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LAPA Graduate Associate wins important decision in Israel Supreme Court

Yael Berda sucessfully challenges prison privatization law

November 19, 2009

Yael Berda, a human rights lawyer, who is also an active member of the Law Engaged Graduate Students and a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology, prevailed in a challenge to void a law allowing the privatization of prisons in Israel.

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LAPA Fellow Bernadette Meyler presents at Temple Faculty Colloquium

November 6, 2009

LAPA Fellow Bernadette Meyler presented at the Faculty Colloquium at Temple University's Beasley School of Law School on Monday, November 2.

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Associate Director Leslie Gerwin moderates panel on "Making the Case for Reproductive Choice in Health Care Reform"

November 5, 2009

Associate LAPA Director Leslie Gerwin moderated a panel discussion on how issues of reproductive justice, and particularly access to abortion services, are affecting support for health care reform.

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LAPA Acting Director Paul Frymer wins book award from APSA

September 20, 2009

LAPA Acting Director and Associate Professor of Politics Paul Frymer has received the best book award from the American Political Science Association's Section on Race, Ethnicity and Politics for his book "Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party."

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LAPA Fellow Eli Salzberger publishes opinion piece on UN Goldstone Report on the Israeli Gaza Campaign

September 16, 2009

Eli Salzberger, 2009-2010 Microsoft/LAPA Fellow, who recently stepped down as Dean of the Faculty of Law at Haifa University School of Law today published an opinion piece critical of the Israeli government's response to the Goldstone Report on Israel's conduct during the recent Gaza campaign.

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LAPA Graduate Associate Intisar Rabb named Carnegie Scholar

Rabb selected as one of 21 recipients for 2009

April 14, 2009

Intisar Rabb, a graduate student in Princeton's Department of Near Eastern Studies, will receive a two-year grant of up to $100,000 from the Carnegie Corp. of New York to pursue a research project titled "Islamic Law and Legal Change: The Internal Critique."

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