLE will discuss the case of the Samburu Peoples of Kenya who were forcibly evicted from their lands. The presenter will discuss the litigation that took place in Kenya to rectify the wrongs that took place against the Samburu.
Faculty: Matt Stannard, Director of Operations, Solidarity House Cooperative
July 29, 2019
Noon–1:30 p.m. PT
Webinar
CLE Credit: 1.50 Law & Legal Procedure
Aug. 30 Webinar: Comparative Human Rights: Tanzania
This CLE will explore human rights issues from a legal perspective that are ongoing and/or being addressed in Tanzania. The CLE will cover human rights issues relating to child rights, gender, and access to justice.
Faculty: Anna Aloys Henga - Legal and Human Rights Centre, Tanzania
Aug. 30, 2019
8–9:30 a.m. PT
Webinar
CLE Credit: 1.50 Law & Legal Procedure
Sept. 4 Webinar: Youth Criminalization: Legal Landscapes and Pathways Forward (co-hosted with Juvenile Law Section)
Learn about the pressing crisis of youth criminalization. Attendees will learn about the school-to-prison pipeline, and how it is shaped by current laws. Presenters will discuss the human rights implications of juvenile incarceration as well as the latest neuroscience regarding impacts of juvenile incarceration. Potential solutions to the current crisis will be discussed as well.
Faculty: Amy Jones and Angelle Gerl
Sept. 4, 2019
Noon–1 p.m., PT
Webinar
CLE Credit: 1.0 Law & Legal Procedure
Upcoming Events
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Oct. 16 Webinar: Alaska and BC Tribes Petition to the North American Human Rights Commission to End Mining Pollution
Nov. 15: Health and Human Rights Full-day CLE
To obtain more information about any of these CLE's from the World Peace Through Law Section, including registration for upcoming events or accessing recorded content from past presentations, please and check out our library of offerings on the WSBA CLE store page or contact cle@wsba.org.
Past 2019 Section CLE's and Events
Jan. 28 In-Person: National Mentoring Month Career Panel Discussion
This event featured a discussion on careers promoting international cooperation and justice sponsored by the University of Washington School of Law’s Graduate Program in Sustainable International Development and the World Peace Through Law Section of the Washington State Bar Association. Panelists were practitioners who have applied their legal training in the foreign service, to advance gender equality and human rights, and to spark economic development in Washington State. They offered observations on their non-traditional career paths and took participant questions.
Panelists included:
- Tyler Crone, Co-Founder and Coordinating Director of ATHENA. Ms. Crone is a human rights lawyer and public health researcher with expertise in gender and HIV and sexual and reproductive health and rights.
- Fred Kaplan, retired Foreign Service Officer. Mr. Kaplan spent close to 30 years serving in embassies around the world. Since retiring, he has supported projects for Seattle-based organizations like Landesa and PATH. He is also an occasional volunteer English teacher with Partners of the Americas.
- Lisa von Trotha, principal attorney with the firm von Trotha Law. Ms. von Trotha provides targeted, strategic, and forward-thinking legal services for small, local, and sustainable businesses. A graduate of Seattle University School of Law and the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, she studied how the law can be used to support businesses and spark economic development.
Jan. 29 Webinar: International Law of Cross Border Transplant Abuse
This program discussed organ transplants, the laws in comparable countries, examples of where abuse occurs, and how violations of international law occur.
Faculty: David Matas, International Human Rights Attorney, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Feb. 7 Teleconference: Corporate Social Responsibility
This teleconference addressed a new movement launched to encourage state entities to stop investing in corporations that are engaging in "unethical" or "dirty" business with countries perpetrating genocide and/or crimes against humanity.
The call introduced participants to the background of this movement and ways for people to get involved in at a grassroots level. Learn more.
Faculty: Simon Billeness, Executive Director, International Campaign for the Rohingya; Mark Brinkmoeller, Director, International Interfaith Peace Corps; and organizers at Emgage
March 6 Webinar: Sexualized Atrocities during Genocide: Personal and Legal Implications
To highlight the importance of International Women’s Day on March 8, this CLE presented cases of sexualized violence against women in the context of mass atrocities.
Faculty: Beth Lilach, Senior Director of Education and Community Affairs, Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County
March 22 In-Person: Conversations Beyond Bias
This Mini-CLE was an opportunity to go beyond our biases and engage with others who may think differently than us around the following topics:
- Social Identity
- The Politics of Immigration
- Talking Politics (Free Speech)
- Power in Relationships (Status and Privilege)
- Peace-building in USA (Ideological Divides)
The format was interactive and in the style of self-facilitated Living Room Conversations (www.livingroomconversations.org), allowing participants to share from experience, acknowledging every person’s uniqueness, while seeking to understand one another. This CLE provided practitioners tools to transform their communication approach with colleagues and clients.
Faculty: Samara Hakim, Founder of The Culture Factor, LLC
April 15 In-Person: Using International Law in Domestic Practice
This exciting CLE highlighted how international law – often a body of law that is constantly developing yet considered nebulous – can be incorporated into the everyday domestic practice in the United States. The program informed how international law can function in business law, criminal law, family law, civil rights law and in environmental law. Practitioners received an overview of relevant international laws and thought-provoking examples and theories of application to domestic cases. It also looked into intersections and influence of human rights in domestic law and include a judges' panel for the view from the bench.
All attendees were invited to attend a reception immediately following the program hosted by the World Peace Through Law and International Practice Sections.
April 22 Teleconference: Xinjiang: Bridge or Barrier to Xi Jinping’s Belt And Road Initiative?
This teleconference was an opportunity to discuss the human rights situation facing the Uyghurs in China.
Faculty: Dru Gladney, Professor of Anthropology, Pomona College
May 29 Webinar: Legal Strategies for Saving the Oceans
In recognition of World Oceans Day, this CLE reviewed current threats to ocean health such as offshore drilling and plastic pollution. The faculty presented current legal work to address these issues as well as legal theories that could be applied in the future. Finally, the faculty discussed threats to our bedrock environmental laws and will address the use of activism to raise awareness of peril to oceans.
Faculty: Miyoko Sakashita, Emily Jeffers, and Jaclyn Lopez, Center for Biological Diversity
June 19-21 In-Person: Mass Atrocities and Human Rights Seminar
Location: Griffith College, Dublin, Ireland
Against the background of the diverse human rights summer schools and themes, this seminar’s purpose was to add the view of human rights practitioners and academics on human rights mass atrocities through the lens of cinema, disability, trafficked persons, climate change, indigenous people and the Third World Approaches to International Law. By doing so, the seminar aimed to move away from the mainstream academic discussion and accentuate the diversity of international human rights narratives and perspectives in order to explore the seminar’s theme.
To obtain more information about any of these CLE's from the World Peace Through Law Section, including registration for upcoming events or accessing recorded content from past presentations, please and check out our library of offerings on the WSBA CLE store page or contact cle@wsba.org.
Congratulations New Executive Committee Members!
All terms begin Oct. 1, 2019
Chair-elect: One-year term ending Sept. 30, 2020
Treasurer: One-year term ending Sept. 30, 2020
At-Large Member: Three-year term ending Sept. 30, 2022
Executive Committee
(Terms ending Sept. 30, 2019)Chair: Anna "Mickey" Moritz Chair-Elect: Regina Paulose Secretary & Treasurer: Anne Joyce Watanabe Immediate-Past Chair: Randy Winn Young Lawyer Liaison: Vanessa Hunsberger* |
Members(Three-year term unless otherwise noted)Position 1: Chalia Stallings-Ala'ilima (2017–2019) Position 2: Camille McDorman (2018-2021) Position 3: Vacant Board of Governors Liaison: Bill Pickett* *Non-voting member |
Meetings
The Executive Committee of the World Peace Through Law Sections holds hour-long telephonic meetings on the third Wednesday of each month at 4 p.m. Attendees may participate by dialing 866-577-9294 and entering the passcode: 5016526#.
Please contact committee member for further details about upcoming meetings.
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