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Teaching Public Interest Law

HESP Meeting - Teaching Public Interest Law

The third and final Annual Meeting of the Promoting Sustainable Reform of Legal Education project convened in Budapest on 18-20 March 2009 to reflect on the progress and outcomes of the project. Implemented by the Public Interest Law Institute (PILI) in partnership with six laws schools in Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, and Ukraine, the project aims to promote reform of legal education to produce competent and ethical lawyers with the knowledge, understanding, skills, abilities, and motivation to help ...

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Kolawole (Kola) Ogunbiyi

Kolawole (Kola) Ogunbiyi "A wonderful coincidence" is how Kolawole (Kola) Ogunbiyi describes his initial involvement with law and human rights. Kola's early interest was in business administration but circumstances led him to pursue his diploma in law. Since then, he has worked tirelessly for the rights of the prison population in Nigeria and has worked to create a new framework to reform and reorganize Nigeria's prison system.

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Separate and Unequal
Separate and UnequalCombating Discrimination against Roma in Education.
A Source BookThe source book represents a collection of essays which document the struggle for the integration of schools in Central and Eastern Europe. Taken together, they aim to elucidate the complexity of the phenomenon of educational segregation.
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ECOLEX - Strategic Litigation for Environmental Protection in Serbia

(c) Creative Commons, Uwe Hermann   On 10 December 2008, PILI helped organize a meeting in Pančevo to raise awareness about the creation of ECOLEX, the first nongovernmental organization in Serbia to engage in public advocacy and strategic representation on environmental issues before domestic and international courts and institutions. ...

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