Law School Blog
Padova, Italy
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
I arrived in Venice on June 24 and was shuttled to Padova where the 30th International Congress of Law and Mental Health was scheduled to start the next day. Padova, situated between Verona and Venice, is the home of the second oldest University in Italy, founded in 1212. Just like we call our school, "the U Dub," this university also has its affectionate nickname, "the Bo." You almost never hear it referred to by its real name, the Universita de Padua. Dante and Copernicus studied here; Petrarch and Galileo taught here. And now hundreds of scholars from around the world were meeting to discuss the melding of law and mental health in the 21st century. On the shuttle over, I rode with a woman from Australia as well as some of my American friends from the east coast, Cynthia Mabry from Howard University and Bob Dinerstein from American University.
- Professor Lisa Kelly