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Guest Speaker: The Great Cannabis Debate

April 16, 2019 / / Comments Off on Guest Speaker: The Great Cannabis Debate

Thursday, April 18th, 2019 at 5:00 PM
UO School of Law, Room 282

Featuring Jessica Berg, Dean of Case Western Reserve University College of Law
Tom J.E. and Bette Lou Walker Professor of Law
Professor of Bioethics & Public Health Law

In the past five years, 30 state plus the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana. How should we regulate this popular substance—as a recreational drug? Medicinal cure-all? Herbal supplement? This presentation considers the complex legal frameworks surrounding cannabis, and the problems they raise.

Following the talk, questions about applying to and/or attending law school will be answered.

Free and open to all students. Food will be provided.

Lecture: Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Historical Context and Contemporary Issues in the Trump Era

January 31, 2018 / / Comments Off on Lecture: Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Historical Context and Contemporary Issues in the Trump Era

Thursday, February 8, 2018
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Knight Law Center

Keynote lecture for Immigration Law and Policy conference. Featuring Karen Musalo, professor of law and director of the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, Hastings College of Law. She is lead co-author of Refugee Law and Policy: An International and Comparative Approach(4th edition), and has contributed to the jurisprudence of asylum law through scholarship and litigation. Musalo is recognized for her innovative work on refugee issues. She was the first attorney to partner with psychologists in her representation of traumatized asylum seekers, and she edited the first handbook for practitioners on cross-cultural issues and the impact of culture on credibility in the asylum context. This event is free and open to the public.

More information available here!

Event: Walidah Imarisha – “Why Aren’t There More Black People in Oregon?: A Hidden History”

October 4, 2017 / / Comments Off on Event: Walidah Imarisha – “Why Aren’t There More Black People in Oregon?: A Hidden History”

Thursday, October 12, 2017
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Lillis 182 (Note the new venue!)

Walidah Imarisha describes herself as an historian at heart, reporter by (w)right, and rebel by reason. Winner of a 2017 Oregon Book Award for creative nonfiction for Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption, she also has edited two anthologies, authored a poetry collection, and is currently working on an Oregon Black history book, forthcoming from AK Press.

Imarisha has taught in Stanford University’s Program of Writing and Rhetoric, Portland State University’s Black Studies Department, Oregon State University’s Women Gender Sexuality Studies Department, and Southern New Hampshire University’s English Department. She spent six years with Oregon Humanities’ Conversation Project as a public scholar facilitating programs across Oregon about Oregon Black history, alternatives to incarceration, and the history of hip hop.
http://www.walidah.com/

More information available from UO’s Center for the Study of Women in Society.

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