It has often been said that one is never too old to learn and that you can always learn something new. In view of this sound thinking, the LN International Team would like to offer you, whether you are a law student, a pr

UNITED NATIONS – (AP) South African judge Navanethem Pillay will take over the job of serving as the United Nations' top advocate for human rights.

DILI East Timor – (AP) East Timor's president says he will not take the top U.N. human rights job because his departure

DILI, East Timor – President Jose Ramos-Horta, who narrowly escaped an assassination attempt by rebel soldiers earl

This year we celebrate the 60 th Anniversary of the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It bears re-reading by every lawyer in all jurisdictions.

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The Questions & Answer session with the Honorable Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, that followed her keynote address at the 2006 Rule of Law Symposium.

The program is presented by LexisNexis in cooperation with the American Bar Association Section of International Law and the Lawyers' Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation. A fascinating discussion of the legal and historical issues in determining ownership and specifically in relation to the paintings restituted to the heirs of Jacques Goudstikker, a prominent Dutch art dealer who fled Amsterdam in 1940, after the Nazi occupation in World War ll.