Word: symposiums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard Indian Law Symposium, described by Law School Dean Robert C. Clark as "one of the most important events at the Law School this year," attracted about 60 students, Native American rights advocates and legal academics...
...incredible turn out," said Troy M. Woodward, a member of the Harvard chapter of the national American Indian Law Students Association (AILSA), which sponsored the symposium. "We have about 40 law students from other states...
Participants listened in Austin Hall as University of Wisconsin law professor Rennard Strickland described the grim reality of Native American life in the U.S. in the symposium's opening presentation and challenged lawyers to seize political influence through the courts...
AILSA, which is sponsoring the symposium withits national organization and the American IndianBar Association, participated in ralliesprotesting the dearth of minority professors atthe Law School last spring. Last year the schooloffered its first course on Native American Law, ashift probably influenced by AILSA efforts, saidthird-year student Loretta A. Miraglia. The classwill be repeated next term, she said...
...significance of the new findings was underscored by the haste with which they were revealed. The Stanford team, led by Burton Richter (a 1976 Nobel laureate), went public first, issuing a press release only one day before a European symposium at which CERN's findings were to have been presented. That led to charges of bad sportsmanship from some of the CERN team, led by Carlo Rubbia (1984 Nobel), whose results are said to be more accurate and even more definitive...