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Oral
Advocacy Course I
Date: July 24-28, 2001
Place: Colegio de Abogados, Iquique, Chile
Proyecto
ACCESO instructors Sofia Libedinsky, Claudio Pavlic and Michael
Mandig worked with newly chosen public defenders in the third region
of Chile, the next jurisdiction to be included in the transition
toward oral trials. Oral advocacy skills are an essential tool for
survival in this era of judicial innovation and Proyecto
ACCESO has trained Chile's new cadre of judicial innovation
advocates. We are most proud that ACCESO Claudio Pavlic has now
been recently appointed Interim Public Defender for the Republic
of Chile.
Oral Advocacy Course I
Date: August 17-22, 2001
Place: Academia Judicial, Managua, Nicaragua
Judge
Laura Safer Espinoza of the New York Supreme Court, a member of
Proyecto ACCESO's Executive Committee, and ACCESO faculty Max Gould
led the Oral Advocacy I Workshop in a program that was sponsored
by the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Embassy of Nicaragua.
The Oral Advocacy Course I
Date: October 1-6, 2001 - San José, Costa Rica
Place: Colegio de Abogados, Zapote, San José
From
October 1 to 6, 2001, ACCESO facilitated its internationally-acclaimed
signature Oral Advocacy I course in San José, Costa Rica.
Our second annual hands-on training program provided lawyers and
judges and judges from over 15 countries with new skills for reforming
the criminal processes in Latin America. Judges, law enforcement
officials, and public defenders from countries like Bolivia, Chile,
Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala,
Haiti, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Paraguay, and Uruguay came
to be part of this exciting program.
Lilia
Velasquez and Michael Mandig led a team of instructors which included:
Phillip Robbins of Phoenix, Arizona and Maxwell Gould, a public
defender in New York City. Judge Michael Town of Hawaii and Judge
José Gonzalez, a recent LL.M. student at CWSL, and a leader
in judicial reform around the region, joined us as instructors.
Chad Grunander, a second year California Western law student, coordinated
the program.
The
program was co-sponsored by the Organization of American State,
the U.S. State Department, the Colegio de Abogados and the William
and Flora Hewlett Foundation. This year's program was particularly
special as the OAS and ACCESO teamed together to create the Janeen
Kerper Fellowship for participants to honor ACCESO's mentor Professor
Janeen Kerper of California Western School of Law.
As
we continue to strengthen our program, we can together assist Latin
American jurists, lawyers and law enforcement officials to improve
access to justice, ensure fairness, and provide the dial tone for
democratic governance.
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