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Center for Law, Justice & Culture Open House Feb. 11

Center for Law, Justice & Culture Open House Feb. 11

The Center for Law, Justice & Culture is hosting an open house for all interested students on Wednesday, Feb.11, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the center, located on the bottom floor of Bentley Hall (Bentley 001). The open house is an opportunity for students to come see the center, […]

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February 11, 2015 at 9:30 pmEvents

New Anthropology Faculty Researches Informal Economies in Albania

New CLJC Faculty Member Smoki Musaraj studies informal economies and speculative bubbles in post-socialist Albania.

“A lot of my questions are both economic and legal questions,” explained Dr. Smoki Musaraj, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and one of the newest faculty members of the Center for Law, Justice & Culture. Musaraj researches informal practices and economies in post-socialist contexts, specifically in her home country of Albania. […]

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February 11, 2015 at 10:30 amResearch

Ohio Innocence Project Director and Exonerees to Speak Feb. 9

Ohio Innocence Project Director and Exonerees to Speak Feb. 9

Representatives from the Ohio Innocence Project, one of the most successful organizations in the nation for exonerating innocent prisoners, will speak in Walter Rotunda on Feb. 9 from 4 to 6 p.m. for a talk on “The Ohio Innocence Project: From Death Row to Freedom.” Director and Co-founder Mark Godsey […]

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February 9, 2015 at 10:00 pmEvents

Film: The ‘Other’ Threat: Arab and Muslim Immigrants in Europe, Feb. 2

Film: The ‘Other’ Threat: Arab and Muslim Immigrants in Europe, Feb. 2

The Middle East and North Africa Film Series presents The “Other” Threat: Arab and Muslim Immigrants in Europe on Monday, Feb. 2, at 6:30 p.m. in Baker Center 231. This documentary (directed by Bassam Haddad) reveals the history and contemporary politics of Arab/Muslim migration to two European countries that featured terrorist attacks […]

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February 2, 2015 at 11:45 pmEvents

Student Comments on Bedi’s Call for End of Mass Incarceration

Sheila Bedi, a law professor at Northwestern University, wants to end mass incarceration. Photographer: Olivia Wallace

Students for Law, Justice & Culture member Kaleb Carter wrote an engaging opinion piece on issues raised in Professor Sheila Bedi’s talk on mass incarceration last week. His comments appear in the Ohio University online student publication The New Political. When Sheila Bedi mentioned in her Baker Ballroom speech on […]

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January 28, 2015 at 4:48 pmNews

Guest Speaker Calls for End of Current U.S. Criminal Justice System

Guest Speaker Calls for End of Current U.S. Criminal Justice System

Sheila Bedi, clinical associate professor of law at the Northwestern University School of Law, brought a simple message to Ohio University last Thursday evening — end the current prison system and mass incarceration. During her Martin Luther King, Jr., Day Week talk titled “Tearing Down the Walls: The Urgent Human Rights […]

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January 28, 2015 at 4:38 pmNews

Pre-Law Fraternity Recruitment Jan. 26-27

Phi Alpha Delta, the prelaw fraternity, has spring recruitment on Monday, Jan. 26, at 8 p.m. in Bentley 220 and on Tuesday, Jan. 27, at 7 p.m. in Bentley 205. For more information, email Anika Holland, the New Member Liaison, at ah697412@ohio.edu.

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January 27, 2015 at 5:30 pmEvents