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 Janet
Reno speaking at law conference
U.S.
Attorney General Janet Reno will speak April 1 at the School of
Law. Her talk, open to the public in Caplin Auditorium, is scheduled
at 10 a.m. as the keynote address of a conference marking the
40th anniversary of the student-edited Virginia
Journal of International Law.
The
conference also will feature afternoon panel discussions at the
Miller Center of
Public Affairs by international law experts on two current
issues: the recent extradition proceedings involving Chilean Gen.
Augusto Pinochet and the development of a new permanent International
Criminal Court.
Reno,
who has been in office since March 1993, when she became the countryıs
first woman to serve as attorney general, has been invited to
speak on issues related to international criminal law.
The
conference is sponsored by the Miller Center of Public Affairs
and the Virginia Journal of International Law, the oldest student-edited
international law journal in the world, which is recognized as
one of the top scholarly publications in its field and is distributed
to subscribers in 35 countries.
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