Events Calendar

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Visual Legal Advocacy Roundtable

Building Video Bridges

Speakers include:

Gretchen Berland – Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale Medical School; a 2004 MacArthur Fellow “who uses her experience in documentary production and journalism to highlight issues that are critical to understanding and improving health care”; producer and director of the documentary "Rolling: Life in a Wheelchair" which includes footage of video diaries shot by her patients

Carol Jacobsen – Professor, School of Art & Design, University of Michigan; Professor, Women’s Studies Program, College of Literature, Science and the Arts, University of Michigan; Director, Michigan Women’s Justice & Clemency Project; social documentary filmmaker and photographer; producer and director of the documentary "From One Prison," a profile of battered women sentenced to life terms in Michigan

Margie Smith – Partner, ThinkTank Films

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Dean Fitts welcomes each member of the 1L Class to share a meal and conversation together with a distinguished graduate of Penn Law.

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In this series, members of the Penn Law faculty present a work in progress to a small group of Penn Law students. Attending students commit to reading the work in advance and bringing their questions and comments to the presentation.

Stephanos Bibas will present on October 17.

To register for a particular session, please visit https://goat.law.upenn.edu/faculty/studentevents/presentations/index.html.You may register for more than one presentation.

Lunch will be served.

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Speaker: Dr. Peter Neumann, King’s College London

Dr. Peter Neumann is the Director of the Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence. Dr. Neumann previously served as the Director of the Centre for Defence Studies at King's College London. He was Academic Director of the Club de Madrid's International Summit on Democracy, Terrorism and Security in 2005, and acted as senior advisor to the National Policy Forum on Terrorism, Security and America's Purpose in 2005. Dr. Neumann has authored several books, including Britain's Long War (2003), a comprehensive assessment of British strategy in the Northern Ireland conflict, and - most recently - The Strategy of Terrorism (2007). He has also been published in the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune. Dr. Neumann holds an MA in Political Science from the Free University of Berlin and a PhD in War Studies from King's College London. Before becoming an academic, he worked as a radio journalist in Germany.