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Professor George Edwards moderated a panel discussion featuring an official from the State Department during the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) annual meeting January 7.

Robin Lerner, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Private Sector Exchange, was part of a panel discussion moderated by Professor Edwards. Other discussants included Associate Dean for International Affairs Jeffrey Thomas of the University of Missouri School of Law at Kansas City, Dean Fernando Villarreal Gonda of the Faculty of Law of the University of Monterrey in Mexico, and Dean Haluk Kabaalioglu of Yeditepe University School of Law in Istanbul, Turkey.

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. He is the 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.