快猫视频鈥檚 Director of the Law & Democracy Initiative Visits Recipient Schools in Ghana and Liberia
快猫视频鈥檚 Director of the Law & Democracy Initiative Visits Recipient Schools in Ghana and Liberia
In February 2010, Lane Ayres, director of 快猫视频鈥檚 Law & Democracy Initiative, visited law schools and legal organizations in Ghana and Liberia. In Ghana he met with the Dean of the Law Faculty at universities in Accra and Kumasi, with the director of the Ghana School of Law, and with several human rights organizations. As a result of his visit, the National Bar Association is sponsoring a container of school books to Ghana, which will include a West core law library for the Ghana Bar Association. The Fredrikson & Byron law firm is sponsoring a module of human rights books in that container which will go to the Ghana Human Rights Commission.
In Liberia Lane met with the Liberian Women Lawyers Association and with several legal and human rights NGOs. The most memorable time was the day he spent at the law school in Monrovia, which received the first shipment of West law books from Thomson Reuters in January of 2009. In discussions with the Dean, faculty, the librarian, and students, Lane was most impressed with how the books were being utilized. Everyone gave testimonials as to how the books had improved teaching and learning at the law school. The American Bar Association has a rule of law project at the law school in Liberia, and they supported that book shipment.