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A Law Library Development Project In Iraq: Looking Back Two Years Later, Kimberli Kelmor
A Law Library Development Project In Iraq: Looking Back Two Years Later, Kimberli Kelmor
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Sometimes you get a chance to work on a project so complex, even you don't come to fully understand its impact until years later. At least that has been the experience for me regarding the opportunity I had to work in Iraq with the International Human Rights Law Institute (IHRLI) from February 2004 to January 1, 2006. As I reported in a previous essay, IHRLI, an institute of the DePaul University College of Law headed by Cherif Bassiouni, received a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Higher Education and Development (HEAD) contract to work with three Iraqi law schools.' …
The Spirit Of Law Librarianship: Legal Education Reform In Iraq, Kimberli Morris Kelmor
The Spirit Of Law Librarianship: Legal Education Reform In Iraq, Kimberli Morris Kelmor
Law Library Faculty Works
Morris talks about her changing perspectives on her experiences while working in Iraq with the International Human Rights Law Institute from February 2004 to Jan 1, 2006. The contract was initially proposed as a three-year plan to help Iraqi law schools overcome the effects of more than twenty years of economic, physical, and intellectual isolation. The complete project included a program for clinical legal education, curriculum reform, rule of law, and library and educational technology. Accomplishing this in three geographically dispersed schools was a logical plan, but a very ambitious one. As the security situation and travel restrictions worsened, and …