Dear Pre-Law Society signers:


I am trying to plan out some events for Banafsheh Akhlaghi's visit, and am
writing to ask your help in planning and advertising those events and her
public talk on Tuesday night.

I thought it could be useful for the students (in the Law Program and in
other areas) to have a chance to speak with her over lunch perhaps? I
thought Tuesday lunchtime might be a good day for that. Is that something
you think students might be interested in? And if so, is it something you
might be able to organize? If not, that's perfectly fine, too. I just wanted
to make the option available.

In any event, below is a revised announcement. If all of you could forward
it to your various listserves (Hampshire and 5 College), I would appreciate
it.

Thanks.

F. Sheth

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Hampshire College invites you to join us in considering our collective
future:



"National Security
within a Human Rights Framework"



Banafsheh Akhlaghi, Esq.


Founder and President

National Legal Sanctuary for Community Advancement



Ms. Akhlaghi will explore how national security objectives can be achieved
through a human rights framework, and how human security as the genesis of
the dialogue can lead to effective national and international security
policies. In her talk, she will look at successful models in Northern
Ireland, truth and reconciliation commission of South Africa and the redress
movement in the United States can aid in providing a new perspective in our
approach today.



Tuesday, April 8, 2008

5 pm

West Lecture Hall
Franklin Patterson Hall
Hampshire Campus





Banafsheh Akhlaghi, an attorney of Iranian descent, is the Founder and
President of the National Legal Sanctuary for Community Advancement (NLSCA),
a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring the human rights and dignity
of Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian (MEMSA) peoples.

Since September 11, 2001, she has represented 2700 individuals of Muslim,
Middle Eastern, and South Asian descent, who have been detained or
questioned by the FBI and the Dep't. of Homeland Security.

Prior to practicing law, Ms. Akhlaghi was a professor of Constitutional Law
at the John F. Kennedy University School of Law, in California.  In 2001,
Ms. Akhlaghi gave up her teaching position to create Akhlaghi & Associates,
a private practice specializing in immigration and civil rights post 9/11.
In May of 2005, NLSCA broadened its focus to human rights at the
international level, when Ms. Akhlaghi was retained as a consultant to the
United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). She has testified before
Congress on numerous occasions, including the 2003 Amnesty International
Racial Profiling Hearings, and she regularly conducts cultural Sensitivity
Trainings with branches of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
(EEOC).

She has won numerous awards from the media, legal associations, and the U.S.
Congress.



She has been featured on
Democracy Now with Amy Goodman
Her clients have been profiled in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times,
CNN, and other major media.

Sponsored by the Law Program, the Global Migrations Program, Social Science,
and Dean of Faculty's Office of Hampshire College.




-- 
Falguni A. Sheth, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
of Philosophy and Political Theory
School of Social Science
Hampshire College
Amherst, MA 01002
fsheth@hampshire.edu
413.559.5388