Friday, June 17, 2022
GLS Online Coference on Legal Education in Ukraine
The Global Legal Skills Conference Committee is organizing a series of three virtual workshops to help raise awareness about how the war in Ukraine is impacting legal skills education in that country and to provide a platform to discuss ways we can help our Ukrainian colleagues through collaboration and networking.
Each session will be two hours long -- an hour of presentation followed by an hour of discussion in break out rooms.
First Session: WHAT THE GLS COMMUNITY CAN LEARN FROM OUR UKRAINIAN COLLEAGUES AND HOW WE CAN HELP THEM
DATE/TIME: Thursday, June 30, 2022, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. CDT.
Click here to locate the specific day and time for your time zone.
Plenary session will feature:
- Artem Shaipov, Legal Advisor/Team Lead for Legal Education Reform, USAID Justice for All Activity in Ukraine
- Serhiy Riznyk, Vice-Rector for Research, Teaching, and International Cooperation at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine
- Prof. Dmytro Boichuk, Head of the Center for Legal Education Quality Assurance at the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University in Kharkiv, Ukraine
- Mariia Tsypiashchuk, Board Member of the Association of Legal Clinics of Ukraine, Head of the Pro Bono Legal Clinic of the National University of Ostroh Academy,Ukraine
- Adil Abduramanov, President of the European Law Students’ Association in Ukraine.
Follow-up workshops will take place at the same time on:
- Thursday, July 28, 2022
- Friday, August 26, 2022
Attendance at each online session will be limited to 100 people, but a recording of the plenary presentations will be made available for those who cannot attend.
Please click here to register for the series.
Prof. Mark E. Wojcik, University of Illinois Chicago School of Law
Artem Shaipov, Legal Advisor/Team Lead for Legal Education Reform, USAID Justice for All Activity in Ukraine
Prof. Kimberly Holst, Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
Prof. Lurene Contento, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
Prof. David Austin, California Western School of Law
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Sonia Green Receives UIC's Award for Excellence in Teaching
Professor Sonia Bychkov Green of the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law was chosen as one of five recipients of UIC’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (AET) for 2022-2023. Each year UIC recognizes no more than five faculty colleagues across the University for exceptional teaching, effectiveness in curriculum and instructional material development, and for the impact their research and service activities have on the classroom.
Professor Green joined the UIC faculty in 2001 (when the school was known as The John Marshall Law School). She teaches Civil Procedure, Conflicts of Law, Lawyering Skills, and a seminar she developed assisted reproductive technologies and the law. Her research focuses on conflicts of law issues in family law, access to assisted reproductive technologies, and how the law can improve rates of vaccination. Professor Green is a frequent speaker and commentator on these topics.
Professor Green emigrated from the former USSR as a child and speaks fluent Russian. She received her AB (’90), MA (’90), and JD (’93) from the University of Chicago and studied at the Hague Academy of International Law. Professor Green has spoken on panels and been interviewed about the legal and humanitarian crisis in Ukraine.
Prior to joining the faculty of UIC Law, Professor Green taught at Chicago Kent College of Law and Loyola Law School. Before moving to academia, Professor Green practiced in insurance and commercial litigation at McCullough, Campbell, and Lane and then Bates, Meckler, Bulger, and Tilson.
Congratulations, Sonia!
(mew)
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