{"id":459,"date":"2009-09-30T17:29:23","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T20:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/?p=459"},"modified":"2010-08-13T14:19:26","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T17:19:26","slug":"public-interest-conference-in-atlanta-ga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/?p=459","title":{"rendered":"Public Interest Conference in Atlanta, GA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">The Emory Public Interest Committee (Emory Law School\u2019s public interest student group) is delighted to announce their conference entitled \u201cExpendable People?:\u00a0 A Human Rights Perspective on the Impact of Global Economic Migration on Georgia.\u201d\u00a0 <strong>The conference will be held on Saturday, October 17, 2009, at Emory University School of Law in Atlanta<\/strong>, and it will address three aspects of economic migration\u2014human trafficking, the guest-worker program, and the undocumented workforce\u2014and aims to challenge current law and culture to examine the health of human rights within U.S. borders. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">Student conference organizers seek to engage conference participants in an open discussion of each of these topics: their causes, incidences, and effects\u2014on those directly involved and on the greater Georgia community.\u00a0 The conference will serve as a space where individual, government, and community responses to economic migration can be examined and even challenged.\u00a0 Specifically, the plan is to discuss the relationship between human rights and citizenship.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">Information is available at <a title=\"blocked::http:\/\/www.law.emory.edu\/academics\/conferences\/epic-conference.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.law.emory.edu\/academics\/conferences\/epic-conference.html\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">http:\/\/www.law.emory.edu\/academics\/conferences\/epic-conference.html<\/span><\/span><\/a>, and registration is open now.\u00a0 There is no fee to attend (small charge for those seeking CLE credits), but registration is requested in order to plan for materials and meals. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Emory Public Interest Committee (Emory Law School\u2019s public interest student group) is delighted to announce their conference entitled \u201cExpendable People?:\u00a0 A Human Rights Perspective on the Impact of Global Economic Migration on Georgia.\u201d\u00a0 The conference will be held on Saturday, October 17, 2009, at Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, and it will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,23,24,11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1l-information","category-2l-information","category-3l-information","category-alumni","category-public-interest-opportunities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1168,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/1168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}