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Expert guests from Professor Laurel Fletcher’s new Human Rights Futures course recently finished a lunch talks series with the wider law school community. Fletcher (pictured) spoke with NYU’s Vasuki Nesiah on her book International Conflict Feminism, Strength and Solidarity Program Director Akwe Amosu on building transnational solidarity, and Equal Justice Society President Lisa Holder on her California Reparations Task Force work.

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