CLEonline.com, together with the Houston Bar Association, are pleased to present a special online CLE seminar that will cover the development of unstructured human rights law and enforcement, as well as the current problems with the U.S. and the case of torture. It will also address the possibility that U.S. citizens and soldiers may be judged in other jurisdictions because of the failure of the U.S. courts to deal with this matter.
This seminar features an audio presentation from a live CLE seminar on this topic that was originally conducted by the Houston Bar Association (HBA) on June 12, 2008. This audio presentation features attorney Michael Skadden of Houston. This is a streaming audio presentation that you can access on demand at any time during the course of the seminar session. The audio presentation runs for approximately 1.5 hours. This seminar is entitled:
HBA Presents: "International Human Rights Law and Enforcement: The Case of Torture"
** (available at any time of the day and in time increments convenient to you during the above referenced dates) **
Subjects to be discussed during this CLEonline.com seminar include:
- The Early Roots of Human Rights Law
- The Enlightenment
- The First Human Rights Campaign
- A Colonial and Racial Problem?
- The Beginning of Our Period
- Contemporary Human Rights Law and Enforcement
- The Myth of American Exceptionalism: The Case of Torture
The instructor/moderator for this CLEonline.com seminar will be:
Mr. Michael Skadden, who is an attorney in Houston with a practice devoted to international business, probate, property rights and civil rights law. Born in Germany, raised in France and especially in Spain, he speaks fluent English and Spanish and good French. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of Texas; the U.S. Tax Court, as well as all state courts in Texas. He is a member of the Canadian Bar Association (Quebec and British Columbia Divisions), The U.S.-Mexico Bar Association, Amnesty International, French American Chamber of Commerce (Houston), and the Netherlands-Texas Business Association (Houston). He received his law degree from the University of Texas School of Law (J.D., 1986); his undergraduate degree from Rice University (M.A., Spanish, 1977), and a Ph.D. (Spanish) from the University of Texas (1984).
The seminar registration fee for this CLEonline.com seminar is only $38. SPECIAL DISCOUNT: If you are a member of the HBA, you are entitled to a 20 percent discount and the registration fee is only $30. NOTE: If you are eligible and you wish to receive this special discounted fee, you will need to call the HBA Office in Houston (713-759-1133) and request the 'HBA Discount Code' for CLEonline.com seminars. When you register for this seminar on our site, enter this discount code on the Shopping Cart page to receive the discounted rate.
*** SPECIAL DISCOUNT THIS MONTH ***
This is the last month this seminar is being offered on our site, so for the remainder of this month, you can register for it at a 50 percent discount for only $19. To receive this special discounted fee, you will need to register for this seminar using the following discount code:
jun0156
When you select this seminar and add it to your Shopping Cart on our site, just enter this discount code in the space provided to receive this special discounted rate.
This seminar is accredited for 1.5 hours of participatory CLE credit (no ethics) by the MCLE Committees of the State Bar of Texas and the State Bar of California. In addition, regular CLE credits for this seminar are also available in a number of other states. CLEonline.com is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider pursuant to Sec. 9 of the California MCLE Rules and Regulations. (These are not self-study credits, but rather 'participatory' credits as you would receive for attending a traditional, live CLE seminar.)
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