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International Law Workshop
The International Law Workshop hosts prominent practitioners, jurists, policy makers, academics, and government officials to discuss topics that will capture the attention of a general law student audience. It is intended to introduce today's most debated issues in international and comparative law and to provide a forum to discuss critical global challenges as they relate to law and policy.

In Brief: ILW: "A Lifeline to the World of International Law" (from Law Quadrangle magazine, Spring 2012)

In the News
May 2012
Prof. Bridgette Carr was quoted in a New York Times article about the prosecution of pimps and clients, instead of prostitutes.

April 2012
Prof. Bridgette Carr was interviewed in a LegalTalkNetwork podcast on human trafficking.

Prof. Catharine MacKinnon's work will be showcased in a documentary about sex trafficking victims and survivors premiering at the Brattle Theater in Harvard Square.

Prof. Bridgette Carr is quoted in a Las Vegas Review-Journal article about human trafficking. She is also cited in Nicholas Kristof's New York Times column about our flawed system for dealing with sex trafficking victims.

Prof. Vic Khanna is quoted in India's The Economic Times.

Prof. Nicholas Howson is quoted in a BloombergBusinessweek story about a Chinese party official whose wife is accused of murder.

March 2012
Prof. Steven Ratner coauthored the New York Times op-ed on "Revisiting Sri Lanka's Bloody War."

February 2012
Prof. Bridgette Carr and Elizabeth Campbell of the Human Trafficking Clinic were quoted in a Grand Rapids Legal News article about human trafficking.

Prof. Vic Khanna is featured in the Detroit Legal News article "Going global: U-M Law School expanding its academic reach abroad."

1L Gabe Collins coauthored a Wall Street Journal-China Real Time Report blog on "China's New Challenge: Protecting Its Citizens Abroad." 

Michigan Radio's Jennifer White spoke to Elizabeth Campbell, '11, staff attorney with the Human Trafficking Clinic, about modern-day slavery.

January 2012
Elizabeth Campbell, '11, staff attorney with the Human Trafficking Clinic, was interviewed on WDET-FM's "The Craig Fahle Show" about modern-day slavery and human trafficking.

Prof. Bridgette Carr is quoted in the Detroit Free Press about the growing human trafficking trade.

William W. Cook Global Law Professor Christopher McCrudden is quoted in a UK Constitutional Law Group article on how easy or difficult it might be for Scotland to extricate itself from the UK.

More News

From the Amicus Alumni newsletter
MLaw prof helps fit together pieces of the refugee puzzle (June 2011)

Admirers crowd Brian Simpson's Oxford memorial service (June 2011)

Grad helps State Dept. connect Afghan people to their government (May 2011)

ILW: "A Lifeline to the World of International Law" (Spring 2012)

Prof. Laura Beny Works for the Good of South Sudan (Fall 2011)

Daughter of the Killing Fields (Fall 2011)

The Face of Modern-Day Slavery (Spring 2011): Michigan Law's Human Trafficking Clinic battles for the rights of modern-day slaves.

Border-crosser, Bridge-builder (Spring 2010): Michigan Law's reputation as a center of global legal studies was built on the foundation that Prof. Hessel E. Yntema helped to lay.