NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE via COLLEGIATE PRESSWIRE)--Nov 19, 2003--With the help of videoconferencing, a group of scholars whose comments and questions on South Africa would otherwise be confined to the dark-paneled walls of the library board room at New York Law School are beaming their discussion worldwide on Thursday, November 20, bringing in participants from Johannesburg to London to Baltimore, Maryland.
The discussion will start at noon in New York, or around 7 p.m. in South Africa, 5 p.m. in London. At New York Law School, leading Constitutional law scholar Frank I. Michelman, Robert Walmsley University professor at Harvard, will commence this meeting of the South Africa Reading Group by discussing his paper, ``The Bill of Rights, The Common Law, and the Freedom-Friendly State.`` In Johannesburg, Judge Catherine O`Regan of the South African Constitutional Court will respond to Michelman`s paper. A discussion involving all four locations will follow, led by Professor Jonathan Klaaren of the University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Law in Johannesburg, Professor Taunya Banks from the University of Maryland School of Law in Baltimore, Maryland, and Bronwen Manby, deputy director of the Africa division at Human Rights Watch in London.
The South Africa Reading Group, an interdisciplinary group of scholars who focus on South Africa from a variety of perspectives, is cochaired by New York Law School Professor and Associate Dean Stephen Ellmann, and City University of New York (CUNY) Law School Professor Penelope Andrews.
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