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Obiora Chinedu Okafor, a respected academic on international, human rights and immigration/refugee law, will deliver the 2015 Mildred Fish-Harnack Human Rights and Democracy Lecture.

Okafor, professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University in Toronto, will speak on “The International Law of Secession and the Protection of the Human Rights of Oppressed Sub-State Groups: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow,” on Wednesday, April 22, at 4 p.m., in the AT&T Room, Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St., on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus.

This event is free and open to the public. An informal reception will follow the lecture.

Sponsored by the UW–Madison Human Rights Program, Division of International Studies, and African Studies Program.

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Submitted by Law School News on April 22, 2015

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