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Professor Edwards Delivers Lecture via Video to Kenyan Academic Audience
06/23/2015
Professor George Edwards delivered a lecture as a guest of Professor Simeon Sungi, LL.M. ’06, during Sungi’s international law class at United States International University – Africa, on June 17. Professor Edwards delivered the lecture from Washington, D.C., to his audience in Nairobi, Kenya, via video link.
The lecture was titled “An Introduction to International Human Rights Law for a Kenyan Academic Audience: Origins, Universality, and Enforceability Generally and in Particular Considering Types and Bases for the Exercise of Jurisdiction.”
Professor Sungi “was an active participant in the Program in International Human Rights Law (PIHRL), and was a PIHRL intern at the United Nations in New York” while Sungi was a student, Professor Edwards said.
Professor Edwards is the Special Assistant to the Dean for Inter-Governmental and Non-Governmental Organizations and the Carl M. Gray Professor of Law. He is also Faculty Director (Founding), of the Program for International Human Rights Law and Faculty Director (Founding), Guantanamo Bay, Cuba U.S. Military Commission Observation Project (MCOP) and The Gitmo Observer.
Professor Edwards is author of LL.M. Roadmap: An International Student’s Guide to U.S. Law School Programs www.LLMRoadMap.com, and of the forthcoming LL.M. Roadmap Career Guide: An International Student’s Job Hunt After Their U.S. Law Degree.
