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10/29/2012
Betts Patterson Mines Professor of Law Eric Schnapper Installation Event
William H. Gates Hall
Installation to be held in Room 138, Reception in Room 115
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
UW Law Dean Kellye Y. Testy invites you to celebrate the installation of
Eric Schnapper
Betts Patterson Mines Professor of Law
The program will include Professor Schnapper’s lecture The Art of Summary Judgment. During the lecture, Schnapper will explore how the summary judgment motion practice
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Poses tactical opportunities and pitfalls unlike trials
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May require a distinctive approach to discover
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Presents opportunities to shape the judgment through procedural devices not established (or forbidden) by Rule 56
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Raises a number of unresolved procedural and evidentiary legal questions.
UW School of Law, William H. Gates Hall
Room 138 at 4:30 p.m.
Created by Frederick V. Betts ’33 and Betts, Patterson & Mines, a highly respected Seattle litigation law firm, this professorship honors the work of Betts, his firm and the establishment as one of the finest litigation firms in the state of Washington.
RSVP Online here by October 23, 2012.
Global Mondays- Global Spotlight on Refugee Protections in Eastern Africa
William H. Gates Hall
117
12:30 PM - 1:20 PM
Hosted by the Health Law LL.M. Prgram and The Center for Law in Science and Global Health
"The Refugee Protection regime in Ethiopia and the Work of UNHCR to Improve Health Services for Refugee Women"
Amasale Aberra, Health Law LL.M. Candidate 2013
In her talk, Ms. Amsale Aberra, former Legal Intern and Project Coordinator in a joint study project between United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and Johns Hopkins University Center for Public Health and Human Rights, will discuss the processes, findings and prospects of the UNHCR /JHU Project to develop screening Tools for Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) among refugee women, to improve health programming, vis-à-vis the broader refugee protection system in Ethiopia.