Word: cotler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Irwin Cotler, a McGill University law professor who was co-counsel for recently released Soviet dissident Anatoly (Natan) Shcharansky, said he told the Soviets at a human rights convention this month that their new rhetoric about the importance of human rights must be matched by real change...
...Cotler joined Soviet emigres, a State Department official, and others who spoke at the Austin Hall symposium, which was sponsored by Jewish community organizations and legal advocacy groups...
Speakers differed on the American Bar Association's recent decision to recognize and meet with the Association of Soviet Lawyers. An outspoken opponent of the contacts was Professor of Law Alan Dershowitz, who worked with Cotler on the Shcharansky case...